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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 84

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Dorothy said, “She used to talk about the sinkholes??"Bradford sinks. She said there was quicksand there. She used to fish in the sinkholes.” Dorothy added, “I still have her churn. She bought it when she was 19 years old and used it then.” Dorothy said that through time, William Harris II acquired 200 acres (more or less) of land in Triana. However, she said “he probably lost interest in farming after his wife, Lou, and four of his children died of TB between 1918 and 1923. Several years after their deaths he lost his property to foreclosure.” Dorothy's father, Oregon, redeemed all of the property William II lost to foreclosure and, after that acquisition, bought additional acres in Triana. Oregon Harris with Hiram Raney, who worked for him, in the background. 84 - (4117)    

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