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('book', 0, 22, 22, 'en', 0, '<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">With his matrimonial predicament in the past, Arbeau Bellande continued in his social life and successful saloon business near the depot.&nbsp; Several articles appeared in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>&nbsp;of 1892, 1893 and 1894 concerning his affairs: &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><strong>The old Bellande building near the depot has been torn down and the foundation is being laid for a new two-story edifice.</strong></em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>At the second Grand King and Queen Ball at the Magnolia Hotel, Joseph Bellande and Miss Emma Johnson were participants.&nbsp; Their reign ended with the dance.&nbsp; His brother, Antoine, Jr., was chosen to serve at the next ball with his guest Miss Ollie Caldwell</strong>.(<em>February 4, 1893, p. 10)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><strong>Messrs. Jos. A. Bellande and Alex Redon, Ed G.Burklin and several others gave an elegant spread to a number of their friends last Saturday night at the Depot Saloon.&nbsp; The supper was a most tempting one and was prepared by a strictly first-class cook and served in the best style.&nbsp; The gentlemen were loud in expressing their opinion of the viands and will long remember the pleasant evening spent with their &nbsp;hospitable hosts</strong></em><em>.</em>(<em>April 21, 1894. p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><strong>Our clever young friend Joe Bellande, proprietor of the Depot Saloon, this morning presented us with a package of the Grand Republic cigars, and we unhesitantly pronounce them equal, if not superior, to any five-cent cigar ever sold in Biloxi.&nbsp; This brand of cigars can be obtained in Biloxi only at the Depot Saloon</strong></em><em>.</em>(<em>May 19, 1894. p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>By a card in the columns of The Herald, it will be noticed that Jos. Bellande, proprietor of the Depot Saloon, calls attention to the fact that he deals in foreign and domestic</em>&nbsp;<em>wines, liquors, and fine cigars.&nbsp; He is also agent for the celebrated Maple Hollow Whiskey, a very fine brand.&nbsp; Joe always suits his customers as well as transients</em></strong>.(<em>May 26, 1894. p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On August 22, 1894, Joseph Bellande married <strong>Marie Alexandrine Barthes </strong>(1876-1961) of Biloxi in the Nativity Church with Reverend Father Blanc officiating.&nbsp; She was the daughter of French immigrant, Francis A. Barthes (1833-1898), and Margaret Alexandrine Binet (1839-1877), the daughter of Fredrick Alexandre Binet and Augustine (Zephirine? Guilby?) who resided on Main Street in Biloxi.&nbsp; The ceremony was well attended, as they were well known and admired in their native Biloxi.&nbsp; Alex Redon served Joseph A. Bellande as his best man, while brother, August F. Bellande, escorted Ophelia Barthes, the bride’s sister.&nbsp; Others in the wedding party were: Felix Borries (1860-1937) and Olaf Thompson (1874-1944), ushers, and A. Reynoir, who escorted the bride.&nbsp; The newly weds honeymooned in New Orleans.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, September 1, 1894, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">This union produced two sons,<strong> Joseph Emmett Bellande </strong>(1895-1974) and <strong>Louis Earle Bellande </strong>(1897-1989), who were born at Biloxi.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</h2>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><u><strong>Depot Saloon</strong></u></span></span></h2>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the spring of 1895, Joseph Arbo Bellande made an application to the City of Biloxi to petition for a liquor license.&nbsp; His request was to sell and retail in quantities less than one gallon, the following: vinous, malt, spirituous or intoxicating liquors at the Depot Saloon, situated on Reynoir Street on the south side of the L&amp;N Railroad track.&nbsp; Arbo’s petition was signed by a large contingent of Biloxi’s registered voters.&nbsp; He advertised his business as:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>DEPOT SALON</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Biloxi, Miss.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JOS. A. BELLANDE, Proprietor</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Dealer in</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Imported and Domestic Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Etc.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Of the very finest quality.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Ice Cold Beer on Draught At all Hours.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Agent for the celebrated&nbsp; Maple Hollow Whiskey</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>(The Biloxi Herald, April 13, 1895, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By mid-May 1895, Joseph Bellande had added a large, arc light in his barroom.&nbsp; He also was painting things green in and around his place that made it appear&nbsp;<em><strong>\"as fresh as a daisy kissed by the</strong>&nbsp;<strong>morning dew.\"</strong></em>(The Biloxi Herald, May 11, 1895, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><u><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>General Merchandiser</strong></span></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the waning years of 1897, Joseph A. Bellande and his father-in-law, F.A. Barthes, commenced a general merchandise store in Biloxi on Howard Avenue and east of Main Street.&nbsp; The business was called F.A. Barthes &amp; Company.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, January 8, 1898, p. 8)&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>After the death of Mr. Barthes in April 1898, Marie Barthes Bellande announced in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>&nbsp;that she and Marie A. Binet DeVeaux (1846-1917), her aunt, would continue the mercantile business of her father.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, June 4, 1898, p. 8)&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>Mrs. DeVeaux resided at 228 Main Street.&nbsp; She was survived by two sisters, and a brother, C.A. Binet (1843-1923).&nbsp; She had married O.P. White of Wisconsin in December 1904.(<em>The Daily Herald, April 24, 1917, p. 3 and The Biloxi Daily Herald, December 22, 1904, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The young family of Joseph A. Bellande probably moved to New Orleans in late 1898 or early 1899, as this was the time period the Bellande\'s were dismantling their Reynoir Street properties.&nbsp; The Federal Census of 1900 has them residing at 728 Julia Street in New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In January 1902, Joseph A. Bellande was the contracting agent for the Morgan line \'Sunset Route\'.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 8, 1902, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At New Orleans, Joseph was employed as a baggage master and mail clerk with the L&amp;N Railroad.&nbsp; The following article appeared in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>&nbsp;of October 27, 1902: &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Joseph Bellande of New Orleans, who for some time has been running \"extra\" baggage on the L&amp;N Railroad, is in Biloxi for a few days, the guest of his brother-in-law, Mr. Jesse Smith*.&nbsp; Within a few days, Mr. Bellande will receive his appointment for a permanent run.&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">*&nbsp;Jesse Smith (1860-1934) married <strong>Ophelia Emily Barthes</strong> on February 2, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In June 1911, Joseph Bellande came to Biloxi to assist E.S. Clemens and Frederick Lund in installing a telegraph station in Dukate’s Theater on Howard Avenue.&nbsp; He returned to New Orleans after the installation.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 1, 1911, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Joseph Bellande made a career with the L&amp;N Railroad.&nbsp; After retirement, he enjoyed himself by dressing well, entertaining lovely ladies, and dining out.&nbsp; He liked good whiskey and the company of women, traits, which carried over from his youth in Biloxi.&nbsp; His wife, Marie Barthes who was called \"Steve\", left New Orleans about 1915, after she divorced him.&nbsp; \"Steve\" moved to Chicago where son, Earle, was in the Navy.&nbsp; In later life, she settled at Homestead, Florida where she died in 1961, ironically the same year as Arbo.&nbsp; Joseph \"Arbo\" Bellande died on January 17, 1961 at the age of ninety-three years.&nbsp; He had resided at 4701 Marigny in Gentilly with his daughter-in-law, Odie, since 1939.&nbsp; His body was sent to Biloxi for burial in the Bellande family plot in the Old Biloxi Cemetery on January 20th at 3 p.m.</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2'),
('book', 0, 23, 23, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"406\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C-Earle-and-Emmett-.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Joseph A. Bellande and family circa 1940 at NOLA?</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>[L-R: Odie Wooten Bellande (b. 1895); Signe Olsen Bellande (1910-1999); L. Earle Bellande (1897-1989); J. Arbo Bellande (1868-1961) and J. Emmet Bellande (1895-1974)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><u><strong>Joseph Emmett Bellande</strong>&nbsp;(1895-1974)</u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">Joseph Emmett Bellande (1895-1974), called Emmett, was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on June 24, 1895. He was reared at 1430 Melpomene Street when his father was employed as a baggage master for the L&amp;N Railroad.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">By 1917, Emmett had married Oda [Odie] Wooten (1896-1979), who was born in rural Leake County, Mississippi to Robert F. Wooten (1864-1910+), a farmer, and Mary Hollis Wooten (1864-1910+). At this time, Emmett Bellande was employed at Detroit, Michigan as an auto mechanic with the Liberty Motor Car Company.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">Returning to the Crescent City, Emmett was a very successful insurance agent before the Great Depression, and like many of that decade lost his fortune doing those economically trying times. In 1930, Emmett and his small family were domiciled it 1619 Industry Street in New Orleans and he was employed in the insurance industry.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">By 1940, the family had relocated to 4701 Marigny. At this time, Emmett was employed by the WPA as an administrator. His salary was $2100 per annum.</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size:13px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">In the late 1940s, Emmett became employed by the city of New Orleans as administrator of all cemeteries under the aegis of the city.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">In September 1950, Odie W. Bellande filed for a separation in the Civil District Court of Orleans Parish, Louisiana. After their divorce, Emmett married Mildred Burgdorf (1908-1990) who was active in local politics. Odie married John U. Liles.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">Joseph Emmett Bellande died of thyroid cancer on September 24, 1974. His corporal remains were interred in Garden of Memories cemetery at Metairie, Louisiana. Odie lived until February 21, 1979. Her internment was in St. Bernard Memorial Gardens at Chalmette, Louisiana.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">REFERENCES:</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">The Times-Picayune, \'Civil District Court\', September 21, 1950.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">The Times-Picayune, \'[Joeseph Emmett] Bellande\', September 25, 1974, p. 18.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">The Times-Picayune, \'[Odie Wooten Bellande] Liles\', February 22, 1979, p. 22.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(220, 208, 207); font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:13px\">The Times-Picayune, \'[Joseph Emmett Jr.] Bellande\', September 4, 2011.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:16px\"><strong>Joseph Emmett Bellande Junior</strong>&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Joseph Emmett Bellande Jr.</strong> (1927-2011), called Emmett, retired in the 1980s at with his lovely wife, Ella Marian (b. 1928) in Arabi, Louisiana.&nbsp; He enjoyed a successful career as the proprietor of Bellande &amp; Sons, an electrical contractor and as a gunsmith when he owned The Gun Shop. &nbsp;In February 1956, Emmett made an impressive debut as a trap shooter.(The Times-Picayune, Febraury 21, 1956, p. 27)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">After Hurricane Katrina destroyed their Arabi home, Emmett and Marion relocated to Ponchatoula, Louisiana. &nbsp;Emmett enjoyed his children, grandchildren, hunting, trap shooting,&nbsp;history, and sailing in his \"old age”.&nbsp; He and Marion had seven wonderful children and an evergrowing number of grandchildren.&nbsp; Their children are: Bonnie Lynn Bellande (b. 1947) m. Mr. Englande (b. 1947);&nbsp;Joseph E. Bellande, III (b. 1949); m. Linda Konnecker;&nbsp;Peggy Jane Bellande (b. 1951) m. Mr. Laborde;&nbsp;Kenneth James Bellande (b. 1953) m. Miss Russell;&nbsp;Susan Carol Bellande (b. 1955) m. Donald Gerard Vallee;&nbsp;Diane Bellande&nbsp;(b. 1958) m. Mr. Davis;&nbsp;and Nancy Jean Bellande (b. 1964) m. Vincent Nat Liberto Jr. Liberto and Mr. Ciuzio.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"91\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%20%26%20Sons%20II.png\" width=\"300\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"209\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%20%26%20Sons%20Electric.jpg\" width=\"300\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bellande &amp; Sons Electric was opened in 1946 by Joseph “Emmett” Bellande II in a small building in the heart of New Orleans. As his family grew, Emmett relocated his home and business to St. Bernard Parish. This is where it has remained for more than 50 years, even after being rebuilt following the complete devastation caused by Hurricane Betsy. Emmett, being a father of two boys – Joseph “J” Bellande III and Kenneth Bellande – worked hard to ensure that his sons had a legacy to carry on. Emmett provided quality work and prompt service to the New Orleans metropolitan area for more than 35 years before passing the company on to his sons.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Upon Emmett’s retirement in the late 1970s, Joseph “Jay” Bellande III and Kenneth Bellande began to take the lead. The two sons continued running the business with the same motto as their father, “Quality Work with Prompt Service.” Once Kenneth decided to join the Coast Guard, continuing the legacy was left to J. As J was raising a son of his own – Joseph “Jason” Bellande IV – knowing that this might one day all be his to pass on, the business continued to thrive.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 2005, after being completely wiped out by yet another hurricane that we all know as Katrina, Jay fought to return to the St. Bernard area. He knew that completely losing his home and business would be a difficult task. But after much prayer and hard work, Bellande &amp; Sons Electric returned.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Now the time has come for the business to be passed on to the next generation. Jason, the third-generation owner of Bellande &amp; Sons Electric, is steadfast in his dedication to maintaining the same high standards of quality on which the company was originally founded. With a lifetime of electrical experience and many years of on-the-job training before he was old enough to drive, Jason is very excited to carry on his family legacy.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Joseph Emmett Bellande Jr. expired at Moss Point, Mississippi on August 27, 2011. &nbsp;His corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi National Cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.(The Times-Picayune, September 4, 2011)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter rteindent1\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter rteindent1\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Joseph E.&nbsp;Bellande III</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joseph “Jay” Emmett Bellande III</strong> was born ? 1949, at New Orleans, Louisiana.&nbsp; In&nbsp;1970, he married Linda Konnecker (b. 195?), the daughter of Louis C. Konnecker (1927-2006) and Helene Fusellier (1927-1980). They have two children: Tina Bellande (b. 1973) and Joseph “Jason” Emmett Bellande IV (b. 1977).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Bellande family moved to St. Bernard Parish in 1960. After earning his degree in economics from the University of New Orleans, Jay operated Bellande &amp; Sons Electric, Inc., as an electrical contractor for over forty-four years.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">An avid outdoorsman, fisherman, and hunter, Jay Bellande has experienced first hand every hurricane and tropical storm that has hit the New Orleans area since 1957.&nbsp; He is a lifetime member of the NRA and an advocate of personal responsibility, self-defense training, and survival planning.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 2015, Jay Bellande wrote <u>Rooftop Terror</u> [Amazon.com] describing in vivid&nbsp;and emotional detail&nbsp;his families terrifying Katrina experience of late August 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"160\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Rooftop%20Terror.jpg\" width=\"160\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late August 2005, authorities in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, read the warning signs and instructed residents to leave ahead of the approaching storm known as Hurricane Katrina—and most people did as they were told. &nbsp;&nbsp;But for a few stalwarts, including Joseph E. Bellande III and his wife, Linda, fleeing with their lives wasn’t the obvious choice. With a sophisticated disaster preparedness plan and plenty of experience with hurricanes and tropical storms, Joseph and Linda decided to shelter in place at their St. Bernard Parish home just outside of New Orleans. &nbsp;This decision proves nearly fatal, however, and leaves the Bellandes weathering Hurricane Katrina while tethered to the roof of the house, just fighting to survive. &nbsp;It is the early morning hours of August 30<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;when Joseph realizes that no one is coming to rescue them. So along with their son, the Bellande family decides to try to save themselves by climbing into a boat and taking their chances against the great storm. &nbsp;&nbsp;<em>True Hurricane Katrina Story&nbsp;</em>tells the harrowing tale of the Bellande family’s fight to survive against the odds during one of the nation’s deadliest natural disasters.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter rteindent1\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter rteindent1\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter rteindent1\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter rteindent1\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"389\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Earle%20and%20family-.jpg\" width=\"500\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter rteindent1\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[L-R: <strong>Linda Carden Bellande </strong>(1942-1999); <strong>Louis E. Bellande Jr.</strong> (b. 1942); <strong>Signe Olsen Bellande</strong> (1910-1999) <strong>Louis E. Bellande </strong>(<a href=\"tel:1897-19890\">1897-19890</a>; and</span>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Signe Marie Bellande&nbsp;</strong>(b. 1939)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter rteindent1\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><u><strong>Louis Earle Bellande (1897-1989)</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph A. Bellande\'s second son, Louis Earle (1897-1989), was called Earle.&nbsp; Earle Bellande, although born at Biloxi on the Mississippi coast, lived most of his adult life in Chicago, Illinois.&nbsp; It is generally believed that he came north as the result of a hitch in the US Navy.&nbsp; Circa 1924, Earle married a woman named Katharine Eischen (1889-1933), who was born on January 5, 1899 to Anton Eischen and Margaret Harre in Luxembourg.&nbsp; Katharine expired from stomach cancer at Chicago on June 25, 1933.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were interred at St. Henry\'s Cemetery.&nbsp; At the tome of Katharine\'s demise, the Bellandes were domiciled at 1726 Thome Avenue at Chicago.(1930 Cook Co., Illinois Federal Census&nbsp; R496, p. 30B, ED 1956 and Cook Co., Illinois Death Certificate No. 17097)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"300\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Earle.jpg\" width=\"225\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Earle Bellande</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Earle Bellande was gregarious and personable.&nbsp; These traits suited him well as a salesman in the Chicago meat packing industry.&nbsp; In 1937, he married Signe V. Olsen (1910-1999), a nurse of recent Scandinavian ancestry.&nbsp; She was born on August 23, 1910 at Stambaugh, Michigan and expired at Batavia, Illinois on February 28, 1999.&nbsp; They lived at 1528 Elmdale at Chicago.&nbsp; Three children were born of this union: Signe Marie Bellande (b. 1939), called Bunny; L. Signe Bellande, a male who died March 8, 1941; and Louis Earle Bellande Junior (b. 1942).<em>(The Naperville Sun, March 3, 1999)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Earle and Signe Bellande often traveled South to visit relatives and friends.&nbsp; In March 1938, they came to Biloxi and joined with his Uncle Jesse Smith (1860-1934) and Aunt Ophelia Barthes Smith for a 2000 mile round trip down the east Florida coast to Miami.&nbsp;&nbsp;Marie Alexandrine Barthes (1876-1961), Earle\'s mother, owned an orange grove near Miami.&nbsp;&nbsp;The party retuned to Biloxi via the west Florida coast road and visited Jacksonville, Daytona beach, Palm Beach, Miami Beach, and St. Petersburg.&nbsp; Jesse Smith noted that there were 100,000 visitors in the Miami area, but they were beginning to return to their Northern homes on a daily basis.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 31, 1938, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Signe Marie Bellande&nbsp;</strong>(b. 1939)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Signe Marie Bellande married Frederick (Fritz) Specht at Chicago, Illinois on September 10, 1960.&nbsp; They resided in Chicago were Fritz was self-employed as an attorney and later relocated to Lawrenceville, Georgia.&nbsp; Their children are: Suzanne Marie Specht Danielson (b. 1961), Lisa Marie Specht Clark (b. 1964), and Matthew Specht (b. 1967).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"200\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Linda%20%281942-2007%29.jpg\" width=\"159\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Linda Carden Bellande</strong> (1942-1999)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"250\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Louis%20Earlk%20%281942-2017%29.jpg\" width=\"192\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Louis Earle Bellande Jr.&nbsp;</strong>(1942-2017)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Louis Earle Bellande Jr. was born at Chicago on December 18, 1942. &nbsp;He&nbsp;married Linda Lee Carden (1942-1999), a native of Tennessee.&nbsp; They exchanged wedding vows in Chicago on December 28, 1963. &nbsp;from this holy union&nbsp;two children were born: Peter Bellande (b. 1976) and Rachel Bellande (b. 1979).&nbsp; Louis had&nbsp;a successful law practice in Chicago and Linda was a very successful realtor in the west Chicago suburbs.&nbsp; They reside at Wheaton, Illinois.&nbsp; Linda C. Bellande expired on September 7, 2007.<em>(The Chicago Tribune, September 8, 2007)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Louis married Bonnie Bartolai Gioffredi after Linda\'s demise. &nbsp;He expired on December 22, 2017. &nbsp;Louis&nbsp;was survived by spouse, Bonnie B. Gioffredi Bellande; his two children; sister, Signe Bellande Specht; and step children,&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color:rgb(250, 250, 250); color:rgb(54, 50, 45)\">Kelli Cameron and Jessica (Edward) Spizzirri. Visitation Wednesday December 27th 2017 from 9:00 a.m.till time of service at 10:00 a.m. at the Orchard Evangelical Free Church,&nbsp;Barrington, Illinois. Private interment Wheaton Cemetery.</span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Earle Bellande died on May 25, 1989 at the grand age of 92 years just one week after he and Signe had attended the wedding of his grandson, Matthew Specht, in Carbondale, Illinois.&nbsp; After retiring from the hectic world of sales, he and Signe enjoyed many trips to the west coast of Florida, New Orleans, and his bir</span>thplace, Biloxi.&nbsp; Signe Bellande expired on February 28, 1999 at Chicago.&nbsp; She remained very active performing charitable works, visiting old friends, and enjoying her growing families and grandchildren.</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 24, 34, 'en', 0, '<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Antoine V. Bellande Jr.</strong> (1869-1924) was known as&nbsp;<strong>Newt</strong>. &nbsp;In later years he signed official documents using Newton rather&nbsp;than Victor as his middle name. &nbsp;Newt&nbsp;was born at Back Bay on Harvey Hill the 10th day of October 1869.&nbsp; Newt Bellande was a bon vivant.&nbsp; He appears to have led a carefree bachelor life.&nbsp; His chosen occupation was bartender.&nbsp; He probably learned this trade from his older brother, Arbo, at the Depot Saloon.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-newt_web.jpg\" style=\"height:313px; width:300px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(l-r) unknown,&nbsp;<strong>Antoine V. Bellande Jr. (1869-1924)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">A few anecdotes about Newt Bellande have been passed down through the years, but most pertain to his life in New York.&nbsp; While researching other subjects in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>, I found numerous articles in the time period 1892-1901 concerning his life.&nbsp; From the journalistic works of this era, I will give you a picture of Newt\'s life as portrayed by them.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In January 1892, Newt Bellande and A.O. Bourdon went hunting north of Biloxi Bay.&nbsp; They shot quail, rabbits, and other small game.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, January 30, 1892, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In December 1892, Newt Bellande left Biloxi for New Orleans where he took a position with George Hodgins.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, December 10, 1892, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In August 1897, Newt Bellande acquired one of the finest bred pointers in Mississippi from George J. Williams of McComb.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, August 14, 1897, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In September 1898, Newt left the Charm Saloon on the beach where he was the barkeeper to the same position at the Depot Saloon.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, September 10, 1898, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In January 1899, \"Newt Bellande bagged a fine lot of birds yesterday. &nbsp;Newt is one of the best wing shots on the Coast, and always brings a good showing from a hunt.\"(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 6, 1899, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">n October 1899, he was working at the Pelican Bar located at the corner of Pass Christian (now Howard Avenue) and Croesus Street.&nbsp; The proprietor of the Pelican was M. Perez.&nbsp; The following article appeared in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald&nbsp;</em>on October 6, 1899:&nbsp;<strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Newt Bellande, one of the best mixologist in this section of the country has taken charge of the Pelican Bar and will be pleased to serve his friends with the choicest liquid refreshment.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">An innuendo about the character of Newt Bellande appeared in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>&nbsp;of February 27, 1900:<strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Newt Bellande, the genial and handsome manager of \"The Pelican\", is enjoying carnival sights in New Orleans today and seeing the elephants generally.</em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">Newt must have been a gregarious and sporting fellow.&nbsp; One of his friends was A.O. Bourdon, Jr. who was in the retail liquor business.&nbsp; They would hunt quail and travel to New Orleans on occasions.&nbsp; Newt Bellande was enamored with hunting dogs.&nbsp; On one occasion he acquired a \"catch dog\", which was described as being a most valuable animal and he delighted in relating to friends and acquaintances of the canine\'s acute intelligence.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 30, 1900, p. 8)</em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Although he remained single, he must have enjoyed children as the following excerpt from&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>&nbsp;would indicate:<strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Newt Bellande says he is particularly happy this week.&nbsp; The circus is coming, and he is going to take two or three small boys there to give them an opportunity to see the sights, and he wants to see them enjoy themselves.&nbsp; He doesn\'t care for circuses himself.</em></strong><em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 31, 1900, p. 8)</em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">Newt Bellande left the Pelican Bar as the local journal reported: &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Our handsome young friend, Mr. Newt Bellande, who has for some time been managing the business of O.J. Brule, in this city, is now taking a well-earned vacation, at the expiration of which we understand he will go into business for himself at the corner of Delauney Street and Howard Avenue. &nbsp;What ever he enters into he will make a success of, and his friends will all wish him a full measure of it.</em></strong><em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, June 10, 1900, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">The June 1900 Federal Census for Harrison County, Mississippi indicates that Newt Bellande, a bar tender, was living at No. 20 Front Street (now Beach Blvd.) with O.G. Baulie (1836-1900+)(sic O.J. Brule), a Norwegian native.(1900 Harrison County, Mississippi Federal Census T623 808, p. 1B, ED 30)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Opera Saloon</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Newt Bellande went into business with a man Biloxi merchant, Sam Levy (1864-1900+), in August 1900.&nbsp; They opened a bar called the Opera Saloon&nbsp;<strong><em>\"in the new and handsome building at the corner of Howard Avenue and&nbsp; Delauney&nbsp; Street</em></strong>&nbsp;\", (now G.E. Ohr Boulevard).&nbsp; It was advertised as stocked with the&nbsp;<strong><em>\"finest and purest imported and domestic wines, liquors, cigars, etc.\"</em></strong>&nbsp; His partner, Sam Levy, was a traveling salesman who resided at 222 Magnolia Street.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Opera Saloon was in spaced leased from Lopez &amp; Dukate.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 7, 1900, p. 4 and&nbsp;</em>Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 1359-February 1901<em>)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">As demonstrated by the following reports from the March 27, 1901,&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>, Newt must have been a pioneer in the marketing field:&nbsp;<strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-size:14px\">We are indebted to our genial friend, Newt Bellande, of the firm of Levy &amp; Bellande, proprietors of the Opera Saloon, for one of the handsome glass penholders, with case, that are being distributed amongst the patrons of that establishment.&nbsp; It is a very neat and clever advertising scheme, yet something worth having. &nbsp;</span></em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Messrs. Levy &amp; Bellande have just added a most pleasing attraction to their Opera Saloon, in the shape of a magnificent electric piano, which plays many selections, including some of the very latest and most popular airs of the day, as well as others of a classical character.&nbsp; It is a late invention, and under the manipulations of Newt Bellande.&nbsp; We will predict in advance that it is going to be a drawing card.&nbsp; Newt knows all about it, or if he doesn\'t he will make you believe so anyhow.&nbsp; Go and hear it play.</span></strong></em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On July 13, 1901, the following petition appeared in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>:&nbsp;<strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong><em>We Sam Levy and Antoine Bellande, Jr. white male persons over the age of 21 years and residents of said city, do hereby apply to your honorable body (Mayor and Aldermen of Biloxi) to grant us a license in our names to sell and retail in less quantities than one gallon vinous, malt, spirituous, alcoholic, and intoxicating liquors in the property known as the Opera Saloon.</em></strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The license was granted August 21, 1901, and was probably renewed annually.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Unfortunately, the business relationship between Newt and Sam Levy soured.&nbsp; Mr. Levy filed litigation in 1901 in the Chancery Court of Harrison County, Mississippi alleging that Newt Bellande was failing to perform on his contractual obligations to him.&nbsp; Their agreement called for Newt Bellande to make a monthly salary of $50 and receive 2% of the gross revenues of Levy\'s saloon business.&nbsp; The first year\'s gross sales were $17,000, but had fallen to about $1000 per month.&nbsp; Mr. Levy accuse Newt Bellande of hunting too much and not managing the saloon business.&nbsp; He also claim that Mr. Bellande did not have an accurate accounting system and that he spurned all offers from Levy to withdraw from the enterprise.&nbsp; In early February 1902, Sam Levy withdrew his action against Newt Bellande at his own expense.&nbsp; In June 1905, William Baltar owned the Opera Saloon.(Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 1359-February 1901)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\">New Orleans</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">It appears that as the direct result of his falling out of favor with Sam Levy, Newt Bellande left Biloxi for the Crescent City in the fall of 1902.&nbsp; He was the night \'mixologist\' at the Crescent Saloon dispensing \"fire water.\"&nbsp;&nbsp;Over the Thanksgiving Holiday in 1902, Newt Bellande visited at Biloxi with John Reynoir&nbsp;(1874-1931)<em>.(The Biloxi Daily News, November 12, 1902, p. 6 and November 17, 1902, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>New York City</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On February 3, 1903, the \"City News\" of&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>, stated that Newt Bellande had departed the Mississippi coast for New York City.&nbsp; Newt joined a fellow Biloxian and long time friend, A.O. Bourdin Jr (1868-1959).&nbsp; Mr. Bourdin was the proprietor of the Charm Saloon at Biloxi and also operated a small bar at 1225 Broadway, in the Big Apple.&nbsp; Newt Bellande was going to be Bourdin\'s bar tender in New York.&nbsp; A.J. Bourdin (1873-1912) was managing his brother\'s Biloxi establishment during his tenure at New York City.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 3, 1903, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the spring of 1908, Ulysses Desporte (1861-1927), a leading Biloxi seafood dealer, while on the East Coast seeking new markets met Newt Bellande in New York City and reported that he was managing a fine cafe and doing well.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, June 4, 1908, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In May 1911, Newt Bellande received attention for his \'mixology\' skills in the Big Apple.&nbsp; He was the bartender at Louis Martin\'s Hotel and began serving \'Southern drinks\'.&nbsp; Newt introduced New Yorkers to such regional favorites as: the New Orleans fizz; Sazerac cocktail; Ojean cocktail; New Orleans sour; and the mint julep<em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>Locally, Newt Bellande was remembered as:<em>&nbsp;</em></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><em><strong>\"a favorite \'mixologist\' here for many years......one of the best natural chaps in the world and has a lot of friends and acquaintances here who are glad to hear of his success.\"</strong>(The Daily Herald, May 23, 1911, p. 1)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Bellande%2C%20Newt.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:292px\" />&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1920 Cuba</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[1920 US Passport image]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In November 1920, Newt Bellande applied for a US Passport to travel to Cuba. &nbsp;His address was 636 West 138 Street in NYC. &nbsp;Surprisingly his height was listed as 5 feet 10 inches. &nbsp;Newt made it to Havana, Cuba and returned to the United States in &nbsp; &nbsp;1921 landing at Jacksonville, Florida.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Anecdotal Newt</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><em>Bellande family lore relates that Newt may have run a concession at a horse race track in New York City or Saratoga Springs.&nbsp; David Bellande of Kirkland, Washington remembers a letter from Newt to his grandmother, Florence, requesting money for some of his ventures.&nbsp; He told her that he \"owned an interest in Madison Square Garden\".&nbsp; Ruth Bellande Ragusin remembers that upon his death in 1924, his body was sent to Biloxi by rail.&nbsp; Newt\'s brothers had to pay for his burial in the Biloxi Cemetery.&nbsp;</em></em></span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Regardless of the anecdotal stories, Antoine V. Bellande expired at Manhattan&nbsp;on May 19, 1924.&nbsp; His corporal remains were brought to Biloxi on the L&amp;N Railroad Train No. 37 by Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Richardson.&nbsp; George Wagatha remembers that Newt Bellande was so large that a special coffin was built to accommodate his body mass.&nbsp; It is believed that he neither married, nor had any progeny.&nbsp; At the L&amp;N Depot, Newt’s corporal remains were met by members of the Biloxi Elks Lodge and relatives and escorted to the Ben O’Keefe Funeral Parlor.&nbsp; Funeral services for Newt Bellande were held on May 22, 1924 at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Reverend Keenan.&nbsp; His corporal remains were entered in the Bellande plot in the Old Biloxi Cemetery.&nbsp; He had been ill in New York for about six months and failed to respond to medical treatment.&nbsp; Victor Ougatte came from Mobile to attend the funeral.(<em>The Daily Herald, May 22, 1924, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Pallbearers for Antoine V. Bellande’s funeral were Adolph Abbley of Pass Christian; Louis Staehling; Hugh Latimer; George Purcell; John B. Reynoir; and J.R. Meunier.&nbsp; A large contingent from the Elks Club were in attendance to honor the memory of their fallen brother.&nbsp; The Richardsons expected to return to their home in New York on May 24, 1924.(<em>The Daily Herald, May 23, 1924, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2'),
('book', 0, 25, 25, 'en', 0, '<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px; \">Bubby Bellande, a Negro, appeared before Justice of the Peace Z.T. Champlin under a charge of assault upon a Negress and was fined $2.50 and costs.&nbsp; Bellande related that he gave the woman a whipping because she cursed him.(<em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<em>October 18, 1910, p. 8)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *One for future research!</strong></span></span></p>\r\n', NULL, '2'),
