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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 155
The Lanier Relatives. Hodie's father, Jeremiah Lanier, had a brother named Willie (born in 1883). The son of Willie Lanier and Mary McCrary (ca. 1880), Felix Lanier, was interviewed for this study.
Hodie said Willie Lanier lived “right behind us--you turned down a lane and went back down there to get to Uncle Willie's house.” Since Felix has said his father lived on Lanier land, it was speculated that she was referring to Parcel C-146. This speculation proved to be correct as Hodie went on to say that “the Jacobs lived back up in there,” and further scrutiny of the Army Real Estate Map revealed that Burrell J. Jacobs owned the parcel (C-145) between Wyatt Lacy (C-144) and Milton H. Lanier (C-146). This deductive reasoning is the basis for asserting that C-144 was the particular parcel of Wyatt Lacy-owned land where he had his home.
Jacobs Neighbors of the Laniers. Hodie went on to say that Bubba Jacobs and his mother lived back there, but she couldn't remember his mother's name. She said:
Mrs. Jacobs wore long dresses that came to the tops of her high-topped shoes. We called her Aunt Kitty, Kitty Jacobs. But I'm not sure if that was her real name. Felix [Lanier] would know, because he lived back up in there.
Hodie McGraw through the years.
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