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('page', 0, 68, 71, 'en', 0, '<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">New Construction</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/540 East Beach [Biloxi]-October 3%2C 2013_0.jpg\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 174px;\" /></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>504 East Beach Drive</strong></span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">[built 2013]</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><u>HISTORIC BILOXI HOMES</u></span></strong></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		________________________________________________________</p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">HISTORY OF THE OOMA TRACT</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">East Beach</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>L</strong><b>IVE OAK&rdquo;: Three Centuries on the Pass of Biloxi, Mississippi</b></span></span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Section 33, T7S-R9W, Harrison County, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h5 align=\"center\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Abstract</span></span></h5>\r\n	<h5 align=\"left\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; is the 19<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century name appropriately attached to a three-acre tract of live oak, graced landscape fronting Deer Island on the Pass of Biloxi.&nbsp; Today this ancient arbor is alive with engineers, contractors and laborers who are toiling diligently in the long shadows of its stately oaks, erecting The Ohr-O&rsquo;Keefe Museum, a 21<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Century creation of internationally acclaimed architect, Frank Gehry.&nbsp; George E. Ohr and Frank O. Gehry are well-matched, as Ohr, a 19<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century, avant-garde, art potter is regarded by art historians as totally unique, while Gehry is the unrivaled master designer of bold, imaginative, futuristic structures.</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></h5>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Previous archeological investigations indicate that &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was once the pre-historic local of Native American culture.&nbsp; By the late 19<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century, it became the scene of large, gracious summer homes of affluent businessmen and professional people, primarily from New Orleans.&nbsp; From the land deed records, it appears that only one Biloxi native has ever possessed a portion of </span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Live Oak&quot;</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">The recorded chronology of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; begin with an 1807 Spanish land grant to a Louisiana native of Acadian heritage, Valentine Docette Richard (1776-1868), better known as Dorsette Richards.&nbsp; By 1835, Richards had vended or bartered his 443-acre donation claim.&nbsp; George Holley (1800-1883) was the primary recipient of his acreage.</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In 1888, the parcel known as &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was created when Joseph Kuhn (1819-1903), a Hungarian immigrant and local lumber merchant, sold a 3-acre tract from his large land holdings in the Dorsette Richards land claim on the Biloxi peninsula, to Edward Langevin of St. Paul, Minnesota.&nbsp; After Langevin&rsquo;s demise circa 1891, the lot became possessed by George H. Dunbar (1844-1917), a seafood processing magnate from New Orleans.&nbsp; In 1892, Mr. Dunbar split &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; into two lots of equal area.&nbsp; His brother, Francis B. Dunbar (ca 1848-1908), acquired the western tract.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">The Dunbar&rsquo;s had the quarters on their East Beach lot demolished in February 1892.&nbsp; In September 1892, they contracted with Charles Dudley, an architect and builder from Jackson, Mississippi, to erect two edifices for them at a cost of $11,000.</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">From 1917 until 1946, the E/2 of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was owned by the New Orleans families of E.B. Johnson, Ernest L. Jahnke, and Cyprian A. Sporl.&nbsp; C.A. Sporl (1880-1936) was the owner of a large marine insurance business at New Orleans.&nbsp; He also operated the Hotel New Orleans.&nbsp; Sporl&rsquo;s avocation was yachting.&nbsp; In 1946, an affluent California attorney, Lynden Bowring (1889-1980), and Wilda Lopez (1899-1977), his Biloxi wife, acquired the lot from Mr. Sporl&rsquo;s heirs.&nbsp; Hurricane Camille in August 1969, destroyed the Bowring home.&nbsp; They relocated to Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Bowring legated his East Beach Biloxi land to Patricia Tarr Leavant, his niece-in-law.&nbsp; It was sold in June? 2000, to the City of Biloxi by real estate developers who had acquired and option on it from Mrs. Leavitt, in 1993.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The W/2 of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was vended in February 1914, by Anna Tourne&rsquo; Dunbar (1845-1919), the widow of Francis B. Dunbar, to Ora Nelmes Logan, the wife of George W. Logan of New Orleans.&nbsp; She conveyed it to Mary Byrne McGee of Laurel, Mississippi in May 1915.&nbsp; Mrs. McGhee defaulted on her mortgage and the property was repossessed.&nbsp; In April 1917, Mrs. Nelms conveyed her estate to Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar (d. 1946).&nbsp; Lucinda S. Farrar was the spouse of Judge Edgar H. Farrar (1849-1922) of New Orleans.&nbsp; He was a lawyer, linguist, and ethnologist.&nbsp; E.H. Farrar was the CEO of Farrar, Goldberger, &amp; Dufour, a prominent legal firm of the Crescent City.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In June 1924, Mrs. Lucinda S. Farrar subdivided the W/2 of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; into three lots, designated Lot A, Lot B, and Lot C.&nbsp; She sold Lot A to George E. Williams of New Orleans at this time.&nbsp; In August 1944, Mr. Williams vended Lot A to Sam Mitchell of Biloxi.&nbsp; In a prior agreement with Louis W. Harvey (1904-1970), Mr. Mitchell traded Lot A for cash and a Harvey parcel elsewhere in Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lot B was conveyed in March 1968, to Wilda Lopez Bowring by the Heirs of Lucinda Stamps Farrar: Mrs. Ralph (Jane) B. Wood (Harrison Co., Ms.), Mrs. Richard Goldsborough (Wayne Co, NY), Edgar H. Farrar III (Bell Co. Texas), Stamps Farrar II (San Francisco Co., Calf.), Maud Ellen Farrer (Orleans, Parish, La.), B.H. Goldberger (District of Columbia), Joseph H. Goldberger (Canadian Co., Oklahoma), Mrs. Michael Warnock (Bonneville Co. Idaho), and Bruce Sharp, Robert Sharp, and Donald Sharp, all of Orleans Parish, Louisiana.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lot C was sold in August 1924, by Lucinda Stamps Farrar, the widow of Edgar H. Farrar, a resident of Hancock County, Mississippi to Stamps Farrar, her son.&nbsp; In May 1947, Stamps Farrar to Lucille G. Minor.&nbsp; In December 1956, Lucille G. Minor to&nbsp;<strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; Lot which he had acquired in July 1946, from the Sporl family of New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h5 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Colonial Biloxi</span></span></h5>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">When the French Colonial government abandoned its post at Biloxi in the 1720s, for New Orleans on the Mississippi River, some of the recent immigrants from Western Europe and French Canada remained on the Mississippi coast.&nbsp; They made their livelihood as sailors, fishermen, and subsistence farmers.&nbsp; Cattle and tar production provided barter and cash items with the larger settlements of Mobile and New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">During the Spanish Colonial occupation of the area, land donations on the Biloxi peninsula were granted by the Spanish representative at Mobile.&nbsp; From present day Point Cadet on the east, to the present day Biloxi City Cemetery on the west, these grantees were Jacques Mathurin (Ladner), Dorsette Richards, Jean-Baptiste Carquote (Carco), Angelique Fasiar (Fayard), and Louis Fasiar (Fayard).</span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Valentine Docette Richard</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Valentine Docette Richard (1776-1868) was the original claimant of the land upon which &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; was erected.&nbsp; He is referred to in legal documents as&nbsp;<em>Dorsette</em>&nbsp;<em>Richards,&nbsp;</em>and this nomenclature will be used throughout this essay.&nbsp; Richards was born at St. Gabriel, Louisiana, the son of expelled Acadians, Amant Richard and Marie Braux.&nbsp; His first wife, Susanne Marque, expired shortly after birthing their son in 1798.&nbsp; In 1800, Dorsette Richards wedded Marguerite Babin (1770-1829), a native of Belle Isle en Mer, France.&nbsp; Her parents were also exiled Acadians, who immigrated to Louisiana post-1777.(<em>Cassibry, 1986, p. 77)</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Dorsette Richard Claim-Section 33, T7S-R9W</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Dorsette Richards family settled at Biloxi in 1807.&nbsp; He received a Spanish land grant on the Biloxi peninsula at this time.(American State Papers, Vol. III, p. 38)&nbsp; His donation was designated by the Federal government as Claim No. 146 in the District East of the Pearl River.&nbsp; It was confirmed in 1819, by the Federal government.&nbsp; In 1824, his land was surveyed and was shown to consist of 443.38 acres and designated as Section 33, T7S-R9W.(HARCO, Ms. Tract Bk. 1, p. 36)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">A land patent for Section 33, T7S-R9W was issued to Dorsette Richards by the Federal government on October 1, 1840.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 2, pp. 290-292)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>George L. Holley</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In June 1835, Dorsette Richards traded all of his merchantable land in Section 33 T7S-R9W to George L. Holley for Lot 1 of Section 23, T7S-R10W, which contains 110.68 acres.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 1, pp. 143-144).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">George L. Holley (1800-1883) came to the Mississippi coast from New York in the late 1820s, with his family.&nbsp; It appears from Federal census data that there were six children, all born in New York:&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">George Holley</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">&nbsp;(1800-1883), Benjamin Holley (1802-1860+), William Holley (1803-1850+), Charles Holley (1805-1857), Rebecca H. Norberg (1809-1880+), and Nicholas Holley (1810-1860+).&nbsp; Their mother, Rebecca Holley (1783-1860+), was born at New York.&nbsp; Their father was a native of Rhode Island, and appears to have died before 1850.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">George L. Holley made his livelihood as carpenter and probate judge.&nbsp; In July 1859, he married Jane Elizabeth Rand, an English lady.&nbsp; Married Sarah M. Bounds in July 1877??</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">New Orleans Summer Resort</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Affluent people of New Orleans used Biloxi and over villages of the Mississippi Gulf Coast as summer retreats.&nbsp; Escaped the heat and Yellow Fe</strong>ver.&nbsp; In 1893, George Dunbar, F.T. Howard, H.T. Howard, E. Bell, L. Valle, J. Vandorf, August Bohne, J.B. Blakemore, and Judge Tisso were among the wealthy Crescent City gentlemen maintaining elegant summer homes at Biloxi.(T.H. Glenn, 1893, p. 59)</span></span></h1>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Joseph Kuhn</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1865, Joseph Kuhn bought about 125 acres in the Dorsette Richard Claim from George Holley for $1000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 4, pp. 578-581) &nbsp;Does not appear to be &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo;.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Joseph Kuhn (1819-1903) was a native of Budapest, Hungary.&nbsp; He arrived in America in 1840, and Biloxi, Mississippi in 1864.&nbsp; At Harrison County, in October 1868, he married Sarah Drake (1839-1921), a native of Ohio.&nbsp; Their children were: Christian Kuhn (1871-pre 1900); Elizabeth Kuhn (1873-1929); Sophia Kuhn (1875-1927+) m. Ulysses Desporte (1861-1927); Rosa Kuhn (1878-1942) m. A. J. Bourdon (1873-1912) and May Adele Kuhn (1881-1930).&nbsp; Kuhn made his livelihood as a lumber merchant.&nbsp; At the time of his demise, the Kuhn family resided on the corner of Holley Street and Beach Boulevard.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In February 1878, Joseph Kuhn conveyed to his wife, Sarah Kuhn, all of his real property in Harrison County, Mississippi, for $2000.&nbsp; Kuhn stated that&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;he owed no debts to anyone and further the transfer of his property to Sarah Kuhn was not for the purpose of defrauding anyone but to secure to her a support in case of his death&rdquo;.&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Included in this transaction was a piece of property described as follows: a lot having a front, four hundred feet on the front bay of Biloxi, running back due North between two parallel lines to the back Bay of Biloxi bounded West by a street and on the East by estate of Toledano.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 16, pp.47-48)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Edward Langevin</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1888, Joseph Kuhn and Sarah Kuhn conveyed to&nbsp;<strong>Edward Langevin</strong>&nbsp;of St. Paul, Minnesota for $4,000 a parcel of land described as: bounded on the south by the Gulf of Mexico or pass between Deer Island and the main shore; east by Toledano Estate; north by Langevin Street; and west by Kuhn Street.&nbsp; The lot measured 432 feet on the Gulf and 321 feet north-south.&nbsp; The terms of the sale were $1000 cash and $3000 to be paid on April18, 1891, with 6% interest per annum.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 23, p. 75)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1888, Edward Langevin also acquired Lots 1 and 2 of the Samuel Friedlander Estate from W.I. Hodgson, an auctioneer at New Orleans, for $2375.(3)&nbsp; The conveyance included the brick residence, outbuildings, and dependencies.&nbsp; Lot 1 had 85 feet on the Gulf, 281 feet on Magnolia, 81 feet with Lot 2, and 281 feet (east).(3)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In November 1891, Eleanor Langevin of St. Paul, Minnesota, the widow of Edward Langevin, conveyed Lots 1 and 2 of the Friedlander Estate to Frederick William Elmer for $2700.(4)&nbsp; Her daughters, Mary Michand and Emma Flanagan, and their husbands, Achille Michand and Thomas J. Flanagan, signed the warranty deed.&nbsp; Charles and Mary E. Michand of St. Paul gave Elmer a quitclaim deed on the property in April 1892.(5)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">On January 19, 1892, Joseph Kuhn and Sarah Kuhn acknowledged that the Langevin mortgage of $3045 on a parcel of land known as &ldquo;The Oaks&rdquo; had been paid.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, pp. 310-311)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">George H. Dunbar</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In December 1891, the Heirs of Edward Langevin, Mary Michaud, Achille Michaud, Emma Flanagan, Thomas J. Flanagan, and Eleanor Langevin, conveyed their Beach front lot to&nbsp;<strong>George H. Dunbar</strong>&nbsp;for $5500. (HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, pp. 308-309).&nbsp; Same description as above.&nbsp; Emma Flanagan signed at Quebec, Canada.&nbsp; Mary Michaud wife of Charles Michaud, Achille Michaud, T.J. Flanagan, and Eleanora Langevin signed at Ramsay County, Minnesota.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">George H. Dunbar (1844-1917) was born at New Orleans, the son of George W. Dunbar (1816-1878) of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and Charlotte Z. Hacker (1822-1910).&nbsp; Siblings:&nbsp; He was educated at Georgetown University and almost immediately after graduation, he enlisted in the Confederate States of America Army and served as an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Buisson.&nbsp; Post-Bellum, Dunbar returned to his native New Orleans and entered business.(<em>The Daily Herald, October 19, 1917, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">G.H. Dunbar was married three times.&nbsp; His final spouse was Susan Foucher.&nbsp; Children: F. Foucher Dunbar; George W. Dunbar (Guinnes, Havana, Cuba); Mrs. Stephen Voorhies (5527 Prytania, NOLA); Mrs. Alcee J. Gelpi (124 S. Cortez, NOLA; and Mrs. Auguste Capdeville (2453 Esplanande, NOLA).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">Mrs. Foucher Dunbar was the daughter of E.C. Fenner.&nbsp; Lived on Lee Street.</span><em style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">(The Daily Herald, April 19, 1912, p. 8)</em></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Inventor</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Public Life</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Buried St. Louis No. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Lopez, Dunbar&rsquo;s Sons &amp; Co.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Lopez, Dunbar&rsquo;s Sons &amp; Company was commenced in 1884, when Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903) and W.K.M. Dukate (1852-1916) resigned from the Biloxi Canning Company.&nbsp; The Biloxi Canning Company was located in Section 27, T7S-R9W, in the city of Biloxi, Mississippi on the Back Bay of Biloxi, at the head of Reynoir Street.&nbsp; It was originally called The Lopez, Elmer and Company.&nbsp; This company was organized in 1881, with a capital stock of $8,000 by Lazaro Lopez, F. William Elmer (1847-1926), W.K.M. Dukate, William Gorenflo (1844-1932), and James Maycock (1826-1892).(1)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lopez, Dunbar&rsquo;s &amp; Sons was situated on East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; In 1895, it was the second largest oyster canning plant in the United States.&nbsp; The factory utilized the Norton Brothers machinery to pack its shrimp with the patented muslin bag insuring a good product.&nbsp; Its shrimp were marketed under the &ldquo;Dunbar Standard&rdquo;, &ldquo;Deer head&rdquo;, &ldquo;Lion Head&rdquo;, and &ldquo;Pelicans&rdquo; labels.</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;\">(see&nbsp;</span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;\">The Biloxi Herald</em><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;\">, &ldquo;Biloxi Chief Industry&rdquo;, September 12, 1892, p. 4)</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lot Division</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In February 1892, the Dunbars had the families residing on their East Beach tract vacate their quarters.&nbsp; Immediate demolition was ordered for all buildings on their scenic home site.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, February 6, 1892, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">On March 31, 1892, George H. Dunbar divided&nbsp; &ldquo;The Oaks&rdquo; lot into two equal parts, which he conveyed to his wife, Susie Foucher Dunbar (1858-1920) and brother, Francis B. &ldquo;Frank&rdquo; Dunbar (ca 1848-1908).&nbsp; Mrs. George H. Dunbar received the east half and Francis B. Dunbar, the west half.&nbsp; The dimensions of each lot were 217 feet by 417 feet.&nbsp; Francis B. Dunbar paid his brother $2250 while his spouse paid only $1.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, pp. 444-445)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;Immediately thereafter on the same day, Francis B. Dunbar conveyed his western lot to his wife, Anna Therese Tourne&rsquo; Dunbar (1845-1919), for $1.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, pp.445-446)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Two Homes</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In late September 1892, the Dunbar brothers contracted with Charles Dudley, an architect and builder, formerly of Jackson, Mississippi, but now established in Biloxi, to erect two homes.&nbsp; Their completed cost was approximated at $11,000.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, September 28, 1892, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Cost of building materials in Biloxi at this time: rough lumber-$7-$10 per thousand board feet at the sawmill; dressed lumber-$8-$17 per thousand board feet; brick-$8-$12 per thousand; cypress shingles-$2-$3&nbsp;&nbsp; 75 per thousand.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, April 29, 1893, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Francis B. Dunbar resided at 2326 Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans.&nbsp; Two sons, F.B. Dunbar and James V. Dunbar (622 Canal Commercial Bank &amp; Bldg.); and a daughter, Mrs. Emile Christ (705 Calhoun, NOLA).&nbsp; Expired in New Orleans at his home.&nbsp; Head of Dunbar Cannery interests at the time.(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 31, 1908, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dunbar and Miss Alice Dunbar of New Orleans are now occupying their summer residence here.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, June 10, 1893, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;In late June, the family left Biloxi for Chicago where they planned to remain for several weeks.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">(</span><em style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; text-align: center;\">The Biloxi Herald, July 1, 1893, p. 8)</em></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mrs. Dunbar expired in May 1919, at New Orleans.&nbsp; She resided at No. 3 Everett Place at the time.(<em>The Daily Herald, May 31, 1919, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">West Half of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo;</span></p>\r\n	<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Ora Nelms Logan</span></strong></div>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In February 1914, Anna T. Tourne&rsquo; Dunbar of New Orleans, the widow of Francis B. Dunbar, conveyed her home and lot in Biloxi to Ora Nelmes Logan for $8000.&nbsp; $6500 was financed for three years at 6% interest by Mrs. Logan.&nbsp; Included in the sale were all buildings and improvements, a &frac12; interest in an artesian water well and all furniture and personal property contained in the house, except boats and some family portraits.&nbsp; Mrs. Logan was required to carry insurance of not less than $6000 on the buildings.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 107, pp. 91-92)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In mid-February 1914,&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald&nbsp;</em>announced that Miss Jessie A. Smyly&rsquo;s agency had arranged the sale from Mrs. Dunbar to G.W. Logan of New Orleans.&nbsp; Her home was lauded as&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;one of the most beautiful and attractive homes in Biloxi or anywhere on the Coast&rdquo;</em></strong><em>.(The Daily Herald, February 12, 1914, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lien cancelled by Mrs. Anna Tourne&rsquo; Dunbar on May 3, 1915.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 111, pp. 405-406)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h5 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mary Byrne McGee, et al</span></span></h5>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In May 1915, Ora Nelms Logan, the spouse of George W. Logan of New Orleans, sold to Mary Byrne McGhee, Addison F. McGee Jr. and Marie Jones McGee, wife of Addison F. McGee Jr. of Laurel, Mississippi, for $8000, the W/2 of &ldquo;The Oaks&rdquo;.&nbsp; The sale included all buildings and improvements, a &frac12; interest in an artesian water well, all furniture and personal property in the house, except all religious pictures, a large quantity of galvanized roofing material, pulleys and ropes, and the gas machine.&nbsp; Financed and had to carry $6000 of insurance on the buildings.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 111, pp.407-408)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Ora Nelms Logan</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In February and March 1916, Mary Byrne McGee of Laurel, Marie Jones McGee, wife of Addison F. McGee, and a resident of Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, and Addison F. McGee of West Point, Troup County, Georgia, defaulted on their promissory notes and returned their property to Ora Nelms Logan of New Orleans.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 115, pp.71-74)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucinda Stamps Farrar</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">909 East Beach Drive</span></strong></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1917, Ora Nelms Logan of Hancock County, Mississippi conveyed to&nbsp;<strong>Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1857-1946) of New Orleans for $7750.&nbsp; Included all buildings and improvements, &frac12; interest in artesian water well, all furniture and fixtures in and personal property in buildings, bathhouse, pier, and riparian rights.&nbsp; At this time, the former Frank Dunbar home was described as having fourteen rooms and a large beautiful lawn.&nbsp; The Jessie A. Smyly real estate agency handled the transaction.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 9, 1917, p. 4 and&nbsp;</em>HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 118, p.430)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucinda S. Farrar was the wife of&nbsp;<strong>Judge Edgar Howard Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1849-1922).&nbsp; He was born in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, the son of Thomas Prince Farrar and Anna Mary Girault.&nbsp; Young Farrar was educated at the University of Louisiana and in 1871, received his Masters degree from the University of Virginia.&nbsp; He married Lucinda Davis Stamps at New Orleans in June 1878. &nbsp;Lucinda was the daughter of Captain Issac Davis Stamps and Mary Humphreys. &nbsp;Their children were:&nbsp;<strong>Edgar Howard Farrar Jr</strong>. (1879-1911) m. May Clara Spearing;&nbsp;<strong>Mary Humphreys Farrar&nbsp;</strong>(1881-1969) m. Dr. Joseph Goldberger (1875-1929);&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Lucinda Farrar&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(1881-1910);&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Anna Girault Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1882-1970) m. Richard F. Goldsborough (b. 1871);&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Edith Barnes Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1884-1959);<strong>&nbsp;Mildred Maury Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1887-1967);&nbsp;</span></span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Jane Kempe Farrar&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(1889-1982) m. Ralph Bouligny Wood (1884-1967);&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Issac Davis&nbsp;Stamps Farrar,</strong><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;called Stamps</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;(1894-1950) m. Maude Tobin White, the daughter of Albert Sidney Johnson White (1866-1934) and Ellen Tobin;&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">and&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Prince Farrar</strong>&nbsp;(1901-1951) m. Beatrice Howard (1886-1933+).</span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(The Daily Herald, January 7, 1922, p. 1</em><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</em><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">and 1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T623_574, p. 11A, ED 102)</em></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Although Judge Farrar and family had a residence at New Orleans, they planned to stay at Biloxi for sometime, especially the summer season.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 9, 1917, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">Lucinda Stamps Farrar expired at 909 East Beach on November &nbsp;1946. &nbsp;Her funeral service was held at the Church of the Redeemer with the Reverend E.A. DeMiller attending. &nbsp;Mrs. Farrar&#39;s corporal remains were sent to NOLA for burial in the Metairie Cemetery.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 13, 1946, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>FARRAR CHILDREN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Edgar Howard Farrar Jr.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Edgar H. Farrar Jr. (1879-1911) like his father was a New Orleans attorney.&nbsp; He also matriculated to the University of Virginia.&nbsp; Young Farrar was shot to death by two thieves in early November on the corner of Peniston and Magnolia Streets in the Crescent City.&nbsp; He was the nephew of Mrs. E.M.D. Anderson of 210 West Water Street in Biloxi.(<em>The Daily Herald, November 2, 1911, p. 8 and November 3, 1911, p 8.)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Stamps Farrar</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Stamps Farrar was an attorney with his father&rsquo;s law firm.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Anna F. Goldsborough</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Anna Girault Farrar (1882-1970) married Richard F. Goldsborough (b. 1871), a Maryland native and New York attorney, on January 31, 1904 at NOLA. She was living at Biloxi in 1922.&nbsp; In May 1930, she and her daughter,&nbsp;<strong>Ellen Goldsborough</strong>, were at Biloxi were involved in interior decoration as their wall panels were sent to a new country club at Birmingham, Alabama.&nbsp; Anna had a son,&nbsp;<strong>Frances Goldsborough</strong>, who graduated from Biloxi High School and went to New York to work a branch of the Hibernia Bank situated in NYC.&nbsp; He was appointed assistant manger of the bank in May 1930.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 27, 1930, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Anna Farrar Goldsborough passed on December 1970.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Mary F. Goldberger</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Living in Washington in 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Mildred M. Farrar</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mildred Maury Faurer (1887-1967) was a native of New Orleans.&nbsp; She resided at 909 East Beach in Biloxi since 1927.&nbsp; She was an Episcopalian and interred in the Metairie Cemetery.(<em>The Daily Herald, February 2, 1967, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Jane K. Farrar Wood</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Jane Kempe Farrar (1889-1982) married Ralph Bouligny Wood (1884-1967) of New Orleans at the Church of the Redeemer in Biloxi, on September 12, 1916.&nbsp; The young couple honeymooned at Asheville, North Carolina, before traveling to their home in Cuba, where Mr. Wood was employed with the Cuban-American Sugar Company.(<em>The Daily Herald, September 13, 1916, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In retirement, the Wood family lived in the Hermann House at 523 East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; Ralph B. Wood retired as the executive vice president of the Cuban American Sugar Company.&nbsp; A daughter, Mrs. James Pringle of Long Beach.&nbsp; Both interred at the Southern Memorial Park Cemetery in Biloxi.(<em>The Daily Herald, October 26, 1967, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Jane died on May 12, 1982.&nbsp; A daughter, Mrs. Leo Seal.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Thomas P. Farrar</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Thomas Prince Farrar (1901-1951) was born at New Orleans and practiced architect there.&nbsp; He lived at Biloxi where he did scenic painting and costume designs.&nbsp; In June 1933, he married Beatrice Howard (1886-1933+), formerly Mrs. Robert C. Ocher, of New York. &nbsp;Mr. Farrar relocated to New York City and worked in theatre design until his death there in June 1951. &nbsp;His corporal remains were interred in the Metairie Cemetery at NOLA.(The Daily Herald, June 1, 1933, p. 2 and The Times Picayune, June 12, 1951, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Edith B. Farrar</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Edith Barnes Farrar lived at Chicago in 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>West Half-Lot A (Harvey House)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In June 1924, Lucinda Stamps Farrar subdivided her W/2 lot into three lots, which were designated as Lot A, Lot B, and Lot C.&nbsp; The three lots were surveyed by J.D. Ferguson in July 1923.&nbsp; Mrs. Farrar conveyed Lot A to George E. Williams of New Orleans for $14,000.&nbsp; Right of ingress-egress granted as an easement across the south end of Lot B, but not to be carried when Williams sells Lot A.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 141, pp. 585-587)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>George E. Williams</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">George Elliot Williams (1886-1944+) married Adele Monroe (1889-1944+) in Orleans Parish, Louisiana on June 7, 1911.(Orleans Parish Marriage Record Bk. Volume 33, p. 320)&nbsp; In December 1929, George Elliot Williams (1886-1944+) of NOLA to Adele Monroe Williams (1889-1944+) of New Orleans, Lot A, for $14,000.&nbsp; Included all household fixtures and furniture located in the dwelling house.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 184, pp.246-247)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1944, George E. Williams and Adele Monroe Williams to Sam Mitchell and Mae Pringle Mitchell for $15,000.&nbsp; Royse R. Aiken had an unrecorded lease dated September 16, 1943.&nbsp; A notice was sent to Aiken to cancel his lease.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 267, p. 288)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sam Mitchell</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In July 1944, Sam Mitchell (1903-1984), native of Hancock County, Mississippi, entered into an agreement with Louis H. Harvey, Mrs. Louis H. Harvey and Miss Irma E. Harvey.&nbsp; The Harvey&rsquo;s owned a lot on the northwest corner of Beach Boulevard and Fayard Street. Mitchell agreed to buy the G.E. Williams lot and then trade it for the Harvey property and also give $5000 to the Harveys.&nbsp; It was also agreed that in the event that the houses on each lot were destroyed by fire or damaged to make them unfit for habitation, before the contract was consummated, the contract would be voided. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Sam Mitchell owned &ldquo;The Bungalow&rdquo; on West Beach Boulevard.</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 266, pp. 126-129)&nbsp; Sold in August 1944.(Bk. 267, pp. 303-304) &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1944, Sam Mitchell conveyed Lot A to Irma E. Harvey and Louis W. Harvey.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 267, pp. 301-302).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong style=\"text-align: center; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Louis W. Harvey</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Louis Wachenfeld Harvey (1904-1970) was the son of Louis H. Harvey (1874-1913) and Christina Wachenfeld (1872-1931).&nbsp; He married Mary L. Barnes (1910-1999) of Handsboro, Mississippi.&nbsp; Children: Louis W. Harvey (1934-1996), Philip I. Harvey (b. 1941), and Kenneth Karl Harvey (1951-1990).(<em>The Sun Herald, November 14, 1999, p. A-11)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">ROW</span></span></strong></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In September 1954, ROW easement granted to Mississippi State Highway Commission by Louis H. Harvey.(Bk. 387, pp. 390-391).</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">West Half-Lot B (909 East Beach)</span></span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In January 1943, Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar drafted her will.&nbsp; In this instrument she devised and bequeathed to her daughters, Edith Barnes Farrar of Chicago, Illinois, and Mildred Maury Farrar (1887-1967) of Biloxi, Mississippi, her home situated on the corner of Kuhn and Beach Street at Biloxi, Mississippi, for the period of their natural lives.&nbsp; Mrs. Farrar included all furniture, fixtures, and contents of her house.&nbsp; She excepted from this donation all appurtenances that had been designated for other family members.&nbsp; In addition, her spinster daughters were provided an annual income from a trust fund created from cash, stocks, and bonds owned by their mother.&nbsp; A.S. Gorenflo was the trustee.&nbsp; After her daughters demise, her remaining assets to be divided by her living heirs.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Will Bk. 9, pp. 241-243)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The other heirs at law of Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar were: Mary Farrar Goldberger, Anna Farrar Goldberger, Jane Farrar Wood, Thomas Prince Farrar, Issac D.S. Farrar Jr. and Maud Ellen Farrer.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 53,890, Mrs. Jane Farrar Wood v. The Unknown Heirs of Edgar Howard Farrar and Lucinda Davis Stamps-May 1967).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar died on November 22, 1946.&nbsp; She lived at BiloxI, but was a legal resident of Louisiana.&nbsp; Mildred M. Farrar resided in her home at 909 East Beach until her death on February 8, 1967.&nbsp; She was a native of New Orleans and had lived at Biloxi since 1927.&nbsp; Funeral services at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer.&nbsp; Her remains interred in the Metairie Cemetery.(<em>The Daily Herald, February 8, 1967, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">After Miss Mildred M. Farrar&rsquo;s demise, her home became the property of her mother&rsquo;s living heirs.&nbsp; These were determined by the probate court to be: Anna Farrar Goldsborough, a daughter; Jane Farrar Wood, a daughter; Edgar Howard Farrar III, only child of a son now dead; Dr. Joseph Goldberger, Mrs. Mary G. Sharp, and Mr. Benjamin Goldberger,&nbsp;<strong>children of Mildred Maury Farrar</strong>; Miss Maud Ellen Farrar and Mr. Stamps Farrar II.&nbsp;&nbsp; (HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 53,890-May 1967-Mrs. Jane Farrar Wood v. The Unknown Heirs of Edgar Howard Farrar and Lucinda Davis Stamps-May 1967).</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Fifteen shares of stock in the Borgnemouth Realty Company, a Louisiana Corporation.(Bk. 589, pp. 152-154)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In March 1968, Mrs. Ralph (Jane) B. Wood (Harrison Co., Ms.), Mrs. Richard Goldsborough (Wayne Co, NY), Edgar H. Farrar III (Bell Co. Texas), Stamps Farrar II (San Francisco Co., Calf.), Maud Ellen Farrer (Orleans, Parish, La.), B.H. Goldberger (District of Columbia), Joseph H. Goldberger (Canadian Co., Oklahoma), Mrs. Michael Warnock (Bonneville Co. Idaho), and Bruce Sharp, Robert Sharp, and Donald Sharp, all of Orleans Parish, Louisiana conveyed to&nbsp;<strong>Wilda Lopez Bowring</strong>, the following: &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><em>That certain lot or parcel of land situated on the northeast corner of East Beach Boulevard and Kuhn Street having a frontage on the Gulf of Mexico of 84 feet and extending back in a northerly direction for a distance of 230 feet, more or less, being bounded on the South by the Gulf of Mexico, East by the property of Williams now of Harvey, North by the property of Bowring, west by Kuhn Street in the City of Biloxi.</em></strong></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 610, pp. 340-344)</span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>West Half-Lot C-909A East Beach</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1924,&nbsp;<strong>Lucinda Stamps Farrar</strong>, the widow of Edgar H. Farrar, a resident of Hancock County, Mississippi sold Lot C to&nbsp;<strong>Stamps Farrar</strong>, her son.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 142, pp. 484-485)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Stamps Farrar</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In October 1938, Stamps Farrar opened his home for the weekend of the Laurence Moore Barkley and Malcolm Tullis wedding, which was held at the Church of the Redeemer.&nbsp; Their guests for the Barkley-Tullis nuptials were Mrs. Farrar&rsquo;s mother, Mrs. Albert Sidney White, and Ellene White, her sister.&nbsp; Mrs. Lillian Lewis and Hampden Lewis also of New Orleans stayed at the Farrar summer home on East Beach.<em>(The Daily Herald,</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>October 9, 1938, p. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucille Gillis Minor</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In May 1947, Stamps Farrar to&nbsp;<strong>Lucille G. Minor</strong>&nbsp;for $6000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 298, pp. 338-339)&nbsp; Lucille Gillis Minor (1889-1954) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 6, 1889, the daughter of Alfred Barr Gillis and Lucille Bohn (living in 1956).&nbsp; She married&nbsp;<strong>John Duncan Minor</strong>&nbsp;(1876-1937), a native of Southdown Plantation, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; They were the parents of&nbsp;<strong>Lucille M. Minor</strong>, the spouse of Hastings Mortimer, and&nbsp;<strong>Joan Minor</strong>&nbsp;(1915-1956).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">John D. Minor was the son of Henry C. Minor (d. 1898) of Houma and Anna Louise Butler, the daughter of Judge Thomas Butler of West Feliciana Parish.&nbsp; Both families were Southern aristocratic.&nbsp; His grandfather, William J. Minor (d. 1869), was the founder of Southdown Plantation near Houma, Louisiana.&nbsp; His sister was Mrs. David Pipes Jr., of Southdown.&nbsp; Young J.D. Minor attended Tulane University where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega social fraternity.&nbsp; He returned immediately to manage the business operations at Southdown upon the passing of his father in 1898.&nbsp; Mr. Minor retired from the sugar business in 1912. (<em>The Daily Herald, August 9, 1937, p. 8)</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Southdown Plantation</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">It would be remiss without providing some chronology of the&nbsp;Southdown Plantation situated at Houma, Louisiana.&nbsp; Here in the 1820s, on a former Spanish land grant, William J. Minor, the son of Stephen Minor, a resident of the Natchez District and friend of Manuel Luis Gayoso de Lemos, who administered the government of Spanish Louisiana from 1797-1799, began to cultivate indigo.&nbsp; By 1830, he was growing sugarcane and by 1846, a sugar mill had been erected at Southdown.&nbsp; In 1859, a one-story Greek Revival, brick edifice was erected for the Minor family.&nbsp; After W.J. Minor&rsquo;s demise in 1869, his seven children inherited Southdown.&nbsp; Soon, Henry C. Minor and sister, Katherine Lintot Minor, acquired the interest of their siblings and ran the plantation for many years.