INSERT INTO `node_revision__body` (`bundle`, `deleted`, `entity_id`, `revision_id`, `langcode`, `delta`, `body_value`, `body_summary`, `body_format`) VALUES
('page', 0, 67, 70, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>PASCAGOULA</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><strong>MEXICAN GULF CANNING COMPANY: 1880</strong></span>-</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Pascagoula, Mississippi</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">(Deed found in Jackson County, Mississippi Chancery Court Section Index Book 26-A)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Location</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">The Mexican Gulf Canning Company was located on the east bank of the Pascagoula River in the 418.25-acre, Valentine Delmas Claim Section 5, T8S-R6W.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">Valentine Delmas</span></p>\r\n<h6>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; \">Valentine Delmas claim on Pascagoula Bay was issued to Anthony Blanc by Spanish Governor, the Baron de Carondelet, who administered the area from 1792 until 1797.&nbsp; Six arpents on the front and 40 arpents deep.&nbsp; Inhabited and cultivated from 1802-1828.(American State Papers (1827-1829), Vol. 5, p. 784)</span></h6>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Valentine Delmas original settlement on Pascagoula Bay began in June 1811.&nbsp; Present settlement June 1819.(American State Papers (1815-1824), Vol. 3, p. 444)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">The beginning</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">In late October 1880, Joseph T. Maybury (1841-1894), president of the Mexican Gulf Canning Company, which was chartered at Mobile, Alabama, acquired a parcel of land from Jules C. Dennis and Clara C. Dennis of New Orleans, for $1750.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Employment</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">The Mexican Gulf Canning Company created employment for about one hundred-thirty people.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: auto;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">THE MEXICAN GULF CANNING COMPANY</span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">WANT</span></span></h1>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<strong><em><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">75 Women, Boys and Girls,&nbsp;</span></span></em></strong><strong><em><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">above 12 years old, at their works at Pascagoula, to shuck steamed oysters, fill cans, paste labels, pick and clean crabs and shrimp, and do other light work, which will afford steady and remunerative employment the year around.</span></span></em></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">Also</span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">FIFTY MEN</span></span></h1>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">To man our oyster skiffs, unload oysters, etc., etc.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<h4 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">For particulars apply to</span></span></strong></h4>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">J.T. Maybury, President, Scranton, Miss. or E.S. Barnes, Secretary, Mobile, Ala.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, November 19, 1880, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; \"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">WANTED</span></span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">10 to 15 FAMILIES</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Of Laboring People</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">EITHER WHITE or COLORED</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<h5 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">To work in our Canning Factory, who we will furnish with</span></span></strong></h5>\r\n<h3 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Comfortable Homes and Constant Work the Year Round!</span></span></strong></h3>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">The women and children can make men&rsquo;s wages opening oysters and shelling shrimp, etc., and the men will be paid at the highest daily rate for unloading our boats, rolling shells, and other out-door labor.&nbsp;&nbsp; Apply to </span></span></strong></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">MEXICAN GULF CANNING COMPANY</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n<h5 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Scranton, Mississippi</span></span></strong></h5>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, March 10, 1882, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Fruit Canning</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">In late June 1881, the Mexican Gulf Canning Company commenced fresh fruit canning operations.&nbsp; The plant was to receive between one and two-hundred bushels of figs each day during the season.&nbsp; Two shipments per diem of pineapples were also anticipated.<em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, July 1, 1881, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Insolvency</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">By late March 1882, the Mexican Gulf Canning Company was insolvent.&nbsp; The cannery had accumulated a debt of nearly $60,000, but was valued at only $30,000.&nbsp; The company stockholders met at Mobile, Alabama and elected to assign their Pascagoula investment with H. Pillans and J.C. Rich.&nbsp; These men were anticipated to operate the company and return its balance sheet into the black, thus insuring that it not be sold at a Sheriff&rsquo;s sale.<em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, April 7, 1882, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">1883 Sale</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">FOR SALE</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<em><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Mexican Gulf Canning Co.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<em><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Works, Machinery and Land.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<em><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">H. Pillans or J.C. Rich, assignees</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<em><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Mobile, Alabama</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, February 23, 1883, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">H. Pillans to J.T. Bourges.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 6, p. 446-447) </span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">1883 Fire</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">In the dawn hours of May 24, 1883, the second fire in the history of the young canning company struck.&nbsp; Uninsured loss estimated at $15,000.&nbsp; Mr. Bobe, was the watchman.<em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Fire Fiends&rdquo;, May 25, 1883, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">MAYBURY &amp; FOSTER</span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Maybury &amp; Foster&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Successors To The</span></h1>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Mexican Gulf Canning Company,</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Packers of the Celebrated</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Mexican Gulf Brand Oysters, Shrimp,</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Pineapples, Tomatoes, Figs, Okra,</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<h3 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Shippers of all grades of</span></span></strong></h3>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Fresh Oysters, Fish and Shrimp on Ice.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, April 25, 1884, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">ICE!&nbsp;&nbsp; ICE!&nbsp;&nbsp; ICE!</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n<h3 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">We beg to announce that we have perfected arrangements which enable us to offer</span></span></strong></h3>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Ice by the Carload, Ton, Hundred Pounds or Nickel&rsquo;s Worth,</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<h3 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">At prices to Meet All Competition!</span></span></strong></h3>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>As our ice comes in cakes weighing from 100 to 300 pounds each, it will especially meet the wants of </em>Fishermen, Ice-Dealers and Saloon-Keepers.&nbsp; <em>We guarantee a constant supply and full weights.</em></span></span></strong></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">WANTED---Tomatoes and Figs!</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">in quantities for canning.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">MAYBURY &amp; FOSTER,</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Proprietors Pascagoula Fish and Canning Company</span></span></h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, June 13, 1884, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Wholesale Dealers in and Shippers of</span></span></strong></h2>\r\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Gulf Oysters, Fish and Shrimp</span></span></strong></h2>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Proprietors of</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">The Mexican Gulf Canning Factory</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Canners of&nbsp; Oysters, Tomatoes, Figs, Etc.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<h3 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Scranton, Mississippi</span></span></strong></h3>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">(Southern Manufacturer, April 1899)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">The Foster Family</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Captain John Foster</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>John Foste</strong>r (1826-1903) was the son of English immigrant parents.&nbsp; His birth occurred in March 1826 at Mobile, Alabama.&nbsp; John Foster married Susan Francis Grant (1826-1866), the daughter of Captain John L. Grant (1793-1887), a native of Chester County, Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth Disney (1794-1868).&nbsp; He served in the US Army during the Mexican War, and in the Confederate Navy and Confederate Army during the Civil War.&nbsp; At least three children: Lillie Ophelia F. Joullian (1865-1924) born at Mobile, John Grant Foster (1928+), and Mrs. E.L. Silva (1928+).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">For many years, Captain Foster was engaged in the shipping business with the Mobile and New Orleans Mail Line, a steam packet and freight line.&nbsp; He settled at Pascagoula, shortly after the Civil War.&nbsp; Here in 1869, Foster married Olivia E. Delmas (1842-1928), the daughter of Jean-Baptiste Delmas (1817-3-11-1906) and Mary Elizabeth Grant (1822-1896).&nbsp; They reared nine children on the banks of the Pascagoula River: Mary E. F. Ford (1870-1936), Susan F. Hughes (1872-1919), Francis E. Foster (1874-1918), William Henry Foster (1875-1928+), Charles B. Foster (1877-1931), Alfred Foster (1878), Josephine F. Hosey (1880-1950), Eva Esperanza Foster Ford (1884-1959), and Isabella &ldquo;Belle&rdquo; Foster Griffin Hurst (1887-1958).</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">The A. 1. Steam Tug <u>ROLLA</u></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Valentine Delmas, Master</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>Is now ready for</em> TOWING <em>and</em> LIGHTERING</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>at usual rates</em>.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Vessels drawing 14 feet and under, will be towed and piloted under a United States License for $25, in or out of Horn Island Pass.&nbsp; </span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">When drawing over 14 feet, an additional charge will be made.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Fresh water in tanks always on hand.</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Oak wood is furnished when required.&nbsp; For particulars, apply to H. Krebs &amp; son., Scranton; Arthur R. Krebs, East Pascagoula.</span></span></strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Foster Children</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">Mary E. Foster</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Mary E. Foster</strong> (1870-1936) was called Mamie.&nbsp; She married James Ira Ford (1862-1915).</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">Susan Foster</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Susan Foster</strong> (1872-1919) was born on July 12, 1872.&nbsp; She married William Dabney Hughes (1850-1937).&nbsp; She died 4-29-1919.&nbsp; He expired 3-4-1937.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">Francis E. Foster</span></p>\r\n<h6>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Francis E. Foster (1874-1918) was called Frank. &nbsp;He was born at Pascagoula and commenced employment in the seafood industry as a teenager.&nbsp; In 1893, Frank Foster became employed by his father&rsquo;s packing company.&nbsp; By 1899, he was the manager of the Mexican Gulf Canning Factory at Pasacagoula.(Southern Manufacturer, 1899, p. 37)</span></span></h6>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;This is corroborated as in 1900, Frank Foster was an oyster and fish dealer at Scranton (Pascagoula), while his brothers, Henry and Alfred Foster, were a boilermaker and marine fireman, respectively.(Federal Census 1900, Jackson County, Mississippi)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">In July 1902, Frank Foster was a resident of Biloxi when he married Edith Mary Howe of Pensacola at St. Catherine&rsquo;s Chapel in Pensacola.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 13, 1902, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">William Henry Foster</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">W. Henry Foster (1875-1950+) was called Henry.</span></span></p>\r\n<h6 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Charles B. Foster</span></span></h6>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Charles B. Foster (1877-1931) was born at Pascagoula.&nbsp; His career was established early as he commenced working in his father&rsquo;s Pascagoula canning operation.&nbsp; Foster came to Biloxi before 1900, to join E.C. Joullian, his brother-in-law, who was also a pioneer seafood canner.&nbsp; Here, in November 1903, C.B. Foster married Miss Mary E. Caillavet (1877-1951), the daughter of John Latour Caillavet and Georgiana Dees.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 27, 1931, p. 2 and The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 16, 1903, p. 6)</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Children</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">The Charles B. Fosters had three children: Charles Foster (1904), Marie Foster (1906), and Henry W. Foster (1907).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">On November 13, 1927, C.B. Foster Jr. married Lucille Clark.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 15, 1927, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1935, Henry William Foster relocated to Washington D.C. where he was employed by the US Government.&nbsp; Foster was educated at Loyola and studied law in Lebanon, Tennessee before settling in the District of Columbia.&nbsp; On April 7, 1937, he married Rose Marie Holzner of Petersburg, Virginia at Fairfax, Virginia.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 10, 1937, p. 6)</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;\">1925 Biloxi Regatta</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">When he asked if his packing house would participate in the July 1925 Regatta at the Biloxi Yacht Club, C.B. Foster replied, <strong><em>&ldquo;We are always ready&rdquo;</em></strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp; His <strong><em>Julia Delacruz </em></strong>sailed to victory in the 1924 Regatta. Mr. Foster was prepared to match her or any other vessel in his fleet with the best that the other packers could muster.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 25, 1925, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(see <em>The Pascagoula Chronicle, April 20, 1928, p. 1, </em>Foster-Fountain v. St. of Louisiana)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Josephine F. Foster</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Josephine F. Foster</strong> (1880-1950), called Josie, was born on May 31, 1880.&nbsp; She married Dr. W.H. Hosey at the Foster family home in Pascagoula, on September 24, 1902.&nbsp; Dr. Hosey resided at Wiggins, Mississippi where he was had a growing medical practice.&nbsp; The young couple honeymooned at New Orleans, before returning to their new home at Wiggins.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 25, 1902, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Josie F. Hosey later married Henry A. Rourke (1872-1956).&nbsp; He was the son of Henry S. Rourke (1843-1918), a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.&nbsp; Mr. Rourke was a veteran of the Civil War having sustained a wound near Atlanta, when he was a soldier under General Hood.&nbsp; The old veteran expired at Pascagoula on March 12, 1918.&nbsp; In addition to Henry A. Rourke, he was survived by his widow, and several children: Alice R. Hull, Marie Rourke, and E.B. Rourke of Plaquemine, Louisiana.<em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, March 15, 1918)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">After an extended illness, Josie F. Rourke died at Pascagoula on May 29, 1950.&nbsp; She left two children: Grace McNair Thomas and W.H. Hosey of Hattiesburg.&nbsp; Henry A. Rourke expired on January 1, 1956.&nbsp; The corporal remains of both were interred in the Krebs Cemetery at Pascagoula, Mississippi.</span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(The Chronicle-Star, June 2, 1950, p. 1)</em></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Eva Esperanza Foster</strong> (1884-1959)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Eva E. Foster was born October 18, 1884.&nbsp; She married Ebb James Ford (1886-1947).&nbsp;&nbsp; They reared three sons: E.J. Ford II of Gulfport, Charles W. Ford, and Robert S. Ford.&nbsp; She died on August 9, 1959, while Mr. E.J. Ford expired on June 25, 1947.&nbsp; Both rest eternally in the Greenwood Cemetery at Pascagoula, Mississipi.</span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(The Chronicle-Star, August 11, 1959, p. 1)</em></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Alfred Foster</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;No information.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Isabella &ldquo;Belle&rdquo; Foster </span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Isabella Foster (1887-1957 or 1958) was born in 1887?&nbsp; She married Mr. Griffin and Mr. Hurst.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \"><u>Books</u></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><u><strong>American State Papers</strong></u>, Volume 3, (1815-1824), (Reprint: Southern Historical Press, Inc.: Greenville, South Carolina-1994).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong><u>American State Papers</u></strong>,Volume 5, (1827-1829), (Reprint: Southern Historical Press, Inc.: Greenville, South Carolina-1994).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Cyril E. Cain, <strong><u>Four Centuries on the Pascagoula: History, Story, and Legend of the Pascagoula River Country</u></strong>,(The Reprint Company: Spartanburg, South Carolina-1983),</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">The Southern Manufacturer, <em><strong>&ldquo;Capt. John Foster&rdquo;</strong>, </em>Vol. I, No. 10, April 1899.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><u><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Court Cases</span></span></u></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Jackson County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 3091, <strong><em>&ldquo;Joseph F. Bourges v. I.P. Delmas, et als&rdquo;</em></strong>, May 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<h3 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><u>Journals</u></span></span></h3>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald, </em>&ldquo;Death of a Prominent Citizen&rdquo;, June 1, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald, </em>&ldquo;Funeral Notice&rdquo;, June 6, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, </em>&ldquo;Foster-Howe&rdquo;, July 13, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, </em>&ldquo;City Items&rdquo;, September 25, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, </em>&ldquo;Capt. John Foster&rdquo;, September 26, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, </em>&ldquo;City Items&rdquo;, November 16, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em>&ldquo;Foster Ready&rdquo;, June 25, 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em>&ldquo;Foster-Clark&rdquo;, November 15, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em>&ldquo;Foster-Holzner&rdquo;, July 10, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Chronicle-Star, </em>&ldquo;Mrs. Olivia Elizabeth Foster&rdquo;, April 20, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Chronicle-Star, </em>&ldquo;Charles B. Foster&rdquo;, July 3, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Chronicle-Star, </em>&ldquo;Mrs. Rourke Dies After Long Illness&rdquo;, June 2, 1950.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Chronicle-Star, </em>&ldquo;Mrs. Eva F. Ford Taken By Death&rdquo;, August 11, 1959.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em>&ldquo;Chas. B. Foster Passes Away&rdquo;, June 27, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em>&ldquo;Charles B. Foster Funeral Sunday&rdquo;, June 29, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Chronicle-Star, </em>&ldquo;Mexican Gulf Plans To Pack 30,000 Barrels&rdquo;, January 8, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Pascagoula Enterprise&rdquo;, September 4, 1880.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Local Paragraphs&rdquo;, October 29, 1880.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Local Paragraphs&rdquo;, November 5, 1880.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Local Paragraphs&rdquo;, November 19, 1880.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Mexican Gulf Canning&rdquo;, November 19, 1880.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Local Paragraphs&rdquo;, December 10, 1880.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Local Paragraphs&rdquo;, July 1, 1881.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;WANTED!&rdquo;, March 10, 1882.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Local Paragraphs&rdquo;, April 7, 1882.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;For Sale&rdquo;, February 23, 1883.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Fire Fiends&rdquo;, May 25, 1883.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Maybury &amp; Foster&rdquo;, April 25, 1884.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Ice! Ice! Ice!&rdquo;, July 4, 1884.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Henry Stoddard Rourke, CSA&rdquo;, March 15, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, </em>&ldquo;Francis E. Foster&rdquo;, June 7, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><em>The Star of Pascagoula, </em>&ldquo;Excursion Parties Attention&rdquo;, May 16, 1874.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"\'times new roman\', times, serif\" size=\"5\">________________________________________________________</font></p>\r\n<div class=\"rteright\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n	<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; display: inline !important; \">\r\n		&nbsp;</div>\r\n	<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; display: inline !important; \">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; \"><b><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; \">FROM CANNERY TO CASINO, A HISTORY OF</span></span></strong></b></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; \">\r\n	<div class=\"clear-block\" id=\"wrap_center\" style=\"display: block; float: left; width: 715px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; \">\r\n		<div id=\"wrap_inner\">\r\n			<div class=\"node\" id=\"node-36\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px; \">\r\n				<div style=\"text-align: center; \">\r\n					<div style=\"font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"georgia, serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(241, 237, 224); \"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 16px; \">THE BILOXI CA</span></span></strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 16px; \"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; \">NNING COMPANY TRACT:&nbsp;</span></strong>(1881-1997)</span></span></font></div>\r\n				</div>\r\n				<div id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n					<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">by</span></span></div>\r\n				<div id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n					<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; \"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Ray L. Bellande</span></span></div>\r\n				<div style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n					&nbsp;</div>\r\n				<div id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n					<strong><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">LOPEZ, ELMER, and COMPANY</span></span></strong></div>\r\n				<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n					<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">The Biloxi Canning Company was located in Section 27, T7S-R9W, in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi on the Back Bay of Biloxi, at the head of Reynoir Street. &nbsp;It was originally called The Lopez, Elmer and Company. &nbsp;This company was organized in 1881, with a capital stock of $8,000 by Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903), F. William Elmer (1847-1926), W.K.M. Dukate (1853-1916), William Gorenflo (1844-1932), and James Maycock (1826-1892).</span></div>\r\n				<div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Pascagoula Democrat-Star reported on December 30, 1881, that the company was placing its canning machines in the factory. &nbsp;The proprietors had over one hundred, local, white men and boys on the payroll. &nbsp;They were employed as follows: forty-four openers, forty-five men manning fifteen boats, twenty or more canners and wharf men.(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, December 30, 1881, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Earlier Seafood Operations</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;Although the Deer Island Oyster &amp; Fish Company of Emile Laudner (Ladner) (1840-1890) had been active at Biloxi as early as January 1877, purchasing land from Burissa Holley on the front beach at Biloxi, it appears that Laudner only shipped raw oysters by rail.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 15, pp. 401-402) &nbsp;Thus Lopez, Elmer and Company had the distinction of being the first seafood cannery in Biloxi.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The first seafood canning operation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast appears to be the Mexican Gulf Canning Company, which was founded at Pascagoula, Mississippi in the fall of 1880, by J.T. Maybury (1841-1894) and E.S. Barnes. &nbsp;In November 1880, the company was advertising for laborers in The Pascagoula Democrat-Star as follows:</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Mexican Gulf Canning Company</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">WANT</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">75 Women, Boys and Girls,</span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">above 12 years old, at their works at Pascagoula, to shuck steamed oysters, fill cans, paste labels, pick and clean crabs and shrimp, and do other light work, which will afford steady remunerative employment the year around.</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Also</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Fifty Men</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">to man our oyster skiffs, unload oysters, etc., etc.</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">For particulars apply to</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">J.T. Maybury, President, Scranton, Miss.</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">or E.B. Barnes, Secretary, Mobile, Alabama</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Nov. 19, 1880</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">(November 19, 1880, p. 2)</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;J.T. Maybury came to Pascagoula from Baltimore. &nbsp;He expired at his Biloxi residence on January 6, 1894. &nbsp;In addition to his canning interests, Maybury was in the mercantile business. &nbsp;His corporal remains were sent to Mobile for internment.(The Biloxi Herald, January 6, 1894, p. 1 and p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Baltimore Connection</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Since none of these Biloxi seafood pioneers had any experience in canning operations, W.K.M. Dukate was selected to go to Baltimore where the packing industry was well established. &nbsp;Here he observed procedures, gathered technical information, and purchased machinery for the&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">coving of oysters and canning shrimp. &nbsp;It is very probable that Dukate brought Charles Patten (1835-1922), a Baltimore native, to Biloxi in 1881, to manage the new cannery. &nbsp;Patton remained associated with the cannery until his wife, Ellen Spencer, died here in February 1915. &nbsp;He returned to Baltimore where he resided at 1527 North Caroline Street. &nbsp;Mr. Patten expired at Baltimore on January 11, 1922. &nbsp;His remains were interred in the Loudon Park Cemetery.(The Baltimore Sun, January 13, 1922)</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi Canning Company</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">The initial efforts of The Lopez, Elmer and Company were crude, but ready markets were available and the organization was profitable. &nbsp;The Lopez, Elmer and Company was dissolved in 1884, and the Biloxi Canning Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Mississippi was chartered on March 23, 1883.&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In rapid succession, after the dissolution of The Lopez, Elmer and Company, the Barataria Canning Company, William Gorenflo &amp; Company, E.C. Joullian &amp; Company, and J.T. Maybury were competing in the seafood packing business at Biloxi. &nbsp;By 1902, the factories of Biloxi ranked second to those of Baltimore, Maryland in canning American oysters.(Twentieth Century Coast Edition of The Biloxi Daily Herald, 1902, p. 20)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The land on which the Lopez, Elmer and Company plant was built in 1881, was purchased from Joseph Diaz Jr. (1845-1923) and Adele Santa Cruz Diaz (1846-1915) on June 29, 1881 for $100.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.18, p. 20) &nbsp;The lot had a front of 82 feet on Back Bay and ran south 196 feet. &nbsp;Reynoir Street was the western boundary. &nbsp;Diaz had purchased a tract here in 1873, from John Bradford. &nbsp;It was 82 feet x 950 feet and cost $200.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 13, pp. 553-554) &nbsp; Henry Diaz (1872-1944), &nbsp;a son of Joseph Diaz Jr., operated a store on the northwest corner of Reynoir and Chartres Street (now Bay View Avenue). &nbsp;In 1914, Mr. Diaz was operating a canning company east of the Biloxi Canning Company.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In December 1886, C.F. Theobald, F.W. Elmer, and Charles Patten (1839-1922) of the Biloxi Canning Company bought a lot east of Reynoir with 45 feet fronting on the Back Bay of Biloxi from Nicholas Taltavull for $60.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 21, p. 549) &nbsp;It was 200 feet deep and ran to the Back Bay Road.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Charles F. Theobald</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">The ownership of the company at this time was held primarily by two men, Charles F. Theobald (1830-1903) and F.W. Elmer (1847-1926). &nbsp;Mr. Theobald was a native of Sieberbach, Germany. &nbsp;He came to America in 1859, and resided at New York a few years before settling in Texas. &nbsp;During the Civil War, C.F. Theobald fought for the South with a unit from the Lone Star State. &nbsp;He was married to Mary L. Rexses (1847-1931). &nbsp;Their children were: &nbsp;George E. Theobald (1873-1921), Mittye T. Wiltz (1874-1958), Mrs. William Armstrong (Atlanta) , C. Edward Theobald (Memphis), &nbsp;and Carl F. Theobald (1880-1948). &nbsp;The family resided at 107 East Water Street.</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In 1871, C.F. Theobald established a general mercantile store at Biloxi selling dry goods, clothing, hats, shoes, millinery, fancy goods, and notions. &nbsp;In 1893, he turned the management of the store over to his sons, George E. Theobald and C.E. Theobald. &nbsp;They operated the two-story frame building at the corner of Lameuse and Main as the Theobald Brothers. &nbsp;C.F. Theobald was the first president of the Biloxi Canning Company and the Bank of Biloxi (est. 1893). &nbsp;He also established the Peoples Bank and was its first president.&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">F.W. Elmer</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Frederick W. Elmer (1847-1926) was born at Biloxi on January 23, 1847. &nbsp;He was the son of two European immigrants, Jacob Elmer (1812-1894) and Barbara Gettendorf (1823-1858). &nbsp;Jacob Elmer was born at Canton Glarus in Switzerland, the same area of the Hosli and Abbley family origination. &nbsp;Mr. Elmer came to Biloxi in 1836 and circa 1837, he married Barbara Gettendorf, a native of Winweiler, Rhein Kreis, Bavaria. &nbsp;In 1850, Jacob Elmer was a merchant at Biloxi worth $15,000.(HARCO Census, p. 27). &nbsp;His children with Barbara Gettendorf were: &nbsp;Helena Elmer Northrop (1838-1869+), Anna Elmer (b. 1839), Jacob Elmer (1843-1885), John P. Elmer (b. 1843), Henry M. Elmer (1844-1868), Frederick William Elmer (1847-1926), Augustus Elmer (b. 1848), Otho Elmer (1851-1926+), and Charles Elmer (1852-1926+).</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">After the demise of his wife in 1858, Jacob Elmer married Louisa B. Wetzel (1844-1894) in January 1863.(Guice, 1968?, p. 12). &nbsp;She was the daughter of German immigrant, Jacob Wetzel (1802-1860+) and &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;? &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;. &nbsp;Her mother was dead before 1860. &nbsp;Their children were: Coresta E. Bachino (1866-1900+), Effee Elmer Dulion (b. 1866), Clarence Elmer (1868-1901), Percy L. Elmer (1873-1949), Edward Ross Elmer (1878-1934), and the twins, Albert (1881-1900+) and Arthur Elmer (b. 1881). &nbsp;Jacob Wetzel&#39;s siblings raised by Jacob Elmer were: Julia Wetzel (b. 1853), and Catherine Wetzel (b. 1855).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">F.W. Elmer married Elizabeth Carson Maycock (1850-1905) in May 1871.(Guice, 1968?, p. 19). &nbsp;She was the daughter of Captain James Maycock (1825-1892) and Mary Emily Carson (1827-1900), born at Cape May, New Jersey. &nbsp;Captain Maycock was a native of Hull, Yorkshire, England and arrived at Biloxi on an English vessel in 1839.(The Biloxi Herald, March 19, 1892, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;Captain Maycock was a seafood pioneer at Biloxi. &nbsp;In 1881, he and Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903), F. W. Elmer (1847-1926), W.K.M. Dukate (1853-1916), and William Gorenflo (1844-1932) with a capital stock of $8,000 organized the Lopez, Elmer and Company, which became the Biloxi Canning Company.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">F.W. Elmer and his spouse were the parents of ten children. &nbsp;Eight survived into the 20th Century. &nbsp;The known Elmer children are: Marie Ann Sichirich (1872-1946), Ida L. Elmer (1873-1891), Nina V. Scott (1877-1937+), Cora V. Enochs (1878-1962), F.W. Elmer II (1881-1948), James C. Elmer (1883-1920), Inez F. Ebersole (1885-1937+), Margueryte E. Cole (1887-1965), and Edward E. Elmer (1892-1900+).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Street Lease</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">In August 1887, Mayor Emile Laudner (Ladner) (1840-1890) and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Biloxi leased the Biloxi Canning Company, Reynoir Street north of Chartres. (HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 22, p. 326-327). &nbsp;The directors of the company at this time were: William A. Gordon, F.W. Elmer, C.F. Theobald, and Charles Patten. &nbsp;Terms of lease ten years with an annual rental of $50 per year payable of May 1st. &nbsp;The company was also required to open a street as wide as Reynoir on company property and intersect Reynoir at such an angle as not to interfere with the traffic on Reynoir.&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">1890 Biloxi Canneries</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In February 1890, The Biloxi Herald announced that there were six large factories and many raw oyster dealers operating at Biloxi. &nbsp;The journal listed the following canning factories-oyster shippers on February 22, 1890, p. 3:</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Biloxi Canning Company-packers of canned goods and shippers of raw oysters. &nbsp;W.A. Gordon, president; C.F. Theobald, secretary.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Barataria Canning Company-I. Heidenheim, secretary. &nbsp;Packers of hermetically sealed oysters, shrimp, figs, and vegetables.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">William Gorenflo &amp; Company-packers of canned goods and shippers of raw oysters. &nbsp;Prompt shipments and low prices guaranteed.