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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 158
the southeast corner of the Francis Horton parcel (C-140), is the Lanier Cemetery (White). Wyatt Lacy's House (C-144). Hodie described her grandfather's house, which he built: It was on a hill and it was white, because it was whitewashed sometimes. It was a frame house with a tin roof. It had a big living room and an old-fashioned bed with headboards. And there was a hallway the whole way through from the front door to the back, and you would go out to a big back porch. When you went down the hallway, the first room you would go to would be the living room. And then there was another bedroom. There were two big beds with headboards and there was one on each side of the room with a hearth in between. There was also a window. The beds were double beds with posts. They also had a sewing machine. It was near the window. In the living room there was a rocking chair along with the beds. There was also a door that led to the back room and right beside the wall there was a half bed. And grandmother kept a bunch of food in there, too. And there was a door that led to the back porch. The porch ran the whole way around the house. When you followed the hallway to the back porch, you would go out into the kitchen. The kitchen was connected to the house by the porch. The kitchen had a big old wood stove. You could open it up [a compartment] and put water in there to heat up for hot water. There was a roof overhang, with the kitchen being a separate building. The kitchen had two windows. The kids could go up under the house and play [under the porch]. Outside of the house there was a pasture with lots of trees, where grandfather would let the horses graze. There was a field just before the road. The road led from the house all the way down. There was also a building like a garage where he [grandfather] kept a car and an old buggy. He bought a new car when I was about five years old [1927]. Hodie also said there was a pond and a barn a few blocks from the house, and a smaller house was down from the barn. She had said her grandfather lived in a smaller house in his elderly years, so this may have been the house. She said that the car garage that held the car was down from that. 158 - (4191)