('book', 0, 26, 26, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/bellande%2C%20peter.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:178px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Peter0bartender.jpg\" style=\"height:224px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Peter</span></strong> <strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bellande</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Pierre Bellande</strong> (1871-1933) was known as Peter.&nbsp; He was born on April 4, 1871, at North Biloxi.&nbsp; Peter married Alice Caillavet (1872-1955), a Biloxi girl, who was born April 7, 1872.&nbsp; Her parents were Raymond J. Caillavet (1838-1898), a carpenter, and Celina Joucheray (1841-1903) of New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Baseball and Fishing</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the spring of 1892,&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>, announced that the T.P. Dulion Baseball Club had organized and that Peter Bellande was their first baseman.&nbsp; Peter must have passed his athletic ability to his sons, as several were excellent athletes.(<em>The Biloxi Herald,</em>&nbsp;April 9, 1892, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By mid-June 1892, a new baseball club was organized called the&nbsp;<strong>“Biloxi Blues”</strong>.&nbsp; As the officers of the club, W.K.M. Dukate (1852-1916), Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903), and Theodore P. Dulion, were among the most affluent Biloxians of this era, the choice of Peter Bellande and his brother, August, to the squad is most impressive.&nbsp; Three of their cousins, Emile Harvey (b. 1870), Louis Harvey (1874-1913), and Francis Harvey (1874-1913) were also selected to play for Manager Ed Suter (1866-1943).&nbsp; Older brother, Joseph A. Bellande (1868-1961), was elected an honorary member of the team.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, June 18, 1892, p. 4)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Another avocation of Peter, which was certainly in the family genes and passed to his sons was fishing.&nbsp; This&nbsp;<strong>“Believe It or Not”</strong>&nbsp;fish tale was printed in the&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>&nbsp;of May 26, 1894: &nbsp;<em><strong>\"Fishing in the ponds on the L&amp;N Railroad near the bridge has proven successful lately.&nbsp; Peter Bellande and Joseph Clark caught nearly 600 green trout&nbsp;</strong>(bass)<strong>&nbsp;in 3 hours the other day.\"</strong></em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bell-house-lameuse_oldweb.jpg\" style=\"height:196px; width:300px\" />&nbsp;&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-lameuse-detailfam-.jpg\" style=\"height:196px; width:222px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Peter Bellande domicile [circa 1890]; detail l-r Alice C. Bellande holding Faye, Roy P. Bellande</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">837 Lameuse Street-survived Hurricane Katrina of August 2006</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Below in January 1994</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-1994-lameuse-web.jpg\" style=\"height:263px; width:400px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Marriage and family</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Peter Bellande and Alice Caillavet exchanged wedding vows in Biloxi on August 19, 1894.&nbsp; They settled at 837 Lameuse Street in Biloxi on land that Antoine Bellande had purchased in 1880, and conveyed to Marie Harvey Bellande in December 1885.&nbsp; All of their children were born in this house which is extant and occupied by an Hebert family today.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande-Alice-Caillavet_we.png\" style=\"height:418px; width:400px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-alice-C-web.png\" style=\"height:300px; width:200px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Alice Caillavet Bellande</strong> (1872-1955)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Peter was a bartender and later a policeman.&nbsp; As a member of the Biloxi police force he served as a patrolman, sanitary inspector, night clerk and desk sergeant.&nbsp;&nbsp; In January 1917, Officer Bellande’s hours were changed from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. to 12 noon to 12 midnight by Richard M. Randolph, Chief of Police.&nbsp; His bicycle was also stolen from Howard Avenue<em>.(The Daily Herald, January 21, 1917, p. 1)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Contraband alcohol continued to be smuggled and sold in Harrison County and the Popp’s Ferry area appears to be a preferred destination for these illicit activities.&nbsp; In March 1917, Police Chief&nbsp; Richard M. Randolph and Officer Peter Bellande (1871-1933) seized a wagon loaded with eight casks of Cook’s Beer and a gallon of wine and arrested Frances Barthes (1888-1942).&nbsp; It was presumed by local law enforcement officials that a schooner had transported the liquor to Biloxi from New Orleans and that it was being transported to Popp’s Ferry for retail sale.&nbsp; Judge F.W. Elmer Jr. fined Mr. Barthes $100 and court cost.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 13, 1917, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor Edward Glennan (1854-1933) started his final year as Mayor of Biloxi with turmoil in the Police Department.&nbsp; In January 1918, when it was time to reappoint patrolmen, Walter H. \'Skeet\' Hunt (1887-1961), 1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Ward Alderman, opposed that Frank J. ‘Zudie’ Hightower (1890-1976), <strong>Peter Bellande </strong>(1871-1933), and John W. Mabry (1873-1940) continue with the force.&nbsp; The Board of Aldermen appointed Joseph Mattina (1889-1969), a barber; Willie Ryan (1876-1958), Biloxi Yacht Club keeper; and Martin Green Jr. (1875-1951), a boat dealer, to replace the three men.&nbsp; None of the City Council’s new policemen had any law enforcement experience and they had to be trained by Chief Randolph. &nbsp;Chief Randolph further stated that he was greatly surprised and&nbsp;<strong>was unwilling to part with Officer Bellande.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;He declares that Officer&nbsp;<strong>Peter Bellande has always proven himself a&nbsp;</strong><strong>very efficient Police Officer</strong>. &nbsp;Officer Bellande also has a large number of friends in the city administration as well as among citizens who are nor connected with the city.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 3, 1918, p.&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">When John J. Kennedy replaced Edward Glennan in January 1919 as Biloxi\'s new Mayor, he attempted to have Peter Bellande hired back on the Biloxi Police force.&nbsp; He was opposed by Commissioners Walter H. Hunt and Marshall L. Michel and Officer Bellande was not rehired at this time.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 8, 1919, p. 1)</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By 1926, Peter Bellande was desk sergeant&nbsp;for the Biloxi force.&nbsp;&nbsp;In November 1926, he two two weeks vacationand expected to log in some fishing time.&nbsp;&nbsp;At this time,&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald</em>&nbsp;related that:&nbsp;<em><strong>\"Mr. Bellande is a fisherman of skill and repute, and there is no greater recreative sport for the tired office man that a hook and line, bait and the pleasures of anticipation.&nbsp; The police office may expect a new man when he returns.\"</strong>(The Daily Herald, January 21, 1917, p. 1 and November 19, 1926, p. 2.)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Once, Peter Bellande decided to enter politics and ran for the Office of Constable, but lost.&nbsp; His family felt the loss was the result of Peter\'s honesty.&nbsp; This uprightness was noted in&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald</em>&nbsp;of December 24, 1917, on page one titled,&nbsp;<strong><em>\"Officer Bellande has no favorites\"</em></strong>.&nbsp; Peter Bellande arrested his oldest son, Roy Bellande, for riding his bicycle without a light!&nbsp; Officer Bellande also arrested Arbeau Caillavet (1881-1946), his wife\'s first cousin, for possessing liquor at Caillavet\'s White Kitchen on Lameuse Street.&nbsp; Mr. Caillavet was fined $100 by Judge Z.T. Champlin in the fall of 1916 for transporting the contraband liquor in a suitcase.&nbsp; One of Peter\'s grandsons, Mickey J. Bellande (b. 1944), was elected a City Councilman in Biloxi in July 1989 and July 1993 representing Ward 7.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 2, 1916, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Peter and Alice reared a family of seven children on Lameuse Street.&nbsp; They were: Roy P. Bellande (1895-1964), Louise Faith “Faye” B. Davidson (1898-1974), Aristide C. Bellande (1901-1976), Elliott A. Bellande (1904-1977), Ruth B. Ragusin (1906-1993), Marcel J. Bellande (1909-1982), and Alton L. Bellande (1912-1970).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the spring of 1933, Peter Bellande suffered a heart attack, and died 7 months later on December 8, 1933.&nbsp; Alice Caillavet Bellande lived into very old age and passed on July 10, 1955, at Mobile, Alabama.&nbsp; The day she was buried a violent thunderstorm struck Biloxi, and our neighbor on Lameuse Street, Mrs. Tom Williams, slipped on her porch and broke her leg.</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 27, 27, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Raymond Caillavet and Celina Joucheray</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Raymond Caillavet</strong> (1838-1898) called \"Medeaux\" was born at Biloxi in 1838.&nbsp; He was the eldest son of&nbsp;<strong>Francois Caillavet</strong>&nbsp;(1815-1883), a carpenter, and&nbsp;<strong>Euranie Fayard</strong>&nbsp;(1818-1895).&nbsp; Raymond Caillavet was the grandson of&nbsp;<strong>Louis Arbeau Caillavet</strong>&nbsp;(1790-1860), a native of the Opelousas Post, Louisiana and&nbsp;<strong>Marguerite Fayard</strong>(1787-1863) of Biloxi.&nbsp; Louis A. Caillavet was baptized on March 31, 1793, with Louis Carriere and Marie Despaux standing as his godparents.&nbsp; L.A. Caillavet\'s father, Symphroen Caillavet (1746-1806), was born at Bordeaux, France.&nbsp; His mother was Marie Rose Carriere (1766-c. 1855), a native of New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Caillavet family at Biloxi was well respected.&nbsp;<strong> Louis A. Caillavet</strong>, the progenitor of the family here, had arrived in 1809, from Opelousas, Louisiana.&nbsp; His mother, Rose Carriere and brother, Adolph Caillavet (c. 1803-1842) joined him at Biloxi later.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">L.A. Caillavet married Marguerite Fayard (1787-1863) circa 1811.&nbsp; She was the daughter of&nbsp;<strong>Jean Baptist Fayard Jr.</strong>&nbsp;(1752-1816) and&nbsp;<strong>Angelique Ladner</strong>&nbsp;(1753-1830).&nbsp; These families are among the oldest at Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">L.A. Caillavet was fluent in the French and English languages and acted as an agent-interpreter and representative to wealthy Creole families from New Orleans as well as his neighbors in land and legal matters.&nbsp; He was often called as a witness in Probate (Chancery) Court matters and his depositions in several court cases reveal something about his life.&nbsp; From Nap Cassibry\'s II excellent two volume series,&nbsp;<strong><u>Early Settlers and Land Grants at Biloxi</u></strong>, the following has been extracted concerning L.A. Caillavet:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1.&nbsp; was in Biloxi in 1809 and no later than 1812.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2.&nbsp; sometimes he was the only one in Biloxi who could read or write.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3.&nbsp; served as an interpreter and notary in legal matters.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">4.&nbsp; he was blind by 1848.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">L.A. Caillavet acquired much land on the Mississippi coast.&nbsp; In February 1837, he received a U.S. Government land patent on 71.85 acres at Jackson County, Mississippi described as Lot 1 of Section 32 T7S-R8W.(1)&nbsp; It comprised the NE/4 and SE/4 of the NE/4 of that section.&nbsp; This land&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\">is located on the beach front at east Ocean Springs west of Halstead Road.&nbsp; Louis A. Caillavet was elected treasurer of the Harrison County Board of Police (Board of Supervisors) for the term 1841-1843.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>The Civil War</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">As a young man, Raymond Caillavet took the call of the Confederate cause and joined Company E (Biloxi Rifles), 3rd Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A.&nbsp; He served as a private.&nbsp; The Biloxi Rifles were mustered into State service on May 21, 1861, at Jackson, and Confederate service at Shieldsboro (Bay St. Louis) on October 5, 1861.&nbsp; They were originally expected to be sent to Virginia, but Governor Pettus thought they would be better utilized as a home guard protecting the Mississippi Coast from Union excursions.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"300\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Caillavet%2C Celina.JPG\" width=\"218\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Celina Joucheray</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;Young Caillavet must have left the Coast during the Civil War for New Orleans.&nbsp; Here he met and married&nbsp;<strong>Celina Joucheray</strong>&nbsp;(1841-1903) circa 1864.&nbsp; Celina Joucheray was born at New Orleans on November 24, 1841.&nbsp; Her father was&nbsp;<strong>Pierre Joucheray</strong>&nbsp;(1809-1842) and mother,&nbsp;<strong>Louise Denis&nbsp;</strong>(ca 1812-ca 1849).&nbsp; Pierre Joucheray was born at Chare sur Argos, Canton Conde, Department of Maine and Loire on March 16, 1809, while Louise Denis was a native of Sable, Department of Sarthe.&nbsp; The Joucherays were married at Paris, France circa 1836.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteindent1\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Joucheray, Celina</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteindent1 rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Be it remembered that on the day to wit: the fourteenth of November of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two and the sixty seventh of the Independence of the United States before me, Alfred E. Farstall, duly commissioned and sworn Recorder of Births and Deaths in and for the Parish and City personally appeared.&nbsp;<u>Mrs. Louise Denis,</u>&nbsp;widow of the late&nbsp;<u>Mr. Pierre Joucheray</u>, a native of Sable, Department of the Sarth in France, about thirty years of age and residing on Royale Street No. 358 in the first Municipality of New Orleans who in the presence of undersigned witnesses , doth declare that she bore a female child&nbsp;<u>Celina</u>&nbsp;<u>Joucheray</u>, the legitimate child of the late&nbsp;<u>Mr. Pierre Joucheray</u>&nbsp;born at Chare sur Argoz Canton Conde , born at Chare sur Argos Canton Conde Department of Maine and Loire in France, on the sixteenth of March eighteen hundred and nine and since about six years ago married at Paris in France, in (illegible) Department.&nbsp; The child was born on the twenty fourth of November eighteen and forty one at half past eleven o’clock A.M. in a house on Louise? Street between Marigny&nbsp; and Mandeville Streets in the first Municipality of this city.</em>(Louisiana Department of Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Birth Records Volume 7, p. 189)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteindent1 rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteindent1 rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Joucheray, Pierre</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteindent1 rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Be it remembered that on the day to wit: the fourteenth of November of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two and the sixty seventh of the Independence of the United States before me, Alfred E. Farstall, duly commissioned and sworn Recorder of Births and Deaths in and for the Parish and City personally appeared.&nbsp; Mrs. Louise Denis, widow of the late Mr. Pierre Joucheray, a native of Sable, Department of the Sarthe in France, about thirty years of age and residing on Royale Street No. 358 in the first Municipality of New Orleans who in the presence of undersigned witnesses , doth declare that her lawful husband Mr. Pierre Joucheray, born at Chare sur Argos, Canton Conde, Department of Maine and Loire in France, on the sixteenth of March eighteen hundred and nine and since about six years ago married at Paris in France, departed this life on the twenty first of May last past at ten o’clock P.M. by falling accidentally into the Blind River Parish of St. Tammany in the state of Louisiana.</em>(Louisiana Department of Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana<em>,&nbsp;</em>Death Records Volume 9, p. 383)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">After Pierre Joucheray’s death in May 1841, Madame Joucheray and Celina disappear until the Orleans Parish Federal Census of 1850.&nbsp; At this time, Celina is living in the household of Marcelin Effort (1828-1850+), a Louisiana born pilot, in the first ward of New Orleans.&nbsp; It appears that her mother remarried or died before 1850.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Coming Home</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet and Celina’s first two children were born at New Orleans.&nbsp; They had returned to Biloxi for birth of their third child in 1869.&nbsp; On February 26, 1869, Raymond Caillavet bought a lot fronting on North Street at Biloxi from his father.&nbsp; It was described in the land deed records as having a front of eighty-five feet on North Street and being two-hundred feet deep.&nbsp; It was bounded on the north by North Street, east by Mrs. Lefaure, south by lands of Cook, and west by a street or road (Cuevas Street?).(2)&nbsp; He paid $200 for the land.&nbsp; Here Raymond Caillavet reared his family and made his livelihood as a carpenter.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In June 1869, young Raymond Caillavet for $100 acquired another lot from his father.&nbsp; It had a width of sixty-five feet and was one-hundred twenty five feet in depth.&nbsp; The lot was bounded on the north by John Latour Caillavet, east by Charles T. Couave (Cuevas), south by a street, and west by an alley.(3)&nbsp; Caillavet conveyed this property to Phillip Lestrade (1832-1912) on January 5, 1876, as partial repayment for a debt owed Lestrade in a partnership that they had once participated.(4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Butcher</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In September 1876, Raymond Caillavet advertised his meat business in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Mirror.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>He&nbsp; was situated at present day Main Street and Howard Avenue.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>R. CAILLAVET</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>BUTCHER</em></strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Stall No. 1, Market House</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Biloxi, Mississippi</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Vessels, Hotels and Families</em></strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>supplied with</em></strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>BEEF*PORK*VEAL*MUTTON, ETC.,</em></strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>At New Orleans Prices</em></strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Mirror, September 9, 1876, p. 3</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Public Service</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"350\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/ramon-caillavet-web.png\" width=\"297\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor Raymond Caillavet</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet also had a career in public service in Harrison County and as a city official at Biloxi.&nbsp; He served as Justice of the Peace District 1 (1873-1875), Corner and Ranger (1875-1877), Mayor of Biloxi (1877-1882), Corner and Ranger (1889-1891), and City Councilman (1894-1895).&nbsp; In the January 1879 mayoral election, Caillavet defeated J.R. Harkness receiving 151 of the 200 votes cast.</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In October 1883, while serving as street commissioner of Biloxi, Raymond Caillavet was lauded in&nbsp;<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star&nbsp;</em>for his expertise in opening the beach road from Porter Avenue to a point near the Biloxi City Cemetery to connect with the shoreline thoroughfare from Mississippi City.&nbsp; Mr. Caillavet removed trees and stumps, but when completed, the road had the appearance of a&nbsp;<strong><em>“long avenue shaded on both sides”</em></strong>.&nbsp; It was said of Commissioner Caillavet that,&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>“The city fathers could not have appointed a more efficient man for commissioner that the present incumbent.”</em></strong>(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, October 5, 1883, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet was elected as Secretary of the City of Biloxi in January 1885.&nbsp; He defeated Thomas D. Bachino 147 votes to 72 votes.(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, January 9, 1885, p. 2)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mr. Cailavet lost to John Walker in the Biloxi mayoral election of 1888.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, March, 1888)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Construction</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet built a large storage house for the Biloxi Artesian Ice Manufacturing Company.(</span><em>The Biloxi Herald, February 18, 1888, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" height=\"300\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Caillavet%2C Louise m. Morgan.jpg\" width=\"150\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Louise Caillavet</strong> (1881-1965) m. Alvah C.&nbsp;Morgan (1881-1979)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u><strong>The Caillavet Family</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond and Celina Caillavet reared their family at New Orleans and Biloxi.&nbsp; The Federal Census of 1900 indicated that Celina J. Caillavet had birthed nine children before 1900 and that seven were alive at this time.&nbsp; The names of their known children are:&nbsp;</span><strong>Blanche Caillavet</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1865-1940); </span><strong>John Caillavet</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"> (b. circa 1867-pre 1870); </span><strong>Aristide Caillavet</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"> (1868-1898);&nbsp;</span><strong>Emma Rose Caillavet (1869-1955+) </strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">m. William J. Murray (1868-1895);&nbsp;</span><strong>Alice Caillavet&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">(1872-1955) m. Peter Bellande (1871-1933);&nbsp;</span><strong>Edward Caillavet&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">(1874-1923);&nbsp;</span><strong>Clarissa Rita Caillavet</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1877-1885);&nbsp;</span><strong>William</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span><strong>Caillavet</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1879-1940) m. Rita Louge (1887-1941);&nbsp;</span><strong>Lillian Caillavet </strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">(1883-1967) m. Anson Holley</span><strong> </strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">(1882-1967), and&nbsp;</span><strong>Louise Cailllavet</strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"> (1881-1965) m. Alvah Clank&nbsp;Morgan&nbsp;(1881-1979).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet expired at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 16, 1898.&nbsp; Mrs. Caillavet died on March 15, 1903. &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The corporal remains of both&nbsp;were interred in the</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Old Biloxi Cemetery.</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, March 16, 1903, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 28, 28, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ROY PETER BELLANDE </strong>(1895-1964)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The eldest child of Peter and Alice Caillavet Bellande was a son, <strong>Roy Peter Bellande</strong>.&nbsp; Roy was born at 837 Lameuse Street on September 25, 1895.&nbsp; It is passed on by the family that he left school in the fifth grade to help his family survive the hardships of that time.&nbsp; During WW I, Roy served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant at Camp Pike, Arkansas, which had been established in 1917 as a training facility for the Army.&nbsp; He was discharged in December 1919.<em>(The Daily Herald, December 6, 1918, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In Biloxi, he worked for a lumber company, but later moved to New Orleans.&nbsp; In the Crescent City, he lived with his two aunts, Emma and Blanche Caillavet who lived in the French Quarter on Governor Nicholls Street.&nbsp; Roy worked initially in a cigar factory, but later became a salesmanager for New South Cigar Company, a tobacco and cigar wholesaler.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>THELMA GIARRUSSO</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On June 12, 1924, Roy P. Bellande&nbsp;married <strong>Thelma Giaruso </strong>(1904-2002), an attractive lady of Italian and German ancestry. She was born at New Orleans on March 28, 1904, the daughter of Italian immigrant,&nbsp;the daughter of 1874 Italian immigrant, James I. Giarruso (1869-1959) and Anna Blumstein (1871-1914).&nbsp; Her grandfather Blumstein was born in Alsace-Lorraine.&nbsp; Thelma’s brothers, Dr. Alfred Peter Giarrusso, Clarence B<strong>. &nbsp;</strong>Giarrusso, and Joseph I. Giarrusso were active in politics, law enforcement, and sports for decades in New Orleans.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Thelma’s mother died in February 1914 and her father married Mary Giarrusso (1889-1960) in July 1916.&nbsp; James I. Giarrusso made his livelihood as a beer salesman when the family lived on Barracks Street in Faubourg Treme’ on the edge of the Vieux Carre..&nbsp; Later the family relocated to 1713 Ursuline Street and he worked as a clerk for many years in the comptroller’s office of the NOLA city finance department.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Thelma and Roy lived in New Orleans approximately ten years before coming to Biloxi to seek their fortune.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Thelma was a former member and queen of the Le Danseurs Carnival Club and a life time member of the Notre Dame - Sacred Heart Booster Club. She was a member of Nativity BVM, where she was also a member of the Altar Society.&nbsp; Mrs. Bellande was preceded in death by: husband, Roy P. Bellande; three sisters: Mrs. Lucille G. Faucheux (1901-1982), Miss Rosa Giarrusso (1900-1905) and Miss Rosalie Giarrusso (1906-1988) and five brothers: Rudolph Giarrusso (1897-1977), James I. Giarrusso Jr. (1898-1959), Lester Giarrusso (1907-1963), Dr. Alfred Peter Giarrusso (1913-1997) and Maurice Giarrusso (1916-1935). She was survived by: three brothers: Harold ‘Hap’ J. Giarrusso (1902-2002), Clarence B. Giarrusso (1921-2007), and Joseph I. Giarrusso Sr. (1923-2005)<em>.(The Times-Picayune, August 4, 2002,p. 5)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Thelma G. Bellande, remained in their home at 449 Porter Avenue in Biloxi until her demise on August 2, 2002.&nbsp; They had no children.&nbsp; Thelma G. Bellande was ninety-eight years at the time of her passing.&nbsp; She lived a full life until her late nineties when her health began to fail.&nbsp; Thelma drove her motorcar until her ninety-sixth year.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were interred in Southern Memorial Park Mausoleum with those of her spouse.(from <em>The Daily Herald, January 30, 1964, p. 2 nd The Sun Herald, August 4, 2002, p. A-7, and The Times-Picayunem August 4, 2002, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande%2C thelma and roy-1.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:200px\" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande roy and sisters.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:200px\" />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Thelma Giaruso Bellande (1904-2002) and Roy P. Bellande (1895-1964) and Roy, Aristede \'Buster\', and Faye Bellande-circa 1903.</strong>[second photo water damaged by Hurricane Camille-1969]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-bev-lameuse-web.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:240px\" />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-bev-1-web.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bellande Beverage Company [circa 1937] and January 1994,&nbsp;831 Lameuse Street</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(The building survived Hurricane Katrina of August 29, 2005.&nbsp; Young ladies are probably children of Harold and Faye Bellande Davidson.)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BELLANDE BEVERAGE COMPANY</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1936, after beer and wine had become legal to sell again in Mississippi, Roy P. Bellande became associated with the Spearman Beer Company&nbsp;of Pensacola, Florida. &nbsp;His territory was the state of Mississippi&nbsp;and his business was situated at the corner of Reynoir and Howard Avenue. &nbsp;In July 1937, Roy was promoted by Spearman to field representative and his theatre of operations now included Louisiana and Alabama. &nbsp;Shortly after his promotion, he and Thelma left Biloxi for a six week tour of Alabama.(The Daily Herald, July 22, 1937, p. 7)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Spearman business was located later south of the family home at 831 Lameuse Street (as of March 2018, this&nbsp;tin building is extant). &nbsp;The structure was built in the fall of 1936 &nbsp;by William F. Caillavet (1879-1940), his uncle. &nbsp;The company&nbsp;moved to its permanent location&nbsp;on Bohn Street in the late 1940s after Bellande Beverage Company was chartered in the State of Mississippi, on July 15, 1938, with $5000 capital and 50 shares of common stock. &nbsp;Younger brother, Marcel J. Bellande, joined the organization in 1936 as manager,&nbsp;after a brief career in professional baseball.(<em>The Daily Herald, October 30, 1936, p. 5 and August 19, 1938, p. 3 and </em>Harrison Co., Mississippi Chattel Deed Bk. 65, p. 346)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1942, the Bellande Beverage Company was selling Chevy Ale and Hudepohl Beer, product brewed by the Hudepohl Brewing Company of Cincinnati, Ohio.&nbsp; In time, national brands such as Falstaff, Schlitz, and Pabst were integrated into the business.&nbsp; Roy and Mickey (as Marcel was called) together with their loyal wives built a very successful organization, which operated from Bay St. Louis to Moss Point and north almost to Wiggins in Stone County.&nbsp; Their territory encompassed about 1300 square miles.(<em>The Pascagoula Chronicle-Star, May 15, 1942 and June 5, 1942)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BOHN STREET</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In October 1945, the Bellande Beverage began acquiring land on the east side of Bohn Street south of the L&amp;N Railroad right-of-way and West Howard Avenue. &nbsp;At this time, the company paid $3500 to the First National Bank of Biloxi for a lot with 150 feet on Bohn Street and running 100 feet east. &nbsp;A contiguous parcel was bought from the same bank in January 28, 1946 for $1500. &nbsp;Its dimensions were 150 feet north and south and 76 feet east and west. &nbsp;Both Bellande Beverage Company tracts were bounded on the north by the right-of-way of the L&amp;N Railroad, which later would run a spur to the Bellande warehouse for boxcar deliveries of beer.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Land Deed Bk. 279, p. 302 and Bk. 282, p. 136)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By 1957, the Bellande Beverage Company had grown to twenty-eight employees and ten trucks.&nbsp; In addition to their Biloxi facility on Bohn Street just south of the L&amp;N Railroad, beer distribution warehouses were situated in Bay St. Louis and Pascagoula.&nbsp; Mrs. Mona Hunt was secretary of the organization.<em>(The Ocean Springs News, May 30, 1957, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Bellande Beverage Company was sold on May 1, 1979, to the Afton Beverage Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee.&nbsp; Afton marketed Pepsi-Cola and Seven-Up at Chattanooga.(<em>The Daily Herald, May 10, 1979 and&nbsp;</em>Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court 2nd JD Land Deed Bk. 92, p. 515)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">I was fortunate to work many summers while in college for Uncle Roy, and remember him as an individual who was quiet spoken, honest, and possessed a subtle wit.&nbsp; He had great instincts in business and believed in the CIF method of doing business, i.e. Cash in Fist.&nbsp; If you could obtain credit from him, you knew you were honest!&nbsp; Roy Bellande enjoyed his friends at Sicurro\'s Lounge on Division Street, the Elks Club, and American Legion.&nbsp; Although he liked to fish for perch and green trout, he had skin cancer and was limited to the extent of his outdoor activities in later life.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ORGANIZATIONS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">During WWI, Roy P. Bellande served in the US Army as an infantryman.&nbsp; He did not go to Europe to fight.&nbsp; Among his memberships and offices held were: chairman of the board of trustees of the American Legion Lyman C. Bradford Post; a trustee of the Biloxi Elks; vice president of the Biloxi Fishing and Hunting Association; Mississippi Malt Beverage Association; National Beer Wholesalers; West End Volunteer Fire Company; Revelers carnival club; and the Chamber of Commerce of Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagoula, and Ocean Springs.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 30, 1964, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande-Bolton-1957 Mardi Gras_0.jpg\" style=\"height:480px; width:640px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mardi Gras Day-March 5, 1957</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In September 1953, he was Parade Marshall in the annual Fireman\'s Day Parade for the West End Fire Company.&nbsp; Roy was also King d\'Iberville of the Biloxi Mardi Gras in 1957 with Carolyn Bolton as his Queen Ixolib.(The Daily Herald, March 5, 1957, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Roy Peter Bellande died peacefully in his sleep on January 30, 1964, probably of heart failure.&nbsp; His widow, Thelma, remained in their home at 449 Porter Avenue in Biloxi until her demise on August 2, 2002.&nbsp; They had no children.&nbsp; Thelma G. Bellande was ninety-eight years at the time of her passing.&nbsp; She lived a full life until her late nineties when her health began to fail.&nbsp; Thelma drove her motorcar until her ninety-sixth year.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were interred in Southern Memorial Park Mausoleum with those of her spouse.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 30, 1964, p. 2 and&nbsp;The Sun Herald, August 4, 2002, p. A-7 )</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>LOUISE FAITH BELLANDE </strong>(1898-1974)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Faye Bellande was born February 15, 1898, on Lameuse Street in Biloxi.&nbsp; She worked for the telephone company, where she met Harold James Davidson (1894-1982). &nbsp;Harold J. Davidson&nbsp; was born at Biloxi, on December 28, 1894, the son of William Davidson and Margaret Ledden (1863-1925).&nbsp; Mrs. Davidson was a native of New Orleans and the daughter of Jeremiah Ledden and Margaret O’Brien.&nbsp; She had come to Biloxi circa 1885.&nbsp; The William Davidson family resided at 514 Bohn Street.&nbsp; When she expired on April 4, 1925, Mrs. Davidson was survived by four children: Alethia E. Davidson (1890-1965) married Alfred G. Brunet (1890-1948); William Sydney Davidson (1893-1941) married Viola Genevieve Comfort (1908-1999); Harold Davidson (1894-1982) m. Louise Faye Bellande (1898-1974); and Calvin Arnold “Skinny” Davidson (1901-1971) married Audrey Virginia Harrison (1912-2003).&nbsp; A daughter, Olga Davidson Smith (1899-1920), had expired on January 20, 1920.(<em>The Daily Herald, April 6, 1925, p. 3)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-faye-web.jpg\" style=\"height:228px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(L-R:&nbsp;<strong>Faye Bellande Davidson (1898-1974), Trilla Davidson,&nbsp;Harold Davidson (1894-1982), Fern Davidson &nbsp;(image circa 1945)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ROAD RACING</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">As a young man Harold Davidson was an outstanding long distance runner.&nbsp; An article in&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald</em>&nbsp;of September 28, 1916, stated:&nbsp;<strong><em>Harold Davidson, a local boy and well known amateur long distance runner, is training for a five mile race, the annual event of the Young Men\'s Gymnastic Club of New Orleans, to take place in that city on Thanksgiving Day.&nbsp; Mr. Davidson has won two medals for his running and this time he is going in the race to try and lower the record for the south in the five-mile distance.&nbsp; He captured a gold medal for coming in first in the race held by that club on Thanksgiving Day last and on March 4 of this year he received a silver medal for coming in a close second in a similar race.&nbsp; Mr. Davidson stated that the present record is 28 1-8 for the five miles.&nbsp; A number of excellent runners will take part in the race to be held this year and the Biloxian expects to give them a hard run for their money.&nbsp; In the race run on last Thanksgiving Day he lead sixteen other entries and received a big ovation.&nbsp; These events prove interesting to sportsmen in the Crescent City and are witnessed by large crowds of spectators.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Davidson also did well at New Orleans in the mid-November 1916 road race.&nbsp; He placed a close second to southern champion, Willie Davis, a teammate, on the Young Men’s Gymnastics Club.&nbsp; Davis covered the five- mile course in twenty-six minutes and fifteen seconds besting Harold by ten seconds.&nbsp; Twenty-four other runners followed them across the finish line.&nbsp; Davidson planned to run in the Thanksgiving Day Race also scheduled for New Orleans.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 20, 1916, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In January 1917, Harold Davidson was training for a two-mile race to be held at Mobile on Mardi Gras Day.&nbsp; He was to represent the Young Men’s Gymnastic Club of New Orleans.&nbsp; Professional road racers were expected in the Mobile event.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 22, 1917, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Harold J. Davidson left Biloxi on February 25, 1918 for basic training in the U.S Army at Camp Pike, Arkansas, north of Little Rock.&nbsp; It appears that most of his military service during WW I was in New Jersey.&nbsp; Harold was probably discharged from the US Army in the spring of 1918.&nbsp; In July 1918, he was elected vice president of the Biloxi Athletic Club replacing his brother, Arnold Davidson.<em>(The Daily Herald, February 20, 1918 and July 14, 1920, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In August 1919, Harold Davidson received an invitation from the Southern Amateur Athletic Union to attend to attend the Knights of Columbus track and field meet at Camp Dix, New Jersey, which was held on September 6<sup>th</sup>1919.&nbsp; He was a member of the thirteen-man team from New Orleans, coached by Claude Simons.&nbsp; Harold did not fair well in the New Jersey event, as his conditioning at the time was not at the level that he wanted.&nbsp; He did get to visit the U.S. General Hospital No. 3 at Rahway, New Jersey where he was the chief electrician during WW I while serving in the US Army Quartermaster Corps.&nbsp; Harold had won a 2.5 mile race while serving here.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 28, 1919, p. 1, September 18, 1919, p. 3, and&nbsp; January 1, 1960, p. 20)</em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>MARRIAGE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Faye Bellande and Harold J. Davidson married on July 18, 1927, at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in North Biloxi.&nbsp; This union produced three daughters: Mildred Davidson (1928-1940), Fern Cecilia Davidson (b. 1933), and Trilla Davidson (b. 1935).(HARCO, Ms. MRB 39, p. 391)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/davidson-girls-ca-1939-web.jpg\" style=\"height:247px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Davidson Girls</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(L-R: Fern C.Davidson, Mildred L. Davidson,&nbsp;and Trilla Davidson-circa 1939)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Mildred Louise Davidson&nbsp;</em></strong>(1928-1940)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mildred Louise Davidson (1928-1940) was born on July 29, 1928.&nbsp; She attended school at St. John’s, a parochial facility, near her home.&nbsp; Unfortunately, Mildred was robbed of a full life, as she died in her adolescents from pneumonia on February 25, 1940.&nbsp; Her funeral was attended by her classmates and the Sisters of Mercy at St. John’s Catholic Church.<em>(The Daily Herald, February 27, 1940, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Fern Cecelia Davidson</em>&nbsp;</strong>(1933-2018)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Fern Davisdon Dubaz O’Neal resides in D\'Iberville, Mississippi.&nbsp; She was widowed in February 1996, when her second husband, Felder Blake O\'Neal (1931-1996), expired.&nbsp; He was from McHenry, Stone County, Mississippi, and retired from the Baptist ministry.&nbsp; Brother O’Neal had been pastor of the Tuxechena Baptist Church at Perkinston, Mississippi.(<em>The Sun Herald, February 25, 1996, p. B-2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Fern divorced from George B. Dubaz (1931-1992).&nbsp; George B. Dubaz was born March 15, 1931, in Biloxi.&nbsp; He was the son of Luke Dubaz (1893-1985) and Inez Gable (1902-1994).&nbsp; The Dubaz family, of Croatian heritage, were pioneers in the Biloxi seafood industry.&nbsp; Their children were: George B. Dubaz Jr. (b. 1951), Stephen J. Dubaz (b. 1954), Brian J. Dubaz (b. 1957), Robert C. Dubaz (b. 1959), and Gary A. Dubaz (b. 1961).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After divorcing Fern, George B. Dubaz, called Bunny, married Christine Mitchell (1937-2002), a native of Attapulgus, Georgia and widow of Jerry Britt.&nbsp; He expired at Biloxi on May 5, 1992.&nbsp; Buried Biloxi National Cemetery.&nbsp; Christine died at Gulfport on January 21, 2002.<em>(The Sun Herald, May 6, 1992, p.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and The Sun Herald, January 24, 2002, p. A-5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Dubaz%2C%20Fern-child.jpg\" /> <img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Dubaz%2C%20Fern-2018.jpg\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Fern\'s obituary</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(64, 64, 64)\"><strong>Fern Dubaz O’Neal</strong>, age 84, of D’Iberville, Mississippi&nbsp;passed away Tuesday, May 15, 2018 in Biloxi.</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(64, 64, 64)\">Fern was born in Biloxi on November 22, 1933 to Harold J. and Fay Bellande Davidson. She grew up attending St. John Catholic Church, St. John School and Sacred Heart High School. Fern married <strong>George “Burnett” Dubaz</strong> in 1949 and raised five sons. She remained an active parishioner at St. John until moving to D’Iberville in 1986. Fern joined Sacred Heart Catholic Church where she was a member of the Bereavement Committee and active with the Rosary group. She was also a charter member of the L’Bonheur Social Club. Fern retired from the Biloxi Veterans Administration as a Nursing Assistant. She was married to <strong>Felder O’Nea</strong>l until his death.</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(64, 64, 64)\">She was preceded in death by her parents; both husbands; her sister, Mildred Davidson; her daughter-in-law, Janice Dubaz; and her niece, Sharon Guthrie.</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(64, 64, 64)\">Fern’s survivors include her sons, <strong>George “G.B.” Dubaz&nbsp;Jr</strong>.,<strong> Stephen J. Dubaz</strong>, <strong>Brian Joseph&nbsp;Dubaz </strong>and his wife Rose Marie, <strong>Robert C. Dubaz</strong> and his wife Betty Sue and <strong>Gary A. Dubaz</strong> and his wife Lee Ann; her sister, <strong>Trilla Davidson Hanson</strong> and her children, Terri, Gerri and Richard; her grandchildren, Anthony (Angela) Dubaz, Stephanie (Kevin) Davidson, Sarah (Jason) Fisher, Adam (Camille) Dubaz, Jared Dubaz, Briana Dubaz, Elizabeth Dubaz, Victoria (Joshua) Conway and Lloyd Moon, III; her great-grandchildren, Izabella, Luke, Nicholas, Jordan and Gary; her daughter-in-law, Theresa Dubaz; and numerous extended family members and friends.</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(64, 64, 64)\">A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Nativity BVM Cathedral on Friday, May 18, 2018 at 1:00 pm. Friends may visit from 11:30 am until mass time. Entombment will follow at Biloxi City Cemetery.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(64, 64, 64)\">The Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.[The Sun Herald, May 17, 2018]</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Trilla Martha Davidson</em>&nbsp;(b. 1935)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Trilla Martha&nbsp;Davidson Guthrie Ramirez Hansen lives in Larkspur, California.&nbsp; She was born at Biloxi in 1935.&nbsp; She was named for Trilla, Illinois, the birthplace of Alvah Clark Morgan who married Louise Caillavet, the sister of Trilla’s grandmother, Alice Caillavet Bellande.&nbsp; Like her sister, Fern, she is a widow and has two fine husbands, Ray Ramirez, a retired city engineer, and Phil Hansen (1945-2009), a retired tax attorney.&nbsp; Ray Ramirez expired in 1995 and Phil Hansen on August 5, 2009, while recovering from surgery at Oakland, California.&nbsp; Trilla is divorced from Richard Guthrie of San Francisco.&nbsp; He is the father of her children: Teresa Gaye (b. 1957), Sharon (b. 1959), Geraldine (b. 1961), and Richard Guthrie Jr. (b. 1962).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Faye B. Davidson had a bout with cancer in her early fifties and it eventually took her life on April 2, 1974.&nbsp; I will always remember the kindness and concern she had towards me and my family.&nbsp; We spent many days at 714 Church Street playing in the yard, visiting Grandma Alice C. Bellande, and listening to the armchair philosophy of Uncle Harold Davidson.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Harold worked his entire career in the electrical field, commencing in 1915, with the Mississippi Coast Traction Company, the predecessor of the Mississippi Power Company.&nbsp; While with the traction company Harold belonged to the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway and Electrical Workers of America.&nbsp; He left the traction company and joined the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company in January 1918.&nbsp; Harold retired from the Mississippi Power Company on December 31, 1959, after a twenty-three year career primarily as a “trouble shooter”. &nbsp;He had joined United Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local 1211 when it had been organized in 1940.&nbsp;<em>(The Daily Herald, December 24, 1917, p. 1, January 14, 1918, p. 4, December 5, 1960, p. 9, and January 1, 1960, p. 20)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After a long retirement from the Mississippi Power Company, Harold Davidson passed on in September 1982.&nbsp; His and Faye’s corporal remains were interred in the Old Biloxi Cemetery.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ARISTEDE C. BELLANDE&nbsp;</strong>(1901-1976)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Aristede Clarence Bellande was born September 12, 1901.&nbsp; He left Biloxi about 1917, moving to New Orleans were he died on August 30, 1976.&nbsp; Aristede was known as Buster, and was probably named for his uncle, Aristide Caillavet (b. 1867).&nbsp; He began work as an apprentice machinist, but later went into the hotel business.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buster Bellande began his fortune in the hotel field as a bell captain in 1920, at the old St. Charles Hotel when James \'Pat\' O\' Shaughnessy was the manager.&nbsp; In 1933, he joined the staff of the Roosevelt Hotel as room clerk.&nbsp; Buster was made assistant manager of the Roosevelt in 1937, and promoted to executive assistant manager in 1941.&nbsp; In 1948, he was named resident manager and then manager in 1956.&nbsp; His professional associations were:&nbsp; Hotel Greeters of America, New Orleans Hotel Association, New Orleans Hotel Greeters, and the Chamber of Commerce.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande%2C a.c. (1901-1976).jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:200px\" />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/aristede-bellande-web.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:192px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ARISTEDE \'BUSTER\' BELLANDE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(L-R: image made circa 1930, from La-Ms. Hotel Greeters of America, p. 22;&nbsp;2nd image made 1938)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202019-12-23%20at%2010.10.55%20AM.png\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Roosevelt Hotel</strong> [Lobby]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Family lore relates that Buster Bellande, when manager of this fine hostelry, commenced the Yule tradition of decorating the hotel\'s lobby. &nbsp;It continues currently-2019.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buster Bellande married Mildred Lott (1904-1980) of German ancestry in New Orleans in 1926.&nbsp; Mildred was the daughter of John Lott (1860-1942) and Theresa Hornung (1861-1936).&nbsp; She was the youngest of eight children and reared on Laurel Street near Annunciation in the Crescent City.&nbsp; Mildred\'s father worked faithfully for over thirty years with the New Orleans Fire Department. Mildred\'s mother expired at New Orleans on November 19, 1936.&nbsp; Buster\'s mother, Alice C. Bellande, attended Mrs. Lott\'s funeral.(1910 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T624_524, p. 4B, ED 207 and&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald, November 20, 1936, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mildred and Buster Bellande&nbsp;had a daughter, Joyce Mary Bellande (b. 1928).&nbsp; Joyce Mary resides in River Ridge, a New Orleans suburb, and is divorced from Al Sherlock.&nbsp; Their children are: Thomas Sherlock (b. 1947), Jerome Sherlock (b. 1951), Susan (b. 1955), Peggy (b. 1956), and Holly (b. 1961).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buster retired from the Roosevelt Hotel in 1965, when it was sold to the Fairmont chain of hotels.&nbsp; After a lengthy bout with cancer, he died in the Southern Baptist Hospital in New Orleans in August 1976.&nbsp; Aristide Bellande loved Biloxi and always enjoyed an annual visit to relax, visit, and fish with his Coast family.&nbsp; He is buried in Bellande family plot at the Old Biloxi Cemetery.&nbsp; Mildred Lott Bellande expired March 1980, and her corporal remains were interred in New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Elliott-Joe Scholtes image 12-311963.jpg\" style=\"height:228px; width:300px\" /></strong><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Elliott -youngman.jpg\" style=\"height:114px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ELLIOTT A. BELLANDE&nbsp;</strong>(1904-1977)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Elliott Anthony Bellande</strong> (1904-1977), called Pete,&nbsp;was born August 7, 1904. He was a merchant mariner out of New Orleans until 1927. In May 1925, he and Fred Haise left Biloxi for New Orleans to contract with a ship as crewman for an Atlantic crossing. The young Biloxi seamen had just returned from a voyage to Europe and were experienced able bodied seamen./(The Daily Herald, May 1, 1925, p. 3)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Ernestine Balius (1907-2005).jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:107px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ernestine Balius</strong> (1907-2005)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On August 18, 1927, Elliott Bellande married Ernestine Balius (1907-2005) in the Nativity Church at Biloxi. Ernestine was born at Biloxi on April 23, 1907, the daughter of Ernest Balius (1873-1927) and Pauline Julia Lamrock Balius (1877-1934). Ernestine came from a large family of eight brothers and three sisters: Ernest Balius Jr. (1897-1969); Edward Balius; Albert George Balius (1899-1953); Henry Balius (1902-1977); Floyd A. Balius (1904-1994); Juliet B. Broughton (1909-1996); Freddie Balius (1912-1993); Paul Balius (1914-1994); Louis Balius; Lillie Mae B. Noble (1920-1992); and Melba Balius (1924-1941). Elliott was known as Peter Bellande Jr. and Pete Bellande. He worked as an auto mechanic for Ford, the WPA during the Great Depression, and the Harrison County Board of Supervisors. From 1940-46, he was with International Harvester at Flint, Michigan. Ernestine was employed by Southern Bell for thirty-five years retired in 1972 as Night Chief Operator. Pete and Ernestine were the parents of two daughters: Margaret V. Schneider (1928-1992), and Alice J. Dubaz (1931-2013)./(The Sun Herald, May 19, 2005, p. A10 and January 22, 2013, p.&nbsp; A4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Pete Bellande was a good man. He is fondly remembered by the fishermen and boaters he served well from 1953-1970, when he was Harbor Master at the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor. He was retired at the time of his death from congestive heart failure resulting from cardiovascular problems on January 12, 1977.