&nbsp; In 1893, a second floor and round turrets were integrated into the former Greek Revival building metamorphosing the structure to the Queen Anne architectural style.&nbsp; After Miss Kate L. Minor passed in 1923, the sugarcane plantation survived until the 1930s, when it was sold to commercial entities.&nbsp; In the 1970s through the efforts of Esther B. McCollam of Ellendale Plantation and the Terrebonne Parish Historical &amp; Cultural Society, Southdown was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.&nbsp; In July 1975, Valhi Inc., the corporate owner, donated Southdown, its servant&rsquo;s outbuildings and about 5 acres to the local historical society.&nbsp; The former Minor plantation was open for public touring in 1986 and today remains an integral part of the history of Houma and Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.<em>(Antiques Gazette, June 1993, p. 7)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1915, John Duncan Minor acquired for $5500 from Oscar G. Keller, Lot 3, being share No. 3, in the partition of the Estate of John H. Keller at Biloxi, Mississippi.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 112, pp. 346-347)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Here at 543 East Beach, eighty-feet west of Lee Street, the Minor family made their home until August 1930, when Mr. and Mrs. Minor sold their estate to Winifred C. Green for $9900.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 187, p. 166)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">John D. Minor&rsquo;s aunt, Katherine Lintot Minor (1849-1923), the daughter of Captain William J. Minor and Rebecca Ann Gustine , passed at New Orleans, in late 1923.&nbsp; She resided at Houma, Louisiana, but was prominent in the ladies auxiliary at the Touro Infirmary in the Crescent City.(<em>The Daily Herald, December 4, 1923, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">John Duncan Minor expired at his home at 3211 Prytania Street where he had resided since 1932.&nbsp; He had been active in the social circles of the Crescent City in regards the Mardi Gras and its carnival organizations.&nbsp; Minor&rsquo;s corporal remains were interred in the Magnolia Cemetery at Houma, Louisiana.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 9, 1937, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lucille G. Minor passed on June 25, 1954 at her home at 909A East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; Her daughter, Joan Desmond Minor resided here until she became ill in</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Mrs. Lucille Minor Mortimer</strong>&nbsp;inherited.&nbsp; In 1925, she was living at Biloxi and attending school in the North.&nbsp; Visited Mr. and Mrs. Edward Caffery, her relatives, at Havana, Cuba in the summer of 1925.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 27, 1925, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In late August 1928.&nbsp;<strong>Miss Joan Minor</strong>&nbsp;returned to Biloxi after a two-month stay at Camp Allegheny in West Virginia.&nbsp; Guests at the Minor home compliments of Miss Lucille Minor were: Miss Maud Werner, Hastings Mortimer, Miss Mildred Brown, and John Stafford all of NOLA.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 1, 1928, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;In December 1956, Lucille G. Minor Mortimer conveyed to&nbsp;<strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>&nbsp;(1980) for $6000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 416, p. 343)&nbsp; Title cleared in November 1961, when Lucille G. Mortimer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 487, pp. 491-492)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Sister, Joan Minor expired in Louisiana on May 29, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Lynden Bowring also owned the East Half of the &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo;, which he had acquired in July 1946, from the Sporl family of New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">East Half of &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; Lot</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In July 1917, Mrs. George H. Dunbar of New Orleans to Edwin B. Johnson for $1 cash in hand.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 119, pp. 310-311)</span></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center; line-height: 1.3em;\">Edwin B. Johnson</strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">Edwin B. Johnson</strong><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;(1862-1930+) was born in Mississippi during the Civil War. &nbsp;Circa 1889, he married&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">Martha Moss</strong><span style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;(1864-1930+), a Tennessee native. &nbsp;Their only child was born before 1900, but did not survive. &nbsp;In 1900, the Johnsons were domiciled at Clarksdale, Coahoma Co., Mississippi where he was a merchant.(1900 Coahoma Co., Mississippi Federal Census T623_805, p. 11A, ED 25) &nbsp;</span></h1>\r\n	<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">In December 1924, </span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">E.B. Johnson and Mattie Moss Johnson&nbsp;sold</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;their&nbsp;residence at&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">941 East Beach</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;to&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">Cora Stanton Jahncke </strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">(1885-1970),</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;the wife&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">of</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;Ernest Lee Jahncke</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;(1877-1960)</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">&nbsp;of NOLA</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">, for $15,000. &nbsp;The Johnson family planned to return t</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">o their home at&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.3em;\">Clarksdale, Mississippi. &nbsp;The Johnsons lived here for some time and always had the welfare and civic improvement at heart. &nbsp;Mr. Jahnke will use the home as a summer residence. &nbsp;When the Jahnckes bought the house, they borrowed the money from Cyprian A. Sporl. &nbsp;By 1930, the Johnsons were domicled on John Street living in their own home valued at $10,000. &nbsp;Mr. Johnson&#39;s occupation was &#39;rental property collector&#39;. &nbsp;No further information.(The Daily Herald, December 18, 1924, p. 3,&nbsp;HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 143, p. 412 and 1930 Coahoma Co., Mississippi Federal Census R1142, p. 9A, ED 13)</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Jahncke%2C Ernest Lee_0.jpg\" style=\"width: 179px; height: 250px;\" /></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Commodore&nbsp;</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Ernest Lee&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center; line-height: 20px; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Jahncke</strong></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Commodore Ernest L. Jahncke was a native of New Orleans.&nbsp; He was a speedboat driver-racer and owner of the several fast watercraft<em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>At the 13<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Annual Regatta of the Biloxi Yacht Club held in July 1912, Captain Jahncke introduced the&nbsp;<strong><em>Humpty Dumpty</em></strong>, a most unusual hydroplaning vessel.&nbsp; In outline, she appeared to be the integration of a boat and rocking chair.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Humpty Dumpty</em></strong>&nbsp;was constructed of mahogany and finished with a high luster varnish.&nbsp; On the water, she had a top speed approaching thirty miles per hour.&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">Much interest had developed at the July regatta, as there were innuendos that the&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><em>Bella L.</em></strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">, the very fast motorboat of Julius M. Lopez (1886-1958) would meet in a match race. &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">Unfortunately neither Captains Jahncke nor Lopez could agree on a racing rules format&nbsp;for a match race in Biloxi at the July summer regatta.&nbsp; No future contest was planned.(</span><em style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">The Daily Herald, July 12, 1912, p. 1)</em></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">July 1916 Storm</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Following his actions during and post July 1916 tempest, Comodore Ernest Lee Jahncke of the Southern Yacht Club, was dubbed &ldquo;the hero of the recent storm&rdquo;.&nbsp; He spent $2000 of his own finances in assisting Biloxians by taking mail to New Orleans on the&nbsp;<strong><em>Clarabelle, as</em></strong>&nbsp;the train and telegraph were inoperative.&nbsp; Commodore Jahncke sent a tug boat to the Coast to take vessels to deep water and tow the pile driver working at the Biloxi Yacht Club to safety, as well as assist boats during and after the hurricane.(<em>The Daily Herald, July 10, 1916, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In early August 1919, Captain Jahncke moored the</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&nbsp;<em>Aunt Dinah</em></strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, his expansive houseboat, at Biloxi with his spouse and family aboard.&nbsp; As usual, the Jahnckes planned to spend some vacation time in Biloxi.&nbsp; In May 1923,&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald&nbsp;</em></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">related that&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong><em>&ldquo;this boat has been coming to Biloxi for the summer season for a number of years and its presence adds much to the pleasure of the summer colony of visitors who come to spend the season.</em></strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>(The Daily Herald, August 4, 1919, p. 4 and The Daily Herald, May 28, 1923, p. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">While a resident of Biloxi, Jahncke built an eye-catching fence on the south elevation.&nbsp; The fence was replicated from that of an old English estate of renown.&nbsp; The fence pillars were constructed of brick.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 5, 1964)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Adele Townsend Jahncke</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In 1926, the Jahncke&rsquo;s daughter, Adele Townsend Jahncke (1909-1993), was a student at Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans.&nbsp; She was captain of the freshman basketball team and was considered one of the best competitive sailors along the Gulf Coast. After graduating from Newcomb, Adelle made her debut at New Orleans and Washington D.C.&nbsp; In 1933, Miss Jahncke married Charles W. Dotson (1898-1974), an attorney at Farmer City, Illinois.&nbsp; He was a graduate of the University of Illinois.&nbsp; One son?, Charles W. Dotson Jr. (1936-1998).(<em>The Daily Herald, December 10, 1926, p. 4 and October 13, 1933, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In May 1928, Lee Jahncke was lauded for the fine improvements made to his East Beach home.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 24, 1928, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Captain Ernest Lee Jahncke defaulted on his mortgage payment to Sporl and in December 1932, Hanun Gardner, trustee, sold the Jahncke home to Cyprian A. Sporl for $6500.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 196, pp. 342-343)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Cyprian A. Sporl</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Purchased by Cyprian A. Sporl (1880-1936) on December 10, 1932, from Hanun Gardner, Trustee, for $6500.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 196, pp. 342-343)&nbsp; C.A. &ldquo;Many&rdquo; Sporl was the son of Cyprian A. Sporl and Louise Soule (d. August 1930) of New Orleans and Bay St. Louis.&nbsp; He had two brothers, Edward F. Sproul (18-1956+) and Walter Sproul, and four sisters, Alice Sproul (1956+)l, Elsie Sproul (1956+), Hilda Sproul, and Laura Sporl&nbsp; Killeen (d. March 1956), the spouse of Joseph L. Kileen (.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 28, 1930, p. 5&nbsp; and The Daily Herald, March 6, 1956, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">At New Orleans, Many Sproul resided at 6550 Oakland Drive with his wife, Adrienne de Lappe, and children, Harold D. Sporl and Cyprian A. Sporl II (1905-1999).&nbsp; He was a member of the Southern Yacht Club and owned a fifty-five foot motor vessel,&nbsp;<strong><em>Wendy.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong>In early July 1913, Sporl participated in the nearly three hundred mile, New Orleans to Pensacola motor boat race.&nbsp; His watercraft was propelled by a 40 hp Murray &amp; Tregurtha engine.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 3, 1913, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">Cyprian A. Sporl II (1905-1999) donated&nbsp;<em><strong>Cocheco</strong></em>, his $30,000, 76-foot disel yacht, to the USCG in April 1941. He also enlisted in the USCG at this time. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong><em>Cocheco</em></strong>&nbsp;was to be used for patrol duty.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 21, 1941, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In September 1936, the Sporl property was adjudicated by the Harrison County Chancery Court to Adrienne de Lappe Sporl, C.A. Sporl II, and H.D. Sporl.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 212, p. 253)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">WWII</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em;\">During WWII, the Sporl family of NOLA allowed their home to be used by the Women&rsquo;s U.S.O. for a small rental.</span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.3em;\">(The Daily, Herald, November 5, 1964)</em></h1>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" size=\"4\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/lynden%20bowring.jpg\" style=\"border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 300px;\" /></span></font></span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>&nbsp;(1889-1980)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;LYNOAKS&rdquo;-Lynden Bowring</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In July 1946, for $30,000 the Sporl family conveyed their Biloxi home to&nbsp;<strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 288, pp. 517-518)&nbsp; Mr. Bowring called his mansion,<strong><em>Lynoaks</em></strong>.&nbsp; In later years, lived on 1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;floor and rented the 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;and 3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;floors.(Clara L. D&rsquo;Aquilla, October 23, 2000)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Lynden Bowring</strong>&nbsp;(1889-1980) was born in Los Angeles, California.&nbsp; Made his livelihood as an attorney and rumored to have made money in the movies business in Hollywood.&nbsp; Described as a loner and eccentric.(Bache Whitlock, October 19, 2000)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">During his life, Bowring was married three times.&nbsp; He had two children with his first wife, but they as well as his spouse, preceded him in death.&nbsp; His second nuptial ended in divorce.&nbsp; Lynden married Wilda Lopez (1899-1977), the daughter of Lazro Lopez II (1877-1918) and Eurilda Seal (1879-1966).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Miss Wilda Lopez was the valedictorian of the 1915 Class of Biloxi High School and delivered an appropriate speech to her nine classmates and audience.&nbsp; She went on to study at Randolph Macon College at Lynchburg, Virginia.&nbsp; Wilda&rsquo;s other siblings were: Clara Lopez Tarr Froede (1902-1936), Beverly Lopez Berggren (1904-1991), Florian Seal Lopez (1911-1957), John Beverly Lopez (1915-1970).<em>(The Daily Herald, May 29, 1915, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Prior to her marriage to Lynden Bowring, Wilda Lopez had married Dr. James Edward Wallace (1877-1942) in the Roman Catholic Church at Biloxi, Mississippi on January 9, 1920.(HARCO, Ms. MRB 31, p. 493)&nbsp; Dr. Wallace was a native of Natchitoches, Louisiana.&nbsp; He came to Biloxi in 1914, and was affiliated with Dr. Hyman M. Folkes (1871-1926), the husband of Teresa Lopez (1873-1951).&nbsp; Mrs. Folkes was Wilda&rsquo;s aunt.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Bowring affiliated with C.T. Bowring and Co. Ltd. of London, England, a shipping firm. &nbsp;Owned a one-half interest in the Carlton Apartments on Union Drive in Los Angeles.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Owned the&nbsp;<strong><em>Rum Runner</em></strong>, a large motor yacht (65 feet in length) and a relict of the Prohibition era.&nbsp; Moored in front of the East Beach home.&nbsp; Built boat house and slip for it in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Boat never utilized, but full-time employee maintained the craft.(Bache Whitlock, October 19, 2000)</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Ocean Springs</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In August 1969, Hurricane Camille destroyed the Bowrings&rsquo; Biloxi home.&nbsp; In 1970?, The Bowrings relocated to Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Bruce Duckett remember Mr. Bowring as an elderly gentleman approcahing him to buy his home on Helmers Lane.&nbsp; Lynden wanted a site on the Inner harbor at Ocean Springs for the&nbsp;<strong><em>Wilda B (</em></strong><em>aka<strong>&nbsp;Rum Runner)</strong></em>.&nbsp; He convinced ? a golfer to relocate to Gulf Hills and bought his home and land at 207 General Pershing Avenue.(Bruce Duckett, October 10, 2000)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In July 1970, Wilda Lopez Bowring acquired from Lester B. Larson and Jennie C. Larson the following property in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Their residence address was 207 General Pershing Avenue.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Commencing at the southwest corner of Hellmers Lane and General Pershing Avenue: Go south 92.5 feet to the POB.&nbsp; Thence south 331.5 feet along the west margin of General Pershing Avenue to the waters edge of the OS small craft harbor, thence N 70 degrees 20&rsquo; W 200 feet along the waters edge of the small craft harbor to the fence line dividing the Larson and Howell property; thence N 19 degrees 20&rsquo;E 257 feet along an old fence line; thence S84 degrees 20&rsquo;E 128 feet along an old fence line to the point of beginning.&nbsp; Said land lying in Section 37, T7S-R8W.</strong></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 381, pp. 587-588)</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In May 1971, Mrs. Bowring acquired from Earl W. Paul and Ilsedore Paul, the following: &nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Commencing at the southwest corner of Hellmers Lane and General Pershing Avenue: Go south 92.5 feet; thence N84 degrees 20&rsquo;W 128 feet along a wire fence; thence north 66.3 feet along a wire fence to the south margin of Hellmers Lane; thence N84 degreesE127 feet along the south margin of Hellmers Lane to the POB.</strong></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 401, pp.338-339)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Their residence address was 207 General Pershing Avenue.&nbsp; There was a rental house on one of the lots. &nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">House fire caused by lightening destroyed most of their home September 13, 1977.&nbsp; Mr. Bowring was led out of the burning house by Alice Duckett.&nbsp; Mrs. Wilda L. Bowring suffered burns and smoke inhalation and died in late October as a result of injuries from the conflagration.&nbsp; She was a member of the Colonial Dames, Daughters of the American Revolution, Les Masques carnival club, and the Biloxi Yacht Club.&nbsp; Member of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church.&nbsp; Buried at the Biloxi Cemetery.(<em>The Ocean Springs Record, September 15, 1977, pp. 1-2 and The Daily Herald, October 27, 1977, p. A-2)</em></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mrs. Wilda Bowring left an estate valued at approximately $300,000.&nbsp; Her principal beneficiaries were: Patricia T. Leavitt of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Barbara T. Kroningen of Downers Grove, Illinois, (JXCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 33566)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In June 1978, Lynden Bowring, executor of the Estate of Wilda Lopez Bowring, sold to Charles E. Carr and Joy R. Carr, the two parcels above.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 621, p. 501).&nbsp; In 1996, Dr. William Pontius built a large home, &ldquo;Lattiude&rdquo;, at Hellmers Lane on the former site of Bowring&rsquo;s boathouse.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">When Lynden Bowring expired on April 8, 1980, he was living at his apartment house at 414 East Howard Avenue in Biloxi.&nbsp; He willed his real estate at 900 East Beach Biloxi to&nbsp;<strong>Beverly Lopez Berggren</strong>, his sister-in-law, and&nbsp;<strong>Patricia Tarr Leavitt</strong>, his niece-in-law.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Chancery Court Cause No. 9853)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h5 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Cause No. 9853-Estate of Lynden Bowring-1980</span></span></h5>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Patricia Tarr Leavitt, executrix of Lynden Bowing&#39;s estate. Bowring was married three times. His first wife died and he divorced his second spouse. Two children born of first marriage, but children died.&nbsp; Wife preceded him in death.&nbsp; No children.&nbsp; Left property at 900 East Beach Biloxi to Beverly Lopez Berggren, his sister-in-law, and Patricia Tarr Leavitt, his niece-in-law.&nbsp; Mr. Bowring was affiliated with C.T. Bowring and Co. Ltd. of London, England.&nbsp; He owned a one-half interest in the Carlton Apartments on Union Drive in Los Angeles.&nbsp; Lynden Bowring died on April 8, 1980.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Berggren-Leavitt</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Beverly Lopez Berggren</strong>&nbsp;(1904-1991), called Bee and Lillie, was the daughter of Lazaro Lopez II and Eurilda Seal.&nbsp; She was educated at the Sacred Heart Academy and Mississippi Southern College.&nbsp; Miss Lopez married Captain Oscar E. Berggren (1893-1964).&nbsp; No children.&nbsp; They resided on Suter Street at Biloxi.&nbsp; She was a charter member of Les Masques carnival club.&nbsp; Passed on at Biloxi on October 26, 1991.(<em>The Sun Herald, October 29, 1991)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Captain Oscar E. Berggren was a native of Fjallbacka, Sweden.&nbsp; He made his livelihood on the sea.&nbsp; During his forty-six year naval career, Captain Berggren had worked for the Waterman and Morgan steamship lines.&nbsp; During WWII, he sailed on merchant vessels from Canada to Europe facing the relentless pursuit of German U-Boats.&nbsp; He was fortunate as on several occasions, his ship had close encounters with German torpedoes.&nbsp; Captain Berggren was a member of the Masters, Mates, and Pilots Association.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 6, 1964, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Mrs. Beverly Lopez Berggren legated her interest in Live Oak to Patricia T. Leavitt.&nbsp; Clara Lopez Campbell D&rsquo;Aquilla (b. 1936) was her executrix.&nbsp; Mrs. D&rsquo;Aquilla was legated Mrs. Berggren&rsquo;s home at 1092 West Beach Blvd. in Biloxi.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Chancery Court Cause No. P-2077B)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Patricia Tarr Leavitt</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1919) was the daughter of Leslie R. Tarr (1897-1972) and Clara Lopez (1902-1936).&nbsp; Leslie R. Tarr met Miss Lopez during WWI, when he was a sailor posted at the Gulfport Naval Station.&nbsp; They eloped and were married at Ocean Springs, Mississippi on December 8, 1918, by Judge O.D. Davidson (1872-1938).&nbsp; Mr. Tarr resided at Glendale, California where he was employed as a newspaperman in Los Angeles.&nbsp; Miss Lopez was a student at Newcomb College in New Orleans, at the time of her nuptials.&nbsp; (<em>The Daily Herald September 6, 1919, p. 4 and&nbsp;</em>JXCO, Ms. MRB 11, p. 573)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Tarrs had another daughter,&nbsp;<strong>Barbara Tarr Kroninger</strong>&nbsp;(1921-1983), who was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 15, 1921.&nbsp; Her mother had come here from California for a visit with her family and Barbara was born here.<em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>Barbara Tarr was a stewardess for Delta Airlines and during WWII had been a Navy nurse. &nbsp;She married Lt. (j.g.) Nolan Kroninger, USN, a native of Cowden, Illinois, on September 26, 1946. &nbsp;He was aboard the<u><strong><em>&nbsp;USS Lexington</em></strong></u>&nbsp;when it was sunk by Japanese aircraf in 1942. &nbsp;The Kronigers eventually settled at Downers Grove, Illinois.(<em>The Daily Herald,</em></span></span><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;February 18, 1921, p. 3,</em><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;October 7, 1946, p. 6</em><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;and Clara L. D&rsquo;Aquilla, October 23, 2000)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Clara L. Tarr divorced Leslie R. Tarr in California.&nbsp; He was a resident of Santa Barbara, California in 1941, and passed on at Newport Beach, California in July 1972.&nbsp; Clara then married Paul O. Froede (1896-1968) in New York on May 28, 1929.&nbsp; Mr. Froede was a native of Brooklyn and had been a regular visitor to Biloxi.&nbsp; The newly weds planned a six-weeks honeymoon trip through New England and Canada before returning to Biloxi.(<em>The Daily Herald, June 5, 1929, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Patricia Jeanne Tarr married&nbsp;<strong>Clyde M. Leavitt</strong>&nbsp;(b. 1910), a naval architect, from Syracuse, New York.&nbsp; He was the son of Clyde Leavitt and Patricia McGowen.&nbsp; Miss Tarr was a student at the University of Mississippi when they met.&nbsp; Mr. Leavitt was employed at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula at the time.&nbsp; They married in Jackson County, Mississippi on June 7, 1941.&nbsp; Two daughters were born from this union.(Clara L. D&rsquo; Aquilla and JXCO, Ms. MRB 33, p. 550)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1974, the Leavitts bought Lots 1 and 2 of Block 50 Gulf Hills on 13901 Puerto Drive from W.H. Mecom Jr.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 495, p. 549)&nbsp; Sold Gulf Hills home in November 1994 to Phillip L. Severson Jr.&nbsp; The Leavitts moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, where they reside presently.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 1053, p. 156)&nbsp; Mrs. Leavitt suffered a stroke recently and is recovering.(Claire L. D&rsquo;Aquilla, October 18, 2000)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Phillip D. Ward</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In March 1984, Mary L. Harvey sold her lot to Phillip D. Ward.(Bk. 142, p. 585)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In March 1984, Bergrren-Leavitt sold their lot to Phillip D. Ward.(Bk. 142, p. 587)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Robert E. Hebert</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In April 1987, Robert E. Hebert took a Deed of Trust from Phillip D. Ward on the property.&nbsp; He defaulted on his payments to Hebert.&nbsp; In April 1988, James B. Person, Substitute Trustee, sold the lot to Hebert.(Bk. 200, pp. 68-69)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">When Hebert defaulted on his performance, conditions, and provisions of his deed of trust with Harvey and Leavitt-Bergreen, Larry C. Corban Jr., Trustee, sold on July 3, 1989, to Mary L. Harvey for $83,656.14.(Bk. 211, pp. 208-210)&nbsp; Corban sold the other lot to Berggren-Leavitt for $153,537.75.(Bk. 211, pp. 212-214)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Mrs. Berggren Dies</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">When Mrs. Beverly Lopez Berggren passed, she legated her interest in Live Oak to Patricia T. Leavitt.&nbsp; Mrs. Berggren was known as Bee and Lillie.&nbsp; Clara Lopez Campbell D&rsquo;Aquilla (b. 1936) was her executrix.&nbsp; Mrs. D&rsquo;Aquilla was legated Mrs. Berggren&rsquo;s home at 1092 West Beach Blvd. in Biloxi. .(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Chancery Court Cause No. P-2077B-March 1993)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Frederick J. Burmont</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">In March 1993, for $5000, Patricia T. Leavitt and Mary L. Harvey (1910-1999) sold an option to purchase the site to Frederick J. Burmont in March 1993.&nbsp; If option selected, the selling price would be $800,000.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD, Land Deed Bk. 53, p. 417)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">In October 1993, Patricia T. Leavitt and Mary L. Harvey sold &ldquo;Live Oak&rdquo; to the Oak Place Development Company, a Mississippi corporation.(HARCO, Ms. 2</span><sup style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">nd</sup><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">&nbsp;JD, Land Deed Bk. 262, pp. 84-85)</span><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Oak Place Development Company led by Frederick J. Burmont and headquartered at Daytona Beach, Florida.&nbsp; In May 1994, the stockholders voted to sell their Biloxi land to Ronald W. Blacklidge for $1,700,000.&nbsp; Sold in June 1994, to Blacklidge with Oaks at Tullis, Inc. of Gulfport.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Land Deed Bk. 271, pp.421-434)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Oaks at Tullis</span></span></strong></h1>\r\n	<h1 class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin: 5px 0px 10px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; line-height: 20px;\">Oaks at Tullis, Inc. to City of Biloxi, Mississippi.(HARCO, Ms. 2</span><sup style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; line-height: 20px;\">nd</sup><span style=\"font-size: 14px; font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; line-height: 20px;\">&nbsp;JD Land Deed Bk. 358, pp. 78-86)</span></h1>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<h6 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Chancery Court Causes</span></span></h6>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 14868,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Ex Parte: Mrs. Adrienne De Lappe Sporl, et al&rdquo;</strong>, September 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 24,334,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Estate of Lucinda Davis Stamps&rdquo;</strong>, December 1946.(Will Book 9, pp. 241-243)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 37,904,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Estate of Joan Minor&rdquo;</strong>, October 1961.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 53,890,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Jane Farrar Wood v. The Unknown Heirs of Edgar Howard Farrar and Lucinda Davis Stamps&rdquo;</strong>, May 1967.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Judicial District, Cause No. 9853,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Estate of Lynden Bowring,&nbsp;</strong>1980.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Judicial District Cause No. P-2077B,&nbsp;<strong>The Estate of Beverly Lopez Berggren&rdquo;</strong>, March 1993.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Mildred Farrar, Mrs. Ralph B. Wood, Edith Barnes Farrar, Mrs. Joseph Goldsberger, Mrs. Richard F. Goldsborough, Maude Ellen Farrar, Stamps Farrar, and Edward H. Farrar.&nbsp;&nbsp;<u>Cause No. 12,936,</u>&nbsp;(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 399, pp. 44-45)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong><u>Cause No. 27,220 Clara M. Campbell</u></strong></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Jackson County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 33,566,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;The Estate of Wilda Lopez Bowring&rdquo;</strong>, January 1979.</span></p>\r\n	<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><em><u>Books</u></em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><u>American State Papers</u></strong>, Volume III, Public Lands (1815-1824), (The Southern Historical Press, Inc.: Greenville, South Carolina-1994)</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Nap L. Cassibry II,&nbsp;<strong><u>Early Settlers and Land Grants At Biloxi</u></strong>, Volume 1 and Volume II, Special Issue No. 5, (Mississippi Coast Historical &amp; Genealogical Society: Biloxi, Mississippi-1986).</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Charles H. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong>Along The Gulf</strong>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church: Pass Christian, Mississippi-1971)</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">T.H. Glenn,&nbsp;<strong><u>The Mexican Gulf Coast Illustrated</u></strong>, (Graham &amp; Delchamps: Mobile, Alabama-1893)</span></p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		&nbsp;</p>\r\n	<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Magazines</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Antiques Gazette,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Southdown Plantation Now Historic House and Museum&rdquo;</strong>, June 1993.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h6 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		&nbsp;</h6>\r\n	<h6 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Journals</span></span></h6>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;</strong>, February 6, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Biloxi Chief Industry&rdquo;</strong>, September 12, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;</strong>, September 28, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;</strong>, April 29, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;,&nbsp;</strong>June 10, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;,&nbsp;</strong>July 1, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Kuhn-Desporte&rdquo;</strong>, May 1, 1903, p 5.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Joseph Kuhn&rdquo;</strong>, November 25, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Necrology-Frank Dunbar&rdquo;</strong>, January 31, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Kuhn-Bourdon&rdquo;</strong>, December 20, 1909, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;New Orleans Man Killed by Robbers&rdquo;</strong>, November 2, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi News&rdquo;</strong>, November 3, 1911.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>Humpty Dumpty, Speed Marvel, Is Sensation of Biloxi Motor Races&rdquo;</strong>, July 13, 1912, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Will Be No Race Between Speeders&rdquo;</strong>, July 12, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Speed Boats Off on Long Cruise&rdquo;</strong>, July 3, 1913.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Dunbar Property on East Beach Has Been Sold to New Orleanian&rdquo;</strong>, February 12, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Thieves Ransack The Dunbar Home&rdquo;</strong>, June 22, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Ten graduates are given diplomas at closing exercises&rdquo;</strong>, May 29, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Jahncke is hero of recent &ldquo;Blow&rdquo;</strong>, July, 10, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Wood-Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, September 12, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Wood-Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, September 13, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Judge Farrar To Come To Biloxi&rdquo;</strong>, April 9, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Geo. H. Dunbar Dies In New Orleans&rdquo;</strong>, October 19, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Prominent Man Dies In New Orleans&rdquo;</strong>, October 24, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;Mrs. Frank Dunbar Dead&rdquo;</strong>, May 31, 1919.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Ernest Lee Jancke Here&rdquo;</strong>, August 4, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Girl of Southern Noted Family Joins Husband in Los Angeles&rdquo;</strong>, September 6, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Mrs. Dunbar Dead&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 9, 1920, August 27, 1925.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;Biloxi News Paragraphs&rdquo;</strong>, February 18, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Prominent Biloxian (Sarah Kuhn) Dead&rdquo;</strong>, April 26, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Death Claims Prominent Biloxi Resident in Judge E.H. Farrar&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, January 7, 1922.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Farrar Remains Buried&rdquo;</strong>, January 9, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Edgar H. Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, January 9, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Miss Kate Minor Dead&rdquo;</strong>, December 4, 1923.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Aunt Dinah in Local Port&rdquo;</strong>, May 28, 1923.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi News</strong>&nbsp;(Lucille Minor)<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, August 27, 1925</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Miss Jahncke Captain&rdquo;</strong>, December 10, 1926.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Improving Williams Home&rdquo;</strong>, May 24, 1928.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi News&rdquo;</strong>, September 1, 1928.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Elizabeth Kuhn Dies&rdquo;</strong>, June 17, 1929, p. 2.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Froede-Tarr Nuptials&rdquo;</strong>, June 5, 1929.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Goldsborough Bank Head&rdquo;</strong>, May 27, 1930.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. C.A. Sporl Dies&rdquo;</strong>, August 28, 1930.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;May Adele Kuhn Dies&rdquo;</strong>, December 3, 1930, p. 2.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Farrar-Howard&rdquo;</strong>, June 1, 1933.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Miss Jahncke To Marry&rdquo;</strong>, October 13, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;C.A. Sporl Dies&rdquo;</strong>, January 27, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Attend Sporl Funeral&rdquo;</strong>, January 29, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;C.A. Sporl Dies&rdquo;</strong>, January 31, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Paul Froede Dies&rdquo;</strong>, September 24, 1936.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;John Duncan Minor Dies&rdquo;</strong>, August 9, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Barkley-Tullis Wedding&rdquo;</strong>, October 9, 1938.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;Sporl gives yacht to Coast Guard&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, April 21, 1941.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Dr. James Wallace World War Captain Dies at Biloxi&rdquo;</strong>, October 28, 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Kroninger-Tarr&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, October 7, 1946.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Mrs. Farrar dies: Burial in New Orleans&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, November 13, 1946.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Laura Sporl Kileen&rdquo;</strong>, March 6, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Know Your Coast&rdquo;</strong>, &ldquo;The Biloxi House With The English Fence&rdquo;, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Joan Minor&rdquo;</strong>, May 29, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h2 style=\"line-height: 1.3em; padding: 3px 0px; font-family: \'Trebuchet MS\', \'Lucida Console\'; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Minor Rites&rdquo;</strong>, May 31, 1956.</span></span></h2>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Capt. Berggren Taken By Death&rdquo;</strong>, January 6. 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Know Your Coast&rdquo;</strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;The Biloxi House With The English Fence&rdquo;</em></strong><em>,&nbsp;</em>November 5, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Miss Mildred Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, February 8, 1967.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;R.B. Wood&rdquo;,&nbsp;</strong>October 26, 1967.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Widow&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">[Mary H. Farrar]&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">of Dr. Goldberger dies in Biloxi home&quot;</strong><em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">,&nbsp;</em><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">September 12, 1969.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Louis W. Harvey&rdquo;</strong>, January 20, 1970.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<em style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Mrs. Wilda Lopez Bowring&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, October 27, 1977.</span></p>\r\n	<h5 align=\"left\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;</em>&ldquo;Saved From Fire&rdquo;, September 15, 1977.</span></span></h5>\r\n	<h5 align=\"left\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em>&ldquo;Mrs. Beverly Berggren&rdquo;, October 29, 1991.</span></span></h5>\r\n	<h5 align=\"left\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em>&ldquo;Mary L. Harvey&rdquo;,&nbsp;November 14, 1999.</span></span></h5>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Married</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;[Anna G. Farrar and Richard F. Goldsborough]<strong>&quot;</strong>, January 1, 1905.</span></p>\r\n	<div>\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Miss Lucy Farrar&#39;s brilliant career ends sadly in Paris&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, October 28, 1910.</span></div>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Dr. Goldberger pellagra&#39;s foe dies for science&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, January 18, 1929.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&quot;Jahncke named to special duty with Navy here</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&quot;</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 19, 1941.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Mrs. Farrar, 89 expires at Biloxi&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, November 213, 1946.