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Lopez, Dunbar&#39;s Sons &amp; Company-packers of oysters, shrimp, figs, vegetables, etc.and shippers of raw oysters. &nbsp;Send for price list.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Phil. Desporte-shipper of raw oysters in bulk, opened, or in sealed cans. &nbsp;Front Street, foot Lameuse. &nbsp;Price list on application.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">F.W. Elmer-shipper raw oysters. &nbsp;Orders promptly attended to. &nbsp;Front Street near Main.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">E.C. Joullain Packing Company-Canned goods and raw oysters. &nbsp;Back Bay.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Phil. McCabe-shipper of raw oyster, manufacturer of oyster cans, dealer in groceries, hardware, Pass Christian and Lameuse Streets.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">J.T. Maybury-shipper of raw oysters and canned shrimp, and dealer in groceries. &nbsp;Maybury (1841-1894) also from Baltimore. &nbsp;Buried at Mobile. &nbsp;Also mercantile interest.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">On June 11, 1892, the Biloxi Canning Company was soliciting for figs in an advertisement in The Biloxi Herald. &nbsp;The notice indicated that the company&nbsp;&quot;will pay the highest prices for figs delivered at the stores of J.W. Balthrope and Charles Redding&quot;.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In 1893, T.H. Glenn reported that the chief industry at Biloxi was oyster canning. &nbsp;Five oyster canning plants were in operation with 1200 people employed. &nbsp;The three largest factories produced 200,000 cases of oysters, 15,000 cases of shrimp, and 5,000 cases of figs-valued at $350,000. &nbsp;Labor and raw materials cost about $2,000 per week.(The Mexican Gulf &nbsp;Coast Illustrated, 1893, p. 57)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In July 1893, The Pascagoula Democrat-Star reported that the Francis Codina Shipyard at Pascagoula was building two large barges for the Biloxi Canning Factory.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The October 1893 Hurricane did about $4500 damage to the Biloxi Canning Company. &nbsp;The tempest swept away buildings, damaged machinery, canned goods, boats, and seines.(&quot;terrific gale&quot;, Oct. 5, 1893). &nbsp;The Pascagoula Democrat-Star reported that Hugh Miller and his son with&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">W.H. Patton of the Biloxi Canning Company were drowned.</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In 1895, Charles Dyer, who wrote&nbsp;<u>Along The Gulf</u>&nbsp;(1895), visited Back Bay and met with Charles Patten (1835-1922), the manager of the Biloxi Canning Company at that time. &nbsp;Mr. Patten related the following:</span></span></div>\r\n					<blockquote style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\">\r\n							<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><i>The Biloxi Canning Company was started in 1881 and from a small beginning the plant has been gradually built up, until at the present time it occupies a space of 100 feet by 500 feet, running from the street to the end of the wharf where vessels land. &nbsp;They employ during the busy season about 350 hands and their goods are shipped to all parts of this country and Europe. &nbsp;England is one of their best customers and indeed it would seem so, for on the day that our party visited the cannery a shipment of 525 cases of canned shrimp was sent to a London firm. &nbsp;This company, as a matter of course, cans oysters and shrimp, and they also ship raw oysters away in bulk. &nbsp;In addition to this they have made quite a specialty of canning figs. &nbsp;Although it cannot be said that canned figs have been thoroughly introduced through the north, east, and west, yet they are constantly in receipt of orders for this delicate table luxury. &nbsp;For several years past the Pullman Palace Car Company have been ordering thousands of cases of figs from this company. &nbsp;These are specially put up in small cans, each containing seven figs, or one portion, and have met with a great sale upon the cars of the above named corporations. &nbsp;This has also proved to be good advertisement for the Biloxi Canning Company, as they have received hundreds of individual orders for one or two cases of these goods from people who had seen them for the first time on the Pullman cars.</i></span></span></strong></div>\r\n						<div class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n							&nbsp;</div>\r\n						<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\">\r\n							<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><i>The ordinary method of putting them up, however, is in cans, which contain twenty-six ounces of fruit and syrup, which will sell for 25 cents per can at retail. &nbsp;They are also put up in half cans. &nbsp;Regarding the shrimp, which are put up in cans, two dozen of which go to the case, the Biloxi Canning Company has made a departure in the line of packing. &nbsp;It is a well-known fact that if the shrimp touches the tin of the can it immediately loses its bright red color and becomes black and unsightly. &nbsp;To obviate this, the other companies use a muslin bag, in which the shrimp are placed before being packed. &nbsp;Now, instead of this muslin bag, in which, according to Mr. Patten, the shrimp are liable to get broken up slightly in filling the bag the Biloxi Canning Company have substituted a wooden veneer lining, which, while it completely prevents the shrimp from touching the tin, at the same time absorbs what little moisture there is in them when they are packed and renders them perfectly dry and palatable as they are intended to be when placed upon the table.</i></span></span></strong></div>\r\n						<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\">\r\n							<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><i>All of the canned goods of this company are put up under a distinctive mark of their own called the &quot;Cotton Bale Brand&quot;, which is favorably known wherever the goods have been seen.</i></span></span></strong></div>\r\n						<div class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n							&nbsp;</div>\r\n						<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\">\r\n							<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><i>The present officers of the company are W.A. Gordon, president; Charles E. Theobald, vice-president; C.F. Theobald, secretary and treasurer; Charles Patten, manager.</i></span></span></strong></div>\r\n					</blockquote>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In August 1896, Mary G.T. Shaw conveyed to the Biloxi Canning Company, for $200, a parcel of land with 73 feet on Back Bay and 300 feet deep. &nbsp;Its boundaries were: the Biloxi Canning Company to the east, Fayard Street to the west, and Chartres Street on the south.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 34, p. 394)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp;By 1900, the ownership of the Biloxi Canning Company had changed dramatically. &nbsp;C.F. Theobald, F.W. Elmer, and Charles Patten were no longer stockholders. &nbsp;In the fall of 1898, Charles Patten resigned and Charles Redding took over the reins of packing facility. &nbsp;P.H. Clark became company foreman.(The Biloxi Herald, November 5, 1898, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Sometimes before 1897, Charles Redding (1857-1926), a native of Bay St. Louis, had acquired three shares of stock in the Biloxi Canning Company. &nbsp;Redding lived at Biloxi and made his livelihood as a grocery merchant. &nbsp;He parlayed his entrepreneurial skills in many areas of commerce and was particularly successful in banking and the seafood canning industry. &nbsp;In 1915, Redding served as vice president of the Devitt &amp; Clark, a canning company, located at Point Cadet in east Biloxi.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;By 1901, Edwin Carey Joullian (1863-1931) had acquired eleven shares of stock in the company. &nbsp;Joullian, an Alabaman, had come to Biloxi in 1888 from Mobile. &nbsp;Here he organized the E.C. Joullian Packing Company, a competitor of the Biloxi Canning Company. &nbsp;Joullian was married to Lillian O. Foster (1865-1924), the sister of Charles B. Foster (1877-1931), who was also in the seafood business operating as the C.B. Foster Packing Company. &nbsp;Mr. Joullian acquired his Biloxi Canning Company shares to satisfy debts owed to him by others. &nbsp;He took over the management of the company in 1902. &nbsp;Under Jouillian&#39;s leadership, their seafood products were sold under the Cotton Bale label.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;The other stockholders at the turn of the Century were William A. Gordon (1858-1913) of New Orleans with 8 1/2 shares and Mrs. Mary A. White of Rochester, New York with 2 1/2 shares. &nbsp;W.A. Gordon was a partner with F.N. Miller in the firm of Manufacturers Agents, which had been&nbsp;organized in 1865, at New Orleans. &nbsp;They were headquartered at 535 &amp; 537 Tchoupitoulas Street. &nbsp;Mr. Gordon also headed the Louisiana Distilling Company. &nbsp;He was an enthusiastic yachtsman and served as the vice president of the Southern Yacht Club. &nbsp;Gordon was married to Henrietta Hart (d. 1933), the daughter of E.J. Hart, a prominent citizen of New Orleans. &nbsp;Gordon had three spinster sisters, Kate, Jean, and Fannie Gordon. &nbsp;Mrs. Mary A. White may have also been a sister.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">1906 Hurricane</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"text-align: justify; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The September 1906 Hurricane saw over two hundred vessels seeking shelter in Back Bay. &nbsp;Unfortunately for the fishing fleetthe winds of the tempest roared out of the northeast, and drove the schooners into the wharves of the canning factories. The sky light of the Biloxi Canning&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Company buildings was driven in by the wind. The shipyards of Bernard Taltavull, Martin Fountain, and John Brander were damaged as drifting schooners knocked out the ways and the wind blew down sheds.(The Biloxi Daily &nbsp;Herald, September 28, 1906. p. 2)</span></div>\r\n					<div style=\"text-align: center; font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Liquidation</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">On March 23, 1908, the original Biloxi Canning Company twenty-five year charter expired. &nbsp;Prior to this time E.C. Joullian was managing the company. &nbsp;A stockholders meeting was called at Biloxi on May 28, 1908 by Joullian to appoint the necessary commissioners to liquidate the company. &nbsp;Although W.A. Gordon did not attend the meeting, he was appointed to the group to liquidate. &nbsp;At this time, Joullian owned nine shares and Redding five shares of the twenty-five shares outstanding in the company.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In a letter to W.A. Gordon dated July 17, 1908, E.C. Joullian expressed his feelings about the cannery:</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><i>I have repeatedly requested Mr. Redding to take charge of the plant, but was unable to induce him to do so. &nbsp;The Charter of the Biloxi Canning Company, has expired, and there does not seem to do anything else, but, place the company&#39;s business in liquidation and sell all the assets for the best price to be obtained on behalf of those concerned as their interest may appear. &nbsp;I have no desire to give my time to the operation of the plant, and I have no desire to continue my interest in the same. &nbsp;Therefore I see no reason for renewing the charter. &nbsp;</i></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><i>My experience with oyster canning factories is, none can be operated profitably as a corporation and without owning necessary fleet to supply the raw material. &nbsp;Another fact is, canneries on the Back Bay, cannot now be operated in competition successfully with other canneries located to better advantage.</i></span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Joullian and Redding wanted Gordon to bid on the assets of the entire operation. &nbsp;In August 1908, Edward Glennan (1854-1933) made an offer to purchase a portion of the company property for $11,000. &nbsp;Glennan was a New Orleans native of Irish descent. &nbsp;He was a grocery merchant&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">at Biloxi and served as president of the Biloxi Electric Light Company and vice president of the Peoples Bank. &nbsp;Glennan was also active in public affairs serving as mayor of Biloxi for twenty years, city treasurer eight years, alderman-at-large, and alderman several times. &nbsp;Other than&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">his business, Glennan took a great interest in the Volunteer Fire Company.</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">W.A. Gordon thought the value of the Biloxi Canning Company was $20,000, a sum far greater than the offer of Ed Glennan. &nbsp;He filed a lawsuit, Cause No. 2803, in the Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court on August 28, 1908, against Joullian and Redding.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In the subsequent court action, W.A. Gordon declared his disbelief in the estimated value of the company by Joullian and accused the defendants of collusion with Glennan to defraud him and Mrs. White. &nbsp;Chancellor T.A. Wood adjudicated that F.S. Hewes, the Clerk of Court, sell the land, canning plant, machinery, cans, labels, buckets, trays, scales, and all goods, wares, and merchandise belonging to the Biloxi Canning Company, except the stock of canned shrimp and oysters in the building. &nbsp;The sale took place on January 4, 1909, at the northwest front door of the courthouse. &nbsp;W.A. Gordon was the high bidder purchasing the assets of the company for 12,000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 90, p. 402).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">New Biloxi Canning Company</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; The new Biloxi Canning Company was incorporated at New Orleans on February 5, 1909. (MOB 912, p. 721). &nbsp;The owners and their equity in the company were: &nbsp;W.A. Gordon-215 shares, Charles Patten-10 shares, and Mrs. Mary B. White, a widow-25 shares.</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;After Mr. Gordon died at New Orleans on January 9, 1913, his New Orleans business partner, F.N. Miller, took over the reigns of the company. &nbsp;On July 20, 1914, Miller authorized by a resolution of the Board of Directors of the corporation, conveyed the Biloxi canning operation to John B. Humphreys (1861-1921) of Biloxi for $11,306.31.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.108, pp. 413-414) &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The tract was described in the warranty deed as:</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;<i>That certain tract of land in the City of Biloxi, having a front of two hundred and thirty-nine feet on the Back Bay of Biloxi, and extending south to Chartres street, and which is bounded by a line running as follows: &nbsp;On the North by the Back Bay of Biloxi, on the East by Reynoir Street of said city, on the South by Chartres street of said City, and on the west by Fayard Street of said city. &nbsp;Together with all and singular the entire canning or packing establishment situated thereon, and known as the Biloxi Canning Company plant, including all machinery and appliances of every character and description, therein or forming a part thereof and belonging to said Biloxi Canning Company; also all cans, labels, buckets, trays, scales, and other property and appliances used in or forming a part of the stock of the said Biloxi Canning Company, and any and all the goods, wares, merchandise, and property of every character and description belonging to said Biloxi Canning Company, except the accounts, notes, choses in action, evidences of debt, belonging to said Company. &nbsp;Also the schooner, William Tell, now lying and being in the Back Bay of Biloxi.</i></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;On July 14, 1914, Henrietta Hart Gordon, the widow of the late William A. Gordon (1858-1913), and Fannie R. Gordon, her daughter, gave the Biloxi Canning Company a quitclaim deed on the above property. They were residents of New Orleans.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 108, p. 413)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">John B. Humphreys</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Like W.A. Gordon, John Brown Humphreys (1861-1921) was also from New Orleans. &nbsp;He was not a native of the Crescent City, but was born possibly in Ascension or St. John The Baptist Parish, west of New Orleans. &nbsp;In 1900, John B. Humphreys married William &#39;Willie&#39; C. Rose (1877-1921+), also a native of Louisiana. &nbsp;At this time, he was farming in the 5th Ward of Ascension Parish, Louisiana. &nbsp;Their three children: Florence Humphreys Pritchard (1901-1921+); John Murray Humphreys (1902-1972); and Leslie Humphreys (1906-1921+) were all born in the Pelican State. &nbsp;The Humphrey family came to Biloxi in 1909 to reside. &nbsp;John B. Humphreys planned to maintain status quo at the Biloxi Canning Company as Superintendent Patton and John Herrington, processing manager, were retained. &nbsp;Both men had been with the organization for several decades. (1900 Ascencion Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T623 557, p. 6A, ED 7 and The Daily Herald, May 22, 1913, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; </span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">In August 1915, although a commercial success under his management, Mr. Humphreys closed the Biloxi Canning Company as a result of the strike perpetrated by the International Longshoreman&rsquo;s Association. &nbsp;He also asked that all employees occupying the company owned camp vacate the premises immediately, as they would be closed. &nbsp;In addition, Humphreys placed the cannery for sale.(The Daily Herald, August 25, 1915, p. 1)</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Strawberries</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In late October 1915, J.B. Humphries placed an order for 100,000 strawberry plants at a meeting of the Biloxi Vegetable and Fruit Growers Association. &nbsp;With the G.W. Haynes order of 60,000 plants, it was hoped that enough association growers would come forward to have 60-acres of strawberries under cultivation before the planting season ended in late</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">November.(The Daily Herald, October 29, 1915, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Gulfport Packing and Trading Company</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">March 1917, John B. Humphreys conveyed the Biloxi Canning Company to the Gulfport Packing and Trading Company for $3333.33 and a mortgage of $3000 held by Eva and Edward Boldt.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.118, p. 344-345) &nbsp; The conveyed tract had 239 feet on Back Bay and was bounded by Fayard, Reynoir and Chartres Streets. &nbsp;The Gulfport Packing and Trading Company was incorporated in November 1916 at Gulfport by John B. Humphreys, Louis Goldman, and T.H. Gleason. &nbsp;The company was capitalized at $30,000.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Charter Book 17, p. 176).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In September 1919, the Gulfport Packing and Trading Company was producing about 10,000 cans each day of sweet potatoes at Gulfport. &nbsp;The yams were cultivated along the Gulf &amp; Ship Island Railroad.(The Daily Herald, September 25, 1919, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In October 1919, Sheriff J.B. Clark sold the Biloxi Canning Company to Mrs. John B. Humphreys for $1200. &nbsp;It was seized to satisfy a $1,000 judgement against John B. Humphrey awarded to Vincent Lenaz.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.125, p. 72).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Humphries moved back to New Orleans. &nbsp;He was in the canning business there when he died on December 7, 1921. &nbsp;They resided at 1936 Peters.( The Daily Herald, December 8, 1921, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtecenter\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Dr. Charles Albert Babendreer</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">On October 15, 1919, Dr. Charles Albert Babendreer (1867-1938), a retired physician and entrepreneur who lived at Ocean Springs, purchased the Biloxi Canning Company for $4000 from Mrs. J.B. Humphrey. &nbsp;Prior to this in September 1914, he, C.H. Woodward, &nbsp;and E.S. Davis formed the Nutritive Food Company, a Mississippi corporation, at Ocean Springs. &nbsp;In 1919, Albert Babendreer was president of the Maritime Food Products Company, an Illinois corporation. &nbsp;Dr. Babendreer came to the coast from Kentucky with his wife, Dr. Estelle Turner Babendreer (1871-1958) circa 1909. &nbsp;They resided in east Ocean Springs where Dr. Estelle T. Babendreer had a medical clinic. &nbsp;She specialized in treating allergies and skin disorders. &nbsp;Their children, Eleanor B. Moore (1901-1984+) and Eric T. Babendreer (1903-1975), grew up to be attorneys.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.125, p. 73 and The Ocean Springs News, September 26, 1914, p. 1)</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Albert Babendreer grew up on the shores of Chesapeake Bay at Baltimore. &nbsp;This background may have lured him into the seafood industry at Biloxi. &nbsp;It was from Baltimore that Biloxi businessmen, operating as the Lopez, Elmer &amp; Company brought the technology and equipment to open the first cannery, which evolved into the Biloxi Canning Company. &nbsp;Baltimore also provided Biloxi with a transient labor force. &nbsp;These seafood workers were called Bohemians, although they were primarily of Polish origin.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In 1920, at Biloxi, Albert Babendreer entered into the machine and foundry business, which was complimentary to his cannery. &nbsp;The enterprise called the Biloxi Machine Works &amp; Foundry Company, was located on the northeast corner of Railroad Street and Magnolia. &nbsp;The organization manufactured the Gulf Standard Gasoline engine, gray iron, and made brass and aluminum fittings.</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">William B. Taltavull&nbsp;</span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;In May 1924, William Bernard Taltavull (1882-1948), known as Bernard Taltavull, purchased the Biloxi Canning Company from Dr. Babendreer&#39;s Maritime Food Products Company for $10,000. &nbsp;Bernard Taltavull was the son of pioneer Biloxi boat builder, Francis A. Taltavull (1851-1930), and Margaret Bertheaud (1860-1904).(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.142, p. 129)&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Bernard Taltavull was educated in the Biloxi school system and became active in the seafood packing industry at Biloxi in 1917. &nbsp;He married Elsie Lyle Maxwell (1886-1962) on August 6, 1910. &nbsp;She was the daughter of John Lyle Maxwell (1845-1889) and Mary Scott (1864-1938). &nbsp;From this union, two daughters were born: &nbsp;Jane T. Smith (b. 1911) and Mary Edna T. Gillis (1919-1996).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bernard Taltavull had operated the Bay View Packing Company until May 1924, when he bought the Biloxi Canning Company just west from his Bay View Packing operation. &nbsp;The&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Bay View Packing Company was formerly the site of the Henry Diaz Canning Company which was located northeast of the Diaz Grocery Store. &nbsp;Henry Diaz (1872-1944) was the son of&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Joseph Diaz Jr. and Adele Santa Cruz. &nbsp;They sold the land to a syndicate where the Lopez &amp; Elmer Company built the first cannery in Biloxi. &nbsp;Henry Diaz had operated a store here since 1892. Taltavull would merge the two canning operations.</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In February 1925, the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company was chartered in Mississippi. (HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Charters of Corporations Bk. 36, p. 133) &nbsp;The incorporators were: Elsie Maxwell Taltavull, Bernard Taltavull, and W.J. Wadlington. &nbsp;The factory had forty boats of which two-thirds were utilized for oystering and the remainder to catch shrimp. &nbsp;At the height of the packing season, the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company employed 200 boatmen and 300 factory workers. &nbsp;Some employees were furnished free housing and water. &nbsp;This custom was phased out in the late 1930s.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Some of his boat captains were: &nbsp;Edward C. Kopszywa, &quot;Cotton&quot; Kopszywa, Frank Kopszywa, Valley Lepre, Lebatard, Sansen, DeSilvey, John Hungerford. &nbsp;Factory paid for fuel and groceries. &nbsp;Net profits split as: &nbsp;boat share, net share, crew share.(Judy S. Soares, July 1996)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;On July 11, 1928, R.D. Moore land commissioner sold Bernard Taltavull 6.06 acres of tidewater land north of the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company property. &nbsp;It extended 1200 feet north into the Back Bay.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.186, p. 457).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; In 1931, Fred Torsch, a Baltimore canner sold his company, the Auginbaugh Canning Company, to Taltavull for $3000. &nbsp;Mr. Taltavull packed oysters for the Baltimore organization with their label, &quot;Nigger Head&quot;. &nbsp;Later changed to &quot;Negro Head&quot; after pressure from NAACP?(Judy S. Soares, July 1996)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; In early January 1932, the Hyacinth captained by Mr. Penton sank in shallow water in front of the Edgewater Gulf Hotel. &nbsp;At the time of the sinking of his vessel, Captain Penton and crew were in route to the Biloxi Canning Company from a successful oyster harvest. &nbsp;Bernard Taltavull who owned the Hyacinth envisioned raising the sunken watercraft as it was not seriously harmed.(The Daily Herald, January 6, 1932, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In December 1933, nine factories were operating at Biloxi. &nbsp;There was a paucity of oysters. &nbsp;Over 100 boats with about 500 fishermen were working night and day to catch sufficient quantities of the mollusks to supply the 2,000 shuckers at the plants. &nbsp;Factories contemplated a shut down in January 1934. &nbsp;No market for shrimp as catches had to be given away.( The Daily Herald, December 18, 1933, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In 1934, the Taltavull family resided at 525 East Howard Avenue. &nbsp;Mr. Taltavull&#39;s hobby was racing the champion schooner of the Gulf Coast, the Mary Margaret. &nbsp;He had the boat built in 1928, by Jackie Jack Kovacevich. </span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">On January 1, 1937, Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company leased to Jane Taltavull for one year for $100.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 214, p. 159).</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In August 1937, the Biloxi Canning Company launched a new shrimp trawler at the Covacevich Brothers boat yard. &nbsp;The vessel was christened Bernard T for Bernard Taltavull. &nbsp;It had a length of 54 feet and a beam of 16 feet. &nbsp;The Bernard T was powered by a 36 horsepower Lathrop engine.(The Daily Herald, August 21, 1937, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Bernard Taltavull, Inc.</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp;In April 1943, the charter of the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company was amended and the name changed to Bernard Taltavull, Inc.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Charter Book 84, p. 163) &nbsp;Bernard Taltavull was president and Elsie M. Taltavull, secretary.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; In October 1942, Jane Taltavull Smith conveyed to Bernard Taltavull a tract west of the original cannery which ran from Chartres north along the east line of Anglada Alley to Back Bay.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 251, p. 495) &nbsp;She had acquired it from Glen Easterling for $1,000 in August 1934.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 214, p. 537).</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In May 1943, with his health slowly failing, Bernard Taltavull sold the former Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company to Roy Rosalis (1909-1984) and Virgilio Dos Santos (ca 1902-1954+) for $60,000. &nbsp;Taltavull conveyed the factory, buildings, warehouses, machine shops, grinding mills, wharfs, and houses located on the property. &nbsp; It also included all the machinery, fixtures, and personal property used by the Biloxi Canning and Packing Company and the Bay View Crushing Company. &nbsp;In addition, the act of sale included the following power boats and schooners:&nbsp;Bride, H.E. Gumbel, Geraldine F., Zenia, Winnie Davis, Galle-Kelley, Golden Hope, Kanuga, Anais, Ida T., Lucky Lindy, Coca Cola Girl, Hulda Velma, Gertrude B., Ferda, Dauntless, I. Heidenheim, Anna Eve, Oxalis, Silver Pearl, Knox,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Teddy F. &nbsp;The boats were valued at $26,000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 255, p. 112 and The Daily Herald, April 22, 1943, p. 9)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;At the same time, Rosalis and dos Santos conveyed a 1/3 interest into their new company to Armindo O. Soares (1908-1994). &nbsp;It included all trademarks of the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company and the Aughinsbaugh Canning Company: &nbsp;Trademarks: # 57,575 (11-13-1906), 54,564 (7-31-1906), 303,967 (6-13-1933), 303, 966 (6-13-1933), and 345,793 (5-4-1937).(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 255, pp. 165-167)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The new owners incorporated as the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company, Inc. on May 4, 1943 for fifty years. 750 shares of common stock were issued with a par value of $100.00. &nbsp;The incorporators were Virgilio dos Santos, president, Armindo Soares, vice-president, and Roy Rosalis, secretary and treasurer.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Charter Book 84, p. 156).&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In September 1944, Mr. Taltavull, the former owner, commenced a modern packing operation on Back Bay known as the B. Taltavull Shrimp and Oyster Company. &nbsp;It was located</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">on the waterfront just east of Lameuse Street on property that he purchased from Mrs. Lillie Cruso for $3500. &nbsp;Taltavull brought eighteen boats with him to the new cannery.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 259, p. 270)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Portuguese</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Two of the three new incorporators of the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company were natives of Portugal. &nbsp;Virgilio dos Santos was already a successful packer with canning and fishing operations at Morgan City and Cameron, Louisiana. &nbsp;He wanted a partner to run the Biloxi factory. &nbsp;dos Santos had developed a friendship with Mr. Suzano, also a Portuguese immigrant, who resided and toiled in the Philadelphia area. &nbsp;Suzano recommended his son-in-law, Armindo Soares, to dos Santos.(Judy S. Soares, July 1996)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Armindo Soares&nbsp;was a native of Murtoza, Portugal. &nbsp;He left his native land as child when the family immigrated to Brazil. &nbsp;The Soares family resided at Sao Paulo for about five years before arriving at Long Island, New York circa 1919. &nbsp;Armindo Soares and his brother, Antonio, relocated to Newark, New Jersey were they became employed by RCA manufacturing radios. &nbsp;At the Philadelphia Portuguese Club, Armindo met a beautiful, young Portuguese girl, Judith Suzano. &nbsp;She was born at Lisbon in 1917, and had come to America as a baby with her family. &nbsp;They married in August 1936. &nbsp;Soares was running his own grocery business at Devon, Pennsylvania, when he was contacted by Virgilio dos Santos to move to Biloxi and become a co-owner in the canning operation there.(Judy S. Soares, July 1996)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; Roy Rosalis&nbsp;(1909-1984) was born at North Biloxi (now D&#39;Iberville) in 1909. &nbsp;Married Rena LeBlanc. &nbsp;Rena Rosalis, wife of Roy, resided on Church Street-Haises Blvd.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; Wisely, when the new owners took control from Bernard Taltavull, they retained the former office staff. &nbsp;Office manager was Hernando Money, Floyd Balius-machine shop and ship and engine repair, Isom and Henry Brasher-new boat construction. &nbsp;Frank Brown hired as field manager. &nbsp;The plant was furnished entirely with Continental Can Company machinery. &nbsp;Salting of cans was accomplished by the tablet system utilizing Scientific tablets and machines.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The previous years plant production, although poor compared to other years, consisted of 48,000 cases of canned oysters and 20,000 cases of shrimp. &nbsp;Company trucks would also continue to deliver headless shrimp in frozen 5-lb cartons to Eastern markets.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On August 18, 1943, Roy Rosalis sold his 1/3 interest in the cannery to dos Santos and Soares for $12,500.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 257, pp. 182-185). &nbsp;During WW II, Rosalis worked for the U.S. Government as a seafood broker. &nbsp;He returned to the local seafood industry before the September 1947 Hurricane, as The Daily Herald related that Roy Rosalis of Union Fisheries reported a loss of $50,000 as a result of the tempest. &nbsp;His losses were 4,000 board feet of boat lumber, two engines, and two wharves. &nbsp;Damaged were six boats and the shipyard of Rosalis. &nbsp;He said he would be ready for raw shrimp in two weeks, but a few months before canning operations on line.(The Daily Herald, September 25, 1947, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In November 1949, when Rosalis joined with Clifton H. Sims, and Jules Galle Jr. to organize the Rosalis &amp; Sims Packing Company at Pass Christian. &nbsp;(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Charter Book 117, p. 124) &nbsp;Rosalis and Sims apparently withdrew from the company as its charter was amended in April 1950, and the name changed to G.M. &amp; G. Packing Company. &nbsp;C.F. Gollott and Jules Galle Jr. were the president and secretary respectively.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Charter Book 132, p. 419).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway in March 1945, decimated oyster population of western Mississippi Sound. &nbsp;Dr. A.E. Hopkins of the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service laboratory at Pensacola said,&nbsp;<i>&quot;the Mississippi Sound will not produce a single oyster except perhaps in the immediate vicinity of Biloxi&quot;</i>.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In September 1946, Soares and dos Santos bought the Henry F. Diaz (1944) property east of the cannery site from his sons, Henry F. Diaz Jr. and George J. Diaz. &nbsp;Described as: 120 feet along Chartres to Back Bay, less 50&#39; x 100&#39; in SW/C-site of Diaz Store. &nbsp;Simon on the east. (HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 290, p. 390)&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">1947 Hurricane</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The 1947 September Hurricane appears to have done some water damage to the Biloxi Canning Company. &nbsp;Ironically, three fishing boats, the Bobby C., Jeanne, and Mary Ann Gillis, owned by former proprietor, Bernard Taltavull, washed up on the roadway of the Biloxi Canning Company. &nbsp;Also a small gray dredge made its way onto the Biloxi Canning Company yard.(The Daily Herald, September 20, 1947, pp. 1-2)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Aughinbaugh Canning Company</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; In October 1947, dos Santos and Soares were operating the property as the Aughinbaugh Canning Company as they borrowed $60,000 from the First Bank of Biloxi. &nbsp;Loan secured with factory and land, which had 494 feet on Chartres from Anglada Alley to Simon property on the east. &nbsp;Boats owned at this time: &nbsp;Victor (son of Soares), Geraldine F., Lucky Lindy, Danny (son of Soares), Rosalina (wife of dos Santos), Virgil (son of dos Santos), Judy (wife of Soares), Walter (son of dos Santos), and the Knox.(HARCO, Ms. Trust Deed Bk. 150, p. 542)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Evangelical and Reform Church</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;In June 1949, the Evangelical and Reform Church of St. Louis, Missouri began acquiring land near the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company operations. &nbsp;O.G. Swetman conveyed a lot (40 feet by 120 feet) on the northwest corner of Fayard and Chartres to the church for $5,000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 323, p. 489). &nbsp;Armindo O. Soares and Virgilio dos Santos conveyed a lot (50 feet by 120 feet) contiguous to the Swetman tract to the church in July 1949 for $2500.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 323, p. 490). &nbsp;This gave them a front of 90 feet on Chartres. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Back Bay Mission, as the church was called, bought the old Bay Feed &amp; Hardware property from Gerald J. Quave Sr. in August 1986.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.174, pp. 290-291).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;On July 1, 1954, Virgilio dos Santos sold his undivided 1/2 interest to Roy Rosalis.