The trouble with L. M. Hewlings

I'm slogging through writing a biography of Louis Edwin Granger. It's been a fascinating process. I keep running into a major difficulty: his mother, Lucy Minerva Woodward. She keeps threatening to take over the narrative. Not only is she a fascinating character in her own right, but she and her family provided many of the primary sources for Louis outside of government and public records. It takes a conscious effort to keep to his narrative and not stray into the stories of Lucy and her siblings.