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Stamps Farrar last rites held&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 4, 1950.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Stamps Farrar&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 5, 1950.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Thomas P. Farrar dies in New York&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, June 12, 1951.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Deaths&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">[Edith Barnes Farrar]</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 21, 1959.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;<strong>&quot;</strong>[Ernest Lee]<strong>&nbsp;Jahncke rites planned today&quot;</strong>, November 17, 1960.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;&quot;Mrs. Jahncke rites planned&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, March 20, 1970.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;Deaths&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">[Anna Farrar Goldsborough]</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, December 12, 1970.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">[Anna Farrar Goldsborough]</span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;Ex-cartoonist&#39;s rites are held&quot;</strong><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, February 2, 1971.</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Personal Communication:</strong></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">A. Bruce Duckett-telephone conversation on October 10, 2000, at Ocean Springs, Mississippi</span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Bache Whitlock-telephone conversation on October 19, 2000, at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Clara L. D&rsquo;Aquilla-telephone conversation on October 18, 2000 at Biloxi, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Clara L. D&rsquo;Aquilla-interview at 1092 Beach Blvd. on October 23, 2000, at Biloxi, Ms.</span></span></p>\r\n	<h5>\r\n		<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Cause No. 9853-Estate of Lynden Bowring-1980</span></h5>\r\n	<p style=\"margin: 0.6em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; line-height: 20px;\">\r\n		<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Patricia Tarr Leavitt, executrix of his estate. Married three times. First wife died, divorced second. Two children born of first marriage, but children died.&nbsp; Wife preceded him in death.&nbsp; No children.&nbsp; Left property at 900 East Beach Biloxi to Beverly Lopez Berggren, his sister-in-law, and Patricia Tarr Leavitt, his niece-in-law.&nbsp; Bowring affiliated with C.T. Bowring and Co. Ltd. of London, England.&nbsp; Owned a one-half interest in the Carlton Apartments on Union Drive in Los Angeles.&nbsp; Bowring died April 8, 1980.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	______________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<br />\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>BALDWIN WOOD&ndash;VANCE-BOHN-GILLIS HOUSE: an outstanding example of historic preservation at Biloxi, Mississippi </strong>[501 East Beach and 806 West Beach]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In June 1912, <strong>Albert Baldwin Wood</strong> (1879-1956), called <strong>Baldwin Wood</strong>, acquired a frame house and lot on East Beach at Biloxi, Mississippi from Alvin T. [sic] Howard (1889-1937)*. &nbsp;&nbsp;The transaction was reported in <em>The Daily Herald</em> as follows:&nbsp; Alvin T. [sic] Howard of New Orleans to A.B. Wood of New Orleans one lot in Biloxi with a frontage on the Gulf of Mexico of 136 feet and running back to Howard Avenue.&nbsp; Said lot is bounded on the east by Keller&rsquo;s Addition and on the west by land acquired by Frank T. Howard; also that certain lot which has a frontage on the Gulf of &frac12; arpent and running back to property formerly belonging to Thomas Lonez and bounded on the west by Bellman Alley; also one lot bounded on the north by the property of Christopher Gardner and on the west by Bellman Alley; also one lot on the Pass Christian Road and bounded on the east by lands belonging to Pierre DeBuys and on the west by land belonging to Jacques Ryan.&nbsp; Terms $4500 cash and for the balance vendee executed four promissory notes each for $3375.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Baldwin Wood tract was described in June 1912 in the Harrison County Chancery Court as follows:&nbsp; 223 feet on the Mexican Gulf and ran north between parallel lines to Howard Avenue.&nbsp; It was bounded on the west by Bellman Street; on the north by Howard Avenue; on the east by the Keller Addition subdivision; and on the south by the Gulf.&nbsp; Wood had sold three lots from this parcel to Comisky, Elliott and Sharway.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 99, p. 381)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">*Alvin Pike Howard was a son of Frank Turner Howard (1855-1911) and Emma Cora Pike (1850-1898).&nbsp; He was vending the family home at Biloxi to Mr. Wood.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Baldwin Wood</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood (1879-1956) was born at New Orleans to John S. Wood (1841-1912), a native of Maryland, and Octavie Bouligny (1852-1928) of New Orleans, the daughter of Gustave Bouligny and Octavie Fortier.&nbsp; The Bouligny family was decedent from Francisco Bouligny (1736-1800), the first Spanish military governor of Louisiana and the founder of New Iberia, Louisiana in 1779.&nbsp;&nbsp; Alcee Fortier (1856-1914), noted Louisiana historian, author,&nbsp; and Professor of Romance Languages at Tulane University, was a cousin.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin was reared at 5026 Prytania Street with siblings: <strong>John Fox Wood</strong> (1875-1944) m. Leona Moore (1882-1959) and May Clara Spearing, the widow of Edgar Howard Farrar Jr. (1879-1911); and <strong>Ralph Bouligny Wood</strong> (1884-1967) m. Jane Kempe Farrar (18-1982).&nbsp; The Farrar family of New Orleans had a summer residence in Biloxi at 909 East Beach Drive, now part of the Ohr-O&rsquo;Keefe Museum of Art campus.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Albert Baldwin</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Baldwin Wood</strong>was named <strong>Albert Baldwin Wood</strong> for his uncle, Albert Baldwin (1834-1912).&nbsp; Uncle Albert was born at Watertown, Massachusetts on April 7, 1834.&nbsp; As a young man he discovered that he had a keen, mathematical mind, and it was logical for Baldwin to find employment as a bookkeeper-accountant.&nbsp; At Boston, he was employed with Beebee, Morgan &amp; Company, replacing his brother, Henry Fay Baldwin, who had relocated to New Orleans.&nbsp; Among his fellow accountants in that Massachusetts firm were Levi P. Morton (1824-1920), Cornelius Bliss, and Marshall Field (1834-1906).(<em>The Daily Picayune, April 22, 1912, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In 1858, Albert Baldwin left Boston for New Orleans to join his brother.&nbsp; In the Crescent City, he was employed with Burnside &amp; Company, a prominent dry goods merchandiser.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In 1862, Albert Baldwin (1834-1912) married Arthemise Bouligny (1840-1911).&nbsp; They were the parents of six children: Henry Fay Baldwin; Albert Baldwin, Jr. (1866-1915); David Gilmore Baldwin (d. 1912) of El Paso County, Texas; Alice B. Vairin; Gustave B. Baldwin; and Mrs. William Ottman (died pre-1912) of New York.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">After the Civil War, Baldwin joined C.H. Slocomb &amp; Co.&nbsp; Circa 1870, the firm became Slocomb, Baldwin, &amp; Co., which evolved into the extensivehardware house of A. Baldwin &amp; Co., Ltd.&nbsp;&nbsp; Albert Baldwin was an entrepreneur.&nbsp; He was president of the New Orleans National Bank, vice president of The Times-Democrat Publishing Company, and actively associated with the Union Ferry Company, American Brewing Company, the National Rice Milling Company, and the Gullet Gin Company. A. Baldwin &amp; Company Ltd., hardware wholesaler and retailer; New Orleans National Bank, president; <em>The Times-Democrat </em>Publishing Company, vice-president; board of director of the following: Union Ferry Company; American Brewing Company; National Rice Milling Company; Gullett Gin Company; New Orleans Waterworks Company; New Orleans Street Railroad Company; Sun Life Insurance Company; and the Standard Guano Chemical Manufacturing Company.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Socially, Mr. Baldwin was a member of the Boston Club, founding member of the New Orleans Carnival Association and ruled the city as Rex during Mardi Gras and was a, founding member of the Southern Yacht Club.&nbsp; In mid-April 1912, Albert Baldwin expired from a stroke at his Hancock County, Mississippi camp called Baldwin Lodge.&nbsp; His remains were brought to his home at Esplanade and North Derbigny.&nbsp; He was laid to rest in the Metairie Cemetery after his minister of the Grace Episcopal Church performed funeral rites.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Career of Baldwin Wood</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood graduated in electrical engineering from Tulane University in 1899.&nbsp; He won the Glendy Burke award in mathematics.&nbsp; Baldwin took a position with the Red River Steam Lines to maintain their electrical equipment.&nbsp; He went to work for the Safety Electric Company then commenced working for the Drainage Commission of New Orleans as assistant manager under Alfred Raymond (1864-1920).&nbsp; In 1907, Baldwin was promoted to mechanical engineer for the Sewage and Water Board.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">After the demise of Alfred Raymond in January 1920, Baldwin Wood headed the drainage operations for the City of New Orleans.&nbsp; In 1914, he had designed and a new pumping system with 12-foot screw pumps that had the ability to efficiently lift large volumes of water against a load head.&nbsp; The large pumps were constructed at Milwaukee, Wisconsin and transported to the Crescent City via the Illinois Central Railroad.(The Times-Picayune, January 16, 1920, p. 5 and &nbsp;The Daily Picayune, July 2, 1914, p. 5)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In late April 1915, Mayor Behrman, New Orleans city officials and engineers and officials of the Sewage and Water Board, witnessed the effectiveness of the Baldwin Wood&rsquo;s designed pump at Pump Station No. 2 on Broad Street and Melpomene.&nbsp; The giant pump moved water down the Metairie relief canal at the rate of 13,500,000 gallons per hour.(The Times-Picayune, April 28, 1915, p. 9)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>International Consultant</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood became an engineering consultant while maintaining his working relationship with the Sewer and Water Board at New Orleans.&nbsp; His pumps were vended in foreign countries as well as Utah, California, Florida and Louisiana.&nbsp; In Holland, Wood advised the Dutch in draining the Zuider Zee, formerly a large inlet connected to the North Sea. &nbsp;&nbsp;Today more than 400,000 denizens inhabit this area now called the province of Flevoland.&nbsp; In the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, he also installed pumps and at Chicago, he reconfigured the Chicago drainage system and added additional pumping capacity.&nbsp; During his lifetime, Mr. Wood developed 38 patents of which 6-8 were very successful.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Circa 1938, Baldwin Wood became Superintendent of the Sewer and Water Board.&nbsp; He continued in this capacity until his demise.&nbsp; Tulane awarded Baldwin a Doctorate in Engineering in 1939.&nbsp; During WWII, he became director of the Civil Defense Board.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood passed on May 10, 1956 while sailing his beloved sloop, <strong><em>Nydia</em></strong>, in the Biloxi Channel just south of his home on East Beach.&nbsp; Louis Gorenflo, operator of a pleasure craft, rescued the <strong><em>Nydia</em></strong> and towed it to its anchorage.&nbsp; Baldwin&rsquo;s corporal remains were interred at the Metairie Cemetery.&nbsp; He was survived by his wife, Nola Smith Wood, and brother, Ralph B. Wood.(The Daily Herald, May 11, 1956, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Marriage</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Baldwin Wood had married Nola Bradford Smith (1889-1974), the daughter of Henry Hyams Smith (1854-1902) and Lennoe Lee Schermerhorn (1862-1955) at New Orleans in the Christ Church chapel on April 26, 1908.&nbsp; Mr. Smith was the secretary of the Board of Trade at New Orleans.&nbsp; After his demise, Lennoe S. Smith married Socrates Drew (1853-1920+), a Wisconsin native, in Orleans Parish, Louisiana in March 1914.&nbsp; They relocated to Highmore, South Dakota and were living there in 1920.(The Daily Picayune, April 29, 1908, p. 18)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Nola and Baldwin Wood are known to have had only one child, Baldwin Wood (1913-1913).&nbsp; He died as an infant at New Orleans in December 1913.(The Daily Herald, December 18, 1913, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Nola Bradford Smith Wood expired at Waveland, Hancock County, Mississippi on December 9, 1974.(The Times-Picayune, December 12, 1974)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Baldwin&rsquo;s Siblings</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">John F. Wood</strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In August 1899, Joseph Fox Wood (1875-1944) married Leona Moore (1882-1959) at LeCompte, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; She was the daughter of James Moore, a Justice of the Peace, and local butcher.&nbsp; They were the parents of two children: Ruth Octavia Wood (b. 1901) m. Donald Delgray Demarest in May 1918 and Giraud von Nest Foster in New York City in May June 1932; and Robert Spearing Wood (1902-1995) m. Connie Frances Pierce (1909-1984) at Dallas, Texas in May 1958.(The Daily Picayune,&nbsp; August 26, 1899, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">John F. Wood filed for divorce from Leona Moore Wood in Harrison County, Mississippi in January 1914.&nbsp; He averred in the litigation that she had abandoned the family at New Orleans in 1910 and was a resident of Derry, Louisiana.&nbsp; Mr. Wood asked for custody of their two children.&nbsp; Leona had actually returned to LeCompte, Louisiana and was living with her family.&nbsp; She later married a Mr. Harrison.&nbsp; Leona passed on June 25, 1959 and her corporal remains interred in the LeCompte Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, January 19, 1914, p. 1 and 1910 Rapides Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T624_527, p. 6A, ED 84)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">At Biloxi, John F. Wood made his livelihood as a traveling commercial hardware salesman.&nbsp; As a young man, he had gone to work for his Uncle Albert Baldwin&rsquo;s hardware business at New Orleans.&nbsp; They lived at 887 East Beach Drive.&nbsp; On October 13, 1917 in Orleans parish, Louisiana, John married May Clara Spearing Farrar, the widow of Edgar Howard Farrar Jr. (1987-1911).&nbsp; She brought a son, Edgar H. Farrar III (1912-2000) into the marriage.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">John Fox Wood died at the Biloxi Hospital on July 7, 1944.&nbsp; His corporal remains were sent to New Orleans for burial in the Metairie Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, July 7, 1944, p. 5)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>909 East Beach Drive</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In April 1917, for $7750, Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar (1857-1946) of NOLA acquired the F.H. Dunbar House from Nelms Logan of Hancock County, Mississippi.&nbsp; Mrs. Farrar was the grandmother of Edgar H. Farrar III and would become the former mother-in-law of May Clara Spearing Farrar after she married John Fox Wood.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Included in the sale were all buildings and improvements, &frac12; interest in artesian water well, all furniture and fixtures in and personal property in buildings, bathhouse, pier, and riparian rights.&nbsp; The former Frank H. Dunbar home was described as having fourteen rooms and a large beautiful lawn.&nbsp; The Jessie A. Smyly. Biloxi real estate agent, handled the transaction.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 9, 1917, p. 4 and&nbsp;</em>HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 118, p. 430)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Ralph B. Wood</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Ralph Bouligny Wood (1884-1967) married Jane Kempe Farrar (1889-1982) at the Church of the Redeemer in Biloxi, on September 12, 1916.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Judge Edgar Howard Farrar (1849-1922), a native of Concordia Parish, Louisiana and Lucinda Davis Stamps Farrar (1857-1946), of New Orleans.&nbsp; The young couple honeymooned at Asheville, North Carolina, before traveling to their home in Cuba, where Mr. Wood was employed with the Cuban-American Sugar Company.(<em>The Daily Herald, September 13, 1916, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In retirement, the Ralph B. Wood family lived in the Hermann House at 523 East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; Ralph B. Wood retired as the executive vice president of the Cuban American Sugar Company.&nbsp; Their daughter, Jane Kempe Wood (1917-1977), married James Wallace Pringle (1914-1971) in December 1938 at the Church of the Redeemer.&nbsp; Jane K. Wood and James W. Pringle had a daughter Jane Susie Pringle (b. 1942) who married Leo William Seal Jr. (1924-2008), former CEO of the Hancock Bank.&nbsp; All members of this family that are deceased were interred in Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi with the exception of Leo W. Seal Jr. who was buried in the Garden of Memory&nbsp; Memorial Park cemetery at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.(<em>The Daily Herald, October 26, 1967, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><em>The James W. Pringle family resided at 523 East Beach in Biloxi.&nbsp; Mr. Pringle once owned the Plymouth-DeSoto automobile agency at Gulfport.&nbsp; At the time of his demise, he worked in real estate at Gulfport, Mississippi.&nbsp; James was past commodore of the Biloxi Yacht Club and was a member of the Mithras carnival club.&nbsp; He was an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman and belonged to the Skeet Club.</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><em>James Wallace Pringle (1914-1971) had married Jane Kempe Wood (1917-1977) in December 1938.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Ralph Bouligny Wood (1884-1967) and Jane Kempe Farrar (1889-1982), both natives of New Orleans, and also residents of 523 East Beach at Biloxi.&nbsp; Ralph&rsquo;s brother was Albert Baldwin Wood (1879-1956), who was a brilliant electrical engineer and responsible for developing the large screw pumps, which have drained the city of New Orleans since 1915.&nbsp; Baldwin resided at 501 East Beach at Biloxi.</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><em>James W. Pringle expired at Howard Memorial Hospital at Biloxi, Mississippi on May 31, 1971.&nbsp; He was survived by his spouse and two children: Ralph Wood Pringle of Pascagoula, Mississippi and Jane Pringle Hurlbert of Mississippi City; three brothers, L.V. Pringle Jr. (1902-1974) and Victor B. Pringle (1909-1977) of Biloxi and Vivian Pringle (1912-1992), the wife of Archibald Clinton Hewes (1904-1978) of Gulfport.</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Will</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In his will, Albert Baldwin Wood appointed Nola Smith Wood, his spouse, as executrix. &nbsp;His estate [Chancery Court Case No. 38670] was probated and executed in Harrison County, Mississippi in December 1960 as follows:&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ownership of the Wood House at Biloxi was divided as follows: Nola Smith Wood 2/3 and the Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund 1/3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nola Smith Wood received a &frac12; interest in the furniture, fixtures and other articles of personal property at 501 East Beach and a &frac12; interest in the Ford coupe.&nbsp; She was also bequeathed the family horse.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The <strong><em>Nydia</em></strong> was legated to Tulane University.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ralph B. Wood was legated a &frac12; interest in the 11.58 acre parcel at the West End of Deer Island in Section 34, T7S-R9W.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Sale</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On December 21, 1960, Nola Smith Wood, a resident of Hancock County, Mississippi, sold her 2/3 interest in 501 East Beach to the Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund for $70,800.&nbsp; Tulane then sold 501 East Beach to the Biloxi Port Commission.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 473, p. 288 and Bk. 509, p. 308)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Lease-1963</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On January 15, 1963 the Biloxi Port Commission headed by Jacinto B. Baltar executed a fifteen year lease with the City of Biloxi.&nbsp; The rents were on a sliding scale which commenced at $13,632 per year and would be $8861 in the terminal year 1978.&nbsp; The City of Biloxi also had an option to acquire the former Baldwin Wood tract with improvements for $132, 912, if purchased before January 14, 1964.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 484)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>House of Treasures</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In August 1964, Mrs. Locke Brown restored the Baldwin Wood home to its former elegance when she opened her House of Treasures.&nbsp; She exhibited antique furniture of Louis XIV and Louis XV as well as Chippendale.&nbsp; The home was also a venue for viewing Aubusson rugs and &nbsp;tapestry as well as objets d&rsquo; art of many origins.(The Daily Herald, September 10, 1964, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Camille-1969</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Baldwin Wood Home was reportedly destroyed or severely damaged by Hurricane Camille on August 17, 1969.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bohn-Gillis House_0.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 209px;\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bohn-Gillis House-501 east Beach.jpg\" style=\"width: 226px; height: 158px;\" /></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 806 West Beach &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 501 East Beach</span></strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Vance-Bohn-Gillis House</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Vance-Bohn-Gillis House was situated at 806 West Beach Boulevard just west of the Buena Vista Hotel at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; It was described as: &nbsp;</span></span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>&ldquo;very important architecturally as it represents a virtually intact transplanting of the Louisiana planation type to the Gulf Coast.&nbsp; There are minor differences to be found and a great number of similarities.&nbsp; The hip roof dormers, peripteral gallery, slender turned gallery posts, symmetrical fa&ccedil;ade, and central hall plan all being typical features found in Louisiana.&rdquo;</em></strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(The Buildings of Biloxi, 1976, p. 121)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The land records of Hancock and Harrison County, Mississippi record that in September 1838, Eliza M. Vance (1800-1882) acquired a large tract of land at Biloxi, Mississippi from Thomas Bassett of New Orleans, Louisiana.&nbsp; The sale was described as follows: &nbsp;</span></span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;A certain tract of land having one hundred and seventy-five feet [175 feet] more or less front on the Gulf of Mexico and running back between parallel lines forty arpents to the Bay of Biloxi&hellip;&hellip;.and bounded at that date on the upper side by lands belonging to James Hopkins and on the lower side by lands belonging to William Vance.&quot;</strong></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>and</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>&ldquo; a lot or parcel of land adjoining the above and on the east side thereof and measuring one hundred seventy-nine feet [179 feet].</strong>(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 22, p</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Eliza M. Vance</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Eliza McNeil Vance </strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(1800-1882)was a native of Boston, Massachusetts.&nbsp; At the time of her demise on July 17, 1882 at Biloxi, Mississippi, she was the widow of Gilbert Vance, who had passed before 1850, and a resident of 181 Canal Street at New Orleans.&nbsp; Eliza had married Gilbert Vance and they were the parents of four sons and two daughters all natives of New Orleans. &nbsp;In 1830 and in 1840, they owned 6 slaves and 5 slaves respectfully.(1830 Orleans Parish, Louisiana M19, R45, p. 126 and 1840 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census&nbsp; R132, p. 15, image 36)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">By 1860, Eliza Vance was living with her two sons: Hamilton Vance (1832-1881) and Dr. William Deare Vance (1838-1881), and three grandchildren: Henry Vance (b. 1850); Lise Vance (b. 1852); and Louisa Vance (b. 1859).&nbsp; She had a personal estate valued at $8000 while Hamilton&rsquo;s personal estate was worth $1500.(1860 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census M653_421, p. 140, image 140)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">By 1870, Eliza M. Vance and family were domiciled with an English family at New Orleans.&nbsp; The family at this time consisted of: Eliza Vance (b. 1796); William Vance (b. 1825); E. Vance [female] (b. 1840); Lizzie Vance (b. 1864); Luckett Vance (b. 1867); H. [Henry]Vance (b. 1848); Mary Vance (b. 1842); William Vance (b. 1844); and B. [Byrne] Vance (b. 1868).(1870 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census M593_521, p. 853B, image 255)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>The Will of Eliza Vance </strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On June 12, 1879, Eliza Vance, although bodily ill but of sound mind, in the presence of Edward Pilsbury, Ernest B. Kruttsschmitt, Enslow Holt, James I. Day, George W. Lee, Leonard M. Finley and Walter S. Keplinger, all competent witnesses above the age of twenty-one and residents of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, presented her will closed and sealed.&nbsp; It read as follows:</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">June 11, 1879</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">I the undersigned Widow Eliza Vance, do hereby declare this my last will and testament.&nbsp; After my debts are paid, and the amount reserved by law to my forced heirs is deducted and distributed according to the law, I make the following disposition of the remainder of my property:</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item I.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to<strong>Mrs. Lizzie Vance*</strong>, widow of my deceased son Hamilton Vance, the sum of Five Thousand Dollars.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">*Lizzie was born Lizzie Luckett (1840-1919), probably in Rapides Parish, Louisiana<strong>.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item II.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to <strong>Lizzie Vance</strong>, <strong>Luckett Vance</strong>, and <strong>Byrne Vance</strong>, all children of my deceased son, <strong>Hamilton Vance</strong>, by his marriage to said <strong>Mrs. Lizzie Vance</strong>, the sum of Three Thousand Dollars each, to be invested for their benefit by my executors, at the discretion of my said executors and the annual income to be paid to their mother for their use during their minority.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item III.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to<strong>Willie Vance </strong>and<strong>Mary Vance</strong>, two of the children of my said deceased son by his first wife, the sum of Three Thousand [Dollars] each.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item IV.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to <strong>Mrs. Caroline Zacharie</strong> the sum of Five Hundred Dollars.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item V.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to<strong>James O&rsquo; Donohoe* </strong>the sum of Five Hundred Dollars.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">*James O&rsquo; Donohoe (1819-1900) was born at County Carlow, Ireland and came to Biloxi in 1867 from New Orleans.&nbsp; He worked for Mrs. Vance as caretaker of her Biloxi property.&nbsp; O&rsquo;Donohoe was paid $40 per month for his duties which included taking care of her pier.&nbsp; He was elected to the Biloxi City Council and served as a councilman in 1893.&nbsp; Mr. O&rsquo;Donohoe passed at Biloxi on May 21, 1900.(The Biloxi Herald, January 14, 1893, p. 8, and May 22, 1900, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item VI.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath the sum of Three Hundred Dollars to each of the following charitable institutions, all of the City of New Orleans: <strong>The Little Sisters of the Poor</strong>; <strong>The Home of the Aged and Infirmed</strong>; <strong>The Louisiana Retreat</strong>; and <strong>The Insane Asylum</strong>.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item VII.&nbsp; </strong>I give and bequeath to<strong>Miss Sarah Hill or Hull?</strong>, to <strong>James I. Day </strong>and to<strong>Edward Pilsbury</strong>, all of the City of New Orleans,the sum of Five Hundred Dollars each.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item VIII.&nbsp; </strong>Any residue of my estate after paying the above legacies is to be divided equally, share and share alike between thesaid<strong>Lizzie Vance, Luckett Vance, Byrne Vance, Willie Vance</strong>, and<strong>Mary Vance, </strong>children of my deceased son<strong>Hamilton Vance</strong>, and said <strong>four charitable institutions</strong> aforesaid.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item IX.&nbsp; </strong>I hereby appoint and constitute <strong>James I. Day</strong> and <strong>Edward Pilsbury</strong> of the City of New Orleans to be the testamentary executors with full seizure of my estate and succession and without bond.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Item X.&nbsp; </strong>I hereby cancel and revoke any and all other prior testaments made by me.&nbsp; Thus done and signed by me at the City of New Orleans the date above designated &hellip;&hellip;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Commissioner&rsquo;s Sale</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In the March 1884 term of the Chancery Court of Harrison County, Mississippi litigation to partition the lands of the deceased, Eliza M. Vance, at Biloxi, Mississippi was adjudicated in Chancery Court Case No. 269- Luckett Vance, Byrne Vance, minors by James I. Day their next friend, and Mary Flower vs. Lizzie Vance, a minor, by William A. Champlin, her Guardian ad litem, and others.&nbsp; F.S. Hewes, Commissioner, sold for cash to the highest bidder at Biloxi, Mississippi on May 23, 1884 in front of the residence of Mrs. Vance, the following lands:</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.75in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">I. &nbsp;A certain piece of land having 175 feet more or less fron on the Gulf of&nbsp; Mexico, running back from said Gulf to the Back Bay of Biloxi between parallel lines forty arpents&nbsp; more or less, which was acquired on the 15<sup>th</sup> of September, 1838, from Thomas Bassett, and bounded on the upper or west side by lands of James Hopkins, and on the lower or east side by lands of William Vance and afterwards by <strong>Major John Mountford*</strong> [sic], south by said Gulf, north by the Back Bay.&nbsp; The following described parcel of land sold by Mrs. Eliza Vance to James O&rsquo;Donohoe on the 15<sup>th</sup> day of January, 1878, is excepted from this sale: That certain tract of land fronting on the New Orleans &amp; Chattanooga Railroad, measuring 172 feet front and running back north between parallel lines 400 feet, bounded on the south by the right of way of said railroad, west by the McNeal property, north by the property of Mrs. Eliza Vance, and east by an alley of 20 feet in width.&nbsp; Together with all the tenements and hereditaments to said before said lots of land belonging or in any was appertaining.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.25in;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.75in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">II. &nbsp;A lot of land adjoining the first land on the east side, and measuring 179 feet, more or less, on the Gulf of Mexico, acquired by Mrs. Vance from the heirs of John Montfort on the 17<sup>th</sup> day of November 1875, which conveying was duly recorded&nbsp; and is referred to for a&nbsp; more perfect description; said lot being bounded on the north by the Back Bay of Biloxi, south by the Gulf of Mexico, west by the property of Eliza Vance, and east by that of Callavet [sic].&nbsp; Both of said parcels or tracts of land being subject to the right of way, granted to the New Orleans and Chattanooga Railroad.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left:.75in;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>*John Montford</strong> (1795-1875), like Eliza McNeil Vance, was a native of Massachusetts.&nbsp; In 1850, he was a resident of Biloxi, Mississippi and stated that the value of his real estate was $150,000.(Julia C. Guice,&nbsp;<strong>1850 Census of Harrison County, Mississippi</strong>, p. 46 )</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In the Commissioner&rsquo;s Sale held at Biloxi on September 8, 1884, Jean-Jacques Robert Loeliger (1846-1923), a Swiss immigrant, domiciled at New Orleans, acquired the lands of Eliza M. Vance for $5250.&nbsp; In December 1884, Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Judge S. Evans, after deducting $446.96 in expenses involved in executing his adjudication , i.e. clerk costs; printer&rsquo;s billing; Commissioner&rsquo;s fee; Sheriff&rsquo;s fee; witness fees; allowance for Guardian ad litem; and allowance for solicitors complaints, awarded each of the heirs of Eliza M. Vance:&nbsp; Luckett Vance, Byrne Vance, Mary Vance Flower, and Lizzie Vance, one-quarter of the sale &nbsp;proceeds after expenses or $1200.76 each.(Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Case No. 269-May 1884)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Of the heirs of Mrs. Eliza E. Vance, the author could only determine with a high degree of certitude that Lizzie Luckett Vance (b. September 1865) was married on December 27, 1887 to Charles Hansford Shields of Louisville, Kentucky in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; The ceremony was at the home of the bride&rsquo;s mother.&nbsp; After the ceremony, the newlyweds left the Crescent City to make their home at Louisville.(The Daily Picayune, November 6, 1887, p. 9 and January 1, 1888, p. 9)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lizzie Luckett Vance (1840-1919), the mother of Lizzie L. Vance Shields, died at Louisville, Kentucky in February 1919.&nbsp; J. Byrne Vance (1868-1919+) , her son, was living in Rapides Parish, Louisiana at the time of her demise.(The New Orleans State, February 12, 1919, p. 13)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>US Highway No. I-110 and the Vance-Bohn-Gillis House</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In 1972-1973, the Mississippi Highway Department, now MDOT, began acquiring by purchase and eminent domain, parcels and partial tracts of land from denizens west of the New Buena Vista Hotel.&nbsp; The purpose of this expenditure was to acquire a corridor to erect an elevated highway called US Highway No. I-110, which connected to US Highway No. I-10 in North Biloxi, later called D&rsquo;Iberville, south and across the Back Bay of Biloxi to US Highway No. 90, a major east-west highway that parallels the Mississippi Sound from Biloxi west to Pass Christian, Mississippi.&nbsp; This thoroughfare was completed and opened for trafficin&nbsp;February 1988.(The Sun Herald, February 20, 1988, p. A3)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Vance-Bohn-Gillis House, located 218 feet east of Hopkins Boulevard and west of the New Buena Vista Hotel in the 800 block of West Beach Boulevard, was situated in the direct path of US Highway No. I-110.&nbsp; The New Buena Vista Hotel acquired the Gillis tract for $125,000 in October 1958 from the Estate of Lucille Bohn Gillis (1864-1957).&nbsp; Her heirs were: Marcel Gillis; Daphne Gillis Caffery; Lucille Gillis Minor Mortimer, wife of Frank Hastings Mortimer; Joan Mortimer Williams; and Louise Boykin.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 441, p. 246 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 38245-August 1958 )</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>History</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Augustus Bohn</strong>(1830-1897), a native of Neuchatel, Switzerland arrived at New Orleans in his youth and with his industry and desire toiled as a lowly, carriage driver to become a very wealthy and successful cotton merchant. &nbsp;Augustus married <strong>Lucille W. Hills</strong> (1838-1927), a native of Tennessee, at New Orleans.&nbsp; They resided at 91 Esplanade where they reared eight children.&nbsp; Five of their progeny survived into the 20<sup>th</sup> Century: <strong>Nita Bohn</strong> (1859-1928) m. G. Otto Weber (1847-1901); <strong>Leila Bohn</strong> (1849-1944) m. Edward A. Ferguson; <strong>Lucille W. Bohn</strong> (1864-1957) m. Alfred Barre Gillis (1855-1914); Augustus Bohn II (1866-1896); <strong>Dr</strong>. <strong>H. Roberson Bohn</strong> (1869-1901) m. Louise McNeil Kennedy (1854-1920), the widow of Thomas S. Kennedy; Ulrich Bohn (1870-1873); Sue Hill Bohn (1872-1874); and <strong>Fergus Bohn</strong> (1878-1928).</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Biloxi</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Augustus Bohn began acquiring land at Biloxi in April 1888, when he acquired for $5300 from Jean-Jacques Robert Loeliger (1846-1923), a Swiss immigrant born at Arlesheim and resident of 1215 Napoleon at New Orleans, the former Eliza M. Vance tract.&nbsp; This parcel was described in Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Case No. 269- Luckett Vance, Byrne Vance, minors by James I. Day their next friend, and Mary Flower vs. Lizzie Vance, a minor, by William A. Champlin, her Guardian ad litem, and others.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk.&nbsp; 23, p. 222 and The Times-Picayune, August 31, 1923, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Augustus Bohn died at Biloxi, Mississippi on March 3, 1897.&nbsp; Lucille W. Hills Bohn lived at Biloxi until her death on April 14, 1927.&nbsp; Their corporal remains were interred in the Metairie Cemetery.(The Daily Picayune, March 9, 1897, p. 3 and The Times-Picayune, April 15, 1927, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lucille G. Gillis and Fergus Bohn came into possession of the Vance-Bohn-Gillis House in 1928, following the demise of their older sister, Nita Bohn Weber (1859-1928), who passed on February 23, 1928.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mrs. Weber left an estate valued at $101, 392.&nbsp; A portion of her legacy was a &frac14; interest in the Trianon Theatre at 814 Canal Street.&nbsp; At the time, it was leased to the Saenger Theatre for $13,000 annually.(The Times-Picayune, May 25, 1928, p. 3 and Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Case No.&nbsp; No. 10393-December 1923)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">With the demise of Fergus Bohn (1878-1928) on November 5, 1928, Lucille Bohn Gillis became the sole owner of their West Beach Biloxi home.&nbsp; In his will, Fergus named her as: <strong><em>&ldquo;sole beneficiary of my estate and she inherit all property, real and personal.&rdquo;</em></strong> (Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Case No. 10799-1928)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Fergus Bohn remained a bachelor during his life and lived at Biloxi where he was an insurance clerk and a director of the First National Bank of Biloxi.&nbsp; He resided with his mother on West Beach.&nbsp; Fergus was a sportsman enjoying fishing in the Mexican Gulf and playing golf at the Biloxi Golf Club.&nbsp;&nbsp; He was also a yachtsman and enthusiastic member of the Biloxi Yacht Club.&nbsp; In July 1912, he went to Mobile to coax a US Revenue cutter to participate in the BYC Regatta.&nbsp; Fergus was elected vice commodore of the BYC in December 1917 to serve with John J. Kennedy, commodore elect.&nbsp; He served on many of the BYC committees.(The Daily Herald, July 6, 1912, p. 1 and&nbsp; The Times-Picayune, December 30, 1917, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Fergus Bohn won a 72-hole, medal play, golf tournament at the Biloxi Golf Club in the spring of 1919.&nbsp; He took 312 strokes for the four rounds which averages to a respectable score of 78 strokes for each round of golf.(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1919, p. 6)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Lucille Bohn Gillis</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Lucille Bohn Gillis was born at New Orleans in 1864.&nbsp; She married Alfred Barre Gillis (1855-1914), the son of Marcelin Gillis (1824-1896) and Carolina Nancy Griffin (1836-1909) in Orleans Parish, Louisiana on April 12, 1888.&nbsp; Alfred B. Gillis made his livelihood as secretary of the Board of Trade at New Orleans.&nbsp; They were the parents of: Lucille M. Gillis (1889-1954) m. John Duncan Minor (1876-1937); Marcel Alfred Gillis (1892-1971) m. Marie Caffery (1893-1991) and Daphne W. Gillis (1895-1973) m. Ambassador Edward Caffery (1889-1982).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Vance-Bohn-Gillis House relocated</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">In February 1977, the Mississippi State Highway Commission authorized the City of Biloxi to advertise for the removal of the Bohn-Gillis House from West Beach Boulevard to the vacant Baldwin Wood tract at 501 East Beach.&nbsp; On July 25, 1977, a $98,385 contract for Phase I of the restoration of the relocated structure was signed with J.O. Collins Inc.&nbsp; of Biloxi, as contractor and Nicholas H. Holmes Jr., architect, who was located at 257 N. Conception Street in&nbsp; Mobile, Alabama.&nbsp; The work to be performed was for the exterior of the house and it was completed in late March 1978. (City of Biloxi, Mississippi Minute Bk. 47, p. 28 and Bk. 48, p. 76 and e-mail from Charles &lsquo;Chuck&rsquo; Collins-July 29, 2013)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Larry Cosper, a former Biloxi businessman, relates that J.O. Collins Inc. &nbsp;was hired by the City of Biloxi to dismantle and relocate the old structure.&nbsp; He remembers that it was cut into two segments before moving.