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 383, p. 317) included four tracts:</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; dos Santos retired and returned to Portugal were he died. &nbsp;His wife, Rosalina dos Santos, still resides there. Rosalis and Soares sold interest of Aughinbaugh to Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 428, pp. 105-107).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In March 1958, Soares and Rosalis leased the cannery to the Lawrence Warehouse Company of Chicago, Illinois.(Bk 154, pp. 157-158). &nbsp;Rosalis leased also as Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.154, pp. 159-161).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In July 1959, Armindo O. Soares conveyed his undivided 1/2 interest in the company to Roy J. Rosalis for $113, 854. 11.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 456, pp. 63-65). &nbsp;The deal included four tracts, the Aughinbaugh Packing Company and these brand labels: &nbsp;Negro Head, Sea Beach, Biloxi, and Danny Boy.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Mr. Soares opened a small cannery, Gulf Shrimp &amp; Oyster Company, on Point Cadet. &nbsp;Also had a canning operation, at Palacios, Texas. &nbsp;It was destroyed by Hurricane Carla in 1961. &nbsp;Soares later invested in Amazon catfish project in Brazil and strawberry farming in Mexico.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Rosalis Inc.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On September 9, 1968, Charter of Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company amended and name changed to Rosalis, Inc. &nbsp;Roy Rosalis, president, and Rena Rosalis, secretary, 300 shares issued.(HARCO, Ms. Charter Bo. 2, pp. 175-178).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Venus and Quave</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On September 4, 1968, the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company was chartered by D.J. Venus III, Gordon D. Venus, and Laz Quave. &nbsp;150,000 shares par $1.00.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Charter Bk. 2, pp. 179-182)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On October 10, 1968, Rosalis, Inc. conveyed to Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company for $610,000, all improvements, buildings, wharehouses, docks, wharves, with riparian and littoral rights.(go 413.4 south along east side of Anglada x Landers x 253&#39; x Chartres (332.9) x 136&#39; (Stanovich) x Bay to Point of beginning on Anglada). &nbsp;Sale included the following brands: &nbsp;Negro Head, Biloxi, Sea Beach Canned Shrimp, Mobile Bay, Danny Boy, and Pueblo.(HARCO, Ms. Trust Deed Bk. 535, p. 47 and Bk. 535, p. 50). &nbsp;Mr. Rosalis then retired and resided at 872 Central Beach Boulevard.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Hurricane Camille</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Hurricane Camille of August 1969, according to company president, D.J. Venus, caused losses estimated at $1 million. &nbsp;There was doubt as whether the U.S. Pure Food and Drug inspectors would approve canned shrimp damaged by the tempest. &nbsp;Production was possible in two months.(The Daily Herald, August 28, 1969, p. 18)</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Loans</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; April 12, 1971, company under Venus borrowed $12,000 from Peoples Bank and bought more land to the west.(HARCO, Ms. Trust Deed Bk. 3, pp. 64-65).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp;January 3, 1973, Venus-Quave borrowed $319,000.(HARCO, Ms. Trust Deed Bk. 49, p. 425).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp;In October 2, 1974, Henry Slay Guiterrez, president, and Pete Elder, secretary got a SBA loan for $500,000.(HARCO, Ms. Trust Deed Bk. 72, pp. 287-293).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Lease</span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;On January 15, 1975, Henry S. Guiterrez leased a portion of the building to the Douglas-Guardian Warehouse Corporation of New Orleans.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 55, pp. 377-378).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Default</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In May 1976, Venus and Quave defaulted on payments to Rosalis and the Biloxi Canning Company was bought from Substitute trustee, David Cottrell Jr., for $200,000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 65, pp. 486-488)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Historic Marker</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">In early May 1979, descendants of Biloxi seafood pioneers, Lopez, Maycock, and Gorenflo, unveiled a marker on Bayview Avenue at the head of Reynoir Street commemorating the 1881 founding of the Lopez, Elmer &amp; Company. &nbsp;The ceremony was a part of the Biloxi Heritage&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Week celebrations of May 6-12, 1979.(The Daily Herald, May 15, 1979, p. B-1)</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Durward B. Dunn</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;On December 20, 1984, after the demise of Roy J. Rosalis who died at Gautier on April 28, 1984, his widow, Rena Mary Leblanc Rosalis, took possession of the canning company property.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.154, p. 132) &nbsp;Mrs. Rosalis sold it to Durward B. Dunn and Georgene Dunn of New Orleans in December 1985.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 166, pp. 261-262)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Gaming Era</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In August 1992, when the Isle of Capri opened for business on Point Cadet, dockside gaming proved an immediate success. &nbsp;Other casino operators became interested in commencing operations on the Biloxi peninsula. &nbsp;The old Biloxi Canning Company site was zoned for gaming by the Biloxi City Council on February 22, 1993, when the entire Back Bay area, composing Waterfront District II, was zoned.</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">I<strong>mperial Palace-Ralph Englestad</strong></span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;In March 1993, Peoples Bank of Biloxi conveyed to the Mississippi Gaming Corporation, a Delaware corporation, a 1.839 tract northwest of the old canning company tract.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 53, p. 378-379) &nbsp;This was the beginning of land acquisition by a group to be called Imperial Palace of Mississippi.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mississippi Gaming Corporation to Ralph Engelstad.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 270, p. 692).(1.839 acres m/l).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Morris J. Smith to Ralph Englestad.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 272, p. 51)-described as 98.5 feet x 197 feet.(see also HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 272, p. 106)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Durward Dunn sold the old Biloxi Canning Company site to Imperial Palace of Mississippi, Inc. on October 27, 1994.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 277, pp. 213-214).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Demolition and site construction</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In 1994, after the removal of the remaining structures of the Biloxi Canning Company, construction began slowly on the site. &nbsp;The General Contractor was</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The casino barge</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Imperial Palace Casino barge, a three-story structure, arrived at Biloxi on August 19, 1995, from Morgan City, Louisiana. Construction was completed at a site near the head of Oak Street and moved to casino site in 1996. &nbsp;The Imperial Palace Casino opened for business on December 30, 1997.(The Biloxi-D&rsquo;Iberville Press, February 25, 1998, p. 7)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The hotel</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;The Imperial Palace Hotel construction commenced in early 1996. &nbsp;Completion was planned for July 1997, but didn&rsquo;t open for business until February 6, 1998.(The Biloxi-D&rsquo;Iberville Press, February 25, 1998, p. 7)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;(see Englestad v. Mayor Holloway controversies over upper stories of hotel)</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><u><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">REFERENCES:</span></u></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Mary Louise Adkinson and others,&nbsp;<strong><u>The Bouzage-Bosarge Family</u></strong>, 2nd Edition, (Mississippi Coast History and Genealogical Society: &nbsp;Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), pp. 203-204.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Charles Dyer,&nbsp;<u><strong>Along The Gulf</strong></u>, &quot;Biloxi&quot;, (reprinted by the Pass Christian Historical Society: &nbsp;Pass Christian, Mississippi-1991).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">T.H. Glenn,&nbsp;<u><strong>The Mexican Gulf Coast Illustrated</strong></u>, (Graham &amp; Delchamps: Mobile, Alabama-1893).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">David A. Sheffield and Darnell L. Nicovich,&nbsp;<u><strong>When Biloxi Was The Seafood Capital of the World</strong></u>, (The City of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1979), pp. 50-51 and pp. 60-61.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><u><strong>Golden Jubilee Number, The Daily Herald</strong> (1884-1934)<strong>-Fiftieth Anniversary Souven</strong>ir</u>, &quot;The Biloxi Canning Company&quot;, (The Daily Herald: Gulfport, Mississippi-1934), p. 82.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><strong><u>Twentieth Century Coast Edition of The Biloxi Daily Herald</u></strong>, &quot;The Canning Industries of Biloxi&quot;, (George W. Wilkes &amp; Sons: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902).</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><strong><u>Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Burial Book 32C</u></strong>, &quot;Bernard Taltavull&quot;, p. 492.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><i>Chancery Court Cases</i></span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Harrison County, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 2803,&nbsp;William A. Gordon, et al v. E.C. Joulian, et al, August 1908.</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Harrison County, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 21,003,&nbsp;Estate of Henry F. Diaz, January 1945.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Jackson County, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. P-649,&nbsp;Estate of Roy J. Rosalis, May 1984.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \"><i>Journals</i></span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">The Baltimore Sun,&nbsp;&ldquo;Charles Patten&rdquo;, January 13, 1922.</span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi-D&#39;Iberville Press,&nbsp;&quot;Imperial Palace set opening July 1st&quot;, December 11, 1996, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi-D&#39;Iberville Press,&nbsp;&quot;Imperial Palace Biloxi Hotel opened&quot;, February 25, 1998.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;, July 30, 1892.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Captain James Maycock&quot;, March 19, 1892, p. 4.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;&quot;J.T. Maybury&quot;, January 6, 1894.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Latest City News&rdquo;, November 5, 1898.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;An Old Citizen Dead&quot;, May 16, 1903, p. 8.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Worse Storm Than That of October 1893&quot;, September 27, 1906, p. 2,</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Aftermath of Great Storm&quot;, September 28, 1906, p. 1, cc. 4-5, and p.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">2.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Biloxi-North Biloxi Press,&nbsp;&quot;Retired Biloxi Seafood Packer Roy Rosalis Dies&quot;, May 2,</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">1984, p.1</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Ulysse Desporte buys back factory&quot;, November 14, 1910.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Barataria Company desires no law suit&quot;, November 15, 1910.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;William A. Gordon, Sole Owner of Biloxi Canning Co., Is Dead&quot;, January 10,</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">1913, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;J.B. Humphries Acquires Ownership of Leading Biloxi Concern&rdquo;, May 22, 1913, p. 8.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Mrs. Patton (sic) is Taken by Death&quot;, February 22, 1915, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Biloxi Canning Company&rsquo;s Plant To Be Closed Permanently and Sold&rdquo;, August&nbsp;<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; \">&nbsp;</span></font>25, 1915, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;160,000 Plants For Strawberries&rdquo;, October 29, 1915.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Canning Sweet Potatoes in Mississippi Plants&rdquo;, September 25, 1919, p. 3.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;(G.E. Theobald) Dies Suddenly in Chicago&quot;, March 15, 1921, p. 4.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Humphries Funeral Today&quot;, December 8, 1921, p. 2.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Charles Patton (sic) Dead&quot;, January 11, 1922, p. 3.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;To Raise Schooner&rdquo;, January 6, 1932.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Glennan Dies at Biloxi Home&quot;, December 18, 1933, pp. 1-2.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Biloxi Fishermen Will Discuss Shut Down of Factories&quot;, December 18, 1933,</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Will&nbsp;[Dunbar-Dukate Company]&nbsp;improve oyster plant&quot;, July 16, 1934, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Thousand visitors inspect new sanitary packing room of Biloxi&nbsp;[Sea Coast Packing Company]&nbsp;canning plant&rdquo;, July 27, 1934.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Shrimp boats are in shape&rdquo;, July 27, 1934.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Launches New Boat&rdquo;, August 21, 1937.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Taltavull sells Biloxi Canning Co., part fleet&quot;, April 22, 1943.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Henry Diaz Sr. Dies Suddenly at Home Early Sunday&quot;, April 24, 1944, p. 8.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Taltavull Plant Starts Operations&quot;, September 15, 1944, p. 7.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Only Oysters in Mississippi Found in Biloxi Vicinity&quot;, September ? 1945.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;One Life Lost, Heavy Damage Done at Biloxi&quot;, September 20, 1947, pp. 1-2..</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Biloxi Seafood Industry Loss Set at $604,000&quot;, September 25, 1947, p. 8.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,,&nbsp;&quot;Three Seafood Plants To Be Back Soon&quot;, August 28, 1969, p. 18.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Historical marker dedicated&quot;, May 15, 1979, p. B-1.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Ocean Springs News,&nbsp;&quot;The Charter of Incorporation of Nutritive Food Company&quot;, September 26, 1914, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;&quot;Sous Les Chenes&quot;, February 29, 1996, p. 16.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;&quot;Sous Les Chenes&quot;, March 7, 1996, p. 16.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;&ldquo;Local Paragraphs&rdquo;, December 30, 1881.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;&quot;Ocean Springs Local News&quot;, July 28, 1893.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, October 13, 1893, p. 2.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Sun/Daily Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Roy Rosalis&quot;, April 29, 1984, p. A-4.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Biloxi leader Laz Quave dies&quot;, December 22, 1985, p. A-1 and p. A-12.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;&quot;Casinos on the way to Back Bay&quot;, February 23, 1993, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Imperial Palace chief all business&rdquo;, December 14, 1997.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Rosalis built seafood firm&rdquo;, April 8, 2004, p. A-6.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">The Sun Herald,&nbsp;&ldquo;Rena Rosalis&rdquo;, April 8, 2004, p. A-6.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Personal Communication:</span></span></strong></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Jane Taltavull Smith-November, December 1996.</span></span></div>\r\n					<div class=\"rtejustify\" id=\"cke_pastebin\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Judy S. Soares-July 1996.</span></span></div>\r\n				</div>\r\n				<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n					&nbsp;</div>\r\n				<div style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n					___________________________________________________________________________________</div>\r\n				<div class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n					<h1 style=\"text-align: justify;font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">_____________________________________________________________________________________________</span></h1>\r\n					<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">THE SEAFOOD COMPANY of BILOXI</span></span></h1>\r\n					<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Isidore Heidenheim (1857-1918) resigned as manager of the Barataria Canning Company in September 1912.&nbsp; He <strong>planned to remain in Biloxi and as a manufacturer&rsquo;s agent, commercial adjuster, and realty and insurance agent.&nbsp; With Henry E. Gumbel (1869-1950?) of New Orleans as president, Edward Glennan (1854-1933), vice president, and Louis Goldman (1882-1925), attorney, both of Biloxi, Isidore Heidenheim chartered the Sea Food Company of Biloxi in April 1913.&nbsp; Mr. Heidenheim served as manger and secretary of the new cannery which was located on the Point of Biloxi.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Chattel Deed Bk. 14, p. 177, <em>The Daily Herald, September 19, 1912, p. 1 and May 26, 1913, p. 1)</em></strong></span></h1>\r\n					<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Isidore Heidenheim</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Isidore Heidenheim</strong>(1857-1918) was born at New Orleans, Louisiana on December 2, 1857 to Moses Heidenheim (1825-1907) and Babette Fertel (1830-1900).&nbsp; His parents were immigrants from Hesse-Denmark in 1847 and 1849 respectively.&nbsp; Moses Heidenheim made his livelihood in the 10<sup>th</sup> Ward at New Orleans as a retain dry goods merchant.&nbsp; By 1900, Moses and Babette had relocated to Jackson Avenue and he continued in the sale of notions.&nbsp; Here he and Babette reared a large family: Carolina &lsquo;Carrie&rsquo; Heidenheim (1851-1913) m. Cerf Sampson (1839-1900+); Josephine Heidenheim (1853-1929) m. Heymann; Celestine Heidenheim (1855-1932); Isidore Heidenheim (1857-1918); August Heidenheim (1860-1914) m. Sarah Marks; Simon Heidenheim (1864-1934); Daniel Heidenheim (1865-pre 1870); Emmanuel Heidenheim (1866-1927); and Sarah &lsquo;Selma&rsquo; Heidenheim (1871-1916) m. Emmanuel Levy (1861-1900+).(</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Home and Family</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Isidore Heidenheim married Anna Eve Riego (1874-1931) in Harrison County, Mississippi in August 1907.&nbsp; She was a school teacher and the daughter of Pedro Riego (1846-1895), a Spanish immigrant, and Anna C. Ortiz (1848-1922) of New Orleans.&nbsp; Miss Riego was reared on Spain Street in the Crescent City where her family made cigars and graded tobacco.(Harrison Co., Mississippi MRB 19, p. 174 and <em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, August 15, 1907, p. 1, </em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Biloxi politics</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Isidore Heidenheim was first elected to the Biloxi City government as councilman from Ward I in 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<h3 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Henry Champlin</span></span></h3>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Almost immediately after the resignation of Mr. Heidenheim, Henry C. Champlin was hired as the accounting manager of the packing company.&nbsp; Mr. Champlin had <em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;</strong>Izard at Handsboro.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 16, 1912, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Schooners built</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1917, the <strong>Seafood Company</strong> built four Biloxi schooners for their fishing fleet.&nbsp; These four, nearly identical watercraft were constructed on Biloxi&rsquo;s Back Bay at the Biloxi Shipyard and Box Factory.&nbsp; The first three boats were: <strong><em>I. Heidenheim</em></strong>, <strong><em>H.E. Gumbel</em></strong>, and <strong><em>Louis Goldman</em></strong>.&nbsp; The fourth schooner was called <strong><em>Anna May.&nbsp; </em></strong>Their measurements were as follows: length-54.5 feet; breadth-18.8 feet; depth-4.4 feet; gross tonnage-28 tons; and net tonnage-19 tons.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 13, 1917, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Russell Barnes, a Biloxi author, model builder and schooner historian,relates that these four boats<strong>&ldquo;w<em>ere designed by</em></strong><strong><em>Jackie Jack Covacevich and were built right along side each other at the Biloxi Shipyard and Box Factory owned by the Branders. These were a bit different from the traditional Biloxi schooner in that they were all spoon bowed instead of clipper bowed. Otherwise they were fairly typical centerboard schooners.&nbsp; On the admeasurement &nbsp;papers I found in the National Archives, Jackie Jack </em></strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>is listed as the builder on two of the schooners<u>, I. Heidenheim</u> and <u>L. Goldman</u>,&nbsp;while Francis Brander is listed as the builder on the other two, <u>Anna Eve</u> and <u>H.E. Gumbel</u>. It is fairly obvious that Jackie Jack</em></strong> &nbsp;<strong><em>cut the half model and lofted the boat himself. He then created the templates for each piece of the hull frame and then cut four copies of everything so that four schooner could be simultaneously and to the exact same measurements.&rdquo;</em></strong> <em>(e-mail February 29, 2010)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Heidenheim passes</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&quot;Heidenheim resigns as manager of Barataria Canning Company&quot;,</strong> September 19, 1912.</span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Henry Champlin at the Barataria&rdquo;</strong>, October 16, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Biloxi will have new cannery; report is reliably confirmed</strong>&rdquo;, December13, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo; &rdquo;</strong>, , 19.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo; &rdquo;</strong>, , 19.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo; &rdquo;</strong>, , 19.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo; &rdquo;</strong>, , 19.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Three new boats put overboard&rdquo;</strong>, September 13, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Isadore Heidenheim Dies&rdquo;</strong>, October 27, 1918, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Personal Communication:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">__________________________________________________</span></span>_____</h1>\r\n					<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">BURDON-CASTANERA PACKING COMPANY</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n					<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Founded in 1912.</span></h1>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Frank B. Castanera</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Captain Frank B. Castanera (1870-1934) was born at Scranton (Pascagoula) on January 16, 1870.&nbsp; His father, Captain Eugene Castanera, was postmaster at Moss Point from 1882-1885.&nbsp; He also had a pecan variety, the Castanera, named for him, which was later grafted by Colonel Stuart and John Keller about 1892 and sold as the Stuart.&nbsp; His mother was Estella Llado, the sister of Louis Llado who was also a bar pilot.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Frank Castanera attended Spring Hill College at Mobile.&nbsp; He settled at Biloxi in 1893, and organized the Biloxi and Ship Island Tow Boat Company in February 1897 with J.B. Roberts.&nbsp; As stated in the charter, the object and purpose of this corporation were:</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><em>to run and operate one or more tow boats, or other water craft, to tow vessels, timber or other merchandise, and to transport passengers and merchandise between such points and places on the Mississippi Sound and its tributaries as the Board of Directors may determine and to do a general towing and transportation business for a profit.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The steam tug <strong><em>Biloxi</em></strong> built by the Taltavull Shipyard for Castanera was used in the towing operations along the Mississippi coast.&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;In about 1900, he was in the retail lumber and general supply business in Biloxi.&nbsp; In 1905, he was appointed a member of the Ship Island Bar Pilots&rsquo; Association, and&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">served as a pilot between Ship Island and Gulfport until the commencement of World War I.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; During the Great War, he offered his services to the Government as a member of the U.S. Shipping Board.&nbsp; While at sea duty in the post-War years, Castanera met with a many&nbsp;&nbsp; adventures on the seas.&nbsp; Two notable events at this time of his life reported in the Biloxi News of April 25, 1926, were the saving of the life of an ill seaman by radio diagnosis with a land based physician, and the rescue of the abandoned Norwegian steamer Johanne Dybwad in the stormy North Atlantic.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Captain Castanera married Amelia Desporte (1880-1953), daughter of Captain Ernest Desporte.&nbsp; They reared five children in Biloxi:&nbsp; Eugene Ernest Castanera (1898-1932), Ursula C. Provensal (1900-1991), Amelia C. O&rsquo;Keefe, Delauney Castanera (1903-1935), and Theodore Castanera (1905-1978).</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Frank Castanera led a full and adventurous life.&nbsp; In addition to his seafaring, he found time to participate in civic affairs serving on the Biloxi City Council under&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Mayors T.J. Rosell and Ed Glennan. He died in 1934, and is buried in the Biloxi Cemetery.</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;_____________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>DEVITT &amp; CLARK CANNERY</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Founded in 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>LOCATION:</strong>&nbsp; Point Cadet-Lots 4, 9, and 14 of Square 5, Summerville Subdivision, Biloxi, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>HISTORY:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The riparian location, upon which the Devitt &amp; Clark Cannery was erected, was situated in the original 1784 Spanish land grant of Jacques Mathurin Ladner at Point Cadet.&nbsp; is part of east Biloxi was patented to Charles E. McCaleb in June 1844.&nbsp; Summerville Subdivision created in Lot 4 once belonged to Aime Gautier (1826-1885) of New Orleans.&nbsp; He was the brother of Fernando Gautier,</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By March 1900, the land in the possession of Cora E. White (1855-1910+), the wife of attorney Walter A. White (1845-1914+).&nbsp; Founded the White House Hotel.&nbsp; In May 1912,</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Cora E. White conveyed Lots 4, 14, and 9 of Block 5 to the Bourdon-Castenera Packing Company.&nbsp; The conveyance exempted the Presbyterian Church lot which was situated in</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">the northwest corner of Lot 9 and measured 35 feet from east to west and 100 feet from north to south.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 101, pp. 232-233)</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Bourdon-Castanera Packing Company, a New Orleans corporation, was probably the first to build a factory here on the riparian rights granted as title holder of the land.&nbsp; President F.B. Castanera (1870-1934) married to Amelia Desporte.&nbsp; W.E. White. secretary.&nbsp; A.O. Bourdon also a principal in the company.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In June 1913, Bourdon-Castanera leased to Patrick H. Clark and Louis H. Harvey (1874-1913).(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 104, p. 247)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Louis H. Harvey (1874-1913) married to Christina Wachenfeld.&nbsp; He died in September 1913.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In June 1913, Bourdon-Castenera sold to to Walter A. White for $3500.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 104, p. 248)&nbsp; White an attorney.&nbsp; Founded White House at West Beach.&nbsp; White sold the factory to Devitt &amp; Clark in October 1914, for $4000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 109, p. 307)</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Devitt &amp; Clark incorporated on June 10, 1914, at New Orleans.( Harrison County, Mississippi Charter Book ? , pp.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; )&nbsp; The Officers of Devitt &amp; Clark were Thomas Kirkland Devitt (1882-1946), president; Charles C. Redding (1857-1926), vice president; and Patrick Henry Clark (1870-1927), secretary-treasurer.&nbsp; Charles W. Mackie, Jr. was a stockholder and on the board of directors of the firm.</span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Thomas K. Devitt</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;T.K. Devitt (1882-1946) was born at Harbor Springs, Michigan.&nbsp; In August 1907, he married Lily Rose Bourdon (1884-1951), the daughter of French immigrants, A.O. Bourdon, Sr. (1845-1901) and Marie Virgets (1847-1901).&nbsp; The Devitts resided on lower Lameuse Street.&nbsp; Here they reared their three children:&nbsp; Thomas K. Devitt, Jr., Matthew Devitt, and Lily Rose Edmonds Stuart.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lillirose Devitt married Ryland Chase Edmonds at New Orleans on August 19, 1932.&nbsp; Ryland was the son of Captain Samuel Preston Edmonds (1867-1943) and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shorey&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; of Biloxi.&nbsp; Edmonds was educated in Biloxi Public Schools were he was a good athlete.&nbsp; Attended the University of Mississippi and employed with the Atlantic Refining Company of Baltimore.&nbsp; Miss Devitt also attended Biloxi schools and matriculated to M.S.C.W.&nbsp; She taught physical education at the Lausanne School in Memphis.&nbsp; The newly weds were at home in Baltimore.<em>(The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><em>July 25, 1933, p. 2)</em></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Before commencing Devitt &amp; Clark, T.K. Devitt was in the grocery business.&nbsp; Initially he worked with John Mosely.&nbsp; By 1913, he was the local agent for the Great Atlantic &amp; Pacific Tea Company, operating a grocery business on Howard Avenue.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charles C. Redding (1857-1926) was born at Bay St. Louis.&nbsp; He was also a grocer at Biloxi.&nbsp; Redding parlayed his entrepreneurial skills in many areas of commerce and was particularly successful in banking and the cannery industry.&nbsp; He was once president of the Biloxi Canning&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Company.</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Patrick H. Clark</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Patrick Henry Clark (1870-1927) was born at New Orleans of Irish parentage.&nbsp; His father was Michael Clark and his mother, Anne Sheehan (b. 1840).&nbsp; He was married to Leonie B. Clark (1876-1940).&nbsp; Clark was managing a cannery as early as 1900.&nbsp; He was also involved with the L&amp;N Bakery and Confectionery on Howard Avenue with his brother-in-law, Joseph Lamm (1874-1911).&nbsp; Lamm was married to Katherine Clark (1876-1944).&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Hilda Lamm (1901-1906),&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Joseph Lamm (1906-1941) and Margaret J. Lamm (1907-1991).&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;The Clark family resided on Cuevas Street with their three children:&nbsp; Lillian (1909), Patrick H. Clark, Jr. (1911), and Joseph B. Clark (1915).&nbsp; Mrs. Clark later resided on Bohn Street.&nbsp; P.H. Clark died in October 1927.&nbsp; His remains were interred at the Biloxi Cemetery.</span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Ocean Springs</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In late August 1915, Devitt &amp; Clark also had a small cannery at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; At the time they commenced operations at Ocean Springs, the fishermen, who belonged to the International Longshoremen Union, were on strike.&nbsp; The fishermen of Ocean Springs appear to have been independent of the union as the two canning plants there were receiving shrimp.&nbsp; The Ocean Springs cannery of Devitt &amp; Clark&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">appears to have been a short-lived venture, and may have been a victim of the 1915 October Hurricane, which devastated its competitor, the Ocean Springs Packing Company.&nbsp;&nbsp; Louis A. Lundy (1876-1941) rebuilt that enterprise.&nbsp; Devitt &amp; Clark probably did not.&nbsp; In mid-September 1915, Devitt &amp; Clark got seventy barrels of shrimp to process from non- union fisherman for their Biloxi operation.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Devitt &amp; Clark became indebted to Charles Redding for the sum of $25,000.&nbsp; The debt was repayable to Redding in five notes all dated January 5, 1917, and payable every six months.&nbsp; Louis Goldman was appointed trustee of the property.&nbsp; On April 15, 1918, Redding requested that Goldman sell the property because Devitt &amp; Clark defaulted on their payments.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 122, p. 496-497 and <em>The Daily Herald, April 23, 1918, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On May 13, 1918, Louis Goldman, trustee of the property, sold it in front of the courthouse door at Gulfport to the highest bidder for cash.&nbsp; Charles Redding bought the property for $13,000.&nbsp; In the warranty deed, Redding purchased the following:</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'\" size=\"3\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></font><em>All the property of the Devitt &amp; Clark Packing Company lying south of Front Street or Beach Street, being the lot on which the factory of said company is situated, comprising the front and riparian rights of Lots Four, Block Five, of the Plan of Summerville, together with the factory situated thereon and all appurtenances and appliances used together with the right to use water from the artesian well situated on Lot Four for factory purposes....</em></strong></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Also Lot One in Block 6-A of the Summerville Addition. &nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Also the following personal property to wit:&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">The schooners <strong>&quot;<em>Joe Lawrence</em>&quot;,</strong> <strong>&quot;<em>Ocean Queen</em>&quot;</strong>, <strong>&quot;<em>Henry Clark</em>&quot;</strong>, and <strong>&quot;<em>Lily Rose</em>&quot;</strong> together with their rigging of every kind and character situated on or belong thereto.&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Also one barge known as the <strong><em>&quot;Black Box&quot;</em></strong>.&nbsp; Certain motorboats known as <strong>&quot;<em>Sunny Boy</em>&quot;</strong>, &quot;<strong>Zudora&quot;</strong>, &quot;<strong><em>Cuba</em></strong>&quot;, &quot;<strong><em>Hunter</em></strong>&quot;, &quot;<strong><em>Cracker Jack</em></strong>&quot;, and trawlers <strong><em>Numbers One</em></strong>, <em><strong>Two</strong>, <strong>Three</strong>, <strong>Four</strong></em>, and <em><strong>Five</strong></em>.&nbsp; Also nine large seines and fifteen skiffs now in the possession of the Devitt &amp; Clark Packing Company.&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Also all labels, cans, and all supplies now in the possession of the Devitt &amp; Clark Packing Company, or belonging to it, or in which it may have some equity as well as all can goods on hand, bills receivable, and all fixtures, furniture and machinery now in possession of the Devitt &amp; Clark Packing Company, belonging to it, or due it by others, and in any wise appertaining to or belonging to the plant known as the Devitt &amp; Clark Packing Company.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 122, p. 496-497)</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; In December 1918, Charles Redding conveyed the Devitt &amp; Clark property to the American Packing Company.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 122, pp.517-518)</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In June 1919, American Packing Company with T.K. Devitt as its president, sold the property described in the deed from Walter A. White to Devitt &amp; Clark (1914) to Grego Anticich (1876), P.H. Clark, Peter Skrmetta (1885-1963), Luka Kuljis, and Marko Skrmetta (1889-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ).