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('book', 0, 192, 195, 'en', 0, '<pre class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>CIVIL WAR </strong>[1861-1865]\r\n</span></pre>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>TIMELINE</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">January 9, 1861 - Mississippi became the second state to leave the Union.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">January 13, 1861 - Confederate forces occupy Ship Island.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">March 4, 1861- Lincoln inaugurated President at Washington D.C.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">April 12, 1861 - Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston, S.C. by Confederate forces of P.G.T. Beauregard.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">May 21, 1861-Company E, \'Biloxi Rifles\', 3rd Mississippi Regiment, mustered into State service at Jackson, Mississippi.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">July 21, 1861 - Battle of First Bull Run fought in Virginia.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">September 18, 1861 - <strong>Company A,</strong>&nbsp;<strong>The Live Oak Rifles, 3rd Regiment Mississippi Infantry</strong>, were sworn into State service. They had been organized in the spring of 1861 by A.E. Lewis, State Senator James B. McRae, and the Ramsay Family of west Jackson County. Originally 48 volunteers. Organized with the intent of protecting the coast between Ocean Springs and West Pascagoula. They fought in Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">September 16, 1861 - Confederate forces abandon Fort Twiggs and burn the brick lighthouse at Ship Island.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">October 5, 1861-<strong>Company E, \'Biloxi Rifles\',&nbsp;</strong><strong>3rd Regiment Mississippi Infantry,&nbsp;mustered into Confedrate service </strong>at Shieldsboro [Bay St. Louis], Mississippi.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">December 4, 1861 - Vanguard of 18,000 Union troops lands at Ship Island under the command of Major-General Benjamin F. Butler for the assault of New Orleans.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">December 31, 1861-<strong>Biloxi surrendered</strong> to Captain Melancton Smith of the US Navy.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">March 1, 1862 - Ship launch from the&nbsp;<u><strong><em>USS Hartford</em></strong></u>&nbsp;anchored at Ship Island visits Biloxi and Ocean Springs. First Union soldiers to land at Ocean Springs. Did not see over ten people. Met John and Julia Egan, Irish immigrants. Egan was US Postmaster at Ocean Springs (1856-1861). Union soldiers took Egan\'s letter balance, fifty New Orleans newspapers, and a number of dilapidated guns, rifles, and muskets.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">April 25, 1862 - Admiral David G. Farragut <strong>captured the City of New Orleans</strong>.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">May 31, 1864 - After grounding off the extensive flats off Ocean Springs, the&nbsp;<u><strong><em>USS Cowslip</em></strong></u>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong><em><u>USS Narcissu</u></em></strong><u><strong>s</strong></u>, both gunboats, went about twenty-five miles up the Tchoutacabouffa River and destroyed salt works, boats and ferries. They also captured six pleasure yachts. Sawmills and logs were not destroyed. The&nbsp;<strong><em><u>USS Vincennes</u></em></strong>&nbsp;went up Fort Bayou to cut out a schooner. It had been scuttled, but two Confederate officers, Major Toby and Captain Wilkinson, were captured while they slept.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">August 5, 1864 - <strong>Battle of Mobile Bay</strong> fought between Union Navy under Farragut and Confederate force under Franklin Buchanan.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">November 30, 1864-<strong>Captain John P. Elmer</strong> (1842-1864), Company E., Biloxi Rifles, was killed at Franklin, Tennessee.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">June 1947-The <strong>Lyman C. Bradford Post, VFW began planning for a memorial park </strong>between Lameuse and Main Street to <strong>honor Biloxians who lost their lives in WWI and WWI</strong>. &nbsp;The memorial was to cost $3500 and will be donated anonymously by a local citizen.(The Daily Herald, June 5, 1947, p. 13)&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">_______________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ROSTER COMPANY E-THE BILOXI RIFLES</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">George W. Andrews, pvt.,1st Sgt; George Armstrong, pvt., James Armstrong, pvt., 4th, 1st cpl., 5th, 2nd Sgt.; Jacob Baltz, pvt., 4th Sgt.; R. Saunders Bartlett, pvt.; Theobald Balius, pvt.; Charles Bellman, pvy.; F.M. Bennett, 3rd cpl.; John P. Bennett, pvt., 4th, 3rd cp;., 3rd Sgt.; Marion Bennett, pvt.; Charles Bertho, pvt.; E.W. Biggs, pvt.; Leopold Bitterwolf, pvt.; Bochard, E., pvt.; Bourdon, A., pvt., drummer; Simon Bowman, pvt.; A.L. Bradley, pvt.; D.N. Brakefield, pvt.; H.L. Brakefield, pvt., 3rd, 2nd cpl.; John C. Brasher, pvt.;&nbsp;John P. Elmer (1842-1864), 1st Lieut., Capt.;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>UNIT BIOGRAPHIES</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bitterwolf%2C Leon (1844-1912)-1..jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:175px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>LEOPOLD BITTERWOLF</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Leopold Bitterwolf (1844-1912) was a native of&nbsp;&nbsp;Baden-Baden, Germany and came to NOLA circa 1847. Leopold married Margaret Knox (1852-1891) and they were the parents of three children: William Bitterwolf; Mary Catherine Bitterwolf (1878-1940) m. Henry Kern; and Madeleine Bitterwolf (1882-1912).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Leopold Bitterwolf served the CSA from 1861-until at least the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee where he was wounded. &nbsp;He married Adelaide Louise Mestier (1870-1933) at NOLA in June 1892. &nbsp;Leopold died 3 Oct 1912 at NOLA and his corporal remains were interred in the Greenwood Cemetery in the Crescent City.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">At Biloxi, Mississippi Leopold Bitterwolf &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, Friday, October 4, 1912 &nbsp;and The Daily Herald, )</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>THE CAPTURE OF BILOXI*</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the Great War that followed the secession of Mississippi and the other Southern States, there were some little differences of sentiment and sympathy in Biloxi-as was natural in a population composed of elements so varied, and so largely of foreign origin, who had enjoyed the little opportunity for becoming imbued with the principle and traditions prevailing among the Southern people in general. &nbsp;Yet the great majority were faithful and loyal to their State and to the Confederacy and very few of them opposed or foresook, or betrayed , the glorious cause for which their brethern were contending. &nbsp;Some of them attested their fidelty to it with their blood, and many by participation in its hardships and trials. &nbsp;Besides these individuals who entered the service at other places, two companies of volunteers were raised and organized here. &nbsp;One of these the Biloxi Rifles was commanded by the young and gallant Captain John P. Elmer, who was killed with both of his lieutenants, at the blood battyle of Franklin. &nbsp;It was constituted a part of the 3rd Mississippi Regiment. &nbsp;The other, originally known as the \'Henley Invincibles\' was raised and first commanded by Captain John L. Henley, still a resident of Biloxi. &nbsp;It was detailed as for service afloat, many of its men being sailors or fishermen. &nbsp;Captain Henley, being severely wounded while on duty with a gunboat in the Sound was retired, and afterwards elected Mayor of the town. &nbsp;Besides these troops there was a company organized for home defense , under Captain Fewell.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>LOG ARTILLERY</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">No event of real importance occurred at Biloxi itself during the war. &nbsp;The nearest approach to it was the surrender of the town to a Federal fleet on the 31st of December 1861, an affair that was entirely bloodless and comic, rather than a serious nature. &nbsp;A so-called \'battery\' had been constructed near the lighthouse, the defences consisting of several hundred coffee and corn sacks-donated by Jacob Elmer, Eqsuire, the father of Captain Elmer above mentioned, and still a valued citizen of Biloxi-filled with sand. &nbsp;Behind these were mounted two six pounder field pieces, one of them cracked and useless and only the other capable of being fired. &nbsp;The lack of artillery was supplied, however, by several wooden guns, of formidable dimensions, and more conspicuously mounted than, under other circumstances, would have been consistent with the principles of military prudence and secretiveness. &nbsp;The battery commanded the channel of approach, and whenever the Yankee vessels would draw nigh to reconnoiter-as they often did-coming within two or three miles, Mayor Henley with a few other citizens assisting him, would make a great showing of ramming and sponging and elevating and lowering their log artillery. &nbsp;This had for a very long time the desired effect of keeping the enemy at a respectful distance, and on one occasion actually saved from capture a schooner, laden with valuable and much needed supplies, which had run aground a mile or two to the westward, the sight of the guns deterring the blockaders from approaching her in their open launches. &nbsp;On the day above mentioned [December 31, 1861] however, they approached in formidable force, with three gunboats, a detachment of marines from the flagship&nbsp;<u><em><strong>Niagara</strong></em></u>, and two boats crews from the steamer&nbsp;<u><em><strong>Massachusetts</strong></em></u>, all under the command of Captain Melancthon (sic) Smith, of the latter. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A letter from Ship Island, published in a Boston newspaper soon afterwards, and preserved in the 3rd volume of the \'Rebellion Record\', gives an account of what followed, which must be very amusing to those behind the scenes. &nbsp;The letter says that Captain Smith steamed up to within a mile of the fort in the gunboat having the lighest draught, the<u><strong><em>&nbsp;Lewis</em></strong></u><em>,&nbsp;</em>while the other vessels anchored outside, but within range to support the movement. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<u><strong><em>Lewis</em></strong></u>&nbsp;carried a crew of one hundred men and a pretty formidable armament consisting of \'one twenty-pound, rifled, Parrott gun, two twelve-pound rifled guns for James projectiles, one twenty-four pound Dahlgreen (sic) howitzer, and two twelve pound howitizers. &nbsp;Not succeeding in drawing the fire of the battery Captain Smith decided to anchor and go ashore himself with a flag of truce.\' &nbsp;(What a terrible thing it would have been for the fleet if he had succeeded in \'drawing the fire\' of that battery.)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>SURRENDER DEMANDED</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The writer goes on to give a long account &nbsp;of the panic of the citizens, the interview of Captain Smith with the mayor, whom he describes as an old man about sixty-though our esteemed fellow citiizens can hardly be credited with more than three score even at this day, after the lapse of more than twenty years-the negotiations that followed, and the conditions of things in general. &nbsp;In reply to the mayor\'s inquiry as to the object of his visit, Captain Smith said:<em><strong>&nbsp;\"I have come to demand the surrender of this town, with all its fortifications, batteries, vessels in the waters, and all military and warlike stores.\" &nbsp;</strong></em>Considering that the fortifications consisted only of sand bags that the home guards were armed only with shot guns, and that there was no ammunition for the log cannons, or even for the six-pounder field piece, it is no wonder the mayor should have asked an armistice of twenty-four hours before giving an answer to this astinishing demands. &nbsp;He must have had some difficulty in keeping his countenance-to say nothing of his guns. &nbsp;The Federal commander was inflexible, however, and would allow only one hour, at the expiration which his terms were accepted, and the fortifications, battery, warlike stores, and etc. were all unconditionally surrendered. &nbsp;A detachment was sent to take possession of the battery and its contents. &nbsp;The writer of the letter does not say a word about the wooden guns, but we learn from other information, that the officer in command of the party and most of his men, rolled in the sand in a burst of uncontrollable merriment, when they saw what it was they had been so long and cautiously watching from afar through their spyglasses.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Such was the memorable \'Capture of Biloxi\', which the writer from which our account is partly derived, gravely narrates as if it were a great event. &nbsp;He adds a paragraph which may be worth quoting.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>MALE POPULATION GONE TO WAR</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">\"Though the town possessed many natural beauties and redeeming qualities, still everything bore a neglected appearance. &nbsp;The place seemed deserted and no signs of thrift or business were observed. &nbsp;The entire male population capable of of bearing arms had gone to the war, while old men and boys enrolled as home guards. &nbsp;There were not more than fifty men in the place and about five hundred women and children. &nbsp;If the town and hamlets of the North were to make similar sacrifices, how long would the rebels continue to defy the power of the Federal Government?\"</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">It does not appear that the captors valued their new acquisition highly enough to make any effort to hold it, nor, as far as our information serves, did they ever visit the shore again at this point of the war.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>*[Published originally in&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>&nbsp;on October 10, 1885, this was written by Major W.T. Walthall who interviewed the men who took part in this affair, and from the record that is mentioned in the article. &nbsp;The office and files of The Biloxi Herald were destroyed by &nbsp;fire in 1882 (sic) but a copy of this article has been preserved by the family of the author. &nbsp;Copied &nbsp;in May 1941 by H.B. Walthall and published in&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald</em>, June 4, 1941, p. 5)</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">H. Grady Howell, Jr.,&nbsp;<strong>To Live and Die in Dixie, A History of the Third Mississippi Infantry, CSA</strong>, (Chickasaw Bayou Press: Jackson, Mississippi-1991).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Charles L. Sullivan,&nbsp;<strong>The Mississippi Gulf Coast: Portrait of a People</strong>, (Windsor Publications: Northridge, California-1985).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>\"The Capture of Biloxi During the War Between the States\"</strong>, June 4, 1941.</span><br />\r\n&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"\"</strong>,&nbsp;</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"\"</strong>,&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BEAUVOIR&nbsp;</strong><strong>TIME LINE</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1890-1899</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Herald</em>, <strong>\"Local City News\"</strong>, November 21, 1896, p. 8.[A grand BBQ and basket picnic was planned for Perkinston on december 11, 1896. &nbsp;Public invited. &nbsp;Camp Beauvoir Confederate Veterans.]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Uncle <strong>Jake Hollingsworth who was Postmaster at Beauvoir died yesterday</strong> [January 29, 1897].&nbsp; The deceased was well known in the city [Biloxi] and along the Coast and his host of friends will regret his death.&nbsp; The funeral took place today.[The Biloxi Herald, Local City News, January 30, 1897, p. 8]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1900-1909</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News”</strong>, November 10, 1901, p. 8.[<strong>J.J. King, former resident and postmaster at Beauvoir, was found dead at New Orleans </strong>in&nbsp;the Osborne House. &nbsp;he leaves a sister in Alabama.]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, </em><strong>“City News”</strong>, February 4, 1903, p. 6. [Formal transfer of Beauvoir to SCV-Ms.]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Beauvoir</strong>-<strong>James F. Wolfe, an age Veteran, Passes Away</strong><strong>”</strong>, December 16, 1904, p. 6.[James F. Wolfe, one of the old veterans at Beauvoir died today of natural causes. &nbsp;He <strong>arrived here on December 14th and his 70 years weighed heavily upon him.</strong> &nbsp;He had not recovered from an attack of la grippe and came to Beauvour to die. &nbsp;The Mayor of Canton was notified by Manager Kemp and unless instructed otherwise, the funeral will take place at the Beauvoir home tomorrow. &nbsp;Deceased has no near relatives of whom the management of the home are aware.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Beauvoir”</strong>, November 6, 1905.[<strong>William Simmons,</strong> age 69 years, veteran of Co C-11th North Carolina, <strong>died at the Soldier\'s Home on November 6, 1905</strong>. &nbsp;He came to the home seven months agho from Madison County, Mississippi. &nbsp;His remains were interred in the Beauvoir Cemetery.]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald, </em><strong>“National Convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy”</strong>, November 13, 1906, p. 4.[Met at Gulfport, Mississippi for four days, November 14th-November 18th, 1906. &nbsp;Not less than 600 women were expected to attend. &nbsp;The Beauvoir Chapter was represented by Mrs. Dr. Jackson&nbsp;[<strong>Laura Scott Jackson&nbsp;</strong>(1844-1922)]&nbsp;and Mrs. Doctor Bolton. (<strong>Olivia Hill Sones Bolton&nbsp;</strong>(1868-1952)]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“City News”</strong>, December 28, 1906, p. 4. &nbsp;<strong>Hugh F. Cochran</strong> (1831-1906) expired at Beauvoir on December 27, 1906. &nbsp;He came to the home in July 1905 from Scott County, Mississippi. &nbsp;Private Cochran served with the 35th Mississippi Infantry Regiment Company A.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Picayune</em>, <strong>\"Necrology-Robert Dunbar Shepperd\"</strong>, December 10, 1907, p. 16. &nbsp;Robert Dunbar Shepperd, age 73 years, died December 8, 1907 at Beauvoir. &nbsp;He served with Company D-Jeff Davis Legion. Robert came from Chickasaw County to Beauvvoir on March 16, 1905 with Margaret, his spouse. &nbsp;He suffered from wounds and old age. &nbsp;The Reverend Crawford of the Episcopal Church officiated at his graveside service in the Beauvoir Cemetery.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Captain J.M. Mosby</strong> became Superintendent of the Soldier\'s Home at Beauvoir in Ocotber 1908.(The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1910-1919</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi\", </strong>January 17, 1910, p. 8. &nbsp;<strong>D.B. Turnipseed</strong>, age 84 years, died at Beauvoir on 15 January. &nbsp;He came to Beauvoir from Sharkey County, Mississippi on July 29, 1908. &nbsp;Turnipseed served with CO K, 36th Mississippi Infantry.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Confederate dies </strong>[<strong>S.L. Rice</strong> (1828 to 2-16-1912)<strong>”</strong>, February 16, 1912, p. 8.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Beauvoir veteran dead [J.M. T</strong><strong>winer]</strong><strong>”</strong>, October 31, 1912, p. 8.[CO B-18th Mississipppi Regiment. &nbsp;With General Longstreet and Army of Northern Virginia and a Appomattox with General Lee.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Veteran dies </strong>[James M. Williams&nbsp; (1831 to 3-12-1915)&nbsp;<strong>”</strong>, March 12, 1915.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Death at Soldiers Home </strong>[Louisa Jane Smith (1827 to 12-2-1915)]<strong>”</strong>, December 4, 1915.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Louisiana Veteran dies at Beauvoir </strong>[George W. Christy (1837-1916) CO A 7th Louisiana Infantry-New Orleans Tigers, admitted August 13, 1910]<strong> ”</strong>, December 4, 1916. p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Tartt%2C%20Elnathan%20Jackson%20%281876-1947%29.jpg\" style=\"height:153px; width:160px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>Elnathan J. Tartt </strong>(1876-1947)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Elnathan J. Tartt</strong> (1876-1947) became Superintendent of the Jefferson Davis Soldier\'s Home in May 1916.(The Daily Herald, May 8, 1916, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Nathan B. Forrest, </strong>Adjutant-in-Chief and Chief of Staff of the Sons of Confederate Veterans,<strong> leaves today to arrange for the Reunion.</strong>&nbsp;(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1917, p. 3)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"W.B. Burdine </strong>[age 82 and a Georgia native who served with CO C 3rd Alabama Infantry and survived by his widow at the Soldiers Home]<strong> dead\"</strong>, June 16, 1917, p. 3.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/IMG_4776.jpg\" style=\"height:194px; width:295px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[from The Daily Herald, March 8, 1919, p. 3]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>William J. Ray </strong>(1840-1919) was very likely born in Talahatchie County, Mississipppi. &nbsp; He was a resident of&nbsp;Thaxton, Pontotoc County, Mississippi in&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/IMG_4777.jpg\" style=\"height:165px; width:290px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:12px\">[from The Daily Herald, March 8, 1919, p. 3]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Veteran dies at Home&nbsp;</strong>[<strong>William Marshall</strong>&nbsp;(1841-1919), age 78 years and a native of North Carolina, came to Beauvoir from Tallahatchie County, Mississipi in September 1915. &nbsp;He espired at the Beauvoir Soldiers\' Home on August 17, 1919. &nbsp;Billy served with the 42nd North Carolina Infantry. &nbsp;Funeral were under the auspices of the Baptist Church with committal in Beauvoir Cemetery<strong>\"</strong>, August 18, 1919, p. 4.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1920-1929</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Double funeral </strong>[J.E. Mosier (1847-1920), from Charleston, Ms.-served under Gen. N.B. Forrest&nbsp;and P.C. Bell (1837-1920, from Liberty, Mus. CO E, 1st La. Cavalry)-internments in Beauvoir Cemetery&nbsp;]<strong> at Soldiers Home”</strong>, March 22, 1920.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ned Tartt </strong>(1902-1967) <strong>was awarded a special honor </strong>at his graduation from GMAC last week. &nbsp; Also Dr. Folkes gave him a $75 shot gun.(The Daily Herald, June 2, 1920, p. 3.)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Confeds visit Biloxi </strong>[Three cars of the Gpt.&amp; Ms. Coast Traction Co. take veterans fron Beauvoir to Biloxi]<strong>”</strong>, June 3, 1920.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The New Year\'s Day banquet at Beauvoir given to Confederate veterans and spouses</strong> by W.M. Lampton of Magnolia, Mississippi <strong>set a record as 600 pounds of fried chicken</strong>; <strong>3000 Biloxi oysters</strong>; <strong>30 gallons of turnip greens</strong>; <strong>100 linear feet of jelly roll cake</strong>; <strong>25 gallons of sweet milk</strong> and many other &nbsp;delicious delectables were served. &nbsp;The dinner cost about $350 and was paid for by Mr. Lampton/(The Daily Herald, January 1, 1921, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><strong>“Dr. Folkes tells why $100,000 hospital is need at the Old Soldiers\' Home\"</strong>, July 30, 1921, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><strong>“</strong>[Elanathan]<strong> Tartt completes arrangements to carry Vets to Chattanooga free\"</strong>, October 22, 1921, p. 1. [The <strong>L&amp;N RR, Pullman Company and Southern Railway provided 100 free passes </strong>for Confederated veterans to attend 60th Reunion at Chattanooga, Tennessee.&nbsp; Attending with the Beauvoir veterans were: Superintendent Tartt; his wife; Ned Tartt, his son; Dr. H.M. Folkes; Quinea Tarbutton, nurse; and two colored servants].</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Old soldier dead&nbsp; </strong>[Henry C. Williams (1845-1922)-CO I, 4<sup>th</sup> Alabama Cavalry-12<sup>th</sup> death here since January 2, 1922)<strong>”</strong>, March 4, 1922, p. 4.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><strong>\"Contract let for Hospital\"</strong>, October 19, 1923, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>\"New Hospital for Beauvoir will be completed in March\"</strong>, October 22, 1923, p. 1.</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 A. Salley</strong> (1842-1923), spouse of Martha Cohron Salley (1851-1924)&nbsp;<strong>expired on June 26, 1923 i</strong>n the hospital at Beauvoir. &nbsp;He was born at Bunker Hill, Mississipppi and served with CO E, 15th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War. &nbsp;Internment at Evergreen Cemetery at Gulfport, Mississippi.[The Daily Herald, June 26, 1923, p. 3]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On December 16th,&nbsp;<strong>a&nbsp;fire at Beauvoir destroyed Dormitory No. 3</strong>&nbsp;which was situated west of the old hospital. &nbsp;Two Confederate veterans perished in the conflagration,&nbsp;<strong>J.T. Hunter</strong>&nbsp;(1844-1924) and&nbsp;<strong>F.M. Sharp</strong>&nbsp;(1846-1924). &nbsp;They entered the Soldier\'s Home from, Laurel and Columbus respectively.[The Daily Herald, December 17, 1924, p. 1]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Board praise Beauvoir home”</strong>, March 9, 1925, p. 3.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mississippi G.O.P. factions disagree over Beauvoir”</strong>, February 13, 1927, p. 2.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Confedrate soldier dead”</strong>, June 6, 1928, p. 5. &nbsp;<strong>A.T. Daniel</strong>, age 81 years, who entered the <strong>Jeff Davis Soldiers Home in December 1925</strong> died here June 6, 1928. &nbsp;He was a member of Blunt\'s Battalion in the Civil War. He is surviived by Mrs. C.P. Smith, a daughter at Gulfport. &nbsp;The body was taken to Jackson for burial.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“</strong>[Governor Thomas G. Bilbo]<strong> Bilbo presides at Beauvoir meeting”</strong>, February 13, 1928, p. 5.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Three deaths at Beauvoir&nbsp;</strong>[Martha Garrett (1851-1929), Richard Trehorn, and Marie L. Casey (1847-1929)]<strong>”</strong>, January 19, 1929, p. 2.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Reverend Elnathan \'Ned\' Tartt, the&nbsp;</strong>Episcopal minister at&nbsp;Rolling Fork, Mississippi<strong>,&nbsp;</strong>announced his <strong>engagement to Miss Dorothy Porter </strong>of Shannon, Mississippi.<strong>&nbsp; </strong>Dorothy was a graduate of MSCW and the head of modern languages for the public schools of Jackson, Mississippi.<strong>”</strong>, March 18, 1929, p. 2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“W. J. F. Lilly </strong>[age, 82-Co. A 43rd Mississippi Cavalry-entered home from Leake County. Mississippi survived by Lucinda Lilly, his spouse.&nbsp; Corporal remains interred in teh Beauvoir Cemetery]&nbsp; <strong>buried”</strong>,<strong> </strong>September 23, 1929, p. 8.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1930-1939</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><em><strong>“Negro [George Gree</strong></em><em><strong>n (1880-1930) ] injured in attack</strong></em><em><strong>”</strong>, </em><em>March 6,&nbsp;1930, p. 2.</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>T</em><em>he Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Watermelons for Vets”</strong>, April 7, 1930, p. 2.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>T</em><em>he Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Confederate graves marked”</strong>, April 29, 1930. &nbsp;In late April, 1930,&nbsp;sing the official bronze marker approved by the UVC, the <strong>Beauvoir Chapter of the UDC at Gulfport marked 30 Confederate veterans graves</strong> as follows: <strong>&nbsp;Mississippi City Cemetery</strong>-13 markers; <strong>Handsboro Cemetery</strong>-14 markers; and <strong>St. James Catholic Church Cemetery</strong>-3 markers.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>T</em><em>he Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Beauvoir ready for guests”</strong>, June 2, 1930, p. 2.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;The Confederate veterans hold their 40th Reunion at Biloxi.&nbsp;</strong>[see <em>The Daily Herald, June 3, 1930, p. 1</em>)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Commends reunion soldiers”</strong>, August 1, 1930.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>T</em><em>he Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Turnip green Tartt”</strong>, September 15, 1930, p. 2</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>T</em><em>he Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“W.H. Allen dies at Beauvoir”</strong>, September 29, 1930, p. 2. [W.H. Allen, age 93 years of Jackson died at Beauvoir on September 28, 1930. &nbsp;He served with Company G-7th Tennessee Infantry. &nbsp;His corporal remains were sent to Brookhaven for internment. &nbsp;Mr. Allen was survivied by Mrs. W.H. Westbrook-Jackson; Mrs. N. Williams-Jackson; Mrs. J.G. Guynn-Birmingham; Mrs. P.H. Lee-Birmingham; Mrs. J.N. Hickman-Jacksonville; J.T. Allen-Jackson; and W.L. Allen-Louisville.]</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>T</em><em>he Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mourn Polly\'s death at Beauvoir home”</strong>, October 4, 1930, p. 2.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>T</em><em>he Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tartts leave tomorrow”</strong>, October 14, 1930, p. 2.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Trustees of Beauvoir meet”</strong>, 1932, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>T.L. Nichols</strong>, 84 year-old inmate of the Soldiers’ Home married <strong>Mrs. Alice Henshaw</strong>, age 65 years, a wealthy widow of Senatobia, Mississippi, who has been visiting at the home for four days.&nbsp; The groom has been in the home for two years coming from Marshall County.