(Larry Cosper-telephone conversation July 27, 2013)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Mississippi Department of Archives and History</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Elbert Hilliard of the Mississippi Department of History declared the Bohn-Gillis House to be a State Archeological Landmark on December 6, 1978 and a Mississippi Landmark on December 6, 1985.(Harrison Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 89, p. 195-200 and Bk. 170, p. 298)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>City of Biloxi-1982</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Port Commission on April 13, 1982 conveyed the Bohn-Gillis House to the City of Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Bobby G. O&rsquo;Barr was president and Neville J. Broussard the secretary of the Biloxi Port Commission at this time.&nbsp; The tract was described as having 223 feet on the Gulf.(Harrison County, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 119, p. 372)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Joseph R. Thornton III-1983</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The City of Biloxi on August 3, 1983 vended the former Baldwin Wood tract on East Beach and Bellman Street to Joseph &lsquo;Joe&rsquo; &nbsp;Robert Thornton III (b. 1933).&nbsp; Joe R. Thornton III was the son of Captain Joseph R. Thornton Jr. (1910-1990) and Rosa Lee Latimer (b. 1911).&nbsp; Captain Thornton was a commercial fisherman and was employed in the local seafood industry.&nbsp; Joe was reared at 1720 East Howard Avenue with siblings Patsy Ann Thornton (b. 1937) m. Jerry W. Bell, and Linda Sue Thornton (b. 1939) m. James Carroll Corso Sr. (1935-1990).(1940 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T627_2024, p. 12A, ED 24-5)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Joe R. Thornton III married Shirley Ann Mickoul, the daughter of Mickey Mickoul and Young Mickoul in Harrison County, Mississippi in August 1953.&nbsp; They were the parents of: Jo Love Thornton m. Derel J. Broussard; Robert M. Thornton (1955-2004) m. Marianne Tauzin (1954-1995) and Linda Sue Douglas (1952-2002); and Gregory M. Thornton m. Leslie Drake (1954-2004).(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB&nbsp; 95, p. 64)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Episcopal Church of the Redeemer-1990</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Joseph R. Thornton III and Shirley A. Thornton conveyed the Bohn-Gillis House to the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer on December 14, 1990.&nbsp; The church used the Bohn-Gillis House as a manse for its rector.&nbsp; Father Jackson C.&nbsp; Biggers resided here in the early 1990s before returning to his missionary work in Malawi.(Harrison County, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 227, p. 117)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Hurricane Katrina-2005</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Bohn-Gillis house was reportedly a victim of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Evergreen Century Company LLC-2010</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">On September 3, 2010, the Church of the Redeemer sold the Baldwin Wood tract to the Evergreen Century Company LLC of Henderson, Nevada.&nbsp; Duc V. Nguyen is the manager at Henderson, Nevada.&nbsp; The company can be reached by mail at PO Box 8155 Gulfport, Mississippi 39506-8155.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Instrument No. 2217 DJ2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Buildings of Biloxi an Architectural Survey</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, (City of Biloxi, Mississippi-1976).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Julia C. Guice,&nbsp;</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">1850 Census of Harrison County, Mississippi</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, (City of Biloxi, Mississippi:)</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Chancery Court Cases</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 269-Luckett Vance et al v. Lizzie L. Vance et al-1884.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 350-Estate of Mrs. Eliza Vance &ndash;June 1893.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 10393-The Estate of Nita Bohn Weber-December 1923.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 10799-The Estate of Fergus Bohn-June 1928.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 38245-The Estate Lucille Bohn Gillis-August 1958.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 38670-The Estate of Albert Baldwin Wood-December 1960.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Orleans Parish, Louisiana Civil District Court Cause No. &nbsp;6484-Successio of Eliza Vance-July 1882.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>Journals</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Water Sport&rdquo;</strong>, May 8, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;The Old and the New&rdquo;</strong>, January 14, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Death of Auguste Bohn&rdquo;</strong>, March 13, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Water Sport </strong>[Nydia]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, May 8, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Local City News&rdquo;</strong>, August 7, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald,</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;James O&rsquo; Donohoe&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, May 22, 1900.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;H.R. Bohn </strong>[Dr. H.R. Bohn&rsquo;s obituary],<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, November 9, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;City News </strong>[Dr. H.R. Bohn&rsquo;s obituary]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, November 10, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Coast Beacon, </span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Commissioner&rsquo;s Sale&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, April 19, 1884.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald,</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;This week list a lengthy one&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, June 14, 1912.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Woods Baby dead&rdquo;</strong>, December 18, 1913.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi man </strong>[John F. Woods]<strong>wants divorce&rdquo;</strong>, January 19, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Well known man </strong>[Alfred B. Gillis]<strong>dies in Biloxi&rdquo;</strong>, July 15, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Wood-Farrar&rdquo;</strong>, September 13, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Will endeavor to get Cutter&rdquo;</strong>, July 6, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Miss Smith to wed Mr. Ogden&rdquo;</strong>, November 7, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Biloxi Yacht Club elects&rdquo;</strong>, December 30, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;First National elects&rdquo;</strong>, January 16, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&ldquo;Biloxian win in golf tournament&rdquo;</strong>, March 21, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&ldquo;Former Biloxi resident</strong> [Louise McNeil Bohn]<strong>dead&rdquo;</strong>, July 31, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Orleanians in Biloxi&rdquo;</strong>, July 30, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;Miss </strong>[Jane]<strong>Wood complimented&rdquo;</strong>, December 29, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;John F. Wood dies&rdquo;</strong>, July 7, 1944.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald, <strong>&ldquo;Baldwin Wood home </strong>[House of Treasures]&rdquo;, September 10, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;R.B. Wood&rdquo;</strong>, October 26, 1967.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Herald,<strong>&ldquo;James W. Pringle&rdquo;</strong>, May 31, 1971.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Picayune,</span><strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&ldquo;Notice&rdquo;</strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, July 29, 1857.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Bank Notice&rdquo;</strong>, January 30, 1874.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Society&rdquo;</strong>, November 16, 1887.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Society&rdquo;</strong>, January 1, 1888.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Auguste Bohn&rdquo;</strong>, Marc 9, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Southern States Items of Interest&rdquo;</strong>, August 26, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Secretary Smith&rsquo;s body brought home for burial&rdquo;</strong>, December 1, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Society&rdquo;</strong>, April 26, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Albert Baldwin&rdquo;</strong>, August 4, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune, <strong>&ldquo;Albert Baldwin Dies at Lakeside Lodge&rdquo;</strong>, April 22, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Howard Home sold&rdquo;</strong>, June 11, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Nydia is stolen from moorings&rdquo;</strong>, November 7, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Nydia is recovered by Baldwin Wood&rdquo;</strong>, November 9, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Daily Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Big pumps to come from Milwaukee&rdquo;</strong>, July 2, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The New Orleans Item,<strong>&ldquo;Funeral of Alfred Raymond held at residence&rdquo;</strong>, January 16, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The New Orleans State,<strong>&ldquo;Mrs. L.L. Vance&rdquo;</strong>, February 12, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Officials watch Big Pumps work&rdquo;</strong>, April 28, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Kennedy elected head of Biloxi Yacht Club&rdquo;</strong>, December 30, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Alfred Raymond at rest&rdquo;</strong>, January 16, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Loeliger&rdquo;</strong>, August 26, 1923.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Died </strong>[Lucille W. Hills Bohn]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, April 15, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Died-Weber&rdquo;</strong>, February 24, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,&ldquo;<strong>Weber heirs seek recognition in city&rdquo;</strong>, May 25, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,&ldquo;[Fergus]<strong>Bohn&rdquo;</strong>, November 6, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Society </strong>[Mortimer-Minor]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, November 3, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune, <strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Ferguson, 83, expires in Chicago&rdquo;</strong>, December 22, 1944.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune, &ldquo;[Lennoe L. Schermerhorn Smith] <strong>Drew</strong>&rdquo;, October 18, 1955.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Baldwin Wood found dead as boat drifts&rdquo;</strong>, May 11, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Baldwin Wood&rsquo;s devotion to Sloop Nydia depicted&rdquo;</strong>, June 20, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Love for boat lives after owner&rdquo;</strong>, February 5, 1961.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;</strong>[Nola B.]<strong>Wood&rdquo;</strong>, December 12, 1974.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;A.B. Wood&rsquo;s beloved Sloop is enshrined at Tulane Center&rdquo;</strong>, July 6, 1975.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Times-Picayune,<strong>&ldquo;Officials watch Big Pumps work&rdquo;</strong>, April 28, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">____________________________________________________</span></span>___________</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: monospace, \'lucida console\', \'trebuchet ms\';\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>THE PLEASANT REED HOUSE</strong>: 1892-2008</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi Buildings-Reed House-Elmer St.-may 2001.jpg\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 224px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;306</span></strong></span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Elmer Street</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">[image made May 2001 by Ray L. Bellande]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Reed House was situated at 987 Elmer Street in Biloxi, Mississippi in Section 28, T7S-R9W.&nbsp; It was built by Pleasant Reed (1861-1936), who was born into slavery at Perry County, Mississippi.&nbsp; In 1892, he erected a Victorian cottage on the eastside of Grand Jack Alley, now called Elmer Street.&nbsp; Mr. Reed made his livelihood as a day laborer and sawmill worker.&nbsp; It is very likely that Pleasant Reed was employed by the H.W. Latimer Sawmill, which was situated at Back Bay and Lameuse Street<strong>.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Pleasant Reed</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Pleasant Reed was born in Perry County, Mississippi in January 1861.&nbsp; He was the son of &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; .&nbsp; Came to Biloxi circa 1876.&nbsp; Married Georgia Harris on January 23, 1884 in Harrison County, Mississippi.&nbsp; Their children were: Emanual Reed (1887-1973), Victoria Reed (1889-1910+), Percy Reed (1891-1930), Theresa Reed&nbsp; (1894-1988), and Paul Reed (1898-1910+). (1900 Federal Census Harco, Ms., p. 67A and 1910 Federal Census Harco, Ms., p. 209B)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Pleasant Reed house</span></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">On January 11, 1892, Pleasant Reed acquired a small lot from Jacob Elmer for $50.&nbsp; Its metes and bounds description in the land deed records was as follows: 50 feet fronting on Grand Jack Alley and running east 184 feet and bounded on the north by Mrs. Lizzie Simon; on the east by the Estate of Charles Holley; on the south by Babe Morris; and on the west by Grand Jack Alley.(Harco, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 27, p. 298)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Area</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Read domicile has a total area of 1680 square-feet.&nbsp; Gallery= 90 square-feet.&nbsp; Shot-gun living area= 630 square-feet.&nbsp;&nbsp; Two-story living area=960 square-feet.(Sanborn Map, Biloxi, February 1925, Sheet 19)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>1905 City Directory</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1905, Pleasant Reed and family were residing at 928 Elmer Street.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Alumni</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In September 1978, the Pleasant Reed home was sold by Theresa Reed who was also know as Teresa Read to the Mississippi Gulf Coast Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.(HARCO 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Land Deed Bk. 86, p. 497)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Address changed to 306 Elmer Street in the 1980s, when the 911 Emergency telephone systems were installed in Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">REED CHILDREN</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Emanual Reed</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Emanual Reed (1887-1973) was born at Biloxi on November 5, 1887.&nbsp; In 1905, he was residing</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Married Catherine Gandy Smith (1920-1988) circa&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ?&nbsp; She was the widow of Noel Smith and the mother of Eugene Smith and Noel Smith Jr.&nbsp; She and Emanual Reed had two children: Virta R. Cherry, Olivia R. Rhetta,&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Expired at Biloxi in late January 1973.&nbsp; Residing at 521 Jefferson Street.&nbsp; Survived by his spouse, Catherine Gandy Smith Reed, and eight children: Emanuel Smith, Clifton Smith, Noel Smith, Willie Smith, Emanual Reed II, and Pleasant Reed, Mrs. Virta Cherry, and Olivia C. Reed.&nbsp;&nbsp; One sister, Theresa Reed.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 28, 1973, p. A-2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Theresa Reed</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Theresa Reed </strong>(1894-1988) was born at Biloxi on September 7, 1894. &nbsp;She expired at New Orleans on April 20, 1988.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Reed Family</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Benjamin Reed was&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">born 1830 in Georgia.&nbsp; Married to Charlotte ?</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; Living at 823 Elmer Street in 1905 with Charlotte Reed.&nbsp; Benjamin Reed died at the age of ninety-four and one-half years.&nbsp; He lived at Biloxi since 1868.&nbsp; His home was on Main Street near Division Street.(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 27, 1908, p. 1)</em></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Reed family from land deed records</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Ben Reed, Ben Reed Jr., George Reed, James Reed, Pleasant Reed (1854-1936), Charlotte Reed, Ellen R. Cross, Hattie R. Coleman, Johanna R. Chaney, Lula R. Huff Weeb, Martha R. Baldwin Rankin,&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Move to Tricenntenial Park</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Reed home move from Elmer Street by Fauvre? Moving Company of Mobile, Alabama.&nbsp; Arrived at Centennial Park on or about April 17<sup>th</sup>, 2002.&nbsp; First phase of restoration celebrated on April 22, 2002.&nbsp; Members of Delta Sigma Theta sorority in attendance.<em>(The Bay Press, April 26, 2002, p. 1 and p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">May 2003</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">On May 15, 2003, the Pleasant Reed House was open to the general public.&nbsp; Originally, this day was to be an exclusive opening for Board members and invited guests, but Margie Gowdy said that&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;due to the high interest in this event&rdquo;</em></strong>&nbsp;it would be open for the public on Thursday, not Friday as planned.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Katrina</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Reed House was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi Buildings-Reed House-Sept. 2009.jpg\" style=\"width: 359px; height: 222px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Replica</strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"\'times new roman\', times, serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">[image made September 2009 by Ray L. Bellande]</span></font></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Pleasant Reed House was re-opened to the public on September 29, 2008.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Charles L. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong><u>Along The Gulf</u></strong></span></p>\r\n<h1>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi City Directory (1905),&nbsp;</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">(The Biloxi Daily Herald Printing Co.: Biloxi, Mississippi-1905).</span></span></h1>\r\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Journals</span></span></h2>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Bay Press,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Pleasant Reed moves to Tricentennial Park&rdquo;</strong>, April 26, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Bay Press,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Time Traveler-<em>&#39;Pleasant Reed House&#39;</em>&rdquo;</strong>, September 15, 2006.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong>, January 27, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Colored Death&rdquo;</strong>, February 5, 1936, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Emanual Reed&rdquo;</strong>, January 28, 1973.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Catherine Reed&rdquo;</strong>, March 24, 1988.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Reed House will become part of museum&rdquo;</strong>, October 12, 1998.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Biloxi in the spotlight&rdquo;</strong>, May 11, 2003, p. H-1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;A Pleasant place to visit&rdquo;</strong>, May 14, 2003, p. A-1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Visitors awed by Reed house&rdquo;</strong>, May 15, 2003, p. A-2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Crowds jam &lsquo;Day in the Park&rsquo;&rdquo;</strong>, May 17, 2003, p.&nbsp; A-3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&quot;A Pleasant return&quot;</strong>, September 28, 2008, p. F-1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;&nbsp;</em><strong>&quot;Pleasant Reed opens in spirit of moving forward&quot;</strong>, September 30, 2008, p. A-2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	________________________________________________________________________________________________</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>W.W. SUTCLIFFE-MAVAR HOUSE: 1898-2001</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1364 West Beach</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">William Wilson Sutcliffe (1848-1934) was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an English father and a Scottish mother. &nbsp;By 1880, he was working on the Rienzi Plantation near Thibodeaux, LaFourche Parish, Louisiana as an engineer. Mr. Sutcliffe became president of the Sutcliffe Company, which owned large sugar cane planting acreage in South Louisiana.&nbsp; He had once resided at Cuba where he managed sugar plantations.&nbsp; There Mr. Sutcliffe invented a bagasse combustion furnace, which was invaluable to this island nation because of its paucity of natural energy resources.(1880 LaFourche Parish, Louisiana Federal Census, R455, p. 40, ED 131 and <em>The Daily Herald,</em></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>&nbsp;January 15, 1934, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">By 1900, W.W. Sutcliffe and his family were domiciled at 2712 Magazine Street in the Crescent City. </span></span>&nbsp;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Circa 1873, he had married Minnie Wetzler (1850-1916), and they were the parents of: Jeanette Mary Sutcliffe (1874-1906+) m. Clarence W. Morris (1877-1900+); Joseph Wilson Sutcliffe (1876-1900+); Laura Sutcliffe (1881-1900+) m. Franklin Scott Quiller; and&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">William W. Sutcliffe II (1883-1954) m. Alma Fickessen (1885-1969).</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(1900 Orleans Parish, Federal Census T623_574, p. 11B, ED 111 and&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald, September 16, 1916, p. 3&nbsp; and January 15, 1934, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">At New Orleans, Mr. Sutcliffe was a strong patron of the Methodist Episcopal Church-South.&nbsp; In 1895, he served on the Board of Trustees of the Sea Shore Camp Grounds at Biloxi.(Dyer, 1895)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1898, W.W. Sutcliffe served as president of the Board of Trustees</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">of the Sea Shore Camp Grounds</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">and he and his spouse were frequent visitors to the campground where they possessed a tent.&nbsp; He stopped here in late May 1898, on a return business trip from Baltimore.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, May 14, 1898, p. 8 and May 28, 1898, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong>BILOXI</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In February 1898, W.W. Sutcliffe acquired for $1600, from fellow Crescent City businessman, John H. Keller (1830-1908), two lots, No. 19 and No. 20, in Square No. 4 of the Avondale development at Biloxi.&nbsp; The Sutcliffe parcel had 164 front feet on the Mississippi Sound and ran north for about 595 feet comprising approximately 2.24 acres.&nbsp; J.H. Keller&rsquo;s covenants prohibited oyster planting and any commercial oyster business in his Avondale real estate development.&nbsp; The Sutcliffe lot was bounded on the east by First Street (later West First Street), now called Saint Francis, and on the north by Keller Avenue, now known as Father Ryan Avenue.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 37, pp. 429-430)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/sutcliffe house.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 200px;\" /></span></font></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>William W. Sutcliffe House&nbsp;</strong>(circa 1905)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1364 West Beach Boulevard</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">(Courtesy of Randy Randazzo)</span></span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Construction</span></span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">News of W.W. Sutcliffe&rsquo;s acquisition of a beach front lot was reported in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald&nbsp;</em>in late February 1898.&nbsp; The journal reported that he would let a contract shortly for the erection of a residence to cost between $4000 and $5000.(<em>The Biloxi herald, February 26, 1898, p. 8)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In April 1898, Mr. Sutcliffe had his lot fenced and planned to have a home built on his seaside vista within the year.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, April 2, 1898, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In August 1898, W.W. Sutcliffe, now president of the Board of Trustees of the Sea Shore Campground, signed a building contract with John Kelley.&nbsp; Mr. Kelley was to erect a large structure on Sutcliffe&rsquo;s Avondale lot facing the Mississippi Sound.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, August 20, 1898, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Contractor John P. Kelly (1853-1900+) was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio.&nbsp; He married Martha Jane Powell (1856-1919) and they parented ten children: Effie Kelly, Charles Kelley, Lizzie Kelly, Theresa Kelley, Eddie Kelly, Leo A. Kelly (1884-1938), Joe Kelly, Francis Kelly, Elna Kelly, and Freddie Kelly.&nbsp; Mr. Kelly was well respected at Biloxi for his character and quality construction.(20<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century Coast Edition of&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>, (ca 1902), pp. 62-63)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In early November 1898, the Sutcliffes came over from New Orleans to inspect their beautiful domicile which was under construction.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, November 12, 1898, p. 4)</em>&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Summer 1910</span></span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In early May 1910, Mr. and Mrs. Sutcliffe arrived at their 1904 West Beach residence for the summer season.&nbsp; Their daughter, Mrs. Clarence W. Morris, and her two children of Corsicana, Texas planned an early June arrival on the Mississippi coast.&nbsp; She preferred Biloxi for their summer holiday over both western and eastern spas.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 7, 1910, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Sutcliffe Company</span></span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In January 1934, W.W. Sutcliffe sold his Biloxi retreat to his company, the Sutcliffe Company. &nbsp;The Sutcliffe Company was led by W.W. Sutcliffe, president; W.W. Sutcliffe Jr., vice president; and H.C. Eisendrath, secretary and treasurer. &nbsp;At Biloxi, the Sutcliffe Company owned land on Reynoir Street between Howard Avenue and the L&amp;N Railroad. &nbsp;In Louisiana, it had etensive hlding in the Crescent City and in the sugar plantation region.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 200, pp. 120-121 and <em>The Daily Herald, January 15, 1934, p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Sell Off</span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">From October 1935 to September 1937, the Sutcliffe Company sold lots from its land holdings in Lot 19 and Lot 20 of Square Four of Avondale to: Louis O. Thompson, Bowman Broadnax, Frank E. Hall, Elizabeth Mann Trudeau, Eva S. Woolett (Lafayette County, Mississippi), and Florence B. Maxey.&nbsp;&nbsp; The W.W. Sutcliffe home was excluded from these conveyances.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>W.W. Sutcliffe Jr</strong>.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In December 1937, William W. Sutcliffe Jr. acquired his father&rsquo;s home at 1904 West Beach at Biloxi from the Sutcliffe Company. &nbsp;He had married Alma Fickessen (1885-1969) at NOLA in April 1907. &nbsp;Pauline Sutcliffe (1908-1984), their only child, married George Renaudin (1905-1967). &nbsp;W.W. Sutcliffe made his livlihood in banking in the Crescent City. &nbsp;In 1905, he began a long career as a banker, which ended with his death in early March 1954. &nbsp;W.W. Sutcliffe Jr. had risen from cashier of the Canal bank &amp; Trust Company to vice president of the National Bank of Commerce. &nbsp;Alma F. Sutcliffe passed on March 5, 1969. &nbsp;The corporal remans of both were interred in the Metairie Cemetery.<em>(The Times-Picayune, February 6, 1954, p. 2 and March 6, 1969, p. 19)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The lot, excluding riparian rights south of West Beach, measured.......</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 218, pp. 365-366)&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In September 1942, W.W. Sutcliffe Jr. coneyed 1904 West Beach to Arthur E. Scruggs and Gertrude Kelly Scruggs for $6,650.(</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">HARCO, Ms. Land Deed</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Bk. 251, p. 32)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Arthur E. Scruggs</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Arthur E. Scruggs (1897-1957) was the son of William Scruggs and Anna Shand and a native of Tate County, Mississippi.&nbsp; He was the Superintendent of Biloxi Public Schools from 1946? until 1956?&nbsp; At Biloxi, he oversaw the operation of the senior and junior high schools, five elementary schools, and the colored schools.&nbsp; Mr. Scruggs had matriculated to the University of Mississippi where he was conferred with two degrees, a B.S. and a M.S. in School Administration and History. He had also attended LSU working toward his PhD degree.&nbsp; A youthful A.E. Scruggs entered the teaching profession at Amory High School circa 1919, where he taught mathematics and coached.&nbsp; Circa 1926, Scruggs accepted the position of Principal and Coach at New Albany High School.&nbsp; About 1928, he relocated to Poplarville, Mississippi where he was the head of the History Department and Coach at Pearl River Jr. College for six years.&nbsp; Professor Scruggs arrived at Biloxi circa 1936 to serve as Biloxi Senior High School Principal.&nbsp; His tenure as Superintendent of Biloxi Public Schools, commenced circa 1946.(<em>The JXCOT, December 17, 1948, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Married to Gertrude Kelly Scruggs.&nbsp; Daughter, Anna Scruggs (b. ca 1941)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Both public and parochial schools in Biloxi closed half day on October 10, 1957, the day of Mr. Scruggs internment at the National Cemetery in Biloxi.(<em>The Daily herald, October 9, 1957, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In January 1945, Arthur E. Scruggs and wife conveyed the Sutcliffe-Mavar home to Mrs. Thomas C. Hannah (possibly Rosalee Hannah (1911-1990) of Petal, Forrest, Mississippi)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Mrs. Thomas C. Hannah</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Resident of Forrest County, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In October 1953, Mrs. Hannah, a widow, to William L. Clayton Sr.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 381, pp. 282-283)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>William L. Clayton Sr.</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In May 1954, William L. Clayton Sr. to Jules A. Barbin Sr. (HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 381, p. 458)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Jules A. Barbin Sr.</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Jules A. Barbin Sr. (1919-1986), Chalmette, St. Bernard, Louisiana.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In June 1955, Jules A. Barbin Jr. sold to Leo C. and Mary Adele Simon Todaro.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 397, pp. 42-43)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Leo C. Todaro</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Leo C. Todaro (1909-1994) and Mary Adele Simon Todaro (1906-1994) were both natives of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.&nbsp; Leo was born at Gulfport, Mississippi on May 11, 1909, the son of Anthony Todaro and Domenica LaMendola.&nbsp; He married Mary Adele Simon, a Biloxian and daughter of Joseph Simon and Catherine Shedrary, on July 7, 1935. (HARCO, Ms. MRB 46, p. 163)&nbsp; This union produced five children: Charles Leo Todaro, Mary Lynn Todaro, Anthony Joseph Todaro, Michael Carl Todaro, and John Braxton Todaro.(<em>The Sun Herald, March 4, 1994, p. A-2)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Leo C. Todaro was the proprietor of Leo&rsquo;s Grocery on the northeast corner of Main Street and Division Street.&nbsp; His brother-in-law, Charles Simon, operated a gasoline service station across the street.&nbsp; In later life, Leo was an independent real estate broker.&nbsp; Active in the Biloxi community, Leo C. Todaro was a devout Roman Catholic and member of the Cathedral Parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where he was a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus Council No. 1244.&nbsp; In addition, Mr. Todaro was a past president of the Cedars of Lebanon Club, a member of the Italian American Society, member of Elks Lodge No. 606, Order of Alhambra, and a charter fundraiser for the St. Jude&rsquo;s Hospital at Memphis.&nbsp; He expired at Biloxi on May 3, 1994 and his corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery besides his loving wife, Mary Adele, who had preceded his in death on March 2, 1994.(<em>The Sun Herald, May 5, 1994, p. A-2 and March 4, 1994, p. A-2)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In March 1961, Leo C. Todaro and Mary Mary C. Todaro conveyed their home to Charles C. Goetz Jr. and Lee Garrett Goetz.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 477, p. 196)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Charles C. Goetz Jr.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Charles C. Goetz Jr. and Lee Garrett Goetz were residents of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; In December 1970, Charles C. Goetz Jr. and Lee Garrett Goetz conveyed their property at Biloxi to K.C. Davidson and Mary E. Davidson.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Judicial District Land Deed Bk. 14, p. 272)</span></span></p>\r\n<h1 class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Kenneth Comfort Davidson</span></h1>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In May 1973, Kenneth Comfort Davidson and Mary Elizabeth Davidson to Nancy Pierce Mavar.(HARCO, Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Judicial District Land Deed Bk. 39, pp. 323-324)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/1364 West Beach-Sutcliffe-Mavar.JPG\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 161px;\" /></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>1364 West Beach Boulevard</strong> [image made 2003]</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Nancy Pierce Mavar</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Nancy Pierce Mavar, a native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, is the spouse of Nicholas A. &ldquo;Nick&rdquo; Mavar II.&nbsp; Nicholas A. Mavar II (b. 1942) is the son of Nicholas A. Mavar (b. 1918) and Irma Sumerlin (1919-2001), the daughter of Doss Sumerlin and Emma Martin.&nbsp; Nick Mavar II&rsquo;s siblings are: Thomas Martin Mavar, and Gerald Michael Mavar (b. 1946).</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Katrina</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Sutcliffe-Mavar edifice was destroyed on the morning of August 29, 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Charles L. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong><u>Along The Gulf</u></strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;The Sea Shore Camp Grounds&rdquo;</em></strong>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church:&nbsp; Pass Christian-1971.&nbsp; Originally published 1895.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong><u>20<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century Coast Edition of&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em></u></strong>, (<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>: Biloxi, Mississippi-ca 1902)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;\">Journals</span></em></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Latest City News&rdquo;</strong>, February 26, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Latest City News&rdquo;</strong>, April 2, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Seashore Camp Ground Dots&rdquo;</strong>, May 14, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Camp Ground Dots&rdquo;</strong>, May 28, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Latest City News&rdquo;</strong>, August 20, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Camp Ground Dots&rdquo;</strong>, November 12, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;J.H. Keller, New Orleans&rdquo;</strong>, November 6, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Biloxi News&rdquo;</strong>, May 7, 1910.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Sutcliffe Dead&rdquo;</strong>, September 16, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Wm. Sutcliffe Dies At New Orleans Home&rdquo;</strong>, January 15, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Superintendent Biloxi Schools Expires At VA&rdquo;</strong>, October 9, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;City Schools To Close Half Day Thursday&rdquo;</strong>, October 9, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Pierce-Mavar Nuptial Plans Revealed Today&rdquo;</strong>, June 23, 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Professor Scruggs is re-elected Superintendent of Biloxi Schools&rdquo;</strong>, December 17, 1948.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mary Adele Simon Todaro&rdquo;</strong>, March 4, 1994.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Leo C. Todaro&rdquo;</strong>, May 5, 1994.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,</em>&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Irma Sumerlin Mavar&rdquo;</strong><em>, September 5, 2001.</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</em></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&ldquo;Sutcliffe, bank executive dies&rdquo;</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">,</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;February 6, 1954.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</em></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>&ldquo;Deaths&rdquo;</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">,</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;March 6, 1969.</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"\'times new roman\', times, serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\">_______________________________________________________________________________________________</span></font></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>BOND-GRANT HOUSE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>925 West Howard Avenue</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/bond-grant house west howard.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 200px;\" /></span></font></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Bond-Grant House</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">[image made July 2008]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Location</strong>:&nbsp; Angelique Fasaier [Fayard] Grant, Section 27, T7S-R9W</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Bond-Grant Lot</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The tract on which the Bond-Grant house was erected was acquired by William K.M. Dukate in May 1900 from Cecile Craft Lyon Blakemore (1860-1937), domiciled at New Orleans.&nbsp; She was the widow of Joseph M. Lyon (1841-1879) and the spouse of John Davis Blakemore (1858-pre-1920).&nbsp; The consideration was $7000 for the parcel, which had a frontage of one hundred sixty-four feet on Howard Avenue and ran south for one thousand forty-four feet to the Mississippi Sound.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 120, p. 516)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mrs. Blakemore was a native of New Orleans while her father was from Kentucky and mother born in Pennsylvania.&nbsp; She had married Joseph M. Lyon and after his demise in May 1879 became the bride of John D. Blakemore in December 1889.&nbsp; They had at least one child, Joseph L. Blakemore (b. 1890).(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T623 575, p. 12A, Ed 122)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mr. Dukate immediately vended to Linda R. Dukate, his spouse,</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>William K.M. Dukate</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">William K.M. Dukate (1852-1916) was a native of Fredericksburg, Washington County, Indiana.&nbsp; He married Linda Rose Lienhard (1859-1939), the daughter of Peter J. Lienhard (1812-1873), a Swiss immigrant, and Malinda B. Seaman (1826-1890), in her mother&rsquo;s residence at Biloxi, Mississippi on April 27, 1878.&nbsp; Their children were: Elbert L. Dukate (1881-1943) m. Corrine Dukate (1882-1973); Eula Dukate (1883-1894); Vera L. Dukate (1886-1977) m. Brantley A. Bond (1880-1966) and R. Hart Chinn (1888-1972); Leola May Dukate (1888-1967) m. William L. Ewing (1888-1967); Irma Dukate (1890-1974) m. Daniel J. Gorenflo (1888-1965); and Beula L. Dukate (1900-1983) m. Carl E. Matthes (1896-1972).<em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, May 3, 1878, p. 3)</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Seafood pioneer</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In the 1870s, W.K.M. Dukate came to coastal Mississippi as a telegraph operator for the L&amp;N Railroad.&nbsp; In 1881, he joined with&nbsp;Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903), F. William Elmer (1847-1926), William Gorenflo (1844-1932), and James Maycock (1826-1892) to form the Lopez, Elmer and Company.&nbsp; Their incipient cannery was situated on the Back Bay of Biloxi at the head of Reynoir Street.&nbsp; The initial efforts of The Lopez, Elmer and Company were crude, but ready markets were available and the organization was profitable.