&nbsp; The warranty deed included the schooners, <strong><em>Marvel</em></strong>, <strong><em>Henry Clark</em></strong>, <strong><em>Lily Rose</em></strong>, and <strong><em>Ocean Queen</em></strong>. (HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 125, p. 404)</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In July 1921, Luka Kuljis, Marko Skrmetta, Grego Anticich, and Mrs. Mary S. Anticich conveyed their 60% interest in the canning company to Joseph Lawrence, trustee for the Biloxi Fisherman&#39;s Packing Company for $18,800. &nbsp;Peter Skrmetta conveyed his interest to O.G. Swetman for $5250.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 125, p. 404 and Bk. 131, p. 439, p. 504. and pp. 537)</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Also in July 1912, Lawrence conveyed the interest acquired from the above to the the Biloxi Fishermen&#39;s Packing Company.(10)&nbsp; P.H. Clark sold his 20% interest to the BFPCO at the same time.(</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 131, p. 578</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">)</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Biloxi Fisherman&#39;s Packing Company was incorporated (see Chattel Book 21, p. 328 or Copy Book 3, p. 694).&nbsp; Grego Anticich, Marko Skrmetta, Peter Skrmetta, Luka Kuljis, and P.H. Clark, incorporators.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Charter of BFPCO amended December 8, 1920, to increase capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000.(12)&nbsp; P.H. Clark, president and Nils Herlitz, secretary.(HARCO, Ms. Chattel Deed Bk.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Biloxi Fisherman&#39;s Packing Company dissolved on October 9, 1940.(Copy Bk 7, p. 651).&nbsp; The owners at this time and their percentage interest in the company were: Mrs. C.B. Foster (42%), Chester A. Delacruz (38%), Mrs. C.A. Delacruz (6%), O.G. Swetman (12%), F.B. Royster (1%),</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">and Henry W. Foster (1%).</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; BFPCO sold to Mississippi Coast Packing Co. in November 1929, for $18,000. &nbsp;MCPCO was incorporated in October 1929.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 183, p. 553)</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">12. -------------------------------------- Book 131, p. 586</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">13. --------------------------------Chattel Book 21, p. 475</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&quot;Trustee&#39;s Sale&quot;</strong>, April 23, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>DUBAZ BROTHERS: 1918-1973</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><a href=\"file:///C:/Users/ray/Documents/dubaz%20brothers%20factory.jpg\"><img border=\"0\" height=\"64\" src=\"file:///C:/Users/ray/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.jpg\" width=\"100\" /></a></span></span></p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>14 32 East Beach</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ernest Mladinich</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;At Biloxi, Mississippi, in May 1937, Ernest Mladinich (1875-1953) and spouse, Catherine Bonacich Mladinich (1874-1962), entered into a lease agreement for a parcel of land situated on Point Cadet, with the Dubaz Brothers, a seafood packing company, domiciled at Biloxi.&nbsp; It was owned by John Dubaz II (1890-1944), Luke Dubaz (1893-1985), and George Dubaz (1888-1976).&nbsp; The Dubaz Brothers lease agreement with the Mladinichs was for ten years commencingonMay 13, 1937.&nbsp; The rent was $20 per month.(HARRCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 215, pp. 91-93)</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ernest Mladinich, a native of the village of Milna on the Island of Brac in the Adriatic Sea just off the Damaltian coast of Croatia, and his spouse, Catherine Bonacich Mladinich (1874-1962), also a Croat, had acquired their land on Point Cadet in December 1931.&nbsp; For $8500, the 1<sup>st</sup> National Bank of Biloxi conveyed to them a tract of land described as: 80 feet on the north by Moulet; 290 feet on the east by Wetzell, 80 feet on the Gulf; and 290 feet on the west by Cedar Street.&nbsp; It was subject to existing leases held by Panhandle Oil and Paul Petrich and George Marusich.( HARRCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 192, pp. 423-424)</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1932, Ernest Mladinich would acquire the Terry Packing Company on East Beach at Biloxi and operate it as The Star Fish and Oyster Company.&nbsp; His bold, capitalistic leadership during the early Depression Era years, was immediately followed by other &ldquo;Austrians&rdquo;, as Biloxi&rsquo;s Croatian community was labeled at this time, who made significant investments in the local seafood industry.&nbsp; Vincent Gospodonovich purchased the Stanovich tract, which had two domiciles and a cannery operated by Steve Pavich, and in July 1932, The Martin Fountain Packing Company became the property of The Sea Coast Packing Company.&nbsp; Sea Coast was led by Peter Pavlov, president and treasurer; Alexander Pitalo, vice-president; and Steve M. Sekul, manager.(<em>The Daily Herald, July 30, 1932, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; \">The Dubaz Brothers</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prior to erecting a seafood factory on Front Beach, the Dubaz Brothers had operated a small cannery on Biloxi Bay near the 1928 War Memorial Bridge.&nbsp; Like many seafood operators on Biloxi&rsquo;s Point Cadet, the Dubaz Brothers had their roots in Croatia, formerly a part Yugoslavia.&nbsp; The progenitor of the family, John (Giovanni) Dubaz (1855-1931),</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Musicians</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Four of the Dubaz brothers were talented musicians.&nbsp; As early as 1911, they were members of Professor Carl Hemmersbach&rsquo;s Knights of Columbus orchestra in Biloxi. Professor Hemmersbach (1872-1930+) was an 1888 German immigrant.&nbsp; He taught music at St. Stanislaus and appears to have been a very devout Roman Catholic. &nbsp;In early February 1912, Bishop Gunn, Bishop of the Diocese of Natchez, was feted at Dukate&rsquo;s Theatre.&nbsp; Among those playing in Professor Hemmersbach&rsquo;s band that evening were: George Dubaz, 1<sup>st</sup> violin; Adolph Dubaz, 2<sup>nd</sup> violin; John Dubaz, coronet; and Luke Dubaz, drums.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 13, 1911, p. 1 and February 2, 1912, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Later the Dubaz brothers founded the Dubaz Orchestra, which played at many dance venues in Biloxi including the Montross Hotel, Hotel Biloxi, Biloxi Yacht Club, and Pizatti Pavilion.&nbsp; They were also was regulars at the Dance Pavilion on Deer Island playing in the evenings and Sunday afternoon.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 6, 1915, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Renewal</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In May 1947, the Dubaz Brothers renewed their lease with Ernest and Catherine Mladinich for fifteen years.&nbsp; The rent was $1 per day.(HARCO Ms. Land Deed Bk. 372, pp. 256-272)</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Ernest Mladinich expired on January 20, 1953.&nbsp; He had come to Biloxi from Croatia, then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, in 1901.&nbsp; Mladinich was a veteran of the Austrian Navy.&nbsp; He and wife, Katherine Bonacich, were the parents of two children: Ernest Mladinich II and Dina M. Kuljis. (<em>The Daily Herald, January 20, 1953, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;After Mrs. Mladinich expired in October 1962, her estate was probated by Walter Nixon Jr., a Biloxi attorney.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Copy Bk. 132, p. 204)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Hurricane Camille</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This tropical cyclone struck the Biloxi peninsula on the night of August 19, 1969.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<h1 style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">Final Act</span></span></h1>\r\n					<h1 style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In November 1972, the Dubaz Brothers, after fifty-four years in the seafood business at Biloxi, sold their crab processing plant on the corner of Maple Street and Howard Avenue to Edward R. Hanson.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 19, 1973, p. 2)</em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></h1>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 15px; \"><strong>Hanson Seafood</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Edward R. Hanson (1921-1996) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on January 21, 1921 to Edward H. Hanson and Delhia Strong.&nbsp; He married Edith Chatham. &nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">Ed Hanson expired at Biloxi on April 3, 1996.<em>(The Sun Herald, April 6, 1996, p. B2)</em></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Dance and Reception for Columbus Day&rdquo;</strong>, October 13, 1911.</span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Deer Island&rdquo; </strong>[advertisement], August 6, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Brilliant reception last night in honor of Bishop Gunn&rdquo;</strong>, February 2, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;John Dubaz, Sr. Dies&rdquo;</strong>, February 16, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Austrians Buy Canning Plant&rdquo;</strong>, July 30, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Dubaz Dies&rdquo;</strong>, July 30, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;John Dubaz Dies&rdquo;</strong>, July 7, 1944.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Ernest Mladinich Dies&rdquo;</strong>, January 20, 1953.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Catherine Mladinich&rdquo;</strong>, October 22, 1962.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Dubaz seafood company sold to Biloxian&rdquo;</strong>, January 8, 1973.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Edward R. Hanson, Sr.&rdquo;</strong>, April 6, 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Luke J. Dubaz Jr.&rdquo;</strong>, April 23, 2001.</span></span></p>\r\n				</div>\r\n				<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n					_____________________________________________________________________________________________</div>\r\n				<div class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'Lucida Console\', \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 12px; \">\r\n					<p>\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">1930s</span></span></strong></p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>C.F. GOLLOTT &amp; SON SEAFOOD</strong> [founded 1932]</span></span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Carroll F. &ldquo;C.F.&rdquo; Gollott (1911-1987), a native of Biloxi, Mississippi and the son of Armond George Gollott (1887-1973) and Belle Gollott (1890-1930+) founded C.F. Gollott &amp; Son Seafood at North Biloxi, now D&rsquo;Iberville, Mississippi, in 1932.&nbsp; Armond G. Gollott was born on August 3, 1887 at Theodore, Mobile County, Alabama and circa 1904 married Belle ?, probably in Mobile County, Alabama. &nbsp;They had six children: Infant Gollott; Joseph E. Gollott (1906-1974) m. Dolah ?; Carroll F. Gollott (1911-1987) m. Alice Diaz (1911-1992); James I. Gollot 1915-1981); Ruby L. Gollott (1915-2000) m. Chester Kinsey; and Luther Daniel Gollott (1928-2004) m. Mary Lawrence and Helen Pickich.</span></p>\r\n					<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\">\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\">\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Gollott Seafood buildings at D&#39;Iberville</span></span></strong></p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\">\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">(images made October 1996 by Ray L. Bellande)</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Circa 1909, Armond G. Gollott and spouse relocated from Mobile County, Alabama to Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; In 1910, they were domiciled on Pine Street in the Point Cadet section of east Biloxi.&nbsp; Here Armond made his livelihood as a fisherman.&nbsp; He later toiled as a ship carpenter in Biloxi before becoming a baker circa 1919.&nbsp; By 1920, the Gollott family had moved to 3<sup>rd</sup> Street also on Point Cadet.(1910 and 1920 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T624_740, p. 19B, Ed 33 and T625_876, p. 32B, ED 39)</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1927, Carroll F. Gollott began a long career in the Biloxi commercial seafood business by acquiring fresh oysters from Biloxi fishermen, processing them by hand, and selling the succulent mollusks in sealed jars to clients in Hattiesburg and Wiggins.&nbsp; Perkinston Jr. College was one of his first reliable accounts as he sold the school&rsquo;s cafeteria three gallons of raw oysters for $1.25 per gallon.&nbsp; Mr. Gollott delivered his seafood in a Model T Ford and he subsequently endured the perils of traveling on gravel and red clay roads into the interior of South Mississippi.<em>(The Ocean Springs Record, December 2, 1982, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">North Biloxi</span></strong></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;In 1932, C.F. Gollott commenced C.F. Gollott Seafood at North Biloxi, now D&rsquo;Iberville.&nbsp; His facility was known for its high quality and sanitary excellence.&nbsp; The Gollot factory primarily processed oysters and crabmeat.&nbsp; Gollott&rsquo;s crabmeat was shipped to Baltimore, Maryland and he received $.18 per pound for the product.&nbsp; C.F. Gollott later opened up the Memphis market for Mexican Gulf oysters.&nbsp; Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Gollott also ran Gollott&rsquo;s Grocery and Market where he served as butcher.<em>(The Ocean Springs Record, December 2, 1982, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Family commerce</span></span></strong></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Additional enterprises that Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Gollott operated were Gollott&rsquo;s Grocery and Market where he served as butcher and a bakery.&nbsp; C.F. Gollott was also a fine carpenter and mason.&nbsp; He sponsored baseball and softball teams through the years.<em>(The Sun Herald, January 21, 1987, p. A4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Family</span></span></strong></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; On October 23, 1929, Carroll F. Gollott married Alice Diaz (1911-1992), the daughter of Delmas Diaz (1877-1953) and Maggie G. Quave (1883-1967).&nbsp; Two children: Armond Carroll. &ldquo;Arny&rdquo; Gollott (b. 1932) married Phyllis June Ladner and Alice Mae Gollott married Alvin Vogt.&nbsp; C.F. Gollott and Alice D. Gollott were blessed with eleven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.<em>(The Sun Herald, January 21, 1987, p. A4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Many talents</span></span></strong></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In addition to his business acumen and trade skills, Carroll F. Gollott was a talented Dixieland musician.&nbsp; He played with George Brunies (1902-1974) of New Orleans; Ace Cannon (b. 1934) of Grenada, Mississippi; Dan Glasser; and Chuck Foster.&nbsp; C.F. Gollott expired on January 19, 1987 at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; At his request, a Dixieland Jazz Funeral was held on January 21, 1987.<em>(The Sun Herald, January 21, 1987, p. A4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><em>The Biloxi D&#39;Iberville Press, </em>&quot;Gollott&#39;s marks its 75th year&quot;, April 24, 2008, p. A1.</span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record, </em>C.F. Gollott celebrates 50 years&rdquo;, December 2, 1982, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em>&ldquo;C.F. Gollott&rdquo;, January 21, 1987, p. A4.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em>&ldquo;Alice D. Gollott&rdquo;, November&nbsp;&nbsp; , 1992.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em>&quot;After and Now&quot;-<em>Gollott Seafood in D&#39;Iberville&quot;</em>, June 4, 2006, p. A10.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em>&quot;Gollott&#39;s seafood celebrates 75th&quot;, May 25, 2008, p. G1.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						______________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>1940s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p align=\"center\">\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>WEEMS BROTHERS SEAFOOD COMPANY&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \">[founded 1941]</span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Weems Brothers Seafood Company was founded on the Back Bay of Biloxi in 1941, by Joseph Eugene &ldquo;Gene&rdquo; Weems (1912-2005) and Charles Edward Weems (1915-2006).&nbsp; Prior to their commencing a seafood factory, the Weems brothers learned to harvest the Gulf waters with Eugene Weems, their father, on the <strong><em>Nettie, </em></strong>his fishing boat.&nbsp; The Weems brothers built the <strong><em>Thomas D. Kirnan, </em></strong>their first shrimp and oyster vessel in 1937.&nbsp; It was christened for Mr. Kirnan, the mortgagee.&nbsp; It was followed in 1939, by the <strong><em>Bobbie Charles.&nbsp; </em></strong>The Weems brothers would build twelve commercial fishing vessels during their tenure in the seafood industry at Biloxi.<em>(The Sun Herald, April 12, 2006, p. A6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Weems family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; J. Eugene &ldquo;Gene&rdquo; Weems and Charles E. Weems were the sons of Eugene Weems (b. 1891), a native of Bayou La Batre, Mobile County, Mississippi and Kathryn Weems (b. 1894), also an Alabaman.&nbsp; Eugene Weems came to Biloxi and was an oyster-shrimp fisherman.&nbsp; He and Kathryn also had three daughters: Hilda Rae Weems Jalanivich (1919-1999) married John M. Jalanivich II (1916-1998); Nettie Babuchna, and Erna Weems (b. 1925).</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Gene Weems married Doris Terry.&nbsp; They were the parents of: Anita Weems Hill; Barbara Weems League; Ruth Weems Tank; and Douglas Weems.<em>(The Sun Herald, May 3, 2005, p. A6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>1947 Hurricane</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The September Storm of 1947, destroyed the Weems Brothers factory on Biloxi&rsquo;s Back Bay.&nbsp; They worked diligently and restored the business and prospered.<em>(The Sun Herald, April 12, 2006, p. A6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Camille 1969</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gene Weems sold his interest in the Weems Borthers to Charles E. Weems in 1957.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Twelve years later in August 1969, the powerful tropical cyclone, called Camille, struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast and did catastrophic damage.&nbsp; Charles E. Weems and sons rebuilt on Back Bay.<em>( The Sun Herald, April 12, 2006, p. A6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>Retirement</strong></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1984, Charles E. Weems retired from the seafood industry.&nbsp; He and wife, Glenna Sherrell (1915-1996), were the parents of four sons: Charles E. Weems Jr.; Jerry Weems; Laddie Weems; and Ronnie Weems.&nbsp; They continued the business after their father&rsquo;s retirement.&nbsp; Charles and Glenna also had a daughter, Sonja Weems Hoffman.</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						&nbsp;</p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Katrina 2005</strong></span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n					<p>\r\n						<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; \"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n				</div>\r\n			</div>\r\n		</div>\r\n	</div>\r\n</div>\r\n', NULL, '2');
INSERT INTO `node_revision__body` (`bundle`, `deleted`, `entity_id`, `revision_id`, `langcode`, `delta`, `body_value`, `body_summary`, `body_format`) VALUES
('page', 0, 68, 71, 'en', 0, '<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">New Construction</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/540 East Beach [Biloxi]-October 3%2C 2013_0.jpg\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 174px;\" /></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>504 East Beach Drive</strong></span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">[built 2013]</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><u>HISTORIC BILOXI HOMES</u></span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		________________________________________________________</p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">HISTORY OF THE OOMA TRACT</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">East Beach</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>L</strong><b>IVE OAK&rdquo;: Three Centuries on the Pass of Biloxi, Mississippi</b></span></span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Section 33, T7S-R9W, Harrison County, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h5 align=\"center\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Abstract</span></span></h5>\r\n	<h5 align=\"left\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; is the 19<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century name appropriately attached to a three-acre tract of live oak, graced landscape fronting Deer Island on the Pass of Biloxi.&nbsp; Today this ancient arbor is alive with engineers, contractors and laborers who are toiling diligently in the long shadows of its stately oaks, erecting The Ohr-O&rsquo;Keefe Museum, a 21<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Century creation of internationally acclaimed architect, Frank Gehry.&nbsp; George E. Ohr and Frank O. Gehry are well-matched, as Ohr, a 19<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century, avant-garde, art potter is regarded by art historians as totally unique, while Gehry is the unrivaled master designer of bold, imaginative, futuristic structures.</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></h5>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Previous archeological investigations indicate that &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was once the pre-historic local of Native American culture.&nbsp; By the late 19<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century, it became the scene of large, gracious summer homes of affluent businessmen and professional people, primarily from New Orleans.&nbsp; From the land deed records, it appears that only one Biloxi native has ever possessed a portion of </span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Live Oak&quot;</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">The recorded chronology of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; begin with an 1807 Spanish land grant to a Louisiana native of Acadian heritage, Valentine Docette Richard (1776-1868), better known as Dorsette Richards.&nbsp; By 1835, Richards had vended or bartered his 443-acre donation claim.&nbsp; George Holley (1800-1883) was the primary recipient of his acreage.</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In 1888, the parcel known as &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was created when Joseph Kuhn (1819-1903), a Hungarian immigrant and local lumber merchant, sold a 3-acre tract from his large land holdings in the Dorsette Richards land claim on the Biloxi peninsula, to Edward Langevin of St. Paul, Minnesota.&nbsp; After Langevin&rsquo;s demise circa 1891, the lot became possessed by George H. Dunbar (1844-1917), a seafood processing magnate from New Orleans.&nbsp; In 1892, Mr. Dunbar split &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; into two lots of equal area.&nbsp; His brother, Francis B. Dunbar (ca 1848-1908), acquired the western tract.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">The Dunbar&rsquo;s had the quarters on their East Beach lot demolished in February 1892.&nbsp; In September 1892, they contracted with Charles Dudley, an architect and builder from Jackson, Mississippi, to erect two edifices for them at a cost of $11,000.</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">From 1917 until 1946, the E/2 of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was owned by the New Orleans families of E.B. Johnson, Ernest L. Jahnke, and Cyprian A. Sporl.&nbsp; C.A. Sporl (1880-1936) was the owner of a large marine insurance business at New Orleans.&nbsp; He also operated the Hotel New Orleans.&nbsp; Sporl&rsquo;s avocation was yachting.&nbsp; In 1946, an affluent California attorney, Lynden Bowring (1889-1980), and Wilda Lopez (1899-1977), his Biloxi wife, acquired the lot from Mr. Sporl&rsquo;s heirs.&nbsp; Hurricane Camille in August 1969, destroyed the Bowring home.&nbsp; They relocated to Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Bowring legated his East Beach Biloxi land to Patricia Tarr Leavant, his niece-in-law.&nbsp; It was sold in June? 2000, to the City of Biloxi by real estate developers who had acquired and option on it from Mrs. Leavitt, in 1993.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The W/2 of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was vended in February 1914, by Anna Tourne&rsquo; Dunbar (1845-1919), the widow of Francis B. Dunbar, to Ora Nelmes Logan, the wife of George W. Logan of New Orleans.&nbsp; She conveyed it to Mary Byrne McGee of Laurel, Mississippi in May 1915.&nbsp; Mrs. McGhee defaulted on her mortgage and the property was repossessed.&nbsp; In April 1917, Mrs. Nelms conveyed her estate to Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar (d. 1946).&nbsp; Lucinda S. Farrar was the spouse of Judge Edgar H. Farrar (1849-1922) of New Orleans.&nbsp; He was a lawyer, linguist, and ethnologist.&nbsp; E.H. Farrar was the CEO of Farrar, Goldberger, &amp; Dufour, a prominent legal firm of the Crescent City.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In June 1924, Mrs. Lucinda S. Farrar subdivided the W/2 of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; into three lots, designated Lot A, Lot B, and Lot C.&nbsp; She sold Lot A to George E. Williams of New Orleans at this time.&nbsp; In August 1944, Mr. Williams vended Lot A to Sam Mitchell of Biloxi.&nbsp; In a prior agreement with Louis W. Harvey (1904-1970), Mr. Mitchell traded Lot A for cash and a Harvey parcel elsewhere in Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lot B was conveyed in March 1968, to Wilda Lopez Bowring by the Heirs of Lucinda Stamps Farrar: Mrs. Ralph (Jane) B. Wood (Harrison Co., Ms.), Mrs. Richard Goldsborough (Wayne Co, NY), Edgar H. Farrar III (Bell Co. Texas), Stamps Farrar II (San Francisco Co., Calf.), Maud Ellen Farrer (Orleans, Parish, La.), B.H. Goldberger (District of Columbia), Joseph H. Goldberger (Canadian Co., Oklahoma), Mrs. Michael Warnock (Bonneville Co. Idaho), and Bruce Sharp, Robert Sharp, and Donald Sharp, all of Orleans Parish, Louisiana.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lot C was sold in August 1924, by Lucinda Stamps Farrar, the widow of Edgar H. Farrar, a resident of Hancock County, Mississippi to Stamps Farrar, her son.&nbsp; In May 1947, Stamps Farrar to Lucille G. Minor.&nbsp; In December 1956, Lucille G. Minor to&nbsp;<strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; Lot which he had acquired in July 1946, from the Sporl family of New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h5 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Colonial Biloxi</span></span></h5>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">When the French Colonial government abandoned its post at Biloxi in the 1720s, for New Orleans on the Mississippi River, some of the recent immigrants from Western Europe and French Canada remained on the Mississippi coast.&nbsp; They made their livelihood as sailors, fishermen, and subsistence farmers.&nbsp; Cattle and tar production provided barter and cash items with the larger settlements of Mobile and New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">During the Spanish Colonial occupation of the area, land donations on the Biloxi peninsula were granted by the Spanish representative at Mobile.&nbsp; From present day Point Cadet on the east, to the present day Biloxi City Cemetery on the west, these grantees were Jacques Mathurin (Ladner), Dorsette Richards, Jean-Baptiste Carquote (Carco), Angelique Fasiar (Fayard), and Louis Fasiar (Fayard).</span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Valentine Docette Richard</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Valentine Docette Richard (1776-1868) was the original claimant of the land upon which &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was erected.&nbsp; He is referred to in legal documents as&nbsp;<em>Dorsette</em>&nbsp;<em>Richards,&nbsp;</em>and this nomenclature will be used throughout this essay.&nbsp; Richards was born at St. Gabriel, Louisiana, the son of expelled Acadians, Amant Richard and Marie Braux.&nbsp; His first wife, Susanne Marque, expired shortly after birthing their son in 1798.&nbsp; In 1800, Dorsette Richards wedded Marguerite Babin (1770-1829), a native of Belle Isle en Mer, France.&nbsp; Her parents were also exiled Acadians, who immigrated to Louisiana post-1777.(<em>Cassibry, 1986, p. 77)</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Dorsette Richard Claim-Section 33, T7S-R9W</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Dorsette Richards family settled at Biloxi in 1807.&nbsp; He received a Spanish land grant on the Biloxi peninsula at this time.(American State Papers, Vol. III, p. 38)&nbsp; His donation was designated by the Federal government as Claim No. 146 in the District East of the Pearl River.&nbsp; It was confirmed in 1819, by the Federal government.&nbsp; In 1824, his land was surveyed and was shown to consist of 443.38 acres and designated as Section 33, T7S-R9W.(HARCO, Ms. Tract Bk. 1, p. 36)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">A land patent for Section 33, T7S-R9W was issued to Dorsette Richards by the Federal government on October 1, 1840.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 2, pp. 290-292)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>George L. Holley</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In June 1835, Dorsette Richards traded all of his merchantable land in Section 33 T7S-R9W to George L. Holley for Lot 1 of Section 23, T7S-R10W, which contains 110.68 acres.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 1, pp. 143-144).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">George L. Holley (1800-1883) came to the Mississippi coast from New York in the late 1820s, with his family.&nbsp; It appears from Federal census data that there were six children, all born in New York:&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">George Holley</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(1800-1883), Benjamin Holley (1802-1860+), William Holley (1803-1850+), Charles Holley (1805-1857), Rebecca H. Norberg (1809-1880+), and Nicholas Holley (1810-1860+).&nbsp; Their mother, Rebecca Holley (1783-1860+), was born at New York.&nbsp; Their father was a native of Rhode Island, and appears to have died before 1850.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">George L. Holley made his livelihood as carpenter and probate judge.&nbsp; In July 1859, he married Jane Elizabeth Rand, an English lady.&nbsp; Married Sarah M. Bounds in July 1877??</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">New Orleans Summer Resort</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Affluent people of New Orleans used Biloxi and over villages of the Mississippi Gulf Coast as summer retreats.&nbsp; Escaped the heat and Yellow Fe</strong>ver.&nbsp; In 1893, George Dunbar, F.T. Howard, H.T. Howard, E. Bell, L. Valle, J. Vandorf, August Bohne, J.B. Blakemore, and Judge Tisso were among the wealthy Crescent City gentlemen maintaining elegant summer homes at Biloxi.(T.H. Glenn, 1893, p. 59)</span></span></h1>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Joseph Kuhn</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1865, Joseph Kuhn bought about 125 acres in the Dorsette Richard Claim from George Holley for $1000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 4, pp. 578-581) &nbsp;Does not appear to be &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo;.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Joseph Kuhn (1819-1903) was a native of Budapest, Hungary.&nbsp; He arrived in America in 1840, and Biloxi, Mississippi in 1864.&nbsp; At Harrison County, in October 1868, he married Sarah Drake (1839-1921), a native of Ohio.&nbsp; Their children were: Christian Kuhn (1871-pre 1900); Elizabeth Kuhn (1873-1929); Sophia Kuhn (1875-1927+) m. Ulysses Desporte (1861-1927); Rosa Kuhn (1878-1942) m. A. J. Bourdon (1873-1912) and May Adele Kuhn (1881-1930).&nbsp; Kuhn made his livelihood as a lumber merchant.&nbsp; At the time of his demise, the Kuhn family resided on the corner of Holley Street and Beach Boulevard.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In February 1878, Joseph Kuhn conveyed to his wife, Sarah Kuhn, all of his real property in Harrison County, Mississippi, for $2000.&nbsp; Kuhn stated that&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;he owed no debts to anyone and further the transfer of his property to Sarah Kuhn was not for the purpose of defrauding anyone but to secure to her a support in case of his death&rdquo;.&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Included in this transaction was a piece of property described as follows: a lot having a front, four hundred feet on the front bay of Biloxi, running back due North between two parallel lines to the back Bay of Biloxi bounded West by a street and on the East by estate of Toledano.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 16, pp.47-48)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Edward Langevin</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1888, Joseph Kuhn and Sarah Kuhn conveyed to&nbsp;<strong>Edward Langevin</strong>&nbsp;of St. Paul, Minnesota for $4,000 a parcel of land described as: bounded on the south by the Gulf of Mexico or pass between Deer Island and the main shore; east by Toledano Estate; north by Langevin Street; and west by Kuhn Street.&nbsp; The lot measured 432 feet on the Gulf and 321 feet north-south.&nbsp; The terms of the sale were $1000 cash and $3000 to be paid on April18, 1891, with 6% interest per annum.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 23, p. 75)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1888, Edward Langevin also acquired Lots 1 and 2 of the Samuel Friedlander Estate from W.I. Hodgson, an auctioneer at New Orleans, for $2375.(3)&nbsp; The conveyance included the brick residence, outbuildings, and dependencies.&nbsp; Lot 1 had 85 feet on the Gulf, 281 feet on Magnolia, 81 feet with Lot 2, and 281 feet (east).(3)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In November 1891, Eleanor Langevin of St. Paul, Minnesota, the widow of Edward Langevin, conveyed Lots 1 and 2 of the Friedlander Estate to Frederick William Elmer for $2700.(4)&nbsp; Her daughters, Mary Michand and Emma Flanagan, and their husbands, Achille Michand and Thomas J. Flanagan, signed the warranty deed.&nbsp; Charles and Mary E. Michand of St. Paul gave Elmer a quitclaim deed on the property in April 1892.(5)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">On January 19, 1892, Joseph Kuhn and Sarah Kuhn acknowledged that the Langevin mortgage of $3045 on a parcel of land known as &ldquo;The Oaks&rdquo; had been paid.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, pp. 310-311)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">George H. Dunbar</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In December 1891, the Heirs of Edward Langevin, Mary Michaud, Achille Michaud, Emma Flanagan, Thomas J. Flanagan, and Eleanor Langevin, conveyed their Beach front lot to&nbsp;<strong>George H. Dunbar</strong>&nbsp;for $5500. (HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, pp. 308-309).&nbsp; Same description as above.&nbsp; Emma Flanagan signed at Quebec, Canada.&nbsp; Mary Michaud wife of Charles Michaud, Achille Michaud, T.J. Flanagan, and Eleanora Langevin signed at Ramsay County, Minnesota.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">George H. Dunbar (1844-1917) was born at New Orleans, the son of George W. Dunbar (1816-1878) of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and Charlotte Z. Hacker (1822-1910).&nbsp; Siblings:&nbsp; He was educated at Georgetown University and almost immediately after graduation, he enlisted in the Confederate States of America Army and served as an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Buisson.&nbsp; Post-Bellum, Dunbar returned to his native New Orleans and entered business.(<em>The Daily Herald, October 19, 1917, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">G.H. Dunbar was married three times.&nbsp; His final spouse was Susan Foucher.&nbsp; Children: F. Foucher Dunbar; George W. Dunbar (Guinnes, Havana, Cuba); Mrs. Stephen Voorhies (5527 Prytania, NOLA); Mrs. Alcee J. Gelpi (124 S. Cortez, NOLA; and Mrs. Auguste Capdeville (2453 Esplanande, NOLA).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">Mrs. Foucher Dunbar was the daughter of E.C. Fenner.&nbsp; Lived on Lee Street.</span><em style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">(The Daily Herald, April 19, 1912, p. 8)</em></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Inventor</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Public Life</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Buried St. Louis No. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Lopez, Dunbar&rsquo;s Sons &amp; Co.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Lopez, Dunbar&rsquo;s Sons &amp; Company was commenced in 1884, when Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903) and W.K.M. Dukate (1852-1916) resigned from the Biloxi Canning Company.