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>&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; &nbsp;</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Margaret (1928-1992).jpg\" style=\"height:248px; width:250px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Maug and Eddie and Little Eddie-Feb. 1965..jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:248px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>[L-R: Frederick Edward \'Eddie\' Schneider </strong>(1923-2008)<strong>, Joseph Schneider </strong>(b. 1960)<strong> and Margaret Bellande Schneider </strong>(1928-1992)-image made July 1965<strong>]</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Margaret V. Bellande</em></strong>&nbsp;(1928-1992)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Margaret Virginia Bellande, called Mog, was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on November 22, 1928.&nbsp; On October 23, 1948, she married Fredereick \'Eddie\' Edward Schneider (1923-2008), the son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Schneider, at St. John\'s Catholic Church in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Eddie made his&nbsp;career in the US Navy. &nbsp;In July 1951, Eddie left Norfolk, Virginia for foreign duty and Margaret returned to Biloxi to live with her family on Lameuse Street.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 78, p. 147 and The Daily Herald, July 14, 1951, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Schneiders&nbsp;adopted a son, Joseph E. Schneider (b.1960). Margaret V. Schneider was a licensed practical nurse and had retired from the Biloxi Veterans Administration. She died at a Mobile, Alabama&nbsp;hospital on August 7, 1992, from leukemia. Her corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery in the perpetual care section. &nbsp;Eddie Schneider retired as a&nbsp;Chief Petty Officer and lived at Milton, Florida. He died on November 10, 2008.(The Sun Herald, August 8?, 1992)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong></em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Dubaz%2C JB and Alice Bellande Dubaz-January 1965_0.jpg\" style=\"height:245px; width:250px\" /></em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Alice J. Bellande</strong> (1931-2013) and her spouse, <strong>John B. Dubaz</strong> (1929-2006)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[Courtesy of Fern Davidson Dubaz O\'Neal-December 2011]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>&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;&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Alice J. Bellande (1931-2013</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alice Julia Bellande was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on October 22, 1931.&nbsp; She married John B. “J.B” Dubaz (1929-2006), the son of John Dubaz Jr. (1890-1944) and Cecile Andre Dubaz&nbsp; (1899-1986), at St. John\'s Catholic Church in Biloxi on September 20, 1953.&nbsp; J.B. Dubaz made his livelihood as a diesel mechanic in the Civil Service at KAFB. He was a U.S. Navy veteran and founding member of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church at Biloxi and long time volunteer.&nbsp; They had no children.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 95, 263 and <em>The Sun Herald, April 1, 2006, p. A10</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alice made her livelihood as a librarian at the KAFB library at Biloxi.&nbsp; She was a founding member of&nbsp; Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church and a member of their Knights of Columbus Auxiliary.&nbsp; Alice expired at Biloxi, Mississipp on January 21, 2013.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were interred in Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.(<em>The Sun Herald, April 1, 2006, p. A10</em>)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>RUTH CECELIA BELLANDE&nbsp;</strong>(1906-1993)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Ruth Cecelia Bellande was born on September 25, 1906.&nbsp; She married Albert J. Ragusin (1904-1991) at the old St. John\'s Catholic Church on Bayview Avenue and Main Street in early November 1939. Father J.P. McGlade officiated in the presence of their attendants, Mildred Izard and Philip Capuana.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 6, 1939, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Ragusins lived for many years at 607 Santini Street in Biloxi where Albert had a plumbing business.&nbsp; As a youth, he had left school to sell newspapers to help support his family.&nbsp; Albert\'s father, Antonio S. Ragusin (1866-1911), a Croatian immigrant, died in June 1911, at Biloxi from blood poisoning resulting from a sting ray wound.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1916, Albert Ragusin, was residing with his family at 756 Reynoir Street.&nbsp; He and his older brother, Tony Ragusin (1902-1997), were newsboys at the time.&nbsp; Albert wrote an article about “Biloxi” that was published in December issue of&nbsp;<strong>The Lone Scout</strong>, a magazine for boys with a national circulation of about 150,000 readers.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 5, 1917, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-ruth-web.jpg\" style=\"height:275px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Albert J. Ragusin (1904-1991) and Ruth Bellande Ragusin (1906-1993)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(circa 1950 at 607 Santini)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Albert J. Ragusin learned to plumb at the Biloxi Plumbing &amp; Heating Company owned by Henry L. Schwan and Charles Coquet, Sr. He commenced work for $7.50 per week.&nbsp; As a journeyman plumber, he worked on the Edgewater Hotel.&nbsp; Ragusin then went to Kansas City for advanced training.&nbsp; He passed the Kansas City plumbing examination board.&nbsp; Returning to Biloxi, Albert and Fred Demourelle Sr. commenced their own business, Demourelle &amp; Ragusin.&nbsp; Prior to the stock market crash of October 1929, Mr. Ragusin went to Chicago and Flint, Michigan.&nbsp; At Flint, he worked on a large construction project.&nbsp; In July 1941, he joined the Civil Service at KAFB as the chief foreman plumber for a salary of $2600 per year.&nbsp; His first job was to supervise the laying of water lines to the tents. &nbsp;Ragusin retired from the Civil Service circa 1973.&nbsp; At this time, he held the title of Superintendent of pavements and grounds in the Civil Engineering department of the military base.(<em>The Daily Herald, May 24, 1929, p. 9, November 6, 1939, p. 8 and&nbsp; June 12, 1971, p. C-3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In his retirement years, Albert J. Ragusin was active in yard work, wood turning, and Senior Citizens activities.&nbsp; He was chosen to the Mississippi Joint State Legislative Commission and served at least two terms.&nbsp; This commission represented the legislative interest of about 5000 members of AARP and the National Retired Teachers Association in Jackson, Harrison, Hancock, Stone, Pear River, George, and Greene Counties of south Mississippi.<em>(The Ocean Springs record, November 11, 1976, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1956, the Ragusins built a lovely domicile at 104 St. Charles Street on the north shore of Back Bay.&nbsp; The bay front home was legated to Fern Davidson Dubaz O\' Neal after the demise of Ruth Bellande Ragusin in 1993.&nbsp; The Raguain-O\'Neal place was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005 and demolished in the fall of 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In their younger days, they traveled extensively throughout North America by automobile.&nbsp; They enjoyed many visits to the Riley family in Denver, Colorado.&nbsp; In recent years, the couple has made trips to Europe.&nbsp; Albert fulfilled a life long ambition by visiting the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia, the birthplace of his parents.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1989, the Ragusins celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their residence with a family reunion party.&nbsp; Although Ruth and Albert were childless, they have been very supportive of their close relatives through the years.&nbsp; Albert J. Ragusin died October 1, 1991.&nbsp; Ruth Bellande Ragusin passed on September 28, 1993.&nbsp; Both are interred at the Old Biloxi Cemetery on the beach front.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>MARCEL JOSEPH BELLANDE&nbsp;</strong>(1909-1982)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marcel Joseph Bellande</strong> was born September 24, 1909.&nbsp; Mickey, as Marcel was called, succeeded in athletics and business.&nbsp; At Biloxi High School in the late 1920s, he excelled in football, basketball, track, and baseball.&nbsp; In mid-December 1932, Mickey graduated from Spring Hill College at Mobile with a degree in Commerce.&nbsp; At Spring Hill, he had an outstanding football and baseball career.&nbsp; Mickey signed to play football&nbsp;at Spring Hill with Earl Mattina, Burnett Mabry, and Granville \'Stag\' Foster, all players from the 1926 Biloxi State Championship squad.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">This football team was&nbsp;crowned State gridiron champions, having tied the undefeated Sunflower County Agricultural High School from Moorehead at Greenville, Mississippi on December 6, 1926, by a score of 7-7.&nbsp; The game went five quarters, although the Indians were outweighed 24-pounds per man.<em>(The Daily Herald, December 7, 1926 and December 7, 1929, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In June 1931, Mickey Bellande signed a professional baseball contract with the Cleveland Indian organization.&nbsp; His professional baseball sojourn, primarily as a shortstop, included stints in the Three I, Middle-Atlantic, and New York-Pennsylvania Leagues.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Marcel Bellande\'s greater success and fame in athletics would come in the golf world.&nbsp; He set a mark in Mississippi golf annals, which may never be duplicated by being the only man to win all three Mississippi amateur golf titles, i.e. State Open, State Amateur, and State Seniors.&nbsp; Mickey captured seven State Senior crowns between 1964-1974, five National Four Ball Senior titles of the seven years he competed at Pinehurst, North Carolina, and claimed numerous club championships along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans.&nbsp; He was awarded numerous honors in the sporting world.&nbsp; Among these honors are: induction into the Sports Hall of Fame of Spring Hill College in 1974, induction into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1975, and also the Gulf Coast Chapter of the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame in 1979.&nbsp; Mickey Bellande was named Man of the Year in 1963 by the Biloxi Jaycees.(<em>The Sun Herald, March 5, 1982 and The Daily Times News, January 31, 1964, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-mick-n-kate-web.jpg\" style=\"height:364px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(l-r)&nbsp;<strong>Marcel \"Mickey\" Bellande (1909-1982) and Kate Fickes Bellande (1911-2006).&nbsp; Circa 1944.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>MARRIAGE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On December 7, 1932, in the rectory of the St. John’s Catholic Church at Biloxi, Mickey married his high school sweetheart, Katherine \'Kate\' Ruth Ann Fickes (1911-2006), the eldest daughter of Roscoe \'Ross\' Logan Fickes (1886-1979) and Emma Christine Hinricks (1888-1971), both Illinois natives.&nbsp; Like her father, Kate was born at Matoon, Illinois, while Mrs. Fickes hailed from Tuscola, Illinois.&nbsp; The Fickes Family had come to Mississippi in late November 1926, the result of Mr. Fickes transfer with the Southwestern Gas and Electric Company [United Gas Company-Entex-Center Point] and settled at 1603 West Howard Avenue. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">Ross</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;began his career in the natural gas industry in 1912 with the Central Illinois Public Service. &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Kate attended Biloxi High School while sisters, Margaret Fickes&nbsp;and Dorothy Fickes, were at the Lopez school. &nbsp;The Fickes family left Biloxi in June 1929 for Fayetteville, Arkansas, but returned in September 1930.&nbsp; Kate Fickes was a 1927 graduate of Biloxi High School and attended M.S.C.W., and the University of Arkansas.&nbsp; The young couple started life in the Bills Apartments on Reynoir Street.&nbsp; Mickey planned to resume his professional baseball career in March 1933, by reporting to spring training with the New Orleans Pelicans of the Southern League.(<em>The Daily Herald, November 30, 1926, p. 2, December 8, 1932, p. 2 and December 31, 1979, p. A2.)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>MILITARY</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mickey J. Bellande enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps on October 24, 1942 at Camp Shelby, Mississippi.&nbsp; He served in England during WW II.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><u><strong>Daughter</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A daughter,&nbsp;<strong>Kay Ruth Bellande</strong>, was born at Biloxi on August 5, 1946.&nbsp; Kay married James \"Jim\" Ray Foster Jr. (b. 1946) at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church at Biloxi on December 21, 1974.&nbsp; He is the son of Dr. J. Ray Foster (1917-2002) and Jane Allen Strickland.&nbsp; Kay and Jim lived in Michigan and Florida were Jim made his livelihood in hospital administration.&nbsp; They are the parents of twin sons, Brad Foster (b. 1980) and J. Brian Foster (b. 1980).&nbsp; The Fosters returned to Biloxi in 2003.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Margaret Fickes Foster (1919-2009), Jim\'s stepmother and Kay\'s aunt, passed on March 31, 2009 at Biloxi.<em>(The Sun Herald, April 2, 2009, p. A4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/foster-boys-2-web.jpg\" style=\"height:184px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">l-r:&nbsp;<strong>Dr. J. Brian Foster and Brad Foster</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May 2005, J. Brian Foster, a University of Florida alumnus, received his medical degree from the Emory University School of Medicine at Atlanta, Georgia.&nbsp; He planned to pursue a residency in ophthalmology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine at Winston-Salem, North Carolina.<em>(The Sun Herald, May 29, 2006, p. A11)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><u><strong>Residences</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In December 1937, Mickey and Kaye moved into a new house on the southwest corner of Hopkins and Division Street at Biloxi.&nbsp; It was a five-room bungalow situated on a lot 60 feet by 100 feet.&nbsp; The Division Street property was purchased from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company through local realtors, Perkins &amp; Fayard.(<em>The Daily Herald, December 4, 1937, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In August 1959, Mickey and Kate Bellande acquired for $9,000 cash, the vacation home of Urban B. Koen and Patricia Koen at 226 Kensington Drive, east of KAFB, on the Back Bay at Biloxi.&nbsp; The Koens were residents of New Orleans.&nbsp; Their residence was situated on a .35 acre parcel designated as Lot 11-Square 1 of the Oak Park Subdivision.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 453, p. 35)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><u><strong>Livelihood</strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1938, Mickey Bellande joined his brother, Roy, in the beer distributing business in Biloxi.&nbsp; He retired upon its sale in 1979.&nbsp; Mickey was always in top physical condition as he led an active athletic life style.&nbsp; He was capable of hooking a large game fish or shooting sub par golf at the occasion of his untimely death from brain cancer on March 5, 1982.&nbsp; His corporal remains were interred at the Southern Memorial Park cemetery in Biloxi.&nbsp; Kate Bellande expired at Biloxi on October 6, 2006.&nbsp; Her corporal remains rest eternally next to Marcel\'s at the Southern Memorial Park cemetery.<em>(The Sun Herald, March 5, 1982 and October 9, 2006, p. A4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ALTON&nbsp;L.&nbsp;BELLANDE&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Alton Louis Bellande</strong> (1912-1970) was born January 22, 1912.&nbsp; He was a salesman for his entire business career.&nbsp; It was while traveling in Louisiana for the William Wrigley Company, chewing gum manufacturer, that he met <strong>Hazel Mary Bonnette</strong> (1912-2002) in a Shreveport drugstore.&nbsp; She was born at Charenton, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana on October 2, 1912.&nbsp; Her parents were Filbert Bonnette (1890-1967) of Plaucheville, Avoyelles, Parish Louisiana and Marie Mathilde Champagne (1888-1971), a native of Youngsville, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; They were married at St. John Birchmans Catholic Church at Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana on October 19, 1941.&nbsp; Before Alton enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in August 1942, the newly weds lived at Lafayette, Louisiana until January 1942 when they relocated to Biloxi where he continued to represent the Wrigley Company. Most of Alton’s active duty military time was spent in Algiers, Louisiana loading ammunition and supply ships during World War II until his honorable discharge in August 1945.(The Daily Herald, October 22, 1941, p. 6 and January 27, 1942, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande-Al-web.jpg\" style=\"height:331px; width:300px\" />&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-hazel-web.jpg\" style=\"height:331px; width:235px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Alton L. Bellande (1912-1970) and Hazel Mary Bonnette Bellande (1912-2002)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alton and Hazel had five children: <strong>Ray Louis Bellande</strong> (b. 1943), <strong>Mickey John Bellande</strong> (b. 1944), <strong>Betty Ann Bellande</strong> (b. 1946), <strong>Bruce James Bellande</strong> (b. 1947), and <strong>Roy Anthony Bellande</strong> (b. 1949).&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Ray is divorced from Elizabeth \"Betty Wynne of Lafayette, Louisiana, and has no children.&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mickey</strong> resides in Biloxi and is divorced from Sonia Carol Wilkes Hodges (b. 1947), a native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.&nbsp; They have a son, M. J. Bellande Jr. (b. 1980).&nbsp; On September 28, 2002, Sonia married James Alred Sheffield (b. 1931), a retired physician.&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In August 1969, <strong>Betty</strong> married Judge Larry Wilson of of Winona, Mississippi. &nbsp;They had no children. &nbsp;Betty resides&nbsp;in Biloxi with her husband William \"Bill\" Toland, and they are childless.&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bruce</strong> is domiciled in Oxford, Mississippi after a succesful career as a medical educator. &nbsp;He and spouse have&nbsp;two children: Mary Elizabeth \'Betsy\' Bellande (b. 1982) m. Austin Blake Smith on March 7, 2009 at Little Rock, Arkansas; and Christopher Bruce Bellande (b. 1985).&nbsp; His wife, Mary Elizabeth Bryant (b. 1949) is a native of Oxford, Mississippi.&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Roy </strong>is divorced from Daisy Dianne Davis (b. 1953), who is now married to Kenneth Riley Wells (b. 1940).&nbsp; Roy married to Nancy Elizabeth Arthur in Harrison County, Mississippi on 1 November 1997. &nbsp;They lived in St. Martin, Jackson County, Mississippi&nbsp;and&nbsp;Silva, Missouri until Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home in St. Matin. &nbsp;They acquired a home and aceage in George County, Mississippi south of the Lucedale Community after Katrina and sold the Missouri property.&nbsp; His children are Alton Jason Bellande (1974-2019) and Hazel Marie Bellande (b. 1978) divorced from Richard V. Savage and Mr. Parker.&nbsp; Hazel Marie has Corbin Zane Bellande (b. 1997), a son, with Rinichiro Larry Burdick, the son of Mr. Burdick and Tomiko Ohi Burdick (1937-2010) of Gulfport, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1945 after World War II, Alton joined the Fuller Brush Company as a door-to-door salesman. &nbsp; In January 1947, he was promoted to field manager and was responsbile for ten local Fuller Brush salesmen on the Mississippi Coat to Mobile, Alabama and in part of Louisiana.(<em>The Daily Herlad, October 2, 1945, p. 5 and&nbsp;Janaury 24, 1947, p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He is described in an article titled \"Fuller Brush Man\" in the May 8, 1948, issue of&nbsp;<em>The Saturday Evening Post</em>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<strong><em>\"a thirty-six-year-old Mississippian with a persistent foot, a ready smile and a way with the ladies.&nbsp; The foot, a figurative door opener, leads Bellande into approximately 100 Biloxi homes each week.&nbsp; The smile, artfully guileless, establishes a mood of neighborly confidence between Al and his housewife prospect while he opens his sample case.&nbsp; Bellande\'s way with the ladies is a compound of his own brand of small-town, deep-South chatter and a simple commercial formula known to some 7150 Fuller Brush dealers the country over as The Big Five\".</em></strong>[<em>The Daily Herald, May 5, 1948, p. 8</em>]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March 1949, Alton became a dealer for Pene-Treat, a new paint.(<em>The Daily Herald, March 15, 1949, p. 5</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">About 1952, he joined his brothers, Roy P. Bellande and Mickey J. Bellande, as the advertising manager of the Bellande Beverage Company.&nbsp; Alton was an outdoorsman of the first magnitude.&nbsp; He thoroughly enjoyed golf, hunting, and fishing.&nbsp; During the dove season, his home at 1051 Lameuse Street (now 415 Lameuse Street) was the head quarters for his many hunting companions.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May 1954, Al played some outstanding golf in losing in the finals of the inaugural Sunkist Country Club championship.&nbsp; Giles H. Peresich won 3 and 2 in the 36-hole, two-day event.&nbsp; Bellande shot a 76 and a 73, while Peresich had scores of&nbsp; 73-74.&nbsp; Alton was selected to be the marshal for the Back Bay Fire Company in the September 1957 Firemen\'s Day Parade.(<em>The Daily Herald, May 18, 1954, p. 14 and August 20, 1957, p. 10)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alton L. Bellande died suddenly of a heart attack at his home on May 8, 1970, at the age of 58 years. Hazel expired at Biloxi, Mississippi on October 31, 2002 while a resident of the assisted living of the Methodist Retirement Home on West Beach.</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 29, 29, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rteright\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteright\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteright\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/chrisbellande_1_web.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteright\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/chrisbellande_2_web.jpg\" style=\"height:183px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Christopher B. Bellande and proud parents at the</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Vanderbilt University commencement exercises on May 9, 2008</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Christopher Bruce Bellande</strong></u></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Christopher B. Bellande son of Bruce J. Bellande and Mary Betsy Bryant, formerly of Vestavia Hills, Alabama and now Carmel, Indiana, was awarded the Founder’s Medal for the School of Engineering.&nbsp; He graduated with a triple major; a bachelor of science in computer science, a bachelor of arts in mathematics and a bachelor of arts in Spanish. Bellande is an Academic Achievement Honor scholar and a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society and the Sigma Delta Pi Spanish honor society. Bellande served as president of the Vanderbilt math club for four years and organized the first Vanderbilt high school mathematics competition. He used his skills as a teaching assistant for the math department and volunteered as a language mentor to Hispanic immigrants new to Nashville. Bellande also co-chaired the Student Government Association’s athletics affairs committee and was a tour guide for the Office of Admissions.&nbsp; Christopher completed the master’s program in computer science at Vanderbilt in December 2008 and became employed as a software engineer with Blackbaud, Inc. on Daniel Island in Burkeley County, South Carolina.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Chris%20and%20Laura-May%202%2C%202015.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Christopher B. Bellande married Laura Cohen Robbins on May 2, 2015 at Charleston, South Carolina</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Bellande%2C%20Henri%20Robert%20born%20November%2023%2C%202019.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:226px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Henry Robert Bellande</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Henry Robert Bellande</strong>, first child of Christoper and Laura Robbins Bellande, was born 23 Novemeber 2019 at Washington D. C.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Smith-Bellande wedding.JPG\" style=\"height:200px; width:182px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"> &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;Austin Blake Smith and Betsy Bellande<span style=\"font-size:12px\">&nbsp;Smith</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Mary Elizabeth \'Betsy\' Bellande married <strong>Austin Blake Smith</strong>, an accountant, in Little Rock, Arkansas on March 7, 2009. &nbsp;She is a clothing designer with Dilliards Incorporated at Little Rock, Arkansas and resides at Maumelle, Arkansas. &nbsp;Betsy gave birth to <strong>Austin Bryant Smith </strong>at Little Rock on June 22, 2011</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">. &nbsp;He was 20 inches long and weighed 8 pounds and 4 ounces. Bruce J. Bellande, grandfather, said of young Austin-<strong><em>\"He has that Bellande nose.\"</em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></em></strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Smith%2C Austin Bryant (b. June 22%2C 2011).jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:205px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Smith%2C%20Dylan-2-February%202015.jpg\" style=\"height:281px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Austin Bryant Smith </strong>(b. June 22, 2011) and <strong>Dylan James&nbsp;Smith</strong> (b. June 19, 2014) with <strong>Grandmother Mary Betsy Bryant Bellande.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Betsy Bellande Smith and Austin Blake Smith had their second son, <strong>Dylan James&nbsp;Smith</strong>, born at Little Rock, Arkansas on June 19, 2014.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Smith%2C%20Austin%20Bellande-2016.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:169px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/large_Smith%2C%20Dylan%20Bellande-2016.jpg\" style=\"height:180px; width:180px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Austin and Dylan Smith in July 2016</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong><u>Roy A. Bellande</u></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Continues erecting his home and workshop at Silva, Wayne County, Missouri. &nbsp;Roy and Nancy Arthur Bellande sold their Missouri aceage and home and relocated to Lucedale, George County, Mississippi in November 2010.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C-RoySilvaMo-web.jpg\" style=\"height:151px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Roy A. Bellande Missouri house</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Image by Ray L. Bellande, July 2009 </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alton Jason Bellande</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Roy and Diane lost their eldest child, Alton Jason Bellande [1974-2019], who expired on June 29, 2019. &nbsp;For many years, he was called Jason, but in recent times, he elected to use his first name, Alton. &nbsp;Since I remember him from childhood as Jason, I will use that nomenclature. &nbsp;Jason was born on November 11, 1974 at Biloxi, Mississippi. &nbsp;The Bellandes were domiciled in D\'Iberville at the time. &nbsp;Jason was a rough and tumble child who seem to have no corporal&nbsp;fear. &nbsp;I could see him as a future,&nbsp;line penetrating, running back daring opposing defenses to stop him.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">As I recall,&nbsp;Jason&nbsp;graduated from D\'Iberville High School in 1992 and worked the remainder of his life in menial tasks: busboy, waiter, landscaper. &nbsp;He was enamored with marijuana which precluded him finding a more financially rewarding occupation. &nbsp;Jason was affable, gregarious and intelligent. &nbsp;He had many friends who loved him dearly. &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jason had a child, Elina Bellande, the daughter of&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">&nbsp;_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;MARIA IDA BELLANDE (1874-1948)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">&nbsp;Maria Ida Bellande was born February 26, 1874, at North Biloxi.&nbsp; She was known as Ida.&nbsp; At the wedding of her cousin, Marie Erma Harvey, to Victor Ougatte of New Orleans on April 20, 1892, in Biloxi, she was described by<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>&nbsp;reporter as&nbsp;<strong><em>\"one of Biloxi\'s favorite belles, who was also exquisitely robed, as became the first brides-maid of so charming a bride\".</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Young Ida Bellande appears to have been quite a social person.&nbsp; In the spring of 1893, she was honored at the home of Captain E. Castanera in Pascagoula with a dance party.&nbsp; Her mother attended her to this function.<em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, April 2, 1893)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Ida Bellande married <strong>Edward Emile Gossow</strong> (1869-1897)of St. Louis on December 5, 1893, in the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity BVM at Biloxi.&nbsp; Father Blanc was their priest.&nbsp; Mr. Gossow was a well-known druggist from St. Louis, Missouri and the newly weds left after the wedding ceremony by train for St. Louis.&nbsp; Ida was residing in St. Louis when her mother, Marie Harvey Bellande, died in 1894.&nbsp; As previously discussed, the Gossows initiated forced heirship litigation against her father, Captain Antoine V. Bellande, and her brothers for her share of her mother\'s estate.(HARCO, Ms. MRB 10, p. 145, Lepre, 1991, p. 21, and&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald, December 9, 1893, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Edward E. Gossow (1869-1897) expired at St. Peter\'s, Missouri on October 22, 1897 at the age of 28 years and 2 months.(The Biloxi Herald, October 30, 1897, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In October 1898, Ida B. Gossow departed her native Biloxi for New Orleans.&nbsp; She aspired to be a nurse and planned to enter the Touro Infirmary to achieve this vocation.(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 4, 1898, p. 8)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">It appears that Ida B. Gassow returned to Biloxi by the summer of 1899, as she was the proprietor of the Bay View Cottage, a hostelry on the beach road at Biloxi.&nbsp; The Bay View Cottage was a two-story edifice on the northeast corner of Delauney Street, now G.E. Ohr, and Beach Boulevard.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 22, 1899, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Bay View Hotel</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>on the Beach ~ Biloxi, Miss.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; MRS. IDA B. GASSOW, Prop.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><em>Regular or Transient Guests Furnished with First Class</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><em>Accommodations at Moderate rates</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>Open Summer and Winter</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 22, 1899, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">At New Orleans, she met native New Orleanian, <strong>Clarence A. Galle Sr.</strong> (1879-1931), the son of Louis Joseph Galle (b. 1845) and Martha M. Mueller.&nbsp; Although they are kin, the Galle family of New Orleans and Ocean Springs pronounce their name as “guy-ull”, not the “gal-lay” as that of the Biloxi clan.(Larry Galle, July 26, 2001)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">On October 10, 1901, Ida Bellande Gossow married Clarence Galle Sr. in the Crescent City.&nbsp; In November 1912, the Galles, who had once lived in Biloxi, were relocating from New Orleans to Montgomery, Alabama, where Dorothy was born in 1913.&nbsp; In his later life, the Mr. Galle had worked for the Veterans Bureau, and resided at Alexandria, Louisiana.(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 11, 1901, p. 8 and The Daily Herald, November 25, 1912, p. 8 and May 4, 1931, p. 2)</em>.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Ida and Clarence A. Galle were the parents of: Clarence A. Galle II (1904-1944); Lillian Galle (1905-1948+) m. Lyle Smedley (1907-1988), a native of Traverse City, Michigan; Evelyn Galle (1908-1948+); Loretta Galle (1912-1948+) m. Arthur Mauret; and Dorothy Galle (1913-1991) m. Carlo Lucia (1912-1930+).&nbsp; In 1920, the family was domiciled on St. Roch Street in the Crescent City.(1920 Orleans Parish, Louisiana T 625_621, p. 2B, ED 134)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">According to Ivy Lizana Fowler (1921-2000), Ida Bellande Galle would come to Biloxi to visit Ivy\'s grandmother, Maggie McCabe, at 427 Lameuse Street. &nbsp;Ivy describes Ida as&nbsp;<strong><em>\"about five feet five inches tall, weighed about 180 pounds, and love to eat, especially sweets\".&nbsp;</em></strong>&nbsp;Her father, Louie Lizana, put some grasshoppers in a brown bag and told Ida it was candy.&nbsp; When she opened the bag the \'hoppers jumped out and shook her up a bit!(Ivy L. Fowler, November 1996)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Ida Bellande Galle’s obituary in&nbsp;<em>The Times Picayune</em>&nbsp;of August 26, 1948, read as follows:</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><strong><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong></strong><strong><em> At the residence 2351 North Roman St. on Tuesday, August 24, 1948 at 3:45 o\'clock a.m., Ida Mary Bellande, wife of Clarence A. Galle Sr., beloved mother of Mrs. Arthur Mauret, Mrs. Lyle Smedley, Mrs. Cario&nbsp;(sic)Lucia and the late Clarence Galle Jr. and Evelyn Galle, sister of August and Joseph Bellande and the late Anthony (Newt) and Peter Bellande.&nbsp; Also survived by nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.&nbsp; A native of Biloxi, Mississippi, and resident of this city for the past 50 years.&nbsp; Funeral took place at Lumano-Panno-Fallo Funeral Home Wednesday, August 25. Services at Our Lady of the Stars and the Sea Church, Roch and Prieuir Streets, burial in the St. Roch Cemetery.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">____________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Auguste%20Judge_0.jpeg\" style=\"height:250px; width:139px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>AUGUSTE FRANK BELLANDE (1876-1953)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Auguste Frank Bellande was born January 3, 1876, on Harvey Hill in North Biloxi.&nbsp; He was known as Gus, Man, and Judge Bellande.&nbsp; He is known to have left Biloxi for St. Louis, Missouri in 1895.&nbsp; It would appear that “Man” went to St. Louis, as his sister, Ida B. Gossow, was a resident there at this time.&nbsp; He returned to Biloxi for a visit in late July 1897.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, July 31, 1897, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In the US Census of 1900, Auguste F. Bellande is listed as a boarder with his brother, Joseph, at 714 Julia Street in New Orleans.&nbsp; At New Orleans, Auguste worked for the L&amp;N Railroad as a switchman and in the Baggage Department.&nbsp; It is known that he lost two fingers on one hand as the result of a timber handling accident or other event while with the railroad.&nbsp; While a resident of New Orleans, he may have worked as a policeman for a brief period of time.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 26, 1901, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Stella Hernandez</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In New Orleans, Auguste F. Bellande married <strong>Estella \"Stella\" Amelia Hernandez</strong> (1879-1928) on September 18, 1900.&nbsp; She was the born at NOLA on April 16, 1879, the daughter of Louis Hernandez (1851-1907) and Philippina Schilling Hernandez (1852-1923).&nbsp; Philippina&nbsp; Schilling had immigrated to the United States in 1852, from the Rhine Province of Germany.&nbsp; Louis Hernandez was a NOLA native and made his livelihood as a retail grocery on the corner of South Rampart and Felicity in the Crescent City and for a short time in Gulfport, Mississippi.&nbsp; He and Phillippina were the parents of nine children of which seven survived into the 20th Century: Lula Hernandez (1878-1900+); Stella&nbsp;Hernandez (1879-1928) m. August F. Bellande (1876-1953); Blanche Hernandez (1884-1900+) m. Joseph Russo; Winoma Veronice Hernandez (1888-1942) m. William H. Gillen; Louis J. Hernandez (1890-1938) m. Corrine Reggio; Lydia Philippina Hernandez (1891-1941) m. George M. Elder (1891-1947); and May Ernestine Hernandez (1894-1969) m. Henry E. Duffel.(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census, </span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">1920 Harrison Co.,&nbsp;Mississippi Federal Census T625_&nbsp; and The Daily Picayune, January 24, 1907, p. 15)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Phillippina S. Hernandez owned a home on Copp Street at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; She died at NOLA on February 21,1923.&nbsp; Louis Hernandez, her spouse, expired at NOLA in January 1907.&nbsp; Their corporal remains were interred in the Greenwood Cemetery at New Orleans.(The Daily Picayune, January 24, 1907, p. 15, The Times-Picayune, February 22, 1923, p. 2 and The Daily Herald, February 23, 1923, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Estella Hernandez Bellande was the mother of&nbsp;: August Frank Bellande, Jr (1902-1952), Louis Bellande (1904-1977), and Harold Bellande (1905-1983).&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Family lore relates that Estella Hernandez Bellande became ill with the flu or some other malady and had to be kept in a sanitarium.&nbsp; She&nbsp;expired on January 18, 1928 at NOLA and her corporal remians were interred in the Greenwood Cemetery.(The Times-Picayune, January 20, 1928, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Politician</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Auguste Bellande and his young family returned to the Mississippi coast settling in the Gulfport area in 1906.&nbsp; Here he worked for the Gulf &amp; Ship Island Railroad as engine foreman until about 1916.&nbsp; Gus Bellande was a politician and is known to have sought the office of Constable in Beat 2, Harrison County, Mississippi as early as August 1911. After this loss, he announced that he would seek the office of Police Chief for Gulport. and&nbsp; again in 1915.&nbsp; He served as a Justice of the Peace in Beat 2 for a number of years prior to 1923, and through this position acquired the title, Judge Bellande.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 23, 1911, p. 8, September 20, 1911, p.5</em></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><em>)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>1915 Campaign</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Gus Bellande announced his candidacy for Constable of Beat 2 in February 1915.&nbsp; He was defeated in this race by D.H. King.<em>(The Gulfport Advocate, February 27, 1915 and The Daily Herald, April 22, 1919, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>1919 Election</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In the spring of&nbsp;1919, August F. Bellande began his campaign for the office of Justice of the Peace for Harrison County, Mississippi.&nbsp; He placed second in the Democratic Primary held on August 5, 1919, polling 356 votes to S.P. Moorman’s 412.&nbsp; Mr. Moorman was the winner in the second primary held on August 26, 1919.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 22, 1919, p. 2 and August 28, 1919, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>1926 Campaign</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In 1926, Major G.R. Kemp expired in his Beat No. 2 Justice of the Peace office.&nbsp; Judge Bellande made a run for this position basing his candidacy on his prior four years experience as the local JP.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 1, 1926, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>1928 Campaign</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In January 1928, he ran a political announcement in&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald,</em>&nbsp;which gave some insight into his character:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>In announcing his candidacy again for the place, Mr. Bellande stated that he felt that the knowledge and experience of his former term qualified him.&nbsp; The record he made while holding the justiceship speaks for itself, said Mr. Bellande, and is open for the public inspection.&nbsp; If he is chosen by the electorate of the district to again sit as their justice of the peace he will endeavor to see no one persecuted, but believed in the prosecution of all who were charged with the violation of the law.&nbsp; Friend and enemy would be treated alike in his court and he would know no favoritism, he declared.&nbsp;</em></strong>(January 27, 1928)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">On December 30, 1914, Auguste F. Bellande married Mary Ellen Christovich Wagatha (1875-1946) of Mississippi City at St. John’s Catholic Church in Gulfport.(HARCO, Ms. MRB 27, p. 224)&nbsp; She was the daughter of Antonio&nbsp;Christovich (1835-circa 1879), a Slavic immigrant from Dubrovnik, Croatia.&nbsp; Her mother was Mary Ann Nicholson (b. 1833).&nbsp; Mary Ellen Christovich was the widow of George O. Wagatha (1878-1902), whom she had married in Harrison County, Mississippi on November 22, 1899.&nbsp; They had a son, George Adam Wagatha (1900-1991).&nbsp; George resided in Metairie, Louisiana and was in good health and spirits, when I visited him in 1989.&nbsp; He remained close to his step-son, Dr. Dan Lehon, of New Orleans.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In the 1927 Coast Cities Directory, Auguste F. Bellande was listed as a realtor residing at 1911 19th Avenue in Gulfport with wife, Mary Ellen.&nbsp; Residents of this address also were his sons:&nbsp; August Jr., a salesman for Swift &amp; Co.; Harold, a salesman for his father; and Louis, a sailor.&nbsp; He later founded the City Paper Company (1935?), and was involved in the grocery and motor oil businesses as well.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Auguste F. Bellande attempted a political comeback in 1943, when he ran for Justice of the Peace in District No. 2.&nbsp; In a political announcement, the following was related:&nbsp; </span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>While he was Justice of the Peace a number of years ago, he was instrumental in cleaning out the slot machines, closing gambling houses, suppressing prostitution, and getting working girls shorter hours.&nbsp; At that time, they worked 16 to 18 hours per day; succeeded in getting it reduced to 60 hours per week of 7 days.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>He has previously conducted a clean, square administration with a square deal to all parties without regard to who they are, and he has guaranteed that no shake down will be permitted so far as he is able, to prevent, by anybody.</em></strong><em>(The Daily Herald, July 31, 1943, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">Obviously, the voters of Harrison County Beat No. 2 were displease with Judge Bellande’s prior term in office, as in the ten-man race for JP in 1943, he ran eighth.&nbsp; He garnered only 328 votes of the 7873 ballots cast or&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; %.&nbsp; Does his rejection by the electorate give credence that it is difficult for an honest man to succeed in politics?<em>(The Daily Herald, August 5, 1943, p. 1)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Bellande%20death%20car-November%201953.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:386px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">The <strong>life of Auguste Frank Bellande ended instantly as the result of an automobile accident on US Highway 90 at Texas Street in Mississippi City</strong> on November 18, 1953.&nbsp; Judge Bellande was east bound on US 90 when his two-door Austin sedan turned north into the path of a 1953 Oldsmobile driven by Paul Skrmetti of Biloxi.&nbsp; Mrs. Skremetti suffered a fractured knee.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 18,&nbsp;1953, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Auguste F. Bellande is interred next to his wife, Mary Ellen Christovich, who passed on September 28, 1946.&nbsp; They rest peacefully for eternity in the St. James Cemetery at Handsboro, Mississippi.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 18, 1953)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong>August Frank Bellande Jr.</strong></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">August F. Bellande Jr. (1902-1952) was born at New Orleans on July 23, 1902.&nbsp; He may have worked for Wells Fargo and possibly was drafted for World War I.&nbsp; August was known as Little Gus and later as Gus.&nbsp; He attended Perkinston Junior College and worked for a time as a meat salesman for Swift &amp; Company.&nbsp; Gus joined his father at the City Paper Company and eventually bought the company.&nbsp; They were engaged in wholesaling paper products from about 1935 to 1948, when the business was sold.&nbsp; Gus owned and operated a tavern for a short time on the corner of Pass Road and Court House Street in Handsboro (now Gulfport).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">At Gulfport, on July 14, 1926, Gus Bellande married&nbsp;<strong>Ellen Laney</strong>&nbsp;(1896-1973) from Birmingham, Alabama at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Wagatha in&nbsp;Mississippi City. &nbsp;Ellen&nbsp;was born November 23, 1896, the daughter of Dr. Marcus W. Laney and Mollie Blair.&nbsp; Ellen Laney received her nursing training at King Daughter\'s Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana.&nbsp; She was employed as a nurse supervisor at the Veterans Hospital in Gulfport when she met and married Gus Bellande.&nbsp; The Bellande\'s resided at 1910 19th Avenue in Gulfport near his father.