&nbsp; Their nuptials were witnessed by about 150 people.&nbsp; The newlyweds left for Senatobia, where they will reside at the home of Mrs. Nichols.<em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“T.L. Nichols, 84, Mrs. A. Henshaw, 65, marry at Beauvoir”</strong>, January 19, 1932.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Confederate chief [</strong><strong>General Charles A. DeSaussure</strong><strong>] still busy at 85”</strong>, January 19, 1932.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Havens%2C%20Joseph%20W.jpg\" style=\"height:147px; width:118px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joseph&nbsp;Wesley Havens</strong></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span><span style=\"color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif\">(1881-1941)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Elnathan J. Tartt</strong> (1876-1947) was replaced by <strong>Joseph W. Havens</strong> as Superintendent of Beauvoir on July 1, 1932. &nbsp;<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Joseph \'Joe\' Wesley Havens</strong></span></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">(1881-1941) was born May 24, 1881 at Vancleave, Jackson County, Mississippi to Abizer Havens (1858-1933) and Margarette Berry Havens (1849-1907).</span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\"> </span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">(The Daily Herald, June 13, 1932, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Celebration at Beauvoir”</strong>, June 7, 1933, p. 6.</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.F. Barclay</strong>, age 88&nbsp;years and former member of Co H-18th Mississippi Regiment, died October 12, 1933, at Beauvoir. &nbsp;He had been visited by his wife and three sons from Magnolia, Mississippi.(The Daily Herald, October 14, 1933, p. 4 and October 19, 1933, 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\"><strong>J.H. Turner</strong>, age 102 years and native of South Carolina, served with Co J-41st Georgia Battalion died December 20, 1933. &nbsp;Buried Beauvoir Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, January&nbsp;12, 1934, p. 10)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><em><strong>“Confederate Veteran</strong> [H. Walker in Battle of Shiloh at age 14 years.&nbsp; Lives 1624 3rd Street and </em><em>served with CO F Baldwin Rifles-21st Alabama Regiment<strong>] taking Herald 29 years”</strong>, September 20, 1934, p. 1.</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Books presented </strong>[BHS] <strong>school\", </strong>February 18, 1936, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Confederate Memorial Day”</strong>, April 25, 1935, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Memorial service</strong> [in memory of Jefferson Davis] <strong>in Church of Redeemer\", </strong>June 1938, p.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Military Crosses presented during program at Beauvoir\", </strong>June 4, 1938, p. 6.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1940-1949</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Beauvoir shrine to open July 1”</strong>, May 2, 1940, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Sons &amp; Daughters to restore Beauvoir”</strong>, May 7, 1940, &nbsp;p. 5.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“New directors for Beauvoir named”</strong>, May 9, 1940, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Honor Guard from [Camp] Shelby coming to Shrine dedication”</strong>, May 30, 1941, p. 9.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Beauvoir preview will be Saturday”</strong>, February 6, 1941, &nbsp;p .1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Fine work accomplished in Beauvoir restoration”</strong>, February 8, 1941, p. 7.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Will dedicate Beauvoir June 3”</strong>, February 10, 1941, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Jeff Davis Shrine to be dedicated today”</strong>, June 3, 1941, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Recommittal of Samuel Davis (</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202017-07-07%20at%2010.32.52%20AM.png\" style=\"height:500px; width:116px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p>from The Daily Herald, September 9, 1942, p. 6.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald</em></em>, <strong>\"Children of Confederacy meet with Miss Redding\",</strong> October 7, 1942, p. 2.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Mrs. Roach dies</strong> [age 84 years, widow of J.M. Roach, Co. C, 24th Ms Cavalary-buried Beauvoir Cemetery]<strong>\"</strong>, January 19, 1944, p. 7.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Children of the Confederacy”</strong>, February 10, 1944, p. 6.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Last Confederate veteran </strong>[John Wesley Castles (1847-1944)] <strong>dies at Beauvoir\", </strong>October 26, 1944, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Beauvoir group seeks to raise 250 thousand </strong>[dollars for tropical garden to perpetuate the memory of the Men in Gray]<strong>”</strong>, January 3, 1946, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Confederates leaving for their homes on Wednesday”</strong>, October 9, 1946, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Movies made of Confederate vets </strong><strong>[at 56th Annual Reunion at Edgewater Gulf &nbsp;Hotel]</strong><strong>”</strong>, October 10, 1946, p. 5.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Mrs. </strong>[Josie]<strong> Rankin assumes duties as Beauvoir Superintendent”</strong>, October 15, 1946, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mrs. Hattie Thompson, age 83 years, native of Bay Springs and an inmate at Jefferson Davis Home</strong>, died Tuesday night. Mary Glenn, Bay Springs, and Emma Kelly, Gainesville, Florida, her daughters, were at her bedside. Mrs. Thompson was also survived by a son, Charles Athcley of Taylorsville. Funeral services were from the Hospital Chapel by the Reverend C.G. Hodge. Internment was in the Beauvoir Memorial Cemetery.[The Daily Herald, July 21, 1948, p. 8]</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>Elnathan J. Tartt</strong>&nbsp;(1876-1947) expired at Meridian, Mississippi on January 17, 1947. &nbsp;Burial Magnolia Cemetery at Meridian.(The Daily Herald, January 18, 1947, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“New&nbsp;</strong><strong>Beauvoir Head</strong>&nbsp;[L. Marie Pearce]<strong>&nbsp;named”</strong>, August 3, 1948, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>L. Marie Pearce of Poplarville, Mississippi assumed duties of superintendent of Beauvoir </strong>on August 1st, replaceing Josie Rankin of Gulfport. &nbsp;Dr. B.Z. Welch named physician.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"12 inmates are now at Beauvoir\"-&nbsp;</strong>[Marie Pearce, Superintendent.&nbsp; 400 widows and half dozen veterans eligible for admission.&nbsp; Some Board members at this time: <strong>Calvin E. Dees</strong>-Perkinston; <strong>Mrs. Ben Stevens</strong>-Hattiesburg; <strong>Mrs. A.C</strong>. <strong>Moore</strong>-Hattiesburg; <strong>Mrs. Bertha McInnis</strong>-Laurel; and <strong>J.J. Henry</strong>-Laurel], October 6, 1948, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Confederate Vets still undecided about final reunion\"</strong>, October 6, 1948, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1950-1959</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. Davis\' shawl added to Beauvoir museum collection”</strong>, April 14, 1952, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“Gifts for widows at Beauvoir Home”</strong>, January 5, 1957, p. 1.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald, </em><strong>“”</strong>, 19.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>POST-CIVIL WAR</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The 1st Battalion Mississippi National Guard was completed in early February. &nbsp;<strong>Dr. J.J. Lemon </strong>was promoted to Captain and named surgeon of the 1st Battalion. &nbsp;<strong>Harry T. Howard&nbsp;</strong>(1856-1930),&nbsp;<strong>Captain of the Jeff Davis Light Artillery</strong>, was promoted to&nbsp;<strong>Major, 1st Battalion of the Mississippi National Guard</strong>. &nbsp; <strong>Lt. Colonel E.W. Merrill was ill</strong> at his Moss Point home.(The Biloxi Herald, February 4, 1888, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In February,&nbsp;<strong>Constantine Olivari&nbsp;</strong>(1841-1894)<strong>&nbsp;was elected Captain</strong>&nbsp;of the Jeff Davis Light Artillery in March to replace Captain Howard. &nbsp;Captain Olivari received his commission from Governor Lowry in late May.(The Biloxi Herald, March 10, 1888, p. 8 and June 2, 1888, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Lamar Guards, a military company of heavy artillery</strong>, was organized at Biloxi in January. Officers were:&nbsp;<strong>Henry J. Meaut</strong>&nbsp;(1842-1934), Captain;&nbsp;<strong>Carey Holliman&nbsp;</strong>(1860-1935) 1st Lieutenant;<strong>Thomas D. Bachino</strong>&nbsp;(1861-1891), 2nd Lieutenant;&nbsp;<strong>Joseph Ott</strong>&nbsp;(1855-1932), Sgt.-at-Arms; and&nbsp;<strong>Dan MCDonald</strong>, secretary. &nbsp;The officers were commissioned by Governor Robert Lowry (1831-1910) in March. &nbsp;Some of the Springfield Rifles and cartridges for the Lamar Guards arrived in February. &nbsp;Other founding members were:&nbsp;<strong>Dan Markey&nbsp;</strong>(1855-1900);&nbsp;<strong>Peter Gillen&nbsp;</strong>(1859-1898)&nbsp;<strong>M.J. Grady&nbsp;</strong>(1841-1898);&nbsp;<strong>Oscar Meaut&nbsp;</strong>(1859-1935);&nbsp;<strong>Joseph Arguelles</strong>&nbsp;(1865-1944);&nbsp;<strong>Sam Shaw</strong>; and J<strong>ohn W. Henley&nbsp;</strong>(d. 1918).(The Biloxi Herald, January 21, 1888, p. 1, February 11, 1888, p. 8 and March 3, 1888, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">___________________________________________________________________</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>SPANISH AMERICAN WAR and BILOXI</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Time Line</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Slightly over one-hundred ten years ago, the United States and Spain fought a short-term global war. Although the causes for this bellicose action is complex possibly being a combination of Spain’s long internal strife with the Cuban people, the aggressive nature of American capitalism, and yellow journalism by the American press, this conflict had its immediate cause at Havana, Cuba, where the&nbsp;<strong><em>USS Maine</em></strong>, a 318-foot long, American battleship, commanded by Captain Sigsbee, was mysteriously destroyed on February 15, 1898. Several hundred American service men, aboard the Brooklyn Navy Yard built vessel, were killed by a large internal explosion, possibly caused by spontaneous combustion of her coal bunkers. (<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>, February 18, 1898, p. 2)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Republican President William McKinley (1843-1901) and the US Congress declared war on Spain on April 21, 1898. The Spanish-American War had several impacts on Mississippi and the South. The economy in the region improved, but the conflict was also the catalyst, which returned Southern people to the mainstream of American cultural life. The pangs of the Civil War defeat and Reconstruction were still felt in the South. The Spanish-American War united former enemies and a new sense of nationalism was reborn. As one former Confederate soldiers said,&nbsp;<strong><em>\"if we couldn’t whip Uncle Sam in four years we shouldn’t</em></strong><em>&nbsp;<strong>allow someone else to come here and do what we couldn’t do ourselves\"</strong>.</em>&nbsp;(McLemore-1973, p. 492)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1898</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>USS Maine</em></strong>, a 318-foot long, American battleship, commanded by Captain Sigsbee, was mysteriously destroyed on February 15, 1898.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Republican <strong>President William McKinley</strong> (1843-1901) and the US Congress declared war on Spain on April 21, 1898. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Thirty-one Biloxians volunteer to serve in what would become <strong>Company D of the 1<sup>st</sup> Mississippi Volunteer Regiment</strong>.&nbsp; This group of men was based in Scranton [Pascagoula], Mississippi and led by <strong>Edgar Rollins DuMont</strong>.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 14, 1898, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Gus Henzelena, Jap Brugniens, John Andrews, Ed Weber, Walter Champlin, Jack King, William H, Smith encamped at Chickamauga, Tennessee <strong>returned to Biloxi for a thirty day leave.</strong>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 17, 1898, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Private Emile Tremmel&nbsp;</strong>(1868-1898), a native of New Orleans, died of sickness at Camp Chickamauga, Tennessee, on August 26, 1898. His remains were accompanied to Biloxi by Gus Henzelena (1869-1953). (<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<em>December 22, 1898, p. 8, and August 27, 1898, p. 8)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>TREMMEL MEMORIAL</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Emile Tremmel (1868-1898), a native of NOLA, expired at Camp Chicamauga, Chicamauga National Park, Georgia on August 25, 1898. &nbsp;Mr. Tremmel had been a volunteer fireman at Biloxi and volunteered to fight the Spanish in Cuba as a member of Company D, 1st Mississippi Volunteers. &nbsp;He died of typhoid fever and his corporal remains were brought to Biloxi by Gus Henzelena, a fellow soldier, and August Tremmel, his brother, for internment in the Biloxi Cemetery. &nbsp;A monument to his memory was unveiled on &nbsp;February &nbsp; &nbsp;1899.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 21, 1899, p. 8)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>James Sheasby&nbsp;</strong>(who left Biloxi to enlist in the US Navy several months ago has received his discharge.&nbsp; He was on the <strong><em>USS Buccaneer</em></strong> and saw active service at Santiago [Cuba].(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 20, 1898, p.8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Buccaneer</em></strong>--a schooner-rigged, single-screw, steam yacht constructed in 1888 at Boston, Mass., by Richard Keogh--was acquired by the Navy in the spring of 1898 from William Randolph Hearst, the prominent New York publisher, and placed in commission on 13 June 1898, Lt. H. K. Hines in command. Ten days later, Lt. A. M. Mayer relieved Lt. Hines in command.&nbsp; Probably taken over and commissioned at New York, Buccaneer may have been fitted out there or at Tampa, Fla. Hard evidence supporting either location is utterly lacking. All that is recorded is that she was at Tampa on 5 August 1898. She departed Tampa that same day and arrived in Key West the following day. Again, the duties she performed there are unrecorded.&nbsp;<em>Buccaneer</em>&nbsp;departed Key West on 18 August and arrived in Norfolk, Va., on 22 August. Almost two weeks later on 4 September, she got underway for New York. The yacht arrived in New York the following day.&nbsp;<em>Buccaneer</em>&nbsp;was decommissioned on 12 September 1898 and subsequently returned to her owner.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1899</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Corporal John Meunier and Private John Griffin of Heed’s [sic] Regiment are home again.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, June 27, 1899, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1934</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Admiral P. Magruder Camp of Spanish American War veterans held a memorial service at the BYC in memory of the 266 men who were killed when the <strong><em>USS Maine</em></strong> sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898.&nbsp; The H.D. Money Camp of Gulfport cooperated with the Biloxi camp in sponsoring the event which was attended by 45 Boy Scouts from Biloxi, representatives of various patriotic organizations, and invited guests of the camp and its auxiliary.&nbsp; E.J. Scott, commander of the Biloxi camp, presided over the gathering.(The Daily Herald, February 6, 1934, p. 2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1936</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Reverend John Campbell of the Presbyterian Church to honor those American servicemen lost at Havana, Cuba on February 15, 1898, delivered a memorial address to members of the Admiral Thomas P. Magruder Camp, veterans of the Spanish-American War.(The Daily Herald, February 18, 1936, p. 3)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Admiral Thomas P. Magruder-Camp No. 19-Biloxi, Mississippi</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">William F. Jones, commander; F.J. Bettinger Sr., vice commander; Harry L. Moody Jr., vice commander; E.J. Scott, quartermaster; John M. Thomas, adjutant; John G. Whelen, officer of the day; James C. Banks, officer of the guard; E.C. Rowen, trustee; C.W. Trotter, trustee; E.E. Cooper, trustee; John R. Meunier; Major Wooters; Gordon W. Cogan; Amile Bonham; John Fayard; Anthony V. Foretich; Charles G. Elfers; and L.J. Rafferty.(Lang, 1936, p. 54)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1937</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marks P. Richardson,</strong> age 64 years, Spanish American War veteran, died at 8:55 p.m., March 5, 1937 at the veterans; Adminkstration. &nbsp;He was admitted on June 27, 1936. &nbsp;<strong>Marks enlisted in the US Army on May 10, 1898 and was honorably discharges on December 20, 1898, as a private in CO E, Ist Mississippi Infantry.</strong> &nbsp;Mrs. Francis McMasterts Richardson, his spouse, resides in the Como Hotel, at Jackson, Mississippi.(The Daily Herald, March 6, 1937, p. 2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1941</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mrs. L. Holzer hosted the <strong><em>USS Maine</em></strong> Memorial services of the <strong>H.D. Money Camp and Auxiliary of the Spanish American War.</strong> &nbsp;<strong>Commander John L. Heis</strong>s served as master of ceremonies. &nbsp;<strong>John Brownlee,</strong> advanced the colors, and <strong>W.A. Thornton</strong> gave the invocation. &nbsp;Members of the auxiliary sang \'America\' accompaied by <strong>Madame Lillye Violet Carrara</strong>. &nbsp;<strong>Ed Watts </strong>gave a short memorial talk and <strong>H.M. Harless </strong>provided the benediction. &nbsp;Refreshments were served by Mrs. Holzer.(The Daily Herald, February 18, 1941, p. 10)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Victor Muleon</strong>, commander.(The Daily Herald, February 20, 1941, p. 14)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1943</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Leonard Hopkins</strong> (1875-1943), native of San Augustine, Texas and resident of Biloxi for over fifty years died at Biloxi on &nbsp;December 24, 1943 . &nbsp;Mr. Hopkins resided on Reynoir Street and served as a private in the 2nd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry.(The Daily Herald, &nbsp;December 27, 1943, p. 5.)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1</strong><strong>983</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Herman Miller </strong>(1880-1983), native of Sweden and Spanish-American War veteran, expired in the Minneapolis, Minnesota VA Hospital.&nbsp; He was national commander of the Spanish-American War Veterans in 1979-1980.&nbsp; Mr. Miller was recommended for the Medal of Honor by his commanding officer, but time, loss of records and the US Army prevented him from this courageous award.(The Daily Herald, April 11, 1983, p. A2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Volunteers</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>COMPANY D, 1st MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ROSTER</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Captain Edgar R. duMont of Scranton [Pascagoula]</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John Andrews</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jap Brugniens</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Walter Champlin</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Sergeant ? &nbsp;Hahn</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">August Henzelena</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jack King</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Leon Meunier</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Richards</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">W.H. Smith</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Emile Tremmel (1868-1898)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Edward Weber</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxians who volunteered to serve their country in the Spanish American War joined the Scranton [Pascagoula] Company, which became Company D of the 1<sup>st</sup> Mississippi Volunteer Regiment.&nbsp; W.P. Henley, former Captain of Battery D, and Albert ‘Tab’ Irish Hann, formerly 1<sup>st</sup> Lieutenant of Battery A, both enlisted as privates.&nbsp; Hann had been elected to his post in November 1897.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 27, 1897, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Henley and Hann left Biloxi in May 1918 to enlist with the following Biloxians: A.J. Meynier; John Fayard; August ‘Gus’ Henzelena (1869-1953); Anthony V. Foretich; John T. Andrews (1860-1908); Walter G. Champlin; Edward Caillavet (1874-1923); John Griffin; J. Lamy [sic]; B. Compus [sic]; W.F. Jones; Arthur E. &nbsp;Richard (1877-1949);&nbsp; John ‘Jack’ T. King; R. Anderson Dancer (1878-1915); Emile Joseph Pons (1865-1914); Harry Bowers; Jasper ‘Jap’ Brugniens; John Rene Meunier (1880-1944); Leon Charles Meunier (1878-1922); William H. Smith; Nels J. Peters (1868-1935); John Dumar?; Gordon&nbsp; M. Dawson; W.D. Simms; James Williams;&nbsp; J.E. ‘Ed’ Weber; C.C. Harlan; and Sam Murray.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 14, 1898, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biographies</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John T. Andrews</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John T. Andrews&nbsp;</strong>(1860-1908) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi to George W. Andrews (1823-) and Caroline G. Andrews (1838-1886).&nbsp; He married Rosa Llado in Harrison County, Mississippi on February 15, 1882.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 7, p. 342)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John T. Andrews 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></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Edward Caillavet</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Edward Caillavet</strong>(1874-1923)-was born in December 1874, at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; Edward Caillavet relocated to New Orleans circa 1896.&nbsp; He was familiarly known as \"Nig\" Caillavet.&nbsp; Edward Caillavet died November 15, 1923, at Jackson, East Feliciana parish, Louisiana, after a long illness.<em>(The Daily Herald</em>, November 16, 1923, p. 3)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>R. Anderson Dancer</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>R. Anderson Dancer</strong>(1878-1915) was born at Buenavista, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, the son of John W. Dancer and Carolina E. Bean. He arrived at Biloxi circa 1900 and was the brother of Jessie Dancer Cousins (1874-1957), the spouse of Joseph H. Cousins (1874-1917). In 1909, Danser was an associate of Fred P. Abbley (1882-1941).(The Ocean Springs News, April 15, 1915, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mr. Dancer came to Ocean Springs circa 1909, and opened a movie theater, called The Vaudette, on Washington Avenue. He sold it to E.W. Illing (1870-1947) in September 1909. In November 1909, Mr. Dancer went to Lumberton, Mississippi with Willie Engbarth to open a movie house. Apparently, things did not work as <em>The Ocean Springs News</em> reported that R.A. Dancer sold his movie house and returned to Ocean Springs in December 1909, with Charles Engbarth.(The Ocean Springs News, September 11, 1909, November 13, 1909, November 20, 1909, and December 25, 1909)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">R. Anderson Dancer (1878-1915) married <strong>Carrie Engbarth</strong> (1889-1967+), the daughter of Emile Engbarth (1855-1905) and Magalene Jeanette Arndt (1856-1938) &nbsp;at Ocean Springs on November 30, 1911. Dr. Chipman of the Pascagoula Episcopal Church officiated. (The Daily Herald, December 1, 1911, p. 4)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Anthony V. Foretich</strong></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>Albert I. Hann</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Albert I. Hann </strong>(1879-1933) was born&nbsp;&nbsp; . He married Alice King (1879-1964) of Birmingham, Alabama.&nbsp; Expired December&nbsp; 1933.&nbsp;&nbsp; Three children: Cornelia Hann(1902)&nbsp; m. John G. West; Gelon Hann (1903); and Elizabeth ‘Betty Hann (1905-1991) m. Mr. Chastang and Ulric Seuzeneau (1902-1982)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Buried Chalmette National Cemetery, Chalmette, Louisiana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>Leon C. Meunier</u></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>John R. Meunier</u></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>Nels J. Peters</u></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>Emile J. Pons</u></strong></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-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>US Navy</u></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>James H. Sheasby</u></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>James H. Sheasby </strong>(1877-1938) was born in England and came to America in 1898.&nbsp; He married Irene Helena Collier (1882-1958), a Mississippi &nbsp;lass, in Harrison County, Mississippi on April 8, 1901.&nbsp; They were the parents of eight children: Elvera Lucille Sheasby (1902-1955) m. Mr. Smith; James Collier Sheasby (1906-1971) m. Mildred Norman; Harold Sheasby (1908-1957); Elbert James Sheasby (1909-1968) m. Nell Stark; Marguerite Sheasby (1910-1988)&nbsp; m. Arthur L. Dickinson; Reynolds O. Sheasby (1913-2002); Charlotte Sheasby (1916-1990) m. Mr. Meyers; and Doris Sheasby (1919-2002) m. Richard M. Corkern (1917-1991).(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 13, p. 110)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After the Spanish-American War commenced, James H. Sheasby enlisted in the United States Navy.&nbsp; He was discharged in October 1898 and returned to Biloxi.&nbsp; While in military service he served on the USS Buccaneer [sic and probably USS Brooklyn] at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba in&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1898.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 20, 1898, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">James H. Sheasby and family lived at 221 Kuhn Street in Biloxi.&nbsp; He made his livelihood as a marine engineer and boat captain.&nbsp; On October 14, 1906, James H. Sheasby was burned badly at Daigle’s Wharf in Houma, Louisiana when the gasoline boat that he crewed on exploded.&nbsp; He was employed by the Pelican Lake Oyster and Packing Company.&nbsp; Captain Peter Harvey appears to have been in command of the vessel which was a total loss and valued at $5000.&nbsp; Following the boating accident, Mr. Sheasby returned to Biloxi via New Orleans.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 16, 1906, p. 2 and October 31, 1906)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">James H. Sheasby expired on December 7, 1938 at the US Marine Hospital at New Orleans.&nbsp; His corporal remains were interred in the St. Roch Cemetery No. 1 at New Orleans.(The Times-Picayune, December 8, 1938, p. 23)</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-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><u>US VOLUNTEERS</u></strong><strong>&nbsp;-5<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Immune Regiment</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">This unit, composed of men from Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, was mustered at Columbus, Mississippi, in late July 1898.&nbsp;<strong>Colonel H. H. Sargent</strong>&nbsp;was in command. &nbsp;The 5<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Immune Regiment was sent to Cuba to relieve the troops of General Shafter at Santiago de Cuba, after the fighting there had subsided. They performed garrison duty here from August 1898 until March 1899. Their chief enemy was malaria and yellow fever and the other pestilence which pervaded this tropical island. (Rowland-1978, p. 560). &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The 5<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Immune Regiment left Columbus, Mississippi on August 6, 1898, for Savannah, Georgia, their embarkation point for southeastern Cuba. The troop transports left Savannah on the 8<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;of August, and arrived at Santiago de Cuba on the morning of August 12, 1898.&nbsp;<strong>Major James K. Vardaman</strong>&nbsp;(1861-1930), who resigned from the editorship of&nbsp;<em>The Greenwood Commonwealth&nbsp;</em>to lead a battalion of soldiers of the 5<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Immunes, wrote a series of letters to his wife,&nbsp;<strong>Anna Burleson Robinson Vardaman</strong>. They give a detailed picture of a soldier’s life and living conditions in the tropics.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Vardaman letters were published in&nbsp;<em>The Journal of Mississippi History,</em>&nbsp;in April 1947. Before the Spanish-American War, Texas native, J.K. Vardaman, was a lawyer-newspaper editor. He practiced law at Winona and was editor of&nbsp;<em>The Winona Advance</em>&nbsp;(1882). Vardaman relocated to the Delta and edited&nbsp;<em>The</em>&nbsp;<em>Greenwood Enterprise</em>-<em>Greenwood Commonwealth&nbsp;</em>from 1890-1903. Returning from Cuba, he entered politics and was elected as a populist Democratic Governor serving the State from 1904-1908, in that capacity. Vardaman was Mississippi’s U.S. Senator from 1913-1919. He became known as \"the great white father\". (Biographical Directory of the American Congress-1961, p. 1751). &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Major James K. Vardaman led about 82 enlisted men from Mississippi to Cuba. These young men left home robust and healthy. At Cuba, seven died, twenty-five were sent home, and for the most part the remainder&nbsp;<strong>\"looked more like half-animated cadavers</strong>&nbsp;<strong>than the stalwart men they were when the regiment first landed on Cuban soil\".