&nbsp; The Biloxi Canning Company was located in Section 27, T7S-R9W, in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi on the Back Bay of Biloxi, at the head of Reynoir Street.&nbsp; It was originally called The Lopez, Elmer and Company.&nbsp; This company was organized in 1881, with a capital stock of $8,000 by Lazaro Lopez, F. William Elmer (1847-1926), W.K.M. Dukate, William Gorenflo (1844-1932), and James Maycock (1826-1892).(1)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lopez, Dunbar&rsquo;s &amp; Sons was situated on East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; In 1895, it was the second largest oyster canning plant in the United States.&nbsp; The factory utilized the Norton Brothers machinery to pack its shrimp with the patented muslin bag insuring a good product.&nbsp; Its shrimp were marketed under the &ldquo;Dunbar Standard&rdquo;, &ldquo;Deer head&rdquo;, &ldquo;Lion Head&rdquo;, and &ldquo;Pelicans&rdquo; labels.</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;\">(see&nbsp;</span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;\">The Biloxi Herald</em><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;\">, &ldquo;Biloxi Chief Industry&rdquo;, September 12, 1892, p. 4)</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lot Division</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In February 1892, the Dunbars had the families residing on their East Beach tract vacate their quarters.&nbsp; Immediate demolition was ordered for all buildings on their scenic home site.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, February 6, 1892, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">On March 31, 1892, George H. Dunbar divided&nbsp; &ldquo;The Oaks&rdquo; lot into two equal parts, which he conveyed to his wife, Susie Foucher Dunbar (1858-1920) and brother, Francis B. &ldquo;Frank&rdquo; Dunbar (ca 1848-1908).&nbsp; Mrs. George H. Dunbar received the east half and Francis B. Dunbar, the west half.&nbsp; The dimensions of each lot were 217 feet by 417 feet.&nbsp; Francis B. Dunbar paid his brother $2250 while his spouse paid only $1.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, pp. 444-445)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;Immediately thereafter on the same day, Francis B. Dunbar conveyed his western lot to his wife, Anna Therese Tourne&rsquo; Dunbar (1845-1919), for $1.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, pp.445-446)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Two Homes</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In late September 1892, the Dunbar brothers contracted with Charles Dudley, an architect and builder, formerly of Jackson, Mississippi, but now established in Biloxi, to erect two homes.&nbsp; Their completed cost was approximated at $11,000.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, September 28, 1892, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Cost of building materials in Biloxi at this time: rough lumber-$7-$10 per thousand board feet at the sawmill; dressed lumber-$8-$17 per thousand board feet; brick-$8-$12 per thousand; cypress shingles-$2-$3&nbsp;&nbsp; 75 per thousand.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, April 29, 1893, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Francis B. Dunbar resided at 2326 Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans.&nbsp; Two sons, F.B. Dunbar and James V. Dunbar (622 Canal Commercial Bank &amp; Bldg.); and a daughter, Mrs. Emile Christ (705 Calhoun, NOLA).&nbsp; Expired in New Orleans at his home.&nbsp; Head of Dunbar Cannery interests at the time.(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 31, 1908, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dunbar and Miss Alice Dunbar of New Orleans are now occupying their summer residence here.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, June 10, 1893, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;In late June, the family left Biloxi for Chicago where they planned to remain for several weeks.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">(</span><em style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">The Biloxi Herald, July 1, 1893, p. 8)</em></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mrs. Dunbar expired in May 1919, at New Orleans.&nbsp; She resided at No. 3 Everett Place at the time.(<em>The Daily Herald, May 31, 1919, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">West Half of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo;</span></p>\r\n	<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Ora Nelms Logan</span></strong></div>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In February 1914, Anna T. Tourne&rsquo; Dunbar of New Orleans, the widow of Francis B. Dunbar, conveyed her home and lot in Biloxi to Ora Nelmes Logan for $8000.&nbsp; $6500 was financed for three years at 6% interest by Mrs. Logan.&nbsp; Included in the sale were all buildings and improvements, a &frac12; interest in an artesian water well and all furniture and personal property contained in the house, except boats and some family portraits.&nbsp; Mrs. Logan was required to carry insurance of not less than $6000 on the buildings.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 107, pp. 91-92)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In mid-February 1914,&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald&nbsp;</em>announced that Miss Jessie A. Smyly&rsquo;s agency had arranged the sale from Mrs. Dunbar to G.W. Logan of New Orleans.&nbsp; Her home was lauded as&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;one of the most beautiful and attractive homes in Biloxi or anywhere on the Coast&rdquo;</em></strong><em>.(The Daily Herald, February 12, 1914, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lien cancelled by Mrs. Anna Tourne&rsquo; Dunbar on May 3, 1915.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 111, pp. 405-406)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h5 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mary Byrne McGee, et al</span></span></h5>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In May 1915, Ora Nelms Logan, the spouse of George W. Logan of New Orleans, sold to Mary Byrne McGhee, Addison F. McGee Jr. and Marie Jones McGee, wife of Addison F. McGee Jr. of Laurel, Mississippi, for $8000, the W/2 of &ldquo;The Oaks&rdquo;.&nbsp; The sale included all buildings and improvements, a &frac12; interest in an artesian water well, all furniture and personal property in the house, except all religious pictures, a large quantity of galvanized roofing material, pulleys and ropes, and the gas machine.&nbsp; Financed and had to carry $6000 of insurance on the buildings.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 111, pp.407-408)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Ora Nelms Logan</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In February and March 1916, Mary Byrne McGee of Laurel, Marie Jones McGee, wife of Addison F. McGee, and a resident of Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, and Addison F. McGee of West Point, Troup County, Georgia, defaulted on their promissory notes and returned their property to Ora Nelms Logan of New Orleans.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 115, pp.71-74)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucinda Stamps Farrar</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">909 East Beach Drive</span></strong></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1917, Ora Nelms Logan of Hancock County, Mississippi conveyed to&nbsp;<strong>Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1857-1946) of New Orleans for $7750.&nbsp; Included all buildings and improvements, &frac12; interest in artesian water well, all furniture and fixtures in and personal property in buildings, bathhouse, pier, and riparian rights.&nbsp; At this time, the former Frank Dunbar home was described as having fourteen rooms and a large beautiful lawn.&nbsp; The Jessie A. Smyly real estate agency handled the transaction.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 9, 1917, p. 4 and&nbsp;</em>HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 118, p.430)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucinda S. Farrar was the wife of&nbsp;<strong>Judge Edgar Howard Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1849-1922).&nbsp; He was born in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, the son of Thomas Prince Farrar and Anna Mary Girault.&nbsp; Young Farrar was educated at the University of Louisiana and in 1871, received his Masters degree from the University of Virginia.&nbsp; He married Lucinda Davis Stamps at New Orleans in June 1878. &nbsp;Lucinda was the daughter of Captain Issac Davis Stamps and Mary Humphreys. &nbsp;Their children were:&nbsp;<strong>Edgar Howard Farrar Jr</strong>. (1879-1911) m. May Clara Spearing;&nbsp;<strong>Mary Humphreys Farrar&nbsp;</strong>(1881-1969) m. Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1875-1929);&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Lucinda Farrar&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(1881-1910);&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Anna Girault Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1882-1970) m. Richard F. Goldsborough (b. 1871);&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Edith Barnes Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1884-1959);<strong>&nbsp;Mildred Maury Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1887-1967);&nbsp;</span></span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Jane Kempe Farrar&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(1889-1982) m. Ralph Bouligny Wood (1884-1967);&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Issac Davis&nbsp;Stamps Farrar,</strong><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;called Stamps</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;(1894-1950) m. Maude Tobin White, the daughter of Albert Sidney Johnson White (1866-1934) and Ellen Tobin;&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">and&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Prince Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1901-1951) m. Beatrice Howard (1886-1933+).</span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(The Daily Herald, January 7, 1922, p. 1</em><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</em><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">and 1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T623_574, p. 11A, ED 102)</em></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Although Judge Farrar and family had a residence at New Orleans, they planned to stay at Biloxi for sometime, especially the summer season.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 9, 1917, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">Lucinda Stamps Farrar expired at 909 East Beach on November &nbsp;1946. &nbsp;Her funeral service was held at the Church of the Redeemer with the Reverend E.A. DeMiller attending. &nbsp;Mrs. Farrar&#39;s corporal remains were sent to NOLA for burial in the Metairie Cemetery.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 13, 1946, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>FARRAR CHILDREN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Edgar Howard Farrar Jr.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Edgar H. Farrar Jr. (1879-1911) like his father was a New Orleans attorney.&nbsp; He also matriculated to the University of Virginia.&nbsp; Young Farrar was shot to death by two thieves in early November on the corner of Peniston and Magnolia Streets in the Crescent City.&nbsp; He was the nephew of Mrs. E.M.D. Anderson of 210 West Water Street in Biloxi.(<em>The Daily Herald, November 2, 1911, p. 8 and November 3, 1911, p 8.)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Stamps Farrar</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Stamps Farrar was an attorney with his father&rsquo;s law firm.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Anna F. Goldsborough</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Anna Girault Farrar (1882-1970) married Richard F. Goldsborough (b. 1871), a Maryland native and New York attorney, on January 31, 1904 at NOLA. She was living at Biloxi in 1922.&nbsp; In May 1930, she and her daughter,&nbsp;<strong>Ellen Goldsborough</strong>, were at Biloxi were involved in interior decoration as their wall panels were sent to a new country club at Birmingham, Alabama.&nbsp; Anna had a son,&nbsp;<strong>Frances Goldsborough</strong>, who graduated from Biloxi High School and went to New York to work a branch of the Hibernia Bank situated in NYC.&nbsp; He was appointed assistant manger of the bank in May 1930.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 27, 1930, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Anna Farrar Goldsborough passed on December 1970.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Mary F. Goldberger</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Living in Washington in 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Mildred M. Farrar</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mildred Maury Faurer (1887-1967) was a native of New Orleans.&nbsp; She resided at 909 East Beach in Biloxi since 1927.&nbsp; She was an Episcopalian and interred in the Metairie Cemetery.(<em>The Daily Herald, February 2, 1967, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Jane K. Farrar Wood</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Jane Kempe Farrar (1889-1982) married Ralph Bouligny Wood (1884-1967) of New Orleans at the Church of the Redeemer in Biloxi, on September 12, 1916.&nbsp; The young couple honeymooned at Asheville, North Carolina, before traveling to their home in Cuba, where Mr. Wood was employed with the Cuban-American Sugar Company.(<em>The Daily Herald, September 13, 1916, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In retirement, the Wood family lived in the Hermann House at 523 East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; Ralph B. Wood retired as the executive vice president of the Cuban American Sugar Company.&nbsp; A daughter, Mrs. James Pringle of Long Beach.&nbsp; Both interred at the Southern Memorial Park Cemetery in Biloxi.(<em>The Daily Herald, October 26, 1967, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Jane died on May 12, 1982.&nbsp; A daughter, Mrs. Leo Seal.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Thomas P. Farrar</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Thomas Prince Farrar (1901-1951) was born at New Orleans and practiced architect there.&nbsp; He lived at Biloxi where he did scenic painting and costume designs.&nbsp; In June 1933, he married Beatrice Howard (1886-1933+), formerly Mrs. Robert C. Ocher, of New York. &nbsp;Mr. Farrar relocated to New York City and worked in theatre design until his death there in June 1951. &nbsp;His corporal remains were interred in the Metairie Cemetery at NOLA.(The Daily Herald, June 1, 1933, p. 2 and The Times Picayune, June 12, 1951, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Edith B. Farrar</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Edith Barnes Farrar lived at Chicago in 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>West Half-Lot A (Harvey House)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In June 1924, Lucinda Stamps Farrar subdivided her W/2 lot into three lots, which were designated as Lot A, Lot B, and Lot C.&nbsp; The three lots were surveyed by J.D. Ferguson in July 1923.&nbsp; Mrs. Farrar conveyed Lot A to George E. Williams of New Orleans for $14,000.&nbsp; Right of ingress-egress granted as an easement across the south end of Lot B, but not to be carried when Williams sells Lot A.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 141, pp. 585-587)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>George E. Williams</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">George Elliot Williams (1886-1944+) married Adele Monroe (1889-1944+) in Orleans Parish, Louisiana on June 7, 1911.(Orleans Parish Marriage Record Bk. Volume 33, p. 320)&nbsp; In December 1929, George Elliot Williams (1886-1944+) of NOLA to Adele Monroe Williams (1889-1944+) of New Orleans, Lot A, for $14,000.&nbsp; Included all household fixtures and furniture located in the dwelling house.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 184, pp.246-247)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1944, George E. Williams and Adele Monroe Williams to Sam Mitchell and Mae Pringle Mitchell for $15,000.&nbsp; Royse R. Aiken had an unrecorded lease dated September 16, 1943.&nbsp; A notice was sent to Aiken to cancel his lease.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 267, p. 288)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sam Mitchell</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In July 1944, Sam Mitchell (1903-1984), native of Hancock County, Mississippi, entered into an agreement with Louis H. Harvey, Mrs. Louis H. Harvey and Miss Irma E. Harvey.&nbsp; The Harvey&rsquo;s owned a lot on the northwest corner of Beach Boulevard and Fayard Street. Mitchell agreed to buy the G.E. Williams lot and then trade it for the Harvey property and also give $5000 to the Harveys.&nbsp; It was also agreed that in the event that the houses on each lot were destroyed by fire or damaged to make them unfit for habitation, before the contract was consummated, the contract would be voided. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Sam Mitchell owned &ldquo;The Bungalow&rdquo; on West Beach Boulevard.</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 266, pp. 126-129)&nbsp; Sold in August 1944.(Bk. 267, pp. 303-304) &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1944, Sam Mitchell conveyed Lot A to Irma E. Harvey and Louis W. Harvey.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 267, pp. 301-302).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong style=\"text-align: center; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Louis W. Harvey</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Louis Wachenfeld Harvey (1904-1970) was the son of Louis H. Harvey (1874-1913) and Christina Wachenfeld (1872-1931).&nbsp; He married Mary L. Barnes (1910-1999) of Handsboro, Mississippi.&nbsp; Children: Louis W. Harvey (1934-1996), Philip I. Harvey (b. 1941), and Kenneth Karl Harvey (1951-1990).(<em>The Sun Herald, November 14, 1999, p. A-11)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">ROW</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In September 1954, ROW easement granted to Mississippi State Highway Commission by Louis H. Harvey.(Bk. 387, pp. 390-391).</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">West Half-Lot B (909 East Beach)</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In January 1943, Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar drafted her will.&nbsp; In this instrument she devised and bequeathed to her daughters, Edith Barnes Farrar of Chicago, Illinois, and Mildred Maury Farrar (1887-1967) of Biloxi, Mississippi, her home situated on the corner of Kuhn and Beach Street at Biloxi, Mississippi, for the period of their natural lives.&nbsp; Mrs. Farrar included all furniture, fixtures, and contents of her house.&nbsp; She excepted from this donation all appurtenances that had been designated for other family members.&nbsp; In addition, her spinster daughters were provided an annual income from a trust fund created from cash, stocks, and bonds owned by their mother.&nbsp; A.S. Gorenflo was the trustee.&nbsp; After her daughters demise, her remaining assets to be divided by her living heirs.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Will Bk. 9, pp. 241-243)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The other heirs at law of Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar were: Mary Farrar Goldberger, Anna Farrar Goldberger, Jane Farrar Wood, Thomas Prince Farrar, Issac D.S. Farrar Jr. and Maud Ellen Farrer.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 53,890, Mrs. Jane Farrar Wood v. The Unknown Heirs of Edgar Howard Farrar and Lucinda Davis Stamps-May 1967).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar died on November 22, 1946.&nbsp; She lived at BiloxI, but was a legal resident of Louisiana.&nbsp; Mildred M. Farrar resided in her home at 909 East Beach until her death on February 8, 1967.&nbsp; She was a native of New Orleans and had lived at Biloxi since 1927.&nbsp; Funeral services at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer.&nbsp; Her remains interred in the Metairie Cemetery.(<em>The Daily Herald, February 8, 1967, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">After Miss Mildred M. Farrar&rsquo;s demise, her home became the property of her mother&rsquo;s living heirs.&nbsp; These were determined by the probate court to be: Anna Farrar Goldsborough, a daughter; Jane Farrar Wood, a daughter; Edgar Howard Farrar III, only child of a son now dead; Dr. Joseph Goldberger, Mrs. Mary G. Sharp, and Mr. Benjamin Goldberger,&nbsp;<strong>children of Mildred Maury Farrar</strong>; Miss Maud Ellen Farrar and Mr. Stamps Farrar II.&nbsp;&nbsp; (HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 53,890-May 1967-Mrs. Jane Farrar Wood v. The Unknown Heirs of Edgar Howard Farrar and Lucinda Davis Stamps-May 1967).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Fifteen shares of stock in the Borgnemouth Realty Company, a Louisiana Corporation.(Bk. 589, pp. 152-154)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In March 1968, Mrs. Ralph (Jane) B. Wood (Harrison Co., Ms.), Mrs. Richard Goldsborough (Wayne Co, NY), Edgar H. Farrar III (Bell Co. Texas), Stamps Farrar II (San Francisco Co., Calf.), Maud Ellen Farrer (Orleans, Parish, La.), B.H. Goldberger (District of Columbia), Joseph H. Goldberger (Canadian Co., Oklahoma), Mrs. Michael Warnock (Bonneville Co. Idaho), and Bruce Sharp, Robert Sharp, and Donald Sharp, all of Orleans Parish, Louisiana conveyed to&nbsp;<strong>Wilda Lopez Bowring</strong>, the following: &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><em>That certain lot or parcel of land situated on the northeast corner of East Beach Boulevard and Kuhn Street having a frontage on the Gulf of Mexico of 84 feet and extending back in a northerly direction for a distance of 230 feet, more or less, being bounded on the South by the Gulf of Mexico, East by the property of Williams now of Harvey, North by the property of Bowring, west by Kuhn Street in the City of Biloxi.</em></strong></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 610, pp. 340-344)</span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>West Half-Lot C-909A East Beach</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1924,&nbsp;<strong>Lucinda Stamps Farrar</strong>, the widow of Edgar H. Farrar, a resident of Hancock County, Mississippi sold Lot C to&nbsp;<strong>Stamps Farrar</strong>, her son.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 142, pp. 484-485)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Stamps Farrar</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In October 1938, Stamps Farrar opened his home for the weekend of the Laurence Moore Barkley and Malcolm Tullis wedding, which was held at the Church of the Redeemer.&nbsp; Their guests for the Barkley-Tullis nuptials were Mrs. Farrar&rsquo;s mother, Mrs. Albert Sidney White, and Ellene White, her sister.&nbsp; Mrs. Lillian Lewis and Hampden Lewis also of New Orleans stayed at the Farrar summer home on East Beach.<em>(The Daily Herald,</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>October 9, 1938, p. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucille Gillis Minor</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In May 1947, Stamps Farrar to&nbsp;<strong>Lucille G. Minor</strong>&nbsp;for $6000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 298, pp. 338-339)&nbsp; Lucille Gillis Minor (1889-1954) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 6, 1889, the daughter of Alfred Barr Gillis and Lucille Bohn (living in 1956).&nbsp; She married&nbsp;<strong>John Duncan Minor</strong>&nbsp;(1876-1937), a native of Southdown Plantation, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; They were the parents of&nbsp;<strong>Lucille M. Minor</strong>, the spouse of Hastings Mortimer, and&nbsp;<strong>Joan Minor</strong>&nbsp;(1915-1956).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">John D. Minor was the son of Henry C. Minor (d. 1898) of Houma and Anna Louise Butler, the daughter of Judge Thomas Butler of West Feliciana Parish.&nbsp; Both families were Southern aristocratic.&nbsp; His grandfather, William J. Minor (d. 1869), was the founder of Southdown Plantation near Houma, Louisiana.&nbsp; His sister was Mrs. David Pipes Jr., of Southdown.&nbsp; Young J.D. Minor attended Tulane University where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity.&nbsp; He returned immediately to manage the business operations at Southdown upon the passing of his father in 1898.&nbsp; Mr. Minor retired from the sugar business in 1912. (<em>The Daily Herald, August 9, 1937, p. 8)</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Southdown Plantation</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">It would be remiss without providing some chronology of the&nbsp;Southdown Plantation situated at Houma, Louisiana.&nbsp; Here in the 1820s, on a former Spanish land grant, William J. Minor, the son of Stephen Minor, a resident of the Natchez District and friend of Manuel Luis Gayoso de Lemos, who administered the government of Spanish Louisiana from 1797-1799, began to cultivate indigo.&nbsp; By 1830, he was growing sugarcane and by 1846, a sugar mill had been erected at Southdown.&nbsp; In 1859, a one-story Greek Revival, brick edifice was erected for the Minor family.&nbsp; After W.J. Minor&rsquo;s demise in 1869, his seven children inherited Southdown.&nbsp; Soon, Henry C. Minor and sister, Katherine Lintot Minor, acquired the interest of their siblings and ran the plantation for many years.&nbsp; In 1893, a second floor and round turrets were integrated into the former Greek Revival building metamorphosing the structure to the Queen Anne architectural style.&nbsp; After Miss Kate L. Minor passed in 1923, the sugarcane plantation survived until the 1930s, when it was sold to commercial entities.&nbsp; In the 1970s through the efforts of Esther B. McCollam of Ellendale Plantation and the Terrebonne Parish Historical &amp; Cultural Society, Southdown was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.&nbsp; In July 1975, Valhi Inc., the corporate owner, donated Southdown, its servant&rsquo;s outbuildings and about 5 acres to the local historical society.&nbsp; The former Minor plantation was open for public touring in 1986 and today remains an integral part of the history of Houma and Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.<em>(Antiques Gazette, June 1993, p. 7)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1915, John Duncan Minor acquired for $5500 from Oscar G. Keller, Lot 3, being share No. 3, in the partition of the Estate of John H. Keller at Biloxi, Mississippi.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 112, pp. 346-347)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Here at 543 East Beach, eighty-feet west of Lee Street, the Minor family made their home until August 1930, when Mr. and Mrs. Minor sold their estate to Winifred C. Green for $9900.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 187, p. 166)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">John D. Minor&rsquo;s aunt, Katherine Lintot Minor (1849-1923), the daughter of Captain William J. Minor and Rebecca Ann Gustine , passed at New Orleans, in late 1923.&nbsp; She resided at Houma, Louisiana, but was prominent in the ladies auxiliary at the Touro Infirmary in the Crescent City.(<em>The Daily Herald, December 4, 1923, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">John Duncan Minor expired at his home at 3211 Prytania Street where he had resided since 1932.&nbsp; He had been active in the social circles of the Crescent City in regards the Mardi Gras and its carnival organizations.&nbsp; Minor&rsquo;s corporal remains were interred in the Magnolia Cemetery at Houma, Louisiana.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 9, 1937, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucille G. Minor passed on June 25, 1954 at her home at 909A East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; Her daughter, Joan Desmond Minor resided here until she became ill in</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Mrs. Lucille Minor Mortimer</strong>&nbsp;inherited.&nbsp; In 1925, she was living at Biloxi and attending school in the North.&nbsp; Visited Mr. and Mrs. Edward Caffery, her relatives, at Havana, Cuba in the summer of 1925.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 27, 1925, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In late August 1928.&nbsp;<strong>Miss Joan Minor</strong>&nbsp;returned to Biloxi after a two-month stay at Camp Allegheny in West Virginia.&nbsp; Guests at the Minor home compliments of Miss Lucille Minor were: Miss Maud Werner, Hastings Mortimer, Miss Mildred Brown, and John Stafford all of NOLA.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 1, 1928, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;In December 1956, Lucille G. Minor Mortimer conveyed to&nbsp;<strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>&nbsp;(1980) for $6000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 416, p. 343)&nbsp; Title cleared in November 1961, when Lucille G. Mortimer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 487, pp. 491-492)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sister, Joan Minor expired in Louisiana on May 29, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lynden Bowring also owned the East Half of the &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo;, which he had acquired in July 1946, from the Sporl family of New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">East Half of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; Lot</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In July 1917, Mrs. George H. Dunbar of New Orleans to Edwin B. Johnson for $1 cash in hand.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 119, pp. 310-311)</span></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center; line-height: 1.3em;\">Edwin B. Johnson</strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">Edwin B. Johnson</strong><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;(1862-1930+) was born in Mississippi during the Civil War. &nbsp;Circa 1889, he married&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">Martha Moss</strong><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;(1864-1930+), a Tennessee native. &nbsp;Their only child was born before 1900, but did not survive. &nbsp;In 1900, the Johnsons were domiciled at Clarksdale, Coahoma Co., Mississippi where he was a merchant.(1900 Coahoma Co., Mississippi Federal Census T623_805, p. 11A, ED 25) &nbsp;</span></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">In December 1924, </span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">E.B. Johnson and Mattie Moss Johnson&nbsp;sold</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;their&nbsp;residence at&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">941 East Beach</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;to&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">Cora Stanton Jahncke </strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">(1885-1970),</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;the wife&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">of</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;Ernest Lee Jahncke</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;(1877-1960)</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;of NOLA</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">, for $15,000. &nbsp;The Johnson family planned to return t</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">o their home at&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">Clarksdale, Mississippi. &nbsp;The Johnsons lived here for some time and always had the welfare and civic improvement at heart. &nbsp;Mr. Jahnke will use the home as a summer residence. &nbsp;When the Jahnckes bought the house, they borrowed the money from Cyprian A. Sporl. &nbsp;By 1930, the Johnsons were domicled on John Street living in their own home valued at $10,000. &nbsp;Mr. Johnson&#39;s occupation was &#39;rental property collector&#39;. &nbsp;No further information.(The Daily Herald, December 18, 1924, p. 3,&nbsp;HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 143, p. 412 and 1930 Coahoma Co., Mississippi Federal Census R1142, p. 9A, ED 13)</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Jahncke%2C Ernest Lee_0.jpg\" style=\"width: 179px; height: 250px;\" /></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Commodore&nbsp;</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Ernest Lee&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Jahncke</strong></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Commodore Ernest L. Jahncke was a native of New Orleans.&nbsp; He was a speedboat driver-racer and owner of the several fast watercraft<em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>At the 13<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Annual Regatta of the Biloxi Yacht Club held in July 1912, Captain Jahncke introduced the&nbsp;<strong><em>Humpty Dumpty</em></strong>, a most unusual hydroplaning vessel.&nbsp; In outline, she appeared to be the integration of a boat and rocking chair.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Humpty Dumpty</em></strong>&nbsp;was constructed of mahogany and finished with a high luster varnish.&nbsp; On the water, she had a top speed approaching thirty miles per hour.&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">Much interest had developed at the July regatta, as there were innuendos that the&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><em>Bella L.</em></strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">, the very fast motorboat of Julius M. Lopez (1886-1958) would meet in a match race. &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">Unfortunately neither Captains Jahncke nor Lopez could agree on a racing rules format&nbsp;for a match race in Biloxi at the July summer regatta.&nbsp; No future contest was planned.(</span><em style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">The Daily Herald, July 12, 1912, p. 1)</em></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">July 1916 Storm</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Following his actions during and post July 1916 tempest, Comodore Ernest Lee Jahncke of the Southern Yacht Club, was dubbed &ldquo;the hero of the recent storm&rdquo;.&nbsp; He spent $2000 of his own finances in assisting Biloxians by taking mail to New Orleans on the&nbsp;<strong><em>Clarabelle, as</em></strong>&nbsp;the train and telegraph were inoperative.&nbsp; Commodore Jahncke sent a tug boat to the Coast to take vessels to deep water and tow the pile driver working at the Biloxi Yacht Club to safety, as well as assist boats during and after the hurricane.(<em>The Daily Herald, July 10, 1916, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In early August 1919, Captain Jahncke moored the</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&nbsp;<em>Aunt Dinah</em></strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, his expansive houseboat, at Biloxi with his spouse and family aboard.&nbsp; As usual, the Jahnckes planned to spend some vacation time in Biloxi.&nbsp; In May 1923,&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald&nbsp;</em></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">related that&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong><em>&ldquo;this boat has been coming to Biloxi for the summer season for a number of years and its presence adds much to the pleasure of the summer colony of visitors who come to spend the season.</em></strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>(The Daily Herald, August 4, 1919, p. 4 and The Daily Herald, May 28, 1923, p. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">While a resident of Biloxi, Jahncke built an eye-catching fence on the south elevation.&nbsp; The fence was replicated from that of an old English estate of renown.&nbsp; The fence pillars were constructed of brick.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 5, 1964)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Adele Townsend Jahncke</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In 1926, the Jahncke&rsquo;s daughter, Adele Townsend Jahncke (1909-1993), was a student at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans.&nbsp; She was captain of the freshman basketball team and was considered one of the best competitive sailors along the Gulf Coast. After graduating from Newcomb, Adelle made her debut at New Orleans and Washington D.C.&nbsp; In 1933, Miss Jahncke married Charles W. Dotson (1898-1974), an attorney at Farmer City, Illinois.&nbsp; He was a graduate of the University of Illinois.&nbsp; One son?, Charles W. Dotson Jr. (1936-1998).(<em>The Daily Herald, December 10, 1926, p. 4 and October 13, 1933, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In May 1928, Lee Jahncke was lauded for the fine improvements made to his East Beach home.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 24, 1928, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Captain Ernest Lee Jahncke defaulted on his mortgage payment to Sporl and in December 1932, Hanun Gardner, trustee, sold the Jahncke home to Cyprian A. Sporl for $6500.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 196, pp. 342-343)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Cyprian A. Sporl</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Purchased by Cyprian A. Sporl (1880-1936) on December 10, 1932, from Hanun Gardner, Trustee, for $6500.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 196, pp. 342-343)&nbsp; C.A. &ldquo;Many&rdquo; Sporl was the son of Cyprian A. Sporl and Louise Soule (d. August 1930) of New Orleans and Bay St. Louis.&nbsp; He had two brothers, Edward F. Sproul (18-1956+) and Walter Sproul, and four sisters, Alice Sproul (1956+)l, Elsie Sproul (1956+), Hilda Sproul, and Laura Sporl&nbsp; Killeen (d. March 1956), the spouse of Joseph L. Kileen (.