(1880 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T9_648, p. 8, ED 139)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>&nbsp;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.(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, December 30, 1881, p.</em>&nbsp;3)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Lopez, Elmer and Company was dissolved in 1884, and the Biloxi Canning Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Mississippi was chartered on March 23, 1883.&nbsp; In rapid succession, after the dissolution of The Lopez, Elmer and Company, the Barataria Canning Company, William Gorenflo &amp; Company, E.C. Joullian &amp; Company, and J.T. Maybury were competing in the seafood packing business at Biloxi.&nbsp; By 1902, the factories of Biloxi ranked second to those of Baltimore, Maryland in canning American oysters.(Twentieth Century Coast Edition of&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, 1902, p. 20)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Brantley A. Bond</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Brantley Alexander Bond (1880-1966) was born in Harrison County, Mississippi on May 4, 1880, the tenth child of Thomas Bond (1835-1880+) and Minnie E. Engmann (1848-1925), a native of New Orleans and the daughter of Peter L. Engmann (1816-1887), a Dane and U.S. Mint employee, and Wilhelmina Carolina Barkhausen (1816-ca 1853), a German immigrant.&nbsp; Thomas Bond and Minnie E. Engmann had married in Harrison County, Mississippi in April 1868.&nbsp; When Brantley Bond was born the family was domiciled in Beat 2, Harrison County, Mississippi where Thomas Bond was the Justice of the Peace.&nbsp; After the demise of Thomas Bond, Minnie E. Bond married in October 1887, John Arthur (1843-1900+), a mechanical engineer and native of Ireland.&nbsp; They had three children.&nbsp; The Arthur family resided on Commerce Street in Handsboro, Harrison County, Mississippi.&nbsp; She expired at San Antonio, Texas on July 27, 1925.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Bond-Dukate</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">On October 18, 1904 at the Dukate home in Biloxi, Brantley A. Bond married Vera Linda Dukate (1886-1977), the daughter of William K.M. Dukate (1852-1916) and Linda Rose Lienhard (1859-1939).&nbsp; Brantley A. Bond was assistance cashier at the Bank of Biloxi at the time of their nuptials.&nbsp; W.H. Buck was his best man.&nbsp; Mr. Dukate gave Vera a new home on Howard Avenue, which was under construction.&nbsp; Her mother and Elbert L. Dukate, her brother, bestowed on her a sizeable sum of money.&nbsp; Articles of silver, cut glass and art were among the wedding gifts.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 3, 1904 and October 18, 1904, p. 5)</em></span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Bond Home</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mrs. W.K.M. Dukate sold Vera L. Bond a lot on West Howard Avenue in early February 1910.&nbsp; The Bond lot had a front on West Howard Avenue of eighty-two feet and ran south three hundred thirty feet.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 91, p. 566)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;\">Bond family</strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Vera L. Dukate had two daughters with Brantley A. Bond: Vera Leola Bond (1909-1989) m. Leslie Baltar Grant (1908-1986) and Whillamene Linda Bond (1911-1998) m. Mr. Eddy.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Separation and divorce</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">When deposed on June 8, 1918, Brantley A. Bond stated that he did not want to dissolve his marriage.&nbsp; Vera L. Bond had initiated the separation in late December 1915, when she abandoned him.&nbsp; Mr. Bond averred that her reason for leaving him was that&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;she</em>&nbsp;<em>did not care for me anymore and did not care to live with me.&rdquo;</em></strong>&nbsp; By the spring of 1918, he realized that their union would not reunite and he took a position with the Central Trust Company in San Antonio, Texas.&nbsp; There divorce became final on June 18, 1918.(Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 5617-June, 1918 and WWI Draft Registration Card)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;Brantley A. Bond lived the remainder of his life in banking at San Antonio, Texas.&nbsp; He expired there on February 6, 1966.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>R. Hart Chinn</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Lt. Hart Chinn married Mrs. Vera L. Dukate Bond (1886-1977) on November 11, 1918 at Camp Sherman, Ohio.&nbsp; She had two daughters with Brantley A. Bond: Vera Leola Bond (1909-1989) m. Leslie Baltar Grant (1908-1986) and Whillamene Linda Bond Eddy (1911-1998).<em>(The Daily Herald, November 14, 1918)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif;\">Conveyed to Julia Elizabeth Baltar Grant (1880-1968) in December 1920.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 130, p. 91)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: monospace, &quot;lucida console&quot;, &quot;trebuchet ms&quot;; font-size: 12px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Julia E. Baltar Grant and&nbsp;</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>W.J. Grant</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">William&nbsp;Jesse Grant (1875-1932) was born at Pascagoula, Mississippi the son of Robert B. Grant (1852-1932) and Lydia S. Landridge (1852-1909). &nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">On April 16, 1902 at New Orleans, William J. Grant married Julia Elizabeth Baltar (1880-1968), the daughter of Jacinto F. Baltar (1834-1898) and Margaretha Gondolf (1840-1932).&nbsp; Parents of: Marguerite B. Grant (19-1988) m. Henry Baldwin Curtis; William J. Grant II (1906-1976) m. Mary Griffin Dantzler (1988), and Leslie Baltar Grant (1908-1986) m. Vera &lsquo;Bede&rsquo; Leola Bond (1909-1989).</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Leslie B. Grant</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Leslie Baltar Grant (1908-1986) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1908.&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Leslie graduated from Biloxi High School in 1926 and matriculated to the University of Alabama.&nbsp; He graduated from the Alabama Law School and passed the bar examination in 1930.&nbsp; Mr. Grant joined the law firm of Wadlington and Corban in June 1930 and named a partner in January 1932, when the group was named Wadlington, Corban, and Grant.&nbsp; The law practice began at Biloxi in 1924 with Walter J. Wadlington (1898-1989), and Lawrence C. Corban (1901-1989).<em>(The Daily Herald, January 2, 1932, p. 2)</em></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Leslie B. Grant married Vera Leola Bond (1909-1989), the daughter of Brantley A. Bond and Vera L. Dukate on March 1, 1934.&nbsp; Children: Vera Elizabeth Grant m. 11-29-1952 James Guy Martin; Marguerite Bond Grant m. 6-8-1957 Ernest Lee Cox; and Linda Bond Grant m. 8-17-1963 James Madison Wells.(Harrison Vo., Mississippi Chancery Court MRB 45, p. 48, Bk. 91, p. 556, Bk. 109, p. 187, and Bk. 125, p. 144)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Before their marriage, Leslie and Vera ruled the Les Masque carnival ball at Biloxi in February 1933.<em>(The Daily Herald, &nbsp;February 15, 1933, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Judge Leslie B. Grant passed on October 1986.&nbsp; His spouse expired on March 21, 1989.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Elizabeth Baltar Grant conveyed her home and lot at&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; West Howard Avenue to the&nbsp;<strong>First Baptist Church of Biloxi in February 1964.&nbsp; She retained a life estate in the home and that part of her lot described as having eighty-two feet on Howard Avenue and running south one hundred and sixty-two feet.(</strong>Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 530, p. 15)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mrs. Grant expired at Biloxi on April 18, 1968.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>First Baptist Church of Biloxi</strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In November 1921, Edward C. Gay (1882-1921+), conveyed the Julius M. Lopez lot on West Howard Avenue to J.W. Elder, Lyman Bradford, and N.V. Boddie, Trustees of The First Baptist Church of Biloxi for $2800.&nbsp; This tract was east of the Bond-Grant House and had a front on Howard Avenue of eighty-two feet and was six hundred twenty-nine feet deep.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 530, p. 15)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">In October 1999, The First Baptist Church of Biloxi conveyed their sanctuary site on West Howard Avenue and surrounding lands including the Bond-Grant House to the Beau Rivage Resorts, Inc.(Harrison Co., Ms. 2</span><sup style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif;\">nd</sup><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;JD, Land Deed Bk. 347, p. 6)</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Beau Rivage Casino</strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>City of Biloxi</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>Books</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><u>The Biloxi Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u></strong>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong><u>The Buildings of Biloxi: An Architectural Survey</u></strong>, (City of Biloxi, Mississippi-2000)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Charles L. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong><u>Along The Gulf</u></strong>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church:&nbsp; Pass Christian-1971.&nbsp; Originally published 1895).</span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>Chancery Court Causes</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 5617,&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;B.A. Bond v. Vera L. Bond&rdquo;</em></strong>, June, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi-D&rsquo;Iberville Press,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Bond-Grant House restored&rdquo;</strong>, May 8, 2008, p. A1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi-D&rsquo;Iberville Press,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;New visitors center&rdquo;</strong>, July 3, 2008, p. A3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>The Biloxi Herald</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Lienhard dies&rdquo;</strong>, January 3, 1890.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;A sad death&nbsp;</strong>[Eula Dukate]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, November 24, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;A sad death&nbsp;</strong>[Eula Dukate]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, November 24, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;A sad death&nbsp;</strong>[Eula Dukate]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, November 24, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Brevities&rdquo;</strong>, August 20, 1898.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong>, June 19, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong>, October 3, 1904.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Bond-Dukate wedding&rdquo;</strong>, October 18, 1904.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Brevities&rdquo;</strong>, August 20, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong>, June 19, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>The Daily Herald</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Find valuable broach (sic) after considerable anxiety&rdquo;</strong>, November 8, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Death claims W.K.M. Dukate, one of the Coast&rsquo;s most prominent citizens&rdquo;</strong>, March 29, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Queen City Barbershop purchased&rdquo;</strong>, December 4, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;</strong><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Chinn-Bond&rdquo;</strong>, November 14, 1918.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Grant Now Member Biloxi Law Firm&rdquo;</strong>, January 2, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Wm. Grant dies in New Orleans&rdquo;</strong>, October 3, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Reign as King and Queen of Les Masques&rdquo;</strong>, February 15, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Widow&nbsp;</strong>[Vera Dukate Bond Chinn]&nbsp;<strong>of former Biloxi mayor dies&rdquo;</strong>, June 8, 1977.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Dukate-Lienhard&rdquo;</strong>, May 3, 1878.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Local Paragraphs&rdquo;</strong>, December 30, 1881.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong><em>The Sun Herald</em></strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Marguerite Curtis&rdquo;</strong>, February 5, 1988.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Mrs. Vera &lsquo;Bede&rsquo; Grant&rdquo;</strong>, March 22, 1989.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Moving house may mean loss of Oaks&rdquo;</strong>, February 6, 2001, p. A2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Biloxi Main Street honors couple for preservation&rdquo;</strong>, December 5, 2006, p. B3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>&ldquo;Bond-Grant House will host reception&rdquo;</strong>, April 27, 2008.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald,</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>__________________________________________________________________________________________________&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>F.W. Elmer-L.B. Camp House</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">216 West Beach Boulevard</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi, Mississippi</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Elmer-Camp House.jpg\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 283px;\" /></span></font></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>216 West Beach Boulebard</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">[now parking lot of Mary Mahoney&#39;s Old French House restaurant]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In Ocotber 1904,</span></span>&nbsp;<strong style=\"line-height: 20px; font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Mayor F.W. Elmer</strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;(1847-1926)</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>contracted with J.E. Greene to build a home on Magnolia and Front Beach</strong></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">for between $3000 and $4000.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 20, 1904, p. 5)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The F.W. Elmer House was completed after the death of Mrs. F.W. Elmer,</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Elizabeth Carson Maycock (1850-1905)</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">, which occurred in late January 1905 and prior to June 1909.(see Sanborn Insurance Maps-Biloxi-1904 Sheet 4 and 1909 Sheet 8).&nbsp; The Elmers resided at No. 120 Water Street at the time of her demise on January 21, 1905.(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 21, 1905, p. 5</em>).</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Lot Size-1.37 acres</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The House-Two-story, 2500 square-feet,</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Frederick William Elmer</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In April 1888, W.I. Hodgson, an auctioneer at New Orleans, sold Lots 1 and 2 of the Samuel Friedlander Estate to Edward Langevin for $2375.(3)&nbsp; The conveyance included the brick residence, outbuildings, and dependencies.&nbsp; Lot 1 had 85 feet on the Gulf, 281 feet on Magnolia, 81 feet with Lot 2, and 281 feet (east).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In November 1891, Eleanor Langevin of St. Paul, Minnesota, the widow of Edward Langevin, conveyed Lots 1 and 2 of the Friedlander Estate to Frederick W. Elmer for $2700.(4)&nbsp; Her daughters, Mary Michand and Emma Flanagan, and their husbands, Achille Michand and Thomas J. Flanagan, signed the warranty deed.&nbsp; Charles and Mary E. Michand of St. Paul gave Elmer a quitclaim deed on the property in April 1892.(5)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Frederick W. Elmer (1847-1926) was born at Biloxi on January 23, 1847.&nbsp; He was the son of two European immigrants, Jacob Elmer (1812-1894) and Barbara Gettendorf (1823-1858).&nbsp; Jacob Elmer was born at Canton Glarus in Switzerland, the same area of the Hosli and Abbley family origination.&nbsp; Mr. Elmer came to Biloxi in 1836 and circa 1837, he married Barbara Gettendorf, a native of Winweiler, Rhein Kreis, Bavaria.&nbsp; In 1850, Jacob Elmer was a merchant at Biloxi worth $15,000.(HARCO Census, p. 27).&nbsp; His children with Barbara Gettendorf were:&nbsp; Helena Elmer Northrop (1838-1869+), Anna Elmer (b. 1839), Jacob Elmer (1843-1885), John P. Elmer (b. 1843), Henry M. Elmer (1844-1868), Frederick William Elmer (1847-1926), Augustus Elmer (b. 1848), Otho Elmer (1851-1926+), and Charles Elmer (1852-1926+).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">After the demise of his wife in 1858, Jacob Elmer married Louisa B. Wetzel (1844-1894) in January 1863.(Guice, 1968?, p. 12).&nbsp; She was the daughter of German immigrant, Jacob Wetzel (1802-1860+) and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .&nbsp; Her mother was dead before 1860.&nbsp; Their children were: Coresta E. Bachino (1866-1900+), Effee Elmer Dulion (b. 1866), Clarence Elmer (1868-1901), Percy L. Elmer (1873-1949), Edward Ross Elmer (1878-1934), and the twins, Albert (1881-1900+) and Arthur Elmer (b. 1881).&nbsp; Jacob Wetzel&#39;s siblings raised by Jacob Elmer were: Julia Wetzel (b. 1853), and Catherine Wetzel (b. 1855).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">F.W. Elmer married Elizabeth Carson Maycock (1850-1905) in May 1871.(Guice, 1968?, p. 19).&nbsp; She was the daughter of Captain James Maycock (1825-1892) and Mary Emily Carson (1827-1900), born at Cape May, New Jersey.&nbsp; Captain Maycock was a native of Hull, Yorkshire, England and arrived at Biloxi on an English vessel in 1839.(The Biloxi Herald, March 19, 1892, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Captain Maycock was a seafood pioneer at Biloxi.&nbsp; In 1881, he and Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903), F. W. Elmer (1847-1926), W.K.M. Dukate (1853-1916), and William Gorenflo (1844-1932) with a capital stock of $8,000 organized the Lopez, Elmer and Company, which became the Biloxi Canning Company.&nbsp; This factory was situated on the Back Bay of Biloxi, at the head of Reynoir Street.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">F.W. Elmer and his spouse were the parents of ten children.&nbsp; Eight survived into the 20th Century.&nbsp; The known Elmer children are: Marie Ann Sichirich (1872-1946), Ida L. Elmer (1873-1891), Nina V. Scott (1877-1937+); Cora V. Enochs (1878-1962) married Byrd Enochs (1875-1940); F.W. Elmer II (1881-1948), James C. Elmer (1883-1920), Inez F. Ebersole (1885-1937+), Margueryte E. Cole (1887-1965), and Edward E. Elmer (1892-1900+).</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Margueryte Elmer Cole</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Marguerite E. Cole (1887-1965) was a single woman when she acquired the Elmer-Camp home in July 1925.&nbsp; The warranty deed from her father, F.W. Elmer Sr., stated, &quot;for constant attention to me, during my sickness extending over two years, I sell and convey&quot;.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 165, p. 526)&nbsp; F.W. Elmer Sr. expired on December 23, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In September 1934, W.L. Guice, Trustee, sold the F.W. Elmer House and lot to the First National Bank of Biloxi for $2000.&nbsp; Margueryte Elmer had defaulted on her property taxes and deeds of trust to the First National Bank of Biloxi and to Walter Nixon and Mrs. Harry Laughlin.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 203, p. 319)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Margueryte Elmer married Myron Asa Cole (1876-1957) of West Midway, Massachusetts.&nbsp; He made his livelihood as an investigator for Office of the Comptroller General at Washington, D.C., retiring in 1943.&nbsp; In 1945, the Coles relocated from Jackson, Mississippi to Biloxi, and here they resided with her sister, Cora Elmer Enochs, at 138 Magnolia Street.&nbsp; Mrs. Enochs was the widow of Byrd Enochs (1875-1940).(<em>The Daily Herald, July 12, 1957, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cora Elmer Enochs legated her home on Magnolia Street to Margueryte Elmer Cole.&nbsp; After her demise in April 1962, her estate was probated in the Chancery Court of Harrison County, Mississippi.(HARCO Cause No. 45,513-Bk 381, p. 25).&nbsp; Margueryte Cole sold it to A. Jake Mladinich for $14,000 in July 1962.(HACO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 500, p. 110)&nbsp; Mlandinich to Mary C. Mahoney in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 514, p. 68)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Fleeta Nash Camp</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In late January 1937, the First National Bank of Biloxi sold the property on the southeast corner of Magnolia Street and West Beach Boulevard in Biloxi, Mississippi to Fleeta Nash Camp (1880-1947), the spouse of Largus Bell Camp (1869-1949).&nbsp; The Camp place had 134 feet on West Beach Boulevard and on the east ran 556 feet north to Water Street.&nbsp; The parcel had a 50-foot front on Water Street. The west boundary of this tract ran north 395 feet along Magnolia Street to the Byrd Enoch&#39;s property, which is the present day site of Mary Mahoney&#39;s Old French Restaurant, an 1850s structure.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 241, pp. 258-259)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mrs. Camp was born on August 5, 1880, in Monroe County, Mississippi, the daughter of Jessie Nash and Nancy Massingale.(Suarez, 1999, p. 18)&nbsp;&nbsp; She married&nbsp; Largus Bell Camp, the son of Claudius Camp, and a native of Marion County, Alabama.&nbsp; They were the parents of Ruby C. Herzer (1900-1991) and Fleeta C. Holley Carrington.&nbsp; In addition, the Camps had three adopted children: Hershel Camp (1911-1972)?, J.S. Camp, and Virginia C. Apler.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Fleeta Camp</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Fleeta Camp married Homer R. Lewis in July 1930.(HARCO, Ms. MRB 42,&nbsp; p. 386).&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Fleeta Camp then married Anson L. Holley II (1908-1975) on January 23, 1937 at Nativity BVM in Biloxi.&nbsp; She had attended schools at Starkville and Mississippi State Woman&#39;s College prior to the relocation of the family to Biloxi.&nbsp; Fleeta was employed at Biloxi with Dr. M.R. Mosley while her husband and his brother, Lionel Holley (1910-1993), operated the Triple XXX Cafe at 305 West Beach.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 23, 1937, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Anson Holleys resided at 128 Magnolia Street in the rear of her parents large home.&nbsp; Here they reared two sons, Anson Camp &quot;Campy&quot; Holley (b. 1939) and Daniel Raymond Holley (b. 1942).&nbsp; In May 1946, Anson and Fleeta C. Holley divorced.&nbsp; In the property settlement, she received the Magnolia Street home and he retained his caf&eacute; business and a 1941 Pontiac sedan.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 23,535, Fleeta Camp Holley v. Anson L. Holley, May 1946 and HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 287, pp. 34-36)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Fleta Camp Holley married R.W. Carrington in late 1946 or 1947.&nbsp; She sold her home on Magnolia Street to the Felsher family in January 1947.&nbsp; The lot had 56-feet on Magnolia and was 80-feet deep.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 296, p. 101)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1933, upon his retirement from the telephone company, L.B. Camp and family relocated to Biloxi from Starkville, Mississippi.&nbsp; There L.B. Camp had been very active politically serving the municipal government twelve years as a city councilman and vice-mayor.&nbsp; He had also been the secretary-treasurer of the Starkville Chamber of Commerce and was an active participant in the Methodist Church, Lions Club, Woodmen of the World, Rotary, and Independent Order of Odd Fellows.&nbsp; Prior to his residency at Starkville, Mr. Camp lived at Amory, Mississippi were he was a partner in that town&#39;s first electric light plant.(<em>The Daily Herald, December 22, 1947, p. 7 and August 3, 1949, p. 2</em>)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">During WWII, there was a housing shortage at Biloxi due to the establishment of Keesler Field, a training base for the US Army Air Corps.&nbsp; The Camps utilized a portion of their large home for room and apartment rentals.&nbsp; Several cottages to let were also situated on their lot.&nbsp; The Camps called their real estate venture, Camp&#39;s Friendly Home.(Buddy Jones, June 8, 2001 and 1947 postal card)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In April 1946, Mrs. L.B. Camp conveyed a 1/2 interest in her property to her husband, Largus Bell Camp (1869-1949).(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 285, pp. 185-186)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>The Daily Herald Office</strong></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In March 1947, the Camps sold a small lot (.15 acres) off the north end of their parcel to the Wilkes family, Eugene Pierce Wilkes (1885-1980), Loretta Voivedich Wilkes (1886-1978), and Mrs. Josephine Wilkes Reicker (1911-1977), who were the publishers of The Daily Herald.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 302, pp. 216-217)&nbsp; Here on Water Street, The Daily Herald had a small newspaper distribution center for their Biloxi carriers.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Camps sold their home and remaining property to Clifford P. Turk and Ella Louise Seymour Turk for $70,000 in late November 1947.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 302, pp. 183-184)&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>The Turk Apartments</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Clifford Percy Turk (1892-1983) was born in Alabama, the son of Joseph H. Turk and Florence Philips.&nbsp; He married Ella Louise Seymour Kaufman (1906-1994), the daughter of Joseph J. Seymour (1874-1952) and Ella Lamey (1877-1952), and former spouse of Lester G. Kaufman.&nbsp; They had a son, Lt. Elmer Otis Kaufman (1925-1951), who was killed in an automobile accident near Hanau, Germany while on active military duty with the US Army in October 1951.(The Daily Herald, October 15, 1951, p. 10)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mr. and Mrs. Turk worked across the street at the Trailways Caf&eacute;, which was also the site of the Trailways bus station.&nbsp; He was the general agent for Trailways and an agent for Southern Bus Lines.&nbsp; She was an agent for Trailways.(Biloxi City Directory, 1949, p. 547)</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The 1947 Hurricane</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The 1947 September hurricane may have influenced their decision to leave the Biloxi waterfront.</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &quot;C.P. Turk, who just bought the L.B. Camp property took another $20,000 loss from the damage to the revenue bearing properties on his new purchase&quot;.(The Daily Herald, September 24, 1947, p. 9)</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Pavich Lease</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In March 1953, the Turks leased a small lot (30 feet by 22 feet) in the southwest corner of parcel fronting on West Beach and Magnolia.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 427, pp. 56-57)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In August 1953, the Turks conveyed their West Beach property to M.M. Wilkinson and wife for $65,000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 372, p. 50-51)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Notes on Turk family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mon Cher Monsieur Bellande,</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Antonio Marco Basquez here with the results of my inquiry concering Louise Seymour Turk.&nbsp; Although my dad doesn&#39;t remember Louise&#39;s father Joseph Seymour, he does indeed remember Louise Turk.&nbsp; As you indicate, she operated a grocery store in St. Martin, but this was after the time that they lived in the house and property formerly owned by my grandfather Joe Basque and bought from him for 800 dollars when he was unable to make the payments.&nbsp; This would have been around 1940.&nbsp; Mr. Turk and my grandfather were the same age, but my dad doesn&#39;t remember Mr. Turk.&nbsp;&nbsp; Subsequently, my grandfather built a smaller house next door, the little green house that I remember visiting as a child.&nbsp; My grandfather gave a portion of this land to my father, where my parents&#39; house stands today (and where I busted me arse cutting the grass today).&nbsp;&nbsp; Later the Turks moved to a house just across the street from the old SMHS, where, as you mention, Louise operated a grocery store.&nbsp; Today it&#39;s a little furniture store, although I remember it as a grocery store when I was a student there in the 60&#39;s and early 70&#39;s.&nbsp; My father said that Louise had a son by an earlier marriage to Kaufman.&nbsp; More details may emerge from the haze of time as he continues to recollect.&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Sincerely,</span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">--&nbsp; Sr. Basquez</span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;<strong>M.M. Wilkinson</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">M.M. Wilkinson.&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In October 1957, M.M. Wilkinson conveyed to Richard Reed Guice Sr. for $42,500.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Guice divided the property and sold F.W. Elmer House to his son, Wade Guice.&nbsp; A lot fronting on West Beach Blvd and Magnolia, was sold to the Arkansas Fuel Oil Corporation for a gasoline station.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Richard Reed Guice Sr.</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Richard Reed Guice Sr. (1893-1980) married Elizabeth Porter (1902-1974).&nbsp; They were the parents of Richard R. Guice II, William Wade Guice (1927-1996)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Wade Guice Apartments</strong>&nbsp;(1958-1961+)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In October 1957, R.R. Guice Sr. conveyed the F.W. Elmer House to his son, William Wade Guice (1927-1996), for $42,500.&nbsp; The conveyance included <strong><em>&quot;all personal property of M.M. Wilkinson and Mrs. M.M. Wilkinson and used in apartments on said land.&quot;</em></strong>(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 427, pp. 188-189)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">City of Biloxi</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In September 1964, Wade Guice and Julia C. Guice to the City of Biloxi.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">VFW</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The City of Biloxi conveyed to the Lyman C. Bradford Post No. 2434 VFW in September 1964.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 539, p. 41)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Hurricane Camille</span></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Elmer-Camp Home destroyed by Camille in August 1969.(Buddy Jones, June 8, 2001)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Became part of the parking lot at Mary Mahoney&#39;s Old French House!</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Books</span></span></em></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">1936 Biloxi City Directory, (Baldwin &amp; Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1936)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1941 Biloxi City Directory, (Peerless Printing Co.: New Orleans, Lousiana-1941)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1949 Biloxi City Directory, (Mullin-Kille: Columbus, Ohio-1949)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1958 Biloxi City Directory, (Mullin-Kille:</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1961 Biloxi City Directory, (Mullin-Kille: Chillicothe, Ohio-1961)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1968 Biloxi City Directory, (Mullin-Kille: Dallas, Texas-1968)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Julia Cook Guice,&nbsp;<u><strong>Marriages-Harrison County, Mississippi (1841-1899)</strong></u>, (City of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1968?)</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Julie Broussard Suarez,&nbsp;<u><strong>Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Funeral Records</strong></u>, Burial Books 33 thru 42, (1945-1960), (Suarez: Biloxi, Mississippi-1999).</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<em><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Court Cases</span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Cause No. 23,535, &quot;Fleeta Camp Holley v. Anson L. Holley&quot;, May 1946.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Journals</span></span></em></strong></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Biloxi Herald, &quot;Capitan James Maycock&quot;, March 19, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;The Biloxi Daily Herald, &quot;City News&quot;, October 20, 1904.</span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, Mrs. F.W. Elmer Dead&quot;, January 21, 1905.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, &quot;Died&quot;, January 21, 1905.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Biloxi Loses Noted Citizen&quot;, December 24, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;F.W. Elmer&quot;, December 27, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Elmer Funeral Largely Attended&quot;, December 27, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Holley-Camp&quot;, January 23, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Once Busy Biloxi Beach Deep in Sand&quot;, September 24, 1947.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Mrs. L.B. Camp Dies&quot;, December 22, 1947.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Largus Bell Camp Dies&quot;, August 3, 1949.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Lt. Otis Kaufman Killed in Germany&quot;, October 15, 1951.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Myron A. Cole&quot;, July 12, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Mrs. Marguerite Cole&quot;, August 2, 1965.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Sun Herald, &quot;Ella Louise Seymour Turk&quot;, July 1, 1994.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Sun Herald, &quot;William Wade Guice&quot;, August 20, 1996, p. B-2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Maps</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Sanborn&nbsp; Map-Biloxi 1893-Sheet 5</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Sanborn Map- Biloxi 1898-Sheet 5</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Sanborn Map-Biloxi-March&nbsp; 1904-Sheet 4</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Sanborn Map-Biloxi-June 1909-Sheet 8</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Sanborn Map-Biloxi- 1914-Sheet 9</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>THE HENRIQUES-SLAY HOUSE circa 1902</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>212 Reynoir Street and 128 Rue Magnolia</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>By</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Ray L. Bellande</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><img src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/212 Reynoir [Guice%2C 1976%2C p. 101].jpg\" style=\"width: 469px; height: 300px;\" /></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>212 Reynoir Street</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">[from <strong><u>The Buildings of Biloxi an Architectural Survey</u></strong>, 1976, p. 101]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Henriques-Slay House is a small cottage that was built circa 1902 on the east side of Reynoir Street, probably by John Kelly, a popular Biloxi building contractor of this period.&nbsp; Robert W. Heck, an architectural historian, described the Henriques-Slay House in 1986 as follows: <strong>&ldquo;212 Reynoir was constructed in the mid-1980&rsquo;s </strong>[sic]<strong>.&nbsp; It has an unusual feature for Biloxi, a bracketed gable on hip roof over a front gallery.&nbsp; Ornamented brackets are common in New Orleans, however, this house is one of only two remaining in the city.&rdquo;(</strong>Heck, 1986, p. 100)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Possibly because this cottage was built by the Frederick C. Querens Jr. family of New Orleans, they used ornamental brackets on the Henriques-Slay House to bring some &lsquo;architectural memory&rsquo; of the Crescent City.&nbsp; The Querens family had possessed the small lot on which the Henriques-Slay House was situated, &nbsp;as a part of a larger land parcel acquired in May 1892, when Pauline Trenchard Querens (1860-1928) bought from Leonard Adolph Trenchard (1827-1892), her father, a lot describes as having 199 feet on Reynoir Street and running 60 feet east.&nbsp; Mr. Trenchard had acquired the parcel in August 1871 from P.E. Dallimore and spouse for $450 and at this time the tract had 307 feet on Reynoir Street and ran east for 60 feet.&nbsp; Naturally, as Trenchard vended smaller lots from his original acquisition, his land holding were reduced.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Land Deed Bk. 28, pp. 45-46 and Bk. 12, p. 75)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Querens family of Biloxi, Mississippi had its roots in New Orleans.&nbsp; Frederick Charles Querens Jr. (1858-1942) was born in the Crescent City on February 8, 1858, the son of Frederick C. Querens (1823-1901) and Louisa Dorothea Muhlenbein (1840-1913), both natives of Prussia.&nbsp; Frederick C. Querens Jr. married Pauline Jeanne Trenchard (1860-1928) in November 1882.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Leonard Adolph Trenchard (1827-1892) and Marie Antoinette Mouchon (1832-1903).&nbsp; The Trenchard family had deep roots in Colonial America.&nbsp; From this sacred union four children were born: Leah Querens (1883-1884); Irma Rosita Querens (1886-1969) m. William J. Cousins (18-1965); Frederick Charles Querens III (1889-1963) m. Marie Meunier; and Percy Leonard Querens (1891-1991)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In his youth, Frederick C.&nbsp; Querens Jr. took employment with Wackerbath &amp; Joseph, the leading tobacconists, of the Crescent City.&nbsp; With their land holdings in Biloxi&rsquo;s commercial district along Reynoir Street, both north and south of West Howard Avenue, the family began to invest in commercial buildings and rental homes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Prior to the Great Biloxi Fire of November 1900, the Querens family had erected at least two structures on Reynoir Street, as related in <em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>, as follows:</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&ldquo;John Kelly has the contract to erect a double tenement on the corner of Reynoir and Water Streets.&rdquo;(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 17, 1900, p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&ldquo;Roderick D. Seal has relocated to one of the new Queren&rsquo;s buildings on the corner of Reynoir and Jackson Streets<em>.&rdquo;</em>(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, August 2, 1901, p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">As a result of the November 1900 conflagration, over ninety building were destroyed in an area from the L&amp;N Railroad Depot south along Reynoir Street to the beach and along West Howard Avenue for several blocks.&nbsp; In a report of the fire&rsquo;s&nbsp; destruction, the local journal reported that the Querens family had lost the following structures:&nbsp; North of Howard Avenue on Reynoir Street-an unoccupied building and a store occupied by David J. Venus; Corner of Reynoir Street and Water Street-four, double-houses and occupied<strong>;&nbsp; two houses corner Jackson Street and Reynoir Street, both occupied</strong>; and a house on the north side of Water Street occupied by Frank Shaffer.(<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 9, 1900, p. 1</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">From the Sanborn Insurance Maps of Biloxi, July 1898, Sheet 5 and March 1904, Sheet 4, it appears that the Henriques-Slay House was erected after the November 1900 Biloxi Fire and before March 1904.&nbsp; The author could not locate a reference to its construction during this interval in <em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>.&nbsp; Therefore its construction is suggested as circa 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>212 Reynoir Street</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In May 1942, Gertrude Bernich Henriques (1914-1988) acquired a small lot and house at 212 Reynoir Street from Dr. Percy L. Querens (1891-1991), Frederick C.&nbsp; Querens III (1889-1963), and Irma Q. Cousins (1886-1969).&nbsp; The consideration was $3360 and the lot had a front on Reynoir Street of 58 feet and ran east 55 feet on Jackson Street. (Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Land Deed Bk. 248, pp. 494-495)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><img src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Henriques%2C Gertrude Bernich and Lelia Lepre Taylor.jpg\" style=\"width: 348px; height: 300px;\" /></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Ernestine Lepre Parker</strong>(1875-1930+) and <strong>Gertrude B. Henriques</strong> (1914-1988)</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">[Courtesy of August H, Parker-June 2012]</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Gertrude Bernich was the daughter of John Bernich (1866-1920+), a Croatian immigrant, and Mary Lepre (1874-1944), the daughter of Pierre Lepre and Celina Moran.&nbsp; She married Dr. Adolph De Campos Henriques (1881-1966), a divorcee, in Harrison County, Mississippi on January 9, 1933. &nbsp;&nbsp;She was living with her widowed mother at 420 Main Street at the time of her nuptials with Dr. Henriques.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 10, 1933, p</em>. <em>6</em>, Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 44, p. 182, and 1930 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census R1146, p. 4B, ED 3)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Adolph D. Henriques</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Adolph DeCampos Henriques (1881-1966) was born at Jefferson, Marion County, Texas &nbsp;on &nbsp;August 10, 1881 to Isaac L. Henriques (1840-1880+) and Elizabeth Calhoun Hickey (1841-1935).&nbsp; &nbsp;Jefferson, Texas is a small community in northeast Texas about 50 miles northwest of Shreveport, Louisiana.&nbsp; When the family was domiciled here in 1880, Mr. Henriques made his livelihood as the proprietor of a restaurant.