</strong>&nbsp;(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>,&nbsp;<em>April 14, 1899)</em>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May 1899, the 5<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;US Volunteer Infantry was sent to Camp Meade at Middleton, Pennsylvania. They were mustered out in June 1899. (<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>,&nbsp;<em>May 19, 1899)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biographies</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William E. Ryan</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Corporal William Edward \"Will\" Ryan</strong>&nbsp;(1877-1925)-William E. Ryan was the son of&nbsp;<strong>Antoine Ryan</strong>&nbsp;(1846-1908) and&nbsp;<strong>Marie Ryan</strong>&nbsp;(1846-1886+) of Ocean Springs, Missisippi. During the Spanish-American War, he served in Company A of the 5<sup>th</sup> Immune</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After the conflict, Will Ryan worked on a steamboat in 1900, and moved to Biloxi circa 1907, where he worked for the Biloxi police force. Ryan later made his livelihood as keeper of the Biloxi Yacht Club. He married&nbsp;<strong>Theodora Vuyovich&nbsp;</strong>(1886-1944) of Biloxi. Their children were:&nbsp;<strong>Oliver Ryan</strong>&nbsp;(1907-1930+),&nbsp;<strong>Marshall J. Ryan</strong>&nbsp;(1910-1930),&nbsp;<strong>Theodora Ryan</strong>&nbsp;(c. 1914),&nbsp;<strong>Rayoal Ryan</strong>&nbsp;(c. 1917), and&nbsp;<strong>William Ryan</strong>. The family resided at 804 Reynoir Street. &nbsp;Will Ryan’s corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery. (<em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<em>December 2</em>,&nbsp;<em>1925, p. 2, </em>and Krohn, 1995, p. 16).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A son, Marshall J. Ryan (1910-1930), died of pneumonia in March 1930. He worked for the Mississippi Ice and Utilities Company. (<em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<em>March 15, 1930, p. 2)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Arthur Lang, <strong><u>History of Harrison County, Mississippi</u></strong>, (The Dixie Press: Gulfport, Mississippi-1936).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Latest City News’</strong>, November 27, 1897.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Biloxi furnishes her quota of Volunteers’</strong>, May 14, 1898.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Biloxi’s dead soldier </strong>[Emile Tremmel]<strong>’</strong>, August 27, 1898.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Local Brevities’</strong>, August 30, 1898.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Local and Personal’</strong>, September 10, 1898.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Local and Personal’</strong>, September 17, 1898.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Hood’s Immunes’</strong>, October 14, 1898.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Local and Personal’</strong>, October 20, 1898.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘The </strong>[Emile Tremmel]<strong>monument unveiled’</strong>, February 21, 1899.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Local and Personal’</strong>, June 27, 1899.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Personal’</strong>, October 31, 1906.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Locals’</strong>, October 16, 1906.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>‘Necrology-John T. Andrews’</strong>, September 26, 1908.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Biloxian </strong>[Albert I. Hann]<strong>tells of work in Cuba’</strong>, April 18, 1912.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Corporal William E. Ryan’</strong>, December 2, 1925.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Marshall Ryan Dies’</strong>, March 15, 1930.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Hann’</strong>, December 4, 1933.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Memorial service for men who lost lives on the <em>Maine</em>’</strong>, February 6, 1934.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Henry Coley buried’</strong>, February 16, 1934.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Memorial Service’</strong>, February 18, 1936.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\'Leonard Hopkins dies\'</strong>, December 27, 1943.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Spanish-American War vet dies’</strong>, April 11, 1983.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Houston Chronicle, <strong>‘Doris Sheasby Corkern’</strong>, July 4, 2002.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune<strong>, ‘Murder victim believed to be Albert K.</strong> (sic) <strong>Hann’</strong>, December 5, 1933.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune<strong>, ‘Services for Captain Sheasby’</strong>, May 6, 1938.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Times-Picayune<strong>, ‘Hann’</strong>, May 6, 1964.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Some Biloxians who served in Company D, under Captain duMont were:&nbsp;<strong>Gus Henzelena&nbsp;</strong>(1869-1953),&nbsp;<strong>A.V. Foretich</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Tom McCabe</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>W. Smith</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>John Fayard</strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Emile Tremmel</strong>. Private Emile Tremmel (1869-1898), a native of New Orleans, died of sickness at Camp Chickamauga, Tennessee, in late August 1898 His remains were accompanied to Biloxi by Gus Henzelena. (<em>The Biloxi Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<em>December 22, 1898, p. 8, c. 1 and August 27, 1898, p. 8, c. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Also,&nbsp;<strong>Albert Irish Hann</strong>, son of Gelon Hann. (see DH, 12-4-1933, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:100.0%\">\r\n	<tbody>\r\n		<tr>\r\n			<td style=\"width:9.1%\">\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n			</td>\r\n			<td style=\"width:90.9%\">\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n			</td>\r\n		</tr>\r\n	</tbody>\r\n</table>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>COMPANY A, 5th US VOLUNTEER INFANTRY</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Corporal William E. Ryan (18177-1925) m. Theodora Vuyovich. &nbsp;Died December 1, 1925.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>COMPANY D, 1st MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>ROSTER</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Captain Edgar R. duMont of Scranton [Pascagoula]</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John Andrews</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jap Brugniens</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Walter Champlin</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Sergeant ? &nbsp;Hahn</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">August Henzelena</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jack King</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Leon Meunier</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Richards</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">W.H. Smith</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Emile Tremmel (1868-1898)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Edward Weber</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>TREMMEL MEMORIAL</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Emile Tremmel (1868-1898), a native of NOLA, expired at Camp Chicamauga, Chicamauga National Park, Georgia on August 25, 1898. &nbsp;Mr. Tremmel had been a volunteer fireman at Biloxi and volunteered to fight the Spanish in Cuba as a member of Company D, 1st Mississippi Volunteers. &nbsp;He died of typhoid fever and his corporal remains were brought to Biloxi by Gus Henzelena, a fellow soldier, and August Tremmel, his brother, for internment in the Biloxi Cemetery. &nbsp;A monument to his memory was unveiled on &nbsp;February &nbsp; &nbsp;1899.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 21, 1899, p. 8)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>WORLD WAR &nbsp;I </strong>[1914-1918]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi-Glennan%20Park-WWI_0.jpg\" style=\"height:226px; width:350px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>WWI MEMORIAL-GLENNAN PARK</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>East Beach Drive-US Highway No. 90</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;TIMELINE</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">June 28, 1914-<strong>Archdule Franz Ferdinand of Austria</strong>, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was assignated in Serbia.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">July 28, 1914-<strong>Serbia invaded by Austro-Hungarians</strong> followed by German invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg, and France and a Russian attack against Germany.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">April 6, 1917-<strong>United States of America</strong> enters WW I.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Grayson%2C%20Thomas%20J._0.jpg\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Thomas J. Grayson</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">October 1918-<strong>Thomas J. Grayson</strong>, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army,&nbsp;28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, A.E.F.&nbsp;Date of Action: October 2 - 3, 1918-General Orders No. No. 16, W.D., 1920-Citation:&nbsp;The <strong>Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Thomas J. Grayson, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Exermont, France, October 2 - 3, 1918. &nbsp;</strong>Lieutenant Grayson commanded a combat patrol which penetrated 2 kilometers into the enemy lines, and although twice attacked he maintained his position for 36 hours without supplies before returning to our lines with valuable information. The leadership and initiative displayed by Lieutenant Grayson were vital factors in the successful performance of this important mission.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.000000953674316px;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/49192642_135026542654.jpg\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.000000953674316px;\">Arlington National Cemetery</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.000000953674316px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.000000953674316px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.000000953674316px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.000000953674316px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On November 3rd,&nbsp;<strong>fifty veteran soldiers and sailors met</strong>&nbsp;at the Maccabbee Hall on West Howard Avenue and&nbsp;<strong>formed the Charles L. Baudry American Legion Post No. 133&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;in Biloxi.<em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em><strong>Sgt. Charles L. Baudry</strong>&nbsp;(1891-1918) was the only Biloxi soldier killed in WWI.&nbsp; He died in France on October 4, 1918.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 4, 1919, p. 1)</em></span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.000000953674316px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">November 11, 1918-<strong>Armistice Day</strong>.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On November 27, 1919,&nbsp;<strong>Charles L. Lanius&nbsp;</strong>led a parade in downtown Biloxi composed of members of the Baudry American Legion Post, Spanish American War veterans, Condederate veterans, Gulf Coast Military Academy cadets, and a detachment from the Gulfport Naval Training Station<em>.(The Daily Herald, November 25, 1919, p. 1)</em></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">January 1921-<strong>Edward Herbert Wolcott</strong> (1894-1918), who <strong>passed from pneumonia at Flanders Field Base Hospital No. 47 at Beaune, France on October 23, 1918</strong>, was buried on January 15, 1921 in the Biloxi Cemetery. Services were conducted under the auspices of the Catholic Church and pallbearers were selected from the Charles Baudry American Legion Post. A firing squad of eight men and a bugler under the command of a petty officer from the Gulfport Naval Station accompanied the body to its final resting place.The deceased was survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Wolcott; five brothers, Oliver C. Wolcott; Ralph Wolcutt; Harold Wolcutt; Frank Wolcutt; and Payne Wolcutt; and one sister, Miss Lee Vicie. Edward was reared in Biloxi and resided here prior to enlisting inthe 1st Alabama Infantry at Mobile.(The Daily Herald, January 25, 1921, p. 2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">June 1947-The&nbsp;<strong>Lyman C. Bradford Post, VFW began planning for a memorial park&nbsp;</strong>between Lameuse and Main Street to&nbsp;<strong>honor Biloxians who lost their lives in WWI and WWI</strong>. &nbsp;The memorial was to cost $3500 and will be donated anonymously by a local citizen.(The Daily Herald, June 5, 1947, p. 13)&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Former Biloxian,&nbsp;<strong>Brigadier</strong>&nbsp;<strong>General Thomas Jackson Grayson</strong>&nbsp;(1897-1962), son of George W. Grayson and Mamie Pol Grayson, died on April 6, 1962. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery. &nbsp;He was former Adjutant General of Mississippi, head of the Mississippi State Draft Board and the husband of Elizabeth Dantzler (1901-1946).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/12 Palms Memorial-Biloxi Cemetery.jpg\" style=\"height:375px; width:250px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>2014 Twelve Palms Memorial-Biloxi Business Men\'s Park</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">November 2014-The Biloxi Bay Chamber of Commerce through its Cultural and Heritage Committee re-dedicated the <strong>Twelve Palms Memorial on Veteran\'s Day 2014. &nbsp;</strong>The original Twelve Palms Memorial was created to honor the twelve Biloxians who lost their lives during World War I. &nbsp;The Biloxi Cleophan Club in March 1919,planted twelve palm trees in the L&amp;N Park on the SW/C of Reynoir and Railroad Street, now called Esters Boulevard.(The Bilxoi-D\'Iberville Press, November 7, 2014, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">____________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BILOXI&nbsp;WAR VETERANS</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>WWI</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Captain John Meunier led Biloxi soldiers to Camp Beauregard on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .&nbsp; His men were bivouacked in the Firemen’s Hall on Lameuse Street. In late May 1921, the flag pole that was set when they camped here was removed.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>DEATHS</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Men from Biloxi who died in training or participating in WWI are listed sequentially by their date of demise:&nbsp;George C. Ryan (1892-1917);&nbsp;Walter N. Quave (1886-1917);&nbsp;Charles L. Baudry (1891-1918); Alfred James Rutheford (1892-1918) James Roberts; Charles Nicovich (1892-1918); John J. Price; Clarence Avner Nelson; Edwin Wein (1898-1918); Chester Wesley Hayes; Henry C.T. Wurdemann (1888-1918); William Haenns (1890-1918), and Lyman C. Bradford.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March 1919, a corrected list of \'Palm Soldiers\', those from Biloxi who gave their precious lives for their country and fellow Americans, was published in&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald. &nbsp;</em>A palm tree was planted in the city to honor each of these fallen heroes, as folows:&nbsp;Charles L. Baudry; William Haenns; Chester Wesley Hayes; Clarence Avner Nelson; Charles Nicovich; John J. Price; Walter N. Quave; James Roberts; Alfred James &nbsp;Rutherford; George Ryan; Edwin Wein; and Henry C.T. Wurdemann.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 12, 1919, p. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>*Private George C. Ryan&nbsp;</strong>(1892-1917), the son of Beauregard Ryan and Virginia Vallen (1858-1928), was killed on April 23, 1917 near Enterprise, Clarke County, Mississippi when he was hit by a train.&nbsp; He was serving with the 1st Mississippi Infantry at the time. &nbsp;during World War I. &nbsp;Private Ryan\'s siblings were:&nbsp; Edward J. Ryan (1884-1963), Virginia R. Richards (1885-1963+), Richard Ryan (1887-1927), Ila Ryan Beaugez (1890-1914), Clarence Ryan (1895-1966), Samuel Ryan (1888-pre 1900), Homer Ryan (1905-1977), and Selma Ryan (b. 1897?).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Corporal</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Walter N. Quave&nbsp;</strong>(1886-1917), the son of Joseph Quave (1859-1928) died on December 27, 1917 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana from pneumonia.&nbsp; He was a member of Troop B, Biloxi Calvary and was later transferred to a caisson company of the 114<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Ammunition Train.<em>(The Daily Herald, December 29, 1917, p. 1)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>*Private Edwin Wein</strong>&nbsp;(1898-1918) died at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana on January 2, 1918. &nbsp;Edwin Wein was the son of John F. Wein (1851-1931), an 1871 Danish immigrant, and Anna Wein (1872-1910+), a native of NOLA. Initially John Wein and family lived on Lameuse Street, but by 1910 had moved to western Jackson County, Mississippi were he was a truck farmer. &nbsp;The Weins acquired land in the present D\'Iberville community and in July 1919, they sold ten acres to &nbsp;&nbsp; Holen Hunter Grantham (1892-1964), who founded the&nbsp;Grantham Dairy. This tract was bounded by the following owners: north, B. Tucei; east, R.J. Quave; south, John Wein; and west, Louis Seymour.(1900 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T623_808, p. 22B, p. 21 and 1910 Jackson Co., Mississippi T624_744, p. 3B, ED 63 and 1910 Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 126. p. 350)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The funeral of Private Edwin Wein was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Haas on Lameuse Street with internment in the Biloxi Cemetery. &nbsp;The body of Private Wein was brought to Biloxi by a representative of Caisson No. 2 of the Ammunition Train. &nbsp;Theodore W. Wein (1899-1982), stationed at Fort Worth, Texas, came to Biloxi for the funeral of his brother. &nbsp;He was also survived by a sister, Antoinette Wein Cress(1904-1925+).(The Daily Herald, January 4, 1918, p. 3 and January 5, 1918, p. 3)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>*Private William Haenns</strong>&nbsp;(1890-1918) died May 10, 1918 at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. &nbsp;His story is quite interesting. William Haenns, a native of Chicago, and Harry K. Barth wondered into Biloxi, Mississippi in early 1917 with their knapsacks and violins. &nbsp;They related that they had left Michigan for a walk as a \'study in human nature\'. &nbsp;They planned a short tenure in the Queen City, but were widely accepted and appreciated for their musical talents. The troubadors not only entertained crowds with their violin, piano and vocal performances, but Haenns even directed the orchestra at the White House Hotel in the summer of 1917. &nbsp;The corporal remains of Private William Haenns were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, May 11, 1918, p. 3, The Sun Herald, September 18, 2011, p. F4 and September 25, 2011, p. F3)&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>*Alfred James Rutherford&nbsp;</strong>(1892-1918) was born at New Orleans on January 21, 1892 to Charles Frost Rutherford (1846-1923) and Laura R. Simmons (1861-1931).&nbsp; The Rutherfords, both native of the Crescent City, were married at New Orleans in January 1886.&nbsp; Their other children were: Charles H. Rutherford (1886-1889); John S. Rutherford (1888-1900+); Richard Shea Rutherford (1889-1922); Alice Edna Rutherford (1890-1914); Joseph Rutherford (1897-1900+); and Robert Rutherford (1900-1900+).(1900 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T 623_808, p. 15B, ED 31 and WWI Draft Registration-Harrison Co., Mississippi R1682923)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Charles S. Nicovich&nbsp;</strong>(1892-1918) was born &nbsp;September 28, 1892 at Mississippi City, Harrison Co., Mississippi to Marco Nicovich (?-1892), an Austrian immigrant, and Rosa Gondroun (1859-1952), a native of Louisiana. &nbsp;He was a single man and an employee of the Southern Pacific Railroad at Algiers, Louisiana and a resident of 5077 Dauphine Street in New Orleans when he registered for the miltary draft in 1917. &nbsp;Charles S. Nicovich passed on October 8, 1918 at Camp Merit, New Jersey, a victim of the Spanish influenza. His corporal remains were interred in the St. James Cemetery at Handsboro, Mississippi.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 9, 1918, p. 3, October 14, 1918, p. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Sergeant Nicovich was lauded by Major J.I. Sloat, his commander, as follows:&nbsp;<em><strong>\"Sergeant Nicovich was an excellent soldier who was universally liked his officers and fellow soldiers, and his untimely death is a source of genuine sorrow to all. &nbsp;His death occured in the line of duty, and is no less honorable that had it occurred on the field of battle.\"</strong></em><em>(The Daily Herald, October 15, 1918,&nbsp;</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">*<strong>Henry Charles Thomas Wurdemann&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>(1888-1918) was born on November 7, 1888 at New Orleans, the son of Henry Wurdemann (1862-1936) and Bernadina Hoff (1870-1940).&nbsp; He passed from the Spanish influenza on October 10, 1918 at Camp Fortress, Virginia.&nbsp; Private Wurdermann had been trained at San Antonio, Texas and was stationed in Virginia at the time of his demise in October 1918.&nbsp; He was a member of the 29<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Balloon Company, Air Service U.S. Army.&nbsp; Private Wurdemann was survived by Lovinia Fayard Wurdemann, his wife, parents, and several sisters and brothers.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 11, 1918, p. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Henry Wurdemann family came to Biloxi from Derbigny Street in New Orleans circa 1904 and settled on ‘The Point’ on First Street.&nbsp; Both Henry Wurdemann and Henry C.T. Wurdemann were employed in the seafood industry at Biloxi as a fisherman and shell grinder respectively.&nbsp; By 1910, the Wurdemann family consisted of eight children extant, although Bernadina had birthed twelve: Henry C.T. Wurdemann (1888-1918); Augusta Wurdemann (1891-1908+) m. John Peter Baker; William Wurdemann (1895-1910+); Hazel Wurdemann (1896-1926); Frederick Wurdemann (1898-1910+); Alma Wurdemann (1902-1917); Mary Wurdemann (1904-1949) m. Lester Anton Narbo (-1960); Carl Wurdemann (1908-1908); and Ola Wurdemann (1909-1936+) m. Bill Thompson.(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T623_572, p. 3A, ED 67 and 1910 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T624_740, p. 26B, ED 33)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Private Wudemann’s corporal remains were brought to Biloxi by Corporal Neil Mooney who related the following to the local press:&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>“Private Wurdemann was under me in performance of a number of duties.&nbsp; He seemed to be an expert rigger.&nbsp; He had a full military funeral&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;side arms, preceded by the post band playing the dead march.&nbsp; It was very impressive.&nbsp; The casket was carried caisson to the depot. A large floral wreath, the tribute of his Company, together with two side American flags, came to this city with his body.”</em></strong><em>(The Daily Herald, October 14, 1918, p. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Henry C.T. Wurdermann‘s corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery on October 14, 1918.&nbsp; Reverend Wabus, a Lutheran minister, presided at his burial service.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 15, 1918, p. 3)</em></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">____________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>James Roberts</strong> (1894 - 1918) was born, June 20, 1894, at Bayou La Mere, Plaquemine, Louisiana, son of Antonio James (Hymene) Roberts Sr.(1843 -1893) and Maria Gonzales Roberts. &nbsp;The Roberts were natives of Terre-Aux-Beoufs, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, Isleño descendants of the Canary Islands, Spain and natives of Louisiana.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Private James Robert was a resident of 438 Copp St. Biloxi, Mississippi. &nbsp;A single man, self-employed fisherman and among the Biloxians that left from Gulfport, Mississippi&nbsp; to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, on July 26, 1918.&nbsp; He served as a member of the limited service division, a member of the Infantry. &nbsp;He died at Camp Server, South Carolina an October 11th, 1918, of the Spanish influenza, viral pneumonia. &nbsp;&nbsp;Private Roberts was survived by three sisters and four brothers along with his blind mother. &nbsp;He was waked at his mother\'s residence at 421 Washington Street at Biloxi with Father Milot, officiating. His corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery on October 15t, 1918.(The Daily Herald, October 11, 1918 and October 14, 1918)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Six months after the passing of her husband on December 4th, 1893, Maria Gonzales Roberts (gave birth to Private James on June 20, 1984. &nbsp;She came to Biloxi with eight children: Matilda Roberts (dec. 1933), Carmela Roberts (dec. 1930), Josephine Roberts (dec.1989),Robert(1877-1964), William(dec.1930), Joseph(dec. 1938),and Victor Emile(1867-1959) and James Roberts (1894 -1918). &nbsp;Maria Gonzales Roberts (dec. 1931)is buried in the Biloxi Cemetery.[Courtesy of Barbara Acosta Perez, Picayune, Mississippi-May 28, 2014)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">*<strong>Charles L. Baudry&nbsp;</strong>(1891-1918), the son of Jules J. Baudry and Louise Comment, was born at New Orleans, Louisiana on September 1891.&nbsp; Joined US Marine Corps and served in France with Company I, 16<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Infantry.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>*Lieutenant Lyman C. Bradford&nbsp;</strong>(1888-1920) was the son of Lyman Bradford and Pearl Roberts. &nbsp;He was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on November 14, 1888. &nbsp; &nbsp;m. Maud Foxworth. &nbsp;Died at May 28, 1920.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Edward Herbert Wolcott</strong> (1894-1918), who passed from pneumonia at Flanders Field Base Hospital No. 47 at Beaune, France on October 23, 1918, was buried on January 15, 1921 in the Biloxi Cemetery. Services were conducted under the auspices of the Catholic Church and pallbearers were selected from the Charles Baudry American Legion Post. A firing squad of eight men and a bugler under the command of a petty officer from the Gulfport Naval Station accompanied the body to its final resting place.The deceased was survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Wolcott; five brothers, Oliver C. Wolcott; Ralph Wolcutt; Harold Wolcutt; Frank Wolcutt; and Payne Wolcutt; and one sister, Miss Lee Vicie. Edward was reared in Biloxi and resided here prior to enlisting inthe 1st Alabama Infantry at Mobile.(The Daily Herald, January 25, 1921, p. 2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>*</strong>Recognized on WW I Memorial at Glennan Park in Biloxi, Mississippi.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1914</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Miss Rutherford dead”</strong>, April 22, 1914.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1917</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“George Ryan killed”</strong>, April 23, 1917.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Dance honors soldiers”</strong>, December 12, 1917.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Corp. Quave pneumonia victim”</strong>, December 29, 1917.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1918</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“</strong>[Edwin]&nbsp;<strong>Wein remains to arrive tonight”</strong>, January 4, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Funeral of Private</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Wein held today”</strong>, January 5, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Private Haennes</strong>&nbsp;(sic)<strong>&nbsp;to be buried here”</strong>, May 11, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News paragraphs of Interest”</strong>, July 4, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Joseph Rutherford home”</strong>, April 17, 1917.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Joe Rutherford on Patrol Duty”</strong>, July 17, 1917.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Alfred Rutherford Dead”</strong>, July 29, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Body of Alfred Rutherford expected today”</strong>, July 31, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Burial of Alfred Rutherford today”</strong>, August 1, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi resident dies at Camp”</strong>, October 9, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Henry Wurdemann dies at camp”</strong>, October 11, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“James Roberts dead”</strong>, October 11, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Nicovich body arrives tonight”</strong>, October 12, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Nicovich funeral yesterday”</strong>, October 14, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"James Roberts dead”</strong>, October 11, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“</strong>[James]<strong>&nbsp;Roberts body to arrive tomorrow”</strong>, October 14, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi News Paragraphs”</strong>, October 14, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Private Wurdemann buried yesterday”</strong>, October 15, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Praise of Sergeant Charles Nicovich from his commanding officer”</strong>, October 15, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Casualty show two Biloxians”</strong>, December 5, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Obituary&nbsp;</strong>[Charles L. Baudry]<strong>”</strong>, December 7, 1918.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1919</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Corrected list of Palm Soldiers”</strong>, March 12, 1919.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Cleophan Club planted palms”</strong>, March 17, 1919.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Post holds meeting”</strong>, November 4, 1919.