&nbsp; From this marriage two children:&nbsp;<strong>William Laney Bellande</strong>&nbsp;(1929-2002) and&nbsp;<strong>Mary Blair</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Bellande</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1932), were born.(The Daily Herald, July 15, 1926, p. 6 and HARCO, Ms. Circuit Court MRB 38, p. 284)&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">August F. Bellande Jr. and Ellen Laney Bellande divorced at Gulfport, in November 1947.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ellen moved to Birmingham, Alabama.&nbsp; She died there on February 21, 1973.(HARCO Ms., Chancery Court Cause No. 25,415)&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Betty Travis Bellande</strong></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In 1950, August F. Bellande Jr. married&nbsp;<strong>Mrs. Betty</strong>&nbsp;Travis Nobles Pare (1920-1973).&nbsp; Mrs. Pare was the daughter of John E. Travis (1894-1985) and Pearl Baucum (1892-1973) of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.(HARCO, Ms. Circuit Court MRB 83, p. 491)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">After the demise of Gus Bellande, Betty married Louis Weekly in December 1952. (HARCO, Ms. Circuit Court MRB 92, p. 88).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">At the time of her demise in July 1973, Betty Travis was married to Robert C. Suber (1903-1977).&nbsp; She had two daughters, Frances Nobles Recore Curet Anderson (1937-2002+) and Janie Taylor.&nbsp; Mrs. Suber’s corporal remains were interred in the Glendale Cemetery at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. (<em>The Daily Herald, July 15, 1973, p. A-2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20William.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:129px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong>William L. Bellande&nbsp;(1929-2002)</strong></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>William Laney Bellande</strong> (1929-2002), called, Billye, was born October 2, 1929 at Gulfport, Mississipi. &nbsp;He graduated from the high school division of Perkinston Junior College and joined the Navy.&nbsp; Upon leaving the military, he went to Perkinston Junior College where he was a classmate of Joseph E. Bellande II of Arabi, Louisiana.&nbsp; Billye graduated from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa with a Biology degree and later the University of Alabama Dental School in Birmingham (1954). Billye&nbsp;was in private practice at the Norwood Clinic for 45 years. He served his community and profession as president of the following organizations: Birmingham Junior Chamber of Commerce, Mountain Brook Exchange Club, Birmingham District Dental Society, Birmingham Society for Advanced Dentistry, Alabama Implant Study Group, Alabama Academy of General Dentists and International Association for Orthodontics. His most prestigious honor was to be elected Regent of the American College of Dentists. He was also a flight instructor and member of the Quiet Birdmen of America.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20William%20family%20.jpeg\" style=\"height:300px; width:215px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">W.L. Bellande</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">-image made December 1967</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">William L. Bellande expired at Birmingham, Alabama on August 18, 2002. &nbsp;He was survived by his wife, <strong>Ethelyn Jones Bellande</strong>; his four children: <strong>Lynne Bellande</strong> (b. 1959) m. Steve Autry; <strong>Leigh Anne Bellande</strong> (b. 1961) m. Frank Ambrose;&nbsp;<strong>William Laney \'Bud\' Bellande II </strong>(b. 1964) m. Marna Bellande; and <strong>Sharon Blair Bellande</strong> (b. 1977); as well as seven grandchildren: Anne Elizabeth Autry, Stephen Craig Autry, Catherine Grace Autry, Allison Laney Ambrose, Elisa Blair Ambrose, Burton Luke Bellande, and William Jones Bellande; and his sister, Mary Blair Bellande.(The Birmingham News, August 19, 2002, p. 3-B)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Mary%20Blair-1951.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:170px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Mary Blair Bellande</strong></u><strong>&nbsp;</strong>[image made 1951]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Mary Blair Bellande</strong> (b. 1932) also graduated from the high school division of Perkinston Junior College.&nbsp; She them matriculated to Bob Jones University at Greenville, South Carolina.&nbsp; Mary Blair has graduate credits at the University of Alabama, Cal State Fullerton, and Pepperdine University at Malibu where she was awarded the certificate to teach on the secondary level in California.&nbsp; As a teacher, she has worked with students in the fields of speech, drama, and English.&nbsp; Her summertime travels abroad have allowed her to teach also in Japan, Venezuela, and Guatemala (1987-88) where she worked in a missionary school.&nbsp; In 1960, Mary Blair met and married Hank Kleyn in the State of Washington.&nbsp; A daughter, Rebecca Blair, was born in 1963.&nbsp; The Kleyns transferred to Southern California with the insurance industry.&nbsp; Hank Kleyn died of a heart attack in 1977.&nbsp; Since her early retirement from teaching, Mary Blair enjoys world traveling (Holy Land and Kenya in 1990) and watching her grandson, Breman David Buchan, develop.&nbsp; Rebecca Blair, her daughter, is married to David Buchan, a native of Scotland, who practices dentistry in San Clemente, California.&nbsp; Rebecca graduated cum laude from Pepperdine and worked as a media planner and account executive until the birth of Breman on March 27, 1990.&nbsp; She is now a homemaker and is active in church and social activities in the community.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Louis%20jpeg.jpeg\" style=\"height:250px; width:293px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Louis Bellande</strong></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Louis Bellande</strong> (1904-1977) was born January 23, 1904, in New Orleans.&nbsp; It is believed he enlisted in the Navy after WW I (circa 1920) when he was only about 16 years old.&nbsp; He later became a Marine and was sent to China to guard mail ship-ments to that country.&nbsp; His Marine unit served in Nicaragua in the late 1920s, and it is believed he fought against rebels led by General Sandino.&nbsp; The present day Sandinista Party of Nicaragua derives its name from this early Central American patriot.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Louis returned to New Orleans and married <strong>Florence \"Flossie\" Bourg </strong>(1913-1992) from Bourg, Louisiana at New Orleans on November 5, 1929. They honeymooned at Biloxi staying at the Alvarez Hotel.&nbsp; Their first child, Thomas Louis, was born in New Orleans in 1931.&nbsp; At this time, Louis worked as a police officer, owned a restaurant, and drove a taxi.&nbsp; From 1934-1944, he and Flossie moved often as he was employed in the steel construction business.&nbsp; Daughter, Stella, was born at Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1935.&nbsp; The Bellandes also resided in Baton Rouge and Joliet, Illinois before settling in Richland, Washington in 1944.&nbsp; At Richland, Ralph, a son, was born in 1945.&nbsp; Louis was employed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation as a construction superintendent.&nbsp; After retirement, he moved to Yakima, Washington where he died in January 1977, of a heart attack.&nbsp; His wife, Florence Bellande, passed at Yakima in May 1992.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Thomas.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:126px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong><em>Thomas Louis Bellande</em>&nbsp;(1931-1995)</strong></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Thomas Louis Bellande</strong> (1931-1995) was born March 25, 1931.&nbsp; He went to Central Washington University in Ellensburg to study psychology, but got involved in the office supply business.&nbsp; He sold the business in 1982, and resided in Seattle with his wife, Elizabeth Ann, where in semi-retirement they managed an apartment complex.&nbsp; Their children are: David Thomas Bellande (b. 1959), Stephan Paul (b. 1960), Michael William (b. 1961), Catherine Ann (b. 1962), Susan Elizabeth (b. 1964), and Jean Marie (b. 1965).&nbsp; Thomas L. Bellande died at Morriston, Florida on February 1, 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bellande%2C%20Stella.jpeg\" style=\"height:250px; width:114px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong><em>Estelle Bellande</em>, (b. 1935)</strong></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[image made May 9, 1943 at St. Raymond\'s Catholic Church-Joliet, Illinois]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Estelle Bellande</strong>, called Stella, resides in Stanwood, Washington with her husband, <strong>George Browning</strong>.&nbsp; They were married about 1952, and have three children: Vicky Browning (b. 1953), George Browning (b. 1958), and Lynda Browning (b. 1961).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong><em>Ralph Harold Bellande</em></strong>&nbsp;(b. 1945)</u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Ralph H. Bellande</strong> is a real estate developer whose business operates on a national scale.&nbsp; He specializes in developing senior living centers.&nbsp; Ralph and his wife, Katherine, reside in Gig Harbor with their children, Amber (b. 1976), Tyler (b. 1978), and Brooke (b. 1980).&nbsp; Relocated to Prospect, Kentucky in 199?</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Amber Bellande residing at Lexington, Kentucky in 2001.&nbsp; Teaching PE at the Woodford County Middle School, Versailles, Kentucky.&nbsp; She is also the coach of the volleyball team.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Bellande%2C%20Harold.jpg\" style=\"height:400px; width:240px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Harold Louis Bellande</strong></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Harold Louis Bellande</strong> (1905-1983)&nbsp;was born in New Orleans on December 23, 1905.&nbsp; In 1920, he was living in Biloxi, Mississippi on Copp Street, with his widowed grandmother, Philippina Hernandez (1852-1923), an 1852 Germany immigrant.&nbsp; Harold was a delivery boy in a grocery store at the time.&nbsp; Later he worked for his father, Auguste F. Bellande, as a real estate salesman.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Harold lived in New Orleans most of his life and was an engineer in the merchant marine service.&nbsp; He was married to <strong>May Breckenridge</strong> until her death in April 1962.&nbsp; Harold Bellande died in Gulfport at 405 Texas Avenue on April 15, 1983.&nbsp; He is buried in the Southern Memorial Park Cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Bellande%2C%20Harold%20-Seaman%27s%20papers.jpg\" style=\"height:600px; width:489px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">At the time of his death, Harold L. Bellande was married to <strong>Phyllis Frances Smith Markopoulos</strong> (1915-1985) who died at Gulfport, Mississippi, on December 1, 1985.&nbsp; She was born at New Orleans on September 28, 1915 to&nbsp;Frederick Smith and Frances Ann Hearty.&nbsp; Circa 1948, Phyllis&nbsp;married William Peter Markopoulos (1898-1955), a 1945 Greek immigrant to NOLA.&nbsp; She and William&nbsp;had a son, William P. Markopoulos&nbsp;Jr., who was born circa 1952.&nbsp; The corporal remains of Phyllis&nbsp;Frances Smith are&nbsp;also interred in the Southern Memorial Park Cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi adjacent to those of&nbsp;Harold L. Bellande.&nbsp; Her estate was probated as HARCO Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. P-1162.(The Times-Picayune, December 3, 1985)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Harold L. Bellande had no children with either wife.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">_____________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>EDWARD ANTOINE BELLANDE</strong><strong> (1897-1976)</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Edward Antoine Bellande was born on Jackson Avenue in Ocean Springs, Mississippi on December 19, 1897. &nbsp;He was the sole child of Captain Antoine Victor Bellande (1829-1918) and Mary Catchot (1860-1931).&nbsp; Captain Bellande was 68 years of age at the time of Edward\'s birth.&nbsp; At the time, he was very active as a bar pilot at Ship Island and Biloxi.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;</em>announced his nativity as,&nbsp;<strong><em>“On December 19<sup>th</sup>, a fine bouncing baby boy arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Bellande.”</em></strong><em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, January 7, 1898, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Edward was known to all as Eddie.&nbsp; He was a sickly child, and in a letter dated December 21, 1908, his father wrote,&nbsp;<strong><em>\"he (Eddie) is always sick.&nbsp; He cannot go to school like any other boy\"</em></strong>.&nbsp; Eddie suffered from asthma in his youth.&nbsp; By age forty, Eddie had grown to a height of five-feet six inches and weighed close to one hundred and eight pounds.&nbsp; He began balding as a young man and was totally bald by middle age.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">As a lad, he developed a strong interest in the new field of aviation.&nbsp; Ruth Bellande Ragusin and Emmett Bellande, Jr. have both commented on the many model airplanes that Eddie built and exhibited in the Bellande home on Jackson Avenue in Ocean Springs.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In 1915, after completing his high school education at Ocean Springs, Eddie went to Buffalo, New York and spent three months at the Curtiss Exhibition Company where he began the course in aviation.&nbsp; It was owned by Glenn H. Curtiss (1878-1930), the famous aircraft manufacturer, who built the popular JN-4 or Jenny.&nbsp; Young Bellande then went to the Atlantic Coast Aeroplane Station at Newport News, Virginia.&nbsp; He was the youngest member of the graduating class and received his license (No. 639) from the Aero Club of America, which was affiliated with the French Federation Aeronatique Internationale, when he was eighteen years old.<em>(The Jackson County Times, September 21, 1918)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Eddie Bellande returned to Ocean Springs in late December of 1916.&nbsp; His picture appeared on the front page of<em>The New Orleans Times Picayune</em>&nbsp;of December 2, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Biloxi visit</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In early July 1917, Eddie Bellande took the L&amp;N from Ocean Springs for a day visit at Biloxi.&nbsp; He was interviewed or went by the office of&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald</em>, as they related that,&nbsp;<em>“<strong>Mr. Bellande has been flying for eight months and qualified for a commission at 19 years.&nbsp; He says that he could be flying for the government service but his age prevents him.&nbsp; He is anxious to go across to Europe.&nbsp; Mr. Bellande has an altitude of 2000 feet and has traveled at the rate of 125 miles an hour.&nbsp; He use a Curtis (sic) military machine during his flights.”</strong>(The Daily Herald, July 7, 1917, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Flight Instructor</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In September 1917, he left Ocean Springs and went to Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta where he was an instructor in motors and planes at the government ground aviation school.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Later during the First World War, he served in the United States Marine Corps as a naval reserves aviator from August 18, 1918 until February 24, 1919.&nbsp; His initial assignment was at the Naval Training Center in Charleston, South Carolina.&nbsp; Later he was a naval flight instructor at the Pensacola Naval Air Station.&nbsp; It is known that he attended his father\'s funeral in Ocean Springs in June 1918, and was awaiting orders to report for flying duty in regards World War I.<em>(The Jackson County Times, August 24, 1918 and September 21, 1918)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">After the Great War, in May 1920, Eddie Bellande was employed with Curtiss Aircraft at Buffalo, New York in the motor department.&nbsp; On weekends he flew passengers over Niagara Falls.&nbsp; Robert E. Morris (1902-1970) of Ocean Springs joined the company in June 1920.(<em>The Jackson County Times, May 29, 1920, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In October 1920, Eddie relocated to Cleveland, Ohio where he worked for the Logan Aviation Company.<em>(The Jackson County Times, October 2, 1920, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In May 1921, Eddie Bellande as a member of the Aero Club performed aerials stunts at the 1921 opening of the aviation season at Curtiss Field in Buffalo, New York.&nbsp; He was accompanied in the air by E.M. Ronne and Roland Rohlfs.<em>(The Jackson County Times, May 28, 1921, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande-Lindbergh-web.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:350px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">(l-r)&nbsp;<strong>unknown, Edward A. Bellande (1897-1978), Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), unknown)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">(photo from E.A. Bellande)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Southern California</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In early June 1921, Bellande returned to Ocean Springs from Buffalo to visit with his mother.&nbsp; He departed Ocean Springs in early July 1921, for Southern California where he expected to be employed by one of the large movie companies as an aviator. </span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;He flew as a test pilot for Lockheed in 1926, piloting the first Lockheed Vega.&nbsp; He checked out Wiley Post in the famed \"Winnie Mae\", and co-piloted Charles Lindberg on the first TWA transcontinental run in 1929.&nbsp; His career in aviation nearly equaled the history of the industry as it is known today.&nbsp; He was a Navy pilot (World War I), barnstormer, skywriter, crop duster, movie stunt artist, and an airline pilot.&nbsp; While working in the fledgling Hollywood movie industry, he flew for movie moguls, Jack L. Warner and Darryl F. Zanuck.&nbsp; Old family photographs show Eddie with Al Jolson and Rin Tin Tin, the movie dog.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bellande-rintintin_web.jpg\" style=\"height:220px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">(l-r)&nbsp;<strong>Rin Tin Tin and Edward A. Bellande (1897-1978) on movie set-Los Angeles, circa 1925.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">(photo from E.A. Bellande)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><u><strong>Rin Tin Tin</strong></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"globalWrapper\">\r\n<div id=\"column-content\">\r\n<div id=\"content\">\r\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Rin Tin Tin (</strong>often billed as Rin-Tin-Tin in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s\" title=\"1920s\">1920s</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930s\" title=\"1930s\">1930s</a>) was the name given to several&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Shepherd_Dog\" title=\"German Shepherd Dog\">German Shepherds</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film\" title=\"Film\">film</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television\" title=\"Television\">television</a>.&nbsp; The first of the line (c.&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_5\" title=\"September 5\">September 5</a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918\" title=\"1918\">1918</a>&nbsp;–&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_10\" title=\"August 10\">August 10</a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932\" title=\"1932\">1932</a>) was a shell-shocked pup found by&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States\" title=\"United States\">American</a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Army\" title=\"US Army\">serviceman</a>&nbsp;Lee Duncan in a bombed-out dog kennel in&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine,_France\" title=\"Lorraine, France\">Lorraine</a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France\" title=\"France\">France</a>&nbsp;less than two months before the end of&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I\" title=\"World War I\">World War I</a>. Named for a puppet called Rintintin that French children gave to the American soldiers for good luck, at war\'s end Duncan took the dog back to his home in&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California\" title=\"Los Angeles, California\">Los Angeles</a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California\" title=\"California\">California</a>.</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Nicknamed \"Rinty\" by his owner, the dog was taught tricks and could leap more than 13 feet. He was seen performing at a dog show by film producer&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl_F._Zanuck\" title=\"Darryl F. Zanuck\">Darryl F. Zanuck</a>, who paid Lee Duncan to film him. Duncan became convinced that Rin Tin Tin could become the next&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongheart\" title=\"Strongheart\">Strongheart</a>. The dog\'s big break came when he stepped in for a recalcitrant&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf\" title=\"Wolf\">wolf</a>&nbsp;in The Man From Hell\'s River (<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922\" title=\"1922\">1922</a>). Rin Tin Tin would be cast as a wolf or wolf-hybrid many times in his career, despite looking little to nothing like one. His first starring role,&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923\" title=\"1923\">1923</a>\'s Where the North Begins, was a huge success often credited with saving&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Brothers\" title=\"Warner Brothers\">Warner Brothers</a>&nbsp;from bankruptcy. It was followed by Shadows of the North (1923),<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_the_Wolves\" title=\"Clash of the Wolves\">Clash of the Wolves</a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925\" title=\"1925\">1925</a>), A Dog of the Regiment (<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927\" title=\"1927\">1927</a>), Tiger Rose (<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929\" title=\"1929\">1929</a>), and The Lightning Warrior (<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931\" title=\"1931\">1931</a>). The dog also had his own radio show in&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930\" title=\"1930\">1930</a>&nbsp;called The Wonder Dog, on which he did his own sound effects.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">True to his French birthright, to the sounds of&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music\" title=\"Classical music\">classical music</a>&nbsp;being played, the dog dined each day on a choice cut of&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_tenderloin\" title=\"Beef tenderloin\">tenderloin</a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak\" title=\"Steak\">steak</a>&nbsp;specially prepared by a private chef.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Following Rin Tin Tin\'s death in 1932 in&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California\" title=\"Los Angeles, California\">Los Angeles</a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California\" title=\"California\">California</a>, (in the arms of actress&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Harlow\" title=\"Jean Harlow\">Jean Harlow</a>, according to Hollywood legend) his owner arranged to have the dog returned to his country of birth for burial in the<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimeti%C3%A8re_des_Chiens\" title=\"Cimetière des Chiens\">Cimetière des Chiens</a>, the renowned&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_cemetery\" title=\"Pet cemetery\">pet cemetery</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris\" title=\"Paris\">Parisian</a>&nbsp;suburb of&nbsp;<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asni%C3%A8res-sur-Seine\" title=\"Asnières-sur-Seine\">Asnières-sur-Seine</a>.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Mothers visit</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">As early as May 1930, Mrs. Bellande was living with Eddie in Los Angeles.&nbsp; She came home in May 1930 to visit with Mrs. A.J. Catchot.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 31, 1930, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Mary Catchot Bellande (1860-1931) expired at California on May 26, 1931.&nbsp; Her remains were interred in the Evergreen Cemetery at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 28, 1931, p. 2)</em></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Air Mail Medal of Honor</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Among his many honors as a pilot is the Congressional Air Mail Medal of Honor presented to him by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935.&nbsp; It was awarded to Eddie Bellande for an act of heroism following his only crash at Bakersfield, California.&nbsp; He safely landed a Transcontinental and Western Air trimotor aircraft, which was in flames and helped all of his passengers to reach safety before the plane was totally destroyed by the fire.(see&nbsp;<em>The Los Angeles Times, ?)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">As one of the pioneers of the aerospace industry, Eddie Bellande was one of the original organizers and board members of the Northrop Aircraft Company.&nbsp; He served as vice-president and director of the Houston Company and H.W. Houston Company.&nbsp; Eddie helped organize Maddux Air Lines, which later evolved into TWA.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">At the time of his retirement from TWA in January 1943, he was the Number 2 pilot in seniority.&nbsp; Eddie had logged more than 23,000 flying hours and flew 3,100,000 miles without injury to passengers or mail cargo.&nbsp; He joined the Garrett Corporation in 1943, as an assistant to the President, was elected to the Board in 1948, and named Chairman of the Board in July 1963.&nbsp; His first challenge as leader of Garrett was to fight a takeover attempt by Curtiss-Wright, which was seeking to buy 47% of Garrett\'s stock.&nbsp; During his tenure at Garrett, the pressurization of production aircraft developed (the B-29 Superfortress), and after World War II, the corporation turned its talents to high-flying civilian transports and spacecraft.&nbsp; In December 1965, he retired, but served as a consultant with Garrett.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Edward Bellande belonged to approximately 30 civic and fraternal organizations including humanistic groups as well as aerospace-oriented ones.&nbsp; In the field of aviation, they include:&nbsp; International Club of Washington; Sky Club, New York; Wings Club, New York; Aviation Hall of Fame, Dayton; National Defense Transportation Association; OX5 Club; Quiet Birdmen; Early Birds of Aviation, and honorary fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.&nbsp; He served as general chairman of the Hope Chest Campaign in 1964, was a member of the President\'s Council of Loyola University in Los Angeles, and was on the board of the Bates Foundation in support of Harvey Mudd College.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Mary Bellande went to Los Angeles in January 1925, and considered living there with Eddie.</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Pacific fleet photos 1924</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In September 1924, Eddie flew from Roger’s Airport at Los Angeles in strong headwinds and heavy fog to Crissy Field in San Francisco.&nbsp; His plane had been chartered by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., proprietor of&nbsp;<em>The Illustrated Daily Herald&nbsp;</em>to fly Gus Thornrose, his staff photographer, to photograph the U.S. Navy’s Pacific fleet as it was arriving in San Francisco.<em>(The Jackson County Times, September 20, 1924, p. 1)</em></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Aviation record</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In 1925, Eddie Bellande flew more than 50,000 miles in 797 hours, which was considered a record for its time.&nbsp; Most of his flight were to bring breaking news events to California newspapers readers.&nbsp; Bellande flew images of the Santa Barbara temblor to Los Angeles and San Francisco soon after the natural disaster.&nbsp; He took aerial photographs of the large Tia Juana, Mexico conflagration from his aircraft early in the morning as the fire raced through the resort border community.</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><em>(The Daily Herald, January 20, 1926, p. 1)</em></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Mae West and the 1935 Kansas City article</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">In 1935, a newspaper article appeared in a Kansas City journal titled&nbsp;<strong><em>“A Mistake When He Moved Next Door To Mae West”.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong>Because of its human interest and biographical nature as pertaining to Eddie Bellande, I will submit it as copied from&nbsp;<em>The Jackson County Times&nbsp;</em>of March 2, 1935.&nbsp; Virginia T. Lee reprinted it in her column, appropriately named “The Column”.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>“It’s the little personal touch that counts!” commented the man as he accepted a loan from a friend.&nbsp; So, if such things count for anything, permit the application of a personal touch or tow of the chunky form of Eddie Bellande, who has been flying airplanes since 1915; part of whose airline flying now is carried on a Kansas City, and who, in his more than 10,000 hours of aviating, ha made one great mistake. &nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Bellande’s mistake was when he moved into a Hollywood apartment house and found he was living next to Mae West!&nbsp; This is why it was a mistake.\"</em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>A 10,000-Hour MAN</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong><em>His own individuality, which once was adequate, not to say copious, now has been lost. Because today he is referred to, not as one of air transport’s few 10,000-hour men, but invariably and simply as “the guy who lives next door to Mae West.”&nbsp; No matter how long and honorable his flying record, and it is plenty of each, it all is submerged beneath the sea of whatever it is that causes him to be referred to thus:</em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteindent1 rteindent2 rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteindent1 rteindent2 rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>“Oh, yes! Eddie Bellande; I’ve heard of him!&nbsp; He’s the guy who lives next door to Mae West!” &nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>Only a few days ago at the Kansas City Airport, a stranger stopped the veteran airline pilot as he was leaving the restaurant.&nbsp; “Excuse me!” the stranger apologized.&nbsp; “Will you let me have your autograph?”&nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>“What for?” &nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>“Well, I understand you’re the pilot who lives next door--.”&nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><em>“Aw, nerts!” was Bellande’s interrupting comment as he walked away. &nbsp;</em></strong></span></span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><em>Now if you ask him about that incident he probably would deny it.&nbsp; He’s that retiring.&nbsp; Many persons are like that, regardless of whom they live next door to.&nbsp; For instance, there was the fellow who lived next door to poverty.&nbsp; He never admitted he had so much as a dime!</em></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">This story was corroborated by Marion Illing Moran (1901-1993) of Ocean Springs who remembered Eddie Bellande as a young man in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; They were good friends at school, and she visited him in Los Angeles circa 1937.&nbsp; She told me that at that time Eddie lived on the second floor of an apartment house a few doors down from Mae West, the great movie star.<em>(Marion Illing Moran, October 1991)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Marriage</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Lamont%2C%20Molly-young.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:168px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Lamont%2C%20Mollie_0.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:182px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Marjorie&nbsp;Edith Lamont</strong></span></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1911-2001) <span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">whose stage and screen name was <strong>Molly Lamont</strong></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202019-12-23%20at%2010.21.25%20AM.png\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[The Daily Illinois State Journal, March 26, 1937, p. 4]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">On March 30, 1937, Eddie married \"<strong>Molly\" Lamont</strong> (1911-2001) at Santa Barbara, California.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 30, 1937, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Eddie and Molly Bellande resided at 361 Fordyce Road in the affluent Los Angeles suburb of Bel Air.&nbsp; He could boast of having Joan Fontaine, the actress, as his neighbor.&nbsp; Eddie was a bachelor for more than half of his life.&nbsp; Bellande was a senior pilot flying for Transcontinental-Western at the time.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/molly-lamont-web.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:217px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>\"Molly Lamont, the movie actress, took her first airplane&nbsp;ride with newlywed hubby, Eddie Bellande, senior Transcontinental-Western airline pilot.&nbsp; Eddie was making his regular flight and Molly took the ride rather than be parted from him soon after their wedding.&nbsp; Photo shows Eddie making his bride comfortable.\" &nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><em>(The Times Picayune, April 3, 1937)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Molly%20Lamont-immigration.jpg\" style=\"height:400px; width:521px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>1939</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Flights and Flyers</strong>-(documentary; Blackhawk Films, 30m) Three newsreel shorts about Jimmy Walker, Corrigan,&nbsp;<strong>Costa &amp; Bellande</strong>, Earhart, Hughes, the Mollisons, Post &amp; Gatty, Rickenbacker, et al.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>1940</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Testimony of Eugene Gerow, TWA pilot</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">As a 1940 graduate of TWA’s first officer school, Eugene Gerow (1907-2000) flew right seat with Eddie in DC-3 aircraft and claimed to be Bellande’s last copilot at TWA. The following excerpt from Gerow’s memoir,&nbsp;<em>The Umpteenth Voyage: A San Joaquin Valley Farm Boy’s Struggle to Become an Air Line Pilot</em>, provides an interesting personal look at Eddie Bellande the man, and insight into what it was like flying with him. As the story opens, circa 1941, Gene is a young co-pilot relaxing in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque, NM, a TWA crew-change stop:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">“…After Dick (Colburn, TWA instructor at Kansas City) left I sat alone in the lobby and pondered my dilemma: I certainly wanted to check out as captain but I certainly didn’t want to face that exacting involvement with as little actual flying time as I had accumulated at the controls of the DC-3 under the random flight crew paring principle which the company now followed. Just then I observed a senior Burbank captain approaching.&nbsp;&nbsp;“The captain was quite solemn as he stopped in front of me and looked me right in the eye. I began to wonder if I had done something to offend him but he started talking, rather jokingly I thought, about what a poor crop of copilots they were sending out for replacements these days. He went on to say that he thought I might&nbsp;<em>do</em>&nbsp;and asked, ‘Do you want to fly regularly with me?’ I was so astounded I stammered ‘Y…y…yes—uh, Sir!’&nbsp; “Abruptly he started to turn away, saying, ‘okay, then: tell Corron I said you are to be paired with me from now on.\"</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;“The captain who told me to have myself scheduled with him was Eddie Bellande. He was one of the ‘Old Ones,’ to borrow a phrase from the Navajo, but&nbsp;<em>old</em>&nbsp;as applied here meant in experience, not chronological age: he was also one of the great ones.&nbsp;&nbsp;“I remembered him even then. Years before, we used to fly across to Rosamond Dry Lake and watch him and other famous pilots of that era testing new airplane designs. We saw him fly the first Lockheed twin there. His name was a household word in flying communities up our way. I had already learned what his reputation was among copilots on TWA: he had left a trail of well-trained copilots with whom he had been paired—Buddy Hagins, Grant Nichols and others before me were forever grateful for what he had done for them and they had said so.&nbsp; “Burbank Dispatch followed Eddie Bellande’s directive to have me fly with him, but it wasn’t all ‘peaches and cream’: Eddie apparently had something on his mind to which I will refer later, and during this early period of our flying together he just sat there in the left seat, trip after trip, and flew the airplane both ways. It wasn’t much different from the random scheduling I had been experiencing previously.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">\"I was becoming quite discouraged and decided one day as we were shuttled over to the TWA hangar at Lockheed Air Terminal to taxi our airplane to the airline passenger ramp that I was determined to say something about it if he sat in the left seat again without offering me some ‘stick’ time. He did sit down in the left seat but suddenly jumped up laughing and told me to sit there. After I had taxied the DC-3 across the field he asked me why I hadn’t protested my non-pilotage status and I explained to him just how close we had come to my ‘telling him off’ about it.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">“Eddie laughed uproariously at my ill-concealed discomfort but what he then told me rang true: naturally he wanted me to fly ‘his’ airplane ‘his’ way and thought the easiest way to put this across was to fly a few trips by way of demonstration rather than talking about it—this gave him more time to think (and as I said previously, more about that later).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">“What a switch: for many weeks I flew the airplane from the left seat day and night, fair weather or foul. After it became apparent that my handling of the DC-3 had improved Eddie handed me the log-sheet clip-board one day and said, ‘Here: you can do it all now.’</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">“I had never experienced so much flying joy in my whole life, but then as weeks passed and my glow began to subside, I noticed that Eddie was awfully quiet, just sitting there and staring out of the right front cockpit window for hours on end, saying little or nothing during this time interval. I began to really worry now, because I had come to think a great deal of him and I would have been horror-stricken to find that I had offended him somehow.&nbsp; “One day, I abruptly asked Eddie what was wrong. He came out of it with a smile and said: ‘Can you keep a secret? If you can, I’ll tell you something that is very important to my future, but I don’t want anyone on the airline to know about it right now.’ I promised and then he asked, ‘You know who Jack Northrop is?’ I nodded and he went on to say that Jack had been in some financial straits in his airplane design business and thought he might have to give it up. Eddie added: ‘Jack is probably my best friend and I told myself that I couldn’t just let him go down the drain.’</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;“Eddie related how he went to night clubs where many big time people hung out and by staying cold sober himself but buying expensive drinks for these people and talking to them as they waxed&nbsp;<em>affluent</em>&nbsp;under the mellowing influence of a good drink, he had accumulated a promising list of potential backers for Jack Northrop’s brilliant undertakings. The only problem for him was that these people wanted him to take over and run the company he had organized. ‘It may be too good to pass up’ said Eddie.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">“It was a fascinating story as Eddie had detailed it to me and subsequent events proved that every word he had spoken was true. It was some time before Eddie finally made up his mind to make the change, he loved to fly so very much. But in the meantime, his last TWA copilot was having a ball flying the DC-3 from the left seat.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">“Eddie Bellande was quite busy during his last days on TWA trying to make sure before he announced his voluntary retirement that his contemplated move wasn’t going to be a bad one. As I had previously stated, he had schooled me thoroughly on his idea of how a flight should be conducted and then turned the whole thing over to me. One of my non-standard copilot duties became a trip into the terminal building at intermediate stops to pick up the new weather. The captain was supposed to sign for the weather sheet, and I had learned how to render what I thought was a fair imitation of Eddie’s signature.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;“Quite often people who were involved financially in an airline and airplane industry dealings would ride along on the jump-seat with us and at stopping-points along the route Eddie would stay on board to discuss important items with these individuals. My most vivid memory of this phase was of leaving Eddie and LaMott Cohu in the cockpit after a night landing at Winslow, where I went in to get the weather. Cohu was destined to be a president of TWA and was quite interested in all facets of the airline operation.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;“When I came back up to the cockpit I advised Eddie that we had been re-cleared with a second alternate for ABQ, handing him the new release form. Cohu asked, ‘Doesn’t a new release have to be signed for by the captain?’&nbsp; “Eddie laughed and said, ‘It’s been signed by the captain alright.’</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">“The financial wizard took the release from him and looked at the signature, remarking, ‘By Gosh! It looks more like Eddie’s signature than if he had signed it himself!’&nbsp; “Years later when TWA Captain Bill Harrison and I signed in at the Garrett Corporation executive suite at Los Angeles International Airport to visit Eddie, we had to write down the name of the person we wanted to see, and I wrote the name of the Chairman of the Board, E.A. Bellande. The secretary gasped when she looked at the hand-written name and said: ‘You must have known him quite well: it looks exactly like his signature and very few people seem to have known that his middle initial is A—they always write down&nbsp;<em>Eddie</em>.’” &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">Note: Eugene Gerow (1907-2000) retired in 1972 as a senior TWA captain with 32 years service and 27,000 hours flying time. If he ever flew into Davis-Monthan during his long aviation career, he failed to sign the register. However, early in his professional career, he flew copilot with at least one other D-M signer, Walter L. “Si” Seiler, Chief Pilot of Wilmington-Catalina Airline, Ltd. Gene was a younger brother of Russell T. Gerow, whose photograph and document collection may be accessed&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.dmairfield.org/Image_Collections.html#gerow\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>. Another anecdote from this book can be found at pilot&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.dmairfield.org/people/gilhousen_al/index.html\">Al Gilhousen</a>.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>1942-retirement from TWA</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Capt. Edward A. Bcllandc, veteran TWA pilot who is well known in Albuquerque and is credited by the airline with having flown 3,100,000 miles without injury to passengers or mail cargo, retired Tuesday in Los Angeles, the Associated • Press reported.&nbsp; For more years than TWA employees here could recall, Captain Bellande, who was taught: to fly by Glenn Curtis in 1915, has been piloting passengers and mail over the western division. As Albuquerque is a crew-change point.&nbsp; Capt. Bellande frequently stopped overnight here.&nbsp; In command of a \"stratoliner\" since TWA put the big four-motored Boeings into service, the veteran pilot\'s last flight through here was several weeks ago. He then left on a vacation, at the end of which he retired. Captain Bellande will become vice-president of a&nbsp; company manufacturing p h o t o g r a p h i c equipment for the U. S. Army Air-Corps.&nbsp; The Associated Press said he served as a Navy instructor at Pensacola, Fla., during the First World War.<em>(The Albuquerque Journal,&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;<em>January 28, 1942, p. 10)</em></span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Biloxi visit</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">During Mardi Gras of 1950, Eddie and Molly Bellande came to Biloxi from Los Angeles and visited with Esther Catchot Chamblee who resided at 438 Delauney Street.&nbsp; He was with Air Research Aviation at the time.&nbsp; They flew to Biloxi.<em>(The Daily Herald, February 20, 1950, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Lamont%2C%20Molly-young_0.jpg\" style=\"height:480px; width:322px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Molly Lamont</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>Marjorie&nbsp;Edith Lamont </strong>known by her stage name <strong>Molly Lamont</strong> (1911-2001) was born at Boksburg, Natal, South Africa, on May 22, 1911.&nbsp; In 1930, she was a dance teacher in Natal and won the Outspan Film Candidate Competition.&nbsp; The prize was a holiday in England and a screen test with the Elstree Studios.&nbsp; It launched her into an international movie career in which she made more than fifty films.(<em>The Sunday Times, June 21, 1998)</em>&nbsp; They and the character that she played follow:&nbsp;<strong>“The Wife’s Family”</strong>&nbsp;(1931)\"-Sally;&nbsp;<strong>“What a Night!”