CHUBBY....you did great with your answers, seeing as how you are so much younger than Horace.
Indeed no.1 was Terry Woods and I believe Dave and Leonard were Goldberg brothers and Sidney was from a younger generation and associated with Sylacauga Cash Store.
Tan Yard Hill..
A tan yard was an outdoor area used to tan animal hides on their way to becoming leather.
The area called Tan Yard Hill was said to have been one of those sites...before our time.
Horace is correct in naming the general location. The church mentioned is Brown's Chapel and it is still there.
Some other folks that lived on Creek Street (From your other thread)
The Norred family lived next door to Polly Cullins (Bobby Norred/Selvie Norred
"Jigs" Cullins lived on the other side of Polly Cullins (Kay Cullins)
The Buddy Pate Family
The Aaron Long Family
The Riggins (asphalt red fake brick house)
Brownie Bean's Family
The Sprayberry Family
Possibly the Bannister family ??
Chubby...thanks for giving us some other names of folks that lived on Creek St.
Polly Cullins and Browne Bean were the only ones I remembered.
I didn't think about you being on Virginia Ave...just across the dye ditch from Creek St.
Also, from seeing many of your Sylacauga photos from days gone by..I suspect you may have more historical facts about the area than most. Is that correct?
Richard Riggins did live there with his mother, sisters(Jean, Carolyn and Wanda) and grandparents. The primary tenants in that house though were his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Zell Manning. Mrs. Ora Manning was my great aunt. She was a sister to my grandmother and to Mr. Arnold Taylor the father of Sonny and Douglas Taylor. Thomas Taylor also lived there with his father Fred Taylor. Thomas was a former member of the 4 MUGs with Billy Todd, Carlton Lambert and I think Lloyd Crowe. It was always a house full.
Horace,you're right. The first news story I reported for radio was that crash.
It happened in a pasture on Hightower Farm, located on the Talladega highway just north of Tallassehatchie creek on the right side of the highway in a grove of trees where the plane was kept.
I believe Woods died in the hospital a short time after the crash.
There was one passenger in the plane at the time of the crash..I think it was Levi Smith..he lived.
Back to Goldberg's...Sidney was the son of Mr Hyman Goldberg owner of the Sylacauga Cash Store. I think Sidney was in the military during WWII. He began working in the store as soon as he returned. While he was away I think Mr. Scott McNeil was the only emlpoyee of Mr and Mrs Goldberg. Mr McNeil's wife was a longtime nursing supervisor at Drumond Frasier Hospital. By the way, where did that name come from?
Horace