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Route of parade Thursday named”</strong>, November 25, 1919.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1920</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>\"Lieut. Bradford\'s funeral yesterday\"</strong>, May 31, 1920.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong>\"Bradford funeral held today\"</strong>, June 1, 1920.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1921</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\"Soldier\'s</strong> [Edward H. Wolcott] <strong>funeral held\"</strong>, Jauary 15, 1921.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Flag pole comes down”</strong>, May 24, 1921.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1922</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Richard Shea Rutherford”</strong>, May 8, 1922.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1947</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Advance efforts for Memorial park on Biloxi Beach Front”</strong>, June 5, 1947, p. 13. &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>2010</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi American Legion gets first female Commander&nbsp;</strong>[Mildred Johnson]<strong>”</strong>, October 26, 2010<strong>.</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Musical Tramps, Part 1&nbsp;</strong>[William Haenns]<strong>”</strong>, September 18, 2011<strong>.</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Musical Tramps 2&nbsp;</strong>[William Haenns]<strong>”</strong>, September 25, 2011<strong>.</strong></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">___________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>US COAST GUARD BASE</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Time Line</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1927</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Men from the&nbsp;<strong>U.S. Coast Guard base at Biloxi began building a rifle range</strong>&nbsp;on Horn Island in late March.(The Daily Herald, April 2, 1927, p. 2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><br />\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Vessels led by Captain Samuel P. Edmonds</strong> (1867-1943)&nbsp;<strong> from Coast Guard Base 15 at Biloxi were some of the first to go to the Mississippi Delta and last to leave as they&nbsp;</strong>assisted flood victims of the disastrous spring flood of the Mississippi River.&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;Biloxi\'s civilian seamen&nbsp;</strong>sent over&nbsp;<strong>400 boats to the inundated region</strong>that equipped life saving parties with boats, motors, and supplies. &nbsp;These first responders carried food, shoes, and clothing to the stricken while rescuing victims from trees and house tops&nbsp;<strong>stranded by the Great Flood. &nbsp;Steve Gorenflo of Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;was one for the first releif workers to reach the Delta with&nbsp;<strong>Lyle Raymond, T.J. Fountain, Charles Rousseau, L. Crofton</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Captain Moran and Voyle F. Moran</strong>&nbsp;(1905-1997), his son<strong>. &nbsp;Other known Biloxians assisting in the flood zone were: John Dacey, Cleveland Huggins, and Walter White. &nbsp;North Biloxians going to the Delta were: George Mitchel, Thomas Fountain, Paul Trochesett, Benny Yerger, Farrell Bosarge, Walt Walton, and Jules Santa Cruz, et al.&nbsp;</strong>(The Daily Herald, May 5, 1927, p 2, May 16, 1927, p.1, June 6, 1927, p. 2, and March 29, 1928, p. 3)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1933</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>U.S. Coast Guard begin closing its base at Biloxi</strong>. &nbsp;By late June 1933, only&nbsp;<strong>three Coast Guard vessels</strong>&nbsp;remained in Biloxi.(the Daily Herald, June 2, 1933, p. 9)</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1935</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/USCG-FLB CG 251.jpg\" style=\"height:138px; width:200px\" /></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Flying Life Boat</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lt. Walter S. Anderson</strong>, Commandant of the Biloxi USCG Air Station, announced that the Biloxi facility was to received a the&nbsp;<strong>FLB CG 251, the \'Flying Life Boat</strong>\', from the US Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadephia, Pennsylvania. &nbsp;In addition, 9 more men were assigned to Biloxi bring the total number of base personnel at 42 \'Coasties\' with five aircraft to fly and maintain.(The Daily Herald, \'December 30, 1935, p. 1)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1943</strong></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Edmonds%2C Preston Lt. Commander USCG.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:121px\" /></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lt. Commander Samuel Preston Edmonds&nbsp;</strong>(1867-1943), retired USCG commander, died June 20, 1943 at the Biloxi VA Hospital. &nbsp;Edmonds commanded the Biloxi Base from 1926 to 1931. &nbsp;His spouse, <strong>Bessie Shorey Edmonds</strong> (1874-1961) expired &nbsp;at Tallahassee, Florida on September 21, 1961. &nbsp;Their corporal remains rest in the Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.(The Daily Herald, June 21, 1943, p. 1 and&nbsp;September 21, 1961, p. 2)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Daily Herald,</strong><strong>50<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Anniversary Souvenir, Golden Jubilee Number, Biographical and Historical 1884-1934</strong>, &nbsp;<strong>\"Samuel Preston Edmonds, Lieutenant Commander U.S. Coast Guard, retired”</strong> ,&nbsp;(The Daily Herald: Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi-1934).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Biloxians to honor Coast Guard Sunday’</strong>, April 6, 1929.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Many inspect Biloxi Coast Guard Base’</strong>, April 8, 1929.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘3 &nbsp;Boats remain at Biloxi Base’</strong>, June 2, 1933.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Jackson County Times, <strong>‘Work to start on Plane Base in two weeks’</strong>, November 18, 1933.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘To purchase land for C.G. Channel’</strong>, March 6, 1934.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘New Coast Guard barracks’</strong>, August 9, 1935.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Order Hospital plane to Biloxi’</strong>, December 30, 1935.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Captain Edmonds dies after short illness at Biloxi’</strong>, June 21, 1943.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Two sisters first Spars to report to Biloxi CG station’</strong>, October 16, 1943.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘New Coast Guard Plane for Biloxi’</strong>, July 9, 1953.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>‘Wife of former C.G. Commander dies in Florida’</strong>, September 21, 1961.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>_________________________________________________________</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>KEESLER FIELD-KEESLER AFB</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Time Line</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/KAFB%201941%20soldiersRobert%20R.%20Smith%20%5BTexas%5D%20and%20William%20%27Wild%20Bill%27%20Calahan%2C%20Corning%20NY_0.jpg\" style=\"height:400px; width:224px\" /> &nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">Young enlistees in fatigues? circa 1941-1942. L-R: Robert Ray&nbsp;Smith [1918-1991]&nbsp;of Texas and William \'Wild Bill\' Calahan, Corning, New York.</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">[Courtesy of Karen L. Blackaby-Ohio. &nbsp;Donated October 2019]</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1941</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Eight men, described as Jehovah\'s Witnesses, were arrested in downtown Biloxi on March 1st, a Saturday afternoon, and were subsequently released on $10 bond to appear in city court Wednesday night</strong> on charges of disturbing the peace. &nbsp;G.C. Clark, attorney of Waynesboro, Mississippi and representing these seven men, women and several children eight years of age and under related to the press: &nbsp;The Witnesses are active again throughout the nation. &nbsp;Their activities here [Biloxi] <strong>incited several young men to chase them along streets calling them names and threatening to run them out of town. &nbsp;No one was hurt, but one Witness shoved a man backwards over a bicycle as he scratched and destroyed a banner bearing these words: \'Abandon religion, serve God and Christ the King. &nbsp;Read Watchtower, 5c.\"</strong>(The Daily Herald, March 3, 1941, p. 6)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Judge John M. Sekul&nbsp;</strong>(1911-1984),after a warning for their own personal safety,&nbsp;<strong>dismissed several Jehovah Witnesses from the Latimer Community.&nbsp;</strong>The Witnesses&nbsp;<strong>had been demonstrating in downtown Biloxi and almost caused a riot when citizens became incensed over their placards-one which read \'Down With Religion\'.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;They were also distributing pamphlets.(The Daily Herald, March 6, 1941, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Biloxi Chamber of Commerce pledged $34,000 of the $125,000 required to acquire land for the new technical and training school.(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1941, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March,&nbsp;<strong>Biloxi was selected as the site for an Army Air Corps</strong>&nbsp;school.(The Jackson County Times, March 22, 1941, p. 1)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May 1941, the&nbsp;<strong>City of Biloxi leased the 685-acre Naval Reserve Park to the Federal Government&nbsp;</strong>for an aviation school. &nbsp;In&nbsp;<strong>mid-August&nbsp;1941, 2000 soldiers were living in tents&nbsp;</strong>in the Naval Reserve Park.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 241, pp. 119-130 and The Daily Herald, August 14, 1941)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In June 1941, the&nbsp;<strong>U.S. Army Air Corps activated Station No. 8, Aviation Mechanics School</strong>, at Biloxi, Mississippi.&nbsp; By late August 1941, this military installation had been dedicated as Keesler Army Airfield, in honor of 2nd Lieutenant&nbsp;<strong>Samuel Reeves Keesler&nbsp;</strong>(1896-1918), a native of Greenwood, Mississippi.&nbsp; Lieutenant Keesler had died in France from wounds received while in aerial combat against Germany during the Great War.&nbsp; Keesler Army Airfield not only became technical training center, but trained basic recruits.&nbsp; The first contingent of recruits arrived at Biloxi on August 21, 1941.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In June, a&nbsp;<strong>$10 million dollar contract was awarded to the construction companies of F.T. Newton</strong>&nbsp;(Hattiesburg),&nbsp;<strong>F.S. Glenn&nbsp;</strong>(Hattiesburg),&nbsp;<strong>J.A. Jones&nbsp;</strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Bernard Knost</strong>&nbsp;(Pass Christian) to <strong>erect the Army Air Corps School at Biloxi.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Ground was broken on June 18th. &nbsp;The contractors expected to have 2000 men working on the base in two weeks and 10000 laborers in a month.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Byron Patton \'Pat\' Harrison&nbsp;</strong>(1881-1941) of Gulfport,&nbsp;<strong>former Congressman</strong>&nbsp;(1911-1919) and&nbsp;<strong>US Senator&nbsp;</strong>(1919-1941)&nbsp;<strong>died in Washington D.C. on the 22nd of June</strong>.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lt. Colonel Arthur Wellington Brock Jr.</strong> (1882-1961)&nbsp;was <strong>named Commanding Officer&nbsp;of the Biloxi Army Air Corps Technical School</strong> in late June.(The Daily Herald, June 26, 1941, p. 1) &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In July, the&nbsp;<strong>telephone company announced a $70,000 improvement plan at Biloxi to provide permanent telephone facilities at Keesler Field.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;A new cable with a&nbsp;<strong>1200 phone line capacity</strong>&nbsp;will be laid on the north side of Howard Avenue commencing at Fayard Street to the military base.(The Daily Herald, July 1, 1941, p. 1)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In mid-July,&nbsp;<strong>5809 workers were employed building the air school</strong>.(The Jackson County Times, July 19, 1941, p. 1)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On July 22nd, the&nbsp;<strong>citizens of Biloxi approved a waterworks bond issue to build a $1,400,000 sewerage system</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>$209,000 in waterworks improvements</strong>.(The Daily Herald, July 24, 1941, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By late July, the&nbsp;<strong>foundations for 233 buildings had been laid at Keesler Field</strong>. &nbsp;The new military base was 6.4% completed and there were 9877 laborers employed in its construction.(The Daily Herald, July 26, 1941, p. 3)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Anthony \'Tony\' V. Ragusin</strong>&nbsp;(1902-1997), Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce,&nbsp;<strong>to enter the Army Air Corps</strong>. &nbsp;Ragusin was assigned to Keesler Field as public relations officer.(The Jackson County Times, July 28 1941, p. 1) &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>R.P. Farnsworth Company had 250 men working on Harrison Court, a $586,000 defense housing project at Bay Terrace.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;The final <strong>development would consist of eighty-seven buildings </strong>to house&nbsp;<strong>175 families with a completion date of January 1942.</strong>(The Daily Herald, October 17, 1941, p. 1)&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The L&amp;N Railroad has started work on the passenger shed at its Biloxi depot.&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;B.R. Keebler, bridge foreman, has a crew of 20 men&nbsp;<strong>building the steel, passenger shed from Reynoir Street to the west end of the Express office</strong>, a distance of 350 feet. &nbsp;The project will take three weeks.(The Daily Herald, October 30, 1941, p. 7)&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In November, <strong>J. Allen Bradford, John T. Collins, Gordon A. Dacey and George Collins Jr</strong>. founded&nbsp;<strong>Bradford, Collins, Dacey &amp; Collins to provide architectural and engineering services necessary for the completion of the sanitary sewerage system and disposal plant at Biloxi.</strong>(Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Chattel Deed Bk. 79, p. 55)&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Tri-State Construction Company of Atlanta was low bidder at $89, 134</strong>&nbsp;to erect the&nbsp;<strong>USO recreation center</strong>&nbsp;at Biloxi.(The Daily Herald, November 25, 1941, p. 1)&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On December 7th, the&nbsp;<strong>Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor</strong>&nbsp;in the Hawaiian Islands.&nbsp; America declared war on Japan the next day.&nbsp; Germany and Italy sign an alliance with Japan and enter the war on December 11th.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1942</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/goolrick017-2.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:149px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span><strong>Colonel Robert E.M. Goolrick</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1886-1946)-Courtesy of Brendan Finnegan</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\">In April 1942, <strong>Colonel Robert E.M. Goolrick</strong> (1886-1946) replaced Colonel Arthur W. Brock Jr. (1882-1961) as Commander of Keesler Field.(The Daily Herald, April 15, 1942, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1943</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>20th Aviation Squadron&nbsp;</strong>(Colored) was&nbsp;<strong>reviewed at Keesler Field</strong>.(The Daily Herald, November 1, 1943, p. 2)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1945</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Staff Sergeant Miriam Zauberman of the Israeli Defense Army Air Force</strong> was the <strong>first WAF from a foreign country to enroll in</strong> t<strong>he school of electronic</strong> as Keesler AFB.(The Daily Herald, April 5, 1945, p. 9)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</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\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1946</span></strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Colonel Robert E.M. Goolrick</strong> (1886-1946), native of Fredericksburg, Virginia and Commander of Keesler Field, died at his home in Oak Park on Kensington Drive on November 13, 1946. &nbsp; His corporal remains were interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.&nbsp; (The Daily Herald, November 13, 1946, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1949</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Senator John C. Stennis announced</strong>&nbsp;that the <strong>liaison and helicopter training school are moving from San Marcos, Texas AFB to Keesler AFB and Waco, Texas AFB. </strong>&nbsp;Keesler AFB was to receive the helicopter flying training course and Waco the liaison flying training school.(The Daily Herald, February 18, 1949, p. 1)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Major General James F. Powell</strong> <span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">(1893-1983)</span> named Commander of KAFB in May 1949.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1951</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: \'Open Sans\', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In early June the&nbsp;<strong>USAF took a lease on the Gulf Coast Military Academy</strong>&nbsp;consisting of 35-acres and eleven buildings. &nbsp;The USAF planned to host its&nbsp;<strong>Tecnical Training Air Force</strong>&nbsp;[TecTAF] school here.(The Daily Herald, June 6, 1951, p. 1)</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;\">\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: \'Open Sans\', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Major General James F. Powell&nbsp;</strong>(1893-1983)<strong>&nbsp;announced that Coast gambling was off limits</strong>&nbsp;to KAFB personnel.(The Gulf Coast Times, December 6, 1951, p. 1)</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;\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>General James F. Powell&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">(1893-1983)&nbsp;</span><strong>was named Biloxi\'s Outstanding Citizen</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">&nbsp;by the Lion\'s Club.(The Daily Herald, January 1, 1952, p. 1) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1952</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">In early October, a&nbsp;</span><strong>USAF T-7, twin-engine, transport aircraft crashed upon take off from KAFB.</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">&nbsp;&nbsp;The plane landed in Back Bay 500 feet south of Brodie Point. &nbsp;Three servicemen died in the accident.(The Daily Herald, October 10, 1952, p. 1)</span></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\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1955</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Parks%2C%20Harlan%20Major%20General.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:133px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Harlan Clyde Parks</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">August 1953-April 1955</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>Major General Harlan Clyde Parks</strong> (1906-1987) was born in Selma, Iowa on October 27, 1906. He graduated from Ottumwa High School in Ottumwa, Iowa in 1925. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point June 13, 1929. Upon graduation, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artil1ary Corps. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">From September 1929 to June 1930, General Parks attended Primary Flying School. During the next ten years, he served at various Coast Artillery bases in the United States, Hawaii and the Panama Canal Zone. During this tour, he graduated from the Coast Artillery School (Class of 1936). &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In Apri1 1941, General Parks was transferred to the Trinidad Sector and Base Command where he served as operations officer and an assistant chief of staff. In June 1943 he entered the Anti-aircraft School, Camp Davis, N.C., completed the course in two months and was assigned operations and training staff officer of the Antiaircraft Training Command Fort Bliss, Texas.</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\">General Parks entered the Army-Navy Staff College in June l944. Upon graduation five months later, he was assigned to the War Department General Staff in tbe G-1 Personnel Division where he served for two years. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On June 28, 1946, General Parks was transferred from the Coast Artillery to the Air Force. Five months later, he was assigned to the Strategic Air Command Headquarters at Andrews Air Force Bases, Md., as deputy chief of staff. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He attended the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., from June 1947 to June 1948, after which he was appointed executive officer, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, at Air Force Headquarters. In July 1949 he became director of personnel planning, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel.</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\">General Parks was named commander of Parks Air Force Base, Pleasanton, Calif., in June 1952. <strong>He assumed command of the 3380th Technical Wing at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi the Electronics Center of the Air Force - on Aug. 20, 1953. </strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>On April 6, 1955, General Parks was assigned</strong> as senior member of the United Nations Command component of the Military Armistice Commission in Korea. In November of the same year, he joined the Far East Command in Tokyo as assistant chief of staff for personnel.</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 1956, General Parks became chief of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service with Headquarters in New York City. In his present assignment he is responsible for the worldwide administration of the post exchanges in the Army and base exchanges in the Air Force. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">General Parks has been awarded the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, the Commendation Ribbon, the Order of the British Empire, and the Order of Military Merit Taeguk (Republic of Korea). &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Retired: June 1, 1960. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Died: May 4, 1987</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Maj. Gen. H.C. Parks Of U.N. Armistice Unit</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The New York Times, May 12, 1987</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Maj. Gen. Harlan C. Parks, retired, a former senior member of the United Nations&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Command for the Military Armistice Commission in Korea, died on May 4 of cancer</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 81 years old and lived in Juneau Beach, Fla. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">General Parks served with the armistice commission in 1955. He was also assigned to the United Nations Far East Commands in Tokyo as assistant chief of staff, directing personnel. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the last three years of his 31-year military career, he was chief of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service. In that position he was responsible for the administration of a worldwide system of exchanges, or PX\'s, that provide military personnel and their families with merchandise and services.</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\">General Parks retired from military service in 1960, and then joined the McCann-Erickson advertising firm as a general corporate executive. He was also vice president of the Interpublic Group of Companies, an organization of advertising agencies.</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\">General Parks was born in Selma, Iowa, on Oct. 27, 1906. He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, from which he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in June 1929.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He is survived by his wife, the former Catherine Fischer Unger, and two sons, Peter Parks of Manhattan and Dr. Harlan S. Parks of Saratoga, Calif., and three grandchildren. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">General Parks is to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery on May 27 with full military honors.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\">\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Davies%2C%20James%20Hubert%2C%20Major%20General-2.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:104px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>James H. Davies</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)\">April 1955-September&nbsp;1955</span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Brigadier General James Hubert Davies</strong> (1903-1976) was born in Piedmont, California, on October 25, 1903. He graduated from high school there in 1924 and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in social sciences from the University of California in 1928. &nbsp;Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Air Reserve May 1, 1928, General Davies was appointed a flying cadet the following February. Entering Primary Flying School at March Field, Calif., he graduated from Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, May 8 1930, and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Air Corps.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Assigned to the 72nd Bomb Squadron in Hawaii, in March 1932, General Davies was transferred to the Third Attack Group at Fort Crockett, Texas, moving with it to Barksdale Field, La. In October 1936 he joined the 21st Reconnaissance Squadron at Langley Field, Va., and two years later was assigned to the 23rd Composite Group at Maxwell Field, Ala.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Appointed operations officer of the 27th Bomb Group at Savannah, Ga., in March 1941, the following November General Davies assumed command of the group and took it to the Philippine Islands. In February 1942 he was named commander of the Third Bomb Group in the Southwest Pacific, becoming chief of the Bomb Section at the school of Applied Tactics, Orlando, Fla., that November. Returning to the Southwest Pacific in April 1943, he was chief of staff of the Fifth Bomber command. A year later he assumed command of the 313th Bomb Wing at Colorado Springs, Colo., taking it to the Southwest Pacific in January 1945.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Moving to Hamilton Field, Calif., that December, General Davies was assistant chief of staff for operations of the Fourth Air Force. Entering the Air War College at Maxwell Field, Ala., in August 1946, he graduated the following June and became deputy chief of the command section, Air Transport Command, at Gravelly Point, Va. He entered the National War College in August 1948 and graduated the following June.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joining the Air Training Command, General Davies was deputy chief of staff for personnel at ATRC headquarters, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., becoming chief of staff of the command in May 1950. Assuming command of the 3510th Combat Crew Training Wing, ATRC, at Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, in August 1951 (designated the 3510th Flying Training Wing a year later), in April 1954 [sic] he assumed command of the 3380th Technical Training Wing at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi becoming deputy commander that August.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A year later General Davies was named deputy commander of the Alaskan Air Command at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">His decorations include the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, Legion of Merit and Air Medal with oak leaf cluster. &nbsp;He is rated a command pilot, combat observer and aircraft observer.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">General Davies expired on August 20, 1976.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, ‘Parks going to Korea; Davies to command Keesler’, March 18,&nbsp;1955, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sacramento Bee, ‘Gibson is named head of Alaskan Air Command’, August 21, 1957, p. C-6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Upthegrove%2C%20Fay%20R.%20General-2.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:168px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Fay R. Upthegrove</span></span></strong></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">September 1955-</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\">\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Major General Fay Roscoe Upthegrove</strong> (1905-1992) was born in Port Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on January 28,1905. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy on June 14, 1927 and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">That fall General Upthegrove entered Primary Flying School at Brooks Field Texas and graduated from Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas in October 1928. He then became engineering officer of the 15th Observation Squadron at Selfridge Field, Mich., and in January 1929 was transferred to the Air Force. Entering the Chemical Warfare School at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., a month later, he graduated that April and returned to the 15th Observation Squadron.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Moving to March Field, Calif., in June 1930, General Upthegrove was an instructor at the Primary Flying School. In October 1931 he was named supply officer of the Primary Flying school at Randolph Field, Texas, and the following March was appointed adjutant of the 47th School Squadron there.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Going to Luke Field, Hawaii, in November 1934, General Upthegrove was named flight commander of the Fourth Observation Squadron the following January and assumed command in August 1936. Transferred to Mitchel Field, N.Y., he was assigned duty as operations and intelligence officer of the 99th Bomb Squadron. Entering the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Ala., in May 1939, he graduated that August and returned to Mitchel Field as commander of the 99th Bomb squadron.