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1. Title:   Robert F. Smyer, Jr
2. Title:   U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999
Page:   "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Alabama Polytechnic Institute; Year: 1947
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
3. Title:   1920 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010;
4. Title:   U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
5. Title:   William N. Smyer
6. Title:   1930 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;
7. Title:   1840 United States Federal Census
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
8. Title:   TSFA
9. Title:   Smyer family newspaper, Robert F. Smyer. Jr. and Gay Ellis Smyer, Fairhope, Baldwin County, Alabama
10. Title:   The Smyer Family of Alabama
Author:   Robert F. Smyer, Jr.
Publication:   Name: William N. Smyer; Date: 2017;
11. Title:   U.S. Phone and Address Directories, 1993-2002
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;
12. Title:   U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;
13. Title:   Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006;
14. Title:   Alabama, Marriage Index, 1800-1969
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;

Notes
a. Note:   Fall 1937 AHS Football Roster (See Media):
 Bob Smyer (Captain)
 Position: QB
 Weight: 145
 Years: 2
  First TV set in the family: 09 Jan 1956, while living at 308 Fels Avenue in Fairhope, Baldwin County, Alabama. Source: Smyer family newspaper, Jan 1956.
  Subj: Hudson Terrace
 Date: 98 11 30 10:34:30 EST
 From: Bobsmyer
  Uncle Robert bought a home at 241 East Drake Avenue in Auburn on July 19, 1927. He did it as an investment perhaps, but mainly to provide a home for my mother and us six children.
  When Gay and I married, we lived for a short time with her mother. It was right after the war and there were no rental places available because constructed had been halted. We knew of a college student who had bought a pre fab house and he was selling them to others. Gay and I looked into it and decided that was the way for us to go, at least temporarily.
  Uncle Robert had divided the old pasture off Drake Avenue into building lots. He gave each of his grandchildren lots and also one to his second wife, Aunt Eula. I talked with Uncle Robert about the chance of buying one of the lots and he suggested we buy the one from Aunt Eula. I don't remember how much we paid for it, but it is probably recorded in Opelika Court House. (The size of the lot is shown in the copy of the newspaper ad which Bill ran across recently, when we were putting the house up for sale.)
  The pre fab house was shipped into Auburn by freight. I hired Ivey DuBose, one of our former neighbors on Wire Road out of Auburn to haul the materials from the train station to Hudson Terrace. Howard and Norman Ellis and maybe brother Harold helped me erect the building and we did it in one day. I had the foundation poured ahead of time. The largest sections I remember were probably 8 feet by 16 feet. Electrical wiring was pre installed in the panels with instructions for joining the panels and the wiring.
  The entire house measured 16' x 32' (two sections of 16' x 16'). The first section consisted of the living room, kitchen and bath. The living room measured 8' by 16', the kitchen probably 8 x 9 and the bath about 5 x 8. The other half of the house contained the master bedroom, 8 x 16, and another bedroom, about 8 x 12, and a closet 4 x 4. The remaining space was the passage (4 x 4) between the bedrooms and the closet.
  All the wall studs were 2" x 2," including the exterior walls. The interior walls had plywood paneling on one side only, and the 2 x 2's were exposed on the kitchen wall which divided it from the living room. Same in the other rooms. There was no door between the L. R. and the kitchen, only an open space about 4 or 5 feet wide.
  There were only two other homes on Hudson Terrace when we moved there. Mail delivery had not been extended to that short block and we were required to place a mail box down on Drake Avenue to have delivery. I selected the number 239 East Drake as the next lower number to the old house where I had lived as a boy.
 

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