(1880 Marion Co., Texas R1319, p. 450A, ED 91)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Isaac L. Henriques was born at Kingston, Jamaica.&nbsp; He had married Elizabeth C. Hickey, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when he was a Confederate soldier.&nbsp; She was the daughter of John Hickey (1817-1870+), a Philadelphia printer, and Presocia Sinclair Hickey (1827-1870+), a native of Washington, D.C.(1860 and 1870 Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania Federal Census M653_1151, p. 311, Ward 1-5<sup>th</sup> Precinct and M593_1387, p. 496A, 1<sup>st</sup> Ward, 2<sup>nd</sup> District and <em>The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Isaac L. Henriques family returned to the South and lived in Jefferson, Texas from 1865 until 1881.&nbsp; The family moved to Woodville, Mississippi and came to New Orleans circa 1885.&nbsp; &nbsp;In addition to Adolph D. Henriques, their youngest child, they were the parents of four additional children: &nbsp;Presocia Gonzalvo Henriques (1868-1957) m. Israel Gunst (1848-1929); Ester Lee Henriques (b. 1871); Caroline &lsquo;Carrie&rsquo; Augusta Henriques (1873-1935+) m. Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957); and Edouard Ferdinand Henriques (1878-1966) m. Stella Dywer (1883-1912) and Lady Eleanor Stanley (1891-1979).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">It is interesting to note that Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957), the brother-in-law of Dr. Henriques, was also a physician.&nbsp; He practiced medicine at Woodville, Mississippi until 1919, when he relocated to New Orleans and studied radiology.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr. Magruder expired at Long Beach, Mississippi in August 1957 and his corporal remains were sent to Woodville for internment.(<em>The Morning Advocate, August 21, 1957, p. 25</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mrs. &nbsp;Elizabeth Hickey Henriques expired on August 6, 1935, at 1119 Pine Street in New Orleans, the residence of Presoia H. Gunst, her daughter.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were sent to Woodville, Mississippi for internment implying that Isaac Henriques, her spouse, had passed at Woodville before the family came to New Orleans.&nbsp; Ironically, Katherine Hickey Blanc (1845-1935), Elizabeth&rsquo;s sister, had died twelve hours earlier in Cleveland, Ohio.&nbsp; Elizabeth H. Henriques was survived by her children and two siblings, Artemis Shattuck Hickey (1861-1950), a brother, and Florence H. Van Zant (1864-1935+), both residents of California.(<em>The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Education and Early Medical Career</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Prior to entering the field of medicine, Adolph D. Henriques worked as a railroad clerk at New Orleans.&nbsp; In 1900, he was domiciled at 627 Napoleon Avenue with his mother and Edouard F. Henriques, his brother, who was employed as a book keeper.(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 574, p. 14B, ED 118)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In late June 1901, Adolph D. Henriques received an appointment to the US Military Academy.&nbsp; He had been an alternate.&nbsp; It appears that young Henriques did not attend West Point.&nbsp; His decision not to matriculate to the US Military Academy may have been influenced by the death of Oscar Booz (1879-1901), a Cadet from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, who left West Point and subsequently died.&nbsp; When the US Congress held hearing to investigate his demise, which had been blamed on hazing at the military academy, it received national attention. (The Daily Picayune, June 26, 1901, p. 10)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Adolph DeCampos Henriques attended the Tulane University of Louisiana and graduated on May 2, 1906 with the Tulane Medical School Class of 1906.&nbsp; At this time, he was serving as an interne at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.&nbsp; In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Henriques was awarded a degree in pharmacy.(Bulletin Tulane University-Louisiana, June 1906, p. 25 and p. 30.)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In April 1904, Adolph D. Henriques had passed a written examination which allowed him to serve as an externe at Charity Hospital.&nbsp; The test was given to second and third year medical students at the Tulane Medical School and their academic papers were read by the hospital staff.(<em>The Daily Picayune, April 17, 1904, p. 13</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">With the discovery of X-rays in Germany in 1895 by Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen (1845-1925), a physicist, it soon became apparent that these electromagnetic waves had a promising future in the medical field to view the internal structure of the human body.&nbsp; W.K. Rontgen was awarded the first Noble Prize in Physics in 1901 and later the Element Number 111 was named <u>Roentgenium</u> in his honor.&nbsp; Also the measurement of electromagnetic radiation is called a &lsquo;roentgen&rsquo;.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R&ouml;ntgen)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had decided early in his medical career to pursue the study of X-rays and the incipient field of Radiology.&nbsp;&nbsp; As early as the fall of 1910, he had travelled to the leading medical facilities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore to observe and study what scientists and doctors here had done with X-rays in diagnosing tuberculosis.&nbsp; In early December 1910, at a meeting the Louisiana Antituberculous League in New Orleans, Dr. Henriques offered to donate his time and expertise in radiological medicine to the league to enhance their experiments in clinical work.(<em>The Daily Picayune, December 9, 1910, p. 9</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Studies Abroad</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The author can document two visits by Dr. Henriques to foreign countries to study radiological medicine.&nbsp; The first visit abroad occurred in July 1912 and the second in January 1926. &nbsp;&nbsp;In mid-July 1912, he embarked from the Port of New York for the Continent.&nbsp; His wife and two small children spent the duration of his absence at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Dr. Henriques went to Vienna, Austria where he pursued post-graduate studies in the school of X-rays, radium, and electrical medical therapy.&nbsp; He also visited other European clinics that utilized radiology in their medical treatment and research.(<em>The Daily Picayune, July 12, 1912, p. 15, August 9, 1912, p. 9, October 3, 1912, p. 8, and The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Dr. A.D. Henriques returned to New Orleans in early October 1912.&nbsp; In late September, he had boarded the <strong><em>SS St. Louis</em></strong> in Southampton, England for the Port of New York.&nbsp; His residence address at this time was 4726 Prytania Street in New Orleans.(The Daily Picayune, October 3, 1912, p. 8)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>1926</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">On January 27, 1926, Dr. A.D. Henriques sailed for France on the <strong><em>SS Suffren</em></strong> from New York City.&nbsp; He planned to pursue research and experiments on the treatment of high blood pressure with radiological methods based on his work at the Tulane Medical School.&nbsp; While in New York, Dr. Henriques spent time with E.F. Henriques of NOLA, his brother.&nbsp; Dr. Henriques returned to America in late May 1926 aboard the <strong><em>SS Berengaria</em></strong> which had departed Cherbourg, France on May 22, 1926.&nbsp; His address at this time was listed as the Hibernia Building at New Orleans, Louisiana. (<em>The Times- Picayune, January 26, 1926, p. 7</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Tulane University Medical School</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Before Dr. Adolph De Campos Henriques left New Orleans permanently in the spring of &nbsp;1930. he had worked in various positions at the Tulane School of Medicine.&nbsp; From October 1912 until June 1930, his status here was as follows: October 1912-Assistant in the Department of Physiology; April 1913-3<sup>rd</sup> Assistant in the Department of Physiology; May 1914-3<sup>rd</sup> Assistant in the Department of Physiology and Instructor in Clinical Medicine and Radiology; April 1922-Assistance Professor in Medicine in Radiology; May 1928-Assistant Professor of Roentgenology; June 1930-Not reappointed for the 1930-1931 session.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In his obituary of May 1966, the medical career of Dr. Adolph D. Henriques was related as follows:&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Dr. Henriques received his degree in pharmacy from the New Orleans College of Pharmacy in 1903.&nbsp; In 1906, he completed his medical studies at the Tulane University School of Medicine and served his internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.&nbsp; &nbsp;Dr. Henriques was professor of Physiology and Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy for five years.&nbsp; In 1910, he was the youngest director of the board of the New Orleans College of Pharmacy.&nbsp; Also in 1910, Dr. Henriques presented the first use of X-rays in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in this area of the South.&nbsp; In 1915, he commenced his teaching career at Tulane University and for seventeen years was the assistant professor of medicine at Tulane.&nbsp;&nbsp; In addition, Dr. Henriques had been a consultant for the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans and a physician for the Illinois Central Railroad.&nbsp; He was a member of the New Orleans Parish and Louisiana State Medical Society and Phi Rho Sigma, the national medical fraternity.(<em>The Daily Herald,</em> <em>May&nbsp; 13, 1966, p. 2</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Published Medical Studies and Research Papers by Dr. Adolph D. Henriques</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, &lsquo;<strong>Bone Development&rsquo;</strong>, Volume &nbsp;XXXIV, 1917.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Journal of the American Medical Association, <strong>&lsquo;Instruction in Roentgenolgy&rsquo;</strong>, Volume LXIII-1914.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, <strong>&lsquo;Radium Therapy&rsquo;</strong>, Volume XVIII, 1921.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, <strong>&lsquo;The X-Ray in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis&rsquo;</strong>, Volume LXIII, No. 12, June 1911.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, <strong>&lsquo;Role of X-rays in progressive medicine&rsquo;</strong>, Volume&nbsp; LXV, 1913.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, <strong>&lsquo;Radium Therapy&rsquo;</strong>, Volume&nbsp; LXIV, 1921.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, <strong>&lsquo;Radium in treatment of Myelogenous Leukemia&rsquo;</strong>, Volume&nbsp; LXXV, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal<strong>, &lsquo;Further original observations with the X-ray upon the appendix&rsquo;</strong>, Volume LXXV, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, <strong>&lsquo;Some probable functions of spleen as demonstrable by effects of radioactivity upon the organ&rsquo;</strong>, Volume LXXVI, 1924.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, <strong>&lsquo;Value to general practitioner of X-Ray examination of stomach and duodenum&rsquo;</strong>, Volume LXXVI, 1924</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, <strong>&lsquo;Treatment of high blood pressure by new original method&rsquo;</strong>, Volume LXXX, 1928.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, <strong>&lsquo;Chronic appendix; Roentgenological standpoint&rsquo;</strong>, Volume LXXXIII, 1930.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Pan-American Surgical &amp;&nbsp; Medical Journal<strong>, &lsquo;Few cases to illustrate the value of Roentgen Ray examination of the stomach&rsquo;</strong>, Volume XX-1915.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>First Marriage and Family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">On June 12, 1906, Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had married Ida Margaret Buck (1874-1956), the daughter of Charles F. Buck (1841-1918), a New Orleans attorney, and Mary Weidner Buck (1850-1937).&nbsp; They were both German immigrants.&nbsp; The wedding ceremony was officiated over by the Reverend W.E.W. Denham at St. George&rsquo;s Episcopal Church in the Crescent City.(The Daily Picayune, June 17, 1906, p. 8 and Orleans Parish, Louisiana MRI,&nbsp; Volume 28, p. 5)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Dr. A.D.&nbsp; Henriques and his wife were the parents of two children: Charles Buck Henriques (1907-2003) m. Jean Wilson (1910-2003) and Margaret Ida Henriques (1910-1981) m. Herbert Grant Jahncke (1910-2002) m.&nbsp; Carol Saunders Harrison (1929-2008).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Ida Buck Henriques separated from Dr. Henriques in December 1919.&nbsp; Her reason was abandonment.&nbsp; The couple eventually divorced before 1930.(<em>The Times-Picayune, December 5, 1919, p. 19</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Itinerant Physician</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">With his departure from the Tulane Medical School staff in 1930, Dr. Henriques by April 1930 had relocated to Greensburg, Louisiana.&nbsp; Here in this small, rural community in the Florida Parishes and near the Mississippi state line, he worked as a general practitioner.&nbsp;&nbsp; Greensburg is the St. Helena Parish seat of government.(1930 St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 819, p. 3A, ED 2)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">At the time of his wedding to Gertrude Bernich of Biloxi, Mississippi in January 1933, Dr. Henriques was practicing medicine in Jackson, Mississippi.&nbsp; By 1940, Gertrude and Adolph D. Heriques had settled in Biloxi.&nbsp; At this time, they were renting a house at 1420 Lafayette Street.&nbsp; Dr. Henriques was involved with his private medical practice.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 10, 1933, p. 6 </em>and1940 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T627_2024, p. 1A, ED 24-9)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">After acquiring 212 Reynoir Street in May 1942, the Henriques family relocated from 1420 Lafayette Street to their new residence near the commercial district of Biloxi.&nbsp; Here Dr. Henriques continued to practice general medicine and utilize the north half of their domicile as his medical office.</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>&lsquo;Big Six Antiseptic&rsquo;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">With his academic, pharmaceutical background, Dr. Adolph D. Henriques created &lsquo;Big Six Antiseptic&rsquo; while he was domiciled at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; It was vended in the Grand Drug Store located in the Barq&rsquo;s Building on West Howard Avenue and Reynoir Street.&nbsp; August H. Parker, now in his early seventies and living on the Peter Parker family property on Back Bay on which he was reared, related to the author a most remarkable tale-an incident his life that reflects the superior intelligence and medical skills of Dr. Henriques.&nbsp; Paraphrasing August H. Parker, his narrative follows:</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>In the mid-1940s, June Parker, my sister and the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Parker, was riding on the rear of my older sister&rsquo;s bicycle when her foot got caught in rear wheel spokes of the bike.&nbsp; The accident resulted in a deep laceration which became infected.&nbsp; The infection continued to expand and local medical responses could not arrest this serious development.&nbsp; Several doctors told my parents that June would very likely lose her lower leg.&nbsp; We carried June to Dr. Henriques&rsquo; office on Reynoir Street and he began treating her with his &lsquo;Big Six Antiseptic&rsquo;.&nbsp; After the third day of his initial application on her festering wound, June&rsquo;s injured limb began to show signs of improvement.&nbsp; We continued the treatment with Dr. Henriques&rsquo; compounded medication until her leg was completely healed.</em></strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">After his demise in the Howard Memorial Hospital at Biloxi on May 12, 1966. Mrs. Henriques continued to reside in her home until her death on December 11, 1988.&nbsp; The Henriques&rsquo; corporal remains were interred in the Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.(August H. Parker, June 30, 2012, <em>The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2 and The Sun Herald, December12, 1988, p. A4</em>)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><img src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/132 Reynoir-2000 Biloxi Architectural Survey%2C p. 102..jpg\" style=\"width: 493px; height: 300px;\" /></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>132 Reynoir Street</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">[from <strong><u>The Buildings of Biloxi an Architectural Survey</u></strong>, 2000, p. 102]</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>John O. Bernich ownership</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">As Gertrude Bernich Henriques died testate, 212 Reynoir Street was legated to her three heirs who were her nephews and nieces: Tericida Claire Bernich Kappel (b. 1922) m. Vernon Elmer Kappel (1921-2003); John O. Bernich (1923-1997); and Kirby A. Bernich (1927-2002). &nbsp;&nbsp;Tericida B. Kappel was the Administratrix of her aunt&rsquo;s estate, which was consisted of 212 Reynoir Street and about $6000 in cash.&nbsp; Tericida B Kappel and Kirby A. Bernich sold and quitclaimed their interest in 212 Reynoir Street to their brother, John O. Bernich, in May and July 1990.&nbsp; The Estate of Gertrude B. Henriques was adjudicated closed in late June 1990.(Harrison Co., Mississippi 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Chancery Court Land Deed Bk. 221, p. 58, Deed Bk. 222, p. 576, and Deed Bk. 223, p. 412)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">John Overton Bernich was the son of John A. Bernich (1899-1979) and Lotus Anne Brill (1901-1990).&nbsp; He grew up at 500 Lee Street and his father made his livelihood as a car salesman.&nbsp; John left Biloxi after 1930 and relocated to Gretna, Louisiana where he operated a service station and later sold automobiles at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.(August H. Parker, June 30, 2012 and 1930 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census R 1146, p. 4A, ED 1)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In Jefferson Parish, Louisiana John O. Bernich met and married Yvonne Schramm (1924-2002), a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the daughter of Joseph C. Schramm (1899-1976) and Haydee Fontenette (1896-1983).&nbsp; Mr. Schramm was a musician and vocal instructor who mentored Marguerite Piazza (b. 1926), a New Orleans native, who went on to become a renown opera soprano and entertainer.&nbsp; &nbsp;Her career brought her to New York where she performed with the New York City Opera, played Broadway, sang at the Metropolitan Opera and joined the cast of the NBC television program &quot;Your Show of Shows,&quot; with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca from 1950 to 1954.(<em>The Times-Picayune, March 27, 1976, p. 22</em>, and www.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">John O. Bernich and Yvonne Schramm Bernich were the parents of: John J. Bernich; Patricia Bernich Macenko; Kenneth &lsquo;Ken&rsquo; O. Bernich; James B. Bernich; and Steven A. Bernich (1959-1999).&nbsp;&nbsp; Ken Bernich was a star linebacker at Archbishop Shaw High School in Marrero, Louisiana and went on to become an All-American Football player at Auburn University.&nbsp; He played in the 1975 Senior Bowl and was honored by the City of Gretna, Louisiana with a parade on March 1, 1975.(<em>The Times-Picayune, March 1, 1975,</em> <em>p. 27</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">John O. Bernich expired on February 11, 1997.&nbsp; He legated the Henriques-Slay House to the following: Carol Bernich; James Bryant Bernich; Kenneth Overton Bernich; Stephen Adolph Bernich; and John J. Bernich.(Harrison County, Mississippi 2<sup>nd</sup> Judicial District Chancery Court Cause No. C-2404-97-478-July 1998).</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Slay owership</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In September 1997, Carol Bernich, Administratrix of the Estate of John O. Bernich and his heirs-at-law, for a consideration of $60,000 conveyed the Henriques-Slay House to William Gray Slay III, called Gray, and the husband of Leah Rae Vuyovich.&nbsp; Mr. Slay is a Biloxi native and a real estate broker.&nbsp; He remodeled 212 Reynoir Street and located his real estate business here.(Harrison Co., Mississippi 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Chancery Court Land Deed Bk. 328, pp. 246-254)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>JJD, LLC</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In November 2005, after Hurricane Katrina had inundated Biloxi in late August 2005, Gray Slay and spouse, conveyed the hurricane surge, damaged Henriques-Slay House to JJD, LLC, a Mississippi Corporation.&nbsp; Several years after Katrina, the management of JJD, LLC through their local attorney, Michael Cavanaugh, offer the Henriques-Slay House to the City&nbsp; of Biloxi.&nbsp; It was accepted and&nbsp; the salvation and restoration of the cottage commened.( Harrison Co., Mississippi 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Chancery Court Instrument 2005&nbsp; 6852 D J2 and Bill Raymond, Biloxi&rsquo;s Historical Administrator, July 2, 2012)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><img src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/128 Rue Magnolia2_0.jpg\" style=\"width: 398px; height: 300px;\" /></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>128 Rue Magnolia</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">[Image made June 29, 2012 by Ray L. Bellande]</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>128 Rue Magnolia</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">After the City of Biloxi completed successful negotiations with JJD, LLC, a Mississippi Corporation, to relocate and preserve &nbsp;the Henriques-Slay House, it began action in July and August 2009 to move the derelict structure to 128 Rue Magnolia.&nbsp; A supporting funds grant was applied for to the National Trust Loan Fund and V&amp;E House Moving Service was contracted to relocate the house to 128 Rue Magnolia.(City of Biloxi Minute Book&nbsp; 132, p. 464)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">After the house was situated at 128 Rue Magnolia, refurbishment was authorized by the City of Biloxi in July 2010 to spend $200,000 to restore the Henriques-Slay House.&nbsp; Work commenced in August 2010 by Jim Wallis &amp; Sons who built a new roof.&nbsp; David Rush Construction Company, Inc. was hired as general contractor to complete and restore the building, which was completed in March 2012. (The City of Biloxi Minute Book&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 134, p. 445, p. 480, and Book 138, p. 166)</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Bill Raymond, Biloxi&rsquo;s Historical Administrator, related that the City also utilized a grant from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and expended nearly $300,000 to relocate the Henriques-Slay House from Reynoir Street to Rue Magnolia and to restore the structure to meet commercial building codes.&nbsp;&nbsp; Both the exterior and interior of the house were refurbished.&nbsp; The heart pine flooring, tongue-and-groove, wooden walls and ceiling, as well as a color change to the exterior from white to a light yellow color, were realized by the general contractor.&nbsp; As the Henriques-Slay House had been roofless for several years post-Katrina [August 2005], one had to be constructed.(<em>The Sun Herald, June 27, 2012, p. A1 </em>and Bill Raymond, June 29, 2012)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Craftmen&rsquo;s Guild of Mississippi</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In April 2012, The City of Biloxi authorized a lease of the Henriques-Slay House to the Craftsmen&rsquo;s Guild of Mississippi.&nbsp; This entity is a non-profit, membership organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, marketing, educating and ensuring the highest standard of excellence in regional crafts. &nbsp;The Guild promotes communication between artisans and friends and sponsors&rsquo; programs. &nbsp;&nbsp;The goal of the Guild is to educate the artisan, collector, patron and its staff. &nbsp;&nbsp;It operates the Mississippi Craft Center, a permanent and year-round facility and its satellites, which Biloxi is now a member, and presents an annual indoor craft festival, the Chimneyville Crafts Festival. &nbsp;&nbsp;In 2013, the Guild will celebrate its 40th anniversary. (<a href=\"http://www.foundation-center.org/pnd/jobs/job_item.jhtml;jsessionid...?id\">www.foundation-center.org/pnd/jobs/job</a></span></span><a href=\"http://www.foundation-center.org/pnd/jobs/job_item.jhtml;jsessionid...?id\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">_item.jhtml;jsessionid...?id</span></span></a><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">On June 28, 2012, TheCraftsmen&rsquo;s Guild of Mississippi had its grand opening on the Magnolia Mall at Biloxi.&nbsp; Potters, weavers, wood carvers and other artisans were present en plein air demonstrating their skills to the visitors of the gallery.&nbsp;&nbsp;The new venue is a welcome addition to the cultural renaissance developing along Rue Magnolia.&nbsp; Gallery 782, which represents the art work of local artisans, is situated in propinquity on Water Street.&nbsp; The recent opening of the Dusty Bonge&rsquo; Art Foundation, which is north and adjacent to the Henriques-Slay House, as well as the Mardi Gras Museum to the south, which has an anticipated Spring 2013 opening date, and innuendoes that an antique-gifts outlet cum caf&eacute; will open in July on the north terminus of Rue Magnolia all add to the excitement of the post-Katrina growth and economic development in downtown Biloxi. (<em>The Sun Herald, June 27, 2012, p. A1</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The City of Biloxi is to be highly congratulated for its yeoman like efforts to conserve and preserve the Henriques-Slay House.&nbsp; Although it was an expensive venture, the architectural preservation of this home will pay multiple dividends in the future, not only in a commercial sense, but in a historical manner.&nbsp; Now practically lost forever, some of Biloxi&rsquo;s rich and unique architecture will be preserved albeit in a restricted sense along corridors like Rue Magnolia and Howard Avenue.&nbsp; God Bless Biloxi and its leadership!</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Acknowledgments</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The author is indebted to Jane Shambra, History and Genealogy Librarian, and her assistant, &nbsp;Jenny White, at the Biloxi Public Library, as well as August H. Parker&nbsp; for generously sharing their research on Dr. Adolph De Campos Henriques.&nbsp; &nbsp;Mr. Parker knew Dr. Henriques and Gertrude B. Henriques very well as he and Gerturde Bernich were related.&nbsp; August H.&nbsp; Parker&rsquo;s &nbsp;grandmother, Ernestine Lepre Parker, was Gertrude&rsquo; aunt.&nbsp; In addition, &nbsp;Dr. &nbsp;Henriques was the Parker family physician.&nbsp; Mrs. Mila Bernich, the widow of Kirby A. Bernich, has been very kind to share her knowledge of the Bernich family.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>The Buildings of Biloxi an Architectural Survey</strong>, (City of Biloxi, Mississippi-1976).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>The Buildings of Biloxi an Architectural Survey</strong>, (City of Biloxi, Mississippi-2000).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Bulletin of the Tulane University of Louisiana</strong>, Series 6, June 1906 No. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Robert W. Heck, <strong>Biloxi Central Business District- Historic District Study</strong>, (Eskew, Vogt, Salvato and Filson Architects:&nbsp; New Orleans, Louisiana-July 1986)</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association</strong>, &lsquo;M.S.M.A. deaths&rsquo;, Volume 7, July 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Twentieth Century Coast Edition of the Biloxi Daily Herald: Historical and Biographical</strong>,(George W. Wilkes &amp; Sons: Biloxi-1902).</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Lloyd Vogt, <strong>New Orleans Houses-A House-Watcher&rsquo;s Guide</strong>, (Pelican Publishing: Greta, Louisiana-1992).</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>CHANCERY COURT CAUSES</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison County, Mississippi 2<sup>nd</sup> Judicial District Chancery Court Cause No. P-1672-B, &lsquo;The Estate of Gerturde Bernich Henriques-June 1990.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison County, Mississippi 2<sup>nd</sup> Judicial District Chancery Court Cause No. C-2404-97-478, &lsquo;The Estate of John O. Bernich-July 1998.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>JOURNALS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;Local and Personals&rdquo;</strong>, January 17, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;Swept by flames&rdquo;</strong>, November 9, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong>, August 2, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;City News&rdquo;</strong>, November 5, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;Necrological&rdquo;</strong>, December 5, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;H. Wolcott&rdquo;</strong>, March 17, 1906.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,</em><strong>&ldquo;Querens Avenue-not &lsquo;Hard Shell Alley&rdquo;</strong>, March 19, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Cousans-Querens&rdquo;</strong>, October 19, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>The Daily Herald</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&lsquo;Henriques-Bernich&rsquo;</strong>, January 10, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&lsquo;Physician at Biloxi expires&rsquo;</strong>, May 13, 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Henriques rites&rdquo;</strong>, May 16, 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>The Daily Picayune</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Minor attention&rdquo;</strong>, June 16, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Army and Navy of State and Nation&rdquo;</strong>, June 26, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;New Externe and Interne Charity Hospital students&rdquo;</strong>, April 17, 1904.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Henriques-Buck&rdquo;</strong>, June 17, 1906.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Antituberculosis Annual Meeting shows great promise during year&rdquo;</strong>, December 9, 1910.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Society&rdquo;</strong>, July 12, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Society&rdquo;</strong>, August 9, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Daily Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Personal and General&rdquo;</strong>, October 3, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Morning Advocate </em>[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]<em>, </em><strong>&ldquo;Dr. Magruder dies in Miss.; rites today&rdquo;</strong>, August 21, 1957.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>The Sun Herald</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>, <strong>&lsquo;Mrs. Gertrude Henriques&rsquo;</strong>, December 12, 1988.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Bernich remembered for Faith and dedication to Community&rdquo;</strong>,&nbsp; March 17, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;Kirby A. Bernich&rdquo;</strong>, March 19, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Sun Herald, </em><strong>&ldquo;State Craft Center opens first satellite office in Biloxi&rdquo;</strong>, June 27, 2012.</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>The Times-Picayune</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Death ends career of Charles F. Buck, foremost citizen&rdquo;</strong>, January 20, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>&lsquo;Mrs. Henriques seeks separation&rsquo;</strong>, December5, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Athenians adopt Alaska Purchase as motif&rdquo;</strong>, January 24, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Weddings and Engagements </strong>[Jahncke-Henriques]<strong>&rdquo;</strong>, April 8, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Aged sisters die; each is ignorant of other&rsquo;s illness&rdquo;</strong>, August 7, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Mississippi is site of Henriques rites&rdquo;</strong>, August 8, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;</strong>[Ida Buck] <strong>Henriques&rdquo;</strong>, November 15, 1956.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>&lsquo;A.D. Henriques NO physician dies Thursday&rsquo;</strong>, May 14, 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;</strong>[Edouard F.] <strong>Henriques&rdquo;</strong>, July 28, 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;</strong>[Irma] <strong>Cousins&rdquo;</strong>, August 16, 1969.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Parade for Bernich&rdquo;</strong>, March 1, 1975.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Joseph C. Schramm&rdquo;</strong>, March 27, 1976.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;</strong>[Lady Stanley] <strong>Henriques&rdquo;</strong>, August 11, 1979.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;</strong>[Margaret Henriques]<strong>Jahncke&rdquo;</strong>, December 30, 1981.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Steven A. Bernich&rdquo;</strong>, December 17, 1999.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;Herbert Jahncke, 92, civic leader &rsquo;66 Rex&rdquo;</strong>, November 24, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>&lsquo;Vernon E. Kappel&rsquo;</strong>, February 27, 2003.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>&lsquo;Capt. Charles B. Henriques&rsquo;</strong>, June 6, 2003.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>&ldquo;</strong>[Carol Saunders]<strong>Jahncke&rdquo;</strong>, January 4, 2008.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>&lsquo;Yvonne S. Bernich&rsquo;</strong>, April 28, 2002.</span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span>&nbsp;<font class=\"Apple-style-span\" face=\"\'times new roman\', times, serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><b>_________________________________________________________________________________________________</b></span></font></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Dr. H.M. FOLKES-&quot;Gunston Hall&quot;-WHITE PILLARS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p>\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>The Biloxi-D&#39;Iberville Press,<strong>&nbsp;&quot;</strong></em><strong>Shell Roads Revisited-Before White Pillars&quot;</strong>, July 10, 2008, p. A4.</span></span></p>\r\n', NULL, '2');
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('page', 0, 69, 72, 'en', 0, '<p>&nbsp;</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\">&nbsp;<strong>BILOXI&nbsp;ARCHITECTS and CONTRACTORS</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>JOHN T. ANDREWS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John T. Andrews&nbsp;</strong>(1860-1908) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi to George W. Andrews (1823-188) and Caroline G. Andrews (1838-1886).&nbsp; He married&nbsp;expired at Biloxi on September 26, 1908.&nbsp; His funeral was held from the residence of his brother, Dudley Andrews, at 930 Lameuse Street.&nbsp; John was survived by his two brothers, George W. Andrews (1864-1909) and Dudley Andrews (1866-1939).&nbsp; His corporal remains were laid to rest in the Biloxi Cemetery.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 26, 1908, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&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/Screen%20Shot%202020-02-21%20at%201.25.32%20PM.png\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>JOHN&nbsp;F. BARNES</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Lazaro Lopez and his family were congregants of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church, which was situated a few blocks west of their domicile on West Howard Avenue between Fayard Street and Caillavet Street.&nbsp; The Lopez children were baptized here and several were married in this sanctuary.&nbsp; Like most of the Lopez structures, Nativity B.V.M. was destroyed by the Great Fire of November 1900.&nbsp; Laz Lopez, W.K.M. Dukate, Ernest Desporte, Phil McCabe, Ed Glennan, and Louis Gill were the building committee responsible for erecting a new church.&nbsp; A contract was let in early February 1902 to <strong>J.F. Barnes &amp; Company of Greenville, Mississippi</strong> and Biloxi to build the Theo Brune (1854-1932) designed Gothic structure.&nbsp; The new church was erected on the site of the former sanctuary and was estimated to cost over $16,000.&nbsp; It was sixty-feet tall, had a bell tower one hundred ten-feet in height and was fifty-five in width and one hundred thirty-two feet deep.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 8, 1902, p. 9)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&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/Bolton%2C%20Buzzy.png\" style=\"height:200px; width:208px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Walter-Bolton-1600875986.jpg\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>WALTER T. &nbsp;BOLTON</strong> [1946-2020]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Walter \"Buzzy\" Thetford Bolton</strong> (1946-2020) was born 24&nbsp;November 1946, at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; He attended Biloxi Public Schools and has university degrees from USM (BA), Georgia Institute of Technology (BS), and a Masters Degree in Architecture from Georgia Tech (1977).&nbsp; Prior to his entree into the architectural field, young Bolton taught history and mathematics at Biloxi High School.</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\">Buzzy Bolton has been active as an architect at Ocean Springs for many years.&nbsp; His work is most visible in the following structures: Ocean Springs City Hall remodeling (1989), Chamber of Commerce renovation, Gulf Coast Research Lab main campus dining hall (1995), and the Ocean Springs Public Library remodeling (1996).&nbsp; Bolton is now engaged in designing modern structures for the Gulf Coast Research Lab\'s Cedar Point campus in east Ocean Springs.</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 December 1999, Bolton and his wife, Laura Ederer Bolton, completed a significant home for their family in Cherokee Glen.&nbsp; He has designed several other notable residences on the Fort Point Peninsula.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Obituary for Walter Thetford \"Buzzy\" Bolton IV</span></span></strong></h2>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; clear: none; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); display: inline; text-align: justify; background-position: 0px 0px;\">\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Walter Thetford “Buzzy” Bolton IV of Ocean Springs, MS passed away peacefully Tuesday, September 22 at the age of 73 at home surrounded by his family.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buzzy was born in Biloxi, MS on November 24, 1946 to the late Dr. and Mrs. Eldon L. Bolton, Sr.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his two older brothers Eldon Bolton, Jr. and Clinton Bolton and his father-in-law and mother-in-law Bob and Maryann Ederer.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buzzy is survived by his wife of 39 years, Laura Ederer Bolton; their children, Dr. Michelle Bolton Gilich (Andy), Robyn Bolton Hudson (Brent) and Ryan Bolton (Lindsey); his two grandchildren, Ansley and Andrew Gilich; his sister, Carolyn Bolton Cox; his in-laws, Priscilla Bolton, Katherine Grumme, Dr. Michael Ederer (Michelle), Mark Ederer (Helene), Elizabeth Heinkel (Larry) and Mary Ann Payne (Randy); and numerous nieces and nephews; and lifelong friends.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buzzy, as all who knew him well and affectionately called him, was the youngest of the four children of Dr. Eldon and Carolyn Bolton. He grew up in his family home just West of the lighthouse on Biloxi Beach. He was a Biloxi boy through and through and loved his hometown on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buzzy graduated from Biloxi High School in 1965, he attended the University of Mississippi and in 1969, he graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi. He spent several years teaching at his alma mater, Biloxi High, before going on to Architectural School at Georgia Institute of Technology and in 1977 received his Master of Architecture from Georgia Tech.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buzzy started his architectural career in New Orleans where he worked for Muller and Associates. There he met and married his wife and best friend, Laura Ederer Bolton, and in 1981 the two decided to move back to their beloved Mississippi Gulf Coast. Buzzy and Laura made their home in Ocean Springs where they raised their 3 children, and Buzzy started his own architectural firm, Walter T. Bolton Associates, in Biloxi where he worked until his death.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buzzy received national design awards from the United States Air Force and several local design and historic preservation awards. He was a past president of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Mississippi American Institute of Architects, past president of the Coast Architects Association, and past board member of the Mississippi Chapter of American Institute of Architects. He enjoyed 40+ years as an architect on the Gulf Coast and served on many boards to help build back after Hurricane Katrina. For many years, he served on the Ocean Springs Historical Commission and Planning Commission, and he and his wife, Laura, bought and renovated numerous Historical homes in the Biloxi and Ocean Springs areas throughout the years. Buzzy was a lifetime member of the Biloxi Yacht Club and served on the board for many years and as the BYC commodore in 1988 and 1989. Buzzy was honored to have designed the current Biloxi Yacht Club along with many other Gulf Coast landmarks.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buzzy enjoyed every moment of Carnival Season and was a member and past king of both Revelers and Mithras and past king of Les Masquees Carnival Associations. He was also a founding member of the Krewe of Neptune and a longtime member of GCCA. His love for Mardi Gras and the parades was well know, and he and his wife often hosted many guests to view the Biloxi parades from his downtown office. He had a great love for his Biloxi High CLASS OF 65 and looked forward every year to their mini reunions.