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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong>STIGLETS LANDING</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Harrison County, Mississippi&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Stiglets Landing was a small trading post and ferry landing located on the Biloxi River in Section 32, T6S-R9W about five miles from the upper reaches of Biloxi Bay southwest of the Woolmarket community.&nbsp; It was founded by Joseph Marion Stiglets (1852-1924) on the site of the old Powell-Hester-Saffold ferry landing in November 1884, when he bought most of the SE/4 of the SW/4 and the S/2 of the NE/4 of SW/4 of Section 32 (acres) from Dr. David M. Dunlap of Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi for $900.(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Dr. Dunlap (1803-1884+) was born at South Carolina.&nbsp; He practiced medicine at Ocean Springs from the early 1870s, until about the time he sold his Biloxi River property to Stiglets.&nbsp; Dunlap was married to Mary T. Dunlap (b. 1830) of Georgia.&nbsp; They had at least three children:&nbsp; James Dunlap (1858-1884+), Mary or Matty Dunlap (b. 1864), and Edward Dunlap (1868-1884+).</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">It is interesting to note that Dr. Dunlap had purchased the river property from Thomas W. Grayson (1825-1904) and his wife, Anne Hyde (1832-1906), in January 1882 for $2500.(2)&nbsp; At the same time, Dr. Dunlap sold Thomas W. Grayson a tract of land comprising over three acres in the heart of Ocean Springs bounded by Washington Avenue and Jackson Avenue between Porter and Desoto (Lots 1, 2, 3, 7, and 8 of Block 27-Culmseig Map of 1854).&nbsp; Here the Dunlaps had erected a large edifice.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Thomas W. Grayson is believed to have operated a mercantile store on his Biloxi River landing site before moving to Jackson County.&nbsp; At Ocean Springs, Grayson became a Justice of the Peace and also served the citizens there as mayor from 1897 to 1898.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Joseph M. Stiglets was the son of Austrian immigrant (Trieste, Italy), Vincent Stiglets (1805-1893), and Felicite Ladner (1824-1896).&nbsp; Vincent Stiglets had immigrated to the United States before 1850.&nbsp; He made his livelihood as a ship carpenter.&nbsp; Vincent Stiglets built trading schooners at his boatyard located at Stonewall, Mississippi.&nbsp; Some of his vessels were the:&nbsp; ?? check with Rusty Barnes.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The other eleven children of Vincent and Felicite Stiglets were: Thomas A. Stiglets (1842-1880+), Christian (b. 1843), Ellen S. Richard (1846-1914), Vincent Stiglets, Jr. (1850), Moses Stiglets (1853-1947), John A. Stiglets (1855-1930), Ursan Stiglets (1857-1887), Felicite S.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Bennett (1859-1930), Mary S. Peterson (1862-1907), Nora S. Kahler (1865-1943), and Anna Taltavull (1867-1941).&nbsp; Most of this family is interred at the Coalville Cemetery at Woolmarket.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Joseph M. Stiglets married Melissa H. Stewart (1857-1926) on February 5, 1879.&nbsp; Their children were: Margaret Olivia Stiglets (1881-1976), Marion Stiglets (b. 1883), Elizabeth Caralyn Stiglets (1885-1971), Elva Stiglets Kimball (1888-1980), infant boy Stigletts (1890-1890), Winnie Stiglets (1892-1910), Maud Stiglets (b. 1893), and Lu Rovena Stiglets Martin (1897-1997).</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Anectdotal stories relate that Captain Stiglets deepened the lagoon in front of his home to the Biloxi River.&nbsp; Here he constructed docking facilities and a warehouse for his five coastal trading schooners.&nbsp; At the peak of the lumber and wool industry in the Woolmarket area, Stiglets employed more than five-hundred men in logging and shipping.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">The Stiglets Landing site remained in the family for many years.&nbsp; As late as 1957, two of Captain Stiglet&#39;s daughters lived in the old homeplace on the Biloxi River.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Joseph Marion Stiglets (1852-1924) married Melissa H. Stewart (1857-1926) on February 5, 1879.&nbsp; He was the son of Vincent Stiglets and Felicite Ladner.&nbsp; Captain Stiglets bought the Thomas W. Grayson house and landing site on the Biloxi River at Woolmarket after the Civil War.&nbsp; Here he deepened the lagoon to the river as a landing for his five trading schooners.