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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 302
JAMES LONG
(Interviewed in 2005)
James Long was born June 4, 1920. His mother was Emma Caudilla Poff, who was born in 1900. His father was Robert (Bob) Samuel Long. Most of his grandparents died at an early age. His father's mother was Mary Brown Long; she was half Indian, and her mother was a “full-blooded” Indian. James said she was close to 90 years old when she died, and he was a grown man, “married by then.”
James said that when his grandparents left Limestone County, they came and rented the Timmons place. His mother (Emma Poff) was born on the Timmons Place in 1900. The family lived there about ten years. His grandfather had four sons (El, Ephram, Lawrence, and Lace) and two daughters (Emma and Leona, who married
James Long as a boy.
Sellie Hamer). Sellie drove a Coke truck. James Long has
a faded photograph of the truck. Sellie was killed by a bale of cotton falling off a wagon.
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