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Boating and the outdoors were among his favorite pastimes. He spent many hours with friends and family out at Horn Island enjoying the sun and fun. He enjoyed anything Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, and New Orleans Saints, and many football weekends he could be found in the Grove cheering on his Ole Miss Rebels.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buzzy recently wrote what he wanted his children to remember of him, “I made mistakes. I am not perfect. I won’t always give you your way. But I love you with everything I have. I worked hard </span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">my entire life to be able to provide you the best life possible and I will always love you.” – Dad&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The family would like to express our gratitude to his ever faithful office staff, his secretary, Debbie Ivy, and associate, Robert Stansbery, who have worked and kept him organized for many years, Drs. Pam and Raj Tuli, friends, family, and physicians who provided care for Buzzy throughout his illness, and the nurses and staff of Encompass, who helped him during his final days.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit rteleft\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit rteleft\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In lieu of flowers, please make donations to The Ansley Foundation, a foundation to benefit childhood cancer families and research set up by Buzzy’s granddaughter, Ansley, who is currently fighting childhood leukemia.&nbsp;</span></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"obituary-text edit\" style=\"box-sizing: content-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto; height: auto; float: none; position: static; line-height: 22px; clear: none; display: inline; background-position: 0px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Visitation will be held from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Ocean Springs Chapel of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home followed by a celebration of life at 4:00 pm all on Friday, September 25, 2020. Covid-19 protocol will be followed, and Masks will be required.</span></span></div>\r\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Brune%2C Theo_0.JPG\" style=\"height:250px; width:159px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>THEODORE BRUNE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Theodore ‘Theo’ Brune </strong>(1854-1932) was born in Hanover, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1886.&nbsp; He studied at Eberhard Karls University at Tuebingen, Germany.&nbsp; Theo Brune became a designer of many churches in the Gulf Coast region.&nbsp; At Biloxi, he is known for creating the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mother Catholic Church on West Howard Avenue.&nbsp; It was built after the original sanctuary was destroyed by the Great Biloxi Fire of November 1900.&nbsp; Laz Lopez, W.K.M. Dukate, Ernest Desporte, Phil McCabe, Ed Glennan, and Louis Gill were the building committee responsible for erecting the new church.&nbsp; A contract was let in early February 1902 to J.F. Barnes &amp; Company of Greenville, Mississippi and Biloxi to build the Theo Brune (1854-1932) designed Gothic structure.&nbsp; The new church was erected on the site of the former sanctuary and was estimated to cost over $16,000.&nbsp; It was sixty-feet tall, had a bell tower one hundred ten-feet in height and was fifty-five in width and one hundred thirty-two feet deep.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 8, 1902, p. 9)</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 early 1906,stain glass windows were donated to Nativity B.V.M. by Julia Dulion Lopez (1857-1918) in memory of her late husband.&nbsp; Frederick Thornley of New York was employed to install the windows designed and built by Reis and Reis of Munich, Germany.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 9, 1906, p. 1)</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\">Other known churches designed by Theo Brune are: 1908-St. Joseph’s rectory and convent at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; 1909-Mater Dolorosa Church 8126 Plum Street at NOLA; 1911-St. Michael’s Church at Crowley, Louisiana; Catholic Church at Abita Springs, Louisiana; Catholic Church and convent at Madisonville, Louisiana, and 1931-St. Joseph’s Abbey Church, Benedict, Louisiana<em>.(The Daily Picayune, February 9, 1908, p. 32, August 10, 1908, p. 12, March 7, 1909, p. 6, and April 16, 1911)</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\">Theo Brune died at 1303 3<sup>rd</sup> Street in the Crescent City on March 8, 1932.&nbsp; His body was taken to St. Joseph’s Abbey four miles north of Covington, Louisiana for burial in the cemetery there<em>.(The Times-Picayune, March 9, 1932, p. 3)</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>JOHN T. COLLINS SR. </strong>(1852-1929)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John T. Collins (1852-1929), the son of John Collins and Mary Cullum, was a native Biloxian and a pioneer building contractor. &nbsp;He married&nbsp;&nbsp;Frances Margaret Carr (1861-1945) and they were the parents of &nbsp; children: William J. Collins (1887-19) m. Mary Augustine O\'Donnell (1893-1952);&nbsp;Sarah Collins (1890) m. Harry Roberts;&nbsp;George J. Collins (1891-1968) m. Irene Marion (1897-1943);&nbsp;Susan Collins (1894); Ruth Collins (1900-1977) m. Frederick Luenberger; Kathryn Ellen Collins (1895-1973) m. Paul E. Burns (1896-1970); Anna May Collins (1901-1990) m. Edward A. Caillavet (1898-1963); and John T. Collins Jr. (1904-1985) m.&nbsp;Martha Thrash of Hattiesburg and Gertrude Keyes. &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\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,</em><strong>“John Collins, Sr. died last night”</strong>, January 4, 1929.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. George Collins Sr. dies at home today”</strong>, December 22, 1943.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. John Collins funeral tomorrow”</strong>, May 7, 1945.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, .</span></span>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. William Collins dies following heart attack six weeks ago”</strong>, October 4, 1952.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, .</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;COLLINS BROTHERS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\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>1927</strong></span></span></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\">In March, the <strong>Collins Brothers were completing the William P. Kennedy home, a two-story stucco structure on Benachi </strong>and erecting a <strong>home for Walter Seymour</strong>, a painter, on Lee Street.(The Daily Herald, March 18, 1927, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">On May 11, 1927, the <strong>Collins Brothers were awarded the $285,000 contract for building the four-story, 118-room, New Biloxi Hotel.</strong>&nbsp; It was designed by Ira H. Coyne (1892-1976) of the Federal Engineering Company of Davenport, Iowa.&nbsp; William J. Collins (1886-1962) and George J. Collins (1891-1968) had built their first Biloxi building in 1912.&nbsp; Since that time, they had erected commercial structures for: Catholic Church at Gulfport; Back Bay School [Gorenflo]; Edwards-Butler Motor Company; Daily Herald Building; Caldwell Building; Yerger Building; C.W. Wachenfeld Apartments; August Wachenfeld Apartments; Bay View Hotel; and remodeled the Peoples’ Bank.&nbsp; The Collins Brothers had learned the building trades from John Collins (1854-1929), their father.&nbsp; Joseph O. Collins (b. 1922), son of William J. Collins, continued in the contracting business at Biloxi until the present day.</span><em>(The Daily Herald, May 11, 1927, p. 1)</em></span></span></div>\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>1929</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: \'Open Sans\', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/Collins%20Brothers-Hupmobile.jpg\" style=\"height:116px; width:250px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: \'Open Sans\', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">[from The Daily Herald, May 1929]</span></span></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\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-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong>In March,<strong>&nbsp;The Collins Brothers</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>William D.&nbsp;Collins</strong>&nbsp;(1891-1979) and&nbsp;<strong>James E. Collins</strong>&nbsp;(1888-1974), acquired a lot on Caillavet Street for $10,000 situated between Howard Avenue and the L&amp;N RR. &nbsp;Here they&nbsp;<strong>built a two-story, frame building</strong>&nbsp;[40 feet by 70 feet] with rock-face, brick siding. &nbsp;The structure served as a&nbsp;<strong>garage and office</strong>. &nbsp;Here the&nbsp;<strong>Collins Brothers sold the Hupmobile</strong>&nbsp;and repaired and serviced&nbsp;motor cars. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Collins blacksmith shop</strong>, located on&nbsp;<strong>West Howard and Caillavet continued to perform general mechanical repairs,&nbsp;shoe horses</strong>&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;<strong>build oyster dredges</strong>&nbsp;and oyster cars.&nbsp;(The Daily Herald, March 18, 1927, p. 8 and September 2, 1929, p. 2)&nbsp;</span></span></span></div>\r\n</div>\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 May, the <strong>Collins Brothers were completing the New Biloxi Hospital,</strong> a Carl Matthes design.(The Daily Herald, May 17, 1929, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</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);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The new&nbsp;<strong>Daily Herald building at 209 West Water Street was almost completed.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Collins &amp; Collins</strong>, architects, and&nbsp;<strong>Collins Brothers Contracting</strong>&nbsp;erected the 37-foot by 50-foot structure.(The Daily Herald, January 7, 1948, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, .</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Erecting new bungalow</strong><strong> [for H.C. Anderson on Lee Street</strong><strong>]”</strong>, December 8, 1916.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, March 18, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">The Daily Herald</span><em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Hospital to be&nbsp;occupied next week”</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">, May 17, 1929. .</span></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);\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Building Directory”</strong>, September 2, 1929.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Start new residence [for Zeno Maloney on W. 1st Street”</strong>, December 12, 1950.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>JOHN T. COLLINS&nbsp;</strong>(1904-1985)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John T. Collins Jr. was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 17, 1904 to John T. Collins Sr. (1852-1929) and Frances Margaret Carr (1861-1945). &nbsp;His father was a noted Biloxi building contractor and established the firm which became Collins Brothers Contractors of Biloxi. &nbsp;John T. Collins was a 1923 graduate of Biloxi High School where he played footbal and baseball. &nbsp;He studied architecture at Tulane University in NOLA and during WW II, John served in the ETO with the US Navy Seabees.</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\">John T. Collins married in 1942 to Martha Thrash of Hattiesburg, Mississippi and in 1962 to Gertrude Keyes. &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\">Buildings attributed to John T. Collins:&nbsp;A new arkansas-tile,&nbsp;<strong>U-shaped building</strong>&nbsp;[173 feet by 92 feet]&nbsp;<strong>designed by John T. Collins&nbsp;</strong>and Associates of Biloxi, was contracted to Currie and Corley of Raleigh, Mississippi for the &nbsp;<strong>St. Martin</strong>&nbsp;<strong>School</strong>&nbsp;in Jackson County. The $64,000 stucture was erected to supplement the exisiting building.(The Daily Herald, November 27, 1951, 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\">Biloxi Municipal \'Yankee\' Stadium; A.L. May Stadium at MGCCC-Perkinston Campus; Beauvoir Elementary School (1958); Popp\'s Ferry Elementary School; Orange Grove Elementary School;&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>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,&nbsp;</em><strong>“$500,000 School construction to start at Biloxi”</strong>, October 8, 1958.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald<em>,</em><strong>“John Collins is recipient 1960 Lions Cup award”</strong>, January 2, 1961.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, <strong>\"John Collins dead at 81\"</strong>, November 1, 1985.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>LEONARD A. COLLINS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Leonard A. Collins was the son of William J. Collins and lived at 201 Hopkins Boulevard in Biloxi.&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\"><strong>SPRING HILL COLLEGE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Leonard A. Collins matriculated to Spring Hill College at Mobile, Alabama and was a cadet in the school\'s first ROTC program which specialized in transportation.(The Daily Herald, December 12, 1950, p. 6)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</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>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"Collins ROTC student\"</strong>, December 12, 1950.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Eistetter%2C John (1856-1904)_0.JPG\" style=\"height:300px; width:203px\" /></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>JOHN EISTETTER</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>John Eistetter (</strong>1856-1904), a native of New Orleans, was born March 5, 1856.&nbsp; He married at New Orleans to Wilhemina Schumaker (1851-1929), the widow of Mr. Henken and the daughter of William Schumaker and Christina Breslow, on September 27, 1880.&nbsp; They were the parents of three children: <strong>John F. Eistetter</strong> (1881-1953); <strong>Mayme W. Eistetter</strong> (1882-1942); and <strong>Rose</strong> <strong>Juanita Eistetter</strong> (1890-1890).</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John Eistetter made his livelihood as a brick mason and building contractor.&nbsp; He built the foundations for many Howard Avenue buildings and Biloxi homes from 1880 until his demise in mid- March 1904.&nbsp; &nbsp;John was a member of Magnolia Lodge No. 120 A.F. &amp; A.M., Knights of Honor, and Knights of Pythias.&nbsp; His funeral was held from the Eistetter home on Howard Avenue with Reverend J.S. Moore in attendance.&nbsp; Burial was in the Biloxi City Cemetery.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, March 14, 1904, p. 1)</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>Children</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Frank Eistetter</strong>(1881-1953) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on June 6, 1881.&nbsp; In late October 1920, he married <strong>Mary Chinn</strong> (1891-1958), the daughter of James B. ‘Buck’ Chinn (1857-1912) and Martha Ella Hart (1857-1938).&nbsp; In 1917 Biloxi Mardi Gras, Mary Chinn was Queen Ixolib with King Iberville George Quint (1886-1967). <strong>R. Hart Chinn</strong> (1888-1972), her brother, was elected Biloxi’s Mayor in August 1933 after the resignation of Mayor Kennedy in July 1933.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 31, 1933, p. 1 and August 17, 1933, p. 1)</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\">John F. Eistetter and Mary Chinn were the parents of two children<strong>: Martha Wilhelmina Eistetter</strong> (1921-2004) m. W.T. Edwards and <strong>John Chinn Eistetter</strong> (1929-1996) m. Mary Brown (1929-1988).&nbsp; Martha W. Eistetter expired at Laramie, Wyoming on April 30, 2004.&nbsp; John Chinn Esitetter died at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 26, 1996.&nbsp; John C. and Mary Brown Eistetter had a son, <strong>John David Eistetter</strong> (c. 1952) m. Melann Marie Cox and Elizabeth Cobb Cuthell.</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>Mayme Wilhelmina Eistetter</strong>(1882-1942) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on December 28, 1882.&nbsp; Expired at Biloxi on July 31, 1942. &nbsp; &nbsp; &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\"><strong>Juanita Eistetter </strong>(1890-1890) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on March 1, 1890.&nbsp; She died at Biloxi on May 24, 1890.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, May 31, 1890, p. 4)</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>EISTETTER BUILDING</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Eistetter building was erected in 1896 on the corner of West Howard Avenue and Magnolia Street. &nbsp;It was dedicated on October 17, 1896 and a Grand Ball was held by the Mississippi Hook and Ladder Compnay No. 1 as part of the celebration.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, September 12, 1896, 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\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Charles L. Dyer, <u>Along The Gulf</u>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church:&nbsp; Pass Christian, Mississippi-1971, originally published 1895).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jerome Lepre, <u>Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi</u>, Volume I, (Catholic Dioceses of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1991).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><u>Twentieth Century Coast Edition of the Biloxi Daily Herald: Historical and Biographical</u> (George W. Wilkes &amp; Sons: Biloxi-1902).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Harrison County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 11438, ‘The Estate of Wilhelmina Eistetter’, January 1930.</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>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,</em><strong>“Local Happenings”</strong>, May 31, 1890.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,</em><strong>“Latest City News”</strong>, September 12, 1896.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,</em><strong>“Necrological-John Eistetter”</strong>, April 14, 1904.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>“Eistetter-Chinn”</strong>, October 23. 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>“”</strong>, September 30, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Staehling is out of race”</strong>, July 31, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Chinn wins Mayors office as Carroll and Hunt withdraw”</strong>, August 17, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Miss Eistetter dies”</strong>, July 3, 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Eistetter death”</strong>,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>“John F. Eistetter”</strong>, November 28, 1953.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>“Mrs. Mary Eistetter”</strong>, May 5, 1958.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“John C. Eistetter”</strong>, February&nbsp;&nbsp; 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>HENRY F. FOUNTAIN JR.</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\">Henry Francis Fountain Jr. (1924-2011), called Buddy, was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on November 26, 1924 to Henry F. Fountain(1899-) and Lucretia Ann Edmee Thensted (1901-1930+). &nbsp;Buddy was reared on Keller Avenue and was descended from a line of Biloxi boat builders, as his grandfather, Martin Fountain (1856-1938) and Henry F. Fountain (1899-1930+), his father, were considered as among Biloxi\'s finest crafsmen. &nbsp;Buddy was a&nbsp;US Navy WWII veteran, and a&nbsp;1951 graduate of LSU acquiring a B.S. degree in Architectural Engineering. &nbsp;He married Gloria Swetman in June 1950 and &nbsp;began&nbsp;his career as a professional architect in 1955. &nbsp;Mr.&nbsp;Fountain and his firm were responsible for many public buildings in Biloxi and Ocean Springs.&nbsp;&nbsp;At Biloxi, his design work included the following structures: Mississippi Coast Coliseum; Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church; the 1961 BHS; the Biloxi Public Safety Complex; and many more. &nbsp;At Ocean Springs, some of his designs include: St. John\'s Catholic Church (1959); Pecan Park School (1967); Ocean Springs Hospital (1968); Magnolia Park School (1969); OS Hospital additions and alterations (1977); OS High School Fine Arts Building; OS Hospital outpatient services addition (1989); OS Hospital emergency room and ICU (1995); and the OS Hospital third floor addition (1998).(The Sun Herald, June 7, 2011, p. A4 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 82, p. 142)</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\">Buddy and Gloria Swetman Fountain reared nine children at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Their home, The Fountain-Guice home, on Iola Road was completed in 1969, and won a design award from the Southern Pine Association.&nbsp; Mr. Fountain had the distinction of being the most experienced architect on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. &nbsp;He passed on June 5, 2011.(The Sun Herald, June 7, 2011, p. 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\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, <strong>\"H.F. \'Buddy\' Fountain</strong>\", June 7, 2011.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, <strong>\"Architect left his stamp on the Coast\"</strong>, June 7, 2011.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">_______________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>I. DANIEL GEHR</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>I. Daniel Gehr </strong>&nbsp;(1895-1959) was born at Alexandria, Louisiana on July 19, 1895 to Gustave Gehr (1858-1900+), a German immigrant grocer, and Sarah Weil (1868-1900+) or Sarah Rosenthal. &nbsp;I. Daniel Gehr was a contractor at Alexandria in 1917 and arrived at Biloxi, Mississippi before 1930. He was a graduate of Tulane University. &nbsp;In 1930, Mr. Gehr resided on West Water Street as a tenant of Mrs. Cousins and remained single. &nbsp;In 1954, he was domiciled in the Earle Hotel [Avelez] and had an office in the old People\'s Bank Building.(1900 Rapides Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T623_577, p. 16B, ED 124 and 1930 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census R1146, p. 12B, ED 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\">At Biloxi in the 1940s, I. Daniel Gehr designed homes in Bay Terrace and planned the Biloxi Cash Store of Peter Cerinich (1894-1951) &nbsp;and Alena Sekul Cerinich (1908-2002) on West Howard Avenue and Seal Avenue. &nbsp;He also supervised the 1941 construction of the Westergard Boat Yard on Back Bay at Lee Street. &nbsp;Gehr was credited with planning the 1959 Negro High School (Nicholls?); the West End Elementary School and its 1959 addition; and a four classroom addition to the Perkins Negro School in 1958. &nbsp;John T. Collins (1904-1985), Biloxi architect, took over Mr. Gehr\'s school projects after his July 1959 demise.<em>(</em>The Daily Herald, April 27, 1940, p. 3,&nbsp;April 29, 1940, p. 2, September 20, 1941, p. 3, Ocotber 8, 1958, p. 1, and&nbsp;July 22, 1959, 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\">I. Daniel Gehr expired at Biloxi, Mississippi on July 22, 1959. &nbsp;His corporal remains were interred in the Jewish Cemetery at Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana. &nbsp;he was survivied by two sisters, Mrs. Eugene Levy and Mrs. Harry Simon, and Mires Gehr, a brother. &nbsp;All lived in Alexandria, Louisiana.(The Daily Herald, July 22, 1959, p. 2)</span></span></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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>JACK FAYARD</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;Odeus Meyers&nbsp;</strong>(1884-1968) and&nbsp;<strong>Calus C. Meyers</strong>&nbsp;(1909-1999), store owners on Division Street who came to Biloxi in 1929 from Erath, Louisiana,&nbsp;<strong>announced in February that they would build the Myers Theatre</strong>&nbsp;on the southeast corner of Lameuse Street and Division.&nbsp; The theatre would have 600-seats, cost $11,000 and&nbsp;<strong>Jack Fayard</strong>&nbsp;of Biloxi was their architect. &nbsp;<strong>The new theatre opened on May 17th</strong>.(The Daily Herald, February 10, 1940, p. 1, February 16, 1940, p. 1, April 26, 1940, p. 2, and May 17, 1940, p. 2)</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\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>JOHN R. HARKNESS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Rankin Harkness&nbsp;</strong>(1827-1903)</span></span></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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>WILLIAM T. HARKNESS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William Turner Harkness</strong> (1869-1941) died at Oconomowoc, Wisconsin on June 3, 1941.</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\">______________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J.E. HEBERT</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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202017-05-29%20at%209.50.43%20AM.png\" style=\"height:83px; width:200px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[from The Biloxi Daily Herald, June 17, 1905, p. 5]</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\">___________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ERIC JOHANSON</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Eric Johanson</strong> (1899-1936)</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>New East Wing-Riviera Hotel</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The East Wing of the Riviera Hotel was torn down in September 1922 under the supervision of Eric Johansen, contractor. By mid-September, the roof and a part of the second story had been removed with various frames to be saved. The building has stood for years and the old lumber is well preserved and as good as new lumber. A three-story, modern hotel building will be completed in time for the winter season.(The Daily Herald, September 23, 1922, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">______________________________________________________________________________________________&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>LOUIS &nbsp;H. MANUEL</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Louis Henry Manuel</strong> (1870-1946) was born at New Orleans on July 13, 1870 to Louis George Manuel (1848-1903) and Mary Theodora Desporte (1848-1903).&nbsp; His family relocated to Jackson County, Mississippi in May 1871, crossing the railroad bridge to Ocean Springs on the first passenger train to make this trip from New Orleans.&nbsp; Louis G. Manuel taught school and was elected to represent the citizens of West Jackson County on the Jackson County, Mississippi Board of Supervisors 1892-1896 and the State House of Representatives from 1896-1898.&nbsp; In 1898, L.G. Manue<strong>l </strong>operated a small US postal station, called \"Manuel\", which was probably located in the Bayou Porteaux area on the Biloxi-Ocean Springs Road, now called Le Moyne Boulevard.&nbsp; (Cain, Volume II, 1983, p. 10 and p. 14 and <em>The Daily Herald, February 3, 1941, 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\">Louis H. Manuel married <strong>Coralie Suarez</strong> (1872-1952) in February 1891 in Jackson County, Mississippi.&nbsp; The Manuel family remained in the Bayou Porto-Gulf Hills area of west Jackson County, Mississippi where Louis H. Manuel was an oysterman, until they moved to Biloxi across Biloxi Bay between 1900 and 1910.&nbsp; In Biloxi, the Manuel family settled at 909 Holley Street where Louis and Coralie reared a large family: Louis J. Manuel (1891-1977) m. Ernestine M. Tiblier (1896-1980); Antoinette C. Manuel (1894-1983) m. Leo H. Fountain (1891-1967); Henry S. Manuel (1896) m. Ruby I. Byrd (1898-1917) and Alene Eleuterius (1900-1970); Agnes M. Manuel (1898-1992) m. Laurence Trochesset (1888-1974); Sidney E. Manuel (1901-1920+) m. Bernice Eleuterius and Frances E. Capuano (1905-1972); Lillian F. Manuel (1903-1982) m. Kenneth E. Snyder (1906-1980); Noreta Manuel (1906-1985) m. Joseph C. Wink (1909-1988); Edna E. Manuel (1908-19800 m. Albert L. Henley (1905-1993); and Leo E. Manuel (1912-1976) m. Irene Turan (1913-1973).</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\">During WWI, Louis H. Manuel worked as a foreman in the shipyards at Pascagoula and Moss Point. He is credited with erecting more than 200 homes at Biloxi. &nbsp;Some of his buildings were: Kimbrough &amp; Quints; Coquet\'s Furniture and five adjoining stores; Public Library; Biloxi Bakery; French Restaurant; Handleman\'s Building; Guarantee Shoe Store; and Biloxi High School Gym.<em>(The Daily Herald, February 3, 1941, p. 3)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;______________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>RALPH MARION</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ralph Marion</strong> (1907-1984) was born December 15, 1907.&nbsp; He married&nbsp;<strong>Ophelia Sperivich</strong>&nbsp;(1906-1981) on November 21, 1926.&nbsp; In 1930, Ralph and Ophelia Marion lived on Washington Street at Biloxi.&nbsp; He was employed by a paving company as a brick mason.&nbsp; Ralph died at Biloxi, Mississippi in December 1984.&nbsp; Ophelia preceded him in death expiring in June 1981. &nbsp;Their corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery [perpetual care section].(<em>The Daily Herald, December 19, 1907, p. 2 and November 24, 1926, p. 1 and&nbsp;</em>Harrison Co., Mississippi MRB 38, p. 535)</span></span></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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Matthes%2C Carl (1896-1972).jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:132px\" /></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>CARL E. MATTHES</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">During World War I, Beula L. Dukate (1900-1983) was introduced to Carl Emil Matthes (1896-1972), a native of Chicago, who was born in the Windy City on July 28, 1896.&nbsp; Carl enlisted in the Navy in June 1917 and served until May 1919, with his last duty post at the Gulfport Naval Station.&nbsp; Beula and Carl E. Matthes were married in Harrison County, Mississippi on August 15, 1919.&nbsp; Their nuptial ceremony was held in Gulfport, Mississippi at the residence of the Reverend Spengler.(The Daily Herald, August 16, 1919, p. 2 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB31, p. 238)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Carl and Beula Dukate Matthes were the parents of three children: &nbsp;Jane Dukate Matthes (1920-2010) m. Joseph Edward Owen (1915-2001) in November 1946; Carl E. Matthes Jr. (1927-1964) m. Bernice Wadlington (1927-2006) in December 1949; and Lienhard ‘Lynn’ Matthes (1929-2006) m. Samuel M. Browder in August 1950.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Following his marriage to Miss Dukate, Carl E. Matthes relocated to Chicago and returned to Biloxi in 1920 where he worked with various associates until 1937, when he joined with Juan G. Landry (1892-1966) and they opened an office at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In 1960, Carl Matthes Jr. joined the firm and Carl Matthes Sr. retired in December 1966.(The Daily Herald, August 29, 1972, p. 2)</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>Matthes buildings</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In October 1922, Carl E. Matthes was situated in the office of Beale &amp; Yerger, but planned a move to the Gay Building, as J. Dulaney of Jackson had joined him as an associate.&nbsp; Among the contracts that Matthes was working at this time was that of his appointment as landscape gardener of the Methodist Seashore Campground. His duties here were to design and maintain the floral pulchritude of the grounds.&nbsp; In addition, Matthes was charged with the location and design of a $50,000 brick school and $50,000 brick dormitory for the site.&nbsp; The remodeling of the façade and entrance to the Biloxi City Hall when it was on Main Street was also on the books. (The Daily Herald, October 6, 1922, p. 1 and November 23, 1922, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1926, Matthes designed the Quint Building which was situated of the NE/C of Lameuse Street and Howard Avenue.(The Daily Herald, &nbsp; 1926, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">During his lifetime, Carl E. Matthes was an active Coast architect.&nbsp; Among his many structures were: Bush Grocery Company warehouse, Kimbroough &amp;&nbsp;Quint\'s Drug Store building,&nbsp;Avelez Hotel, Hotel Buena Vista, Tivoli Hotel [Trade Winds], Biloxi City Hospital, Gorenflo and Lopez elementary schools, Biloxi Public Library, First Methodist Church of Biloxi on Hopkins Boulevard, Mary L. Michel School, and the Biloxi High School.&nbsp; In addition, Carl worked on many smaller projects such as the Isle of Caprice, the 1922 front entrance remodeling of the City Hall when it was on Main Street, and many others.( The Daily Herald, August 29, 1972, 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\">Carl Emil Matthes, age 76 years, died at 9:30 p.m. on Monday, August 28, 1972 at Howard Memorial Hospital in Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; He had designed the hospital in which he expired.&nbsp; Carl had been admitted following a stroke at his home and he passed on shortly thereafter.(The Daily Herald, August 29, 1972, p. 2)</span></span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</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>REFERENCES:</strong><br />\r\n<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, \"Mr. W.K.M. Dukate\", March 29, 1916.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, \"Business house asked to close during funeral [of W.K.M. Dukate]\", March 30, 1916.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, \"Biloxi Society and Personals\", October 12, 1916.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, \"Matthes-Dukate\", August 16, 1919.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, \"Committee holds important meet\", October 6, 1922.<br />\r\nThe Daily Herald, \"Has removed office\", November 23, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \"Quint\'s has fine opening\", April 9, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \'Methodists adopt plans for building at Biloxi\', March 1, 1948, p. 2</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \"Matthes-Wadlington\", December 22,1949.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \"Carl Matthes Jr.\", August 22, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \"Carl Matthes is hurt in accident\", April 10, 1952</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \'Carl Matthes, Biloxi architect, taken by death\', August 29, 1972.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, \"Jane Dukate Matthes Owen\", August 19, 2012.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune, \"[Linda Rose] Dukate\", October 9, 1939.</span></span></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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>LLOYD T. MOON</strong></span></span></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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Owens%2C Charles H. (1871-1903%2B).jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:184px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>CHARLES H. OWEN</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>Charles H. Owen&nbsp;</strong>(1871-1954) was born September 18, 1871 in Holmes County, Mississippi. &nbsp;He was a contractor and builder at Biloxi and was known for his attention to detail in every aspect of his work. &nbsp;At Biloxi, Mr. Owens with Mr. Joseph F. Barnes erected the two-story, Laz Lopez domicile on the north side of West Howard Avenue between Reynoir Street and Croesus. &nbsp;The Lopez mansion was designed and its construction supervised by Theo Brune (1854-1932), well-known New Orleans architect, and built by Barnes &amp; Owens from Bedford Sandstone.&nbsp; The roof was slate and adorned with a graceful and ornamental tower.&nbsp; The house had fifteen rooms, an elegant reception and palatial reception and stair hall lighted by rich and rare art glass windows.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, May 5, 1901, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>HUGH H. ROOF</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Hugh H. Roof (1878-1969) was born to William S. Roof and Irene Roof at Franklin, Ohio on September 4, 1878. &nbsp;He married Edna Klare ? (ca 1880-1940+), a native of Maryland. &nbsp;Their children were: Jane Roof (1906-1940+) and William Roof (b. 1907).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Roof family came to Biloxi circa 1906 from Ohio. &nbsp;Their only son, William, was born at Biloxi on &nbsp; &nbsp;.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mr. Roof designed the Pizzatti Pavilion which was erected by the Collins Brothers in 1913.</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/Screen%20Shot%202017-03-14%20at%203.38.22%20PM.png\" style=\"height:163px; width:400px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">from The Daily Herald, July 27, 1926, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">During WW I, H.H. Roof was a manager at the International Shipbuilding yard at Pascagoula, 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\">The Roof family left Biloxi circa 1926 for Miami, Florida. &nbsp;Here he opened a cabinet-woodworking shop and became a cabinetmaker.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\"Plans for new home </strong>[Dr. H.M. Folkes]<strong>\"</strong>, September 19, 1919.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\"Erecting </strong>[Dr. H.M. Folkes]<strong> West Beach Home\"</strong>, May 18, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong>\"White House Fountain\', </strong>July 27, 1926, p. 2.</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\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"Biloxi and its attractions\"</strong>, March 12, 1928, p. 11.</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</span><strong>\"News of former residents\', August 2, 1930.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">________________________________________________________________________________________________&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/Rosell%2C T.J..jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:172px\" /></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>THOMAS J. ROSELL</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Thomas Jefferson Rosell (1861-1923) was born on April 28, 1861, at Monroe County, Missouri.&nbsp; Married Kizzie Catron.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Expired at Biloxi on November 19, 1923.</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>T.J. Rossell Manufacturing</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>1903-new residence</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Nearly complete was the T.J. Rosell “pretty” cottage on Howard Avenue.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, April 27, 1903)</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>1905 building boom</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The year 1905 at Biloxi was one of rebuilding and growth.&nbsp; Mr. Rosell’s company was a major player having erected since May 1905, the following: four residences for W.K.M. Dukate; a residential buildings for Daniel J. Gay and Charles Elarbee; a cottage for W.F. Swan; a cottage for Dr. Hiram M. Folkes; a residence for Mary Hunt; a $3000 residence for J.E. Swetman; a residence for E.L. Doyle; a $3500 residence for W.A. White; and a residence for T.J. Rosell.&nbsp; By late November 1905, the T.J. Rossell Manufacturing Company was progressing with the following developments at Biloxi: three buildings for W.A. White; one building for W.K.M. Dukate; a building for Dulion &amp; Rosell and Tony Benachi.&nbsp; In the planning stage were five cottages for William Watson on the Parson Property in the Avondale section.&nbsp; In addition, Rosell’s crews were busy at the Rigolets erecting a Catholic Church, which cost $1500, for the workers of the Lopez &amp; Dukate cannery.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 20, 1905, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1908 election</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Held on July 7, 1908.&nbsp; T.J. Rosell defeated J.W. Swetman, former Mayor, in an extremely close race.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1909-Commission form of government</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>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>The Biloxi Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u></strong>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902), p. 55.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">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></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, , p. .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News”</strong>, April 27, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi’s building boom”</strong>, November 20, 1905, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Recount asked for vote on Mayor”</strong>, July 8, 1908, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“To vote on commission form of government”</strong>, June 4, 1909, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“John J. Curtis is Biloxi\'s City Attorney”</strong>, January 19, 1910, p. 1.</span></span></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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>James P. Starks</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">James P. Starks was the son of In February 1886, Samuel P. &nbsp;Starks and&nbsp;Isabelle Latimer (1863-1936), the daughter of Edwin Latimer and Mary Krohn. &nbsp;His siblings were: Margaret Starks (1886-1937+)&nbsp;m. (J.Y.) Morgan;&nbsp;Catherine Starks (1888-1940) m.&nbsp;Peter E.&nbsp;Quave Jr. (1888-1940);&nbsp;Theresa Starks (1890-1968);&nbsp;Elisabeth Starks (1892-1896), William Starks (1894-1894);&nbsp;Mary Camilia Starks (1895-1900+);&nbsp;James P. Starks (1898-1987) m. Aimee Faurie (1895-1974);&nbsp;Cyril A. Starks (1900-1903;&nbsp;Edwin G. Starks (1902-1937+);&nbsp;Lillian Starks (1905-1937+);&nbsp;and Samuel Starks (1906-1993).</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\">Samuel P. Starks made his livelihood as a butcher.&nbsp; His residence and meat market were situated on the east side of Washington Avenue between County Road, now Government Street, and Bowen Avenue, in Lot 25 and the S/2 of Lot 26 of the Clay Strip.&nbsp; The Salvetti Brothers’ Restaurant is situated here today.&nbsp; Samuel P. Starks acquired this valuable commercial site from the widow, Julia Egan (1833-1907) and her three sons, in August 1882, for $125. (JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 33, pp. 226-227)&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\"><strong>Marshal Starks</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In December 1904, Samuel P. Starks was Marshal elect of Ocean Springs.&nbsp; He defeated Casper Vahle (1867-1922) by twenty-five votes, 68 to 43.(Town of OS, Minute Bk. 2, pp. 301-302)&nbsp; One complaint heard just prior to Marshal Starks taking office was the indiscriminate use of firearms within the perimeter of Ocean Springs, especially on the east side.