In the book "The Way I Heard It, A History of Calhoun County " page 49: Subject: Jake Ivy "...he owned the big farm ... Anyhow, after they was freed and everything, they called it the Steen Quarters, right north of Banner about six, seven, or eight miles... Most...was Steens. They settled in there and called it Steen Quarters. .. Wasn't no negroes in there / previously /; it was just a section of their own. And this old Jake of Granddaddy's, that's where he went and he was raised around the gin with Granddaddy and he put up a gin. Those negroes just, they's just fixed up good. ... There came a little storm through there and blowed some of the houses down, blowed the timbers down you know. Those negroes said God Allmight was after 'em and they all taken off and left." The above is an abbreviated transcription of Lode Ivy recalling his memories of the Steen Community.