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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 117
The McAnally Family lived on Chaney's Land (Parcel A-17)
Peggy McAnally contacted the researcher because she was interested in learning the location on the arsenal where her family had lived. She had been told they had leased the land of M.G. Chaney. What she described was Parcel A-17. Since M.G. continued to live and farm the property until the time of the mandatory sale of the property, he did not lease it. The researcher explained that the McAnallys could have rented land from Chaney. In those days, renting meant having one's own stock and tools, and giving the landowner a smaller portion of the crop than a sharecropper did. However, the researcher later found the entry written by another McAnally descendant in the Heritage Book of Madison County, Alabama, which stated that “Jack” McAnally was a sharecropper on Chaney land.
The Albert McAnally Family. They resided in a tenant home on M.G. Chaney property.
This photo, provided by Peggy McAnally, was taken at one of the houses on M.G. Chaney property when family members were visiting Albert McAnally and his family. The woman standing on the porch in the far left is Mattie McAnally, wife of Albert. Beside her, Albert holds baby Charley. Albert's father, General [his name, not a military rank] Jackson McAnally stands by the post, and in front of him are twins Roy and Raymond. The front row, from the left, the first boy is thought to be Floyd but the name is uncertain for the smaller boy beside him. Odell is in the dark hat and then the girl Cora in the hat with the white band. Beside her is Nannie Hendricks, daughter of Albert. In the hat with the wide, flat brim is Tea (who is the daughter of General) standing beside her husband Edgar Sanders??"their daughter Margie stands in front of them. The boys on the right are Clarence and Gordon, sons of Albert.
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