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 28, 1930, p. 5&nbsp; and The Daily Herald, March 6, 1956, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">At New Orleans, Many Sproul resided at 6550 Oakland Drive with his wife, Adrienne de Lappe, and children, Harold D. Sporl and Cyprian A. Sporl II (1905-1999).&nbsp; He was a member of the Southern Yacht Club and owned a fifty-five foot motor vessel,&nbsp;<strong><em>Wendy.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong>In early July 1913, Sporl participated in the nearly three hundred mile, New Orleans to Pensacola motor boat race.&nbsp; His watercraft was propelled by a 40 hp Murray &amp; Tregurtha engine.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 3, 1913, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">Cyprian A. Sporl II (1905-1999) donated&nbsp;<em><strong>Cocheco</strong></em>, his $30,000, 76-foot disel yacht, to the USCG in April 1941. He also enlisted in the USCG at this time. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong><em>Cocheco</em></strong>&nbsp;was to be used for patrol duty.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 21, 1941, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In September 1936, the Sporl property was adjudicated by the Harrison County Chancery Court to Adrienne de Lappe Sporl, C.A. Sporl II, and H.D. Sporl.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 212, p. 253)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">WWII</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em;\">During WWII, the Sporl family of NOLA allowed their home to be used by the Women&rsquo;s U.S.O. for a small rental.</span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em;\">(The Daily, Herald, November 5, 1964)</em></h1>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/lynden%20bowring.jpg\" style=\"border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 300px;\" /></span></font></span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>&nbsp;(1889-1980)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;LYNOAKS&rdquo;-Lynden Bowring</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In July 1946, for $30,000 the Sporl family conveyed their Biloxi home to&nbsp;<strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 288, pp. 517-518)&nbsp; Mr. Bowring called his mansion,<strong><em>Lynoaks</em></strong>.&nbsp; In later years, lived on 1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;floor and rented the 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;and 3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;floors.(Clara L. D&rsquo;Aquilla, October 23, 2000)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>&nbsp;(1889-1980) was born in Los Angeles, California.&nbsp; Made his livelihood as an attorney and rumored to have made money in the movies business in Hollywood.&nbsp; Described as a loner and eccentric.(Bache Whitlock, October 19, 2000)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">During his life, Bowring was married three times.&nbsp; He had two children with his first wife, but they as well as his spouse, preceded him in death.&nbsp; His second nuptial ended in divorce.&nbsp; Lynden married Wilda Lopez (1899-1977), the daughter of Lazro Lopez II (1877-1918) and Eurilda Seal (1879-1966).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Miss Wilda Lopez was the valedictorian of the 1915 Class of Biloxi High School and delivered an appropriate speech to her nine classmates and audience.&nbsp; She went on to study at Randolph Macon College at Lynchburg, Virginia.&nbsp; Wilda&rsquo;s other siblings were: Clara Lopez Tarr Froede (1902-1936), Beverly Lopez Berggren (1904-1991), Florian Seal Lopez (1911-1957), John Beverly Lopez (1915-1970).<em>(The Daily Herald, May 29, 1915, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Prior to her marriage to Lynden Bowring, Wilda Lopez had married Dr. James Edward Wallace (1877-1942) in the Roman Catholic Church at Biloxi, Mississippi on January 9, 1920.(HARCO, Ms. MRB 31, p. 493)&nbsp; Dr. Wallace was a native of Natchitoches, Louisiana.&nbsp; He came to Biloxi in 1914, and was affiliated with Dr. Hyman M. Folkes (1871-1926), the husband of Teresa Lopez (1873-1951).&nbsp; Mrs. Folkes was Wilda&rsquo;s aunt.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Bowring affiliated with C.T. Bowring and Co. Ltd. of London, England, a shipping firm. &nbsp;Owned a one-half interest in the Carlton Apartments on Union Drive in Los Angeles.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Owned the&nbsp;<strong><em>Rum Runner</em></strong>, a large motor yacht (65 feet in length) and a relict of the Prohibition era.&nbsp; Moored in front of the East Beach home.&nbsp; Built boat house and slip for it in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Boat never utilized, but full-time employee maintained the craft.(Bache Whitlock, October 19, 2000)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Ocean Springs</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1969, Hurricane Camille destroyed the Bowrings&rsquo; Biloxi home.&nbsp; In 1970?, The Bowrings relocated to Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Bruce Duckett remember Mr. Bowring as an elderly gentleman approcahing him to buy his home on Helmers Lane.&nbsp; Lynden wanted a site on the Inner harbor at Ocean Springs for the&nbsp;<strong><em>Wilda B (</em></strong><em>aka<strong>&nbsp;Rum Runner)</strong></em>.&nbsp; He convinced ? a golfer to relocate to Gulf Hills and bought his home and land at 207 General Pershing Avenue.(Bruce Duckett, October 10, 2000)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In July 1970, Wilda Lopez Bowring acquired from Lester B. Larson and Jennie C. Larson the following property in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Their residence address was 207 General Pershing Avenue.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Commencing at the southwest corner of Hellmers Lane and General Pershing Avenue: Go south 92.5 feet to the POB.&nbsp; Thence south 331.5 feet along the west margin of General Pershing Avenue to the waters edge of the OS small craft harbor, thence N 70 degrees 20&rsquo; W 200 feet along the waters edge of the small craft harbor to the fence line dividing the Larson and Howell property; thence N 19 degrees 20&rsquo;E 257 feet along an old fence line; thence S84 degrees 20&rsquo;E 128 feet along an old fence line to the point of beginning.&nbsp; Said land lying in Section 37, T7S-R8W.</strong></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 381, pp. 587-588)</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In May 1971, Mrs. Bowring acquired from Earl W. Paul and Ilsedore Paul, the following: &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Commencing at the southwest corner of Hellmers Lane and General Pershing Avenue: Go south 92.5 feet; thence N84 degrees 20&rsquo;W 128 feet along a wire fence; thence north 66.3 feet along a wire fence to the south margin of Hellmers Lane; thence N84 degreesE127 feet along the south margin of Hellmers Lane to the POB.</strong></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 401, pp.338-339)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Their residence address was 207 General Pershing Avenue.&nbsp; There was a rental house on one of the lots. &nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">House fire caused by lightening destroyed most of their home September 13, 1977.&nbsp; Mr. Bowring was led out of the burning house by Alice Duckett.&nbsp; Mrs. Wilda L. Bowring suffered burns and smoke inhalation and died in late October as a result of injuries from the conflagration.&nbsp; She was a member of the Colonial Dames, Daughters of the American Revolution, Les Masques carnival club, and the Biloxi Yacht Club.&nbsp; Member of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church.&nbsp; Buried at the Biloxi Cemetery.(<em>The Ocean Springs Record, September 15, 1977, pp. 1-2 and The Daily Herald, October 27, 1977, p. A-2)</em></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mrs. Wilda Bowring left an estate valued at approximately $300,000.&nbsp; Her principal beneficiaries were: Patricia T. Leavitt of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Barbara T. Kroningen of Downers Grove, Illinois, (JXCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 33566)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In June 1978, Lynden Bowring, executor of the Estate of Wilda Lopez Bowring, sold to Charles E. Carr and Joy R. Carr, the two parcels above.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 621, p. 501).&nbsp; In 1996, Dr. William Pontius built a large home, &ldquo;Lattiude&rdquo;, at Hellmers Lane on the former site of Bowring&rsquo;s boathouse.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">When Lynden Bowring expired on April 8, 1980, he was living at his apartment house at 414 East Howard Avenue in Biloxi.&nbsp; He willed his real estate at 900 East Beach Biloxi to&nbsp;<strong>Beverly Lopez Berggren</strong>, his sister-in-law, and&nbsp;<strong>Patricia Tarr Leavitt</strong>, his niece-in-law.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Chancery Court Cause No. 9853)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h5 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Cause No. 9853-Estate of Lynden Bowring-1980</span></span></h5>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Patricia Tarr Leavitt, executrix of Lynden Bowing&#39;s estate. Bowring was married three times. His first wife died and he divorced his second spouse. Two children born of first marriage, but children died.&nbsp; Wife preceded him in death.&nbsp; No children.&nbsp; Left property at 900 East Beach Biloxi to Beverly Lopez Berggren, his sister-in-law, and Patricia Tarr Leavitt, his niece-in-law.&nbsp; Mr. Bowring was affiliated with C.T. Bowring and Co. Ltd. of London, England.&nbsp; He owned a one-half interest in the Carlton Apartments on Union Drive in Los Angeles.&nbsp; Lynden Bowring died on April 8, 1980.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Berggren-Leavitt</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Beverly Lopez Berggren</strong>&nbsp;(1904-1991), called Bee and Lillie, was the daughter of Lazaro Lopez II and Eurilda Seal.&nbsp; She was educated at the Sacred Heart Academy and Mississippi Southern College.&nbsp; Miss Lopez married Captain Oscar E. Berggren (1893-1964).&nbsp; No children.&nbsp; They resided on Suter Street at Biloxi.&nbsp; She was a charter member of Les Masques carnival club.&nbsp; Passed on at Biloxi on October 26, 1991.(<em>The Sun Herald, October 29, 1991)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Captain Oscar E. Berggren was a native of Fjallbacka, Sweden.&nbsp; He made his livelihood on the sea.&nbsp; During his forty-six year naval career, Captain Berggren had worked for the Waterman and Morgan steamship lines.&nbsp; During WWII, he sailed on merchant vessels from Canada to Europe facing the relentless pursuit of German U-Boats.&nbsp; He was fortunate as on several occasions, his ship had close encounters with German torpedoes.&nbsp; Captain Berggren was a member of the Masters, Mates, and Pilots Association.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 6, 1964, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mrs. Beverly Lopez Berggren legated her interest in Live Oak to Patricia T. Leavitt.&nbsp; Clara Lopez Campbell D&rsquo;Aquilla (b. 1936) was her executrix.&nbsp; Mrs. D&rsquo;Aquilla was legated Mrs. Berggren&rsquo;s home at 1092 West Beach Blvd. in Biloxi.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Chancery Court Cause No. P-2077B)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Patricia Tarr Leavitt</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1919) was the daughter of Leslie R. Tarr (1897-1972) and Clara Lopez (1902-1936).&nbsp; Leslie R. Tarr met Miss Lopez during WWI, when he was a sailor posted at the Gulfport Naval Station.&nbsp; They eloped and were married at Ocean Springs, Mississippi on December 8, 1918, by Judge O.D. Davidson (1872-1938).&nbsp; Mr. Tarr resided at Glendale, California where he was employed as a newspaperman in Los Angeles.&nbsp; Miss Lopez was a student at Newcomb College in New Orleans, at the time of her nuptials.&nbsp; (<em>The Daily Herald September 6, 1919, p. 4 and&nbsp;</em>JXCO, Ms. MRB 11, p. 573)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Tarrs had another daughter,&nbsp;<strong>Barbara Tarr Kroninger</strong>&nbsp;(1921-1983), who was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 15, 1921.&nbsp; Her mother had come here from California for a visit with her family and Barbara was born here.<em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>Barbara Tarr was a stewardess for Delta Airlines and during WWII had been a Navy nurse. &nbsp;She married Lt. (j.g.) Nolan Kroninger, USN, a native of Cowden, Illinois, on September 26, 1946. &nbsp;He was aboard the<u><strong><em>&nbsp;USS Lexington</em></strong></u>&nbsp;when it was sunk by Japanese aircraf in 1942. &nbsp;The Kronigers eventually settled at Downers Grove, Illinois.(<em>The Daily Herald,</em></span></span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;February 18, 1921, p. 3,</em><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;October 7, 1946, p. 6</em><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;and Clara L. D&rsquo;Aquilla, October 23, 2000)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Clara L. Tarr divorced Leslie R. Tarr in California.&nbsp; He was a resident of Santa Barbara, California in 1941, and passed on at Newport Beach, California in July 1972.&nbsp; Clara then married Paul O. Froede (1896-1968) in New York on May 28, 1929.&nbsp; Mr. Froede was a native of Brooklyn and had been a regular visitor to Biloxi.&nbsp; The newly weds planned a six-weeks honeymoon trip through New England and Canada before returning to Biloxi.(<em>The Daily Herald, June 5, 1929, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Patricia Jeanne Tarr married&nbsp;<strong>Clyde M. Leavitt</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1910), a naval architect, from Syracuse, New York.&nbsp; He was the son of Clyde Leavitt and Patricia McGowen.&nbsp; Miss Tarr was a student at the University of Mississippi when they met.&nbsp; Mr. Leavitt was employed at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula at the time.&nbsp; They married in Jackson County, Mississippi on June 7, 1941.&nbsp; Two daughters were born from this union.(Clara L. D&rsquo; Aquilla and JXCO, Ms. MRB 33, p. 550)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1974, the Leavitts bought Lots 1 and 2 of Block 50 Gulf Hills on 13901 Puerto Drive from W.H. Mecom Jr.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 495, p. 549)&nbsp; Sold Gulf Hills home in November 1994 to Phillip L. Severson Jr.&nbsp; The Leavitts moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, where they reside presently.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 1053, p. 156)&nbsp; Mrs. Leavitt suffered a stroke recently and is recovering.(Claire L. D&rsquo;Aquilla, October 18, 2000)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Phillip D. Ward</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In March 1984, Mary L. Harvey sold her lot to Phillip D. Ward.(Bk. 142, p. 585)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In March 1984, Bergrren-Leavitt sold their lot to Phillip D. Ward.(Bk. 142, p. 587)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Robert E. Hebert</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1987, Robert E. Hebert took a Deed of Trust from Phillip D. Ward on the property.&nbsp; He defaulted on his payments to Hebert.&nbsp; In April 1988, James B. Person, Substitute Trustee, sold the lot to Hebert.(Bk. 200, pp. 68-69)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">When Hebert defaulted on his performance, conditions, and provisions of his deed of trust with Harvey and Leavitt-Bergreen, Larry C. Corban Jr., Trustee, sold on July 3, 1989, to Mary L. Harvey for $83,656.14.(Bk. 211, pp. 208-210)&nbsp; Corban sold the other lot to Berggren-Leavitt for $153,537.75.(Bk. 211, pp. 212-214)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Mrs. Berggren Dies</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">When Mrs. Beverly Lopez Berggren passed, she legated her interest in Live Oak to Patricia T. Leavitt.&nbsp; Mrs. Berggren was known as Bee and Lillie.&nbsp; Clara Lopez Campbell D&rsquo;Aquilla (b. 1936) was her executrix.&nbsp; Mrs. D&rsquo;Aquilla was legated Mrs. Berggren&rsquo;s home at 1092 West Beach Blvd. in Biloxi. .(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Chancery Court Cause No. P-2077B-March 1993)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Frederick J. Burmont</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In March 1993, for $5000, Patricia T. Leavitt and Mary L. Harvey (1910-1999) sold an option to purchase the site to Frederick J. Burmont in March 1993.&nbsp; If option selected, the selling price would be $800,000.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD, Land Deed Bk. 53, p. 417)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">In October 1993, Patricia T. Leavitt and Mary L. Harvey sold &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; to the Oak Place Development Company, a Mississippi corporation.(HARCO, Ms. 2</span><sup style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">nd</sup><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">&nbsp;JD, Land Deed Bk. 262, pp. 84-85)</span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Oak Place Development Company led by Frederick J. Burmont and headquartered at Daytona Beach, Florida.&nbsp; In May 1994, the stockholders voted to sell their Biloxi land to Ronald W. Blacklidge for $1,700,000.&nbsp; Sold in June 1994, to Blacklidge with Oaks at Tullis, Inc. of Gulfport.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Land Deed Bk. 271, pp.421-434)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Oaks at Tullis</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; line-height: 20px;\">Oaks at Tullis, Inc. to City of Biloxi, Mississippi.(HARCO, Ms. 2</span><sup style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; line-height: 20px;\">nd</sup><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; line-height: 20px;\">&nbsp;JD Land Deed Bk. 358, pp. 78-86)</span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<h6 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Chancery Court Causes</span></span></h6>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 14868,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Ex Parte: Mrs. Adrienne De Lappe Sporl, et al&rdquo;</strong>, September 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 24,334,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Estate of Lucinda Davis Stamps&rdquo;</strong>, December 1946.(Will Book 9, pp. 241-243)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 37,904,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Estate of Joan Minor&rdquo;</strong>, October 1961.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 53,890,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Jane Farrar Wood v. The Unknown Heirs of Edgar Howard Farrar and Lucinda Davis Stamps&rdquo;</strong>, May 1967.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Judicial District, Cause No. 9853,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Estate of Lynden Bowring,&nbsp;</strong>1980.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Judicial District Cause No. P-2077B,&nbsp;<strong>The Estate of Beverly Lopez Berggren&rdquo;</strong>, March 1993.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Mildred Farrar, Mrs. Ralph B. Wood, Edith Barnes Farrar, Mrs. Joseph Goldsberger, Mrs. Richard F. Goldsborough, Maude Ellen Farrar, Stamps Farrar, and Edward H. Farrar.&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Cause No. 12,936,</u>&nbsp;(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 399, pp. 44-45)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong><u>Cause No. 27,220 Clara M. Campbell</u></strong></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Jackson County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 33,566,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Estate of Wilda Lopez Bowring&rdquo;</strong>, January 1979.</span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><em><u>Books</u></em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><u>American State Papers</u></strong>, Volume III, Public Lands (1815-1824), (The Southern Historical Press, Inc.: Greenville, South Carolina-1994)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Nap L. Cassibry II,&nbsp;<strong><u>Early Settlers and Land Grants At Biloxi</u></strong>, Volume 1 and Volume II, Special Issue No. 5, (Mississippi Coast Historical &amp; Genealogical Society: Biloxi, Mississippi-1986).</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Charles H. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong>Along The Gulf</strong>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church: Pass Christian, Mississippi-1971)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">T.H. Glenn,&nbsp;<strong><u>The Mexican Gulf Coast Illustrated</u></strong>, (Graham &amp; Delchamps: Mobile, Alabama-1893)</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Magazines</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Antiques Gazette,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Southdown Plantation Now Historic House and Museum&rdquo;</strong>, June 1993.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h6 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		&nbsp;</h6>\r\n	<h6 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Journals</span></span></h6>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;</strong>, February 6, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Biloxi Chief Industry&rdquo;</strong>, September 12, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;</strong>, September 28, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;</strong>, April 29, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;,&nbsp;</strong>June 10, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;,&nbsp;</strong>July 1, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Kuhn-Desporte&rdquo;</strong>, May 1, 1903, p 5.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Joseph Kuhn&rdquo;</strong>, November 25, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Necrology-Frank Dunbar&rdquo;</strong>, January 31, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Kuhn-Bourdon&rdquo;</strong>, December 20, 1909, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;New Orleans Man Killed by Robbers&rdquo;</strong>, November 2, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi News&rdquo;</strong>, November 3, 1911.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>Humpty Dumpty, Speed Marvel, Is Sensation of Biloxi Motor Races&rdquo;</strong>, July 13, 1912, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Will Be No Race Between Speeders&rdquo;</strong>, July 12, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Speed Boats Off on Long Cruise&rdquo;</strong>, July 3, 1913.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Dunbar Property on East Beach Has Been Sold to New Orleanian&rdquo;</strong>, February 12, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Thieves Ransack The Dunbar Home&rdquo;</strong>, June 22, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Ten graduates are given diplomas at closing exercises&rdquo;</strong>, May 29, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Jahncke is hero of recent &ldquo;Blow&rdquo;</strong>, July, 10, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Wood-Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, September 12, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Wood-Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, September 13, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Judge Farrar To Come To Biloxi&rdquo;</strong>, April 9, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Geo. H. Dunbar Dies In New Orleans&rdquo;</strong>, October 19, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Prominent Man Dies In New Orleans&rdquo;</strong>, October 24, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;Mrs. Frank Dunbar Dead&rdquo;</strong>, May 31, 1919.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Ernest Lee Jancke Here&rdquo;</strong>, August 4, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Girl of Southern Noted Family Joins Husband in Los Angeles&rdquo;</strong>, September 6, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Mrs. Dunbar Dead&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 9, 1920, August 27, 1925.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;Biloxi News Paragraphs&rdquo;</strong>, February 18, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Prominent Biloxian (Sarah Kuhn) Dead&rdquo;</strong>, April 26, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Death Claims Prominent Biloxi Resident in Judge E.H. Farrar&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, January 7, 1922.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Farrar Remains Buried&rdquo;</strong>, January 9, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Edgar H. Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, January 9, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Miss Kate Minor Dead&rdquo;</strong>, December 4, 1923.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Aunt Dinah in Local Port&rdquo;</strong>, May 28, 1923.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi News</strong>&nbsp;(Lucille Minor)<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, August 27, 1925</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Miss Jahncke Captain&rdquo;</strong>, December 10, 1926.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Improving Williams Home&rdquo;</strong>, May 24, 1928.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi News&rdquo;</strong>, September 1, 1928.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Elizabeth Kuhn Dies&rdquo;</strong>, June 17, 1929, p. 2.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Froede-Tarr Nuptials&rdquo;</strong>, June 5, 1929.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Goldsborough Bank Head&rdquo;</strong>, May 27, 1930.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. C.A. Sporl Dies&rdquo;</strong>, August 28, 1930.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;May Adele Kuhn Dies&rdquo;</strong>, December 3, 1930, p. 2.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Farrar-Howard&rdquo;</strong>, June 1, 1933.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Miss Jahncke To Marry&rdquo;</strong>, October 13, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;C.A. Sporl Dies&rdquo;</strong>, January 27, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Attend Sporl Funeral&rdquo;</strong>, January 29, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;C.A. Sporl Dies&rdquo;</strong>, January 31, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Paul Froede Dies&rdquo;</strong>, September 24, 1936.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;John Duncan Minor Dies&rdquo;</strong>, August 9, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Barkley-Tullis Wedding&rdquo;</strong>, October 9, 1938.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;Sporl gives yacht to Coast Guard&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, April 21, 1941.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Dr. James Wallace World War Captain Dies at Biloxi&rdquo;</strong>, October 28, 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Kroninger-Tarr&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, October 7, 1946.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Mrs. Farrar dies: Burial in New Orleans&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, November 13, 1946.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Laura Sporl Kileen&rdquo;</strong>, March 6, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Know Your Coast&rdquo;</strong>, &ldquo;The Biloxi House With The English Fence&rdquo;, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Joan Minor&rdquo;</strong>, May 29, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Minor Rites&rdquo;</strong>, May 31, 1956.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Capt. Berggren Taken By Death&rdquo;</strong>, January 6. 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Know Your Coast&rdquo;</strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;The Biloxi House With The English Fence&rdquo;</em></strong><em>,&nbsp;</em>November 5, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Miss Mildred Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, February 8, 1967.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;R.B. Wood&rdquo;,&nbsp;</strong>October 26, 1967.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Widow&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">[Mary H. Farrar]&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">of Dr. Goldberger dies in Biloxi home&quot;</strong><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">,&nbsp;</em><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">September 12, 1969.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Louis W. Harvey&rdquo;</strong>, January 20, 1970.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Mrs. Wilda Lopez Bowring&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, October 27, 1977.</span></p>\r\n	<h5 align=\"left\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;</em>&ldquo;Saved From Fire&rdquo;, September 15, 1977.</span></span></h5>\r\n	<h5 align=\"left\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em>&ldquo;Mrs. Beverly Berggren&rdquo;, October 29, 1991.</span></span></h5>\r\n	<h5 align=\"left\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em>&ldquo;Mary L. Harvey&rdquo;,&nbsp;November 14, 1999.</span></span></h5>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Married</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;[Anna G. Farrar and Richard F. Goldsborough]<strong>&quot;</strong>, January 1, 1905.</span></p>\r\n	<div>\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Miss Lucy Farrar&#39;s brilliant career ends sadly in Paris&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, October 28, 1910.</span></div>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Dr. Goldberger pellagra&#39;s foe dies for science&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, January 18, 1929.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&quot;Jahncke named to special duty with Navy here</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&quot;</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 19, 1941.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Mrs. Farrar, 89 expires at Biloxi&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, November 213, 1946.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Stamps Farrar last rites held&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 4, 1950.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Stamps Farrar&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 5, 1950.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Thomas P. Farrar dies in New York&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, June 12, 1951.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Deaths&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">[Edith Barnes Farrar]</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 21, 1959.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;</strong>[Ernest Lee]<strong>&nbsp;Jahncke rites planned today&quot;</strong>, November 17, 1960.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Mrs. Jahncke rites planned&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, March 20, 1970.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;Deaths&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">[Anna Farrar Goldsborough]</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, December 12, 1970.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">[Anna Farrar Goldsborough]</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;Ex-cartoonist&#39;s rites are held&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 2, 1971.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Personal Communication:</strong></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">A. Bruce Duckett-telephone conversation on October 10, 2000, at Ocean Springs, Mississippi</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Bache Whitlock-telephone conversation on October 19, 2000, at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Clara L. D&rsquo;Aquilla-telephone conversation on October 18, 2000 at Biloxi, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Clara L. D&rsquo;Aquilla-interview at 1092 Beach Blvd. on October 23, 2000, at Biloxi, Ms.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h5>\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Cause No. 9853-Estate of Lynden Bowring-1980</span></h5>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Patricia Tarr Leavitt, executrix of his estate. Married three times. First wife died, divorced second. Two children born of first marriage, but children died.&nbsp; Wife preceded him in death.&nbsp; No children.&nbsp; Left property at 900 East Beach Biloxi to Beverly Lopez Berggren, his sister-in-law, and Patricia Tarr Leavitt, his niece-in-law.&nbsp; Bowring affiliated with C.T. Bowring and Co. Ltd. of London, England.&nbsp; Owned a one-half interest in the Carlton Apartments on Union Drive in Los Angeles.&nbsp; Bowring died April 8, 1980.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	______________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<br />\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>BALDWIN WOOD&ndash;VANCE-BOHN-GILLIS HOUSE: an outstanding example of historic preservation at Biloxi, Mississippi </strong>[501 East Beach and 806 West Beach]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In June 1912, <strong>Albert Baldwin Wood</strong> (1879-1956), called <strong>Baldwin Wood</strong>, acquired a frame house and lot on East Beach at Biloxi, Mississippi from Alvin T. [sic] Howard (1889-1937)*. &nbsp;&nbsp;The transaction was reported in <em>The Daily Herald</em> as follows:&nbsp; Alvin T. [sic] Howard of New Orleans to A.B. Wood of New Orleans one lot in Biloxi with a frontage on the Gulf of Mexico of 136 feet and running back to Howard Avenue.&nbsp; Said lot is bounded on the east by Keller&rsquo;s Addition and on the west by land acquired by Frank T. Howard; also that certain lot which has a frontage on the Gulf of &frac12; arpent and running back to property formerly belonging to Thomas Lonez and bounded on the west by Bellman Alley; also one lot bounded on the north by the property of Christopher Gardner and on the west by Bellman Alley; also one lot on the Pass Christian Road and bounded on the east by lands belonging to Pierre DeBuys and on the west by land belonging to Jacques Ryan.&nbsp; Terms $4500 cash and for the balance vendee executed four promissory notes each for $3375.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Baldwin Wood tract was described in June 1912 in the Harrison County Chancery Court as follows:&nbsp; 223 feet on the Mexican Gulf and ran north between parallel lines to Howard Avenue.&nbsp; It was bounded on the west by Bellman Street; on the north by Howard Avenue; on the east by the Keller Addition subdivision; and on the south by the Gulf.&nbsp; Wood had sold three lots from this parcel to Comisky, Elliott and Sharway.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 99, p. 381)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">*Alvin Pike Howard was a son of Frank Turner Howard (1855-1911) and Emma Cora Pike (1850-1898).&nbsp; He was vending the family home at Biloxi to Mr. Wood.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Baldwin Wood</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood (1879-1956) was born at New Orleans to John S. Wood (1841-1912), a native of Maryland, and Octavie Bouligny (1852-1928) of New Orleans, the daughter of Gustave Bouligny and Octavie Fortier.&nbsp; The Bouligny family was decedent from Francisco Bouligny (1736-1800), the first Spanish military governor of Louisiana and the founder of New Iberia, Louisiana in 1779.&nbsp;&nbsp; Alcee Fortier (1856-1914), noted Louisiana historian, author,&nbsp; and Professor of Romance Languages at Tulane University, was a cousin.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin was reared at 5026 Prytania Street with siblings: <strong>John Fox Wood</strong> (1875-1944) m. Leona Moore (1882-1959) and May Clara Spearing, the widow of Edgar Howard Farrar Jr. (1879-1911); and <strong>Ralph Bouligny Wood</strong> (1884-1967) m. Jane Kempe Farrar (18-1982).&nbsp; The Farrar family of New Orleans had a summer residence in Biloxi at 909 East Beach Drive, now part of the Ohr-O&rsquo;Keefe Museum of Art campus.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Albert Baldwin</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Baldwin Wood</strong>was named <strong>Albert Baldwin Wood</strong> for his uncle, Albert Baldwin (1834-1912).&nbsp; Uncle Albert was born at Watertown, Massachusetts on April 7, 1834.&nbsp; As a young man he discovered that he had a keen, mathematical mind, and it was logical for Baldwin to find employment as a bookkeeper-accountant.&nbsp; At Boston, he was employed with Beebee, Morgan &amp; Company, replacing his brother, Henry Fay Baldwin, who had relocated to New Orleans.&nbsp; Among his fellow accountants in that Massachusetts firm were Levi P. Morton (1824-1920), Cornelius Bliss, and Marshall Field (1834-1906).(<em>The Daily Picayune, April 22, 1912, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In 1858, Albert Baldwin left Boston for New Orleans to join his brother.&nbsp; In the Crescent City, he was employed with Burnside &amp; Company, a prominent dry goods merchandiser.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In 1862, Albert Baldwin (1834-1912) married Arthemise Bouligny (1840-1911).&nbsp; They were the parents of six children: Henry Fay Baldwin; Albert Baldwin, Jr. (1866-1915); David Gilmore Baldwin (d. 1912) of El Paso County, Texas; Alice B. Vairin; Gustave B. Baldwin; and Mrs. William Ottman (died pre-1912) of New York.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">After the Civil War, Baldwin joined C.H. Slocomb &amp; Co.&nbsp; Circa 1870, the firm became Slocomb, Baldwin, &amp; Co., which evolved into the extensivehardware house of A. Baldwin &amp; Co., Ltd.&nbsp;&nbsp; Albert Baldwin was an entrepreneur.