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Ordered to Langley Field, Va., in December 1940, General Upthegrove became materiel officer of the 22nd Bomb Group, and a month later its executive and operations officer, moving with the bomb group to Jackson Field Miss., several months later. After serving in the Southwest Pacific area from February to April 1942, he assumed command of the 305th Bomb Group at Salt Lake City, Utah. Two months later he took command of the 99th Bomb Group at Davis-Monthan Field, Ariz., taking it to Gowen Field, Idaho, Sioux City, Iowa, and then to North Africa in January 1943. A year later he assumed command of the 304th Bomb Wing, 15th Air Force, in Italy.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Returning to the United States in August 1945, General Upthegrove assumed command of the 76th Flying Training Wing at Smyrna Field, Tenn., and that December took command of the 30th Flying Training Wing at Turner Field, Ga. In May 1946 he was designated commanding general of Chanute Field, Ill. Transferred to U.S. Air Forces in Europe at Wiesbaden, Germany, in November 1948, the following month he assumed command of the 7l00th Headquarters Command Wing, USAFE.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joining the Strategic Air Command in June 1951, General Upthegrove became deputy commander of the Second Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., becoming commander of the Fourth Air Division there in October 1952. The following January he assumed command of the 20th Air Force, Far East Air Forces on Okinawa, and on March 1, 1955, assumed command of the 313th Air Division, FEAF.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Transferring to the Air Training Command on Sept. 1, 1955, General Upthegrove assumed command of the 3380th Technical Training Wing at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">His decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross with oak leaf cluster and Air Medal with 10 oak leaf clusters. He is rated a command pilot, combat observer and senior aircraft observer. &nbsp;General Upthegrove retired from the USAF July 31, 1957.&nbsp; He expired on January 8, 1992.&nbsp; He had married Marcella Gertrude Driscoll (1901-1970).&nbsp; Their corporal remains were interred in the St. Bonaventure Cemetery at Olean, New York.</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1957</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Major General John R. Sutherland</strong> assumed command of KAFB in September 1957.(The Daily Herald, April 8, 1960, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif, Arial, Verdana, \'Trebuchet MS\'; font-size: 13px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Jenkins%2C%20Daniel%20Webster%20Gen.-KAFB.jpeg\" style=\"height:200px; width:161px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong>Brig. General Daniel&nbsp;Webster&nbsp;Jenkins&nbsp;</strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">(1907-1989)</span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Brig. General Daniel&nbsp;Webster&nbsp;Jenkins </strong>(1907-1989), native of Floydada, Texas and<strong>&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Commander of the Air Ground Operations School,</strong> located at Southern Pines, North Carolina, <strong>announced in late January that the school would relocate to KAFB in mid-February.</strong> &nbsp;The school building in North Carolina had burned on January 20th. &nbsp;Major General Jenkins died on March 25, 1989 and his corporal remains interred at St. Petersburg, Florida.(The Daily herald, January 31, 1957, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1960</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Hardy%2C John S.-General_0.jpg\" style=\"height:121px; width:120px\" /></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Major General John S. Hardy&nbsp;</strong>(1913-2012), native of Logansport, Louisiana, was&nbsp;<strong>named the 16th Commander of KAFB</strong>.(The Daily Herald, July 1, 1960, p. 1)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ross E. Cox</strong>, general contractor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was apparent <strong>low bidder of $1,549,940 for the Wherry Housing Project modification.</strong> &nbsp;The work involved basic remodeling and rehabilitation of individual Wherry housing units.(The Daily Herald, July 1, 1960, p. 1)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The new&nbsp;<strong>BOQ at Keesler AFB was nearing completion in early &nbsp;August.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;The five-story structure had accomodations for 194 officers.(The Daily Herald, August 9, 1960, p. 6)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">961</span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Colonel Arthur Wellington Brock Jr. </strong>(1882-1961), first Commander of KAFB, died on September 16, 1961. &nbsp;Burial was at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1964</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Puryear%2C Romulus Wright (1911-1984)_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:143px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>General Romulus Wright Puryear (1911-1984)</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In July 1964,<strong> General Romulus Wright Puryear (1911-1984), </strong>native of Hartsville, Tennessee, arrived at Keesler AFB to take command. <strong>&nbsp;He came from RAF Station Northolt, England where he commanded the 3rd Air Force. &nbsp;General Puryear replaced Colonel Kenneth A. Cavanah, who had arrived at the Biloxi base in early July 1964 from Chanute AFB, Illinois.</strong>(The Daily Herald, July 1, 1964, p. 1 and July &nbsp; , 1964, p. )</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Moore%2C Thomas E. Major General-July 1969.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:138px\" /></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Major General Thomas E. Moore</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">With the retirement of<strong> Major General James C. McGehee</strong>&nbsp;(1910-1979) after 35 years in the USAF, he was replaced on August 1, 1969 by <strong>Major General Thomas E. Moore&nbsp;</strong>(1912-2007). &nbsp;General Moore came to KAFB form the Alaskan Air Command.(The Ocean Springs Record, July 24, 1969, p. 10)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Val F. Husley,&nbsp;<strong>Keesler Air Force Base: A History of the Site and Its Environs”</strong>, (USAF, Office of History, 81<sup>st</sup>Training Wing, Keesler AFB Technical Training Center: Biloxi, Mississippi-1996).</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Dale M. Titler and SSgt. Gary M. Murphy,&nbsp;<strong>Keesler Field: Inception to Pearl Harbor 1939-1941</strong>, (USAF, Office of History, 81<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Training Wing, Keesler AFB Technical Training Center: Biloxi, Mississippi-April 1981).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Dale M. Titler,&nbsp;<strong>Gulf Tempest: Major Hurricanes and Their Effects on Keesler Technical Center</strong>, (USAF, Office of History, 81<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Training Wing, Keesler AFB Technical Training Center: Biloxi, Mississippi-1986).</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Journals</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:13px\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>\'General Rush to remain short time longer at Keesler\'</strong></span></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:13px\">, February 12, 1947.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\'Helicopter Air Training may come to Keesler\'</strong>, February 18, &nbsp;1949.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\'Israel WAF is Keesler student\'</strong>, April 5, 1952.</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:13px\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>\'Maj. Gen. Hardy new commander of Keesler AFB\'</strong></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:13px\">, April 8, 1960.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\'Family of new Keesler Commander makes transition England to Biloxi\'</strong>, September 1, 1964.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Ocean Springs Record, <strong>\'Major General Thomas E. Moore new commander\'</strong>, July 24. 1969.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">_______________________________________________________________________________________</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>WORLD WAR II </strong>[1941-1945]</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>\'BILLY\' GUICE VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK-GLENNAN PARK</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi-Glennan Park-WWII and WWI.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:150px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Glennan Park-1967 Billy Guice plaque-Oct. 2011.jpg\" style=\"height:201px; width:250px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Glennan Park-WWII memorial names.jpg\" style=\"height:800px; width:600px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL</strong>&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[dedicated on December 7, 1947 and donated by William Lee Guice (1887-1971)]</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Glennan Park-Purple Heart monument.jpg\" style=\"height:225px; width:300px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Glennan Park-USS Biloxi mast_0.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:225px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>PURPLE HEART MEMORIAL &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; USS BILOXI MAST</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Glennan Park-Higginbotham Plaque.jpg\" style=\"height:191px; width:400px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>PFC GEORGE J. HIGGINBOTHAM, USMC WAS WOUNDED AT IWO JIMA ON &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1942</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marian Desporte Winland ,</strong> wife of Sgt. Ralph H. Winland (1917-2002) and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Desporte, and living at&nbsp; 203 Magnolia Street <strong>joined the WAAC auxilliary in October 1942.&nbsp;</strong> She went to Camp Shelby for examinations and interviews.&nbsp; She will go to Des Moines, Iowa for basic training and get her uniforms.(The Daily Herald, October 7, 1942, p. 2)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1943</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/DuKate%2C Elbert L. Jr. (1919-1986)_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:135px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Elbert Lester Dukate II</strong> (1919-1986) enlisted in the US Army as a Private in December 1941 at El Paso, Texas.&nbsp; He graduated in June 1942 from Signal Corps training at Camp Roberts, California.&nbsp; Elbert then transferred to the Army Air Corps and began pilot cadet training in July 1942,and completed fifty hours of solo flying and was promoted to 1<sup>st</sup> Lieutenant in the cadet corps at Ontario, California.&nbsp; DuKate received his wings on March 10, 1943 at La Junta, Colorado(The Daily Herald, October 20, 1942, p. 7)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ploesti Raid</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Lt. DuKate was sent to England and flew several combat over Frankfort and Hamburg, Germany.&nbsp; In July 1943, he transferred to Libya with the 44<sup>th</sup> Bomb Group-67<sup>th</sup> Squadron of the 8<sup>th</sup> Air Force. On August 1, 1943, he was co-pilot of the ‘Available Jones’, a B-24 Liberator bomber, that participated in Operation Tidal Wave that sent hundreds of American bombers to destroy German-held, oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.&nbsp; Referred to in USAF history as ‘Black Sunday’, the US Army Air Force lost 53 aircraft and 660 airmen in the raid.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Sgt. Leo Spann, engineer from Chapman, Alabama, described the mission: “We approached the target down the railroad track at a very low altitude of approximately 100 feet. Our target was already on fire as some other Group [the 93rd] had already bombed it. We went through the smoke and fire, dropping our bombs on our designated spot. We then went down on the deck as low as we could, as those picturesque hay stacks opened up and then revealed their guns – and these guns started giving us hell. They shot out the #4 engine and a shell exploded between the two waist gun positions, wounding both gunners in the legs. I was the engineer and operated the top turret and I had a complete view of what was going on. I saw one plane that had gone in with the wheels up in a field and all of that crew was outside of the plane.</em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>“We broke one balloon cable and I was looking directly at it when we collided with it. I saw another B-24 climb straight up until it stalled, and just as it “fell out” I saw one parachute come out and open just before it hit the ground. I talked later to this boy (Bernard Traudt) as he came into the prison camp where I was. </em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>“We lost speed and dropped out of formation, and the fighters jumped us. With the two waist gunners out, they came in so close to us it seemed we could almost touch them. We figured that we had shot down four of them, and they finally left us, but the #4 engine had frozen up and with a flat propeller, it caused a hellava drag. The propeller would not feather! </em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>“We started trying to gain altitude to clear the mountains ahead. Threw out everything that wasn’t tied down – all of the guns, ammunition, equipment, etc. When we finally arrived at the coast, our #3 engine was failing. The oil pressure was almost gone and the temperature was much too high. Lt. Jones asked me how long I thought it would last and I estimated about 30 minutes at the most. We decided to feather #3 engine and see if we could fly with the other two, but they were on the same side! If we couldn’t fly, we were going to ditch it on the beach. </em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>“I feathered the prop, Jones and Dukate got the plane leveled out, but we could not maintain our altitude. So we began making plans to ditch. We flew onward for approximately forty-five minutes before we were forced to ditch – the time was about 1840 – at least that is the time that my watch stopped. We all managed to get out of the plane and into our life rafts, even though the tail gunner and the navigator were slightly injured in the ditching.</em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>“The next morning a German submarine came by, started to help us, changed their minds and took off, leaving us. Then, at approximately 1500 hours, a three-engined Italian seaplane sighted us, landed and picked us up and took us to Brindisi, Italy and to the hospital there. “Later that same night, Jones, Dukate, Bernard, Paolillo and myself were put on a train and sent into the mountains – to an old monastery. Much later, both Sigle and Dukate managed to escape, with Sigle getting back to the States in about two months.” [</em></strong><strong><em>www.greenharbor.com/ROHPDF/ROHAU43.pdf</em></strong><strong><em>‎]</em></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Fred B. Ferson and Paul Linde</strong>, formerly of Tennessee, have given up their jobs <strong>to work full time to produce high quality prisms for use by the military </strong>as range finders for tanks, ships and large artillery pieces for the Franklin Arsenal. &nbsp;They are assisted in their shop by J.R. McElroy and J.L. McKenzie. Since 1941, the government has given contracts to amateur lens makers to help eliminate the paucity of roof prism manufacturing in America.(The Daily Herald, August 4, 1943, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">An <strong>AT-7, Army Air Corps, trainer from the Army Air Forces navagation school at Hondo, texas crashed </strong>into the Gulf of Mexico three miles southwest of Biloxi, Mississipi on August 25th. &nbsp;The plane had just taken off from Keesler Field on a routine training flight. &nbsp;The pilot and three cadets were killed.(The Daily Herald, August 26, 1943, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The first<strong> SPARS to report to the USCG Biloxi Air Station arrived in mid-October 1943.&nbsp; </strong>They were two sisters, <strong>Ensigns Alice Saunders and Mary Saunders</strong>, natives of St. Cloud, Minnesota and graduates of St. Cloud Teachers\' College.&nbsp;&nbsp; Both ladies were school teachers in St. Cloud before entering the Coast Guard women\'s reserves.&nbsp; Their military training took them to Smith College at Northampton, Massachusetts and the&nbsp;Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut.(The Daily Herald, October 16, 1943, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Baronich%2C Martin P. Jr. (1922-1943)_3.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:131px\" /></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Martin P. Baronich Jr.</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Martin Paul Baronich</strong> <strong>Jr.</strong> (1922-1943) made his livelihood like his father fishing for the local seafood canneries while living at 223 Sophie Street in East Biloxi.&nbsp;&nbsp; He enlisted in the USCG and was on active duty as a 1<sup>st</sup>Class Fireman aboard the <strong><em>USS Serpens </em></strong>(AK-97), a cargo ship, when he was killed on October 15, 1943.&nbsp;<em>The <strong>USS</strong> <strong>Serpens</strong> </em>was lost with two hundred-fifty men in late January 1945 while loading ammunitions and depth charges at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Martin’s corporal remains were returned from the South Pacific via San Francisco to Biloxi, Mississippi in October 1947, after WW II for internment in the Southern Memorial Park cemetery.&nbsp; His funeral was held at the Bradford Funeral Home with full military honors on October 26, 1947.(The Daily Herald, October 25, 1943, p. 2 and October 27, 1947, p. 1)&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Father J.P. McGlade, pastor of&nbsp;St. John\'s Catholic Church,</strong> announced that three&nbsp;Parish soldiers who were killed in the recent war effort would be&nbsp;honored in a sermon by Father J.L. Maurer, SSJ, pastor of Our Mother of Sorrow Church, on November 14th.&nbsp; Remembered were: <strong>Sgt. James Velcich Trochesset</strong>, US Army AF, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Trochesset&nbsp;killed in a plane crash on September 5, 1942; Seaman 2nd Class <strong>Wilfred Jules Dismukes</strong>, US Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dismukes, killed in action May 8, 1942; and&nbsp; Fireman 2nd Class, <strong>Leonard Mark Schneider</strong>, US Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs.Chester Schneider, missing in action April 22, 1943.(The Daily Herald, November 2, 1943, p. 5)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Julia K. Wendt</strong> (1892-1985), owner of Gunston Hall on Biloxi\'s West Beach, was reported by Katherine herr of the Herr Realty Company of Gulfport, Mississippi <strong>to be a Japanese POW at Santo Tomas University </strong>at Manila, Philippines Islands.&nbsp; Mrs. Wendt was reported to be <em><strong>\"in excellent health and engaged in various camp activities.&nbsp; Her latest assignment beginning on a vegetable detail.\"</strong>(</em>The Daily Herald, December 13, 1943, p. 10)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong>1944</strong></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Captain Oswald L. Bernich</strong> (1915-1944), son of Matthew L. Bernich (1890-1951) and Jessie Inez Scarborough Bernich (1895-1979),&nbsp;<strong>was killed on February 12, 1944 20 miles east of Ardmore, Oklahoma in a B-29 Superfortress crash</strong>.(The Daily Herald, February 24, 1944, p. 5 and Feebruary 16, 1944, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202020-02-17%20at%209.23.03%20AM.png\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph \"Bee\" &nbsp;F. Hungerford [1920-2008]</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202020-02-17%20at%209.12.47%20AM.png\" /> <img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202020-02-17%20at%209.15.14%20AM.png\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">[The Daily Herald, April 4, 1946, p. 1 and p. 3]</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Joseph Labetich </strong>(1909-1944) died at the Presidio, US Army Camp, in San Francisco, California on February 20, 1944.&nbsp; He had married Dina Mary Mladinich (1914-2006) in Harrison Couty, Mississppi on September 12, 1934&nbsp;.&nbsp; They had one daughter, Frances Labetich m. Gus C. &nbsp;Cavalier Jr. (1933-2005).&nbsp; John J. Labetich\'s corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, February 21, 1944, p. 7 and March 1, 1944, p. 8 and The Sun Herald, October 7, 2006)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Sgt. John Smith</strong> (1920-1944), USMC, son of Emellda Smith of 1312 First Street, <strong>was killed at Saipan, Marianas Islands </strong>on June 23, 1944. &nbsp;Smith had been employed by the Mavar Packing Company and Viator\'s Grocery and had enlsited in&nbsp;the USMC circa 1937.(The Daily Herlad, September 2, 1944, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Charles Diaz</strong>, son of Mabel Diaz, Crawford Street, Biloxi, <strong>was killed in action in New Guinea</strong> on July 31, 1944.(The Daily Herald, September 1, 1944, p. 5)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1945</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Edward \'Eddie\' E. Lemien</strong>&nbsp;(1925-2009), Jehovah Witness,&nbsp;<strong>stated in Federal Court at Biloxi that he was an ordained minister since childhood and did not believe in war</strong>. &nbsp;Lemien had failed to report for induction into military service and claimed that he had filed an appeal which he had never gotten a reply. &nbsp;Judge Sidney C. Mize instructed the jury to find for the defendant.(The Daily Herald, February 21, 1945, p. 1)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marine Sgt. Sidney A. Freudenstein Jr.</strong>, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney A. Freudenstein, 626 West Beach, Biloxi, Twin Oaks Cottages, <strong>was killed on May 19, 1944 at Okinawa</strong>. &nbsp;He had married Alice Williams in September 1943. Sidney A. Freudenstein III was born at NOLA a few days before his father\'s demise.(The Daily Herald, May 28, 1945)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Michelina Trebotich</strong>&nbsp;(1891-1978), native of Croatia and widow of&nbsp;<strong>George Trebotich</strong>,&nbsp;<strong>had six sons serving in the US armed forces</strong>:&nbsp;<strong>Steve Trebotich</strong>&nbsp;(1916-2010)-US Coast Guard;&nbsp;<strong>Joseph M. Trebotich</strong>&nbsp;(1917-1996)-OSN;&nbsp;<strong>George Trebotich</strong>-US Army Air Corps;&nbsp;<strong>John L. Trebotich</strong>&nbsp;(1920-2003)-US Army;&nbsp;<strong>Louis J. Trebotich</strong>&nbsp;(1923-2004)-USN; and<strong>Peter B. Trebotich</strong>&nbsp;(1926-2006)-US Army. &nbsp;<strong>Madeline Trebotich</strong>&nbsp;(1924-2006), a daughter, who married Ernest Keenan, was employed at Keesler Field.(The Daily Herald, September 11, 1945, p. 3)&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lt. Colonel Eugene A. Peresich Jr.,</strong> age 25, 641 Lameuse Street, Biloxi former commander of a B-27 squadron in the ETO, has been released from active duty at the separation center at Drew Field, Florida. &nbsp;Colonel Peresich <strong>served with the 8th Air Force from May 1944 to June 1945, participating in the heavy air offensive during the land invasion of Europe. &nbsp;He flew 29 combat missions and was awarded the DFC with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Air Medal with three clusters. </strong>&nbsp;He also holds the American Defense Medal and the European Theater ribbon with six battle stars. Colonel Peresich enlisted as an aviation cadet in February 1941, while a student at LSU. &nbsp;he was graduated a second lieutenant from the flying school at Craig Field, Alabama in Seeptember 1941. His last duty station in the United States was 3rd Air Force Headquarters at Tampa, Florida. &nbsp;He is now active as vice president of Eugene Peresich and Sons Inc., general insurance agency, and will travel throughout Mississippi, but will make his headquarters in Biloxi.(The Daily Herald, October 11, 1945, p. 8)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1947</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">June 1947-The&nbsp;<strong>Lyman C. Bradford Post, VFW began planning for a memorial park&nbsp;</strong>between Lameuse and Main Street to&nbsp;<strong>honor Biloxians who lost their lives in WWI and WWI</strong>. &nbsp;The memorial was to cost $3500 and will be donated anonymously by a local citizen.(The Daily Herald, June 5, 1947, p. 13)&nbsp;.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">December 1947-The <strong>new WW I and WW II memorial on East Beach </strong>donated by William Lee Guice (1887-1971) and Lee Dicks Guice (1892-1961), his wife, through the auspices of the V.F.W. was <strong>dedicated on December&nbsp;7th</strong>.(The Daily Herald, December 5, 1947, p. 4)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1971</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lyman Bradford Post 2434 VFW awarded a construction contract to H. Gordon Myrick of Gulfport to erect its new hall in East Biloxi. &nbsp;The $110,000 structure was situated between Holley Street and the Trade Winds Hotel&nbsp;</strong>on East Beach. &nbsp;H.F. \'Buddy\' Fountain Jr. &amp; Associates designed the 6500 square-ft. facility.(The Daily Herald, May 20, 1971, Section 4-p. 3]</span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1973</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Lyman C. Bradford Post 2434 V.F.W. Post building</strong>&nbsp;at 844 East Howard Avenue was&nbsp;<strong>dedicated &nbsp;on October</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>20th</strong>. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>old building on Fred Haise Boulevard</strong>&nbsp;[Church Street] had been damaged in Hurricane Camille. &nbsp;H. Gordon Myrick Inc. of Gulfport were general contractors who erected the structure from plans by&nbsp;<strong>H.F. Fountain Jr</strong>., Biloxi architect.(The Sun Herald, October 21, 1973, p. A12)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi youth&nbsp;</strong>[Fred A. Tucei]&nbsp;<strong>writes of first jump as paratroopers in US Army”</strong>, June 19, 1942, p. 5.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bombardier student&nbsp;</strong>[John Oswald Bernich (1923-1997)]&nbsp;<strong>tells of experiences”</strong>, June 26, 1942, p. 7.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxian&nbsp;</strong>[Lt. (jg) August Al Barthes (1916-2007)]&nbsp;<strong>tells of victory at Midway”</strong>, June 27, 1942.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong><em>&nbsp;</em>“Lions hear Biloxians</strong> [P.J. Gill and Curtis Allen]<strong>&nbsp;who were in battle ”</strong>, July 29, 1943.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“</strong>[Frank Roberts]&nbsp;<strong>Tells of fighting Italians in Sicily”</strong>, August 24, 1943.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong><em>&nbsp;</em>“</strong>[Stephen]&nbsp;<strong>Guice tells of Marines battling on Guadalcanal”</strong>, August 25, 1943.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Two sisters first SPARS to report to Biloxi Coast Guard Station\", </strong>October 16, 1943, p. 1.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Captain Bernich&nbsp;</strong><strong>on first bombing flight to Rome”</strong>, October 20, 1943, p. 2. &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><strong>“Martin Baronich dies in South Pacific”</strong>, October 25, 1943..&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><strong>“Fr. maurer to be Memorial speaker\"</strong>, November 12, 1943, p. 5.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Eddie R. Migues&nbsp;</strong>[1916-2003]&nbsp;<strong>doubles as mule skinner”</strong>, December 1, 1943, p. 1.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald,</em></em> <strong>“Biloxi resident</strong> [Julia Wendt]<strong> is Japanese prisoner\", </strong>December 13, 1943, p. 10.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Capt. Bernich killed in crash of plane\"</strong>, February 14, 1944, p. 5.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Bernich funeral will be tomorrow\"</strong>, Febraury 16, 1944, p. 8.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em><strong>“John L. Labetich died in Army Camp”</strong>, February 21, 1944, p. 7.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><em><em>The Daily Herald, </em></em></em><strong>“Labetich funeral Thursday afternoon”</strong>, March 1,&nbsp;1944, p. 8.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tell of action of Biloxi Battery&nbsp;</strong>[114th Field Artillery-NG]<strong>&nbsp;on Italian war front”</strong>, April 4, 1944, p. 7.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Veteran&nbsp;</strong>[Curtis T. Parker] <strong>of Seven Battles tells of reactions overseas”</strong>, May 26, 1944, p. 6. &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Tony Pitalo tells of life in German war prisoner camp</strong><strong>”</strong>, May 29, 1945, p. 1.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Advance efforts for Memorial park on Biloxi Beach Front”</strong>, June 5, 1947, p. 13. &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Memorial Dedication [photo]”</strong>, December 5, 1947, p. 4.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, 19.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;</em><strong>“Six sons serving in Armed Forces”,&nbsp;</strong>September 11, 1945, p. 3.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“German prisoners to be used in wood cutting”</strong>, February 24, 1944, p. 1.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“15,600 German prisoners of war based in State”</strong>, July 7, 1945, p. 1. &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>KOREAN WAR</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">November 1951-<strong>Corporal Dudley Carver Jr. </strong>(1931-1980) <strong>won the Silver Star </strong>for his galantry and meritorius actions as a machine gunner with the 7th Division in Korea. &nbsp;In addition, Corporal Carver was awarded the <strong>Purple Heart and Korean Combat Badge</strong>. &nbsp;He served had 31 months in Korea and Japan.(The Daily Herald, November 11, 1951, p. 7)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Cpl. Carver arrives in Biloxi tonight”</strong>, November 11, 1951.