&nbsp; Stiglets at the height of the lumber and wool boom in the area employed over 500 men in logging and shipping.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Their children were:&nbsp; Clara S. Cox , Margaret Olivia Stiglets (1881-1976), Marion S. Beasely (1883-1961), Elizabeth Caralyn Stiglets (1885-1971), Elva S. Kimball (1888-1980), infant boy (1890-1890), Winnie (1892-1910), Maud (1893), and Lula Martin (1895-1997).</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong>JOHN A. STIGLETS</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">John Alva Stiglets (1855-1930) married Victoria Richards (1866-1947) on February 26, 1885.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Moses Victor Richards (1837-1925) and Martha Annie Bennett Fayard (1841-1917), the widow of David Fayard.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Their children:&nbsp; Rose Ida Krebs (1886-1929), Isabella Pugh (1888-1960), John Alva (1890-1969), Leone Pearl Bass (1892-1968), Mathilda Gladys Henderson (1895-), and Althea Agnes Arnold (1897-1987).</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Rose Ida Stiglets married Ray Flechas Krebs (1892-1972) of Pascagoula on November 12, 1913.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Victor Ray Krebs and John Edward Krebs (1916-1973).</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">In 1900, John Stiglets was a day laborer.&nbsp; John Stiglets died December 3, 1930.&nbsp; Victoria Stiglets died July 26, 1947.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong>BRISCOE STIGLETS</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Vincent Stiglets, Jr. may have been called Briscoe Stiglets (1864).&nbsp; He married Caldonia Watson in October 1891.&nbsp; He married Mary Deveraux (1872) in August 1898.&nbsp; A schooner captain in 1900.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Missouri Stiglets (1893), and Harry Jason Stiglets (1896-1976), and James Stiglets (1900).</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong>MOSES STIGLETS</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Moses Stiglets (1868-1947) married Emily Watson.&nbsp; He was a schooner captain in 1900.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Eddie (b. 1889), Wiley Stiglets (1891-1935), Jesse Stiglets (1891-1932), Andrew Stiglets (1894-1963), and Ola Stiglets (1896-1982).</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong>MATTHEW STIGLETTS</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Matthew Stiglets (1815-1860+) was born at Austria.&nbsp; Probably brother of Vincent Stiglets (1810-1880+).&nbsp; Wife, Antonia Getzon (1815), also Austrian born.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Matthew, Jr. (1842), Johanna (1848), and Catherine (1860).&nbsp; Came to U.S. after 1848.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong>REFERENCES</strong>:</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">1. Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Book 20, p. 231.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">2. ------------------------------ Book 18, pp. 350-351.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong><u>Mississippi Gulf Coast: Yesterday and Today (1699-1937),</u></strong>(Gulport Printing Company: Gulfport, Mississippi-1937), pp. 136-137.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong><u>The History of Jackson County, Mississippi</u></strong>, &quot;John Edward Krebs&quot;, (Jackson County Genealogical Society: Pascagoula-1989), pp. 250-251.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">John A. Stiglets Family Collection-Biloxi Public Library, History and Genealogy Archives, Murella H. Powell, curator.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>&quot;Coastlore&quot;</strong>, August 1, 1976.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><em>The Mobile Press Register</em>, <strong>&quot;Stiglet&#39;s Landing Was Active Scene Of Much Trading&quot;</strong>, May 19, 1957.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><em>The Ocean Springs Record</em>, &quot;Sous Les Chenes&quot;, November 10, 1994.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><em>The Ocean Springs Record</em>, &quot;Sous Les Chenes&quot;, May 18, 1995, p. 22.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><em>The Sun Herald</em>, <strong>&quot;Lu Rovena Stiglets Martin&quot;</strong>, February 5, 1997, p. C-2.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">US CENSUS-Harrison County, Mississippi (1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900).