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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 219
[Everett's] uncle, Burwell Jacobs, Jr. The description of the land and its location can be read in the photograph of Everett Horton's statement:
stats or aLabaju, MaDISOI COUJiTI.
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Ibb 58 years of age, and am a nephew of Bnrwoii _v_
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Seetion8?? Jaoobs, ar* who owned that tr*ot'upland in
GoomPjLaKb fc8nth "?f “y 8randfather, Burwell Jacobs, 8r. tty anole in Pm/rS ^a?%P"?88??e0r of a traCt described as 22 acres, '
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it ifitha W"?J+ h hfPI J*0"?8! "?r so but of my own knowledge 5 KaZ^n 1 ?* northeast quarter of Section 17. Township
Seat. Luolen Jacoba mortgaged the land to Steele and sold 1+und0r9t^^. foreclosed tho mortgage, and then
Sbm whi"?h ♦SJV'T0* f'0 lfly unol"?* Burwell Jacobs, Jr. in 1915, i U B he huB beaa ln open, wad undisputed possession and cuncroi, of said land.
inh"?vi"+*5aia 22 &ora traot iB that portion which George Jacobs there io r."?r2m 5rQndfather, Burwell Jucobs, Sr. I understand no dead of record to him, but I know this to be the faot.
To all the beet of
of ny
which I solemnly swear to be true and correct to knowlodgo, information and belief.
Subscribed and before me this ?"? day of June, 1954
eworn to the 4th
IOSAU PUBLIC
Everett Horton sworn statement regarding property of Burwell [Burrell] Jacobs. Photographed by John P. Rankin. [Note: the same type of sworn statement was signed by L.A. Love.]
While Everett's statement is enlightening about land ownership in the Jacobs's family, it also reveals kinship ties. Everett states that Burwell (Burrell) Jacobs, Sr., who died in 1890, was his grandfather. None of the elderly people interviewed in this study
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