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Cpl. Carver home on 30-day leave”</strong>,&nbsp;November 11, 1951. &nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>VIETNAM WAR</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Local Casualties</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1967</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Corporal Daniel Netter Jr</strong>. (1947-1967), US Army 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry, who had been in Vietnam since July 1967, was killed in Vietnam on October 8, 1967. &nbsp;He was&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">a native of Port Gibson, Mississippi and a graduate of Nicholls High School at Biloxi.(</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald, October 12, 1967, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1968</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Charles W. Eglin III</strong> (1948-1968), native of Ocean Springs and resident of Corona, New York, was killed on February 15th in Vietnam. &nbsp;Charles was staioned with a US Marine unit.(The Daily Herald, February 19, 1968, p. 2)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\'Eglin died in Vietnam\'</strong>, February 19, 1968, p. 2.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, <strong>\'Rhodes dies in Vietnam action\'</strong>, March 7, 1968, p. 2.</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">________________________________________________________________________________</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>DESERT STORM</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">___________________________________________________________________________________</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>IRAQ WAR</strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">____________________________________________________________________________</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>AFGHANISTAN WAR</strong></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 201, 204, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>TIME LINE</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>1846</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In October,&nbsp;<strong>Frederick A. Reynoir</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Louise Hugon Renoir</strong>&nbsp;(1801-1891) sold for $40 a lot on&nbsp;<strong>Reynoir Street to the 1st Baptist Church of Biloxi. &nbsp;</strong>Trustees for the church were: Alexander Bookton; C. Taylor; John Herrington; and J.C. Woolworth. &nbsp;The Baptist Church lot had 80-feet on Reynoir Street and ran 88-feet to the west. &nbsp;It was bounded on the north by the L&amp;N Railroad. &nbsp;<strong>John C. Bradford</strong>&nbsp;acquired this property in July 1885 for $275 and conveyed it to&nbsp;<strong>Pauline Trenchard Querens</strong>&nbsp;on NOLA in October 1885 for $450. &nbsp;The Biloxi City Park was situated on this lot for many years.(Harrison Co. Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 3, p. 270, Bk. 21, p. 18 and Bk. 21, p. 30)</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>1853</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">It appears that <strong>Benjamin Holley financed the first Lodge of Biloxi Magnolia Lodge No. 120 AF&amp;AM</strong> in 1853 when the building was situated on the NE/C of Washington and Main Street on a lot 66 feet by 80 feet. &nbsp;John Brown was Worshipful Master at this time. &nbsp;He was succeeded by James Fewell in 1854.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk.6, p. 437 and Bk. 7, p. 136)</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>1858</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Charles W. Whitall </strong>(1804-1858), New Jersey native and <strong>rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Biloxi</strong>, died on October 18, 1858).(The Daily Picayune, October &nbsp;22, 1858, p. 2)</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>1880</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Methodist Conference selecrted the <strong>Reverend Inman Cooper to remain at Biloxi </strong>for another year.(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, January 9, 1880, p. 3)</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>1885</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John C. Bradford</strong>&nbsp;acquired the Baptist Church and lot on Reynoir Street opposite the L&amp;N Depot in July 1885 for $275 from C. Taylor, Oscar D. Bowen, George W. Andrews and S.T. Elder, Trustees of the Baptist Church. He conveyed it to&nbsp;<strong>Pauline Jeanne Trenchard Querens</strong>&nbsp;(1861-1928) on NOLA in October 1885 for $450. &nbsp;The Biloxi City Park was situated on this lot for many years.(Harrison Co. Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 21, p. 18 and Bk. 21, p. 30)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1891</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In late December, <strong>Robert Selby was appointed pastor of the Methodist Church</strong>.[The Biloxi Herald, Decmber 26, 1891, p. 4]</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>1892</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J.J.W. Mathis, pastor of the Baptist churches at Biloxi and Handsboro</strong>, has a month\'s leave of absence and has gone withhis wife to Citronelle, Alabama.(The Biloxi Herald, January 30, 1892, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On May 18, 1892, the <strong>new Episcopal Church of the Redeemer at Biloxi was consecrated</strong> to the memory of the Reverend R.G. Hinsdale by Bishop Thompson of Mississippi and Bishop Sessums of Louisiana. &nbsp;Harry T. Howard donated the land and building.(The Biloxi Herald, May 21, 1892, 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\">On July 26, 1892, the great New Orleans philanthropist, <strong>John Henry Keller</strong> (1830-1908), himself not a Presbyterian, donated Lot 1 (50 feet by 150 feet)-Block 6 of Keller\'s Tract to the <strong>Biloxi Presbyterian Church. </strong> The church was located on East Howard Avenue east of the old Biloxi Public High School. <strong>W.L. Covel </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, <strong>sold their property to the City of Biloxi in late December 1940</strong>, for $3659. &nbsp; The new Central Junior High School was built on here on East Howard Avenue.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 28, p. 205 and&nbsp;Deed Bk, 237, p. 124) and&nbsp;he Biloxi Herald, July 2, 1892, p. 1 and July 16, 1892, p. 4)</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>1896</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong> Reverend H.M. Crain</strong> came to Biloxi in February to be pastor of the 1st Baptist Church and also to minister to the Baptist faithful at Ocean Springs. He and Mrs. Crain were domiciled in one of the Cooper Cottages on Reynoir Stret near Front Street.(The Biloxi Herald, March 7, 1896, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1897</strong></span></span></div>\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>1899</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend C.F. Emery of the Methodist Church left Biloxi on January 12th</strong> for his new assignment at Edwards, Mississippi.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 8, 1899, p. 8 and January 13, 1899, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In December 1899, <strong>Dr. J.B. Searcy</strong>, field editor of <em>The Baptist</em> which he has been employed for several months, has accepted the position of pastor of the 1st Baptist Church of Biloxi. &nbsp;<em>The Baptist</em> resulted from the consolidation of <em>The</em> <em>Baptist Record</em> of Meridian and <em>The Baptist Layman</em> of Winona.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, December 5, 1899, p. 8)</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>1901</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The new&nbsp;<strong>Baptist Church is being built by Thompson &amp; Eistetter</strong>, architects and builders.&nbsp; The Reverend Dr. Searcy is in residence.[editor note: This structure was on Lameuse Street and Washington Street.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 6, 1901, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1904</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">In May, <strong>W.K.M. Dukate gave Methodist minister, H.W. Van Hook, $1000</strong> for the new church building fund.(The Biloxi Herald, May 20, 1904, p. 6)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">H.T. Howard, past Grand Master, <strong>installed Charles Redding</strong> as Worshipful Master of Magnolia Lodge No. 120 AF&amp;AM in late December.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, Decemebr 19, 1903, p. 6)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1905</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:13px\">from The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 30, 1905, p. 4.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202018-04-26%20at%209.23.41%20PM.png\" />&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>1906</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong> Reverend J.B. Searcy</strong>&nbsp;(1838-1900+), a native of Alabama and pastor of the 1st Baptist Church, left Biloxi for Little Rock, Arkansas on January 6th. The Reverend <strong>H.C. Roberts</strong> of Eureka Springs, Arkansas wil replace him.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 6, 1906, p. 4 and 1900 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T623_808, p. 7B, ED 30)</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>1908</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Pastor <strong>Henry C. Roberts </strong>(1853-1910+), native of Kentucky,<strong>&nbsp;</strong>left Biloxi on January 2nd after two years at the 1st Baptist Church on Washington and Main Street. &nbsp;During his tenure here of constant and faithful service, the church became debt free and had a net gain of fifty members. Reverend Roberts relocated to Silver Creek, Lawrence County, Mississippi.(The Daily Herald, January 2, 1908, p. 1 and 1910 Lawrence Co., Mississippi Federal Census T624_747, p. 5B, ED 99)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Bosdell%2C%20David%20W.%20Baptist%20%5B1871-1928%5D.png\" style=\"height:250px; width:145px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Reverend David Warren&nbsp;Bosdell </strong>[1871-1928] came to the 1st Baptist Church at Biloxi from Memphis, Tennessee in late September to replace Reverend Roberts. &nbsp;He had married Anne E. Gurganus [1876-1940] at Mobile, Alabama in 1897.[The Biloxi Herald, September 25, 1908, p. 4]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1909</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Reverend <strong>William Megginson</strong>&nbsp;(1869-1954) and <strong>Amy Allen Megginson</strong> (1871-1953), his spouse, came to Biloxi from Edna, Texas in March and began his duties as pastor of the Biloxi Presbyterian Church on April 1st. &nbsp;He was officially recognized as pastor of the church on May 4, 1909. &nbsp;The&nbsp;Reverend Megginson lived at 1716 West Beach.(The Daily Herald, March 20, 1909, p. 8 and May 3, 1909, p. 4)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Reverend <strong>William A. Roper&nbsp;</strong>(1868-1910+), native of Alabama, who replaced Henry C. Roberts at the 1st Baptist Church, departed Biloxi for Kosciusko, Attala County, Mississippi in April 1909. &nbsp;He was offered an annual salary of $1500 to relocate.(The Daily Herald, April 5, 1909, p. 4 and 1910 Attala County, Mississippi T624_732, p. 26A, ED 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Christian Science Society of Biloxi plans to erect a church</strong> on the corner of <strong>Howard and Seal Avenues</strong>. &nbsp;A chapel will be put up for temporry use of the society. &nbsp;Contractor W.T. Powell has completed the foundation from plans drawn by A.C. Voak, a local man. &nbsp;The church will be an attractive, bungalow-style, frame structure.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 14, 1909, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May, the <strong>First Baptist Church of Biloxi selected the Reverend James Jesse Smylie (</strong>1865-1950) of Florence, Mississippi as their new Pastor . &nbsp;Reverend Smylie\'s tenure at Biloxi was short as he resigned his post in mid-September 1909. Biloxi was his first pastorate and Smylie had been a Methodist before becoming a Baptist. &nbsp;Leaving Biloxi he went to Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana doing evangelistic work. In December 1909, the Reverend J.J. Smylie accepted the Baptist pastorate at Mansfield, Louisiana. &nbsp;The Reverend Smylie and his spouse, Libbie K. Symlie (1868-1937) were the parents of at least eight children. &nbsp;They and several of their children are buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 17, 1909, p. 4, September 13, 1909, p. 2 and December 10, 1909, p. 8 and 1910 Desoto Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T624_512, p. 8A, ED 69)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1910</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The&nbsp;<strong>Lutheran community of Biloxi met in the Presbyterian Church</strong>&nbsp;and were led by Martin Haas, president, F. Greve, treasurer, and Miss Gertrude Ott, secretary. &nbsp;They were&nbsp;<strong>planning to erect a $3000 church building an acquire a lot. &nbsp;The Reverend George Schlisser of Pascagoula</strong>&nbsp;was to be the pastor of the Biloxi Lutheran Church.(The Daily Herald, December 28, 1910, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>F.W. Williams</strong>, itenerant, <strong>Negro, \'Apostolic\' preacher</strong>, returned to Biloxi for the third time. He planned to preach at the Colored Methodist Church on Main Street near the L&amp;N RR. He was run out of time the first time for allowing Whites to enter his tent near Division Street. On another occasion, Reverend Williams was asked to leave when Biloxi police discovered a woman lying prostrate on the floor of a small building surrounded by religionists of his mysterious faith. &nbsp;She had been there for almost 24 hours \'under the power of God\'. Williams has travelled throughout Alabama and Mississipppio and as far as Memphis. He wears a smile that is guaranteed not to fade.(The Daily Herald, December 29, 1910, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1913</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Pastor D.W. Bosdell resigned </strong>his position at the 1st Baptist Church effective 31 December 1913. &nbsp;He elected to go to Lucedale, George County, Mississippi where a new church was to be erected.[The Daily Herald, October 6, 1913, p. 1 and December&nbsp;22, 1913, p. 4]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1915</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 late June, the First Evangelical Lutheran Church congregation meeting in the First Baptist Church of Biloxi<strong>awarded a $2500 contract to Harry Haise and Eric Johansen to erect a Bungalow style chapel</strong>&nbsp;[28 feet by 47 feet] at Jackson and Thomas Streets. &nbsp;The completed chapel valued at $3500 was dedicated on September 26, 1915. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Reverend E.C.Brink of Illinois came to Biloxi in 1914 to take charge of the newly developing congregation, which had about 35 members at this time</strong>.(The Daily Herald, July 2, 1915, p. 2 and September 27, 1915, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1917</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend Byron Holley </strong>(1851-1939), native of New York,<strong> came to the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer at Biloxi in June 1917</strong>.&nbsp; He had been rector of the Grace Church and St. George\'s Episcopal Church in New Orleans.&nbsp; Dr. Holley would be named president&nbsp;of the Biiloxi Hospital Association in February 1919 and work actively at church missions in Ocean Springs and on Point Cadet in Biloxi.&nbsp; He and his spouse, <strong>Elizabeth Sanborn Knapp</strong>, left Biloxi in March 1921 for Napa, California.(The Daily Herald, June&nbsp;14, 1921, p. 3 and March 28, 1921, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1921</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On November 3rd, <strong>E.C. Gay conveyed a large lot on the southside of West Howard Avenue</strong> with 82 feet on West Howard and running south 629 feet to an alley, the extension of Jackson Street, <strong>to J.W. Elder, Lyman Bradford, and N.V.Boddie, Trustees of the 1st Baptist Church</strong>. &nbsp;The consideration was $2800. &nbsp;Julius M. Lopez had sold the lot to E.C. Gay on October 28, 1921.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Deed Bk. 132, p. 575)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1922</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><br />\r\n<span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Reverend H.F. Tolle, formerly at the Main Street Methodist Church is ill in Jackson.&nbsp; </strong>He still has a large cottage at the Seashore Campground.(The Daily Herald, June 12, 1922, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>1st Evangelical Lutheran Church on Jackson and Thomas Streets</strong> dedicated its new altar and pulpit.&nbsp; The Reverend George Hoffman was assited by Bishop L. Schweickhardt of New Orleans.(The Daily Herald, June 12, 1922, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1923</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In November, the <strong>finance committee of the 1st Baptist Church of Biloxi began planning to raise money for their proposed $50,000 santuary on West Howard Avenue. </strong>&nbsp;James E. Greene of Birmingham, Alabama was selected as their architect.(The Daily Herald, November 17, 1923, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1928</strong></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\">The <strong>Reverend S.W. Noles</strong>, newly elected pastor of the <strong>Oak Street Assembly of God Church</strong>, assumed his duties in August. &nbsp;Other church officers elected were: Deacons-L.D. Wells, J.M. Jalanivich, and A. Caldwell;&nbsp;Tony Feldman, sec.; and J.M. Jalanovich, treas. &nbsp;Trustees-L.E. Kinsey, Joseph Cox, and F.C. Weaver.(The Daily Herald, August 4, 1928, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1930</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend J.W. Holloway</strong>, the brother of Reverend D.P. Holloway, also known at Biloxi, has assumed duties as pastor at the <strong>Oak Street Assembly of God Church</strong>. &nbsp;he succeeds the <strong>Reverend W.M. Stevens </strong>who left to take charge of the church at Stonewall [Lorraine]. &nbsp;Reverend Holloway came here from McComb where he had been the pastor last year. &nbsp;Priorly he was at Laurel\'s Assembly of God Church for three years.(The Daily Hwerald, August 25, 1930, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend O. Nussmann, pastor of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church</strong>, will speak at the Rotary Club on his experiences in India.(The Dasily Herald, September 29, 1930, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1931</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In June, the <strong>Reverend G.C. Hodge of Jackson replaced the Reverend Lewis&nbsp;Harrison&nbsp;Miller</strong> (1888-1949) as pastor of the 1st Baptist Church. &nbsp;Reverend Miller, a native of Macon, County, North Carolina, was relocating to New York. &nbsp;By 1940, he and his family were at Chick Springs, South Carolina. &nbsp;His son, Lewis H. Miller Jr. (1919-2008), also&nbsp;became a Baptist minister and USAF chaplain.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Claude P. Jones</strong> was pastor at the Main Street Methodist Church at this time.(The Daily Herald, June 1, 1931, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1938</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>First Evangelical Lutheran Church will celebrate its 25th anniversary of its Biloxi organization next Sunday. </strong>&nbsp;In <strong>1915, the church building at Thomas and Jackson Street was dedicated</strong>. &nbsp;In 1921, under the leadership of Reverend George Hoffman, the work of the church was expanded to include activities of a <strong>Back Bay mission with chapels at Chartres </strong>[Bayview Avenue] <strong>and Oak Street</strong>. &nbsp;Resident pastors who have served the congregation in its history were: Reverend Paul Wobus; Reverend E.C. Brink; Reverend H.W. Hosto; Reverend George Hoffman; Reverend R. Gruenke; Reverend E. Arndt; Reverend O. Nussmann; Reverend F.J. Mehrtens; and the present pastor, the Reverend T.H. Van Dyck.(The Daily Herald, November 9, 1938, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1939</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend Byron Holley Jr.</strong>,(1851-1939), native of Rochester, New York and &nbsp;Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer at Biloxi from June 1917 to March 1921 died on May 2, 1939 at Burbank, California.&nbsp; He was preceded in death by Fannie Estelle Campbell (1853-1905), his first spouse.&nbsp; Dr. Holley was survivied by Elizabeth Sanborn Knapp, his second wife; his son, Robert Campbell Holley of Hardwick, Georgia, and daughter, Lucille Holley Wilson, wife of Robert H. Wilson.(The Times-Picayune, May 12, 1939, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend Clyde H. Gunn</strong>&nbsp;(1902-1980) who came to Biloxi\'s Main Street Methodist Church in 1938 from Morton, Scott County, Mississippi <strong>was reassigned to Biloxi for another year.</strong>(The Daily Herald, November 20, 1939, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1941</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March, the <strong>First Presbyterian Church under the leadership of the Reverend R.O. Flynn </strong>moved its little white church through the streets of Biloxi from the 500 block of East Howard Avenue a distance of about 1 2/3 miles to the <strong>corner of West Howard Avenue and Hopkins Boulevard.</strong>(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1941, p. 1 and April 18, 1941, p. 6 with image)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend Henry reported that the foundation for the Pass Road Tabernacle Church</strong> was almost finished and that donations to erect the church continue to be received.(The Daily Herald, April 12, 1941, p. 7)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1942</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1943</strong></span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1944</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The local <strong>Church of the Nazarene at Biloxi was founded </strong>in 1944.(The Daily Herald, October 9, 1948, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Reverend <strong>Thomas A. Carruth appointed pastor</strong> of the Main Street Methodist Church.(The Daily Herald, October 21, 1946, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1945</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1946</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>East End Methodist Church acquired a lot on East Howard Avenue.</strong> &nbsp;The Reverend A.M. Ellison is working with the East End Church. &nbsp;<strong>Police Chief Laz Quave recently joined the church</strong> and is taking an active interest in church work. &nbsp;The Methodists in Biloxi are raising funds to erect two new churches.(The Daily Herald, February 25, 1946, p. 7)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In October, the $8000, <strong>Church of Christ on Keller Place was under construction </strong>by Contractor J.P. Starks.(The Daily Herald, October 15, 1946, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend Thomas A Carruth</strong> of the Main Street Methodist Church<strong> was joined by Thomas McCurlery</strong> as his associate pastor in October.(The Daily Herald, October 24, 1946, p. 7)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1947</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Church of Christ moved into its new building at 212 Keller Place in early March. </strong>&nbsp;The 1500 square-foot, structure was built with concrete blocks, concrete floors, asbestos roofing and sheet rock ceiling by J.P. Starks for $9000. &nbsp;The auditorium seats 240 congregants. &nbsp;There were two Sunday School classrooms and a 40 square-foot, baptistry with pool. &nbsp;<strong>A.T. Russell, C.C. Lee and Robert E. Lee are trustees of the church and services have been held in the City Hall</strong> for the past four years.(The Daily Herald, February 27, 1947, p. 10)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend Lachlan C.Vass </strong>(b. 1872), supply pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Biloxi for the past five years, <strong>retired to make his home at Decatur, Georgia</strong>.(The Daily Herald, May 24, 1947, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joel F. Winkler</strong> (1923-1989), native of Anderson, Indiana, who had been<strong> pastor of the Pass Road Gospel Tabernacle of the Christian and Missionary Alliance </strong>since June 17, 1945 <strong>was ordained for the ministry</strong> at Tampa, Florida at the annual conference held from September 30 to October 3, 1947. &nbsp;In May 1945, Joel had completed the three year course at the Missionary Training Institute at Nyack, New York. &nbsp;He died on June 21, 1989 at Kingman, Arizona.(The Daily Herald, October 14, 1947, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1948</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. B.Z. Welch, chairman of the Main Street Methodist Church building committee</strong>, announced plans for a&nbsp;<strong>new sanctuary on Hopkins Boulevard</strong>. &nbsp;Carl Matthes was named architect.(The Daily Herald, March 1, 1948, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On October 10th,&nbsp; the <strong>Church of the Nazarene of Biloxi under the leadership of Reverend E.J. Miller</strong>, joined a churchwide celebration of the <strong>40th anniversary of the organization of the Church of the Nazarene </strong>as a Protestant denomination.(The Daily Herald, October 9, 1948, p. 2)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Reverend Maynard Michael Miller</strong> assumed his duties as pastor of Biloxi\'s Presbyterian Church.(The Daily Herald, November 27, 1948, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1949</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Reverend James Thomas Leggett</strong> (1865-1949), <strong>pioneer Methodist minister</strong>, died on June 24, 1949. &nbsp;His internment was in the Highlands Cemetery at Hattiesburg, Mississippi.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1950</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>In March 1950. John T. Collins </strong>was taking bids to<strong> erect the Back Bay Evangelical and Reform Mission Building at Chartres </strong>[Bayview Avenue] <strong>and Fayard Street. &nbsp;</strong>The 5000 square-ft., wood-framed, asbestos siding&nbsp;structure was to cost about $25,000. &nbsp; &nbsp;The building was to have three assembly rooms [35 feet by 30 feet] separated by folding patitions; three classrooms; kitchen; bedroom; and toilet facilities.<strong> &nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>The Reverend Victor T. Kissell, </strong>pastor,<strong> was in charge of the mission.(The Daily Herald, March 29, 1950, p. 9)</strong></span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1951</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Reverend Grover Cleveland Hodge </strong>(1892-1980)<strong> celebrated his 20th year with the 1st Baptist Church of Biloxi in early June. </strong>&nbsp;When Dr. Hodge came to Biloxi in 1931, the church had 464 members and a Sunday School enrollment of 258 students, &nbsp;In 1951, these numbers were 1220 congregants and 768 Sunday School attendees. &nbsp;G.C. Hodge was presented with a Lord Elgin wrist watch by L.H. Williams. &nbsp;<strong>Alma Hodge Rose</strong>, his daughter and spouse of <strong>John Rose</strong>, and <strong>Pamela King Rose</strong>, his granddaughter, all of Chattanooga, Tennessee, attended the fete.(The Daily Herald, June 2, 1951, p. 6 and June 4, 1951, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ground was broken in early June for a Baptist mission at Fernwood on Pass Road. </strong>The new building was called the <strong>Bowen Memorial Baptist Chapel</strong> and the first congregation was organized by the Reverend W.E. Bowen and the Reverend F.S. Dodge circa 1916. &nbsp;<strong>Lt.-Colonel Richard L. Alexander had been pastor of the mission church since 1948.</strong> &nbsp;Shrouds-Mogabgab of Gulfport were architects for the concrete and stucco structure with a 150 person seating capacity.(The Daily Herald, June 9, 1951, p. 8 and November 10, 1951, p. 12)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>1st Methodist Church will have Homecoming Day</strong> on Sunday.(The Daily Herald, June 9, 1951, p. 8)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1952</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On January 20th, the <strong>West Biloxi Baptist Church held its first service in its educational building situated on the corner of Camellia and Southern Avenues in the Greater Biloxi Subdivision. </strong>&nbsp;For the past four months, the congregation had met in the homes of Robert McDaniels and Corey Ashcraft, superintendent. &nbsp;The <strong>Reverend J. Hoffman Harris, assistant pastor fo the First Baptist Church of Biloxi, is serving as pastor</strong>.(The Daily Herald, January 19, 1952, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Emmanuel Baptist Church</strong> on Rodenberg Avenue began as <strong>a mission of the Handsboro Baptist Church in 1952.</strong> First services held in a house purchased there in August 1952. Parishoners petitioned to become the Emmanuel Baptist Church with 34 members in November 1953. &nbsp;Built a two-story education building and the present day [2014] sanctuary was completed in 1957.(The Sun Herald, December 6, 2014, p. B-7)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. W.A. Tyson</strong>, native of Georgia, <strong>arrived at Biloxi in late June to become pastor of the First Methodist Church of Biloxi.</strong> &nbsp;He and Mrs. Tyson came from Vicksburg to take up residence in the Methodist parsonage on Seal Avenue.(The Daily Herald, June 21, 1952, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1954</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On July 25th, <strong>Epworth Methodist Church laid the cornerstone for its new church on the NW/C of Walker and Davis Streets in Biloxi\'s Back Bay section.&nbsp; </strong>Mrs. Ben Garlotte placed the mortar on the footings.&nbsp; Others in attendance were: Reverend Eugene Dyess; Paul Balius; Lloyd Bonnett; Charles Higginbotham; and C.E. Mims.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Epworth Methodist Church and Moore Community House were founded in 1925 by the Reverend W.W. Moore</strong>.(The Daily Herald, July 28, 1954, p. 16)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1955</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Dr. Grover C. Hodge</strong> retired from his twenty-four year ministry at the 1st Baptist Church of Biloxi in May 1955.