</strong>-Nora Livingstone (1931);&nbsp;<strong>“Uneasy Virtue”</strong>&nbsp;(1931)-Ada;<strong>“Shadows”</strong>(1931)- Jill Dexter;&nbsp;<strong>“The House Opposite”</strong>&nbsp;(1931)- Doris;&nbsp;<strong>“Strictly Business”</strong>&nbsp;(1932)-Maureen;&nbsp;<strong>“The Strangler”</strong>-Frances Marsden-(1932);&nbsp;<strong>“Old Soldiers Never Die”</strong>&nbsp;(1932)-Ada;&nbsp;<strong>“Lucky Girl”</strong>&nbsp;(1932)-Lady Moira-(1932);&nbsp;<strong>“Lord Camber’s Ladies”</strong>&nbsp;(1932)-Actress;&nbsp;<strong>“The Last Coupon”</strong>&nbsp;(1932)-Betty Carter;&nbsp;<strong>“Josser on the River”</strong>(1932)-Julia Kaye;&nbsp;<strong>“His Wife’s Mother”</strong>&nbsp;(1932)-Cynthia;&nbsp;<strong>“Brothr Alfred”</strong>&nbsp;(1932)-Stella;&nbsp;<strong>“Paris Plane”&nbsp;</strong>(1933);<strong>“Letting in the Sunshine”&nbsp;</strong>(1933)- Lady Anne;&nbsp;<strong>“Leave It to Me”&nbsp;</strong>(1933)-Eve Halliday;&nbsp;<strong>“Norah O\'Neale\"</strong>&nbsp;(1934)-Nurse Otway,&nbsp;<strong>“White Ensign”</strong>&nbsp;(1934)-Consul’s Daughter;&nbsp;<strong>“The Third Clue”&nbsp;</strong>(1934)-Helen Arnold;&nbsp;<strong>“No Escape”</strong>(1934)-Helen Arnold;&nbsp;<strong>Murder at Monte Carlo”</strong>&nbsp;(1934)-Margaret Becker;&nbsp;<strong>“Another Face aka Two Faces”</strong>&nbsp;(1935)-Mary McCall;&nbsp;<strong>“Rolling Home”</strong>&nbsp;(1935)-Ann;&nbsp;<strong>Oh, What a Night”</strong>&nbsp;(1935)-Pat;&nbsp;<strong>\"Jalna\"</strong>&nbsp;(1935)-Pheasant,&nbsp;<strong>“Handle With Care”</strong>&nbsp;(1935)-Patricia;&nbsp;<strong>“Alibi Inn”&nbsp;</strong>(1935)-Mary Talbot;&nbsp;<strong>\"Muss \'Em Up\"</strong>&nbsp;(1936)-Nancy Harding;&nbsp;<strong>\"Mary of Scotland\"</strong>&nbsp;(1936)-Mary Livingstone;&nbsp;<strong>\"The Jungle Princess\"</strong>&nbsp;(1936)-Ava;&nbsp;<strong>“A Woman Rebels”</strong>&nbsp;(1936)-Young Girl;<strong>\"Doctor\'s Diary\"</strong>&nbsp;(1937)-Mrs. Fielding;&nbsp;<strong>“Fury and the Woman”&nbsp;</strong>(1937)-June McCrae;&nbsp;<strong>\"The Awful Truth\"</strong>&nbsp;(1937)-Barbara Vance;<strong>&nbsp;“Somewhere I’ll Find You”&nbsp;</strong>(1942)-Nurse Winifred;&nbsp;<strong>\"The Moon and Sixpence\"</strong>&nbsp;(1942)-Mrs. Amy Strickland;&nbsp;<strong>“A Gentle Gangster”</strong>&nbsp;(1943)-Ann Hallit;&nbsp;<strong>“Thumbs Up”</strong>&nbsp;(1943)-Welfare Supervisor;&nbsp;<strong>“Follow the Boys aka Three Cheers for the Boys”&nbsp;</strong>(1944)- Miss Hartford, secretary;&nbsp;<strong>“White Cliffs of Dover”&nbsp;</strong>(1944)-Helen;<strong>&nbsp;\"Mr. Skeffington\"</strong>&nbsp;(1944)-Miss Morris, a secretary;&nbsp;<strong>“The Suspect”&nbsp;</strong>(1944)-Edith Simmons;&nbsp;<strong>\"Minstrel Man\"</strong>&nbsp;(1944)-Caroline (mother),&nbsp;<strong>\"Devil Bat’s Daughter”&nbsp;</strong>(1946)-Ellen; ,&nbsp;<strong>\"So Goes My Love\"</strong>&nbsp;(1946)-Cousin Garnet,&nbsp;<strong>\"The Dark Corner\"</strong>&nbsp;(1946)-Lucy Wilding;&nbsp;<strong>“Scared to Death”</strong>&nbsp;(1947)-Laura Van Ee;&nbsp;<strong>\"Christmas Eve aka Sinners Holiday\"</strong>(1947)-Harriett,&nbsp;<strong>\"Ivy\"</strong>&nbsp;(1947)-Bella Crail;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\"South Sea Sinner aka East of Java\"</strong>&nbsp;(1949)-Kay Williams; and&nbsp;<strong>\"The First Legion\"</strong>&nbsp;(1951)-Mrs. Gilmartin.&nbsp; Many of these films can be seen on television and VHS tape.&nbsp; Eddie and Molly had no children.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">The Bellande\'s enjoyed many visits to Ocean Springs and the Mississippi Gulf Coast to visit Eddie\'s mother who lived until 1931.&nbsp; She sold her residence on Jackson Avenue to Frederick C. Gay in December 1924, and moved in with her relatives at Biloxi.&nbsp; Mrs. Bellande expected to relocate to Los Angeles to reside with Eddie Bellande.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mary Catchot Bellande expired in California on May 22, 1931.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were interred in the Catchot family area of the Evergreen Cemetery on Old Fort Bayou at Ocean Springs.<em>(The Jackson County Times, December 11, 1924, p. 5 and May 28, 1931, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Eddie Bellande died in the Century City Hospital on November 17, 1976, at the age of 78 years.&nbsp; He had a remarkable life and contributed greatly in the development of American aviation and aerospace technology.&nbsp; It is notable that the lives of Edward and Captain Antoine Bellande, his father, spanned 147 years of time of which much was filled with adventure and discovery.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Molly Lamont expired at Los Angeles on July 7, 2001.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"container\">\r\n<div id=\"content0\">\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong><u><strong>More Eddie Bellande&nbsp;</strong>from General Aviation News, December 4, 2009.</u></strong></span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Edward Bellande: Pioneering pilot</span></span></h1>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Posted by&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.generalaviationnews.com/?author=31\" title=\"Posts by Dennis Parks\">Dennis Parks</a>&nbsp;· November 24, 2009</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.generalaviationnews.com/wp-content/plugins/max-banner-ads-pro.1.4/max-banner-ads-lib/include/impression.php?ids=37\" style=\"display:none !important; height:1px; width:1px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"attachment_15648\">\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/EdBellande-2_web.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:250px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Bellande in 1916</span></span></strong></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">“Air speed record to Los Angeles broken” was a headline in the Oakland (California) Tribune on Jan. 28, 1932. The story reported that a new coastal speed record for tri-motored planes was made on the Oakland-Los Angeles airway when a Transcontinental and Western airplane made the 360-mile hop in 1 hour and 52 minutes.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">The craft, a Ford Tri-Motor, piloted by Eddie Bellande and Erwin Lewis, left the Bay Airdrome in Alameda at 10 a.m. and arrived at the Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale at 11:52 am. Nine passengers were carried on the record-setting flight.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">That was just one of the many highlights of Edward A. (Eddie) Bellande’s career in aviation, which spanned nearly 60 years. His career was as diversified and active as the industry itself during those years.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">He participated, with other contemporary pilots like Charles Lindbergh, in some of the benchmark flights and activities of this dynamic era. He flew as a test pilot for Lockheed, piloting the first Lockheed Vega. He checked out Wiley Post in the famed “Winnie Mae” and co-piloted Charles Lindbergh on the first TWA transcontinental run in 1929. In addition, he either organized or directed some of the aviation industry’s largest business organizations.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Bellande was born Dec 19, 1897, in Ocean Springs, Miss. In 1915, after completing high school, he went to Buffalo, N.Y., where he spent three months taking flying lessons at the Curtiss Company. He was the youngest member of the graduating class when he received his license (No. 639) from the Aero Club of America.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">He then went to the Atlantic Coast Aeroplane Station at Newport News, Va. During World War I, he was at the Georgia School of Technology at Atlanta where he was an instructor in motors and planes at the government ground aviation school. He also served in the United States Marine Corps as a naval reserves aviator from Aug. 18, 1918, until Feb. 24, 1919, ending his service as a flight instructor at the Pensacola Naval Air Station.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Early in 1921, he left for Southern California to work for one of the large movie companies as an aviator. While working in Hollywood, he flew for movie studios headed by Jack L. Warner and Darryl F. Zanuck. Besides being a movie stunt pilot, he kept busy as a flight instructor and barnstormer.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles he flew for DeMille’s Mercury Aviation Co. at its Wilshire Boulevard Airport. From 1922 to 1927 he was a freelance pilot flying for motion pictures, skywriting, crop dusting and barnstorming.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"attachment_15649\">\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Avion-2_web.jpg\" style=\"height:228px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Eddie Bellande in the cockpit of an Avion with&nbsp;</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>its&nbsp;designer Jack Northrop</strong> on the left.</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">During 1927-1929 he was in great demand as test pilot by airplane manufacturers. He made the test flights on most of the Lockheed airplanes, including the first “Vega” and the “Golden Eagle.” He also did all test flights on Northrop’s first flying wing. Later Bellande would join Northrop as a sales pilot and corporate director.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C EA-TAT pilots.jpg\" style=\"height:141px; width:300px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C EA-TAT pilots [dual].jpg\" style=\"height:166px; width:214px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TAT PILOTS &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;FRED RICHARDSON and EDWARD A. BELLANDE</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;[courtesy of Derek Hughey-Horizon Air, Seattle, Washington-July 2011]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande%2C Edward A-Maddux Airlines.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:231px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">During this same time, he joined <strong>Maddux Airlines</strong> flying Ford Tri-Motors. He continued flying for the fledgling airline through the mergers of Maddux and <strong>Transcontinental Air Transport</strong> (TAT) and the later <strong>Transcontinental</strong> and <strong>Western Air</strong> merger (which would eventually become <strong>Trans World Airlines</strong> or TWA).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">By mid-year 1929 TAT commenced a 48-hour combination rail and air service across the United States between New York and Los Angeles. The first west-to-east flight was made July 8, 1929, aboard the Ford Tri-Motor, “City of Los Angeles,” piloted by Lindbergh and Bellande. The first east-bound leg was from Glendale, Calif., to Clovis, N. M. The next day Bellande and Lindbergh picked up passengers for the last leg of the transcontinental trip to Los Angeles. Among the passengers on this trip was Amelia Earhart, who had been hired by TAT to help market the service.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"attachment_15650\">\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bellande-Lindbergh-web.jpg\" style=\"height:242px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Preparing for the first east-bound TAT Air-Mail&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">coast-to-coast service is pilot Charles Lindbergh</span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">(second from right) <strong>and co-pilot Eddie Belland</strong>e&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">(on Lindbergh’s right)</span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">The advent of this service so captured the public imagination that six weeks before the service commenced, TAT reported receiving more than 1,000 applications for tickets for the first trip.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">One of the most remarkable events in Bellande’s career was the result of an in-flight fire. On Feb. 10, 1933, on a night flight in a TWA Ford Tri-Motor from San Francisco to Los Angeles via Fresno and Bakersfield, the airplane caught fire about 10 miles out from Bakersfield. Apparently the floor heater, which operated from an exhaust stack on the nose engine, caught fire. Bellande managed to make it to the airport, land and safely evacuate the passengers. The fuselage of the plane was completely burned through. A close call, used by some to tout the benefits of “all-metal” construction.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Because of his heroic actions during the emergency, Bellande was one of seven mail pilots who earned the Air Mail Flyers Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">Bellande flew for TWA another 10 years. At the time of his retirement in January 1943, he was the Number 2 pilot in seniority. He had logged more than 23,000 hours and flew an impressive 3.1 million miles without injury to passengers or mail cargo.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">He joined the Garrett Corp. in 1943 as an assistant to the president. He was elected to the board of directors in 1948, and named chairman of the board in July 1963.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\">The early days of aviation in California were rich in flying excitement against a background of aircraft and airline development. Edward Bellande was an integral part of many of these developments.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><em><strong>Dennis Parks is Curator Emeritus of Seattle’s Museum of Flight. He can be reached at dennis@generalaviationnews.com.</strong></em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 31, 31, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div><br />\r\n<span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Charles L. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong><u>Along The Gulf</u></strong>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church:&nbsp; Pass Christian-1971.&nbsp; Originally published 1895.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jerome Lepre,&nbsp;<strong><u>Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi</u></strong>, Volume I, (Catholic Dioceses of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1991).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><u><strong><em>Chancery Court Cases</em></strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 1359,&nbsp;<strong><em>\"Sam Levy v. Antoine Bellande Jr.\"</em></strong>-February 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><u><strong><em>Magazines</em></strong></u></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Hotel Greeters of America, Louisiana-Mississippi Chapter No. 32.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><u><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong><em>Movies</em></strong></span></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Flights and Flyers</em></strong>&nbsp;- (documentary; Blackhawk Films, 30m) Three newsreel shorts about Jimmy Walker, Corrigan,<strong>Costa &amp; Bellande</strong>, Earhart, Hughes, the Mollisons, Post &amp; Gatty, Rickenbacker, et al.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><u><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></u></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Albuquerque Journal,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Pilot Retires&nbsp; Flew 3 Million Miles Without a Mishap\",&nbsp;</strong>January 28, 1942, p. 10.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Bay Press,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Cancer benefit, dance to honor Billy Bellande”</strong>, October 12, 2001, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City Paragraphs”,&nbsp;</strong>February 18, 1888.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City Paragraphs”,&nbsp;</strong>March 1888<strong>.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local Happenings”</strong>, January 9, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Back Bay”</strong>, January 30, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local Happenings”</strong>, December 9, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande-Barthes”</strong>, September 1, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Petition For Liquor License”</strong>, April 13, 1895.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Latest City News”</strong>, July 31, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Latest City News”</strong>, August 14, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em>“<strong>Latest City News”</strong>, January 8, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Public Notice”</strong>, June 4, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local Happenings”</strong>, February 13, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;“Local Happenings”,&nbsp;</strong>April 9, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Blues”</strong>, June 18, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local Happenings”</strong>, December 10, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local Happenings”</strong>, May 11, 1895.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>“Local and Personal\"</strong></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">, October 30, 1897.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News\"</strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">, August 16, 1898.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News\"</strong>, September 10, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local and Personal”</strong>, October 4, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bay View Cottage&nbsp;</strong>[advertisement]<strong>”</strong>, July 22, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News\"</strong>, June 10, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News\"</strong>, October 30, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News\"</strong>, October 31, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Opera Saloon\"</strong>, November 7, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Thrilling Accident”</strong>, May 29, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Petition for liquor license”</strong>, July 20, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News”</strong>, Seeptember 26, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News”</strong>, October 11, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News\",&nbsp;</strong>January 8, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News\",&nbsp;</strong>November 12, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Personal\"</strong>, November 17, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News\",&nbsp;</strong>March&nbsp;16, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Mirror,&nbsp;</em><strong>“R. Caillavet”</strong>, September 9, 1876.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Chicago Tribune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Linda Bellande\"</strong>, September 8, 2007.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Pilots Have Been Reinstated”</strong>, January 31, 1907.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“U. Desporte returned from East\"</strong>, June 4, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Southern drinks for New York”</strong>, May 23, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Lund Will Have Charge of Wireless Station”</strong>, July 1, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Society and Personal Items”</strong>, November 25, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Policeman on vacation\"</strong>, January 13, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Old comrades brought in touch: Bellande hears from old </strong>[Civil War]<strong> friend\"</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">, April 23, 1914.</span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Garbage gathered”</strong>, July 18, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“$100 fine given liquor dealers\"</strong>, July 17, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Runner&nbsp;</strong>(Harold Davidson)<strong>To Compete In Race”</strong>, September 28, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Fine of $100 for liquor holdings”</strong>, November 2, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Davidson Wins Loving Cup”</strong>, November 20, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Newsboy&nbsp;</strong>(Albert Ragusin)<strong>&nbsp;Magazine Writer”</strong>, January 5, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande’s&nbsp;</strong>(Peter)&nbsp;<strong>Hours Undergo A Change”</strong>, January 21, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Harold Davidson Will Run in Mobile”</strong>, January 22, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Steals Police&nbsp;</strong>(Pete Bellande)&nbsp;<strong>Bicycle”</strong>, January 22, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Wagon load beer taken in charge</strong><strong>”</strong>, March 13, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. DeVeaux Dies”</strong>, April 24, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Aviator Bellande Visits Biloxi”</strong>, July 7, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Restraining order is granted to prevent service interference\'</strong>, December 24, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Too much friction cause of cops downfall asserts Mayor Glennan</strong>, January 3, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Notice to Public\"</strong>, January 14, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Fifty men entrain&nbsp;</strong>[Harold J. Davidson]&nbsp;<strong>for Camp Pike Sunday Feb. 25\"</strong>, February 20, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Returns home&nbsp;</strong>[Harold J. Davidson], March 2, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Biloxi Boy&nbsp;</strong>[Roy P. Bellande]&nbsp;<strong>to come home\"</strong>, December 6, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor and Commissioners meet and transact important business\"</strong>, January 8, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“</strong>[Harold J. Davidson]&nbsp;<strong>Returns after visit\"</strong>, January 30, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Gus Bellande For Justice Of Peace”</strong>, April 22, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Harold Davidson in Track Meet”</strong>, August 28, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Harold Davidson Returns”</strong>, September 18, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi News Paragraphs\"</strong>, July 14, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Biloxi News Paragraphs\"</strong>, July 14, 1920.</span></span></em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>\"Mrs. [</strong>Phillipina]<strong> Hernandez died Wednesday”</strong>, February 23, 1923.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Anthony Belland (sic) Buried Today”,&nbsp;</strong>May 22, 1924.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Pallbearers For Bellande Funeral”</strong>, May 23, 1924.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Death of Mrs. Davidson”</strong>, April 6, 1925.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“To Sail Across”</strong>, May 1, 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Gaddy Coach Biloxi High”</strong>, June 20, 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Coast Aviator Makes Record”</strong>, January 20, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“August Bellande to Make Race for Justice of Peace\",&nbsp;</strong>September 1, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Police Desk Sargeant&nbsp;</strong>[sic]&nbsp;<strong>on vacation\",&nbsp;</strong>November 19, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“New Plumbing Business”</strong>, February 11, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Judge Bellande Is Candidate For Justice of Peace”</strong>, January 27, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“High Schoolers Play Hard But Lose to Finny Tribe”</strong>, April 9, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Albert Ragusin Leaves”</strong>, May 24, 1929.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ocean Springs News”</strong>, May 31, 1930.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Fickes Family Return”</strong>, September 1, 1930.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Clarence Galle, Sr. Dies”</strong>, May 4, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. Bellande Buried”</strong>, May 28, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Leaves For Tryout With Cleveland Club”</strong>, June 1, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Covering the Coast”</strong>, June 26, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande-Fickes”</strong>, December 8, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Boy In Lineup”</strong>, March 15, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Atlanta Looks Like Team To Beat In Southern Loop”</strong>, March 18, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>he Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande sold to Minneapolis club\"</strong>, February 4, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Attend Lott funeral</strong>\", November 20, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande-Lamont”</strong>, March 30, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“</strong>[Roy] <strong>Bellande promoted”</strong>, July 22, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellandes In New Home”</strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">, December 4, 1937.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Make 2000-Mile Trip\"</strong>, March 31, 1938.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Charter of Incorporation of Bellande Beverage Company, Inc.”</strong>, August 19, 1938.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ragusin-Bellande”,&nbsp;</strong>November 6, 1939.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mildred Davidson Funeral”</strong>, February 21, 1940.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Winner of Biloxi Golf Tourney”</strong>, January 13, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Sets New Amateur Mark at Biloxi Golf Club”</strong>, January 27, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;“Bellande Pace Setter; In Stag Golf Tournament”</strong>, March 10, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Vote For A. Bellande”</strong>, July 31, 1943.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Election Results”</strong>, August 5, 1943.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Subject Of Post Article”</strong>, May 5, 1948.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Visit”</strong>, February 20, 1950.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Rites Set”,&nbsp;</strong>April 30, 1952.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>Judge A. Bellande Fatally Injured In Traffic Crash”</strong>, November&nbsp; , 1953.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;“Giles Peresich New Champion of Sunkist Golf Club”</strong>, May 18, 1954.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;“</strong>[Mickey]&nbsp;<strong>Bellande is medalist for 3rd Annual Sunkist Club Championship golf event\"</strong>, August 7, 1956, p. 15.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;“Alton Bellande names Back Bay Fire Marshal</strong>, September 20, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>“One Time Marathon Runner Ends Career As Electric Serviceman”</strong></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\">, January 1, 1960.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Union members</strong> [United Brothers of Electrical Workers Local 1211]&nbsp;<strong>celebrate 20th successful year”</strong>, December 5, 1960.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Know Your State”-<em>The Pilot Who Was Farragut’s Pilot In The Battle of Mobile Bay,&nbsp;</em></strong><em>June 8, 1961, p. 4,</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;“Roy Bellande Head Beverage Firm Expires”</strong>, January 30, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ragusin Holds Civilian Record”</strong>, June 12, 1971.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Betty Travis”</strong>, July 15, 1973.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Beverage Company sold to Tennessee firm”</strong>, May 10, 1979.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"R.L. Fickes dead at 93\"</strong>, December 31, 1979.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Four Biloxians were valuable cogs in Spring Hill machine\"</strong>, December 7, 1929.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Picayune, </em><strong>\"Louis Hernandez, popular grocer succumbs suddenly to heart failure\"</strong>, January 24, 1907.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Review&nbsp;</em>[Hayward, California],&nbsp;<strong>“TWA founder dead at 78”</strong>, November 18, 1976, p. 36.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Times News&nbsp;</em>[Ocean Springs]<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Man of the Year-</strong>[Marcel]&nbsp;<strong>Bellande\"</strong>, January 31, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Gulfport Advocate,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Gus Bellande\"</strong>, February 27, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Hartselle Inquirer&nbsp;</em>[Alabama]<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Hasbur W. Denning\"</strong><em>,&nbsp;</em>October 16, 2007.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Hattiesburg American,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Services today for Miss Alice Bellande”</strong>, August 21, 1967.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News Items”</strong>, August 24, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Edward Bellande Instructing Aviators”</strong>, September 21, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News Items”</strong>, May 29, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News Items,&nbsp;</strong>June 12, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News Items”</strong>, October 2, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Aviator Bellande Does Stunts”</strong>, May 28, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Edward A. Bellande Daring Aviator”</strong>, September 20, 1924.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Vanderbilt Plane Scoops World On S.F. Fleet Photos”</strong>, September 20, 1924.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local and Personal”</strong>, December 11, 1924.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“The Column”</strong>, March 2, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Los Angeles Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Burning Plane Pilots Given High Praise”</strong>, ?</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Naperville Sun,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Signe V. Bellande\"</strong>, March 3, 1999.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Ocean Springs News,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Beverage Co. Is Largest Firm Of Its Kind On The Coast Operates Fleet Of Ten Trucks”</strong>, May 30, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ocean Springs flyer&nbsp;</strong>[Eddie Bellande]&nbsp;<strong>now firms consultant\"</strong>, July 4, 1968, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ragusin renamed to legislative commission\"</strong>, November 11, 1976.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Pascagoula Chronicle-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Beverage Company”&nbsp;</strong>(advertisement), May 15, 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Pascagoula Chronicle-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande Beverage Company”&nbsp;</strong>(advertisement), June 5, 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local Paragraphs”</strong>, May 21, 1880.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Gleanings”</strong>, October 5, 1883.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Marine Matters”</strong>, April 18, 1884.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi City Elections”</strong>, January 9, 1885.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ocean Springs Locals”</strong>, January 7, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Prominent Biloxian, Bellande, Dead at 72”</strong>, March 5, 1982.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;&nbsp;</em><strong>“George B. ‘Bunny’ Dubaz”</strong>, May 6, 1992.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Felder B. O’Neal”</strong>, February 25, 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Ida \'Sue\' Bellande\"</strong>, March 2, 1997.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“William E. Bellande Sr.”</strong>, January 23, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Christine Dubaz”</strong>, January 24, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Thelma Bellande”</strong>, August 4, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Jeanette Blanchard\"</strong>, January 10, 2003.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>\"Martha B. Lashbrook\"</strong>, July 13, 2004, p. A6.</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Betty Faye Bellande Denning\"</strong>, July 22, 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ernestine Balius Bellande”</strong>, May 19, 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Mr. John \"J.B.\" Dubaz\"</strong>, April 1, 2006.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Family, bologna made life sweet for Dubaz\"</strong>, April 4, 2006, p. A4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Foster gets medical degree\"</strong>, May 29, 2006, p. A11.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Mrs. Katherine \"Kate\" Bellande\"</strong>, October 9, 2006, p. A4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Miss Mary Elizabeth Bellande weds Mr. Austin Blake Smith\"</strong>, March 8, 2009, p. F1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Margaret Fickes Foster\"</strong>, April 2, 2009, p. A4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Billy Ray Bellande Sr.\"</strong>, July 10, 2009, p. A4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Tomiko Ohi Burdick\"</strong>, February 1, 2010, p. A6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em></span></span></em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>\"Lane F. Lashbrook\"</strong>, May 30</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">, 2012, p. A4.</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em></span></span></em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>\"Mrs. Alice Bellande Dubaz\"</strong>, Januar 22,</span></span><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"> 2013, p. A4.</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sunday Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Queens After The Reign”</strong><em>,&nbsp;</em>June 21, 1998<em>.</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em></span></span></em><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">, <strong>\"</strong>[Phillipna]<strong> Hernandez\"</strong>, February 22, 1923.&nbsp; </span></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>\"</strong>[Stella]<strong> Hernandez-Bellande\"</strong>, January&nbsp;20, 1928.&nbsp; </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bellande on Al-Star ‘9’”</strong>, November 15, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Molly Lamont\"</strong>, April 3, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>\"</strong>[Buster] <strong>Bellande\"</strong>, August 31, 1976, p.&nbsp;&nbsp;12.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>\"Bellande rites set August 31\"</strong>, August 31, 1976, p. 12.</span></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><em><em>The Times-Picayune, </em></em><strong>\"</strong>[Phyllis] <strong>Bellande\"</strong>, December 3, 1985.&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif; font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Joseph E. Bellande Jr.\"</strong>, September 4, 2011. &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n', '', '2'),
('book', 0, 32, 35, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:20px\">Biloxi, Mississippi History</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><em>17th, 18th, 19th, 20th &amp; 21st Century Chronology of Bilox</em><strong>i</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<h1>&nbsp;</h1>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>_________________________________________________</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman,times,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Commencing with the year 1682 and continuing to &nbsp;present day, I have subjectively gleaned salient dates and facts relating to our local chronology from journals and other authoritative sources.&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 34, 37, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>PETER ALVES</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Peter Alves (1863-1939) was born in Louisiana on December 11, 1863, the son of Peter Alves and Elizabeth Supass.&nbsp; He married Angelina Trasierra (1876-1957), the daughter of Manuel Trasierra and Emily Numberg (1848-1924) at New Orleans on June 22, 1891.&nbsp; Angelina was born at New Orleans and her parents were from Mexico and Texas respectively.&nbsp; Their children were:&nbsp;<strong>August George Alves</strong>&nbsp;(1893-1959),&nbsp;<strong>Charles Alves</strong>(1896-1971),&nbsp;<strong>Jennie Alves Tillman</strong>&nbsp;(1898-1980),&nbsp;<strong>Bertha Alves Gerosa Churchill Thomas</strong>&nbsp;(1901?-1980+),&nbsp;<strong>Joseph Alves</strong>&nbsp;(1903-1953),&nbsp;<strong>Alma Alves Olier</strong>&nbsp;(1907-1987), and&nbsp;<strong>Wilhemina Alves West</strong>(1910-2005).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Peter Alves family arrived at Biloxi circa 1910, probably from New Orleans.&nbsp; In 1920, Peter Alves was sick and not working.&nbsp; Angelina was an oyster shucker in a canning plant. They lived on Myrtle Street at Point Cadet in a domicile adjacent to the Joseph A. Toche (1872-1960) family.<strong>&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>AUGUST G. ALVES</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">August George Alves (1893-1959) was born December 23, 1893.&nbsp; He married Lola Daniels (1898-1940).&nbsp; Children: August G. Alves II (1915-1979), Lola Claire Alves (1918-1919), Joyce Alves Nocora, and Rita Alves Oliver.&nbsp; He died on March 15, 1959 while she expired on November 11, 1940.&nbsp; Buried Biloxi City Cemetery.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>August G. Alves II</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">August G. “Ducky” Alves II (1915-1979) married Phala Louise Vierling (1921-1978).&nbsp; Their children: August G. Alves III, Kay A. Braun DeSilvey, and Kevin Alves.&nbsp; In 1958, August G. Alves is making his livelihood as a ship captain and living at 120 West End Homes in Biloxi.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>August&nbsp;G. Alves&nbsp; III</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><font face=\"georgia, serif\"><strong>August George Alves III [1938-2018] expired on 5 November 2018.</strong></font></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<blockquote>&nbsp;</blockquote>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kay C. Alves</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kay A. Claire Alves</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1939) married Robert E. Braun (b. 1942), the son of Russell Braun and Louise Ruiz, at Pascagoula in April 1963.&nbsp; He was a water ski instructor and bartender.(JXCO, Ms. MRB 103, p. 204)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><br />\r\n<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/37088998.jpg\" style=\"height:283px; width:200px\" /></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kevin Vincent Alves</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1948) the son of August G. Alves II (1915-1979) and Phala Louise Vierling (1921-1978).&nbsp; Grew up at 27 Holcomb Boulevard.&nbsp; Joined USAF and while a serviceman, he married Lynn Belle Speed (b. 1950), the daughter of Alfred Luke Speed (19-1997) and Irene Martin (1913-2015), at Ocean Springs in August 1968.(JXCO, Ms, Circuit Court MRB 111, p. 157)&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Appointed police chief in 1983 and served in this capacity until 1989.&nbsp; Elected Mayor of Ocean Springs in 1989 and 1993.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Kevin Vincent Alves married Lynn Belle Speed (b. 1950), the daughter of Alfred Speed and Irene Martin, in August 1968.</span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Children: Kevin V. Alves II (b. 1975) and Shannon Lyn Alves (b. 1972?) married Mark Andrew Williams (b. 1969?), the son of Albert L. Williams (1927-2000) and Norma Williams of Ocean Springs, on November 27, 2004 in Biloxi.(JXCO, Ms. MRB 111, p. 157 and&nbsp;The Ocean Springs Record, October 28, 2004, p. A6)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&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;&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joyce Alves Nocora</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;Rita Alves Oliver</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Rita married William Oliver.&nbsp; They had a daughter, Chi Chi Joyce Oliver (1940-1940) who expired as an infant on May 23, 1940.&nbsp; Buried Biloxi City Cemetery.<br />\r\n<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>CHARLES P. ALVES</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Charles Peter Alves (1896-1971) was born at New Orleans on November 17, 1896.&nbsp; He married Adele Marie Primeaux (1903-1975) a native of Erath, Louisiana.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Dupre Primeaux and Octavia Duplantis.&nbsp; They resided at 302 Rose Street in Biloxi where he worked as a fisherman.&nbsp;&nbsp; They had a son, Henry G. Alves (1920-1992), and four daughters: Irene Alves (1924-1924); Vivian A. Cellucci, Donna A. Flores, June A. Palumbo, Gloria A. Landry, and Mary A. Williamson.&nbsp; Charles Alves expired in July 1971.&nbsp; His remains were interred at the Biloxi City Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, August 1, 1971, p. 2)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Henry G. Alves</strong>&nbsp;(1920-1992)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Henry G. Alves, called Bubba” was born at Biloxi on November 22, 1920.&nbsp; He made his livelihood as a marine salesman.&nbsp; Henry never married.&nbsp; During WW II, he served in the U.S. Navy.&nbsp; Henry G. Alves expired at Gulfport, Mississippi on November 12, 1992.&nbsp; His remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery<em>.(The Daily Herald, November 14, 1992, p. A-2)</em><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>JENNIE ALVES&nbsp;</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jennie “Honey” Alves (<a href=\"tel:898-1980\">898-1980</a>) was born on November 22, 1898, at New Orleans.&nbsp; She married John William Tillman.&nbsp; Member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in North Biloxi. Her family was: Lionel Pete Tillman, Frank Tillman, Norma T. Rhodes, Rita T. McMillan, June T. Cannette, Shirley T. Mallette, and Joyce T. Merritt.&nbsp; She expired on January 26, 1980.&nbsp; Buried Biloxi Cemetery<em>.(The Daily Herald, January 28, 1980, p. A-2)</em></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BERTHA ALVES</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bertha Alves (1901?-1980+) married a Mr. Gerosa.&nbsp; On December 21, 1921, she married Henry T. Churchill (1897 or 1900-1931), the son of Henry Frank Churchill and Mary Collins.&nbsp; Henry was born at Redmonville, Mississippi.&nbsp; He expired at Breton Island, Louisiana on May 15, 1931, while at crewman on the Willomena, a Biloxi fishing boat owned by Marco Skrmetta (1889-1959).&nbsp; Henry was buried in the Alves family plot in the Biloxi City Cemetery.&nbsp; He was survived by a son, Henry Churchill<em>.(The Daily Herald, May 16, 1931, p. 2)</em></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>JOSEPH ALVES</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph “Joe” Alves (1903-1953) was born at New Orleans.&nbsp; He married Mable Marie Tauzin (1907-2004), a native of New Iberia, Louisiana, and the daughter of Emile Tauzin and Angela Borrell. (HARCO, Ms. MRB 36, p. 35). &nbsp;</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph Alves passed on October 19, 1953, and was buried in the Biloxi Cemetery.&nbsp; They were the parents of Raphael “Ray” P. Alves (1926-1988), Edmonia “Mona” Alves Sorci, Daniel Joseph Alves, and Helen Alves Wadja.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sometime before 1918, young Joe Alves was injured while working for the Sea Food Company on Point Cadet in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; While unloading an oyster schooner at the factory, Alves fell through a hole in the wharf and suffered bodily harm for which litigation was brought against the Sea Food Company.&nbsp; In February 1918, the Mississippi Supreme Court upheld the lower courts decision in favor of Alves against the defendant<em>.(The Daily Herald, February 26, 1918, p. 1)</em></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mable T. Alves worked at the Dejean Packing Company in 1958, while residing at 260 Miramar Avenue in Biloxi. She expired at Ocean Springs on May 27, 2004.&nbsp; Buried in the Biloxi City Cemetery<em>.(The Sun Herald, May 29, 2004, p. A-8)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Raphael P. Alves</strong></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Raphael “Ray and Ralph” P. Alves (1926-1988), called Ralph, was born at Biloxi on October 25, 1926.&nbsp; He married Willine Wright.&nbsp; They were the parents of Joyce Alves Von Heeder of Sealy, Texas.&nbsp; &nbsp;In 1958, he was a fisherman employed with the Moore Seafood Company and residing with his mother.&nbsp; At the time of his demise on August 30, 1988, in Houston, Texas, Raphael P. Alves was a maintenance technician for a food equipment company.&nbsp; His corporal remains were sent to the Biloxi City Cemetery for burial<em>.(The Daily Herald, September 2, 1988, p. A-4)</em><br />\r\n&nbsp;</span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Edmonia “Mona” Alves</strong><br />\r\nEdmonia “Mona” Alves married John B. Sorci, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Salvdore Sorci, of San Jose, California on July 1, 1950, at St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church in Biloxi, Mississippi. At the time of her mother’s death in 2004, she was residing at San Jose, California.&nbsp; No children<em>?(The Daily Herald, June 29, 1950, p. 8)</em><br />\r\n&nbsp;</span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Daniel Joseph Alves</strong></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Daniel Joseph “Buddy” Alves married June Mildred Kelty in Biloxi in January 1949. &nbsp; They were residents of Houston, Texas in August 1988.&nbsp; Children: John, Ray, and Gail Alves.&nbsp; Buddy expired before May 2004.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 17, 1949, p. 2)</em><br />\r\n&nbsp;</span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Helen Alves</strong></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Helen Alves married Wadja.&nbsp; Children: Anthony, John, Eugene, Jeanne W. Dykraff.<br />\r\n&nbsp;<br />\r\n<strong>&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ALMA ALVES</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alma Alves (1907-1987) was born July 8, 1907. &nbsp;She married Voorhis Louis Olier.&nbsp; They had a son, Voorhis L. Olier II (1928-1948), who died on April 25, 1948. &nbsp;Alma expired in September 1987.&nbsp;<br />\r\n<strong>&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>WILHEMINA ALVES</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Wilhemina Alves (1910-2005) was born April 8, 1910.&nbsp; She was married to Houston West (1908-1997). He expired September 12, 1997.&nbsp; They were the parents of: Phyllis W. Spataro; Ralph West; and Hollis West.&nbsp; Mrs. West expired at Biloxi, Mississippi on September 30, 2005.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery<em>.(The Sun Herald, October 4, 2005, p. A6)</em></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><br />\r\n<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “New damage suits are filed”, February 17, 1917.