(<em>The Progress, October 1, 1904, p. 4)</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\">Several months after Henry S. Taylor’s confrontation with local ruffians, in front of the Scranton State Bank on Washington Avenue, Marshal Samuel P. Starks tendered his resignation from public office on April 3, 1906.&nbsp; The City leaders appointed Augustin Julius von Rosambeau (1849-1912) as Marshall on April 5, 1906.(Town of OS, Minute Bk. 2, pp. 396-397)</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 February 1908, Mr. Starks sold his business and residence to Mignon C. Lundy (1877-1957), the spouse of F.J. Lundy (1863-1912), for $1000.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 33, pp. 227-228)&nbsp;&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\"><strong>James P. Starks Timeline</strong></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\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1939</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\"><strong>James P. Starks</strong>, contractor, is&nbsp;</span><strong>erecting a nurses recreation hall&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">and a&nbsp;</span><strong>new Negro ward at the Biloxi Hospital</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">. &nbsp;In additon, he is building a new house for Neil Gryder on Forrest Avenue near Back Bay and a new home for himself on Santini Street.[The Daily herald, December 1, 1939, p. 8]</span></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\">&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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Thompson%2C%20Christian%20A..jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:153px\" /></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>CHRISTIAN A. THOMPSON</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Christian Armand Thompson </strong>(1878-1959) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi to Mason Admus Thompson (1820-1885) and Euphrosine Nicaise (1839-1914). &nbsp;He married Laura Clare Caillavet (1877-1954), the daughter of Francis Arbeau Caillavet (1856-1909) and Marie Dodart (1858-1942) at Biloxi, Mississippi on September 15, 1904.</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\">Children: and Laura Clare Thompson (1922-2011) m. Creel.</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>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, , p. .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News”</strong>, April 27, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><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>OLOFF A. THOMPSON</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Oloff Admon \'Ole\' Thompson </strong>(1874-1944) was born September 15, 1874 at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. &nbsp;He married Marie Felicie Trochesett in Harrison County, Mississippi on March 30, 1921.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mr. Thompson built 10,000 square-ft., seafood canning factory at Neptune, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana in February 1900 and a two-story, twelve-room dwelling for the Lopez-Dukate Company.(The Biloxi Daily Herlad, February 25, 1900, 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\">O.E. Thompson&nbsp;expired at Biloxi, Mississippi on December 24, 1944.</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>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local and Personal\", </strong>October 4, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News\"</strong>,&nbsp;February&nbsp;25, 1900.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ole E. Thompson buring this morning\", </strong>December 26, 1944.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><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>EDWIN W. WETZELL</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Edwin William Wetzel (1877-1953) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on July 20, 1877 to William J. Wetzel (1850-1935) and Elizabeth Latimer (1853-1925).&nbsp; In March 1901, he married Mary Antoinette Manuel Beney (1874-1950), the daughter of Louis G. Manuel (1848-1903) and Theodora Desporte (1848-1903).&nbsp; She was the widow of&nbsp; Alphonse Beney and the mother of Mary Alice Beney (1895-1984) m. Edward McDonald and John T. Graves and Theodora Lee Beney (1896-1953+) m. Orin Kelso (1888-1974).&nbsp; Mary Antoinette Manuel had married Alphonse Beney at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in December 1893.(Lepre, 1991, p. 23)&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\">The children of Edwin W. Wetzel and Mary A. Manuel were: William E. Wetzel (1902-1970) m. Mildred Betz (19-1975); Irma Wetzel (1904-1978); Milton J. Wetzel (1907-1994) m. Hyacinth Vivian Tew (1911-1979); Edwin Ross Wetzel (1910-1911); and Louis W. Wetzel (1911-1988) m. Helen Leinhardt (1912-1996) and Caroline Kulivan (1920-1988).</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\">Edwin M. Wetzell was the brother-in-law of Louis Manuel. They joined forces and the business became Manuel &amp; Wetzell. &nbsp;Manuel &amp; Wetzell built many residences and commercial buildings at Biloxi during their tenure as one of the cities premier contractors. &nbsp;Edwin M Wetzell&nbsp;retired from contracting circa 1933. &nbsp;He died on August 20, 1953 at 114 Washinton Street, his residence. &nbsp;Mary Manuel Wetzel precede her spouse in death passing on February 7, 1950. &nbsp;Their corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, August 21, 1953, p. 6)</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>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jerome Lepre, <u>Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi</u>, Volume I, (Catholic Dioceses of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1991).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>JOURNALS</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, </em><strong>“City News”</strong>, March 9, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, </em><strong>“City News”</strong>, September 29, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Edwin Ross Wetzel”</strong>, August 14, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Manuel and Wetzel build gymnsium”</strong>, January 17, 1929.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Edwin W. Wetzel”</strong>, August 21, 1953.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>“Deaths”</strong>, June 11, 1970.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>“Deaths”</strong>, November 15, 1975.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>“Deaths”</strong>, February 26, 1984.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>“Deaths”</strong>, March 11, 1988.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times-Picayune, </em><strong>“Deaths”</strong>, April 27, 1988.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BILOXI BUILDINGS and CONSTRUCTION</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>19th Century</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>1843</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>American Hotel was in operation by Edward Milford</strong>&nbsp;of Mobile at Biloxi near Elmore\'s Wharf (probably Jacob Elmer\'s). &nbsp;It was two-story edifice with a dining hall, superior cook, and good wines.(The Daily Picayune, June 9, 1843, p. 1)</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>1845</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Batchelor\'s Hall</strong>, a tourist residence, J.B. Currie, proprietor, had a ten-pin alley attached to the building.(The Daily Picayune, July 2, 1845, p. 4)</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>1848</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John W. Nixon</strong>&nbsp;(1782?-1849), Irish immigrant and veteran of the War of 1812, was operating the <strong>Biloxi House</strong>, a tourist home or inn, on East Beach west of Bellman Street.(The Daily Picayune, September 7, 1848, p. 1)</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>1849</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Madame Pradat\'s Live Oak Hotel was operating </strong>on Biloxi\'s East Beach road.(The Daily Picayune, May 31, 1849)</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>1850</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi was incorporated</strong>&nbsp;on February 18, 1850.</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>1853</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Batchelor\'s Hall</strong>, an inn, run by Sol Mills (b. 1818) was operating, at Biloxi.(The Daily Picayune, June 9, 1843, p. 1)</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>1870</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On October 29, 1870, the&nbsp;<strong>New Orleans, Mobile, &amp; Chattanooga Railroad</strong>&nbsp;(Chartered 1866)&nbsp;<strong>completed the rail line between Mobile and New Orleans.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Rail service commenced on November 21, 1870.</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>1871</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The N.O.M. &amp; C.</strong> was reorganized on April 18, 1871 and became the<strong> New Orleans, Mobile &amp; Texas Railroad</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>1873</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The New Orleans, Mobile &amp; Texas Railroad was foreclosed upon in the U.S. Circuit Court</strong>&nbsp;[Henry J. Gardner and Peter B. Butler v. N.O.M. &amp; T.] for default of payment of interest on its $4 million in indebtedness to its bondholders. &nbsp;The road missed interest payments due in October 1872 and April 1873. &nbsp;It was ordered sold at auction in six months.(The New York Times, April 15, 1873, p. 1)</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>1875</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">An editorial in&nbsp;<em>The Star of Pascagoula</em>&nbsp;blasted the&nbsp;<strong>New Orleans, Mobile &amp; Texas Railroad&nbsp;</strong>as&nbsp;<strong><em>\"nothing more that or less than a gang of highway robbers, entitled to as little consideration from the people as so many bandits who rob and plunder the weak and defenseless in defiance of the law. &nbsp;The only remedy for these wrongs is the sale of the road. &nbsp;Refuse to patronize the road, even if undergo inconvenience in doing so.\"</em></strong>(The Star of Pascagoula, May 22, 1875, 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\">In June,&nbsp;<strong>D.B. Seal, District Attorney&nbsp;</strong>of Hancock County f<strong>iled litigation against the New Orleans, Mobile, &amp; Chattanooga Railroad</strong>&nbsp;(sic?). &nbsp;The plaintiffs were asking that the railroad build a draw bridge across the Pearl River. &nbsp;The present bridge was blocking the East Pearl River channel, which was needed for the lumber trade.(The Star of Pascagoula, June 12, 1875, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the summer of 1875, the&nbsp;<strong>Shady Grove Hotel</strong>&nbsp;was managed by&nbsp;<strong>Urbain Rambaut&nbsp;</strong>(1832-1889), a native of France. &nbsp;The hostelry was in the process of renovation and refurbishment. &nbsp;Professor Knapp, a local guide with a horse and buggy, was available for fishing in Back Bay or leading local history tours.(The Star of Pascagoula, June 26, 1875, p. 1.)</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>1879</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Jefferson Davis</strong>&nbsp;(1808-1889) acquired the orange orchard of&nbsp;<strong>Mrs. S.A. Dorsey at Beauvoir</strong>&nbsp;for $5000.(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, February 28, 1879)</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>1880</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>L&amp;N Railroad leased the property of the N.O.M. &amp; T. Railroad</strong>&nbsp;on May 8, 1880.&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 1880,&nbsp;<strong>Theodore M. Scheffer (</strong>1849-1884), a Prussian immigrant,&nbsp;<strong>opened his establishment, the Scheffer House, for guests.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;It had been placed in first class condition for the season.(1880 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T9_648, p. 9, ED 139 and The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, May 28, 1880, 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\"><strong>1881</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On&nbsp;<strong>October 5, 1881, the L&amp;N Railroad purchased all the assets of the reorganized New Orleans, Mobile, &amp; Texas Railroad for $6,000,000. &nbsp;</strong>This acquisition included the Ponchartrain Railroad which ran seven mile from New Orleans to Milneburg on Lake Ponchartrain, and the one hundred forty-one miles of track, depots, the creosote plant at West Pascagoula (Gautier), stations, station houses, section houses, rolling stock, etc. between Mobile and New Orleans. (JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 5, p. 299)&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>1883</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>City of Biloxi organized its fire company on September 3rd&nbsp;</strong>at the Montross Hotel. &nbsp;F.W. Elmer, pres.; Will C. Grant, v. pres.; P.J. Montross, treas.; Phil McCabe, foreman; Thomas P. Bachino, 1st assist.; and Frank Greveniing, 2nd assist. &nbsp;Others involved: Leon Bertoli; Joe Tucei; John B. Bachino; N. Petrie; Albert Deck; Thomas McCabe; Daniel Bachino; J.M. Ritch; M.J. Grady; George H. Schrieber and N. Sullivan.(The Daily Picayune, September 6, 1883, 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\"><strong>Raymond Caillavet&nbsp;</strong>(1838-1898),&nbsp;<strong>Commissioner of Streets</strong>, started a work gang to&nbsp;<strong>open a road from Porter west to the city limits to connect with the Beach Road to Mississippi City</strong>.(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, October 5, 1883, 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\"><strong>1885</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Barataria Canning Company</strong>&nbsp;was founded.</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>1886</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&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>1887</strong></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>1888</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;In February 1885, John Eistetter constructed what was described as<strong><em>“one of the most substantial, ornamental and durable improvement on the beach for years.”&nbsp; </em></strong>&nbsp;This memorial structure was a <strong>breakwater in front of the residence of Mr. Frank T. Howard </strong>(1855-1911) on [East] <strong>Beach Boulevard.</strong>&nbsp; Mr. Eistetter erected this feature in the form of a semi-circle.&nbsp; It was two hundred feet in length, six and one-half feet tall and two feet above mean high tide.&nbsp; This barricade required 48,000 bricks and 60 barrels of cement.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, February 18, 1888, 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\"><strong>Raymond Caillavet</strong>&nbsp;(1838-1898), contractor, built a large storage house for the&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi Artesian Ice Manufacturing Company.</strong>(The Biloxi Herald, February 18, 1888, 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>J.R. Harkness was bulding a new house for J.H. Keller. </strong>&nbsp;W.P. Murray of New Oeleans lathed the new residence.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 25, 1888, 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\">The <strong>Biloxi Artesian Ice Manufacturing Company is now prepared to take ice orders </strong>from all along the Coast.(The Biloxi Herald, March 31, 1888, p. 8)&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>The Gulf View Hotel&nbsp;</strong>was leased by&nbsp;<strong>P.J. Montross</strong>&nbsp;(1841-1897) of the Montross Hotel.(The Biloxi Herald, April 7, 1888, 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>Hugh McCallum</strong>, watchmaker and jeweler, will occupy will occupy the new building being built by J. R. Harkness for&nbsp;<strong>Dr. James J. Lemon</strong>&nbsp;on the south part of his drugstore lot [southeast corner of Lameuse and Howard Avenue].(The Biloxi Herald, April 14, 1888, 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>Nielsen\'s Photo Gallery&nbsp;</strong>opened on&nbsp;<strong>Reynoir Street</strong>&nbsp;near the L&amp;N Depot. &nbsp;<strong>Professor Fitch</strong>, an experienced photographer, will be in charge.(The Biloxi Herald, April 14, 1888, 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>L&amp;N RR erecting a freight depot and refurbishing the old building for passenger traffic</strong>&nbsp;with separate waiting rooms for male and female transients.(The Biloxi Herald, May 12, 1888, p. 8)</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/biloxi-howard memorial school_4.jpg\" style=\"height:271px; width:350px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>Howard Memorial School</u></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[Gift of Frank T. Howard (1855-1911 and Harry T. Howard (1856-1930) which was built and designed by John R. Harkness &amp; Son in 1888 for $10,000]</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>old building on Lameuse Street </strong>near Water Street <strong>owned by Mrs. Ritch has been demolished </strong>and a<strong> new and sightly one </strong>will be built to replace it.(The Biloxi Herald, July 28, 1888, p. 8) &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\"><strong>John T. Andrews </strong>is<strong> building a new house for Sim Ryan </strong>on Croesus Street.(The Biloxi Herald, July 28, 1888, 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>Sherwood Bradford</strong>, machinist and blacksmith, <strong>erected a large, attractive &nbsp;two-story shop</strong> on Main Street.(The Biloxi Herald, July 28, 1888, 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\"><strong>John R. Harkness is having the foundation laid</strong> on his lot on Pass Christian Street<strong> preparatory to erecting a two-story commercial house 40 feet by 50 feet.</strong>(The Biloxi Herald, July 28, 1888, 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>John R. Harkness has taken contract to build the new public school building</strong>, which was donated by the Howard family.(The Biloxi Herald, August 4, 1888, 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>New building erected between Delauney&nbsp;</strong>[G.E. Ohr] and Magnolia on Pass Christian Street [Howard Avenue] by John R. Harkness will be open next month as a clothing and notion store.(The Biloxi Herald, October 27, 1888, 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>Sixteen Biloxi carpenters and laborers were employed to erect</strong>&nbsp;the new&nbsp;<strong>Quarantine Station on the Chandeleur Island</strong>s.(The Biloxi Herald, November 24, 1888, 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\">The&nbsp;<strong>Ocean View Hotel&nbsp;</strong>of C.F. Theobald was leased to H. Edwards and plans to open January 1, 1889.(The Biloxi Herald, December 1, 1888, 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\">The&nbsp;<strong>Tegarden Hotel at Mississippi City burned to the ground&nbsp;</strong>on November 26th. &nbsp;It had been recently leased to Mrs. Alexander.(The Biloxi Herald, December 1, 1888, 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>Harry T. Howard</strong>&nbsp;(1856-1930) was in town and t<strong>ook several photographic images of the new school house</strong>.(The Biloxi Herald, December 15, 1888, p. 8)</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>1889</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Reverend Robert H. Hinsdale</strong>&nbsp;expired on January 9th. &nbsp;He was at the&nbsp;<strong>Church of the Redeemer</strong>&nbsp;from 1883 until his demise. &nbsp;On his death bed, Reverend Hinsdale requested that Harry T. Howard erect a new Episcopal Church on the beach at Biloxi.(The Daily Herald, January 9, 1913, 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\">The new, modern <strong>Howard Memorial public school building on Main Street</strong><strong>,&nbsp;</strong>a gift from of Frank T. Howard (1855-1911) and Harry T. Howard (1856-1930) to the citizenry of Biloxi, was dedicated on March 22<sup>nd</sup>.&nbsp; &nbsp;It was built and designed by John R. Harkness &amp; Son in 1888 for $10,000.(The Daily Picayune, March 22, 1889, 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>Biloxi had a large fire occur&nbsp;</strong>in the Central Business District on June 5th. &nbsp;<strong>Damage estimated at $75,000</strong>. The fire started in the Herald Building. &nbsp;Major losses suffered by:&nbsp;<strong>Mrs. C.M. Rugge</strong>&nbsp;who lost two-story residence valued at$9000;&nbsp;<strong>Constantine Olivari&nbsp;</strong>(1841-1894) who lost his two-story residence, ship chandlry business, dry goods and groceries on the corner of Lameuse Street and Pass Christian Street valued at $8000;&nbsp;<strong>Dr. James J. Lemon</strong>&nbsp;lost his drug store and home worth $7500. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Post Office building</strong>&nbsp;of Louis Holley&nbsp;<strong>was also destroyed. &nbsp;Mobile, Alabama sent two fire engines on a special train</strong>, but they arrived after Biloxi firemen had the conflagration extinguished.(The Daily Picayune, June 6, 1889, p. 1)</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>1890</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J.P. Weber\'s new building </strong>on Pass Christian Street between Lameuse Street and Main Street <strong>is almost complete.</strong>(The Biloxi Herald, March 1, 1890, p. 4) &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>John Andrews is building two neat cottages on Lameuse Street</strong> for Mrs. Colbet.(The Biloxi Herald, May 24, 1890, p. 4)&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>Frank Lucich</strong>, contractor, is erecting a new building on Pass Christian Street near Lameuse for Phil McCabe. &nbsp;The structure is 30 feet by 45 feet and will divided into two 15 feet by 45 feet store spaces. &nbsp;They will be occupied as soon as completed.(The Biloxi Herald, May 24, 1890, p. 4)</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>framework for the new Opera House is going up</strong> and when completed it will be <strong>the largest building in Biloxi. &nbsp;John R. Harkness</strong> is working rapidly for its completion. &nbsp;The <strong>building contract called for the Opera House to cost $5000 </strong>when finished and furnished.(The Biloxi Herald, June 7, 1890, p. 4 June 19, 1890, p. &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>1891</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>The Biloxi Herald </em>moved into its new office building adjacent to the Masonic Opera House</strong> on Pass Christian Street about April 15, 1891.&nbsp; The structure was built by John R. Harkness and was central and desirable than their last quarters.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, April 4, 1891, p. 4)</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&nbsp;<strong>new plant of the Barataria Canning Company was completed in July</strong>. &nbsp;H.R. Gogreve, president; Isidore Hechinger, vice pres.; H. Bentz, treasurer; Isidore Heidenheim, secretary; and H. Edwards Jr., superintendent.(The Biloxi Herald, July 11, 1891, p. 4)&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>1892</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>old Bellande building near the L&amp;N depot has been demolished and the foundation</strong>&nbsp;is being laid for a new two-story edifice.(The Biloxi Herald, January 9, 1892, 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\">On July 26,1892, the great New Orleans philanthropist,&nbsp;<strong>John Henry Keller</strong>&nbsp;(1830-1908), himself not a Presbyterian, donated Lot 1 (50 feet by 150 feet)-Block 6 of Keller\'s tract to the&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi Presbyterian Church.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;The church was located on East Howard Avenue east of the old Biloxi Public High School. &nbsp;<strong>W.L. Covel&nbsp;</strong>(1836-1926) was contracted to erect the \'small and modest building\" of the newly organized congregation. The deacons and elders of the Biloxi Presbyterian Church, among them Bemis O. Bailey (1898-1969), an Ocean Springs native,&nbsp;<strong>sold their property to the City of Biloxi in late December 1940</strong>, for $3659.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 28, p. 205 and The Biloxi Herald, July 2, 1892, p. 1 and July 16, 1892, p. 4)&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>1893</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Eistetter</strong>&nbsp;(1856-1904) began laying the foundation for a&nbsp;<strong>two-story building for Mr. Herbelin</strong>&nbsp;on the corner of Howard Avenue and Lameuse Street. &nbsp;J.R. Harkness was the contractor.(The Biloxi Herald, January 21, 1893, p. 8) &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 April,&nbsp;<strong>J.R. Harkness was contracted by Lopez, Dunbar\'s Sons &amp; Co. to construct a new</strong>, five thousand dollar, 18,000 square-ft..&nbsp;<strong>cannery on the former site of the old one</strong>. &nbsp;Two-story, mansard towers on each end functioned as office space.(The Biloxi Herald, April 15, 1893, p. 1)&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 April, the&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi Milling Company, commenced operations making flour and meal.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;It was founded by Missourians, Edward G. Burklin (1860-1920+), James B. \'Buck\' Chinn (1857-1912), R.D. Chinn, and Mr. Brewton.(The Biloxi Herald, January 7, 1893, p. 8 and April 22, 1893, 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\">In April&nbsp;<strong>J.R. Harkness &amp; Sons announced plans to build a steam planning and milling plant in the rear of the Opera House&nbsp;</strong>on Pass Christian Street and Magnolia Street.(The Biloxi Herald, April 22, 1893, 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\">In April,&nbsp;<strong>J.R. Harkness &amp; Sons relocated the Episcopal Church from Pass Christian Street to the Beach</strong>.(The Biloxi Herald, April 22, 1893, p. 1)</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/Beach%20Hotel-drysdale-wetzel_1.jpg\" style=\"height:100px; width:165px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late July,&nbsp;<strong>The Beach House, a new hotel on the beach, was completed for occupancy by J.R. Harkness</strong>, contractor, for Mrs. Margaret&nbsp;E. Drysdale [1840-1896], the owner.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 29, 1893, 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>E.G. Burklin of Vandalia, Missouri agreed to install 45 street lights</strong>&nbsp;of 32 candle power to the City of Biloxi.(The Biloxi Herald, September 30, 1893, 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\"><strong>Casimir J. Harvey</strong>&nbsp;(1845-1904) of Back Bay [D\'Iberville]&nbsp;<strong>commenced his ferry operation across Back Bay</strong>&nbsp;to Biloxi on December 2nd. &nbsp;His vessel was called ‘the&nbsp;<strong><em>Shrimp</em></strong>’. &nbsp;Captain Ed Richards took over the rope or skiff ferry and handled the oars.(The Biloxi Herald, December 2, 1893, 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\"><strong>O.S. Williams contracted to build a two-story, modern home on Porter Avenue north of the L&amp;N Railroad.</strong> &nbsp;Mr. Burklin will also install two, 32-candle power, incadescent lamps for Mr. Williams on Porter.(The Biloxi Herald, December 2, 1893, 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>The Montross Hotel installed electric lights</strong>&nbsp;in December.(The Biloxi Herald, December 9, 1893, p. 8)</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>1894</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Columbia, Lumberton &amp; Gulf Railroad</strong>&nbsp;was recently chartered. &nbsp;The railroad will tap for ninety miles some of the finest pine lands in the State. &nbsp;Plans to connect with the Gulf &amp; Ship Island RR. &nbsp;at Lumberton, Mississippi.(The Biloxi Herald, January 20, 1894, 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\">The&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi Electric Light Company</strong>&nbsp;was chartered on February 2nd.(Harrison Co., Ms. Charter Bk. 2, p. 116)</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;<strong>Biloxi and Back Bay Bridge Company</strong>&nbsp;was chartered on June 2nd.(Harrison Co., Ms. Charter Bk. 2, p. 186)</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/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202018-08-09%20at%209.33.36%20AM.png\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, June 9, 1894, p. 1</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/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202018-08-09%20at%208.30.20%20AM.png\" style=\"cursor:default\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Herald, June 9, 1894, 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\">On October 12th, &nbsp;<strong>Biloxi\'s Commercial District was inflicted &nbsp;losses of about $75,000</strong>&nbsp;when a large fire commenced in the two-story, J.W. Swetman Building on Pass Christian Street. &nbsp;Big losers were: S. Picard-$25,000; J.W. Swetman-$8000; G.E. Ohr Sr.-$5000; W.K.M. Dukate-$4500; and the pottery of G.E. Ohr Jr. (1857-1918)-$3000.(The Biloxi Herald, October 13, 1894, 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>J.W. Swetman contracted with John Eistetter and John R. Harkness </strong>to erect a <strong>2-story, brick building on West Howard&nbsp;Avenue</strong> for $2800. &nbsp;The structure was designed by <strong>W.T. Harkness on a 30-foot by 50-foot foundation</strong> and built with pressed brick, a glass front and iron pillars. &nbsp;Mr. Swetman was <strong>replacing his building lost in the recent fire and would use the first floor as a drugstore </strong>and the 2nd floor as a lodge or public hall. &nbsp;The difference in insurance rates made brick buldings cheaper than those constructed of wood.(The Biloxi Herald, November 3, 1894, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</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>1895</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/Biloxi City Hall-1898.jpg\" style=\"height:139px; width:200px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>City Hall-Main Street </strong>[circa 1902]</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 February,&nbsp;<strong>work commenced by the G.C. Taylor &amp; Company on the new City Hall on Main Street</strong>. When excavation began on the foundation,&nbsp;<strong>Mr. Taylor had difficulty finding local labor and went to Meridian and returned with eleven laborers</strong>, as&nbsp;<strong>only five Biloxians would work for $1 per day</strong>, the unskilled labor rate. &nbsp;Most Biloxi day laborers expected to be paid $1.25 to $1.50 per day.(The Biloxi Herald, March 2, 1895, p. 8)</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>New Masonic Building</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/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202019-02-07%20at%209.30.10%20AM.png\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[The Biloxi Herald. March &nbsp;16, 1895. p. 8]</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\"><strong>James V. Hagan </strong>(1874-1929)<strong> has secured from Sam Picard </strong>a fine<strong> commercial lot on the corner of Pass Christian and Magnolia Street</strong> with a 50-foot frontage on Pass Christian [West Howard Avenue].<strong> &nbsp;He will erect a building here for his chandelry business. </strong>&nbsp;By early October, James Hagan\'s new brick building presented an elegant appearance and had been painted by Ed Suter.(The Biloxi Herald, March 9, 1895, p. 8 and October 5, 1895, p. 8)&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>The Biloxi Railway was established</strong>&nbsp;by Dr. J.J. Lemon, president; J.C. Bradford, vice-pres.; E.G. Burklin, general mgr. and superintendent; Col. E.W. Morill, sec.-treas.; and W.H. Maybin, gen. attorney. &nbsp;Laying of track was to commence shortly as cars, rails, ties, etc. had been acquired. &nbsp;$8000 worth of company stock had been sold.(The Biloxi Herald, March 30, 1895, p. 8)&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\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/L%26N Gill Avenue Station-Feb. 1918_0.JPG\" style=\"height:226px; width:350px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>GILL AVENUE STATION </strong>[built 1895]</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>The L&amp;N Railroad completed two new railroad stations</strong>&nbsp;on the east and west end of Biloxi. &nbsp;The Coast train and Excursion trains on Wednesday and Sunday will stop at both places. &nbsp;The L&amp;N has named these stations as the <strong>Oak Street Station</strong> (east) and the <strong>Gill Avenue Station </strong>(west). &nbsp;Local citizens suggested the names Summerville (east) and Oakmere (west), but they were rejected by the railroad.(The Biloxi Herald, May 11, 1895, 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>Morris and Eaton have leased the Arcade House on the Beach</strong>&nbsp;and will conduct a first class hotel.(The Biloxi Herald, May 11, 1895, 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>Street cars began running on Reynoir Street to the Back Bay&nbsp;</strong>in early September.(The Biloxi Herald, September 7, 1895, 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>W.T. Harkness </strong>(1869-1841),<strong> architect and builder,</strong> is building <strong>three fine dwelling houses for Mrs. George D. Lining </strong>[nee Ellen Martin (d. May 1959). One of the residences is on the corner of Main Street and the beach road while the other&nbsp;two will be built on <strong>Main Street</strong>. &nbsp;&nbsp;Ellen Martin was&nbsp;the spouse of<strong>&nbsp;George Dent Lining&nbsp;</strong>(1875-pre-1938). &nbsp;The Linings lived at Biloxi until about 1909 when they relocated to Mobile. &nbsp;He was in the marine supply business and active in the civic and social circles of Mobile.(The Biloxi Herald, October 5, 1895, 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>W.T. Harkness&nbsp;</strong>(1869-1841),<strong>&nbsp;architect and builder,</strong>&nbsp;is completing a <strong>cottage on Magnolia and Water Street </strong>for <strong>Mrs. John Coyle</strong>.(The Biloxi Herald, October 5, 1895, 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>Brick for the new Mechanics Steam Fire Engine Company No. 2</strong> is arriving by schooner. &nbsp;The foundation has been laid for the <strong>two-story, building</strong> [20 feet by 80 feet].(The Biloxi Herald, October 5, 1895, 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>John Eistetter</strong> (1857-1904) has <strong>contracted with Dr. W. Saucier</strong>, dental surgeon, to<strong> build a two-story, $2100 building [25 feet by 50 feet] </strong>on the east half of a lot on the corner of Pass Christian and Magnolia Street acquired from James V. Hagan for $900. &nbsp;Dr. Saucier\'s lot had a 30-foot front on Pass Christian Street [West Howard Avenue].(The Biloxi Herald, March 9, 1895, p. 8 and October 5, 1895, p. 8)</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>1896</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Florian Seal&nbsp;</strong>(1853-1927) opened&nbsp;<strong>the Gulf Coast Real Estate Agency</strong>&nbsp;in the Biloxi Herald building in March.(The Biloxi Herald, March 7, 1896, 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>New City Hall was dedicated</strong>&nbsp;in late April.(The Biloxi Herald, April 25, 1896, p. 1)</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\"><strong>Construction on Pass Christian Street [Howard Avenue] </strong>was well underway by mid-year. &nbsp;<strong>The Lazaro Lopez residence is&nbsp;almost complete, John Eistetter\'s new brick building is rapidly under construction; on 24 July, Mechanics Fire Company No. 2 will dedicate t</strong>heir new firehouse<strong>; Dr. Saucier is completing his </strong>wood-framed structure and the <strong>Herbelin warehouse in its final stages; the McCabe Building </strong>on the NW/C of Lameuse and Pass Christian Street <strong>will be removed for the erection of the new, two-story, </strong>Roman brick of the<strong> Peoples Bank.</strong>[The Biloxi Herald, July 18, 1896, 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\"><strong>Eistetter &amp; Kelly</strong> were awarded the <strong>$5000 contract to erect a home for C.F. Theobald</strong>&nbsp;(1839-1903) on Front Street and Main.(The Biloxi Herald, August 22, 1896, 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\">The <strong>Eistetter building was erected in 1896 on the corner of West Howard Avenue and Magnolia Stree</strong>t. &nbsp;It was dedicated on October 17, 1896 and a Grand Ball was held by the Mississippi Hook and Ladder Compnay No. 1 as part of the celebration.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, September 12, 1896, 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 November, the&nbsp;<strong>Back Bay Artesian Water Company was chartered</strong>&nbsp;by John Bradford, Arthur Reynoir, Mrs. A Richards, and Sam D. Shaw.(The Biloxi Herald, November 28, 1896, 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\">The&nbsp;<strong>People\'s Telephone Company of Biloxi was chartered&nbsp;</strong>in December by W.K.M. Dukate, Ernest Doyle, J.D. McKie, W.A. White, John Walker, and Ed Glennan.(The Biloxi Herald, December 5, 1896, p. 8)</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>1897</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. Anthony P. Champlin</strong>&nbsp;(1839-1897) d<strong>ied at Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;in early March. &nbsp;He had been a quarantine physician for several years and at the time of his demise was in charge of the Cat Island Quarantine Station.(The Biloxi Herald, March 15, 1897)</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>Peter Joseph Montross</strong>&nbsp;(1841-1897),&nbsp;<strong>proprietor of the Montross Hotel died</strong>&nbsp;at Biloxi on March 27, 1897. &nbsp;His corporal remains were sent to New Orleans for internment in the vault belonging to the Army of the Tennessee.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, April 3, 1897, 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>John R. Harkness&nbsp;</strong>(1827-1903) has the contract to erect the <strong>residence of John C. Carraway</strong> (1873-1931) and William P. Burke (1858-1924) will build the house of <strong>Dr. Daniel A. Nash</strong> (1858-1904). &nbsp;Both structures are on the beach.(The Biloxi Herald, April 3, 1897, 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\"><strong>William C. Morgan and son leased the Montross Hotel</strong>&nbsp;in early May.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 8, 1897, 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>John Kelly</strong> has the contract <strong>to build a neat residence for Frank Voivedich</strong> on Reynoir Street near Howard Avenue.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 27, 1897, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</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>1898</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Raymond Caillavet</strong>&nbsp;(1838-1898), former&nbsp;<strong>Mayor, treasurer, councilman, and street commissioner and contractor</strong>, expired on February 16th.(The Biloxi Herald, February 19, 1898, p. 5)</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/sutcliffe house_0.jpg\" style=\"height:190px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;William W. Sutcliffe House [</strong>built 1898]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1364 West Beach Boulevard&nbsp;</strong>(postcard circa 1905 from H.R. \'Randy\' Randazzo)</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\">News of <strong>William W. Sutcliffe’s acquisition of a beach front lot was reported in</strong>&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald&nbsp;</em>in late February 1898.&nbsp; The journal reported that he would let a contract shortly for the erection of a residence to cost between $4000 and $5000. &nbsp;&nbsp;In April 1898, Mr. Sutcliffe had his lot fenced and planned to have a home built on his seaside vista within the year. &nbsp;In August 1898, <strong>W.W. Sutcliffe</strong>, now president of the Board of Trustees of the Sea Shore Campground, <strong>signed a building contract with John Kelley</strong>.&nbsp; Mr. Kelley was to erect a large structure on Sutcliffe’s Avondale lot facing the Mississippi Sound.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In early November 1898, the <strong>Sutcliffes came over from New Orleans to inspect their beautiful domicile which was under construction</strong>. &nbsp;This edifice was destroyed on August 29, 2005 in Hurricane Katrina when owned by <strong>Nick Mavar</strong> and&nbsp;<strong>Nancy Pierce Mavar.</strong>(<em>The Biloxi Herald, February 26, 1898, p. 8,&nbsp;</em><em>April 2, 1898, p. 8,&nbsp;</em><em>August 20, 1898, p. 8, and&nbsp;</em><em>November 12, 1898, p. 4</em><em>)</em>&nbsp; &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\"><strong>Laz Lopez&nbsp;</strong>(1850-1903) has a&nbsp;<strong>new residence on East Howard Avenu</strong>e that is a conspicuous ornament.(The Biloxi Herald, May 18, 1898, 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\">The&nbsp;<strong>City of Biloxi received three new public school buildings on September 6th</strong>. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Forest Park School</strong>&nbsp;on Porter Avenue was given by Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903) and Julia Dulion Lopez (1857-1918). &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Back Bay Ward Schoo</strong>l was donated by W.K.M. Dukate and William Gorenflo. &nbsp;It was situated on Main Street and Back Bay. &nbsp;Mayor&nbsp;<strong>Harry T. Howard gave the City a primary school building</strong>&nbsp;on the corner of Main Street and Water Street.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 10, 1898, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</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>1899</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mary A. Andrews&nbsp;</strong>(1848-1900+), a widow,<strong>&nbsp;planned to open the new Breslow &nbsp;Hotel on June 1st. &nbsp;The commodious structure was built by John Eistetter </strong>(1856-1904).&nbsp;&nbsp;Mrs. Andrew planned to furnish the modern Breslow Hotel with new furniture.<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;She had operated the Bay View Cottage for many years</strong>. &nbsp;Mrs. Andrews was an excellent caterer.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 25, 1899, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\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</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &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\"><strong>In mid-May, Thompson &amp; Eistetter, architects and builders</strong>, broke ground for the new, $7000,&nbsp;<strong>Lopez &amp; Dukate building on the corner of Delauney Street and Howard Avenue. &nbsp;The structure had two-stories with a pressed brick front. &nbsp;The Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company was its first tenant and moved into their quarters in mid-August.</strong>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 15 , 1900, p. 8 and July 31, 1900, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Eistteter</strong>, contractor, related that<strong>&nbsp;the new fountain to be set up in front of City Hall has arrived&nbsp;</strong>and will be built in a few days. &nbsp;T