(The Daily Herald, May 5, 1955, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1958</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Leggett%20Memorial%20Methodist%20Church_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:133px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>J.T. Leggett Memorial Methodist Church,</strong> named for the <strong>Reverend James Thomas Leggett</strong> (1865-1949),&nbsp;at the Methodist Seashore Assembly Grounds on West Beach Biloxi was dedicated on January 26, 1958. &nbsp;It was erected on the former site of the another Methodist tabernacle. &nbsp;The church could seat 300 worshipers and and served also as a meeting place for conference wide activities including the annual pastor\'s school and the school missions of the WSCS. &nbsp;The sanctaury was designed by Claude Lindley of Ocean Springs and built by M.J. Lang Construction Company. &nbsp;The first pastor was the reverend Jerry Furr (b. 1929), native of Pascagoula and the husband of Marlene Byrd.(The Daily Herald, January 25, 1959, p. 3)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1959</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong> $60,000 East Howard Avenue Baptist Church on East Howard Avenue and Maple Street was dedicated</strong> on November 29th. &nbsp;The brick and glass, structure was 86 feet deep and 48 feet wide with a seating capacity of about 500 people including the balcony area. &nbsp;The <strong>Reverend Leo C. Hoff (</strong>1913-2009), a native of Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, had come to this Biloxi church 2 1/2 years ago from the Bunker Hill Baptist Church near Columbia, Mississippi. &nbsp;The <strong>Reverend Hoff expired at Norwood, Lincoln County, Mississippi on April 17, 2009</strong>.(The Daily Herald, November 28, 1959, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1964</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Fred Ferraez</strong>, native of New Orleans and Fortier High School graduate, <strong>was named pastor of the Nazarene Church at Biloxi</strong>. &nbsp;Reverend Ferraez received his religious training a the Bethany Nazarene College at Bethany, Oklahoma. &nbsp;He had married <strong>Frances Pazaris </strong>(1929-2013) and they were the parents of 5 children.(The Daily Herald, December 10, 1964, p. 12)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1966</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March, <strong>Reverend Larry G. Rohrman&nbsp;</strong>(1938-2005), pastor of the Temple Baptist Church at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, <strong>accepted the head ministry of the 1st Baptist Church of Biloxi</strong>. &nbsp;Reverend Rohrman was born in south Texas and had attended Baylor University and the New Orleans Baptist Seminary. &nbsp;His marriage to <strong>Sonya O\'Neal,</strong> a Hattiesburg, Mississippi native and Baylor University graduate, had given life to <strong>Michael Scott Rohrman and Cindy Lea Rohrman.</strong> &nbsp;The family expected to be in Biloxi by April 10th. &nbsp;<strong>Reverend Rohrman\'s prior religious duties had taken him to Val Verde, Texas and Hattiesburg, Mississippi. &nbsp;</strong>Larry G. Rohrman is believed to have passed on June 24, 2005 at Blountsville, Alabama.(The Daily Herald, March 17, 1966, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1973</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Reverend Ernest Sylvester Flynt </strong>(1981-1973), native of Mt. Olive, Mississippi and a retired Baptist minister, died at Biloxi on October 13, 1973. &nbsp;His 60 years of Christian service had brought him to pastorates at Kentucky, Indiana and Mississippi. &nbsp;On the Coast, E.S. Flynt had served 15 years as pastor of the Handsboro Baptist Church; 14 years as pastor of the East Howard Avenue Baptist Church; and for 7 years at the West Gulfport Baptist Church. &nbsp;He was also responsible for organizing several churches on the Coast with the last two at Woolmarket and West Gulfport. &nbsp;Reverend Flynt was survivied by Elizabeth J. Richardson Flynt (1892-1975), his wife, at Biloxi, and two daughters, Earline F. Bergin of Ocean Springs and Ernestine F. Sumrall of Handsboro. The &nbsp;corporal remains of the Reverend Flynt and Mrs. Flynt were in the Floral Hills Cemetery at Gulfport, Mississippi.(The Daily Herald, Ocotber 14, 1973, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1980</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Hodge%2C%20Rev.%20G.C.-May%201955.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:84px\" /></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\"><strong>Reverend Glover Cleveland Hodge Sr. &nbsp;</strong>(1892-1980) died at Biloxi on November 7, 1980. &nbsp;He was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Biloxi from 1931 to early May 1955. &nbsp;Alma Simmons Hodge (1896-1995), his spouse, expired in late June 1995. &nbsp;Both internments were&nbsp;in Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.(The Daily herald, May 5, 1955, p. 1; November 9, 19080, p. A-4; and June 29, 1995, p. C-2).</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1999</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On October 14th, <strong>Beau Rivage Resorts, Inc. acquired the 1st Baptist Church of Biloxi sanctuary and lot on West Howard Avenue</strong>. &nbsp;T.C. Waller was chairman of the 1st Baptist Church deacons at this time.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court 2nd JD Land Deed Bk. 347, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>CHURCH HISTORIES and CULTS</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Brother Isaiah (1847-1934).jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:126px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>BROTHER ISAIAH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Brother Isaiah (1847-1934) was born John Cudney in Ontario Province, Canada&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Possibly no other event in the history of this region, other than the founding of Gulf Hills in 1925, has left an indelible mark on the settlers along the placid waters of Bayou Puerto and the Back Bay of Biloxi, than the arrival of Brother Isaiah in June 1922. With the assistance of Martin Fountain Jr. (1882-1963) and his son, Wallace Fountain (1903-1958), Brother Isaiah came to the Mississippi Gulf Coast with his entourage from New Orleans. After arriving at the Biloxi harbor with his “fleet” of seven vessels, which included houseboats, Brother Isaiah and followers, settled on high ground near the mouth of Bayou Puerto, a small, estuarine stream situated west of Gulf Hills, a newly developing, resort community. Here they lived in tents and houses. Isaiah\'s group consisted of about twenty-five people. They dressed in the fashion of the time, but the men wore long hair and grew heavy beards. Women of the cult wore no facial enhancement. The sexes lived separately.(<em>The Daily Herald, June 10, 1922, p. 3 and June 24, 1922, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Isaiah’s disciples tilled the land, primarily growing vegetables, for their livelihood, while Brother Isaiah preached and practiced his art of healing. Brother Isaiah drove a limousine. It was a Hudson Super Six purchased in 1922, at New Orleans by a man who had followed Brother Isaiah from California. The anonymous donor claimed that a life-long intestinal ailment had permanently disappeared after he received a handkerchief touched by the hands of Brother Isaiah.(<em>The Times Picayune, January 25, 1922, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Albert E. Lee (1874-1936), the editor of&nbsp;<em>The Jackson County Times</em>&nbsp;related the following on July 1, 1922, p. 5: &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><strong>\"Brother Isaiah\" continues to attract hundreds of visitors to his camp on Back Bay, many of whom go to him to be healed of their mental and bodily afflictions. There is a conflict of opinion as to the ability of Brother Isaiah as a healer. Some say he performs miracles and some say he is just an ignorant old man with a deluded idea that he is endowed with supernatural power. The editor of the Times has not visited the camp nor attended any of the meetings being held by Isaiah.”</strong></em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Also in early July 1922,&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald&nbsp;</em>reported that:&nbsp;<em><strong>“Ocean Springs people still continue to visit Brother Isaiah nightly. Some for treatment others to witness meetings.”</strong>(The Daily Herald, July 8, 1922, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late November 1923, Brother Isaiah returned to North Biloxi after a visit to the northwest.&nbsp; At Kirkland, Washington, he had conducted meetings.&nbsp; The local colony at this time, numbered some seventy-five souls that tilled the soil and assisted Brother Isaiah in his daily affairs<em>.(The Times-Picayune, November 26, 1923, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Texas</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In early October 1922, Brother Isaiah left his St. Martin retreat to visit Beaumont, Texas. He planned to treat a lady patient there. Members of his cult have been traveling to and fro Lumberton and other venues in south Mississippi. Those who remain in the camp at St. Martin are farming.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 10, 1922)</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 Cudney</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Brother Isaiah (1847-1934) was born John Cudney in Ontario Province, Canada near Niagara Falls, New York, he believed that he was the 88th reincarnation of the Prophet Isaiah. Brother Isaiah with his mother and sister, Amanda Coldberg (1843-1920+), landed at New Orleans circa 1916. Here they subsided on a houseboat moored to the Mississippi River levee near Audubon Park. In a few years, Brother Isaiah was drawing thousands to the batture to hear his sermons and be \"cured\" by the \"miracle man\", as he became known.(<em>The Oroville Mercury-Register, February 23, 1985)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In September 1857, Amanda Cudney and John Cudney with Abel Cudney (1850-1900+) and Caroline Cudney (1842-1857+), their other siblings, were living in the household of Charles Rosel (1830-1857+), a farmer, domiciled in Filmore County, Minnesota Territory. This census gave Michigan as the birth place for the Cudney children.(September 1857 Minnesota Territory 1849-1905 Census, Roll MN 1857.2-Line 3)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The peripatetic Brother Isaiah had \"colonies\" at various places in the United States. Between 1922 and his demise in July 1934, the Cudney Cult had lived or visited in California, Washington, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. His short tenure on the Mississippi coast was in western Jackson County, primarily in the area today, which is called St. Martin. Here Cudney and his faithful lived in tents and houses off of LeMoyne Boulevard in the vicinity of Bayou Puerto and on the Rose-Money Farm north of Ocean Springs where he preached and cured the afflicted.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">As part of his legacy, John Cudney left a book,&nbsp;<strong><u>The City of New Jerusalem</u></strong>. It was published at Los Angeles, in March 1932. The 900+ page volume contains more than 600 pages of sermons. Many of these were delivered at Fort Meyers, Florida. The work also contains 110 pages of testimonials and many letters.(<em>The Oroville Mercury- Register, February 23, 1985)</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>Death</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John Cudney passed in late July 1934, near Oroville, California. Unlike the followers of Jesus who waited at the tomb and witnessed his Resurrection on Easter Sunday, there is no miracle here. Dejectedly, the disciples of the dead man, Brother Isaiah, placed his remains in the earth completing the cycle as told by St. Paul, \"man dust thou art and dust thou shall return\".(<em>The Jackson County Times, July 28, 1937, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The return</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April 1937,&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald</em>&nbsp;reported that \"The Camp of the Saints\" has located on the M.R. Davis place on the Meunier property in North Biloxi. The followers of the late Brother Isaiah (1847-1934), which numbered about twelve and were primarily men, decided that the Biloxi area was an ideal location. They were seeking a large farm to share crop. The disciples of Brother Isaiah believed in making their livelihood from agriculture, not from donations. They did not plan to practice any form of healing like their deceased leader. The religious cult had disbanded in 1936, in northern California. &nbsp;The \'Saints\' left Biloxi in 1925 for Fort Meyers, Florida before relocating to Raceland, Louisiana circa 1929. &nbsp;Their journey had ended in Oroville, California.(<em>The Daily Herald, April 20, 1937, p. 10)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">There are many octogenarians in this area who were taken to the tent of Brother Isaiah by their parents. Children and grandchildren of these people might inquire of them and get their own vicarious vision of Brother Isaiah.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John M. Fletcher,&nbsp;<em>The American Journal of Psychology</em>,<strong>&nbsp;The Miracle Man of New Orleans,&nbsp;</strong>Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan., 1922), pp. 113-120.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em><strong>Journals</strong></em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Brother Isaiah Arrives”</strong>, June 10, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Brother Isaiah works ‘miracles’ in Jackson County with Colony”</strong>, June 24, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Brother Isaiah goes to Texas”,&nbsp;</strong>October 10, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Brother Isaiah in California”</strong>, August 8, 1929.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Brother Isaiah’s followers return”</strong>, April 20, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local and Personal”</strong>, July 1, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local and Personal”</strong>, September 16, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,</em><strong>&nbsp;“Brother Isaiah is touring the States”</strong>, September 16, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>Death occurs in Isaiah’s tent”</strong>, November 24, 1923.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Brother Isaiah en route to Biloxi”,&nbsp;</strong>August 30, 1924.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local and Personal”</strong>, April 4, 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Faith works wonders”</strong>, October 29, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Isaiah dies”,&nbsp;</strong>July 28, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Brother Isaiah dies in California”</strong>, July 28, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>Jambalaya-The Crescent City-Coast Connection,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Once Upon a Time-The Miracle Man: Brother Isaiah (1847-1934)\"</strong>, April 1998.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Strange faith cures laid at door of tiny houseboat\",</strong>March 11, 1920, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Blind hope, aroused to passion, forces army of lame, weak, and sick to healing of new \'Isaiah\'\",&nbsp;</strong>March 12, 1920, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Disbelief creeps in to discount triumph of \'cures\' by healer\"</strong>, March 13, 1920, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Police declare \'hands off\' for Brother Isaiah\"</strong>, March 13, 1920, p. 4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Healer\'s declined funds are sought\",&nbsp;</strong>March 13, 1920, p. 4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Wars of bloodshed decried and those of righteousness extolled by \'Brother Isaiah\'\",&nbsp;</strong>March 15, 1920, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Aged \'Healer\' spends Monday in Pujol home\",&nbsp;</strong>March 16, 1920, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Patrolman says \'Brother Isaiah\' gave him relief\",</strong>March 16, 1920, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Blind workers desert shop and rush to \'Brother Isaiah\'\",&nbsp;</strong>March 17, 1920, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Times Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Biloxi Kiwanians fight proposed river spillway\"</strong><strong>,</strong><strong>November 26</strong>, 1923, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Oroville, California Mercury- Register,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"Brother Isaiah founded \'New Jerusalem\' here\"</strong><em><strong>,&nbsp;</strong></em>February 23, 1985.<strong>O</strong></span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">____________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Biloxi Church-East Howard Baptist-March 2012.jpg\" style=\"height:149px; width:300px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>241 Howard Avenue</strong> &nbsp;[image made March 2012]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>EAST HOWARD AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>241 Howard Avenue</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1959-DEDICATION</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong>&nbsp;$60,000 East Howard Avenue Baptist Church on East Howard Avenue and Maple Street was dedicated</strong>&nbsp;on November 29, 1959. &nbsp;The brick and glass, structure was 86 feet deep and 48 feet wide with a seating capacity of about 500 people including the balcony area. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Reverend Leo C. Hoff (</strong>1913-2009), a native of Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, had come to this Biloxi church 2 1/2 years ago from the Bunker Hill Baptist Church near Columbia, Mississippi. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<strong>Reverend Hoff expired at Norwood, Lincoln County, Mississippi on April 17, 2009</strong>.(The Daily Herald, November 28, 1959, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>POST-KATRINA</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In August 2011, the sixty, more or less congregants of the East Howard Baptist Church, a member of the Gulf Coast Baptist Association, were greeted by Tom Mims, their new minister, and Tommy Mims, his son, as their music director. Christen Cauley was children\'s worship director. &nbsp;Devasted by Hurricane Katrina because of its low elevation on the southeast corner of Howard Avenue and Maple Street on Biloxi\'s Point Cadet, the church suffered a loss of participation as former residents of the area relocated to other areas. &nbsp;In addition to his pastoral obligations, Tom Mims is the director of the Gulf Coast Rescue Mission at Biloxi.(The Sun Herald, March 11, 2012, p. A9)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,<strong> \"East Howard Avenue Baptist\"</strong>, November 28, 1959.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>, <strong>\"East Howard Baptist Church feels the work of Holy Spirit\"</strong>, March 10, 2012, p. A9.</span></span></div>\r\n', '', '2');
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('book', 0, 202, 205, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>TIMELINE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1837</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>The Diocese of Natchez&nbsp;was established by the Roman Catholic Church on July 28, 1837</strong>.(The Mississippi Register, August 3, 1962)</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>1840</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bishop%20Chanche.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:137px\" /></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Bishop John Mary Joseph Chanche </strong>(1795-1852)</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On August 15, 1843, Manette Fayard Leader (1791-1853), widow of Thomas Leader, for $200 sold Bishop of Natchez John Joseph Chanche a lot of 1/2 acre on Pass Christian Road [Howard Avenue]. &nbsp;The tract was 150 feet deep with Louis A. Caillavet to the west and Augustine Fayard to the east.[Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Land Dee</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">d </span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51)\">Bk. 1, p. 355</span>]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1853</span></span></strong></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/Bishop%20Van%20de%20Velde.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:147px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bishop James Oliver Van deVelde</strong> (1795-1855)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1857</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bishop&nbsp;William Henry Elder</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1881&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bishop%20Jannssens.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:127px\" /></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>Monsignor Francis August Anthony Joseph Janssens</strong> (1843-1897) was a Dutch-born Prelate who served as Bishop of Natchez (1881 – 1888), and Archbishop of New Orleans (1888 – 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\">Francis Janssens was born October 17, 1843 in Tilburg, North Brabant, to Cornelius John Janssens and Josephine Anne Dams. He studied at the Seminary of \'s-Hertogenbosch from 1856 until 1866, when he entered the American College at Louvain, Belgium, with the view of dedicating himself to the American Missions. Janssens was ordained to the Priesthood on December 21, 1867. Arriving at Richmond, Virginia, in September 1868, he became Rector of the Cathedral in 1870, and served as Vicar General under Bishops James Gibbons and John Joseph Keane.</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 April 7, 1881, Janssens was appointed the Fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Natchez, Mississippi, by Pope Leo XIII, receiving his Episcopal Consecration on the following May 1, from Archbishop James Gibbons, assisted by Bishops Thomas Becker and John Keane. During his tenure he completed construction on the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle, which had commenced forty years earlier.</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\">Janssens was promoted to the Archbishopric of New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 7, 1888, succeeding Msgr. Francis Xavier Leray, and was installed on the following September 16. During his tenure he convened the fifth Archdiocesan Synod in May 1889, founded more than twenty-five new parochial schools, dedicated a new Preparatory Seminary at Gessen in September 1891, and established the Catholic Institute for Deaf and Dumb at Chinchuba in 1890.</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\">Janssens significantly reduced the immense debt incurred by Archbishop Napoléon-Joseph Perché. Continuing the work of his immediate Predecessor, Francis Xavier Leray, he reduced it from $324,759 to about $130,000.</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\">His tenure also spanned the period of hardening racial divisions between whites and blacks. He once said, \"There is nothing in my administration of the Diocese that worries me more than our colored people; to see what is done by the Protestants to capture them and how often they succeed.\" Believing that a separate Parish would keep blacks within the Catholic Church and facilitate black leadership just as it had for Irish and German immigrants, Janssens established St. Katharine\'s Church in 1895, as the first Parish designated for black Catholics. Attendance, however, was optional. It was, however, his expressed hope \"that anyone might occupy any pew or any seat anywhere in the church.\"</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\">Bishop Janssens died on June 9, 1897 aboard the steamer <em><strong>Creole</strong></em>, bound for New York City, aged 53. He is buried at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.</span></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">(The Mississippi Register, August 3, 1962)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1889</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bishop%20Thomas%20Heflin.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:124px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Thomas Heslin</strong> (1847-1911), native of Dernacross, County Longford, Ireland, was appointed the 5th Bishop of the See of Natchez on March 29, 1889. &nbsp;He expired at Natchez on February 18, 1911.(The Mississippi Register, August 3, 1962)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1900</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\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>1902</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Contract for the NBVM Catholic Church was let to J.F. Barnes &amp; Co.</strong>&nbsp;of Greenville and Biloxi for $15,558.&nbsp; Brick structure 132 feet by 55 feet, 60 feet tall, and bell tower 140 feet tall.&nbsp; Architect Theo Brune (1854-1932) of NOLA.&nbsp; Bid did not include: overhead ceiling, plastering, and wainscoting.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 7, 1902, p. 1)</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 mid-September, <strong>Bishop Heslin blessed and christened the new church bell at the Church of the Nativity BVM donated by Lazaro Lopez.</strong> &nbsp;Father Blanc of Bay St. Louis, Father Aloysius of Pass Christian, and Reverend Alphonse Kettels of Biloxi assited Bishop Heslin with the blessing. &nbsp;The bell was given in the name of <strong>Clara Josephine Lopez </strong>and sponsored by her siblings, <strong>Master Julius Lopez</strong> and <strong>Miss Rowena Lopez</strong>.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, September 16, 1902)</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>1903</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&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>1904</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1905</strong></span></span></div>\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>1906</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;In early January 1906, seven, large, stain&nbsp;<strong>glass windows arrived at Biloxi from Germany to tbe placed in the sanctuary of the Nativity B.V.M. Catholic Church</strong>. &nbsp;<strong>Julia Dulion Lopez</strong>&nbsp;(1857-1918) had donated these windows described as&nbsp;<strong>\'equal to anything in the South\'</strong>&nbsp;in memory of&nbsp;<strong>Lazaro Lopez</strong>, (1850-1903), 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>.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 6, 1906, p. 4 and &nbsp;January 9, 1906, p. 1)</em></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>1908</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Our Lady of Good Counsel</strong>&nbsp;on Cedar Street at Point Cadet in East Biloxi was dedicated in late January with Father Alphonse Ketels in charge.&nbsp;<strong>Frederick Henry McCaleb</strong> (1846-1909) donated the land for the small church to the Diocese of Natchez in February 1908. &nbsp;The deed from Mr. McCaleb stated that<em><strong> \"graves on said lot is not to be molested and reserve the right to have any of my family buried on said lot at all times.\"</strong></em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 30, 1908 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Land Deed Bk. 102, p. 121)</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><strong>1910</strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong>Michael F. Murphy and spouse donated a large, stained-glass,&nbsp;window [18 feet tall and about 8 feet wide] to Nativity B.V.M Catholic Church.&nbsp; </strong></strong>The window was the work of Herr Reiss, the son of the acclaimed Reiss of Munich, Germany.&nbsp; Edward F. Brennan representing the Mayer Company of New York-London-Munich installed the large light on the west sdie fo the church near the sanctuary.(The daily Herald,&nbsp; January 4, 1910, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1911</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1912</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On September 18th,<strong> Sister Mary Aloysius Cook, president of the Sisters</strong> <strong>of Mercy</strong> St. Alphonsus Council of NOLA conveyed for $2500 two lots, one north and one south of their Convent, and situated&nbsp;<strong>on the west side of Reynoir Street and south of West Howard Avenue</strong> to the <strong>Catholic Diocese of Natchez.</strong>(The Daily Herald, September 27, 1912, p. 1 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 102, p. 123)</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>1920</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Peter Pitalo</strong> (1866-1947)<strong> donated a statue </strong>representing Our Lady of the Assumption <strong>to St. Michael\'s Church </strong>as a memorial to <strong>John Joseph Pitalo</strong> (1893-1918), his deceased son.(The Daily Herald, June 25, 1920)</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>1921</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Reverend Alphonse Kettels</strong> (1855-1921), native of St. Nicholas, Belgium and pastor of N.B.V.M. since 1897, expired at Biloxi, Mississippi on July 11th. &nbsp;Father Ketels came to the Diocese of Natchez in 1886 to minister to the people of DeLisle. &nbsp;In the fall of 1920, he visited his four sisters in Belgium. &nbsp;In December 1921, Bishop Gunn appointed <strong>Father Peter Keenan</strong>&nbsp;(1873-1937) to replace Reverend Ketels at N.B.V.M.(The Daily Herald, August 27, 1909, p. 1, July 12, 1921, p. 1 and July 13, 1921, p. 1)&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\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>&nbsp;</strong></span></span>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/St.%20John%27s%20Church-Main%20Street.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:180px\" /></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>St. John\'s Catholic Church</strong>,&nbsp;Biloxi\'s<strong> 4th Catholic Parish was dedicated on December 18, 1921 </strong>by Bishop John E. Gunn. &nbsp;The sanctuary was located on the corner of Main Street and Bayview Avenue. &nbsp;Father P.J. Carey of St. Theresa\'s Catholic Church in North Biloxi was appointed to minister to the Catholics of Back Bay. &nbsp;He had come to Biloxi from Bay St. Louis about two years prior.(The Daily Herald, December 16, 1921, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">192</span></span></strong><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">4</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Gerow%2C%20RO%20BISHOP_1.