&nbsp; He was president of the New Orleans National Bank, vice president of The Times-Democrat Publishing Company, and actively associated with the Union Ferry Company, American Brewing Company, the National Rice Milling Company, and the Gullet Gin Company. A. Baldwin &amp; Company Ltd., hardware wholesaler and retailer; New Orleans National Bank, president; <em>The Times-Democrat </em>Publishing Company, vice-president; board of director of the following: Union Ferry Company; American Brewing Company; National Rice Milling Company; Gullett Gin Company; New Orleans Waterworks Company; New Orleans Street Railroad Company; Sun Life Insurance Company; and the Standard Guano Chemical Manufacturing Company.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Socially, Mr. Baldwin was a member of the Boston Club, founding member of the New Orleans Carnival Association and ruled the city as Rex during Mardi Gras and was a, founding member of the Southern Yacht Club.&nbsp; In mid-April 1912, Albert Baldwin expired from a stroke at his Hancock County, Mississippi camp called Baldwin Lodge.&nbsp; His remains were brought to his home at Esplanade and North Derbigny.&nbsp; He was laid to rest in the Metairie Cemetery after his minister of the Grace Episcopal Church performed funeral rites.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Career of Baldwin Wood</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood graduated in electrical engineering from Tulane University in 1899.&nbsp; He won the Glendy Burke award in mathematics.&nbsp; Baldwin took a position with the Red River Steam Lines to maintain their electrical equipment.&nbsp; He went to work for the Safety Electric Company then commenced working for the Drainage Commission of New Orleans as assistant manager under Alfred Raymond (1864-1920).&nbsp; In 1907, Baldwin was promoted to mechanical engineer for the Sewage and Water Board.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">After the demise of Alfred Raymond in January 1920, Baldwin Wood headed the drainage operations for the City of New Orleans.&nbsp; In 1914, he had designed and a new pumping system with 12-foot screw pumps that had the ability to efficiently lift large volumes of water against a load head.&nbsp; The large pumps were constructed at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and transported to the Crescent City via the Illinois Central Railroad.(The Times-Picayune, January 16, 1920, p. 5 and &nbsp;The Daily Picayune, July 2, 1914, p. 5)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In late April 1915, Mayor Behrman, New Orleans city officials and engineers and officials of the Sewage and Water Board, witnessed the effectiveness of the Baldwin Wood&rsquo;s designed pump at Pump Station No. 2 on Broad Street and Melpomene.&nbsp; The giant pump moved water down the Metairie relief canal at the rate of 13,500,000 gallons per hour.(The Times-Picayune, April 28, 1915, p. 9)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>International Consultant</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood became an engineering consultant while maintaining his working relationship with the Sewer and Water Board at New Orleans.&nbsp; His pumps were vended in foreign countries as well as Utah, California, Florida and Louisiana.&nbsp; In Holland, Wood advised the Dutch in draining the Zuider Zee, formerly a large inlet connected to the North Sea. &nbsp;&nbsp;Today more than 400,000 denizens inhabit this area now called the province of Flevoland.&nbsp; In the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, he also installed pumps and at Chicago, he reconfigured the Chicago drainage system and added additional pumping capacity.&nbsp; During his lifetime, Mr. Wood developed 38 patents of which 6-8 were very successful.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Circa 1938, Baldwin Wood became Superintendent of the Sewer and Water Board.&nbsp; He continued in this capacity until his demise.&nbsp; Tulane awarded Baldwin a Doctorate in Engineering in 1939.&nbsp; During WWII, he became director of the Civil Defense Board.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood passed on May 10, 1956 while sailing his beloved sloop, <strong><em>Nydia</em></strong>, in the Biloxi Channel just south of his home on East Beach.&nbsp; Louis Gorenflo, operator of a pleasure craft, rescued the <strong><em>Nydia</em></strong> and towed it to its anchorage.&nbsp; Baldwin&rsquo;s corporal remains were interred at the Metairie Cemetery.&nbsp; He was survived by his wife, Nola Smith Wood, and brother, Ralph B. Wood.(The Daily Herald, May 11, 1956, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Marriage</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood had married Nola Bradford Smith (1889-1974), the daughter of Henry Hyams Smith (1854-1902) and Lennoe Lee Schermerhorn (1862-1955) at New Orleans in the Christ Church chapel on April 26, 1908.&nbsp; Mr. Smith was the secretary of the Board of Trade at New Orleans.&nbsp; After his demise, Lennoe S. Smith married Socrates Drew (1853-1920+), a Wisconsin native, in Orleans Parish, Louisiana in March 1914.&nbsp; They relocated to Highmore, South Dakota and were living there in 1920.(The Daily Picayune, April 29, 1908, p. 18)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Nola and Baldwin Wood are known to have had only one child, Baldwin Wood (1913-1913).&nbsp; He died as an infant at New Orleans in December 1913.(The Daily Herald, December 18, 1913, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Nola Bradford Smith Wood expired at Waveland, Hancock County, Mississippi on December 9, 1974.(The Times-Picayune, December 12, 1974)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Baldwin&rsquo;s Siblings</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">John F. Wood</strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In August 1899, Joseph Fox Wood (1875-1944) married Leona Moore (1882-1959) at LeCompte, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; She was the daughter of James Moore, a Justice of the Peace, and local butcher.&nbsp; They were the parents of two children: Ruth Octavia Wood (b. 1901) m. Donald Delgray Demarest in May 1918 and Giraud von Nest Foster in New York City in May June 1932; and Robert Spearing Wood (1902-1995) m. Connie Frances Pierce (1909-1984) at Dallas, Texas in May 1958.(The Daily Picayune,&nbsp; August 26, 1899, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">John F. Wood filed for divorce from Leona Moore Wood in Harrison County, Mississippi in January 1914.&nbsp; He averred in the litigation that she had abandoned the family at New Orleans in 1910 and was a resident of Derry, Louisiana.&nbsp; Mr. Wood asked for custody of their two children.&nbsp; Leona had actually returned to LeCompte, Louisiana and was living with her family.&nbsp; She later married a Mr. Harrison.&nbsp; Leona passed on June 25, 1959 and her corporal remains interred in the LeCompte Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, January 19, 1914, p. 1 and 1910 Rapides Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T624_527, p. 6A, ED 84)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">At Biloxi, John F. Wood made his livelihood as a traveling commercial hardware salesman.&nbsp; As a young man, he had gone to work for his Uncle Albert Baldwin&rsquo;s hardware business at New Orleans.&nbsp; They lived at 887 East Beach Drive.&nbsp; On October 13, 1917 in Orleans parish, Louisiana, John married May Clara Spearing Farrar, the widow of Edgar Howard Farrar Jr. (1987-1911).&nbsp; She brought a son, Edgar H. Farrar III (1912-2000) into the marriage.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">John Fox Wood died at the Biloxi Hospital on July 7, 1944.&nbsp; His corporal remains were sent to New Orleans for burial in the Metairie Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, July 7, 1944, p. 5)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>909 East Beach Drive</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In April 1917, for $7750, Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar (1857-1946) of NOLA acquired the F.H. Dunbar House from Nelms Logan of Hancock County, Mississippi.&nbsp; Mrs. Farrar was the grandmother of Edgar H. Farrar III and would become the former mother-in-law of May Clara Spearing Farrar after she married John Fox Wood.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Included in the sale were all buildings and improvements, &frac12; interest in artesian water well, all furniture and fixtures in and personal property in buildings, bathhouse, pier, and riparian rights.&nbsp; The former Frank H. Dunbar home was described as having fourteen rooms and a large beautiful lawn.&nbsp; The Jessie A. Smyly. Biloxi real estate agent, handled the transaction.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 9, 1917, p. 4 and&nbsp;</em>HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 118, p. 430)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Ralph B. Wood</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Ralph Bouligny Wood (1884-1967) married Jane Kempe Farrar (1889-1982) at the Church of the Redeemer in Biloxi, on September 12, 1916.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Judge Edgar Howard Farrar (1849-1922), a native of Concordia Parish, Louisiana and Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar (1857-1946), of New Orleans.&nbsp; The young couple honeymooned at Asheville, North Carolina, before traveling to their home in Cuba, where Mr. Wood was employed with the Cuban-American Sugar Company.(<em>The Daily Herald, September 13, 1916, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In retirement, the Ralph B. Wood family lived in the Hermann House at 523 East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; Ralph B. Wood retired as the executive vice president of the Cuban American Sugar Company.&nbsp; Their daughter, Jane Kempe Wood (1917-1977), married James Wallace Pringle (1914-1971) in December 1938 at the Church of the Redeemer.&nbsp; Jane K. Wood and James W. Pringle had a daughter Jane Susie Pringle (b. 1942) who married Leo William Seal Jr. (1924-2008), former CEO of the Hancock Bank.&nbsp; All members of this family that are deceased were interred in Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi with the exception of Leo W. Seal Jr. who was buried in the Garden of Memory&nbsp; Memorial Park cemetery at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.(<em>The Daily Herald, October 26, 1967, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><em>The James W. Pringle family resided at 523 East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; Mr. Pringle once owned the Plymouth-DeSoto automobile agency at Gulfport.&nbsp; At the time of his demise, he worked in real estate at Gulfport, Mississippi.&nbsp; James was past commodore of the Biloxi Yacht Club and was a member of the Mithras carnival club.&nbsp; He was an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman and belonged to the Skeet Club.</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><em>James Wallace Pringle (1914-1971) had married Jane Kempe Wood (1917-1977) in December 1938.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Ralph Bouligny Wood (1884-1967) and Jane Kempe Farrar (1889-1982), both natives of New Orleans, and also residents of 523 East Beach at Biloxi.&nbsp; Ralph&rsquo;s brother was Albert Baldwin Wood (1879-1956), who was a brilliant electrical engineer and responsible for developing the large screw pumps, which have drained the city of New Orleans since 1915.&nbsp; Baldwin resided at 501 East Beach at Biloxi.</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><em>James W. Pringle expired at Howard Memorial Hospital at Biloxi, Mississippi on May 31, 1971.&nbsp; He was survived by his spouse and two children: Ralph Wood Pringle of Pascagoula, Mississippi and Jane Pringle Hurlbert of Mississippi City; three brothers, L.V. Pringle Jr. (1902-1974) and Victor B. Pringle (1909-1977) of Biloxi and Vivian Pringle (1912-1992), the wife of Archibald Clinton Hewes (1904-1978) of Gulfport.</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Will</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In his will, Albert Baldwin Wood appointed Nola Smith Wood, his spouse, as executrix. &nbsp;His estate [Chancery Court Case No. 38670] was probated and executed in Harrison County, Mississippi in December 1960 as follows:&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ownership of the Wood House at Biloxi was divided as follows: Nola Smith Wood 2/3 and the Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund 1/3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nola Smith Wood received a &frac12; interest in the furniture, fixtures and other articles of personal property at 501 East Beach and a &frac12; interest in the Ford coupe.&nbsp; She was also bequeathed the family horse.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The <strong><em>Nydia</em></strong> was legated to Tulane University.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ralph B. Wood was legated a &frac12; interest in the 11.58 acre parcel at the West End of Deer Island in Section 34, T7S-R9W.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Sale</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On December 21, 1960, Nola Smith Wood, a resident of Hancock County, Mississippi, sold her 2/3 interest in 501 East Beach to the Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund for $70,800.&nbsp; Tulane then sold 501 East Beach to the Biloxi Port Commission.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 473, p. 288 and Bk. 509, p. 308)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Lease-1963</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On January 15, 1963 the Biloxi Port Commission headed by Jacinto B. Baltar executed a fifteen year lease with the City of Biloxi.&nbsp; The rents were on a sliding scale which commenced at $13,632 per year and would be $8861 in the terminal year 1978.&nbsp; The City of Biloxi also had an option to acquire the former Baldwin Wood tract with improvements for $132, 912, if purchased before January 14, 1964.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 484)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>House of Treasures</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In August 1964, Mrs. Locke Brown restored the Baldwin Wood home to its former elegance when she opened her House of Treasures.&nbsp; She exhibited antique furniture of Louis XIV and Louis XV as well as Chippendale.&nbsp; The home was also a venue for viewing Aubusson rugs and &nbsp;tapestry as well as objets d&rsquo; art of many origins.(The Daily Herald, September 10, 1964, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Camille-1969</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Baldwin Wood Home was reportedly destroyed or severely damaged by Hurricane Camille on August 17, 1969.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bohn-Gillis House_0.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 209px;\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bohn-Gillis House-501 east Beach.jpg\" style=\"width: 226px; height: 158px;\" /></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 806 West Beach &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 501 East Beach</span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Vance-Bohn-Gillis House</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Vance-Bohn-Gillis House was situated at 806 West Beach Boulevard just west of the Buena Vista Hotel at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; It was described as: &nbsp;</span></span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>&ldquo;very important architecturally as it represents a virtually intact transplanting of the Louisiana planation type to the Gulf Coast.&nbsp; There are minor differences to be found and a great number of similarities.&nbsp; The hip roof dormers, peripteral gallery, slender turned gallery posts, symmetrical fa&ccedil;ade, and central hall plan all being typical features found in Louisiana.&rdquo;</em></strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(The Buildings of Biloxi, 1976, p. 121)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The land records of Hancock and Harrison County, Mississippi record that in September 1838, Eliza M. Vance (1800-1882) acquired a large tract of land at Biloxi, Mississippi from Thomas Bassett of New Orleans, Louisiana.&nbsp; The sale was described as follows: &nbsp;</span></span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;A certain tract of land having one hundred and seventy-five feet [175 feet] more or less front on the Gulf of Mexico and running back between parallel lines forty arpents to the Bay of Biloxi&hellip;&hellip;.and bounded at that date on the upper side by lands belonging to James Hopkins and on the lower side by lands belonging to William Vance.&quot;</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>and</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>&ldquo; a lot or parcel of land adjoining the above and on the east side thereof and measuring one hundred seventy-nine feet [179 feet].</strong>(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 22, p</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Eliza M. Vance</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Eliza McNeil Vance </strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(1800-1882)was a native of Boston, Massachusetts.&nbsp; At the time of her demise on July 17, 1882 at Biloxi, Mississippi, she was the widow of Gilbert Vance, who had passed before 1850, and a resident of 181 Canal Street at New Orleans.&nbsp; Eliza had married Gilbert Vance and they were the parents of four sons and two daughters all natives of New Orleans. &nbsp;In 1830 and in 1840, they owned 6 slaves and 5 slaves respectfully.(1830 Orleans Parish, Louisiana M19, R45, p. 126 and 1840 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census&nbsp; R132, p. 15, image 36)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">By 1860, Eliza Vance was living with her two sons: Hamilton Vance (1832-1881) and Dr. William Deare Vance (1838-1881), and three grandchildren: Henry Vance (b. 1850); Lise Vance (b. 1852); and Louisa Vance (b. 1859).&nbsp; She had a personal estate valued at $8000 while Hamilton&rsquo;s personal estate was worth $1500.(1860 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census M653_421, p. 140, image 140)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">By 1870, Eliza M. Vance and family were domiciled with an English family at New Orleans.&nbsp; The family at this time consisted of: Eliza Vance (b. 1796); William Vance (b. 1825); E. Vance [female] (b. 1840); Lizzie Vance (b. 1864); Luckett Vance (b. 1867); H. [Henry]Vance (b. 1848); Mary Vance (b. 1842); William Vance (b. 1844); and B. [Byrne] Vance (b. 1868).(1870 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census M593_521, p. 853B, image 255)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>The Will of Eliza Vance </strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On June 12, 1879, Eliza Vance, although bodily ill but of sound mind, in the presence of Edward Pilsbury, Ernest B. Kruttsschmitt, Enslow Holt, James I. Day, George W. Lee, Leonard M. Finley and Walter S. Keplinger, all competent witnesses above the age of twenty-one and residents of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, presented her will closed and sealed.&nbsp; It read as follows:</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">June 11, 1879</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">I the undersigned Widow Eliza Vance, do hereby declare this my last will and testament.&nbsp; After my debts are paid, and the amount reserved by law to my forced heirs is deducted and distributed according to the law, I make the following disposition of the remainder of my property:</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item I.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to<strong>Mrs. Lizzie Vance*</strong>, widow of my deceased son Hamilton Vance, the sum of Five Thousand Dollars.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">*Lizzie was born Lizzie Luckett (1840-1919), probably in Rapides Parish, Louisiana<strong>.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item II.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to <strong>Lizzie Vance</strong>, <strong>Luckett Vance</strong>, and <strong>Byrne Vance</strong>, all children of my deceased son, <strong>Hamilton Vance</strong>, by his marriage to said <strong>Mrs. Lizzie Vance</strong>, the sum of Three Thousand Dollars each, to be invested for their benefit by my executors, at the discretion of my said executors and the annual income to be paid to their mother for their use during their minority.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item III.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to<strong>Willie Vance </strong>and<strong>Mary Vance</strong>, two of the children of my said deceased son by his first wife, the sum of Three Thousand [Dollars] each.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item IV.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to <strong>Mrs. Caroline Zacharie</strong> the sum of Five Hundred Dollars.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item V.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to<strong>James O&rsquo; Donohoe* </strong>the sum of Five Hundred Dollars.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">*James O&rsquo; Donohoe (1819-1900) was born at County Carlow, Ireland and came to Biloxi in 1867 from New Orleans.&nbsp; He worked for Mrs. Vance as caretaker of her Biloxi property.&nbsp; O&rsquo;Donohoe was paid $40 per month for his duties which included taking care of her pier.&nbsp; He was elected to the Biloxi City Council and served as a councilman in 1893.&nbsp; Mr. O&rsquo;Donohoe passed at Biloxi on May 21, 1900.(The Biloxi Herald, January 14, 1893, p. 8, and May 22, 1900, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item VI.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath the sum of Three Hundred Dollars to each of the following charitable institutions, all of the City of New Orleans: <strong>The Little Sisters of the Poor</strong>; <strong>The Home of the Aged and Infirmed</strong>; <strong>The Louisiana Retreat</strong>; and <strong>The Insane Asylum</strong>.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item VII.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to<strong>Miss Sarah Hill or Hull?</strong>, to <strong>James I. Day </strong>and to<strong>Edward Pilsbury</strong>, all of the City of New Orleans,the sum of Five Hundred Dollars each.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item VIII.&nbsp; </strong>Any residue of my estate after paying the above legacies is to be divided equally, share and share alike between thesaid<strong>Lizzie Vance, Luckett Vance, Byrne Vance, Willie Vance</strong>, and<strong>Mary Vance, </strong>children of my deceased son<strong>Hamilton Vance</strong>, and said <strong>four charitable institutions</strong> aforesaid.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item IX.&nbsp; </strong>I hereby appoint and constitute <strong>James I. Day</strong> and <strong>Edward Pilsbury</strong> of the City of New Orleans to be the testamentary executors with full seizure of my estate and succession and without bond.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item X.&nbsp; </strong>I hereby cancel and revoke any and all other prior testaments made by me.&nbsp; Thus done and signed by me at the City of New Orleans the date above designated &hellip;&hellip;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Commissioner&rsquo;s Sale</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In the March 1884 term of the Chancery Court of Harrison County, Mississippi litigation to partition the lands of the deceased, Eliza M. Vance, at Biloxi, Mississippi was adjudicated in Chancery Court Case No. 269- Luckett Vance, Byrne Vance, minors by James I. Day their next friend, and Mary Flower vs. Lizzie Vance, a minor, by William A. Champlin, her Guardian ad litem, and others.&nbsp; F.S. Hewes, Commissioner, sold for cash to the highest bidder at Biloxi, Mississippi on May 23, 1884 in front of the residence of Mrs. Vance, the following lands:</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.75in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">I. &nbsp;A certain piece of land having 175 feet more or less fron on the Gulf of&nbsp; Mexico, running back from said Gulf to the Back Bay of Biloxi between parallel lines forty arpents&nbsp; more or less, which was acquired on the 15<sup>th</sup> of September, 1838, from Thomas Bassett, and bounded on the upper or west side by lands of James Hopkins, and on the lower or east side by lands of William Vance and afterwards by <strong>Major John Mountford*</strong> [sic], south by said Gulf, north by the Back Bay.&nbsp; The following described parcel of land sold by Mrs. Eliza Vance to James O&rsquo;Donohoe on the 15<sup>th</sup> day of January, 1878, is excepted from this sale: That certain tract of land fronting on the New Orleans &amp; Chattanooga Railroad, measuring 172 feet front and running back north between parallel lines 400 feet, bounded on the south by the right of way of said railroad, west by the McNeal property, north by the property of Mrs. Eliza Vance, and east by an alley of 20 feet in width.&nbsp; Together with all the tenements and hereditaments to said before said lots of land belonging or in any was appertaining.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.25in;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.75in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">II. &nbsp;A lot of land adjoining the first land on the east side, and measuring 179 feet, more or less, on the Gulf of Mexico, acquired by Mrs. Vance from the heirs of John Montfort on the 17<sup>th</sup> day of November 1875, which conveying was duly recorded&nbsp; and is referred to for a&nbsp; more perfect description; said lot being bounded on the north by the Back Bay of Biloxi, south by the Gulf of Mexico, west by the property of Eliza Vance, and east by that of Callavet [sic].&nbsp; Both of said parcels or tracts of land being subject to the right of way, granted to the New Orleans and Chattanooga Railroad.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.75in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>*John Montford</strong> (1795-1875), like Eliza McNeil Vance, was a native of Massachusetts.&nbsp; In 1850, he was a resident of Biloxi, Mississippi and stated that the value of his real estate was $150,000.(Julia C. Guice,&nbsp;<strong>1850 Census of Harrison County, Mississippi</strong>, p. 46 )</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In the Commissioner&rsquo;s Sale held at Biloxi on September 8, 1884, Jean-Jacques Robert Loeliger (1846-1923), a Swiss immigrant, domiciled at New Orleans, acquired the lands of Eliza M. Vance for $5250.&nbsp; In December 1884, Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Judge S. Evans, after deducting $446.96 in expenses involved in executing his adjudication , i.e. clerk costs; printer&rsquo;s billing; Commissioner&rsquo;s fee; Sheriff&rsquo;s fee; witness fees; allowance for Guardian ad litem; and allowance for solicitors complaints, awarded each of the heirs of Eliza M. Vance:&nbsp; Luckett Vance, Byrne Vance, Mary Vance Flower, and Lizzie Vance, one-quarter of the sale &nbsp;proceeds after expenses or $1200.76 each.(Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Case No. 269-May 1884)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Of the heirs of Mrs. Eliza E. Vance, the author could only determine with a high degree of certitude that Lizzie Luckett Vance (b. September 1865) was married on December 27, 1887 to Charles Hansford Shields of Louisville, Kentucky in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; The ceremony was at the home of the bride&rsquo;s mother.&nbsp; After the ceremony, the newlyweds left the Crescent City to make their home at Louisville.(The Daily Picayune, November 6, 1887, p. 9 and January 1, 1888, p. 9)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lizzie Luckett Vance (1840-1919), the mother of Lizzie L. Vance Shields, died at Louisville, Kentucky in February 1919.&nbsp; J. Byrne Vance (1868-1919+) , her son, was living in Rapides Parish, Louisiana at the time of her demise.(The New Orleans State, February 12, 1919, p. 13)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>US Highway No. I-110 and the Vance-Bohn-Gillis House</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In 1972-1973, the Mississippi Highway Department, now MDOT, began acquiring by purchase and eminent domain, parcels and partial tracts of land from denizens west of the New Buena Vista Hotel.&nbsp; The purpose of this expenditure was to acquire a corridor to erect an elevated highway called US Highway No. I-110, which connected to US Highway No. I-10 in North Biloxi, later called D&rsquo;Iberville, south and across the Back Bay of Biloxi to US Highway No. 90, a major east-west highway that parallels the Mississippi Sound from Biloxi west to Pass Christian, Mississippi.&nbsp; This thoroughfare was completed and opened for trafficin&nbsp;February 1988.(The Sun Herald, February 20, 1988, p. A3)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Vance-Bohn-Gillis House, located 218 feet east of Hopkins Boulevard and west of the New Buena Vista Hotel in the 800 block of West Beach Boulevard, was situated in the direct path of US Highway No. I-110.&nbsp; The New Buena Vista Hotel acquired the Gillis tract for $125,000 in October 1958 from the Estate of Lucille Bohn Gillis (1864-1957).&nbsp; Her heirs were: Marcel Gillis; Daphne Gillis Caffery; Lucille Gillis Minor Mortimer, wife of Frank Hastings Mortimer; Joan Mortimer Williams; and Louise Boykin.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 441, p. 246 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 38245-August 1958 )</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>History</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Augustus Bohn</strong>(1830-1897), a native of Neuchatel, Switzerland arrived at New Orleans in his youth and with his industry and desire toiled as a lowly, carriage driver to become a very wealthy and successful cotton merchant. &nbsp;Augustus married <strong>Lucille W. Hills</strong> (1838-1927), a native of Tennessee, at New Orleans.&nbsp; They resided at 91 Esplanade where they reared eight children.&nbsp; Five of their progeny survived into the 20<sup>th</sup> Century: <strong>Nita Bohn</strong> (1859-1928) m. G. Otto Weber (1847-1901); <strong>Leila Bohn</strong> (1849-1944) m. Edward A. Ferguson; <strong>Lucille W. Bohn</strong> (1864-1957) m. Alfred Barre Gillis (1855-1914); Augustus Bohn II (1866-1896); <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>H. Roberson Bohn</strong> (1869-1901) m. Louise McNeil Kennedy (1854-1920), the widow of Thomas S. Kennedy; Ulrich Bohn (1870-1873); Sue Hill Bohn (1872-1874); and <strong>Fergus Bohn</strong> (1878-1928).</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Biloxi</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Augustus Bohn began acquiring land at Biloxi in April 1888, when he acquired for $5300 from Jean-Jacques Robert Loeliger (1846-1923), a Swiss immigrant born at Arlesheim and resident of 1215 Napoleon at New Orleans, the former Eliza M. Vance tract.&nbsp; This parcel was described in Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Case No. 269- Luckett Vance, Byrne Vance, minors by James I. Day their next friend, and Mary Flower vs. Lizzie Vance, a minor, by William A. Champlin, her Guardian ad litem, and others.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk.&nbsp; 23, p. 222 and The Times-Picayune, August 31, 1923, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Augustus Bohn died at Biloxi, Mississippi on March 3, 1897.&nbsp; Lucille W. Hills Bohn lived at Biloxi until her death on April 14, 1927.&nbsp; Their corporal remains were interred in the Metairie Cemetery.(The Daily Picayune, March 9, 1897, p. 3 and The Times-Picayune, April 15, 1927, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lucille G. Gillis and Fergus Bohn came into possession of the Vance-Bohn-Gillis House in 1928, following the demise of their older sister, Nita Bohn Weber (1859-1928), who passed on February 23, 1928.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mrs. Weber left an estate valued at $101, 392.&nbsp; A portion of her legacy was a &frac14; interest in the Trianon Theatre at 814 Canal Street.&nbsp; At the time, it was leased to the Saenger Theatre for $13,000 annually.(The Times-Picayune, May 25, 1928, p. 3 and Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Case No.&nbsp; No. 10393-December 1923)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">With the demise of Fergus Bohn (1878-1928) on November 5, 1928, Lucille Bohn Gillis became the sole owner of their West Beach Biloxi home.&nbsp; In his will, Fergus named her as: <strong><em>&ldquo;sole beneficiary of my estate and she inherit all property, real and personal.&rdquo;</em></strong> (Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Case No. 10799-1928)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Fergus Bohn remained a bachelor during his life and lived at Biloxi where he was an insurance clerk and a director of the First National Bank of Biloxi.&nbsp; He resided with his mother on West Beach.&nbsp; Fergus was a sportsman enjoying fishing in the Mexican Gulf and playing golf at the Biloxi Golf Club.&nbsp;&nbsp; He was also a yachtsman and enthusiastic member of the Biloxi Yacht Club.&nbsp; In July 1912, he went to Mobile to coax a US Revenue cutter to participate in the BYC Regatta.&nbsp; Fergus was elected vice commodore of the BYC in December 1917 to serve with John J. Kennedy, commodore elect.&nbsp; He served on many of the BYC committees.(The Daily Herald, July 6, 1912, p. 1 and&nbsp; The Times-Picayune, December 30, 1917, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Fergus Bohn won a 72-hole, medal play, golf tournament at the Biloxi Golf Club in the spring of 1919.&nbsp; He took 312 strokes for the four rounds which averages to a respectable score of 78 strokes for each round of golf.(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1919, p. 6)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Lucille Bohn Gillis</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lucille Bohn Gillis was born at New Orleans in 1864.&nbsp; She married Alfred Barre Gillis (1855-1914), the son of Marcelin Gillis (1824-1896) and Carolina Nancy Griffin (1836-1909) in Orleans Parish, Louisiana on April 12, 1888.&nbsp; Alfred B. Gillis made his livelihood as secretary of the Board of Trade at New Orleans.&nbsp; They were the parents of: Lucille M. Gillis (1889-1954) m. John Duncan Minor (1876-1937); Marcel Alfred Gillis (1892-1971) m. Marie Caffery (1893-1991) and Daphne W. Gillis (1895-1973) m. Ambassador Edward Caffery (1889-1982).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Vance-Bohn-Gillis House relocated</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In February 1977, the Mississippi State Highway Commission authorized the City of Biloxi to advertise for the removal of the Bohn-Gillis House from West Beach Boulevard to the vacant Baldwin Wood tract at 501 East Beach.&nbsp; On July 25, 1977, a $98,385 contract for Phase I of the restoration of the relocated structure was signed with J.O. Collins Inc.&nbsp; of Biloxi, as contractor and Nicholas H. Holmes Jr., architect, who was located at 257 N. Conception Street in&nbsp; Mobile, Alabama.&nbsp; The work to be performed was for the exterior of the house and it was completed in late March 1978. (City of Biloxi, Mississippi Minute Bk. 47, p. 28 and Bk. 48, p. 76 and e-mail from Charles &lsquo;Chuck&rsquo; Collins-July 29, 2013)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Larry Cosper, a former Biloxi businessman, relates that J.O. Collins Inc. &nbsp;was hired by the City of Biloxi to dismantle and relocate the old structure.&nbsp; He remembers that it was cut into two segments before moving.(Larry Cosper-telephone conversation July 27, 2013)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Mississippi Department of Archives and History</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Elbert Hilliard of the Mississippi Department of History declared the Bohn-Gillis House to be a State Archeological Landmark on December 6, 1978 and a Mississippi Landmark on December 6, 1985.(Harrison Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 89, p. 195-200 and Bk. 170, p. 298)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>City of Biloxi-1982</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Port Commission on April 13, 1982 conveyed the Bohn-Gillis House to the City of Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Bobby G. O&rsquo;Barr was president and Neville J. Broussard the secretary of the Biloxi Port Commission at this time.&nbsp; The tract was described as having 223 feet on the Gulf.(Harrison County, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 119, p. 372)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Joseph R. Thornton III-1983</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The City of Biloxi on August 3, 1983 vended the former Baldwin Wood tract on East Beach and Bellman Street to Joseph &lsquo;Joe&rsquo; &nbsp;Robert Thornton III (b. 1933).&nbsp; Joe R. Thornton III was the son of Captain Joseph R. Thornton Jr. (1910-1990) and Rosa Lee Latimer (b. 1911).&nbsp; Captain Thornton was a commercial fisherman and was employed in the local seafood industry.&nbsp; Joe was reared at 1720 East Howard Avenue with siblings Patsy Ann Thornton (b. 1937) m. Jerry W. Bell, and Linda Sue Thornton (b. 1939) m. James Carroll Corso Sr. (1935-1990).(1940 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T627_2024, p. 12A, ED 24-5)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Joe R. Thornton III married Shirley Ann Mickoul, the daughter of Mickey Mickoul and Young Mickoul in Harrison County, Mississippi in August 1953.&nbsp; They were the parents of: Jo Love Thornton m. Derel J. Broussard; Robert M. Thornton (1955-2004) m. Marianne Tauzin (1954-1995) and Linda Sue Douglas (1952-2002); and Gregory M. Thornton m. Leslie Drake (1954-2004).(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB&nbsp; 95, p. 64)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Episcopal Church of the Redeemer-1990</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Joseph R. Thornton III and Shirley A. Thornton conveyed the Bohn-Gillis House to the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer on December 14, 1990.