</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">U.S. CENSUS-Jackson County, Mississippi (1900)</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong>ROSWELL S. KIMBALL</strong></span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">(1886-1948)</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Roswell Sidney Kimball (1886-1948) was born at Scriven County, Georgia.&nbsp; He married <strong>Elva Stiglets </strong>(1888-1980) circa 1917.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Joseph M. Stiglets (1853-1924) and Melissa H. Stewart (1857-1926) of Woolmarket who married February 5, 1879.&nbsp; Mrs. Kimball&#39;s siblings were:&nbsp; Margaret Olivia Stiglets (1881-1976), Marion Stiglets (b. 1883), Elizabeth Caralyn Stiglets (1885-1976), infant son (1890-1890), Winnie Stiglets (1892-1910), Maud Stiglets (b. 1893), and Lulu Stiglets Martin (1895-1995).</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Joseph M. Stiglets owned a lumber mill and schooner landing, Stiglets Landing, near Woolmarket on the Biloxi River.&nbsp; He was the son of Vincent Stiglets (1810-1893) and Felicity Ladner (1830-1896).&nbsp; His father was born at Austria, and made his livelihood as a ship carpenter.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Roswell Kimball came to the Mississippi coast in 1913.&nbsp; Before he moved to Gautier in the 1930s, Kimball operated a commissary store at a turpentine still at Hilda, Mississippi.&nbsp; Hilda, a small community west of Gautier, was the site of the Lyon Consolidated School.&nbsp; The school took students from Gautier, Martin&#39;s Bluff, and Fontainebleau.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">At Gautier, Kimball bought the general store of Horace Hinds who relocated to Gulfport.&nbsp; The R.S. Kimball Store was located near the L&amp;N depot and U.S. Post Office.&nbsp; The L&amp;N Railroad owned the land and building.&nbsp; In the early 1940s, Kimball sold the store to P.J. Ziegler.&nbsp; Later the</span></span></p>
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	<strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">L&amp;N demolished the building.</span></span></strong></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Kimball moved to Ocean Springs in March 1942, when Mrs. Elva Kimball purchased Lot 1 of the Iberville Subdivision from David M. Davis.(1)&nbsp; She bought Lot 2 in April 1948 from Davis.(2)&nbsp; They lived in the old W.B. Schmidt house at 227 Beach Drive.&nbsp; Kimball was a pulp wood agent for International Paper Company at Moss Point.&nbsp; Home damaged in Camille.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">One son, Roswell S. Kimball, Jr. (1921-1995).&nbsp; Graduated from Biloxi High School in 1938.&nbsp; He also worked as a pulp wood agent for IP, and owned the Kimball Timber Company of Biloxi.&nbsp; Never married.&nbsp; When his mother died in 1980, Kimball inherited the house.(3)&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">R.S. kimball was a Master Mason and member of the McLeod Lodge No. 424.&nbsp; He was also a 32nd degree Mason of the Gulfport Scottish Rite Bodies.&nbsp; Member of the Joppa Temple Shrine and past chairman of the board of the Sunkist Country Club.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Roswell S. Kimball, Jr. died on April 18, 1995.&nbsp; Remains interred at Coalville Cemetery at Woolmarket.&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">1.&nbsp; Jackson County, Mississippi Land Deed Book 79, pp. 406-407.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">2.&nbsp; ------------------------------------- Book 100, pp. 431-432.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">3.&nbsp; Jackson County, Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 40, 293<strong>, &quot;The Estate of Elva S. Kimball&quot;</strong>, (August 14, 1941).</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><strong><u>The History of Jackson County, Mississippi</u></strong>, &quot;Lyon Rural Consolidated Separate School District&quot;, (Jackson County Genealogical Society: Pascagoula, Mississippi-1989), p. 49-50.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><em>The Jackson County Times</em>, <strong>&quot;Roswell Kimball Obit&quot;</strong>, October 8, 1948, p. 1.</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><em>The Ocean Springs Record</em>, <strong>&quot;Roswell S. Kimball&quot;</strong>, April 27, 1995, p.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Personal Communication:</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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	<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">James LeBatard (Gautier, Mississippi)-August 1995.</span></span></p>
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