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Court takes adjourment”, May 12, 1918.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Damage suits in Circuit Court”, November 27, 1917.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Peter Alves given verdict for $2500”, November 28, 1917.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Motions granted for new trials”, December 17, 1917.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Sad occurrence in early morning\", October 11, 1919.&nbsp;<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, “Biloxi Youth Wins His Suit”, February 26, 1918.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, “Churchill-Gerosa”, December 21, 1921.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, “Fisherman Dies Suddenly”, May 16, 1931.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, “Alves-Kelty”, January 17, 1949.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, “Miss Mona Alves”, June 29, 1950.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, “Charles Pete Alves”, August 1, 1971.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, “Raphael P. Alves”, September 2, 1988.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, “Mrs. Jennie A. Tillman”, January 28, 1980.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, “Henry G. ‘Bubba’ Alves”, November 14, 1992.<br />\r\nThe Ocean Springs News, “Jennie Alves Tillman”, January 1980.<br />\r\nThe Ocean Springs Record, “Williams and Alves honored by VFW\", May 6, 1976, p. 14.<br />\r\nThe Ocean Springs Record, “Alves Named Ocean Springs Chief of Police”, February 10, 1983.<br />\r\nThe Ocean Springs Record, “New chief assumes duties”, February 17, 1983.<br />\r\nThe Ocean Springs Record, “First Family”, June 22, 1989.<br />\r\nThe Ocean Springs Record, “Alves-Williams\", October 28, 2004, p. A6.<br />\r\nThe Sun Herald, “Mabel Marie Tauzin”, May 29, 2004.<br />\r\nThe Sun Herald, \"Mrs. Wilhemina West\", October 4, 2005, p. A6.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">The Sun Herald, \"Alfred Luke Speed\", November 22, 1997.</span></span>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">The Sun Herald, \"Irene Martin Speed\", November 28, 2013.</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 36, 39, 'en', 0, '<div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Biloxi%20schooner-Wonder.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:519px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Henry Brasher\'s&nbsp;<u><em>Wonder</em></u>&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">on starboard tack passing the BYC</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/1905%20LOPEZ%20%26%20DUKATE%20FACTORY.jpg\" style=\"width:500px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1905</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>\"What others have said\"</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>[articles germane to Biloxi\'s seafood industry]</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">BILOXI</span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><em><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Knowest thou the land where the oyster and mullet,</span></em></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><em><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Are finer than any yet found in our clime;</span></em></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><em><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Where they melt on the palate and slide down the gullet,</span></em></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>With a joy and rapture that\'s almost sublime.</em></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[Taylor-About Biloxi-On The Gulf Coast, David Holt: Walle &amp; Company Ltd.-New Orleans-1905]</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mississippi Boundaries and its Seafood Industry on the Coast</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[by Raymond Fournier (1876-1949)&nbsp;]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">When Mississippi became one of the States [1817] and Louisiana was well established after being purchased from France, the people of Louisiana made a survey of the state and tried to extend teir boundary line into Mississippi up near Jackson to the Pearl River line but this was protested and brought to court. &nbsp;The people of that part of the state [of Mississippi] could see what they were about to lose. &nbsp;There were great forests of pine timbers, farm lands and they would have been deprived of great evenue. &nbsp;The lumber mechants and state officials fought the case in both supreme courts of the two states and lost it. &nbsp;They carried it to the U.S. Supeme Court.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the Dancing Rabbit Treaty in 1830 at which time Mississippi was sold to the Governement for part of Oklahoma and thirty million dollars, the Indians claimed the Mississippi River as the boundary line. &nbsp;Thus it was proved that this land reallly belonged to Mississippi and was taken&nbsp;back by the State. &nbsp;The next line was attempted about 18 or 20 miles south of McComb. &nbsp;It was to run east from the Mississippi River to the Pearl River. &nbsp;This took a big slice off the southern end of Mississippi anyway. &nbsp;Had the people of south Mississippi known what was in store for them, the value of those marshlands and what the seafood and trapping industry would come to be they never would have let it go but who cared about just marshland? &nbsp;They really&nbsp;didn\'t seem to be worth anything, at least, not any thing to fight about. &nbsp;This was free country, you could go anywhere you wanted, anytime you wanted. &nbsp;There was fishing, hunting, no game wardens, no licenses, no non-resident laws, nobody to bother you and so no one took any interest in it. &nbsp;The resources of this part of the State were invisible but the upper part was visible as anyone could see what was there and this is the reason people potested so hard against it. &nbsp;So Louisiana exteneded her line to Pearl River and followed it south to the mouth of the river and nothing more was said for a long time until many years later a dispute arose again about the boundary line.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">We all know that Biloxi is one of the oldest cities in the U.S., but was for a long time asleep or like something undernourished, and remained that way for many years with its fine harbor and eveything to offe an opppotunity for bisiness but nothing yet in sight. &nbsp;There were a few residents along fron beach, no drive other than sandbed roads for horse&nbsp;and wagons. &nbsp;A few houses scattered here and there all the way out to Back Bay. &nbsp;Howard Avenue was only a sandbed road which at that time was called Pass Christian Road running from Oak Street at Point Cadet to Porter Avenue then crossing where the the L&amp;N Railroad is today and running west all the way to Pass Christian for which it was named and was the only means of traveling along the Coast.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">There were very few residents along the Coast, a few in Mississippi City and Long Beach and on up to Pass Christian. &nbsp;The few families who&nbsp;&nbsp;lived around&nbsp;Biloxi made their living planting gardens, some catching oysters and fish and selling the few they could, some raising cattle, herding and driving them as far as Mobile, crossing [the] Pascagoula River and others on ferryboats and selling them for beef. &nbsp;Sometime&nbsp;later the sawmills began to start sawing timber and they picked out places along the different rivers where there was navigation and created a market for lumber. &nbsp;Ship Island was then used fro for an anchoring ground for ships.The mills would load the lumber on smaller vessels which would convey it to the ships. &nbsp;The butchers then had a market for their meat which was mostly raised across the north side of Back Bay. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">They would butcher their meat, bring it across the Bay in rowboats, load it in wagons, haul it to front beach of Biloxi and there to Ship Island in boats that were used for freighting provisions and othe things to the ships. &nbsp;Thatcreated some circulation of money and the fishermenbegan to get a little business so there a couple of little oyster shops built and people from thecountry would cross the Bay in rowboats which were then used for ferrys to buy from these shops. &nbsp;They woiuld have a little money along to buy groceies too. &nbsp; The stores would get their supplies by water either from New Orleans or Mobile. &nbsp;There was no railroad as yet and after a few years of this slow but sure going the railroad came along, the L&amp;N, from Mobile to New Orleans. &nbsp;This was a little before or after the year 1870.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Early Shippers</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">With transportation, an opportunity for shipping seafood out of Biloxi arose. &nbsp;Sawmills being established all over the backwoods and the raising of cotton and other products built up a lot of towns, increased the population and opened a market for seafood by shipping via New Orleans and Mobile. &nbsp;The oyster dealers would dispose of their goods and oyster shops began to sparing up. &nbsp;William Gorenflo started a business near the Campgrounds [Methodist Seashore]&nbsp;on front beach as did a man by the name of Domingo and also Jimmy Maycox [sic]. &nbsp;These three shops were between the Campgrounds and the Lighthouse.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Farther east in fron beach of the harbor was Philmore Desporte. &nbsp;F.W. Elmer, Sr. established an oyster shop at the foot of Main Street. &nbsp;Main Street is the oldest street in Biloxi and runs all the way from front beach of Biloxi to Back Bay*. &nbsp;John T. Maberry [sic] started his business at the foot of Oak Street and started shipping oysters and the business began to extend farther up the state and into Alabama and Tennessee and Louisiana. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Laz Lopez</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Just about this time, Laz Lopez came to Biloxi and stayed around doing odd jobs here and there. &nbsp;Laz Lopez was a very brilliant man, not altogether in education but in business sense. &nbsp;Thus he went into the oyster business starting on a small scakle and becoming one of the largest shippers. &nbsp;He built up his business as he went along sometimes having to wait for his returns from his shipments&nbsp;in order to pay off his fishemen. &nbsp;The fleet of boats was now large enough to go out into the marshes where the oysters were better and more plentiful and would get paid on their return. He acquired a good business and quiet a &nbsp;few shells had accmulated. &nbsp;These shells were put to good use and &nbsp;used to surface the streets and a road was built from Point Cadet to Porter Avenue. &nbsp;The shells were also used on the front beach to surface it. &nbsp;The shells were hauled in wagons and dump carts and spread on the road and left for horses and wagons to smash, as there were no crushers. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Biloxi Canning Company</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Business being good, William Gorenflo, Mr. [W.K.M.] DuKate, Carl F. Theobald, who was an old Biloxi resident, got to gether and built the Biloxi Cannning Company, the same plant at the foot of Reynoir Street out on Back Bay as now stands. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">This plant was built was built not only for the oyster business, but these men had in mind the packing of steamed oysters but how were they to get at it? &nbsp;They knew nothing of the handling and processing. &nbsp;They became acquainted with a Mr. Patton, Charles Patton of Baltimore, Maryland. &nbsp;The state of Maryland is the “mother state” of the oyster packing industry and Mr. Patton was an experienced man in the business. &nbsp;He was planning to go to California to pack fruits and vegetables. &nbsp;They had him stop over in Biloxi for a while to show them how to pack oysters and so started their business and were successful, though only on a small scale.</span></span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">There was no can manufacturing in this part of the country and cans had to be gotten out west or in the northeast where can were then made. &nbsp;The boats would bring plenty enough oysters in but the process of packing was very slow because everything including the sealing of the cans had to be done by hand, using soldering irons much the same as plumbers and tin Smith’s are now. &nbsp;The solder was made in triangular bars about 1/2 inch thick and about 18-inches long. &nbsp;Rosin was used for soldering fluid. &nbsp;Later on the half-way round iron was adopted. &nbsp;It could spin around the cap and this helped some and made a little more progress.</span></span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">After getting pretty well started, Mr. Patton decided to continue his journey west and told his employers he was ready to leave. &nbsp;They decided to call a meeting. &nbsp;Mr. Gorenflo, DuKate, Lopez, and Patton were present and the subject was Mr. Patton’s departure. &nbsp;Some of them were willing to let him go but Mr. DuKate said that Mr. Patton was needed as they still had more to learn. &nbsp;Of course Mr. DuKate has another idea. &nbsp;They agreed then to get him to stay awhile longer, but he insisted on going. &nbsp;Mr. DuKate was anxious to see him stay and made him an offer which the rest agreed to and was that if he would stay his salary would be increased and he would be given a fifth interest in the business. &nbsp;Mr. Patton accepted.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">&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; &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; &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; </span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">Shrimp</span></strong></span></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">Prior to that time some shrimp had been handled by picking the heads off, boiling them and putting them in 2, 3 and 5 gallon cans in <strong>preservaline</strong>, each packer using his own formula. &nbsp;John T. Mayberry, being a chemist, made his own formula and it was the best of all. &nbsp;A good many of the others tried to buy the recipe but he would not sell to anyone. &nbsp;After Mayberry died, his wife gradually drifted out of the business and gave the recipe to Ulysses [Lul] Desporte, who succeeded his brother Philmore, who has been in the oyster business. &nbsp;He made use of the formula until it was outlawed by the health department. &nbsp;Presevalene didn\'t seem tpo appeal much to the members of the Biloxi Canning Company though. &nbsp;</span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Canning shrimp</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">Sometime after Mr. Patton agreed to stay with the company, Mr. DuKate came upon a new idea. &nbsp;He consulted Mr. Patton and asked that if he didn\'t thnk since oysters could be canned and processed that shimp could be as well. &nbsp;Mr. Patton agreed and and began to experiment but it wasn\'t as easy as oysters. &nbsp;They had quite a job. &nbsp;They boiled shrimp in a vat by putting them in sacks, tying the sackes, boiling a few minutes, having them peeled, put in cams and processed. &nbsp;After a few days, the cans were opened but the shrimp didn\'t look too well. &nbsp;They tried again and again, using different tie in boiling and processing without success. &nbsp;Something was wrong each time. &nbsp;The shrimp would always have a dark stain. &nbsp;They were about to give it up &nbsp;and that called for another meeting. &nbsp;Mr. Patton was asked what he thjought about it. &nbsp;Should they give up? &nbsp;Mr. Patton said no as he had another idea. &nbsp;His idea was that the cans should be lined. &nbsp;They tried it using white cotton cloth and had bags made , filled wiht shrimp and put them in cans, sealed and processed them. &nbsp;After a few days the cans were opened and there was no stain. &nbsp;This was the start of the shrimp packing industry. &nbsp;Every woman in the neighborhood who had a sewing machine had a job sewing bags for them and kept it up for a few years until better methods were discovered. &nbsp;Mr. Patton should be credited for his knowledge that started others in the packing business and so from time to time the methods improved and the capacity became greater and greater and as the industry became larger they began to expand.</span></span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Dunbars</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Dunbars has [sic] been operating a factory in New Olreans and decided to come to Biloxi and establish a factory. &nbsp;They merged with Mr. Lopez, took some of the machiney fom their plant in New Oleans, brought it to Biloxi and the Lopez, Dunbars Sons &amp; Company&nbsp;established a factory just east of the foot of Oak Street. &nbsp;Lopez, Dunbars &amp; Sons was established in 1884 [sic]. &nbsp;The Dunbars were residents of Louisiana. &nbsp;After they got started the Barataria Canning Compnay established a factory at the east end of Point Cadet and started packing oysters and &nbsp;shrimp. &nbsp;They handled raw oysters as well as steamed oysters, all imitating the old Biloxi Canning Company. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Hitchcock Company</span></strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By that time Biloxi began to wake up and along about the year 1890 a company from Baltimore came to Biloxi to establish&nbsp;a factory, the Hitchcock Company, just east of the Lopez, Dunbar &amp; Sons Company and situated between this company and the two others. &nbsp;This one had just gotten started when the Lopez Company bought them out, made improvements on it and used it for their main plant.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By this time there had been considerable improvements made in the handling of shrimp. &nbsp;As the shrimp had to be bought in from the marshes, which was quite a distance, the boats had to carry ice to preserve the shrimp. &nbsp;It was discovered that if these iced shrimp were picked before they were boiled, they would pick easier, boil firmer and there was much less bulk. &nbsp;The sealing of cans was much easier and faster. &nbsp;The caps of the cans were now solder hemmed. &nbsp;The capping irons were made perfectly round to fit the the cap, also the regular soldering fluid came into use and just a small brush was needed to dip and pass over the caps, drops the iron in place and the can would be sealed all around at one time.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Of course there were seveal men sealing at the time and after buying out the new plant the Lopez, Dunbars Sons &amp; Company, would steam the oysters, have them shucked, have the shrimp peeled, and transfer both to the otherplant across a little bridge built with tracks on which a small car was rolled. &nbsp;The L&amp;N Railroad Company ran a track from the crossing at&nbsp;Oak Street to the warehouse where they could be easily loaded.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the meantime after the purchase of the Hitchcock plant, the Lopez Company paid the Barataria Company for a five-year shutdown. &nbsp;This meant that they would not handle oysters othe than that what could be gotten from the grounds leased fom the Otts who owned from the east end of Point Cadet to the L&amp;N Bridge and which was a bedding ground. &nbsp;Under this contract they were allowed to handle shrimp. &nbsp;Thus, the Lopez, Dunbars Sons &amp; Company monopolized the packing of steamed oysters. &nbsp;Their business became so large they had to import labor. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Bohemians</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Now there were numbers of Polish people and others who woked in vegetable factories in the North during summer months and were idle in the winter. &nbsp;These people were offered a job which they accepted. &nbsp;A train was chartered which&nbsp;brought them to Biloxi. &nbsp;Now in order for the company [Lopez, Dunbars Sons &amp; Company] to get back the cost of their transportation, little brass checks about one-half inch wide and 1-inch long were made. &nbsp;These checks were worth $.07 1/2 cents each. &nbsp;These imported people had a separate place [in the factory] fom the native people to weigh the oysters they shucked and the checks they would get were punched and worth only $.06 cents. &nbsp;This made them pay $.01 1/2 cents on each cup of oysters for their transportation. &nbsp;These checks were good only at their own places of business until that was outlawed and employees had to be paid in cash. &nbsp;From then on the difference was made up in the weight.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Parchment liners</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">While the Barataria [factory] was closed on the oyster business they kept on packing shrimp. The general manager\'s&nbsp;name was <strong>Isidore Heidenheim</strong> and the foreman was <strong>George Edwards</strong> from Baltimore. &nbsp;He had three sons and a daughter: <strong>Harry Edwards</strong>, Eddie Edwards, George Edwards Jr., and Jennie Edwards who married the elder Louis Johnson of Biloxi. &nbsp;Old Harry Edwards died and his elder son Harry took his place as foreman. &nbsp;He began to experiment a little more on shrimp. &nbsp;There was a kind of paper manufactured in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania called parchment which was ater and stain proof. &nbsp;He used a sample of it and cut it to fit the cnas with a circle for the tops and bottoms and packed shrimp with this parchment liners. &nbsp;It proved to be a lot better and much easier than the cloth line and all other packers adopted it and gave the size they wanted to the firm in Philadelphia and from then on they were shipped to Biloxi by millions in packages of 500 ech cased up in 50 and 100 thousand lots and were used until just a few years ago when the enameled tin cans came into use. &nbsp;Now the cans don\'t need lining. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Packing wet shrimp</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>Harry Edwards also packed the first wet packed shrimp. &nbsp;All the shrimp packed in the first few years were dry and the market was out west and until yet the market is better&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>65 Years of Mississippi Seafood History</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[published&nbsp;in The Daily Herald on&nbsp;July 3, 1933, p. 16 ]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Fish, oysters,shrimp, crabs-these seafoods have played a large part in Biloxi\'s history, not only being important as foods in the days <em><strong>\"befo de wah\"</strong></em>, but they have played a large part in the town\'s business and economic history for more than 65 years. &nbsp;In the early days, when New Orleans and Delta families began to establish summer homes here, there were men who made a living for their families by catching and selling seafoods. &nbsp;Some few Coast residents are living, who can remember the time when fish were kept in heavy net wire boxes at the ends of the fish wharves. &nbsp;The fish box was drawn out of the water by windlass and the purchaser indicated this fish or that as the one desired-and the windlass lowered the box back into the water. &nbsp;It is said that most of the fish wharves were run by Spaniards. &nbsp;Years later, when ice was manufactured here, the present of iced fish came into use. &nbsp;The only ice previous to the establishment of the plant here in 1884 came from Mobile.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Oysters were first shipped out by schooner, in bushel sacks, of course unopened, and went to nearby points. &nbsp;With the coming of the railroad in 1870, they were shipped by rail, still in bushel sacks, to Montgomery, Vicksburg, Memphis, etc. &nbsp;<strong>Filmore Desporte</strong> (1856-1891) is credited, by his family, with being the first man to ship raw oysters out of Biloxi, sending them to Yazoo City, but others claim that a Spaniard by the name of <strong>Fresquitte</strong> [<strong>Peter A. Pons and Antonio Catchot of Ocean Springs were shipping oysters to New Orleans and Mobile by rail as early as 1872</strong>]<strong>&nbsp;</strong>was the first shipper of raw oysters having sent them to his brother in Vicksburg.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the early days, oysters were eaten all the year round, with the summer trade the best, as the summer colonists enjoyed them as a change of diet and meat was not easily procured. &nbsp;Now there is a tradition that oysters should be eaten only in the months in which an \"r\" is found-though of course they are eaten the year round by many.[<strong>Not true. &nbsp;In the 1860s people were using the \'r\' rule. see The Daily Picayune, \'About oysters\', September 8, 1867, p. 8</strong>]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The late <strong>William Gorenflo Sr</strong>. is generally credited with being the pioneer in the shrimp and oyster industry and is authority for the statement that the finest oysters in this vicinity are to be found in Back Bay on \"<strong>Ballast Bank\"</strong>, where it is believed from articles recovered from the water at that point, that the d\'Iberville boats, in order to get up the bay to safe harbor, threw overboard guns, boxes and belongings. &nbsp;This reef was about to be exhausted and Mr. Gorenflo proposed that several thousand barrels of shell be planted there, which was done, with successful outcome. &nbsp; The preservation of this bank was carried on in varying ways for many years. &nbsp;For a long time, oystermen were compelled by city ordinance to open all oysters caught there, on the bank, returning the shells to the water. &nbsp;This however, &nbsp;was changed a few years back, &nbsp;in the interest of sanitation.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Among the first shippers of raw seafoods were the senior <strong>Mr. Gorenflo</strong>. <strong>L. Lopez Sr</strong>., <strong>F.W. Elmer Sr</strong>., and his father-in-law, <strong>James Maycock</strong>, all now deceased. &nbsp;The first shipping plant was at the foot of Main Street and Front Beach; later the plant was moved to Reynoir and the Beach; for one season they were in front of the <strong>Drysdale property</strong>, now known as Beach Hotel; then they moved back to the foot of Reynoir street, where they leased their ground from the City for two years.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Next, the two rival companies merged and were joined by <strong>W.K.M. Dukate</strong> who had come here as a Western Union operator, and the plant was moved to the north end of Reynoir Street and called the <strong>Biloxi Canning Company</strong>. &nbsp;The beginning of the industry- in its present type- is placed at about 1874.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>H.J. Meaut</strong>, perhaps the last surviving Biloxian of those stirring days, was Mayor in 1875 and he was the first man to use shells for the building of roads. &nbsp;He had them used to fill in the ruts in the long road which led out Reynoir street to the Bay, and placed clay in the center of the road where the horses walked. This led to the system of shell roads and streets, for which Biloxi was famous for years, before the automobile forced the building of hard surfaced roads.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By the late seventies, the oyster industry was well launched. &nbsp;Oysters were steamed before being opened and canned in their own liquor, with a process not so different from that use now. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Packing Shrimp</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The effort to pack shrimp was fraught with many weary hours of experimentation, with heavy loss of funds and many heart breaking experiences, before there was any measure of success. &nbsp;The present sanitary wholesome can of shrimp is the result of years of continuous research and experimentation.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the early days the factories boiled the shrimp in the hulls, placed them in large muslin bags and a cart delivered them to the homes were the entire family assisted in hulling-the carts returning for the flesh for canning and the hulls from which fertilizer was made. &nbsp;This was slow and expensive, the some bright mind suggested picking tables under the large trees near the plant &nbsp;and later the tables were established on the long gallery which ran around the factory and this led to the present type tables in buildings around which pickers stand. &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>problem was keeping shrimp from turning black</strong> in the cans. &nbsp;The senior Mr. Dunbar, another family name long prominent in canning companies, was a shoe salesman in Massachusetts when the War Between the States opened and sent his wife and family to France to her people. &nbsp;There the boys learned to make syrups and cordials and upon their return to the States, such a business was established in New Orleans. &nbsp; Mr. Dunbar wished to can shrimp and many times made money with his syrups and cordials, only to lose it in is efforts with shrimp. &nbsp;His wife sugggested a muslin bag inside the can. &nbsp;This was tried, found good, and the idea patented. &nbsp;Biloxi packers were using corn shucks, cut to line the cans. &nbsp;The shucks were hard to obtain in quanity, and were cut by hand and the packers were eagerly looking for a safer, quicker method. &nbsp;Seeing the late T.P. Dulion open a cheese box in the old Lopez grocery, the elder Gorenflo thought he had found a way. &nbsp;Veneer wood was secured from Cincinatti. the idea patented, dies bought for cutting the tops and sides for the lining and about a 100 cases canned.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Opened a few weeks later, they were black as ink. &nbsp;They then built a huge tank, turned pipes for live stream into this and with a great quantity of soda, this veneer was boiled and reboiled until the wood was white and the water clear, and the pack was considered succesful. &nbsp;About this time the Dunbar patent expired and they could use the muslin bag. &nbsp;Next a parchment paper lining came into use, but this was expensive as it had to be bought abroad. &nbsp;A few years later an American parchment could be bought and this was used until about six years ago, when some research department, government or canning company, found a laquer for cans, which resisted the fruit juice effects and this could be used for shrimp. &nbsp;Two types of laquer have beeen used, but the fruit juice type came into use about four years ago and is the best thing yet tried.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">However, the canning of shrimp is not easy and through the last few months scientists of a can company research department and from the government, have been at work here, trying to remove the last uncertainties from the process. &nbsp;It seems the best way to test shrimp for spoilage is by odor, as a bad odor will show up long before the meat is dangerous for consumption.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Factory whistles blow from 4 a.m. on and the shuckers hasten to their posts as work must be well started,before the canning crew can get underway. &nbsp; One factory here was credited with canning 1500 barrels in one day, this spring, working from, 4 a.m. &nbsp;to 7:30 p.m., which is a phenomenal pack.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Since 1900 there have been a few women who have taken important parts in the executive end of the packing or raw shipping business. &nbsp;The first of these, <strong>Mrs. Sophie Kuhn Desporte</strong>, went into Mr. Desporte\'s plant at the foot of Lameuse Street, shortly before their marriage. &nbsp;They worked together, he handling the &nbsp;buying of the raw seafood product and the workmen and she handling the office and selling except she also kept an eagle eye on everything that went on in the plant. &nbsp;Her hours were often from 4 a.m. till long passed dark, but Mr. and Mrs. Desporte had a successful plant. &nbsp;She continued in the work until 1925, when Mr. Desporte\'s health broke. &nbsp;The plant was leased for some years, but is now completly closed.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mrs. Joseph Edward Wentzell </strong>was the next local woman to enter the executive end of the seafood business and with her husband and his brother has run a raw shipping for some twenty years or more.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The late <strong>Mrs. I. Heidenheim</strong> who was <strong>Miss&nbsp;</strong><strong>Anna Eve Riego</strong> (1874-1931) of New Orleans before her marriage went into the office of the old Barataria Company in 1913. &nbsp;When this company was reorganized in 1917, she was given an executive position and upon her husband\'s death soon after, she became general manager, in which capacity she served until her death a few years ago.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mrs. <strong>Mary &nbsp;Skrmetti Anticich</strong> was the next woman to enter the executive end, taking over the management of the Biloxi Trading and Packing Company in 1919 when she was quite young. &nbsp;Mrs. Anticich was born in Isle Brac, Dalmatia Province, now Jugo-Slavia, coming here with her parentswhen she was about two years old.&nbsp; &nbsp;She is credited with being a good business woman at the age of ten, as she had served as interference between her father and uncles and the bankers and businessmen since she was so little she was placed on a table in their midst. &nbsp;Mrs.&nbsp;Anticich now operates the Anticich Packing Company and some allied interests.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Fortunes in this industry have neve been stable. &nbsp;One company will go broke in a certain locality, only to have another company take the same location and wax rich-this has happpened often in Biloxi and oftener than in other industries. &nbsp;It is common for a foreign born boatman to who came here to work for some company, to learn the business, gradually save money, and buy a boat, or \"work one out\" for a factory and with his sons finally go into the canning business with some member of the family in each department. &nbsp;Many of them get rich, others suffer the usual ups and downs financially. &nbsp;But a packer long familiar with the industry here, states that in her belief, the industry in the next several years will be in the hands of and governed by these families and groups of foreign born, or decent, owners who work right along in the factory.&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">______________________________________________________________</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REMEMBER</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><strong>by Ernest Desporte</strong></em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202021-08-11%20at%2011.53.49%20AM.png\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Antonio Pons</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi’s Retail Fish Business</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Between Main and Reynoir Streets flourished a unique retail fish</strong> business.&nbsp; Each fish dealer had a small building on the south side of the wharf from which he operated.&nbsp; <strong>As fish could not be sold unless alive</strong>, they had live fish boxes that could be raised and lowered into the water to an advisable depth.&nbsp; The boxes in which the live fish were kept were made so that water flowed through them, giving the fish fresh moving water.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>fish dealer owned skiff, trammel nets and a large fish car</strong>.&nbsp; The car was a contraption in which the catch was put.&nbsp; The fisherman would take two skiffs, a set of trammel nets and row over to Deer Island or along the coast looking for enough fish to set their nets.&nbsp; Accompanying them was a man with the fish car in which to put the fish.&nbsp; When the car was sufficiently filled, the car attendant would swim it to the dealer, as he had no other means of propelling [it].</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The fish was transferred to the dealer’s fish box.&nbsp; When a <strong>customer came, the fish box was raised from the water for the prospective buyer’s inspection</strong> and the choosing of his fish swimming in the water.&nbsp; The fish chosen was scooped up and strung on a piece of palmetto for the buyer.&nbsp; Names of men in this business were: <strong>Magrots</strong>, <strong>Matlaya</strong>, <strong>Antonio</strong>&nbsp;\"<strong>Tony\" Pons&nbsp;</strong>[1844-1911] and <strong>Louis Solari </strong>[1868-1932].</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Flounder Torch</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>by Ernest Desporte</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>evolution of the torch used to flounder&nbsp;</strong>with-first we used a <strong>wine basket suspended from a shaft</strong> about five feet long. &nbsp;On the butt of the shaft was part of a wooden hoop which was held against the body. &nbsp;<strong>The fuel was pine knots</strong>. &nbsp;One man carried a sack of pine knots and the other the torch. &nbsp;Whne you passed under a wharf and somebody dropped a little bag [of sand?] on your torch, it hit the water and you usually did also!</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>next type of torch </strong>which came into use, which was a big improvement, was one in which you <strong>burned cotton balls</strong>. &nbsp;You would make a half dozen cotton balls and soak them in kerosene oil.&nbsp; One party would carry the torch, while his partner would a carry a twelve quart bucket in which was the cotton balls soaking in oil.&nbsp; This was also a &nbsp;good one to sandbag.&nbsp; Usually when a small [sand] bag was dropped on the shaft, your torch hit the water and you were in complete darkness.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>next improvement in the torch</strong> was the <strong>use of an asbestos ball</strong> suspended from a pipe attached to a tank filled with <strong>kerosene oil that dripped on the asbestos ball.</strong>&nbsp; That was the last type of torch used.&nbsp; The coming of the reflector gas or electric light eliminated the fun of sand bagging.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>A Story of Mississippi’s Seafood Industry</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><img alt=\"\" src=\"file://localhost/Users/raybellande/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_image002.png\" style=\"height:3px; width:3px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"file://localhost/Users/raybellande/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_image004.png\" style=\"height:3px; width:3px\" /></strong><strong>The Mississippi Croatian Story: Overcoming Adversity</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>By Kat Bergeron</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>Sun Herald, South Mississippi’s News Leader</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>(Reprinted with permission from the April 27, 2014 issue)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Croatians of the Mississippi Coast love to tell the story of Nikola Skrmetta, who immigrated from the Dalmatian Coast in the late 1890s. Biloxi was growing strong seafood legs, in need of workers to harvest and can oysters and shrimp. With a legendary strength of 10 men, he went to work in the labor-intensive industry.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">This one man is credited with starting an early 20th&nbsp;century immigrant title wave of other Slavonians coming to work on the Gulf Coast.&nbsp; The story goes that Nicholas “Nick” Skrmetta – his Americanized name – jumped ship in New Orleans and soon found himself in Biloxi. As he stood at a trolley stop he struck up a conversation with Laz Lopez, owner of a factory and fleet of schooners. The story further explains he could not speak English and Lopez could not speak Croatian so they communicated in a mixed European language that included Italian. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">That day Lopez offered Skrmetta a job. Lopez was so impressed with his energy and hard work that he asked, “Are there any more like you?”&nbsp; There were. Hundreds of them. Their offspring number in the thousands now. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Skrmetta convinced family and friends that America was the land of opportunity. At that time, their homeland was under the thumb of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Life was tough for non-royals, and many young men were being conscripted into the army, known for its cruel treatment of soldiers.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<em>Daily Herald</em>&nbsp;in May 1905 declared in a headline: “Many Slavs Coming, are Driven To America by Untoward Conditions.” Wars and conquerors had historically pockmarked the peace and prosperity of their Central European homeland.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1903 in response to Skrmetta’s convincing, the first contingent of “Austrians,” as they were then called, arrived by way of Ellis Island. This group of five from the village of Bobovišće, included Steve M. Sekul and Peter M. Skrmetta. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">They were as hard working as the first Skrmetta, and factory and schooner owners wanted even more like them. Austrians obliged. That first group sent for wives and children and more men to work, a move repeated again and again.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Freedom in America</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Eventually whole extended families settled in Biloxi, forming a close-knit community on the peninsula known as Point Cadet. When Skrmetta died in 1918, the <em>Herald</em>&nbsp;reported he “will be greatly missed by Biloxians, and especially those of his people who relied on him for advice in their affairs.” &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Women and older children worked in canneries, as did some of the men, although many worked on the boats and docks. At first they lived on Biloxi’s version of Cannery Row, in small camp housing, but they saved and eventually built their own fisherman cottages. Some bought their own schooners.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">This early 20th&nbsp;century wave of immigrants has been variously called Austrians, Yugoslavians and Croatians, depending on what stage of history their homeland was in. About 250 families came in that wave, and they tended to have lots of children. &nbsp;“In America it wasn’t an easy life, but they could live free and that was most important,” said Anthony [sic] “FoFo” Gilich, president of the century-old Slavonian Benevolent Association of St. Nichole headquartered in Biloxi. &nbsp;“Coming to the United States was a big opportunity. The first Croatians were ambitious, and some became factory and boat owners, even factory owners themselves, or their children did. Education was important and that lead to Croatian doctors, lawyers, pharmacists and business leaders. &nbsp;“They had arrived with little money, no safety net and no assurance of success. They taught us leadership and not to be afraid of anything.” &nbsp;Gilich, at 66, is a computer program developer and grandson to one of the 1903 Dalmatian arrivals. Gilich’s first job was “catching cans” off the conveyer belts of Sea Coast Packing Company, owned by his grandfather and located where the Golden Nugget Casino now sits. He estimates that less than five percent of the descendants now work in the seafood industry.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Coast Waves of Slavs, French, Polish</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">These early 20th&nbsp;century immigrants supplied much of the brawn for the Coast’s seafood industry, the region’s economic engine. But the Croatians were actually the second wave of immigrants to make Mississippi seafood buzz. &nbsp;In 1890 the first so-called Bohemians arrived by trainloads to work for factories to fill a local labor shortage. These seasonal workers, mostly of Polish background, came from Baltimore.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Already, a few Croatians had settled in the Gulf region to work with oysters during the post-Civil War Central European migration. Explained a November 1893&nbsp;<em>Herald</em>: “They are Austrians or descendants of Austrian parentage, a hardy, economical and industrious class – worthy and good men…”But the wave of Slavonian immigrants spurred by the Skrmetta-Lopez acquaintance didn’t begin until 1903. That was followed in 1914 by the first Acadians, or Louisiana Cajuns, then in the late 1970s by the Vietnamese.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Few of the Bohemians, seasonal by nature, stayed permanently so their place in seafood history is an early dot, and the Vietnamese are still writing their chapter. A century later, the French and Slavonians have proven their staying power. &nbsp;“Like a lot of immigrants they went from being workers and laborers to being prominent citizens, politicians, lawyers, business owners and doctors, playing important community roles,” said Murella Hebert Powell, Biloxi’s historian emeritus. “In the beginning they were the backbone of the seafood industry. &nbsp;“It’s remarkable that the Acadians and the Slavonians, who at first couldn’t talk to each other because of language barriers, were soon marrying each other. Yet, each of these groups have managed to hold on to their own identities. The French still have their Fleur De Lis Society and the Croatians have their Slavonian Benevolent Association.&nbsp; “They became a melting pot but they retained that individuality as a people. The Yugoslavs were making gumbo and the Cajuns making pusaratas.”</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Pusaratas are a type of European fruit doughnut ball still popular on the Coast and gumbo is a seafood stew brought from Louisiana.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Tradition! Tradition!</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Croatian traditions remain strong, although like many Americanized cultures, they are fading. The native-language songs, often accompanied by an accordion, are now more of a rarity than commonplace at the Slavonian Lodge. Their South Slavic language, too, is rarely heard on the Coast.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">“I didn’t grow up speaking the language,” said Capt. Pete Skrmetta, 88-year-old patriarch of the family that runs the Ship Island ferry and son of the 1903 Skrmetta immigrant of the same name.&nbsp; “That was the only language my father spoke when he was young, but he married my mother from Bay St. Louis and she didn’t speak it. But he’d continue to use the language when speaking with the Croatians who worked with him catching oysters and shrimp. Some of the kids in school, like John Misko and Peter Barhanovich, was raised up with the language and they spoke it. &nbsp;“We were all raised up with the Cajuns and the Polish people, we all went to school together and were friends. The Cajun people liked to&nbsp;<em>fais do do</em>, have a good time. The Croatians were very serious people, we worked hard, saved money and invested. Where we came from, only the strong survived.”