A white pine cradle sold out of Harrison Brothers Hardware in 1914 has a new occupant. Douglas Claude Martinson IV, born October 3, 2026, to Clay and Annabel Roth Martinson, is the fifth generation of one Huntsville family to sleep in it.
Clay Martinson, formally Douglas Claude Martinson III, is an attorney at Martinson & Beason, the North Side Square law firm his family has practiced at since 1937. He slept in the cradle as a baby. So did his father, Doug Martinson II, who leads the firm and serves as Madison County’s general conservator, and his grandfather, Doug Martinson Sr., who held that post before him…