&nbsp; The church used the Bohn-Gillis House as a manse for its rector.&nbsp; Father Jackson C.&nbsp; Biggers resided here in the early 1990s before returning to his missionary work in Malawi.(Harrison County, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 227, p. 117)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Hurricane Katrina-2005</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Bohn-Gillis house was reportedly a victim of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Evergreen Century Company LLC-2010</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On September 3, 2010, the Church of the Redeemer sold the Baldwin Wood tract to the Evergreen Century Company LLC of Henderson, Nevada.&nbsp; Duc V. Nguyen is the manager at Henderson, Nevada.&nbsp; The company can be reached by mail at PO Box 8155 Gulfport, Mississippi 39506-8155.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Instrument No. 2217 DJ2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Buildings of Biloxi an Architectural Survey</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, (City of Biloxi, Mississippi-1976).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Julia C. Guice,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">1850 Census of Harrison County, Mississippi</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, (City of Biloxi, Mississippi:)</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Chancery Court Cases</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 269-Luckett Vance et al v. Lizzie L. Vance et al-1884.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 350-Estate of Mrs. Eliza Vance &ndash;June 1893.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 10393-The Estate of Nita Bohn Weber-December 1923.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 10799-The Estate of Fergus Bohn-June 1928.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 38245-The Estate Lucille Bohn Gillis-August 1958.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 38670-The Estate of Albert Baldwin Wood-December 1960.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Orleans Parish, Louisiana Civil District Court Cause No. &nbsp;6484-Successio of Eliza Vance-July 1882.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Journals</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Water Sport&rdquo;</strong>, May 8, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;The Old and the New&rdquo;</strong>, January 14, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Death of Auguste Bohn&rdquo;</strong>, March 13, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Water Sport </strong>[Nydia]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, May 8, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Local City News&rdquo;</strong>, August 7, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald,</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;James O&rsquo; Donohoe&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 22, 1900.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;H.R. Bohn </strong>[Dr. H.R. Bohn&rsquo;s obituary],<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, November 9, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;City News </strong>[Dr. H.R. Bohn&rsquo;s obituary]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, November 10, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Coast Beacon, </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Commissioner&rsquo;s Sale&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, April 19, 1884.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;This week list a lengthy one&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, June 14, 1912.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Woods Baby dead&rdquo;</strong>, December 18, 1913.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi man </strong>[John F. Woods]<strong>wants divorce&rdquo;</strong>, January 19, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Well known man </strong>[Alfred B. Gillis]<strong>dies in Biloxi&rdquo;</strong>, July 15, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Wood-Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, September 13, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Will endeavor to get Cutter&rdquo;</strong>, July 6, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Miss Smith to wed Mr. Ogden&rdquo;</strong>, November 7, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi Yacht Club elects&rdquo;</strong>, December 30, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;First National elects&rdquo;</strong>, January 16, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&ldquo;Biloxian win in golf tournament&rdquo;</strong>, March 21, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&ldquo;Former Biloxi resident</strong> [Louise McNeil Bohn]<strong>dead&rdquo;</strong>, July 31, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Orleanians in Biloxi&rdquo;</strong>, July 30, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Miss </strong>[Jane]<strong>Wood complimented&rdquo;</strong>, December 29, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;John F. Wood dies&rdquo;</strong>, July 7, 1944.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&ldquo;Baldwin Wood home </strong>[House of Treasures]&rdquo;, September 10, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;R.B. Wood&rdquo;</strong>, October 26, 1967.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;James W. Pringle&rdquo;</strong>, May 31, 1971.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Notice&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, July 29, 1857.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Bank Notice&rdquo;</strong>, January 30, 1874.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Society&rdquo;</strong>, November 16, 1887.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Society&rdquo;</strong>, January 1, 1888.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Auguste Bohn&rdquo;</strong>, Marc 9, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Southern States Items of Interest&rdquo;</strong>, August 26, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Secretary Smith&rsquo;s body brought home for burial&rdquo;</strong>, December 1, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Society&rdquo;</strong>, April 26, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Albert Baldwin&rdquo;</strong>, August 4, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune, <strong>&ldquo;Albert Baldwin Dies at Lakeside Lodge&rdquo;</strong>, April 22, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Howard Home sold&rdquo;</strong>, June 11, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Nydia is stolen from moorings&rdquo;</strong>, November 7, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Nydia is recovered by Baldwin Wood&rdquo;</strong>, November 9, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Big pumps to come from Milwaukee&rdquo;</strong>, July 2, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The New Orleans Item,<strong>&ldquo;Funeral of Alfred Raymond held at residence&rdquo;</strong>, January 16, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The New Orleans State,<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. L.L. Vance&rdquo;</strong>, February 12, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Officials watch Big Pumps work&rdquo;</strong>, April 28, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Kennedy elected head of Biloxi Yacht Club&rdquo;</strong>, December 30, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Alfred Raymond at rest&rdquo;</strong>, January 16, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Loeliger&rdquo;</strong>, August 26, 1923.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Died </strong>[Lucille W. Hills Bohn]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, April 15, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Died-Weber&rdquo;</strong>, February 24, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,&ldquo;<strong>Weber heirs seek recognition in city&rdquo;</strong>, May 25, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,&ldquo;[Fergus]<strong>Bohn&rdquo;</strong>, November 6, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Society </strong>[Mortimer-Minor]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, November 3, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Ferguson, 83, expires in Chicago&rdquo;</strong>, December 22, 1944.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune, &ldquo;[Lennoe L. Schermerhorn Smith] <strong>Drew</strong>&rdquo;, October 18, 1955.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Baldwin Wood found dead as boat drifts&rdquo;</strong>, May 11, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Baldwin Wood&rsquo;s devotion to Sloop Nydia depicted&rdquo;</strong>, June 20, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Love for boat lives after owner&rdquo;</strong>, February 5, 1961.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;</strong>[Nola B.]<strong>Wood&rdquo;</strong>, December 12, 1974.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;A.B. Wood&rsquo;s beloved Sloop is enshrined at Tulane Center&rdquo;</strong>, July 6, 1975.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Officials watch Big Pumps work&rdquo;</strong>, April 28, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">____________________________________________________</span></span>___________</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'lucida console\', \'trebuchet ms\';\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>THE PLEASANT REED HOUSE</strong>: 1892-2008</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi Buildings-Reed House-Elmer St.-may 2001.jpg\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 224px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;306</span></strong></span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Elmer Street</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">[image made May 2001 by Ray L. Bellande]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Reed House was situated at 987 Elmer Street in Biloxi, Mississippi in Section 28, T7S-R9W.&nbsp; It was built by Pleasant Reed (1861-1936), who was born into slavery at Perry County, Mississippi.&nbsp; In 1892, he erected a Victorian cottage on the eastside of Grand Jack Alley, now called Elmer Street.&nbsp; Mr. Reed made his livelihood as a day laborer and sawmill worker.&nbsp; It is very likely that Pleasant Reed was employed by the H.W. Latimer Sawmill, which was situated at Back Bay and Lameuse Street<strong>.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Pleasant Reed</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Pleasant Reed was born in Perry County, Mississippi in January 1861.&nbsp; He was the son of &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; .&nbsp; Came to Biloxi circa 1876.&nbsp; Married Georgia Harris on January 23, 1884 in Harrison County, Mississippi.&nbsp; Their children were: Emanual Reed (1887-1973), Victoria Reed (1889-1910+), Percy Reed (1891-1930), Theresa Reed&nbsp; (1894-1988), and Paul Reed (1898-1910+). (1900 Federal Census Harco, Ms., p. 67A and 1910 Federal Census Harco, Ms., p. 209B)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Pleasant Reed house</span></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">On January 11, 1892, Pleasant Reed acquired a small lot from Jacob Elmer for $50.&nbsp; Its metes and bounds description in the land deed records was as follows: 50 feet fronting on Grand Jack Alley and running east 184 feet and bounded on the north by Mrs. Lizzie Simon; on the east by the Estate of Charles Holley; on the south by Babe Morris; and on the west by Grand Jack Alley.(Harco, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, p. 298)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Area</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Read domicile has a total area of 1680 square-feet.&nbsp; Gallery= 90 square-feet.&nbsp; Shot-gun living area= 630 square-feet.&nbsp;&nbsp; Two-story living area=960 square-feet.(Sanborn Map, Biloxi, February 1925, Sheet 19)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>1905 City Directory</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1905, Pleasant Reed and family were residing at 928 Elmer Street.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Alumni</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In September 1978, the Pleasant Reed home was sold by Theresa Reed who was also know as Teresa Read to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.(HARCO 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Land Deed Bk. 86, p. 497)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Address changed to 306 Elmer Street in the 1980s, when the 911 Emergency telephone systems were installed in Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">REED CHILDREN</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Emanual Reed</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Emanual Reed (1887-1973) was born at Biloxi on November 5, 1887.&nbsp; In 1905, he was residing</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Married Catherine Gandy Smith (1920-1988) circa&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ?&nbsp; She was the widow of Noel Smith and the mother of Eugene Smith and Noel Smith Jr.&nbsp; She and Emanual Reed had two children: Virta R. Cherry, Olivia R. Rhetta,&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Expired at Biloxi in late January 1973.&nbsp; Residing at 521 Jefferson Street.&nbsp; Survived by his spouse, Catherine Gandy Smith Reed, and eight children: Emanuel Smith, Clifton Smith, Noel Smith, Willie Smith, Emanual Reed II, and Pleasant Reed, Mrs. Virta Cherry, and Olivia C. Reed.&nbsp;&nbsp; One sister, Theresa Reed.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 28, 1973, p. A-2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Theresa Reed</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Theresa Reed </strong>(1894-1988) was born at Biloxi on September 7, 1894. &nbsp;She expired at New Orleans on April 20, 1988.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Reed Family</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Benjamin Reed was&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">born 1830 in Georgia.&nbsp; Married to Charlotte ?</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; Living at 823 Elmer Street in 1905 with Charlotte Reed.&nbsp; Benjamin Reed died at the age of ninety-four and one-half years.&nbsp; He lived at Biloxi since 1868.&nbsp; His home was on Main Street near Division Street.(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 27, 1908, p. 1)</em></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Reed family from land deed records</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Ben Reed, Ben Reed Jr., George Reed, James Reed, Pleasant Reed (1854-1936), Charlotte Reed, Ellen R. Cross, Hattie R. Coleman, Johanna R. Chaney, Lula R. Huff Weeb, Martha R. Baldwin Rankin,&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Move to Tricenntenial Park</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Reed home move from Elmer Street by Fauvre? Moving Company of Mobile, Alabama.&nbsp; Arrived at Centennial Park on or about April 17<sup>th</sup>, 2002.&nbsp; First phase of restoration celebrated on April 22, 2002.&nbsp; Members of Delta Sigma Theta sorority in attendance.<em>(The Bay Press, April 26, 2002, p. 1 and p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">May 2003</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">On May 15, 2003, the Pleasant Reed House was open to the general public.&nbsp; Originally, this day was to be an exclusive opening for Board members and invited guests, but Margie Gowdy said that&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;due to the high interest in this event&rdquo;</em></strong>&nbsp;it would be open for the public on Thursday, not Friday as planned.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Katrina</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Reed House was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi Buildings-Reed House-Sept. 2009.jpg\" style=\"width: 359px; height: 222px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Replica</strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"\'times new roman\', times, serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">[image made September 2009 by Ray L. Bellande]</span></font></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Reed House was re-opened to the public on September 29, 2008.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Charles L. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong><u>Along The Gulf</u></strong></span></p>\r\n<h1>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi City Directory (1905),&nbsp;</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">(The Biloxi Daily Herald Printing Co.: Biloxi, Mississippi-1905).</span></span></h1>\r\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Journals</span></span></h2>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Bay Press,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Pleasant Reed moves to Tricentennial Park&rdquo;</strong>, April 26, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Bay Press,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Time Traveler-<em>&#39;Pleasant Reed House&#39;</em>&rdquo;</strong>, September 15, 2006.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong>, January 27, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Colored Death&rdquo;</strong>, February 5, 1936, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Emanual Reed&rdquo;</strong>, January 28, 1973.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Catherine Reed&rdquo;</strong>, March 24, 1988.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Reed House will become part of museum&rdquo;</strong>, October 12, 1998.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Biloxi in the spotlight&rdquo;</strong>, May 11, 2003, p. H-1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;A Pleasant place to visit&rdquo;</strong>, May 14, 2003, p. A-1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Visitors awed by Reed house&rdquo;</strong>, May 15, 2003, p. A-2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Crowds jam &lsquo;Day in the Park&rsquo;&rdquo;</strong>, May 17, 2003, p.&nbsp; A-3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&quot;A Pleasant return&quot;</strong>, September 28, 2008, p. F-1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;&nbsp;</em><strong>&quot;Pleasant Reed opens in spirit of moving forward&quot;</strong>, September 30, 2008, p. A-2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	________________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>W.W. SUTCLIFFE-MAVAR HOUSE: 1898-2001</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1364 West Beach</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">William Wilson Sutcliffe (1848-1934) was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an English father and a Scottish mother. &nbsp;By 1880, he was working on the Rienzi Plantation near Thibodeaux, LaFourche Parish, Louisiana as an engineer. Mr. Sutcliffe became president of the Sutcliffe Company, which owned large sugar cane planting acreage in South Louisiana.&nbsp; He had once resided at Cuba where he managed sugar plantations.&nbsp; There Mr. Sutcliffe invented a bagasse combustion furnace, which was invaluable to this island nation because of its paucity of natural energy resources.(1880 LaFourche Parish, Louisiana Federal Census, R455, p. 40, ED 131 and <em>The Daily Herald,</em></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>&nbsp;January 15, 1934, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">By 1900, W.W. Sutcliffe and his family were domiciled at 2712 Magazine Street in the Crescent City. </span></span>&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Circa 1873, he had married Minnie Wetzler (1850-1916), and they were the parents of: Jeanette Mary Sutcliffe (1874-1906+) m. Clarence W. Morris (1877-1900+); Joseph Wilson Sutcliffe (1876-1900+); Laura Sutcliffe (1881-1900+) m. Franklin Scott Quiller; and&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">William W. Sutcliffe II (1883-1954) m. Alma Fickessen (1885-1969).</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(1900 Orleans Parish, Federal Census T623_574, p. 11B, ED 111 and&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald, September 16, 1916, p. 3&nbsp; and January 15, 1934, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">At New Orleans, Mr. Sutcliffe was a strong patron of the Methodist Episcopal Church-South.&nbsp; In 1895, he served on the Board of Trustees of the Sea Shore Camp Grounds at Biloxi.(Dyer, 1895)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1898, W.W. Sutcliffe served as president of the Board of Trustees</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">of the Sea Shore Camp Grounds</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">and he and his spouse were frequent visitors to the campground where they possessed a tent.&nbsp; He stopped here in late May 1898, on a return business trip from Baltimore.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, May 14, 1898, p. 8 and May 28, 1898, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>BILOXI</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In February 1898, W.W. Sutcliffe acquired for $1600, from fellow Crescent City businessman, John H. Keller (1830-1908), two lots, No. 19 and No. 20, in Square No. 4 of the Avondale development at Biloxi.&nbsp; The Sutcliffe parcel had 164 front feet on the Mississippi Sound and ran north for about 595 feet comprising approximately 2.24 acres.&nbsp; J.H. Keller&rsquo;s covenants prohibited oyster planting and any commercial oyster business in his Avondale real estate development.&nbsp; The Sutcliffe lot was bounded on the east by First Street (later West First Street), now called Saint Francis, and on the north by Keller Avenue, now known as Father Ryan Avenue.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 37, pp. 429-430)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/sutcliffe house.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 200px;\" /></span></font></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>William W. Sutcliffe House&nbsp;</strong>(circa 1905)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1364 West Beach Boulevard</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">(Courtesy of Randy Randazzo)</span></span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Construction</span></span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">News of W.W. Sutcliffe&rsquo;s acquisition of a beach front lot was reported in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald&nbsp;</em>in late February 1898.&nbsp; The journal reported that he would let a contract shortly for the erection of a residence to cost between $4000 and $5000.(<em>The Biloxi herald, February 26, 1898, p. 8)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In April 1898, Mr. Sutcliffe had his lot fenced and planned to have a home built on his seaside vista within the year.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, April 2, 1898, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In August 1898, W.W. Sutcliffe, now president of the Board of Trustees of the Sea Shore Campground, signed a building contract with John Kelley.&nbsp; Mr. Kelley was to erect a large structure on Sutcliffe&rsquo;s Avondale lot facing the Mississippi Sound.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, August 20, 1898, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Contractor John P. Kelly (1853-1900+) was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio.&nbsp; He married Martha Jane Powell (1856-1919) and they parented ten children: Effie Kelly, Charles Kelley, Lizzie Kelly, Theresa Kelley, Eddie Kelly, Leo A. Kelly (1884-1938), Joe Kelly, Francis Kelly, Elna Kelly, and Freddie Kelly.&nbsp; Mr. Kelly was well respected at Biloxi for his character and quality construction.(20<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century Coast Edition of&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>, (ca 1902), pp. 62-63)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In early November 1898, the Sutcliffes came over from New Orleans to inspect their beautiful domicile which was under construction.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, November 12, 1898, p. 4)</em>&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Summer 1910</span></span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In early May 1910, Mr. and Mrs. Sutcliffe arrived at their 1904 West Beach residence for the summer season.&nbsp; Their daughter, Mrs. Clarence W. Morris, and her two children of Corsicana, Texas planned an early June arrival on the Mississippi coast.&nbsp; She preferred Biloxi for their summer holiday over both western and eastern spas.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 7, 1910, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Sutcliffe Company</span></span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In January 1934, W.W. Sutcliffe sold his Biloxi retreat to his company, the Sutcliffe Company. &nbsp;The Sutcliffe Company was led by W.W. Sutcliffe, president; W.W. Sutcliffe Jr., vice president; and H.C. Eisendrath, secretary and treasurer. &nbsp;At Biloxi, the Sutcliffe Company owned land on Reynoir Street between Howard Avenue and the L&amp;N Railroad. &nbsp;In Louisiana, it had etensive hlding in the Crescent City and in the sugar plantation region.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 200, pp. 120-121 and <em>The Daily Herald, January 15, 1934, p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Sell Off</span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">From October 1935 to September 1937, the Sutcliffe Company sold lots from its land holdings in Lot 19 and Lot 20 of Square Four of Avondale to: Louis O. Thompson, Bowman Broadnax, Frank E. Hall, Elizabeth Mann Trudeau, Eva S. Woolett (Lafayette County, Mississippi), and Florence B. Maxey.&nbsp;&nbsp; The W.W. Sutcliffe home was excluded from these conveyances.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>W.W. Sutcliffe Jr</strong>.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In December 1937, William W. Sutcliffe Jr. acquired his father&rsquo;s home at 1904 West Beach at Biloxi from the Sutcliffe Company. &nbsp;He had married Alma Fickessen (1885-1969) at NOLA in April 1907. &nbsp;Pauline Sutcliffe (1908-1984), their only child, married George Renaudin (1905-1967). &nbsp;W.W. Sutcliffe made his livlihood in banking in the Crescent City. &nbsp;In 1905, he began a long career as a banker, which ended with his death in early March 1954. &nbsp;W.W. Sutcliffe Jr. had risen from cashier of the Canal bank &amp; Trust Company to vice president of the National Bank of Commerce. &nbsp;Alma F. Sutcliffe passed on March 5, 1969. &nbsp;The corporal remans of both were interred in the Metairie Cemetery.<em>(The Times-Picayune, February 6, 1954, p. 2 and March 6, 1969, p. 19)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The lot, excluding riparian rights south of West Beach, measured.......</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 218, pp. 365-366)&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In September 1942, W.W. Sutcliffe Jr. coneyed 1904 West Beach to Arthur E. Scruggs and Gertrude Kelly Scruggs for $6,650.(</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">HARCO, Ms. Land Deed</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Bk. 251, p. 32)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Arthur E. Scruggs</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Arthur E. Scruggs (1897-1957) was the son of William Scruggs and Anna Shand and a native of Tate County, Mississippi.&nbsp; He was the Superintendent of Biloxi Public Schools from 1946? until 1956?&nbsp; At Biloxi, he oversaw the operation of the senior and junior high schools, five elementary schools, and the colored schools.&nbsp; Mr. Scruggs had matriculated to the University of Mississippi where he was conferred with two degrees, a B.S. and a M.S. in School Administration and History. He had also attended LSU working toward his PhD degree.&nbsp; A youthful A.E. Scruggs entered the teaching profession at Amory High School circa 1919, where he taught mathematics and coached.&nbsp; Circa 1926, Scruggs accepted the position of Principal and Coach at New Albany High School.&nbsp; About 1928, he relocated to Poplarville, Mississippi where he was the head of the History Department and Coach at Pearl River Jr. College for six years.&nbsp; Professor Scruggs arrived at Biloxi circa 1936 to serve as Biloxi Senior High School Principal.&nbsp; His tenure as Superintendent of Biloxi Public Schools, commenced circa 1946.(<em>The JXCOT, December 17, 1948, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Married to Gertrude Kelly Scruggs.&nbsp; Daughter, Anna Scruggs (b. ca 1941)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Both public and parochial schools in Biloxi closed half day on October 10, 1957, the day of Mr. Scruggs internment at the National Cemetery in Biloxi.(<em>The Daily herald, October 9, 1957, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In January 1945, Arthur E. Scruggs and wife conveyed the Sutcliffe-Mavar home to Mrs. Thomas C. Hannah (possibly Rosalee Hannah (1911-1990) of Petal, Forrest, Mississippi)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Mrs. Thomas C. Hannah</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Resident of Forrest County, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In October 1953, Mrs. Hannah, a widow, to William L. Clayton Sr.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 381, pp. 282-283)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>William L. Clayton Sr.</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In May 1954, William L. Clayton Sr. to Jules A. Barbin Sr. (HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 381, p. 458)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Jules A. Barbin Sr.</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Jules A. Barbin Sr. (1919-1986), Chalmette, St. Bernard, Louisiana.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In June 1955, Jules A. Barbin Jr. sold to Leo C. and Mary Adele Simon Todaro.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 397, pp. 42-43)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Leo C. Todaro</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Leo C. Todaro (1909-1994) and Mary Adele Simon Todaro (1906-1994) were both natives of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.&nbsp; Leo was born at Gulfport, Mississippi on May 11, 1909, the son of Anthony Todaro and Domenica LaMendola.&nbsp; He married Mary Adele Simon, a Biloxian and daughter of Joseph Simon and Catherine Shedrary, on July 7, 1935. (HARCO, Ms. MRB 46, p. 163)&nbsp; This union produced five children: Charles Leo Todaro, Mary Lynn Todaro, Anthony Joseph Todaro, Michael Carl Todaro, and John Braxton Todaro.(<em>The Sun Herald, March 4, 1994, p. A-2)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Leo C. Todaro was the proprietor of Leo&rsquo;s Grocery on the northeast corner of Main Street and Division Street.&nbsp; His brother-in-law, Charles Simon, operated a gasoline service station across the street.&nbsp; In later life, Leo was an independent real estate broker.&nbsp; Active in the Biloxi community, Leo C. Todaro was a devout Roman Catholic and member of the Cathedral Parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where he was a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus Council No. 1244.&nbsp; In addition, Mr. Todaro was a past president of the Cedars of Lebanon Club, a member of the Italian American Society, member of Elks Lodge No. 606, Order of Alhambra, and a charter fundraiser for the St. Jude&rsquo;s Hospital at Memphis.&nbsp; He expired at Biloxi on May 3, 1994 and his corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery besides his loving wife, Mary Adele, who had preceded his in death on March 2, 1994.(<em>The Sun Herald, May 5, 1994, p. A-2 and March 4, 1994, p. A-2)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In March 1961, Leo C. Todaro and Mary Mary C. Todaro conveyed their home to Charles C. Goetz Jr. and Lee Garrett Goetz.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 477, p. 196)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Charles C. Goetz Jr.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Charles C. Goetz Jr. and Lee Garrett Goetz were residents of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; In December 1970, Charles C. Goetz Jr. and Lee Garrett Goetz conveyed their property at Biloxi to K.C. Davidson and Mary E. Davidson.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Judicial District Land Deed Bk. 14, p. 272)</span></span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Kenneth Comfort Davidson</span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In May 1973, Kenneth Comfort Davidson and Mary Elizabeth Davidson to Nancy Pierce Mavar.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Judicial District Land Deed Bk. 39, pp. 323-324)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/1364 West Beach-Sutcliffe-Mavar.JPG\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 161px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>1364 West Beach Boulevard</strong> [image made 2003]</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Nancy Pierce Mavar</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Nancy Pierce Mavar, a native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, is the spouse of Nicholas A. &ldquo;Nick&rdquo; Mavar II.&nbsp; Nicholas A. Mavar II (b. 1942) is the son of Nicholas A. Mavar (b. 1918) and Irma Sumerlin (1919-2001), the daughter of Doss Sumerlin and Emma Martin.&nbsp; Nick Mavar II&rsquo;s siblings are: Thomas Martin Mavar, and Gerald Michael Mavar (b. 1946).</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Katrina</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Sutcliffe-Mavar edifice was destroyed on the morning of August 29, 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Charles L. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong><u>Along The Gulf</u></strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;The Sea Shore Camp Grounds&rdquo;</em></strong>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church:&nbsp; Pass Christian-1971.&nbsp; Originally published 1895.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong><u>20<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century Coast Edition of&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em></u></strong>, (<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>: Biloxi, Mississippi-ca 1902)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Journals</span></em></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Latest City News&rdquo;</strong>, February 26, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Latest City News&rdquo;</strong>, April 2, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Seashore Camp Ground Dots&rdquo;</strong>, May 14, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Camp Ground Dots&rdquo;</strong>, May 28, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Latest City News&rdquo;</strong>, August 20, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Camp Ground Dots&rdquo;</strong>, November 12, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;J.H. Keller, New Orleans&rdquo;</strong>, November 6, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Biloxi News&rdquo;</strong>, May 7, 1910.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Sutcliffe Dead&rdquo;</strong>, September 16, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Wm. Sutcliffe Dies At New Orleans Home&rdquo;</strong>, January 15, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Superintendent Biloxi Schools Expires At VA&rdquo;</strong>, October 9, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;City Schools To Close Half Day Thursday&rdquo;</strong>, October 9, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Pierce-Mavar Nuptial Plans Revealed Today&rdquo;</strong>, June 23, 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Professor Scruggs is re-elected Superintendent of Biloxi Schools&rdquo;</strong>, December 17, 1948.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mary Adele Simon Todaro&rdquo;</strong>, March 4, 1994.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Leo C. Todaro&rdquo;</strong>, May 5, 1994.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,</em>&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Irma Sumerlin Mavar&rdquo;</strong><em>, September 5, 2001.</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</em></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&ldquo;Sutcliffe, bank executive dies&rdquo;</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">,</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;February 6, 1954.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</em></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&ldquo;Deaths&rdquo;</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">,</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;March 6, 1969.</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"\'times new roman\', times, serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">_______________________________________________________________________________________________</span></font></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>BOND-GRANT HOUSE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>925 West Howard Avenue</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bond-grant house west howard.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 200px;\" /></span></font></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Bond-Grant House</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">[image made July 2008]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Location</strong>:&nbsp; Angelique Fasaier [Fayard] Grant, Section 27, T7S-R9W</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Bond-Grant Lot</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The tract on which the Bond-Grant house was erected was acquired by William K.M. Dukate in May 1900 from Ceci