</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Religion also played an important role, as evidenced by St. Michael Catholic Church on Point Cadet, known as the “Fishermen’s Church.” It began as a mission in 1907 for the immigrants living in camp houses and working long hours each time factory whistles blew to announce fresh seafood arrivals. The modern version of the church, with its seashell dome, is noted for its Christian symbols of the sea. &nbsp;A generation ago, St. Stephens Day was a huge Slavonian observance, with the making of a special wine called Prucke from European raisins. One tradition that continues is the spring Blessing of the Fleet, an ancient European tradition open to fishermen of all cultural backgrounds to assure a bountiful and safe harvest. Many of the seafood festival kings and queens have come from this Croatian community.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>A Cultural Center Still Abuzz</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi lodge remains the center point for this immigrant community, now two, three and four generations as Americans. Parties, balls, weddings, even funerals are held there, and stone plaques list all deceased members. They first formed in 1913 as the Austrian-Slavonian Benevolent Association to fill the social needs as well as subscriptions to pay sick and disabled seafood workers.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Tragedy struck early when in 1916 the treasurer, also a founder, killed himself after admitting to misappropriating funds for personal use. Accustomed to adversity, they moved forward.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1921, in response to Yugoslavia now holding sway in their homeland, Biloxi Croatians got a new charter as the Slavonian Benevolent Association “St. Nicola.” The lodge they maintained became the center of their lives but was visited by others who gladly shared their traditions and entertainments, especially their dances and music. In 1956, the lodge installed an air conditioner at the behest of member Yankee Barhanovich, a promoter who planned a set of concerts that included Elvis Presley.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The current lodge, now called the Croatian American Cultural Center, replaces the one on Myrtle Street built in 1938, inundated in 1969 by Hurricane Camille and destroyed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. They say that building back, better than before, is proof they’d learned the lesson of overcoming adversity. It is an impressive $4 million building, reflective of the Croatian community’s prosperity but especially of the importance that descendants put on their roots.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oh So Many ‘iches’</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mississippi’s American-Croatians continue to visit the homeland, where some still have ties. Many have links to Dalmatia, an historical region of Croatia on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Among the many islands of this region is Brač, from which hailed recognizable Coast names, Mavar, Pitalo, Sekul, Skrmetta, Radish, Marinovich, Kuljis, to name a few.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The local joke was if the names ended in “viches and iches” you could safely bet they had Slavonian roots. Among others lucky enough to leave their war-torn homeland for Mississippi shores brought the names of Stanovich, Rosetti, Barhanovich, Mladinich, Marinovich, Simonich, Trebotich, Peresich, Cvitanovich, Covacevich, Fillipich, Radich, Polovich, Popovich, Gruich, Gabrich, Cerinich, Misco, Hire, Ragusin and Halat, to name a few more.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">They never forgot where they came from, nor did those they left behind. In September 1937, the&nbsp;<em>Southern Slavonian Herald</em>, an English-language newspaper that published in Belgrade, featured a Biloxi water scene and this explanation that was repeated in the&nbsp;<em>Daily Herald</em>: newspaper that published in Belgrade, featured a Biloxi water scene and this explanation that was repeated in the&nbsp;<em>Daily Herald</em>: &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">“Not Dalmatia’s Romantic Riviera, but the Mississippi Gulf Coast at Biloxi, where for more than 50 years Dalmatian fisher-folk have had this colony and where hundreds of Jugoslavs are today engaged in the fishing and canning industry.”</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>&nbsp;(Kat Bergeron, a veteran feature writer specializing in Gulf Coast history and sense of place, is retired from the Sun Herald.)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>Biloxi Seafood Chronology</u></strong></span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Pre-1900</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1860</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">State of Mississippi passed <strong>an Oyster Law on February 10, 1860.</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1865</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Jackson County, Mississippi had the 1860 Oyster Law amended to remove impediments to the oyster trade in Jackson County</strong>. &nbsp;These amenments were: <strong>Article 9</strong>-\"an act to prevent the destruction of oysters\" is repealed. &nbsp;<strong>Section 2</strong>-\"Be it further encated, That said act of the 10th of February, 1860, shall not be construed as to take away or in anywise impair the common rights of citizens of this State to the free use of the natural oyster beds which may exist in its waters.\" &nbsp;<strong>Section 3</strong>-\"Be it further enacted That it shall not be lawful, under the provisions of this act, for any person to take oysters or clams situated upon land which is the property of another person, without the consent of the owner.\" &nbsp;<strong>Section 4</strong>-\"Be it further enacted, That this act taked effect from and after its passage.\" &nbsp;Approved November 24, 1865.(The Laws of Mississippi, Chapter CCXLVII, p. 453)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1867</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">New Orleans has always been a large oyster consuming city. &nbsp;The general opinion in 1867 was that the best oysters, called <strong>Barataria</strong>, were harvested from the coast of Louisiana on both sides of the Mississippi River. Raw oysters from <strong>Pass Christian, Biloxi and other Mississippi coastal communites were also being shipped to the Crescent City for consumption. &nbsp;</strong>Fourteen barrels of harvested oysters was considered an average days work. &nbsp;People at this time were adhering to the <strong>\'no R rule\'</strong>, i.e. oysters were <strong>generally not eaten in months of the years that had no \'R\' making the oyster gathering and eating season September thru &nbsp;April</strong>.(The Daily Picayune, September 8, 1867, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1872</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Peter A. Pons &amp; Company</strong>-Dealer in Oysters. &nbsp;Will ship on line of New Orleans, Mobile &amp; Texas Railroad.(The Handsboro-Democrat, October 5, 1872)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1876</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202019-12-30%20at%202.13.00%20PM.png\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">[The Handsboro Democrat, July 1, 1876]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In July 1876, <strong>George Washington&nbsp;Dunbar</strong> (1816-1878) and <strong>George Hacker&nbsp;Dunbar</strong> (1844-1917), his son, went to Washington D.C. and obtained a patent in the processing and canning of shrimp.&nbsp; George H. Dunbar is credited with improving the packaging of shrimp as to retain its freshness, color and delicate flavor.&nbsp; The US Patent Office granted the Dunbar patent without hesitation after its chemical inspectors examined the Dunbar product.(The Daily Picayune, July 16, 1876, p. 11)</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Deer Island Oyster and Fish Company-\"</strong>Oysters and fish in any amounts. &nbsp;Oysters supplied,&nbsp;open in cans, buckets, or in shell, or, by the sack or car load.\"(The Biloxi Mirror, September 9,&nbsp;1876, p. 3)&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1877</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Emile Laudner</strong>, nee Ladner, (1840-1890), proprietor of the Deer Island Oyster and Fish Company bought a lot on the beach front at Biloxi between A.C. Nixon and H.P. Buckley from <strong>Burissa Bradford Holley</strong> (1808-1881) in January&nbsp;1877. &nbsp;Emile Laudner became a two term Mayor of Biloxi (1883-1884 and 1887-1888).(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 15, p. 401)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1880</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Louisiana was the first of Mississippi’s coastal neighbors to pass legislation preventing the removal of oysters from its waters.</strong>&nbsp; In 1880 and again in July 1882, their legislature ruled in House Bill No. 308 that “no person who is not a citizen or resident of the State of Louisiana shall be permitted or allowed to plant oyster beds at or in, or to take oysters by fishery from any place above enumerated within the limits of or under the jurisdiction of the State of Louisiana.”[The Daily Capitolian-Advocate [Baton Rouge], July 3, 1882, p. 3]</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/A54000BF-761C-4A8B-9CD4-DBC99B814F0D.jpeg\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">The</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1881</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Harrison County Board of Supervisors appointed William F. Gorenflo, James Maycock and J.D. Mayer to draft an ordinance regulating the catching and cultivation of oysters</strong> in Harrison County, Mississippi.(The Pascagoula-Democrat Star, May 20, 1881, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Lopez, Elmer and Company</strong>. &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). &nbsp;<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em> 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\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1883</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Canning Company</strong>-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;Mississippi was chartered on March 23, 1883.&nbsp;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;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. It was 200 feet deep and ran to the Back Bay Road.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 21, p. 549)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1885</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The <strong>Biloxi Canning Company signed a contract </strong>with the Victor Manuafacturing Company of Dayton, Ohio for a <strong>5-ton ice machine. </strong>&nbsp;Four cold storage rooms 12 feet by 12 feet were planned.[The Biloxi Herald, September 21, 1895, p. 8 and March 28, 1896, p. 8]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Barataria Canning Company was chartered to operate in the State of Mississippi </strong>on April 4, 1885.&nbsp; The incorporators were: Simon Gumble (1832-1909), Isidore Heidenheim (1852-1918), William H. Lengsfield (1851-1925), Isidore Hechinger (1857-1927), and Harry Edwards (1860-1929).(Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Chattel Deed Book 20, p. 462)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>General Joseph R. Davis</strong>&nbsp;(1825-1896) representing the <strong>Biloxi Canning Company filed an injunction to restrain Jackson County, Mississippi officials from enforcing an ordinance</strong> recently passed <strong>relating to the catching of shrimp</strong>.(The Daily Picayune, August 31, 1885, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1886</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Yellow Fever quarantine at Biloxi shut down the seafood industry here</strong>. &nbsp;The Biloxi Canning Company closed its doors on 22 October and released its approximately 70 employees. &nbsp;These laborers were entirely dependent upon the factory for their subsistence.(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, October 22, 1886, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1887</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi Artesian Ice Manufacturing Company&nbsp;</strong>was founded in early 1887.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was a stock company headed by John Walker (1834-1907), president; Theodore P. Dulion (1861-1907), treasurer; W.K.M. Dukate (1853-1916), secretary and general manager; and R.E. Lee Elder (1865-1931], chief engineer.&nbsp;John Wein (1851-1931), was the assistant engineer.[Dyer, 1895]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1888</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(14, 75, 126); color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:courier new,courier,monospace\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">The&nbsp;</span><strong>Biloxi Artesian Ice Manufacturing Company is now prepared to take ice orders&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">from all along the Coast.(The Biloxi Herald, March 31, 1888, p. 8)&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(14, 75, 126); color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Oyster Law.</strong>(see The Biloxi Herald, April 28, 1888, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Edward C. Joullian</strong>&nbsp;(1863-1931) acquired the <strong>Knights of Labor factory on Back Bay </strong>from Rowena L.M. Nixon (1840-1917) and moved his family from Scranton [Pascagoula, Mississippi] this week and is now here permanently. &nbsp;Mr. Joullian will <strong>engage in the shipping of shrimp and raw oysters</strong>. &nbsp;The tract was&nbsp;conveyed to Joullian for $400.&nbsp; It had a front on Back Bay of 61 ¾ feet and ran south to Bayou Auguste.(The Biloxi Herald, July 28, 1888, p. 8 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 24, p. 84)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202018-06-20%20at%209.25.51%20AM.png\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[The Biloxi Herald, August 11, 1888, p. 1]</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Gulf Coast Shippers and Packers Association will meet at Elmer\'s Hal</strong>l on August 13th.(The Biloxi Herald, August 11, 1888, p. 8</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William Gorenflo &amp; Company</strong>-packers of canned goods and shippers of raw oysters. Prompt shipments&nbsp;and low prices guaranteed. &nbsp;Located at 209 East Back Bay in 1922.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lopez, Dunbar\'s Sons &amp; Company</strong>-packers of oysters, shrimp, figs, vegetables, etc. and shippers of raw&nbsp;oysters. &nbsp;Send for price list.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Phil. Desporte</strong>-shipper of raw oysters in bulk, opened, or in sealed cans. &nbsp;Front Street, foot Lameuse. Price list on application.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>F.W. Elmer</strong>-shipper raw oysters. &nbsp;Orders promptly attended to. &nbsp;Front Street near Main.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>E.C. Joullain Packing Company</strong>-Canned goods and raw oysters. &nbsp;Located at 251 East Back Bay in 1905.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Phil. McCabe</strong>-shipper of raw oyster, manufacturer of oyster cans, dealer in groceries, hardware, Pass&nbsp;Christian and Lameuse Streets.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J.T. Maybury</strong>-shipper of raw oysters and canned shrimp, and dealer in groceries. &nbsp;Maybury (1841-1894)&nbsp;also from Baltimore. &nbsp;Buried at Mobile. &nbsp;Also mercantile interest.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1889</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">The </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\"> by Charles W. Slagle, Peter F. Winebrenner and David E. Winebrenner, all of Baltimore, Maryland. Their plant was situated on Point Cadet east of Oak Street.&nbsp; It was acquired in August 1891, by the Lopez, Dunbar Sons &amp; Company for $25,000.&nbsp; The management of Lopez, Dunbar &amp; Son consisted of of Lazaro Lopez, Frank Dunbar, W.K.M. Dukate, Foucher Dunbar, and George H. Dunbar.[Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Book 24, pp. 69-72 and Book 27, p. 49] &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>F.W. Elmer&nbsp;</strong>announced in mid-November &nbsp;that he w<strong>as no longer affiliated with the Biloxi Canning Company</strong>. &nbsp;He is&nbsp;<strong>now in business shipping raw oysters</strong>&nbsp;on his own account.(The Biloxi Herald, November 16, 1889, p. 4) &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lopez, Dunbar\'s Sons &amp; Company has made large additions to their shucking sheds to improve working conditions. &nbsp;White and black workers are needed.</strong>(The Biloxi Herald, November 16, 1889, p. 4) &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1890 Biloxi Canneries</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In February 1890, <em>The Biloxi Herald</em> announced that there were six large factories and many raw oyster&nbsp;dealers operating at Biloxi. &nbsp;The journal listed the following canning factories-oyster shippers on February 22,&nbsp;1890, p. 3:</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Canning Company</strong>-packers of canned goods and shippers of raw oysters. &nbsp;W.A. Gordon, president; C.F. Theobald, secretary.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Barataria Canning Company</strong>-I. Heidenheim, secretary. &nbsp;Packers of hermetically sealed oysters, shrimp, figs, and vegetables.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William Gorenflo &amp; Company</strong>-packers of canned goods and shippers of raw oysters. &nbsp;Prompt shipments and low prices guaranteed.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lopez, Dunbar\'s Sons &amp; Company</strong>-packers of oysters, shrimp, figs, vegetables, etc.and shippers of raw oysters. &nbsp;Send for price list.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Phil. Desporte</strong>-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\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>F.W. Elmer</strong>-shipper raw oysters. &nbsp;Orders promptly attended to. &nbsp;Front Street near Main.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>E.C. Joullain Packing Company</strong>-Canned goods and raw oysters. &nbsp;Back Bay.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Phil. McCabe</strong>-shipper of raw oyster, manufacturer of oyster cans, dealer in groceries, hardware, Pass Christian and Lameuse Streets.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J.T. Maybury</strong>-shipper of raw oysters and canned shrimp, and dealer in groceries.&nbsp;Maybury</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Bohemian%20children.png\" style=\"height:300px; width:371px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bohemians</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Another salient facet of the Coast’s seafood history was “the Bohemians”.&nbsp; With the exponential growth of oyster canning, especially at Biloxi between the late 1880s and until the First World War, the local labor force was insufficient to meet the seasonal demand of its factories.&nbsp;Among the first migrant workers enlisted to ameliorate this situation were people of eastern European origin primarily from Poland.&nbsp;&nbsp;They preceded by about a decade the major influx of “Austrians”, seafood workers at Biloxi from the Dalmatian coast of present day Croatia.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kopszywa Family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Kopszywa family led a peripatetic existence very characteristic of Bohemians at this time before finally at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp;&nbsp;As an example of a Bohemian’s family life, the author has compiled a biographical sketch of this family’s journey from Polish immigrants to productive Americans seafood workers.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Edward Eugene Kopszywa (1887-1962) was born in Sedziskow, Poland.&nbsp;&nbsp;He arrived in Maryland on September 8, 1904 sailing from Bremen, Germany.&nbsp;&nbsp;Circa 1907, he married Mary Misiora (1889-1939), also Polish born, who came to Baltimore circa 1901 from Zagorzyce, Poland.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Kopszywa became an American citizen at Baltimore on June 17, 1917.(Declaration of Intention No. 823-August 1, 1913 at Baltimore, Maryland; Petition for Naturalization No. 2716 at Baltimore, Maryland-March 1917; and The&nbsp;Daily Herald, November 20, 1939, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By 1909, the Edward E. Kopszywa family was domiciled at Pass Christian, Mississippi with their first three children: Joseph A. Kopszywa (1909-1959) m. Waltie ; Frank E. Kopszywa (1910-1983) m. Carrie Breal (1911-1997); and Walter A. Kopszywa (1912-1987) m. Madeline Alfreda Everett.&nbsp;&nbsp;Joseph was born in Mississippi while his siblings were natives of Baltimore.[Harrison Co., Mississippi 1920 Federal Census R T625_877, p. 23A, ED 52]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The family returned to Baltimore where Henry Kopszywa (1914-1973) m. Roumania Everett and Edward E. Kopszywa Jr. (1916-1987) m. Madeline Prims (1917-2003) were born.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1917, Edward Kopszywa was employed as a brass caster by W.H. Hines at Pasadena, Maryland.&nbsp;&nbsp;Before May 1919, the family had returned to the Mississippi Coast as Mr. Kopszywa was master of the I. Heidenheim, a Biloxi fishing schooner.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By 1920 at Pass Christian, both Edward and Mary M. Kopszywa were employed with other Bohemians at the Dunbar-Dukate cannery managed by Rudolph V. Abbley, formerly of Biloxi.(WW I Draft Registration Card-Baltimore, Maryland, The Daily Herald, May 13, 1919, p. 1 and Harrison Co., Mississippi 1920 Federal Census R T625_877, p. 23A, ED 52]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">When Mary Kopszywa died on Oak Street in November 1939, Edward Kopszywa was at sea on the&nbsp;<em>Jane</em>, a freight schooner.&nbsp;&nbsp;She had been a member of the Seafood Worker’s Association.&nbsp;&nbsp;In May 1940 at Bay St. Louis, Captain Kopszywa married Inez Anna Holley (1920-1999), a native of Pass Christian, Mississippi.(The&nbsp;Daily Herald, November 20, 1939, p. 3 and June 10, 1940, p.&nbsp;&nbsp;5)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The other Kopszywa children born on the Mississippi Coast and were reared on Crawford and Oak Street in Biloxi: Stanley J. Kopszywa (1920-1969) m. Lola Brousssard (1926-2004) and Mary Fields Richelle; Leona Kopszywa (1922-1992) married Jack Gazzo (1921-1952); and Anna Kopszywa (1926-2010) married Joseph A. Smolcich (1922-2010).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">It appears that the <strong>Sea Coast Packing Company, the first and only cannery at Biloxi that was owned and operated by Baltimorians</strong>, was the <strong>first to import what the Biloxi people called “the Bohemians”.&nbsp;</strong> These people <strong>resided at Baltimore, Maryland</strong>, which at this time was a major seafood, canning center.&nbsp; The term Bohemian was derived from <strong>Bohemia,</strong> a former kingdom and province of the Hapsburg Empire, which is now a part of <strong>western Czechoslovakia</strong>.&nbsp; They spoke a <strong>Slavic dialect closely related to Slovak, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and Russian.&nbsp;</strong> In general a Bohemian at Biloxi could represent immigrants primarily from northern and eastern Europe.&nbsp; On occasions they were blatantly referred to as Bohunks. &nbsp;In January 1890, <strong>sixty Bohemians arrived at Biloxi by train to work for Sea Coast Packing and they were quartered at the Hotel de Bohemia</strong>, surely a sarcastic euphemism for factory-owned labor camp.&nbsp; Many <strong>locals came to observe these strangers from Baltimore and decided that they had neither tusks nor tails</strong>.&nbsp; This group departed Biloxi in May 1890 for Baltimore.(The Biloxi Herald, January 11, 1890, p. 4 and May 17, 1890, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By November 1890, the <strong>second contingent of Bohemians were employed at Sea Coast Packing when 30 of their group became disenchanted with the management of the oyster packing house and went on strike. &nbsp;</strong> E.C. Joullian manager of the Booth Packaging Company at Morgan City, Louisiana came to Biloxi and hired some of the dissidents for his Louisiana operations. &nbsp;The Barataria Canning Company at Biloxi also hired some of the striking Bohemians.&nbsp; The <strong>remainder of the Bohemians continued at Sea Coast thus defusing a potential economic catastrophe for all</strong>.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 22, 1890, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Sea Coast Packing labor incident of 1890 was probably the first recorded attempt at a seafood strike on the Coast.&nbsp; It certainly would not be the last as the industry has had many work stoppages during its long history.&nbsp; The founding of the Oystermen’s Protective Association at Biloxi in the summer of 1903, organized about 400 seafood workers which gave them leverage to negotiate with the powerful factory proprietors.(The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;August 17, 1903, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In early May 1901, a special train was assembled at Biloxi composed of about five coaches&nbsp;and a baggage car to accommodate Bohemian workers from the Baltimore area who were returning&nbsp;home from their fall and winter work at the Lopez and Dukate cannery and from factories in Pass Christian.&nbsp;The oyster canning season had just ended on the Mississippi coast and these migrant workers were returning&nbsp;to work the summer at canneries on the east coast. &nbsp;They were expected to return in the fall for the&nbsp;next oyster season.&nbsp;&nbsp;This scenario would be repeated for several decades on the Mississippi Coast as these seasonal workers from Maryland labored in the seafood industry from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 5, 1901, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1904 Barber Bill</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In&nbsp;February 1904, Evon M. Barber (1858-1921), of Biloxi and representing Harrison County, attempted to introduce legislation in the State House of Representatives via the Fisheries Committee to deny the right of anyone not a Mississippi resident to fish on public oyster reefs.&nbsp; This law directly targeted the Bohemian migrant worker from Baltimore.&nbsp; Mr. Barber, an attorney, also represented the Oystermen’s Protective Association.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>That part of the Barber Bill to prohibit out of state laborers, in particular those seasonal migrants from Baltimore called Bohemians, to work in the Mississippi seafood industry was killed by the Fisheries Committee of the House of Representatives after members visited the Coast to inspect the industry.&nbsp; The Clarion Ledger, a Jackson journal, related that the “ ‘oyster committee’ has returned [to Jackson] from the Gulf Coast just like all other committees sent down that way do-full of oysters and other good things to eat and possibly a little something to wash them down.”</strong><em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;February 24, 1904, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late&nbsp;February 1904,&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>&nbsp;published an opinion from the editor of&nbsp;<em>The Pass Christian Beacon</em>&nbsp;concerning the proposed disenfranchisement of the Bohemian labor force from Baltimore sent to work seasonally on the Coast. &nbsp;His salient point was as follows.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>“If the legislature can pass such class legislation it can go further and say that none but resident citizens [of Mississippi] will be permitted to shuck oysters, or that none but home-raised negroes will hereafter be permitted to pick cotton or cut turpentine boxes</em></strong>&nbsp;[in pine trees].&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>The greatest drawback now to the oyster industry is the scarcity of labor, and if this difficulty is increased by legislation the evil effects will be felt in every community where the industry is followed.&nbsp; The members of the committee from the legislature that visited the Coast last week noted the fact that more labor was needed at all the canneries.”</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Barataria%20plant-1895_1.jpg\" /> </span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Barataria Canning Company</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The initial incorporators in April 1885 of the Barataria Canning Company were primarily Jewish businessmen from New Orleans, Louisiana.&nbsp;&nbsp;Their large factory was situated on the Biloxi Channel near the end of Point Cadet.&nbsp;&nbsp;By 1891, Barataria was importing Bohemian families from Baltimore to supplement their local work force</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bohemians at Biloxi</strong></span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;Now there were numbers of Polish people and others who worked in vegetable factories in the North during summer months and were idle in the winter. &nbsp;These people were offered a job, which they accepted. &nbsp;A train was chartered which&nbsp;brought them to Biloxi. &nbsp;Now in order for the company [Lopez, Dunbars Sons &amp; Company] to get back the cost of their transportation, little brass checks about one-half inch wide and 1-inch long were made. &nbsp;These checks were worth $.07 1/2 cents each. &nbsp;These imported people had a separate place [in the factory] fom the native people to weigh the oysters they shucked and the checks they would get were punched and worth only $.06 cents. &nbsp;This made them pay $.01 1/2 cents on each cup of oysters for their transportation. &nbsp;These checks were good only at their own places of business until that was outlawed and employees had to be paid in cash. &nbsp;From then on the difference was made up in the weight.[unpublished essay by&nbsp;Raymond Fournier (1876-1949),&nbsp;<strong>Mississippi Boundaries and its Seafood Industry on the Coast]</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Polish Priest</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Reverend Father Buikski of Baltimore came to Biloxi during the 1904 Lenten season to hold special services in Polish for the Bohemian factory workers at Biloxi.&nbsp; The majority of these people were Roman Catholics and did not speak English<strong>.(The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;February 24, 1904, p. 5)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bohemian School</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Barataria Mission School, also known as the Sabbath or Mission School, was&nbsp;a charitable, educational facility to educate children in the cannery camps on Point Cadet. &nbsp;It was overseen by Margaret Isabelle “Belle” Gordon (1862-1925)&nbsp;and Margaret “Maggie” Bowman Gordon Mass (1834-1907), her mother, and both were Presbyterians and native to New Orleans. &nbsp;The site for the school was provided by the Barataria Canning Company, a primarily Jewish owned cannery. &nbsp;The facility also taught night classes in reading, writing and arithmetic twice each week. &nbsp;In December 1903, the building needed a new roof, electric lights, and one volunteer to assist Miss Gordon. &nbsp;Mrs. Mass died at 1128 East Bayview Avenue, her home, in July 1907 and Belle Gordon died at Biloxi in May 1925.(The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;December 3, 1903, p. 6 and&nbsp;July 18, 1907, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Barataria Mission School was severely damaged by the hurricane of 27 September 1906.&nbsp; The replacement cost was estimated at $450 and the people of Point Cadet and the school staff worked diligently to raise money for the new building, a one-story, wood-framed structure, which was designed by Hugh H. Roof (1878-1969), an architect from Warren County, Ohio, who had just opened his Biloxi practice.&nbsp; The structure had dimensions of 25 feet by 40 feet.&nbsp; McCrary’s Cash Store held a benefit sale in late November 1906 to aid the school and the remainder of the funds were collected from generous donors and an Easter egg hunt and grab bag event held in the yard of Mr. Matthews.&nbsp; E.W. McCrary’s generosity must have been addictive as his confectionery store at Howard Avenue and Reynoir Street went into bankruptcy in late August 1909.(The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;September 27, 1906,&nbsp;November 24, 1906, p. 8,&nbsp;February 8, 1907, p. 1;&nbsp;March 7, 1907, p. 1;&nbsp;March 21, 1907, p. 1; and&nbsp;March 26, 1907, p. 1; and&nbsp;August 26, 1909, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Bohemian%20Camp-1960%20Down%20South_0.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:368px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253)\">Seafood Camps</span></span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(253, 253, 253)\">This vintage 1960s image of an east Biloxi seafood camp was situated on Point Cadet. &nbsp;Although the importation of seafood workers from Baltimore declined by 1920, camps like this existed at Biloxi until the late 20th century. &nbsp;I particularly remember the former Southern Shell neighborhood of shanties established for &nbsp;many of its workers on Back Bay. &nbsp;This venue is now the beautiful, oak-lined parking lot of the Boomtown Casino south of East Bayview Avenue opposite the gaming edifice. &nbsp;Menard\'s grocery store, the Fishermen\'s Hangout, Bruce\'s barbershop, and &nbsp;MaMa Lou\'s were other iconic structures in this area with several packing houses and small shipyards.</span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">For those interested in the migrant cultures that influenced the seafood industry at Biloxi, the author highly recommends C. Paige Gutierrez’s&nbsp;<u>The Cultural Legacy of Biloxi’s Seafood Industry</u>&nbsp;[ca 1984].&nbsp;&nbsp;Paige lucidly relates how the Bohemian, Croatian, Acadian French and later Vietnamese cultures were integrated into late 19th and 20th century Biloxi.&nbsp;&nbsp;This amalgamation created a blue collar, working class of people who were honest, primarily Roman Catholic, who reared large families and educated their children that prospered and became Biloxi’s doctors, lawyers and successful entrepreneurs.&nbsp; Kat Bergeron and Walter Fountain, both Biloxi journalist, have also written of her seafood industry and cultural relationships that defined it.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1891</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On June 1, 1892,<strong> Lopez, Dunbar\'s Sons &amp; Company acquired the</strong> <strong>Seacoast Oyster Packing Company</strong>. Seacoast was <strong>described as the largest and most complete establishment of its kind in the South</strong>.(The Biloxi Herald, June 20, 1891, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Barataria Canning Company completed their new plant on Point Cadet in July.</strong> &nbsp;It was 37,500 feet in area [750 long and 50 feet wide], which included living quarters for fifty families. &nbsp;The facilit had a shrimp house, boiler house and coal shed, labor quarters, shucking house, and packing room. &nbsp;The factory at this time had about 600 employees with 400 working directly in the cannery and 200 on the water. &nbsp;The plant hoist had the capacity to lift 2000 barrels of oysters each day. &nbsp;The company board consisted of: Herman&nbsp;Rudolph&nbsp;Gogreve (1827-1899), president; Isidore Heidenheim, vice-president and secretary; H. Bentz, treasurer; August Heidenheim; and H. Aron. &nbsp;H. Edwards Jr. was plant superintendent.(The Biloxi Herald, July 11, 1891, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>engine room of the Barataria Canning Company burned&nbsp;</strong>in early September 1891.&nbsp; Damage was estimated at $1000 and the plant was disabled for a few days.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, September 12, 1891, p. 4)</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Bartaria Canning Company</strong> and <strong>Lopez, Dunbar\'s Sons &amp;&nbsp;Company ceased to pack&nbsp;oysters until they could get a price competitive</strong> with the canneries on the eastern seaboard.(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, December 18, 1891, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1892</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Pat Kennedy</strong>&nbsp;(1845-1913) established <strong>P. Kennedy &amp; Company</strong> in November 1892 to <strong>engage in the business of shipping raw oysters</strong>.(The Biloxi Herald, November 12, 1892, p. 1)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1894</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202018-08-09%20at%209.47.54%20AM.png\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, January 20, 1894, p. 8.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1894, the <strong>Hygeia Ice Works</strong>, built for $35,000 and owned by the De La Vergne Manufacturing Machine Company of New York, <strong>was operating at Biloxi</strong> west of the railroad depot. The plant had the capacity to make 15 tons of ice each day with Charles McCormack was their local representative.(The Biloxi Herald, May 19, 1894, p. 8)&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1895</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The <strong>price war between the Biloxi Artesian Ice Manufacturing Company and Hygeia Ice Works ended </strong>when the companies joined forces and formed the Biloxi Delivery Company with John McCormack as manager.&nbsp;&nbsp;The price of ice was set at $9 per ton and soon reduced to $7 per ton [50 cents per 100 pounds retailed] as customers complained.[The Biloxi Herald, July 20, 1895, p. 8]</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Fayard &amp; Dodart have perfected a method of preserving stock oysters </strong>in a healthy environment. &nbsp;They have built a pen connected th their wharf on front beach which allows a continuous flow of salt water over the captured mollusks.(The Biloxi Herald, August 24, 1895, p. 8)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1896</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William Gorenflo</strong> (1844-1932) of Biloxi sold the Town of Ocean Springs 10,000 barrels of oyster shells to pave the streets of Ocean Springs. <strong>Jerry O\'Keefe </strong>(1860-1911) bid $185 to do the work.<em>(The Pascagoula Democratic-Star, November 27, 1896, p. 3 and The Biloxi Herald, November 28, 1896, p. 8)</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1899</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Jackson County Board of Supervisors granted </strong>Adolph Ryan, William Seymour, H.H. Manuel,&nbsp;Louis G. Manuel, and Albert Tiblier <strong>the private&nbsp;right to plant oysters </strong>in the Back Bay of Biloxi.[The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;February 17, 1899, p. 2]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Herman R. Gogreve</strong> (1827-1899), <strong>president of the Barataria Canning Company, died </strong>at NOLA on 19 March 1899. &nbsp;He was a native of Bramsche, Germany and the husband of Caroline R. Schilling (d. 1903). &nbsp;Mr. Gogreve was a prominent businessman in the Crescent City and in addition to his seafood enterprise, he had interests in wholesale grocery sales; banking; insurance; and mining. &nbsp;Gogreve was a founder of the German Protestant Orphan Asylum and a member of the Audubon Park commission. &nbsp;The Gogreves resided on Broadway.(The Daily Picayune, March 20, 1899, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In November 1899, <strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate advertised for fifty boats to fish on the oyster banks</strong> and pay oystermen 40 cents per barrel of oyster.&nbsp; They would pay for f<strong>ifty boats to transport oysters from the reef to the factory wharf</strong> for 40 to 50 cents per barrel. The factory also <strong>sought one hundred oyster shuckers</strong>. &nbsp;At this time <strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong> employed about 350 laborers in their oyster shucking operations. &nbsp;Wage for <strong>children and women ranged from 75 cents to $1.50 per day.</strong><em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 10, 1899, p. 8 and November 19, 1899, p. 8)</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1900-1910</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1900</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Captain James S. Wentzell</strong> (1857-1936) of the <strong><em>Lillie W</em></strong>. brought in 505 terrapins and 83 barrels of oysters. Each member of the crew sharing $85.70 for the 20 day trip.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 28, 1900, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On February&nbsp;9th, <strong>Governor Andrew H. Longino</strong> (1854-1942) appointed <strong>Harry T. Howard</strong> (1856-1930) and <strong>Walter A. White</strong> (1854-1942) of Biloxi; <strong>Eaton Jackson Bowers</strong> (1865-1939) and <strong>August Keller</strong> (1855-1907) of Bay St. Louis; and <strong>James Ira Ford</strong> (1862-1915) of Scranton [Pascagoula] to the <strong>Boundary Commission</strong>. &nbsp;The Boundary Commission was <strong>tasked with meeting with a similarly appointed body from Louisiana to attempt to determine a mutually acceptable marine boundary between the two states </strong>and mark it with buoys.(The Daily Picayune, February 10, 1901, p. 12)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>At Neptune, Louisiana</strong>, near the mouth of the Mississippi River, <strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate contracted</strong> with O.E. Thompson to erect a&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>new factory building</strong> [100 feet by 100 feet] and a two-story, 12-room dwelling. &nbsp;By late February, Mr. Thompson was completing his work. &nbsp;In July 1900, the new company was<strong> incorporated in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana as the Neptune Canning Company Limited</strong> with <strong>Laz Lopez, W.K.M. Dukate, Henry Lienhard and Dr. H.M. Folkes as primary stockholders.</strong>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 25, 1900, p. 8 and The Daily Picayune, July 17, 1900, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Tax Assessments</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Deer Island Fish Company</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong>-located at 1108 East Beach in 1905. [$26,000 tax assessment]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Barataria Canning Company</strong> [$10,400 tax assessment]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>E.C. Joullian Packing Company</strong> [$12,000 tax assessment includes home of E.C. Joullian]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Canning Company</strong> [$8500 tax assessment]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William Gorenflo and Company</strong> [$5000 tax assessment]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[see tax assessments The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 30, 1900, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1901</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>joint Boundary Commissions met at New Orleans on 26 March 1901</strong>.&nbsp; Here it was learned that those members of the Louisiana Oyster Commission had been named to serve also as commissioners of it Boundary Commission. Harry T. Howard of Biloxi was elected chairman and John Dymond Jr. (1866-1932) of New Orleans secretary for joint commission meetings.&nbsp; Secretary Dymond of the Louisiana Boundary Commission immediately made it clear that there was no boundary dispute with Mississippi.&nbsp; He confidently contended that the boundary had been established by the treaty with France for the 1803 Louisiana Purchase as the deep-water channel of the Pearl River flowing from its mouth out through the pass between Grand Island and Cat Island into the Gulf of Mexico. &nbsp;An engineer for the Louisiana commission added that the boundary described by Dymond had been surveyed and marked with buoys by the US Coast Survey.&nbsp; Chairman Howard corroborated this statement by relating that he had observed red and white buoys defining the channel.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, March 27, 1901, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bohemians-1901</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In early May 1901, a special train was assembled at Biloxi composed of about five coaches&nbsp;and a baggage car to accommodate Bohemian workers from the Baltimore area who were returning&nbsp;home from their fall and winter work at the Lopez and Dukate cannery and from factories in Pass Christian.&nbsp;The oyster canning season had just ended on the Mississippi coast and these migrant workers were returning&nbsp;to work the summer at canneries on the east coast. &nbsp;They were expected to return in the fall for the&nbsp;next oyster season.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 5, 1901, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1902</span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bowers Oysters Bill-1902</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The<strong> Mississippi Oyster Commission</strong> was organized in 1902, when the state legislature passed <strong>the Bower’s Oyster Bill of State Representative Eaton Jackson Bowers</strong> (1865-1939) of Bay St. Louis. &nbsp;The Oyster Commission was funded from the State treasury by an annual $12,000 appropriation and from revenues and taxes on certain items credited to the “Oyster Fund”. &nbsp;An integral part of the mission statement of the Mississippi Oyster Commission was to <strong>conserve and to replenish the State’s oyster reefs</strong>.&nbsp; By the spring of 1904, Chief oyster inspector, <strong>Robert Marion Mosely</strong> (1865-1910) was reporting that 23,000 barrel of shells had been planted in Biloxi’s Back Bay and 35,000 barrels planted between Deer Island and Ocean Springs. Bay St. Louis-Waveland reefs received 20,000 barrels of oyster shells and $1000 was spent on planting live oysters off the shore of Pascagoula.&nbsp; Recycled oyster shells were sold at the rate of 6 cents per barrel. The Bower\'s Bill became effective on 1 June 1902. &nbsp;It also&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\"><strong>prohibited use of steam or other dredges from harvesting oysters </strong>in Mississippi State waters. &nbsp;Only sail or hand powered watercraft could be used. &nbsp;Effective June 1, 1902. &nbsp;Passed House 94 votes for and&nbsp;5 votes against and Senate 37 votes for and 4&nbsp;votes against.</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;Incipient oyster commissioners were: <strong>James “Buck” B. Chinn</strong> (1857-1912), Biloxi; <strong>John Duncan Minor</strong> (1863-1920), Ocean Springs;<strong> Ferdinand L. Patenotte</strong> (1867-1919), Pass Christian; <strong>Oscar T. Cassibry</strong> (1850-1933), Gulfport; and <strong>F.J. Ladner</strong>, Bay St. Louis. (The Biloxi Daily Herald,February 6, 1902, p. 1; April 20, 1903, p. 6; March 25, 1904, p. 5 and June 22, 1904, p. 1)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: \'Open Sans\', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Introduced into the Mississippi Legislature by Representative Eaton Jackson Bowers (1865-1939) of&nbsp;Bay St. Louis to prohibited use of steam or other dredges from harvesting oysters in Mississippi State waters. &nbsp;Only sail or hand powered watercraft could be used. &nbsp;Effective June 1, 1902. &nbsp;Passed House 94 votes for and&nbsp;5 votes against and Senate 37 votes for and four votes against.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 6, 1902, p. 1)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: \'Open Sans\', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate Cannery</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In July 1902,<strong> Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong> contracted with Ola (sic) Thompson (1874-1944) to build a large&nbsp;oyster cannery, house, store, warehouse, and Bohemian camp at the [Blind] Rigolets in southeast Louisiana.&nbsp;(The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 16, 1902, p.8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In September 1902 <strong>G.W. Dunbar’s &amp; Sons</strong> were planning to erect a cannery at English Lookout in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; Charles Sanger was the contractor. &nbsp;The Dunbars planned to move canning equipment from their Bay St. Louis plant to the new location where they would pack only bi-valves harvested in Louisiana.&nbsp; The Bay St. Louis factory would process only oysters taken from Mississippi waters.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 22, 1902, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>State Oyster Commission</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rteleft\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">September 1902-The&nbsp;<strong>Mississippi State Oyster Commission&nbsp;</strong>was organized on September 1st. &nbsp;Robert M. Mosley (1865-1910), former Biloxi marshal, was the first Chief Oyster inspector until his demise on November 21, 1910.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rteleft\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rteleft\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A joint session of the <strong>Louisiana and Mississippi Oyster Commissions met </strong>in the office of attorney John Dymond Jr. at New Orleans on September 9, 1902.&nbsp; <strong>No agreement was reached as to the disputed territory </strong>along the boundary line between the two states.&nbsp; An understanding between the two parties was agreed upon until the settlement of the suit pending in the US Supreme Court concerning the Mississippi-Louisiana boundary line was determined.&nbsp; <strong>This agreement created became known as the Neutral Ground</strong> and it defined a common fishing ground for the fishermen of both Mississippi and Louisiana as follows:&nbsp; Beginning at a point in the center of the mouth of the Pearl River, thence in a southeasterly direction to Malheureux Point, thence in an easterly direction following the shoreline to Grass Pass [sic], thence along the shoreline of Grand Pass, thence easterly to the southern most point of Sundown Island, thence northeasterly to the center of the deep water channel called Cat Island Channel, thence following said deep water channel westerly passing between Grassy Island and the St. Joseph Lighthouse to the point of beginning.(The Daily Picayune, September 10, 1902, p.&nbsp; 6)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1903</span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Suit for Damages</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Captain N.E. Skinner</strong>, master of the <strong><em>Emma Harvey</em></strong>, &nbsp;has <strong>filed suit in Federal Court </strong>[probably Chancery Court]<strong> seeking $250</strong> and court cost against George Terry, president fo the Oystermen\'s Protective Association, Matt Cox, Allen Everett, John Poulton, Gus Fountain and Eddie Wentzell for alleged intimidation of the crew of the <strong><em>Emma Harvey</em></strong>, a shrimp boat, [working] in the [Louisiana] marsh and manned by Captain Skinner and crew: Marion Stafford, Bud Chatham, John Spinley, and John Lawson. The crew of the&nbsp;<strong><em>Emma Harvey</em></strong> was unloading shrimp onto the <strong><em>Wade Hampton</em></strong>, an ice boat, sent to Brush Island by the Barataria Canning Company of Biloxi.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 28, 1902, p. 6 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Case No. 1662-November 1903)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>N.E. Skinner v. George Terry, et al,</strong>&nbsp;Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 1662.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In September 1903, Captain N.E. Skinner, captain and master of the&nbsp;<em><strong>Emma Harvey</strong></em>, was&nbsp;<strong>unloading shrimp</strong>&nbsp;into the&nbsp;<strong><em>Wade Hampton</em></strong>, an ice-boat, sent to Brush Island&nbsp;<strong>by the Barataria Canning Company</strong>. &nbsp;George Terry, Matt Cox, Allen Everett, John Poulton, Eddie Wentzel and Gus Fountain&nbsp;<strong>threatened the Emma Harvey\'s crew for selling seafood to the Barataria Canning Company.</strong>&nbsp;George Terry was president of the Osytermen\'s Protective Association, an organization founded to protect and promote the interests of the laboring class. Case dismissed April 1907.</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1904</span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Oyster legislation</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">-</span>In February 1904, <strong>Evon M. Barber </strong>(1858-1921), of Biloxi and<strong> representing Harrison County, attempted to introduce legislation </strong>in the State House of Representatives via the Fisheries Committee <strong>to deny the right of anyone not a Mississippi resident to fish on public oyster reefs.&nbsp;</strong> This law directly <strong>targeted the Bohemian migrant worker from Baltimore.</strong>&nbsp; Mr. Barber, an attorney, also represented the Oystermen’s Protective Association.<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 20,&nbsp;1904, p. 4 , February 29, 1904, p. 2,&nbsp;and March 4, 1904, p. 2)</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Shrimp prices</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Shrimp prices</strong> from the <strong>Louisiana marsh </strong>soared from <strong>$2.50</strong> per <strong>barrel </strong>to up to <strong>$5.00</strong> per <strong>barrel</strong> when&nbsp;<strong>Dunbar\'s factory</strong> raised the price. &nbsp;<strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong> followed suit. &nbsp;When word reached the marsh that the&nbsp;<strong>price was reduced over one hundred boats left for Biloxi</strong>, the fleet resembling a large sailing regatta. &nbsp;<strong>Biloxi&nbsp;<strong>fishermen</strong> from the marsh related that they could not pay food bills and make a living when shrimp are scare as&nbsp;</strong>they were this season and the price was only $2.50 per barrel or less.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 3, 1904, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oyster shipment</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>900 barrels of unculled Alabama oysters</strong> were shipped to a cannery at Mississippi City for processing. &nbsp;This&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">was the first Alabama oyster received.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 20, 1904, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oyster tax revenues</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The State expected to received over $22,000 in tax revenues from local canners in the 1904-1905 season. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">There was an oyster boat license fee and each barrel of raw oysters was taxed 2 and 1/2 cent.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 22, 1904, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oyster opener wages</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">An oyster opener was paid 7 1/2 cents per 100 oysters opened. &nbsp;A skilled laborer could earn between&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">$5 and $6 per day. &nbsp;An exceptional worker could open as many as 8000 oysters daily.The Biloxi Daily Herald,</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">December 27, 1904, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Philip McCabe</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(14, 75, 126)\">&nbsp;(1837-1904), native of New Orleans and&nbsp;</span><strong>first chief engineer of the Biloxi Volunteer Fire Company, expired in mid-December</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(14, 75, 126)\">.&nbsp; In their youth, Ed Glennan and Charles Redding both worked for Mr. McCabe at NOLA when he had a stove business on Camp Street in NOLA. &nbsp;McCabe also was the&nbsp;</span><strong>first tin can manufacturer on the Coast making fruit, oyster, and vegetable cans.</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(14, 75, 126)\">(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, October 28, 1881, p. 3 and The Biloxi Daily Herald, December 16, 1904, p. 5)</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1905</span></strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>New E.C. Jouillian factory</strong>-planned to operate a factory on the Mississippi River [Violet]&nbsp;<strong>near the mouth of the Lake&nbsp;Borgne Canal</strong>&nbsp;known as Borgnemouth.&nbsp; Factory to handle 1000 barrels of oysters per day and situated on the west or upper side of the canal.&nbsp; Oysters will be transported through the canal and from the Mississippi River from the oyster districts of two parishes.(The Daily Picayune, January 24, 1905, p. 5 and The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 31, 1905, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oyster conviction</strong>-Madison Cox (1877-1914), Charles Palmer (1848-1922), and Albert Desporte aboard&nbsp;<em><strong>North American</strong></em> were caught and fined $150 in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana for unlawfully catching oysters&nbsp;in Louisiana State waters. &nbsp;In violation of La. Act 52-1904.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 10, 1905, p. 6&nbsp;and February 11, 1905, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:sans-serif,arial,verdana,trebuchet ms; font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Barataria Canning Company</strong>-installed a switch to connect the end of the Biloxi Electric Railway &amp; Power Co.&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:sans-serif,arial,verdana,trebuchet ms; font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">track with its canning plant, shell crusher, and elevator to allow loading shells and canned goods directly and save&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:sans-serif,arial,verdana,trebuchet ms; font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">drayage expenses.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 24, 1905, p. 5)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oyster leader</strong>- According to published figures gathered by the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce and Labor recently published in the Fishing Gazette [New York],&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi in 1905, led&nbsp;the nation in the value of its canned oysters worth $1,502, 497. &nbsp; The other leading states at this time were: South Carolina-$568,239;&nbsp;<strong>Louisiana- $506,325; and Georgia-$256,750. &nbsp;Biloxi\'s oyster industry sold $1,340,942 worth of canned oysters in 1904 and only $569,000 in 1900.</strong>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, April 23, 1907, p. 1)</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong>-contracted with <strong>T.J. Rosell Manufacturing Company</strong> to <strong>erect a Catholic Church</strong>&nbsp;costing $1500 <strong>at the Rigolets</strong> for their cannery workers.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 20, 1905, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1906</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oyster legislation</strong>-Evon M. Barber (1858-1920+), State Representative from Harrison County and attorney for the Oystermen\'s Association, <strong>introduced a bill in the House to amend the Bower\'s Bill</strong> of 1900.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 5, 1906, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In October 1905, <strong>Attorney Generals from Louisiana and Mississippi argued the boundary line case at the US Supreme Court in Washington D.C.&nbsp;</strong> On March 5, 1906, Chief Justice Fuller (1833-1910) of the Court <strong>ruled in favor of Louisiana on the water boundary dispute known as Louisiana v.&nbsp;Mississippi US 58 </strong>[1906].&nbsp; The 300 square miles of territory in dispute including oyster grounds valued at a minimum of $5 million dollars slipped from the hands of eager cannery magnates in Biloxi and other Mississippi coast cities.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, March 6, 1906, p. 1 and The Daily Picayune, March 6, 1906, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Consumers Fish and Oyster Company was chartered</strong> by W.H. Bouslog; N.J. Beane; Edward Glennan; Joseph Rush; and J.A. Broadus.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, August 25, 1906, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Kennedy-Lopez Oyster and Fish Company acquired at auction for $2000 the assets of the Treasure Bay Oyster Company </strong>in New Orleans. &nbsp;They planned using the facility in their&nbsp;raw oyster business as the plant at the Rigolets.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 15, 1906, p.4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In October 1906, boundary <strong>representatives from Louisiana and Mississippi convened in Jackson, Mississippi to plan the marking procedure for the state boundary designated by the US Supreme Court</strong>.&nbsp; It was established that 36 buoys would be utilized with one placed every mile.&nbsp; The estimated cost was $8000 and Governor James K. Vardaman (1861-1930) of Mississippi related that his state had no money for the project.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 13, 1906, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1907</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1907</strong>-Captain <strong>John S. Mavar</strong> (1880-1960) aboard<em><strong> Electricity</strong></em>, a schooner <strong>owned by Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong>, <strong>was caught poaching oysters in St. Bernard Parish</strong>, Louisiana in mid-April. &nbsp;He pleaded guilty and his crew of Simon Mavar, Simon Mavar Jr. and John Matozich was released. &nbsp;Bond was set at $300 and the<strong> authorities in St. Bernard Parish wanted the schooner forfeited</strong> as part of the penalty for having six barrels of Louisiana oysters.(The New Orleans Item, April 14, 1907, p. 2, April 16, 1907, p. 12, and May 7, 1907, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate acquired a location near the Company Canal at Westwego, Louisiana </strong>for the erection of a shrimp cannery. &nbsp;A large number of local people will be employed.(The New Orleans Item, May 6, 1907, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong>-Sent Captain Fred Eaton aboard&nbsp;<strong>Tom</strong>, a large power boat, to Morgan City, Louisiana in late&nbsp;June 1907 to open a canning factory.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, June 29, 1907, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1907</strong>-A <strong>violent storm in late September hit the Louisiana marsh </strong>with winds from the northeast of up to 80 mph and inflicted <strong>damage on some of the Biloxi fishing fleet </strong>operating here.&nbsp; The <em><strong>Dauntless</strong></em>&nbsp;owned by<strong>&nbsp;Louis Gorenflo </strong>and captained by James Ryan went aground in the marshland with the <em><strong>Dorenza</strong></em> of Henry Diaz and under the commande of James Lamey and the <strong>William Coates </strong>owned and sailed by <strong>Tony Rosetti</strong>.&nbsp; Boats either cutting or losing masts were the <em><strong>Elbert D</strong></em> of Lopez &amp; Dukate and <em><strong>Jolly Traveller </strong></em>owned by Willie Bullock and under contract to the Barataria Canning Company.&nbsp; Barataria\'s other boats in the marsh, <em><strong>Henry M</strong></em>., <em><strong>Nels Johnson</strong></em>, and <em><strong>Indian Girl</strong></em>, were slighly damaged.&nbsp; Lopez &amp; Dukate had its <em><strong>Wilda L</strong></em>. run aground on Martin Island while their <em><strong>Ola D</strong></em>. and <em><strong>Noreta L</strong></em>. were relatively unscathed by the tempest.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 30, 1907, p. 1)&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By August 1907, the <strong>Louisiana Oyster Commission had determined that the state boundary with Mississippi would </strong>need 28 spar buoys to delineate it.&nbsp; In late September the Louisiana Oyster Commission had placed in service the <em>New Orleans</em>, an armed, patrol boat, formerly the yacht of Dr. Ralph A. Tudery (1871-1950), which they had acquired for $7500.&nbsp; The <em>New Orleans</em> had a 55 hp engine and could cruise at 10 mph while guarding the oyster beds in Lake Borgne.(The Daily Picayune, August 22, 1907, p. 5</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1908</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Shrimp</strong>-Biloxi fishermen could expect to be paid $3.50 per barrel of shrimp.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, March 31, 1908, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oysters</strong>-Salvador Taranto (1881-19&nbsp;&nbsp; ) was <strong>vending &nbsp;\'famous Deer Island\' oysters </strong>at his business at 701 West Howard Avenue in October 1908.&nbsp; The oysters sold for 10 cents a dozen on ice with all condiments provided.&nbsp; Taranto also sold the fienst fruits and vegetables.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 3, 1908, p. 8)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dunbars, Lopez, and Dukate Company</strong> was organized at NOLA on September 8, 1908. &nbsp;In December 1908, the new organization had to face the Louisiana commissioner to defend charges that they were paying more for oysters in Mississippi than in Louisiana. &nbsp;The company had canneries at Dunbar, Louisiana and at the Rigolets. &nbsp;Name changed&nbsp;to Dunbar-Dukate Co. Inc. in September 1915.(The Daily Herald, December 8, 1908, p. 1 and October 14, 1915, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>New oyster law</strong>-Louisiana\'s legislature passed an onerous statue that dictated that oysters had to be shipped in&nbsp;barrels and not in sacks. &nbsp;About 3000 oystermen went on strike to protest the law. (The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 27, 1908, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1910-1920</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1910</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kennedy-Lopez closed its plant at the Rigolets</strong> and opened a factory on the Biloxi beach front at Delauney Street. &nbsp;They planned to operate their boats in the Louisiana marsh and bring opened oysters to Biloxi for processing.(The Daily Herald, July 11, 1910, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Gasoline boat burns-The Harry Cage, a sixty-foot, gasoline freighter owned by Dunbar, Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong>&nbsp;burned ten miles&nbsp;southeast of Chandeleur Island in early September 1910.(The Ocean Springs News, September 10, 1910, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ulysse Desporte</strong> (1861-1927) who began his career in the packing industry circa 1894, sold his shrimp and oyster factory in <strong>October 1910 to the Kennedy-Lopez Company</strong> and <strong>f</strong>or $10,500 reacquired it in November 1910 for $15,500<strong>. &nbsp;Laz Lopez made an offer to Desporte in December 1910&nbsp;for his plant, site and boats for $25,000.</strong><strong>(</strong>The Ocean Springs News, October 15, 1910, p. 1 and&nbsp;The Daily Herald, November 14, 1910, p. 8 and December 6, 1910, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Barataria Canning Company</strong>&nbsp;stated that they had&nbsp;<strong>no desire to get into litigation with the&nbsp;Alabama oyster commission over their purchase of oysters from Alabama water bottoms.</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(The Daily Herald, November 15, 1910, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In December, <strong>The Kennedy-Lopez Company was sued</strong> by two parties: <strong>F.W. Elmer</strong> who resided on Front Street north of the plant which was just west of Lameuse Street and a <strong>group represented</strong> by: J.H. Miller; Edward Glennan; Mrs. L. Holley; Harry T. Howard, et al. &nbsp;The plantiffs argued that the oyster factory created an oderous and unhealty situation for their hotel guests&nbsp;and the neighborhood.[The Daily Herald, December 18, 1910, p. &nbsp;1 and p. 4]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Laz Lopez</strong> resigned as <strong>manager of Dunbar, Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong> effective January 1, 1911. &nbsp;He was replaced by William F. Gorenflo, a founder and icon of the Biloxi canning seafood industry. &nbsp;Mr. Lopez acquired the Ulysse Desporte cannery on the Front Beach just west of Lameuse Street.(The Daily Herald, December 29, 1910, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1911</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In July, the <strong>Lopez-Greiner Packing Company</strong> was organized in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. &nbsp;Company officers were: Lazaro Lopez, pres.; Julius Lopez, v. pres.; Charles F. Greiner, sec. and treasurer; Arnaud Lopez, Martin Nunez, and Hugh B. Rush-Board of Directors. The plant was situated on the Martin Nunez tract on Delacroix Island in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.[The New Orleans Item, July 7, 1911, p. 6]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In August, the <strong>Lopez-Desporte Packing Company </strong>was organized in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. &nbsp;<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">Company officers were: Arnaud&nbsp;Lopez, pres.; Ulysses Desporte, v. pres.; Hugh B. Rush, sec. and treasurer; Julius M.&nbsp;Lopez, Lazaro Lopez, and Charles F. Greiner-Board of Directors.[The Daily Herald, August&nbsp;7, 1911, p. 1]</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Imperial Packing Company</strong>- The Imperial Packing Company was commenced by Jeff &nbsp;D. Mulholland&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(1861-1930) when he purchased a site in North Biloxi with 200-feet on the Back Bay of Biloxi from his</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">mother-in-law, Rosina Hosli Harvey (1852-1937). &nbsp;Imperial opened in August 1911 with a work force of 100-120 laborers and with&nbsp;lots of shrimp to pick by hand.(The Daily Herald, August 28, 1911, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Raw oyster shippers at Biloxi: <strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate</strong>, <strong>Wentzell Brothers</strong>, <strong>Kennedy-Lopez Company</strong>, <strong>Henry Diaz &amp; Company</strong>, and the <strong>Biloxi Fish &amp; Oyster Company</strong>&nbsp;[Gorenflo] were under duress by the L&amp;N Railroad. The L&amp;N Railroad who rented cars to the express company, the carrier of perishable items, <strong>had restricted the loading time at their stops to 5 minutes</strong>. &nbsp;This caused most large oyster shipments to not be completely loaded onto the express cars creatinga hugh fianacial loss for Biloxi\'s local oyster shippers. &nbsp;The<strong> Commercial Club contacted the Raillroad Commission</strong> to halt this destructive practice to the local oyster trade.(The Daily Herald, December 22, 1911, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1912</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The firm of <strong>Ott Brothers &amp; McCaleb</strong>, raw oyster shippers on Point Cadet, had a successful season. &nbsp;The firm ships directly to hotels and restaurants in large American cities.[The Daily Herald, March 7, 1912, &nbsp;p. 8]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Kennedy-Lopez Oyster &amp; Fish Co.is operating its oyster business at the Rigolets, Louisiana and its shrimp canning at Biloxi. &nbsp;</strong>They have shipped as many as 350,000 oysters in one day. &nbsp;50 shuckers and emply about 75-100 people. &nbsp;Two large gas dredge boats are kept busy and they also have 4-5 schooners and 10-15 independent vessels cathcing oysters.They will make a specialty of headless and canne shrimp this season. &nbsp;William P. Kennedy is president and John J. Kennedy, a brother is an officer. &nbsp;George W. Grayson is general manager, a former representative of the L&amp;N Railroad.[The Daily Herald, March 12, 1912, p. 8]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bourdon and Castenara Packing Company </strong>named <strong>Ulysses Desporte </strong>as manager in April.(The Daily Herald, April 5, 1912, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kennedy-Lopez opened a large plant at NOLA </strong>on the <strong>Old Basin Canal in the former New Orleans Light &amp; Power Company structure.</strong> &nbsp;The company planned to supply Texas and points west. &nbsp;In addition, freight rate expenses were cheaper&nbsp;and the $.03 cent tax per barrel paid to export Louisiana oysters to Mississippi were eliminated as well as the $.02 cent tax charged in Mississippi. &nbsp;<strong>Walter Hodgins</strong>, manager, with <strong>William P. Kennedy</strong> overall supervisor of operations.[The Daily Herald, October 29, 1912, p. 1]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi raw oyster shippers</strong>&nbsp;sent by railroad express about&nbsp;<strong>930 cases</strong>&nbsp;[about 800,000 oysters] of raw oysters to Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and Tennessee.&nbsp;&nbsp;A case is estimated to contain about 800 oysters.&nbsp;&nbsp;The oysters were all harvested from Louisiana reefs. [The Daily Herald, October 29, 1912, p. 1]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Chancery Court of Harrison Co., Mississippi ordered that the</strong> <strong>Dunbars, Lopez, and Dukate&nbsp;</strong><strong>Company</strong> be dissolved and pay a $10,000 fine for anti-trust violations. &nbsp;Any member of the limited&nbsp;co-partnership could buy or operate any of the packing plants or sell them to an independent corporation. &nbsp;The ruling resulted from <strong>Cause No. 3202, \"Wirt Adams, State Revenue Agent, St. of Mississippi&nbsp;<strong>v. W.K.M. Dukate et al\"</strong> filed in 1910. &nbsp;Went to Mississippi Supreme Court in May 1912 who ruled&nbsp;against the packers.(The Daily Herald, May 7, 1912, p. 1, November 7, 1912, p. 1, and&nbsp;</strong>p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kennedy-Lopez Oyster &amp; Fish Company plant at the Rigolets was destroyed by fire on Christmas Day 1912. &nbsp;</strong>They did not operate in 1912.(The Daily Herald, December 26, 1912, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1913</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Seafood Company of Biloxi</strong>-founded by H.E. Gumbel and Isidore Heidenheim.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Foster-Fountain Company was chartered in St. Bernard Parish</strong>, Louisiana in late June 1913, with the following officers:<strong> Martin Fountain Jr.</strong> (1882-1963)-president; <strong>Louis V. Trochessett </strong>(1876-1933), vice-president; and <strong>Charles B. Foster</strong>&nbsp;(1877-1931) sec.-treasurer. &nbsp;The Board of Directors was composed of: <strong>Martin Fountain Sr.</strong> (1856-1938); Martin Fountain Jr.; Louis V. Trochessett; Charles B. Foster; and William H. Foster (1876-)<em>. &nbsp;</em>Located at 278 East Back Bay in 1922.<em>(The Times-Picayune, June 28, 1913, p. 13)</em></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dunbars, Lopez &amp; Dukate began canning oysters at its Westwego plant. </strong>&nbsp;A track is being constructed to facilitate the handling of cars of bivalves. &nbsp;Since the oyster season begins after the shrimp season, seafood workers can expect to continuous work. &nbsp;Modern equipment is being installed.(The Times-Picayune, December 18, 1913, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1914</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Devitt &amp; Clark</strong>-incorporated on June 10, 1914, at New Orleans.( Harrison County, Mississippi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Charter Book ? , pp. &nbsp; &nbsp; ) &nbsp;The Officers of Devitt &amp; Clark were Thomas Kirkland Devitt (1882-1946),</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">president; Charles C. Redding (1857-1926), vice president; and Patrick Henry Clark (1870-1927),&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">secretary-treasurer. &nbsp;Charles W. Mackie, Jr. was a stockholder and on the board of directors of the firm.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi packers</strong> cut the price of oysters at the reef from $.40 per barrel to $.30 per barrel. &nbsp;The Rugge Brothers</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">from Appalachicola, Florida were at Biloxi offering jobs to Biloxi fishermen.(The Daily Herald, January 6, 1914, p. 1)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Henry Diaz </strong>(1872-1944), leading fish and oyster dealer, <strong>is moving his plant from Reynoir Street to a position on Reynoir and Back Bay on the shell pile. &nbsp;</strong>The new and modern plant will be housed in a building near Mr. Diaz\'s store.(The daily Herald, June 4, 1914, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Elizabeth Watson, social worker, <strong>reported for New York and eastern journals that working conditions in Biloxi\'s seafood industry were poor. &nbsp;Allegations denied by W.K.M Dukate.</strong>(The Daily Herald, June 29, 1914, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Imperial Packing Company</strong>, canners of oysters and figs in North Biloxi,&nbsp;at a meeting in early August listed its officers as: W.R. Carter, pres.; Laz Quave, vice pres.; Sec.-Treas., T.H. Gleason; Board of Directors: Isom Brasher; Boy Harvey; J.H. Johnson; W.S. McIntyre; Matt Moran; Laz Quave; Peter Quave; H.P. Rushing; and Adolph Santa Cruz.(The Daily Herald, August 7, 1914, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1915</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the late summer, <strong>the seafood undustry at Biloxi was idled for about a month by a strike </strong>of the International Longshoremen\'s Association. The Seafood Company sent out the most boats to catch shrimp after the strike. &nbsp;In late July, <strong>Arthur Goula, a non-union seaman</strong>, shot and <strong>wounded John Simmons</strong>, a union member and employee of Foster-Fountain.(The Daily Herald, September 1, 1915, p. 1, September 3, 1915, p. 1&nbsp;and &nbsp;September 23, 1915, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dunbars, Lopez and Dukate Company</strong>-in October 1915, the Dunbars, Lopez and Dukate Company&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">changed its name to the <strong>Dunbar-Dukate Company</strong>. &nbsp;Newly elected officers of the company were: George H.</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Dunbar (1844-1917), president; W.K.M. Dukate (1852-1916), vice-president; Elbert L. Dukate (1881-1943),</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">secretary; and James V. Dunbar, treasurer. &nbsp;At this time, the company was heavily engaged in repairing their&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">plant, boats, and other properties related to their seafood operation, which had been lost or damaged in the&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">recent hurricane. &nbsp;By November 1, 1915, operations at the packing plant were anticipated to commence on&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">the oyster catch.(The Daily Herald, October 14, 1915, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>J.S</strong>. [sic]&nbsp;<strong>Wentzell Sr.&nbsp;</strong>(1879-1927),&nbsp;<strong>wholesale fish and oyster dealer</strong>&nbsp;of the Wentzel Brothers,&nbsp;<strong>acquired about 2000 feet of land fronting on the north side of Deer Island from the Deer Island Improvement Company.</strong>&nbsp;The deal was closed by George W. Grayson and&nbsp;<strong>included lots, oyster beds, and riparian rights</strong>. &nbsp;The Wentzell tract ran from the baseball park westward. &nbsp;Mr. Wentzell planned to erect a bungalow on the property.(The Daily Herald, October 20, 1915, p. 1) &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1916</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>George Terry &amp; Son</strong>, raw oyster shippers, have acquired a tract on Point Cadet and <strong>plan to erect a large shrimp and oyster cannery.</strong> &nbsp;It will be equipped with modern machjinery and ready for the spring shrimp season.(The Times-Picayune, January 31, 1916, p. 13)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In August,&nbsp;<strong>C.B. Foster, former manager for Fountain-Foster, &nbsp;took a lease on the former Gorenflo plant and camp</strong> on Back Bay and Main Street, which had shut down about four years past. &nbsp;The <strong>Fountain Brothers and Louis V. Trochesett</strong> would continue their packing operations also on Back Bay. &nbsp;Mr. Foster had modern canning equipment installed and awaited the coming shrimp season. &nbsp;<strong>Biloxi had about 11 seafood cannning operations</strong> at this time.[The Daily Herald, August 5, 1916, p. 2]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Charles B. Foster and Company</strong>-founded by Charles B. Foster (1877-1931), W.H. \'Henry\' Foster, and E.J. Ford. &nbsp;Charter applied&nbsp;for in August 1916 for Biloxi, Mississippi and Violet, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Chattel Bk. 18, p. 379)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>C.B. Foster and Company located at 224 East Back Bay in 1922</strong>.&nbsp;In September 1935, the Peoples\' Bank of Biloxi sold the property to <strong>Southern Shell Fish Company</strong>, a&nbsp;subsidiary of the Wesson Oil Company. &nbsp;The sale included: the factory; eight boats; shipyard; labor camp, which&nbsp;was composed of forty-nine homes; a store; and warehouse. &nbsp;Chester August Delacruz (1889-1964) was&nbsp;secretary of the C.B. Foster Packing Company from 1916 to 1931 and president until 1933 when he took&nbsp;over the reins of the Biloxi Oyster Exchange. &nbsp;In 1935, he became local manager of the Southern Shell Fish&nbsp;Company on Back Bay. &nbsp;Chester Louis Delacruz (1911-1996), his son, succeeded his as manager until his&nbsp;retirement in 1976.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Charter Bk. 16, p. 284 and The Jackson&nbsp;County Times, September 14, 1935, p. 1 and The Sun Herald, July 8, 1996, p. C2 and&nbsp;see also Harrison Co., Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 14013, Biloxi Oyster Shell Grit Co. v. C.B.&nbsp;Foster Packing. Co.)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Dukate%2C%20WKM-1895.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:152px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William K.M. Dukate </strong>(1852-1916), native of Fredericksburg, Indiana and Biloxi seafood magnate&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">and entrepreneur, expired at his Biloxi home on March 29th.(The Daily Herald, March 29, 1916, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Fisherman’s Packing Company</strong>-chartered by the Fisherman\'s Co-Operative Union in June 1916&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">by William Estopinal of Gulfport; and Albert Anderson, Peter Paker, John Jeluisich, Armond Lepre, Jack&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Rosetti, Octave Trochesett, and Nick Skrmetti of Biloxi; and Walter Switzer of Handsboro.&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(The Daily Herald, May 9, 1916, p. 1 and&nbsp;Harrison Co., Mississippi Chattel Bk. 16, p. 197)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1917</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Quave Seafood</strong>-Construction commenced in June 1917, by Peter Quave (1863-1936), who had&nbsp;managed the Imperial Packing Company. &nbsp; Workers were working feverously to had the cannery in operation&nbsp;for the shrimp season which opened in August. &nbsp;Although not a large plant, the Quave factory was anticipated&nbsp;to have a beneficial affect on the local economy.(The Daily Herald, June 7, 1917, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Dunbar%2C%20George%20Hacker%20%281844-1917%29.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:149px\" /></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>George Hacker Dunbar </strong>(1844-1917), <strong>inventor of an 1876&nbsp;shrimp packing process </strong>that allowed the product to retain its freshness, color and flavor, expired at New Orleans on October&nbsp;18th.(The New Orleans Item, October 19, 1917, p. 11)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1918</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In mid-January,<strong> a gale in the Mississippi Sound </strong>resulted in the deaths of two, colored seamen who drowned from the <strong><em>Farewell</em></strong>, owned by the <strong>Seafood Company</strong>. &nbsp;<strong>Captain Edward Parker</strong>, also colored, and master of the fishing vessel, was rescued. &nbsp;The <strong><em>J</em></strong><strong><em>osephine Lopez</em></strong> and <em><strong>Algonquin</strong></em> working for Dunbar-Dukate were driven ashore on Cat Island with 800 barrels of oysters on board.(The Daily Herald, january 16, 1918, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Captain Ernest Desporte Sr</strong>. (1853-1931) proposed that <strong>a bounty be offered to oystermen to destroy the conch.</strong> The conch population on local oyster reefs <strong>had reached proportions that endangered the very existence of the local oyster industry</strong>.(The Daily Herald, February 8, 1918, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Devitt-Clark Packing Company took a $25,000 mortgage from Charles Redding</strong>&nbsp;and listed their fishing boats as follows: Schooners:&nbsp;<u><strong><em>Joe Lawrence</em></strong></u>;&nbsp;<strong><em><u>Ocean Queen</u></em></strong>;&nbsp;<strong><em><u>Henry Clark</u></em></strong>; and&nbsp;<strong><em><u>Lilly Rose</u></em></strong>. &nbsp;Barge:&nbsp;<strong><em><u>Black Box</u></em></strong>; Motor Boats: Sunny Boy; Zuzudora; Hunter; Cuba; and Cracker Jack; Trawlers: No. 1 thru No. 5; Skiffs-fifteen and nine large seines.(The Daily Herald, April 23, 1918, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Loren Keel</strong> and <strong>Henry Gorenflo</strong> purchased the <strong>Biloxi Fish &amp; Oyster Company</strong>. It was formerly operated by Louis Gorenflo.(The Daily Herald, December 3, 1918, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1919</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Mississippi Fish and Oysters Dealer\'s Association</strong> was founded at Biloxi in August 1919 to promote the fish and oyster business at Biloxi and other Coast cities and to secure the highest market value for the seafood of its membership. &nbsp;George Terry, president; W.W. Dywer, vice-president; and Ernest Desporte Jr.-sec.-treasurer.(The Times-Picayune, August 1, 1919, p. 12)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em> announced on September 23, 1919 that in the past six months the following canneries were initiated at Biloxi: <strong>Lopez Canning Company</strong>; <strong>Desporte Brothers Canning Company</strong>; <strong>Imperial Canning Company</strong>; <strong>Fisherman\'s</strong> <strong>Packing Company</strong>; <strong>Southern Fish &amp; Shrimp Company</strong>; <strong>Biloxi Fisheries, Inc</strong>. and&nbsp;<strong>Elmer &amp; Spottswood Canning Company</strong>-located at Back Bay and the foot of Lee Street in 1922. It burned in late January 1928, when leased to the Ocean Springs Packing Company of Louis A. Lundy and&nbsp;Joseph Zaehringer. &nbsp;The Ocean Springs Packing Company lost more than 1700 cases of fresh canned shrimp.(The Daily Herald, September 23, 1919, p.3 and The Jackson County Times, February 4, 1928, p. 1)&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Fisheries Inc.</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Desporte Brothers</strong>-founded by Theodore J. Desporte and Ernest Desporte Jr. located at 335 East Back Bay.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Elmer &amp; Spottswood Canning Company</strong>-located at Back Bay and the foot of Lee Street in 1922.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Burned in late January 1928, when leased to the Ocean Springs Packing Company of Louis A. Lundy and</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph Zaehringer. &nbsp;The Ocean Springs Packing Company lost more than 1700 cases of fresh canned shrimp.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(The Jackson County Times, February 4, 1928, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lopez Canning Company</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Southern Fish &amp; Shrimp Company-</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Gulf City Packing Company-located at 1326 East Beach</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Latimer Packing Company-located at 113 East Back Bay</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>R.S. Russ Packing Company-located at 127 East Back Bay</strong>&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&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; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1920-1930</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1920</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dudley Read, moving picture operator for two of the leading talking movie corporations of America, was in Biloxi making moving&nbsp;pictures of the oysters industry</strong>.(The Daily Herald, April 22, 1920. p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Biloxi Packing &amp; Trading Company</strong> was incorporated on September 20, 1920 at New Orleans,</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Louisiana. &nbsp;W.H. Anticich was president and Grego Anticich (1886-1954), secretary.&nbsp; Other principals were: Mary&nbsp; Skrmetta Anticich, Jake Rosetti, John Mavar, John Skrmetta, Vincent Rosetti, Mike Kulivan (1875-1944), Frank Bosarge, and Vlocho Milion.(MOB, 1246, p. 286 and The Daily Herald, September 19, 1920, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>C.B. Foster has machinery on site to erect an oyster shell grinding plant.</strong> &nbsp;The ground shells&nbsp;will be used in the manutacturing of fertilzer and additional products.[The Times-Picayune, October 10, 1920, p. 14]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Major <strong>Biloxi canners for the first time decided not to seek Bohemians from Baltimore</strong> to work during the oyster season. &nbsp;The <strong>railroads had increased the fare to the Coast from $12 to $48 per person </strong>which was also applicable to children over the age of 12 years. Younger children were charged half fare. &nbsp;In order to ameliorate the situation additional&nbsp;laborers would be sought in the local community. &nbsp;In addition, <strong>workers&nbsp;of French ancestry from&nbsp;south Louisiana would be sought </strong>as some had already proven themselves in Coast canneries.[The Daily Herald, October 8, 1920, p. 1]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>L.H. Manuel, Biloxi contractor, will start a canning plant</strong> for <strong>Latimer &amp; Clark </strong>at Bayou LaBatre, Alabama. &nbsp;Shrimp will initially be packed.</span></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">[The Times-Picayune, October 10, 1920, p. 14]</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1921</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Captain Lindenberg</strong> aboard <strong><em>Madeline</em></strong> returned to Biloxi with <strong>20,000 pounds of red snapper</strong> caught on the <strong>Campeche Bank off the coast of Mexic</strong>o. The vessel was fishing for Biloxi Fisheries Inc. and the catch was to be shipped to Eastern markets.(The Daily Herald, January 1, 1921, p. 3) &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Biloxi Fish &amp; Oyster Company</strong>, a partnership formed by <strong>Henry Gorenflo</strong>&nbsp;(1848-1923) and <strong>Loren M. Keel</strong>, was dissolved on July 14, 1921.(The Daily Herald, September 21, 1921, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Southern Canners Association</strong> was formed at Biloxi on October 17, 1921, when cannery&nbsp;operators from the South Atlantic and Gulf States united. &nbsp;<strong>Dr. L.H. Jastremski</strong> was named permanent president and&nbsp;Ernest Desporte Jr. of Biloxi treasurer. &nbsp;Vice-presidents were: Edward E. Elmer, Mississippi; Charles Greiner,&nbsp;Louisiana; Charles Clark, Florida; F.E. Sheppard, Georgia; and Samuel Morrow, South Atlantic States.&nbsp;The Southern Canners Association succeeded the Gulf Canners Association which was created circa&nbsp;1914.(The Daily Herald, October 18, 1921, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Eugene A. Peresich </strong>(1895-1960), agent for the American Rail &amp; Express Co., related that <strong>in the 1920-1921 oyster harvesting season that 42,971 boxes of raw oysters were shipped from Biloxi</strong>. &nbsp;Each box contained 1000 oysters.(The Daily Herald, October 28, 1921, p. 3)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1922</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Thomas McCabe</strong>, experienced packer, went to Galveston, Texas to erect a seafood plant for <strong>Julius H. Nill</strong> [1897-1983], a NOLA native, and spouse of <strong>Beryl E. Wilkes</strong> [1896-1954], youngest daughter of <strong>G.W. Wilkes</strong>, founder of <em>The Daily Herald.</em>[The Daily Herald, February 13, 1922, p. 3]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">An $800,&nbsp;<strong>house inhabited by employees of the Biloxi Fisherman\'s Packing Company on Point Cadet was destroyed by fire on February 23rd.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;The structure was located in an alley just back of Dave Ahern\'s grocery store. &nbsp;Other cottages in the area caught fire, but were saved by firemen from the East End, Mississippi Hook and Ladder and the Volunteer Fire Companies of Biloxi.(The Daily Herald, February 23, 1922, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Government officials visit Biloxi to aid in dredging channel- &nbsp;</strong>Biloxi factory men represented at this meeting were: Hart Chinn-Foster-Fountain; Ernest Desporte Jr.-Desporte Brothers; F.E. Elmer-Elmer Packing; P.H. Clark-Biloxi Fishermen\'s Packing; Bert Gun?-Seafood Company; W.P. Kennedy-Kennedy Packing; and J.V. Hagan-raw ousters shippers.(The Daily Herald, March 17, 1922, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>DeJean Packing Company</strong>-incorporators: Charles DeJean (1879-1961), Frank G. Bosarge, and Elmer Williams (1899-1985). &nbsp;Located at 1306 East Beach in 1922.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Martin Fountain Jr.</strong> was packing shrimp at the cannery that he had earlier acquired from the Cooperative Union, which had been idled for eighteen months. &nbsp;Mr. Fountain made improvements before commencing operations.(The Daily Herald, June 3, 1922, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The DeJean Packing Company</strong> on Biloxi’s East Beach 