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:199px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Richard Oliver Gerow</strong> (1885-1976) was born at Mobile, Alabama. &nbsp;He was <strong>appointed Bishop of the See of Natchez on June 25, 1924</strong> and consencrated Bishop on October 15, 1924. &nbsp;Bishop Gerow expired at Jackson, Mississippi on December 20. 1976.</span></span><span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">(The Mississippi Register, August 3, 1962)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1931</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Father P.J. McGlade </strong>(1893-1980)<strong> was appointed the pastor of the newly formed St. John\'s Parish</strong> on Biloxi\'s Back Bay.(The Daily Herald, September 4, 1931, p. 5)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">\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><strong>1937</strong></strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On March 19, 1937, <strong>Eurilda Glavan</strong> (1915-2002) became a novice in the&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Sisters of St. Joseph Convent</strong> at St. Joseph Academy in NOLA.[The Daily Herlad, March 24, 1937, p. 2]</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Reverend J.W. Mulroney&nbsp;was retained as pastor of Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church.</strong>&nbsp; Father Mulroney was to have been transferred.&nbsp; Father John J. Albert of Brooklyn, New York was in charge of the parish while Father Mulroney was in Rome City, Indiana&nbsp;&nbsp;visiting his ill sister.&nbsp; He planned to return to Biloix in August&nbsp;.(The Daily Herald, July&nbsp;20 1937, p. 6)</span></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1940</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kenneth Lewis Harris</strong>&nbsp;(1912-1964), native of Biloxi,&nbsp;<strong>was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on May 18th at St. John\'s Catholic Church in Biloxi. &nbsp;He died at New Orleans on June 22, 1964.</strong>(The Daily Herald, May 16, 1940, p. 6, May 17, 1940, p. 1, and May 18, 1940, p. 1, and June 22, 1964, p. 1)&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1947</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Sister Mary Clarissa</strong>, RSM, daughter of <strong>Mr. and Mrs. Chester Rose</strong>, West 1st Street and <strong>Sister Mary Grace, RSM, daughter of Earl Pickard, Reynoir Street, arrived yesterday</strong>.&nbsp; Sister Clarissa will be at the Convent of Mercy on Renoir Street and Sister Mary will be at the Holy Angels Nursery on East Beach.(The Daily Herald, August 9, 1947, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1948</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Pelous%2C Harry J. Father-May 1948.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:101px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Father Harry J. Pelous </strong>(1921-1994)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Harry J. Pelous</strong> (1921-1994), native of Garden City, Louisiana and son of <strong>Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Pelous of Biloxi</strong>, was <strong>ordained a Catholic priest at St. John the Evangelist Cathedral at Lafayette, Louisiana</strong> on May 22, 1948. &nbsp;He said his first solemn High Mass at Nativity BVM in Biloxi on May &nbsp; 1948. &nbsp;Father Pelous died at Lafayette, Loiusiana on February 18, 1994.(The Daily Herald, May 22, 1948, p. 10)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1950</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Father Patrick Scully</strong> (b. 1926), a native of Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, Eire, and a graduate of St. Patrick\'s College, Carlow, Ireland, <strong>assumed his duties as third assistant pastor</strong> at N.B.V.M. Catholic Cghurch at Biloxi. Kilbeggan was known <strong>for its Irish whiskey distillery</strong>.(The Daily Herald, October 11, 1950, p. 7-[photo])</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1956</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The<strong> See of Natchez became&nbsp;the Diocese of Natchez-Jackson on December 18, 1956. </strong>&nbsp;Bishop R.O. Gerow (1885-1976) &nbsp;was in office at the time.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1959</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\"><strong>Ground was broken on January 12th for the new St. John\'s Church on Lameuse Street</strong>.&nbsp; The Reverend Michael Fox (1918-1969), pastor, Henry F. Fountain Jr. (1924-2011), architect, Ralph Marion, contractor, and Ernest Boney, building committee.(The Daily Herald, January 13, 1959, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1960</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Brother&nbsp;Joseph Otto</strong> CSC (1931-1960) <strong>died September 20, 1960 at Indianapolis, Indiana </strong>where he had been teaching at Cathedral High&nbsp;School sine 1957.&nbsp; Brother Joseph was a Biloxi native, the son of George Otto&nbsp;(1879-1959) and Mrs. Otto.&nbsp; He graduated from Notre Dame High School in 1949 and entered the novitiate of the Brothers of the Holy Cross.&nbsp; Brother Joseph Otto\'s corporal remians were interred at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana.(The Daily Herald, September 21, 1960, p. 2)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1962</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late May, <strong>Our Lady of Fatima contracted with the William Craig Company of Gulfport, Mississippi to erect a $102, 811, two-story, masonry convent school building </strong>to be situated south of the elementary class room buildng. Slaughter &amp; Smith, Pascagoula, Mississippi architects, designed the eight-bedroom facility for the Catholic teaching nuns.(The Daily Herald, June 1, 1962, p. 1)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Father Paul Hession</strong>&nbsp;(ca 1920-1993) of Our Lady of Fatima Parish <strong>celebrated his 20th anniversary as a Roman Catholic priest</strong> in mid-June with a tea service. &nbsp;Assistant Pastor, Lorenzo Diamond, and Monsignor Geoffrey T. O\'Connell of N.B.V.M. were in attendance.(The Daily Herald, June 14, 1962, p. 7)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;<strong>1964</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The new&nbsp;<strong>St. Michael\'s Catholic Church was dedicated by Bishop R.O. Gerow</strong>&nbsp;of the Natchez-Jackson Diocese on August 25th. &nbsp;<strong>The $500,000, 10,300 square-ft. structure was designed by James T. Canizaro, architect, and erected by McClendon Building Services of Gulfport.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Construction commenced in October 1962. &nbsp;Father Herbert Mullin was the pastor.(The Daily Herald, August 24, 1964, p. 16 and August 26, 1964, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>In September, Reverend Morgan Kavangh, Diocesan Director</strong> announced that <strong>five newly ordained Irish Catholic priests</strong>&nbsp;had arrived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: <strong>Father Patrick McDermott</strong>, asst. at NBVM; <strong>Thomas White</strong>, asst. OLG-Bay St. Louis; <strong>John Kelly</strong>, asst. BVM; <strong>Eugene Clarke</strong>, St. John\'s-Gpt.; and <strong>James O\'Riordan</strong>, asst. OLG-Bay St. Louis. (The Daily Herald, September 17, 1964, p. 23)&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>1969</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/F1B3534C-90EC-45C8-BC94-4F72212ADC24.jpeg\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend Monsignor Michael J. Fox</strong> (1918-1969) died on Marc, 1969 at his home at Cashel, Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland.&nbsp;&nbsp; A Requiem Mass was offered by Bishop Brunini for the repose of his soul at St. Joseph Church at Greenville, Mississippi where he was parish priest.&nbsp; Father&nbsp; Fox had served as assistant pastor at St. Paul Church in Vicksburg and Our Lady of the Gulf in Bay St. Louis.&nbsp; He was appointed pastor of St. John\'s Church at Biloxi in 1956 and was later named pastor of St. Joseph Church in Greenville.(The Daily Herald, June 21, 1969, p. 2)&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><strong>1973</strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In February,<strong><strong> the Reverend John Robinson became pastor of St. Michael\'s Catholic Church.&nbsp; </strong></strong>Father Robinson came to Biloxi from Laurel, Mississippi where he was pastor of the Immaculate Conception Church for 6 and 1/2 years.&nbsp; He was assistant at St. Michael\'s under Father Mullin from 1950-1952.&nbsp; Father Robinson was ordained in 1949 at St. Patrick\'s College, Carlow, ireland.&nbsp; He was born at Killesshandra, County Cavan, Ireland.(The Daily Herald, February 7, 1973, p. 8)</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>1976</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/u4/O\'Connell%2C Jeffrey Monsignor.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:132px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Reverend Monsignor <strong>Geoffrey T. O\'Connell</strong>&nbsp;died on May 9, 1976.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1977</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p> <span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Roman Catholic Diocese of Biloxi was established on March 1, 1977, when it was split from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bishop%20Howze%20.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:161px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bishop Joseph Lawson Howze, D.D. </strong>was born August 30, 1923, in Daphne, Alabama, was the first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi. He was born Lawson Howze and took the name Joseph when he converted to Catholicism in 1948.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He received his B.A. degree from Alabama State University, in 1948. After religious training at Christ the King Seminary at St. Bonaventure University, in New York, Howze was ordained a priest for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1959.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He was named an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Natchez-Jackson, Mississippi, on November 14, 1972, and was installed on January 28, 1973. When the Diocese of Biloxi was created in 1977, Howze was appointed as its first bishop. He was the first African American bishop in the 20th century to head a diocese in the United States. Bishop Howze retired June 6, 2001</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\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><strong>1981</strong></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Brother Placidus Carroll CSC (1902-1981) native of Baltimore, Maryland died at Biloxi, Mississippi on January 25, 1981.&nbsp; He came to Notre Dame High School in 1947 and retired in 1976.&nbsp; His corporal remains were sent to Notre Dame at South Bend, Indiana for internment.(The Daily herald, January 26, 1981, p. A2)</strong></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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1993</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Reverend Monsignor <strong>Paul Hession</strong> died on September 15, 1993.</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>1995</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The <strong>Reverend Paul Alphonse Gillis </strong>[nee Gaulis] (1918-1995), a native of Raseniniai,&nbsp; Lithania died at Ocean Springs, Mississippi on August 14, 1995.&nbsp; He was ordained on June 6, 1946 in Washington D.C.&nbsp; and his first assignment in Mississippi commenced in September 1953 at St. Paul\'s at Vicksburg.&nbsp; Father Gillis retired in July 1988 while at the&nbsp;Church of the Holy Spirit in Vancleave, Jackson County, Mississippi.&nbsp; The corporal remains of Father Gillis were interred at Bassfield, Mississippi in the St. Peter Catholic Cemetery.(The Sun Herald, August 18, 1995, p. B2)</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>1996</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bishop%20Brunini.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:152px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bishop Joseph B. Brunini </strong>(1909-1996) expired on January 7, 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2000&nbsp;</span></strong></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: \'Open Sans\', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/u4/Marino%2C%20Eugene_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:130px\" /></span></div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Archbishop Eugene A. Marino</strong>&nbsp;(1934-2000), a Biloxi native and&nbsp;<strong>America\'s first Roman Catholic Black Archbishop</strong>, expired at New Rochelle, New York on 11 November 2000. &nbsp;He was selected by Pope John Paul II on March 15, 1988 for this position and installed at Atlanta, Georgia on 5 May&nbsp;1988.(The Sun Herald, April 30, 1988, p. A7 and November 14, 2000, p. A1 and p. A5</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">2001</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bishop%20Rodi.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:150px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Bishop Thomas J. Rodi</strong>, a native of New Orleans, graduated from De La Salle High School in 1967 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University in 1971. He returned to New Orleans where he earned a law degree from the Tulane University Law School in 1974, and then entered Notre Dame Seminary, where he received a master of divinity degree in 1978.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bishop Rodi was ordained to the priesthood on May 20, 1978, and served as associate pastor at St. Ann and St. Christopher the Martyr parishes, in Metairie, and at St. Agnes in Jefferson.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1983 he was appointed judge for the Metropolitan Tribunal, which handles marriage cases. He earned a licentiate in canon law from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1986, and served as professor of canon law at Notre Dame Seminary from 1986 to 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bishop Rodi served as director of the Office of Religious Education from 1988 to 1989, and as executive director of the Department of Pastoral Services from 1989 to 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In addition to his other duties, Bishop Rodi was named Archdiocesan Chancellor in 1992, and in 1996, he was named Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1992, he was named a prelate of honor (a monsignor) by Pope John Paul II.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bishop Rodi also served as administrator of St. Matthew the Apostle Parish in River Ridge, ministered in Our Lady of the Rosary and St. Pius X parishes in New Orleans, and was pastor of St. Rita Church, in New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He was ordained a bishop and installed as Bishop of Biloxi on July 2, 2001. &nbsp;Bishop Rodi was appointed Archbishop of Mobile by Pope Benedict XVI on April 2, 2008, and was installed on June 6, 2008.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rteleft\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>2004</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Reverend <strong>Charles R. Loyacono</strong>&nbsp;(1923-2004) died on May 2, 2004 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.</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>2008</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Reverend Monsignor <strong>&nbsp;James Hannon </strong>(1920-2008), native of County Galway, Ireland and ordained in June 1945 at St. Patrick\'s College, Carlow, Ireland, expired on March 16, 2008 at , Mississippi. &nbsp;One of the founders of the St. Vincent De Paul Free Pharmacy in Biloxi &nbsp;Buried Evergreen Cemetery at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.(The Mississippi Press, March 19, 2008, p. A4 and The Sun Herald, March 18, 2008, p. A2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">2009</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/Bishop%20Roger%20Paul%20Morin_0.jpg\" style=\"height:167px; width:108px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Bishop Roger P. Morin</strong> was named vicar general and moderator of the curia in the New Orleans Archdiocese June 15, 2001. His episcopal ordination was April 22, 2003 at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A native of Dracut, Mass., he was born on March 7, 1941, the son of Germain J. and Lillian E. Morin. After high school and college studies, he earned a bachelor\'s in philosophy in 1966 from St. John\'s Seminary in Brighton, Mass., and continued theology studies at St. John\'s for two years of graduate 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\">He went to New Orleans in 1967 to work in its new summer Witness program, conducted by the archdiocesan Social Apostolate. When he returned to New Orleans in 1968, he became director of The Center, a neighborhood social service organization run by the Social Apostolate. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He enrolled at Notre Dame Seminary, studying in the evenings and on Saturdays in addition to his full-time position at The Center. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Hannan on April 15, 1971, in his home parish of St. Therese in Dracut, Mass. His first parish assignment was at St. Henry Parish in New Orleans.</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 1973, he was appointed associate director of the Social Apostolate and in 1975 became the director, responsible for the operation of nine year-round social service centers sponsored by the archdiocese.</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\">Bishop Morin holds a master of science degree in urban studies from Tulane University and completed a program in 1974 as a community economic developer. He was in residence at Incarnate Word Parish beginning in 1981 and served as pastor there from 1988 through April 2002.</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 1978, he was a volunteer member of Mayor Ernest \"Dutch\" Morial\'s transition team dealing with federal programs and then accepted a $1 a year position as deputy special assistant to the mayor for federal programs and projects. He served the city of New Orleans until 1981, when he was appointed archdiocesan vicar for community affairs.</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 1981, he assumed the full-time position of vicar for community affairs, with responsibility over nine agencies: Catholic Charities, Social Apostolate, human relations, alcoholics\' ministry, Apostleship of the Sea, cemeteries, disaster relief, hospitals and prisons. He was named a monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1985. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">One of the highlights of his priesthood came in 1987 when he directed the archdiocese\'s preparations for Pope John Paul\'s historic visit to New Orleans. The visit involved thousands of community volunteers and coordination among national, state and local religious and political leaders. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He also coordinated the events of the bicentennial of the archdiocese in 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\">In 1995, Bishop Morin received the Weiss Brotherhood Award presented by the National Conference of Christians and Jews for his service in the field of human relations. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bishop Morin is a member of the USCCB’s Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bishop Morin\'s episcopal motto is \"Walk Humbly and Act Justly.\"</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He has one brother: Paul; and three sisters: Lillian (Pat) Johnson, Elaine Joncas and Susan Spellissy. His parents and his brother James are deceased.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">He was installed as Bishop of Biloxi on Monday, April 27, 2009 at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cathedral in Biloxi. The Most Reverend Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S.A., and the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mobile, the Most Reverend Thomas J. Rodi, presided at the ceremony.</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">(The Sun Herald,&nbsp; April 26, 2009, p. A13, and April 28, 2009, p. A1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>2014</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Father Peter F. Mockler</strong> (1948-2014), native of Woodbrook, Newbridge, Ballinasloe, County. Galway, Ireland died on January 30, 2014 at Lizana, Harrison County, Mississippi. &nbsp;He studied at St. Patrick College, Carlow, Ireland and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Natchez-Jackson on June 10, 1973. He arrived in Mississippi on Aug. 26, 1973.(The Sun Herald, February 1, 2014, p. A-4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&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>Priest and Nuns</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Reverend Kenneth Lewis&nbsp;Harris </strong>(1912-1964) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on February 16, 1912 to&nbsp;Fred Harris [1889-1956] and Carrie Hecht Harris [1889-1969].&nbsp; He was educated at Gorenflo public school, Sacred Heart Academy and graduated from Biloxi High School in 1929. &nbsp;Kenneth entered the St. Bernard Seminary at Cullman, Alabama in September 1931 and remained there for two years. .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(14, 75, 126); color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(14, 75, 126); color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Kenneth Lewis Harris</strong>&nbsp;(1912-1964), native of Biloxi,&nbsp;<strong>was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on May 18, 1940. &nbsp;He died at New Orleans on June 22, 1964.</strong>(The Daily Herald, May 16, 1940, p. 6, May 17, 1940, p. 1, and May 18, 1940, p. 1, and June 22, 1964, p. 1)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(14, 75, 126); color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(14, 75, 126); color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(14, 75, 126); color: rgb(14, 75, 126); font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; text-align:justify\">Father Harris celebrated his first Mass at St. John\'s Catholic Church in Biloxi on 26 May 1940.[The Daily Herald, May 27, 1940, p. 1]</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Father Harris expired at New Orleans on 22 June 1964 at Foundation Hospital. He had been teachiing at Bel Aire, Ohio until May 1964. &nbsp;Some of his postingshad been Chatawa, Natchez, and Hattiesburg in Mississippi; also California and New Mexico.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \'New Priest is native of Biloxi\', May 16, 1940, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald, \'Fr. Harris say first Mass\', May 27, 1940, p. 1.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Hattiesburg American, \'Former local Catholic priest dies in Orleans\', June 23, 1964, p. 10.</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>Peter Francis Mockler</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/Mockler%2C Peter F. (1948-2014).jpg\" style=\"height:141px; width:120px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Father Peter Francis \"Father Pete\" Mockler</strong>, (1948-2014), age 65 years, passed away on January 30, 2014, at St. Ann\'s Catholic Church in Lizana. &nbsp;Father Pete was born on Nov. 4, 1948 in Woodbrook, Newbridge, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, Ireland and he studied at St. Patrick College, Carlow, Ireland and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Natchez-Jackson on June 10, 1973. He arrived in Mississippi on Aug. 26, 1973. Father Pete\'s first assignment was as associate pastor of St. John the Evangelist in Gulfport, where he served from Sept. 1, 1973 until Sept. 3, 1978. He served at Sacred Heart -- Pascagoula from 1978-1980 and on September 11, 1980, he was named pastor of St. Ann Parish, Lizana. On Jan. 14, 1988, he was appointed pastor of Our Lady of the Gulf Parish, Bay St. Louis. In 2001, he was appointed pastor of St. Ann Parish, Lizana for a second time and served there until his death. Father Pete served on numerous diocesan boards and committees. On Dec. 23, 1977, he was named the first director of the Diocese of Biloxi\'s permanent diaconate program. At the time of his death, he was a member of the College of Consultors, the Presbyteral Board and the Diocesan Finance Committee.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHe was preceded in death by his father, James Mockler.&nbsp; Survivors include his mother, Mary Mockler, 11 siblings, Mary (Sonny) Ryan, Kathleen (Kevin) Mullins, Margaret (Johnny) Mullins, Bridie (Tony) Haverin, Fr. Paddy Mockler, Eileen (John) O\'Loughlin, Nora (Tommy) Bane, Ann (John Francis) Walsh, Michael Mockler, Bernadette (Sophinne) Mocker, and Teresa (Martin) Mockler, his aunt, Margaret Quinn, his cousin, Fr. Tommy Conway, and numerous nieces, nephews, grand-nieces and nephews, and other relatives.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nThere will be 2 services. First, A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 3 pm Sunday, February 2, 2014 at St. Ann\'s Catholic Church, Lizana, where visitation will be from 1 -- 3 pm. A rosary will be recited at 2:30 pm. Second, A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 5 pm on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 where visitation will be from 3 -- 5 pm. Burial will take place on the grounds of St. Patrick\'s Church in Newbridge, County Galway, Ireland.&nbsp; The Riemann Family Funeral Home, Gulfport, is in charge of arrangements, and an online guestbook may be viewed and signed at www.riemannfamily.com(The Sun Herald, February 1, 2014, p. A-4)</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('page', 0, 208, 211, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The O’Keefe Family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Great Potato Famine of 1845-1850 brought death and misery to millions of impoverished Irish Roman Catholics.&nbsp; One of the positive actions of this near 19<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century genocide was the immigration and subsequent habitation of&nbsp;<strong>Edward “Ned” Keefe (</strong>1815-1874), later&nbsp;<strong>O’Keefe</strong>, a native of Bincher Parish, County Tipperary, Ireland to Ocean Springs, Mississippi in the mid-1850s.&nbsp; Here a middle-aged Ned O’Keefe and spouse,&nbsp;<strong>Mary Tracy</strong>&nbsp;(1832-1895), another Irish expatriate, commenced an Irish-American family that remains a viable part of Ocean Springs, Biloxi and the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast.(Lepre, 1991, p. 165)</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 Ned O’Keefe family chronology at Ocean Springs is one of success.&nbsp; Determined toil, perseverance, and good business acumen in an environment probably untarnished with Hibernian prejudice and because of its small size, predominantly Catholic society, and high ratio of immigrants to indigenous people, allowed Edward \"Ned\" O’Keefe to achieve his prosperity, primarily as a teamster and drayage contractor.&nbsp; To further ameliorate the local situation, there were already several other Irish families at Ocean Springs, Mississippi: the Ames, Colligans, Egans, Shanahans, and Sodens.</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>The Primal Cottage</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The first known property acquisition at Ocean Springs by Edward “Ned” O’Keefe, the family progenitor, occurred in February 1859, when he paid Andrew F. Ramsay $100 for Lot 5-Block 26 (Culmseig Map of 1854).&nbsp; This ground is situated on the northeast corner of Rayburn and Porter.&nbsp; It is assumed that the first O’Keefe domicile was erected here.&nbsp; O’Keefe purchased Lot 4- Block 26, which was contiguous and north of Lot 5, in October 1867 from George A. Cox (1811-1887).&nbsp; It is interesting to note that Margaret B. Foy (d. 1892), also from Ireland, lived just east of the O’Keefe family.&nbsp; She settled here in February 1855, on the northwest corner of Porter and Jackson.&nbsp; Her nephew, James Lynch (1852-1935), was legated her two-story home and subsequently operated a store and the renown Lynch Academy, which the J.J. O’Keefe children attended for some of their basic education.(Jackson County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. Bk. 7, p. 272 and Bk. 1, pp. 184-185 and Ellison, 1991, p. 35)</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 O’Keefe lots on the northeast corner of Rayburn and Porter were sold to Eda Miller, wife of John Voght Miller, in December 1883, for $400 and a note of $50.(Jackson County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 7, p. 272)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe Livery ca 1900 .jpg\" style=\"height:233px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">THE J. O’KEEFE LIVERY STABLE-Situated on the north side of Porter Street between Jackson Avenue and Washington Avenue, the O’Keefe Livery Stable served the Jeremiah J. ‘Jerry’ O’Keefe family and Ocean Springs for many years as a venue for drayage and transportation services.&nbsp; The business commenced after the War of the Rebellion by Edward ‘Ned’ O’Keefe (1815-1874), an Irish immigrant.&nbsp; After Ned’s demise, Jerry O’Keefe (1860-1911), his only son, continued in the livery and drayage business eventually becoming the town’s undertaker probably in the early 1890s.&nbsp; By 1926, the O’Keefe family had let the building to William F. ‘Willy’ Dale (1899-1990).&nbsp; &nbsp;Here he commenced the Dale Motor Company.&nbsp; Willy repaired motorcars and sold gasoline and petroleum products here for many years.&nbsp; The building is extant and is use by the Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes.</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>Civil War</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After returning to Ocean Springs from the Civil War in which he served with Company A-Live Oak Rifles of the 3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;Mississippi Regiment, Ned O\'Keefe became a teamster and started a livery business.&nbsp; He supplied transportation service to the multitude of visitors who arrived at Ocean Springs by steam packet and later railroad train.&nbsp; When people passed on, his carriages were used to transport their bodies to the local cemetery, as well as their mourners.&nbsp; Before his demise in 1874, Ned O\'Keefe and his wife had two children: Jeremiah ‘Jerry’ Joseph O’Keefe (1860-1911) and Mary Helen O’Keefe (1863-1878).(Howell, 1991, p. 440 and p. 555) &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ned O\'Keefe barroom brawl and death of Leitzler</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">An anectdotal story passed down through the O\'Keefe family was that Ned O\'Keefe had killed a man at Ocean Springs. &nbsp;In 2019, Else Jensine Martin, a fabuolous researcher and Jackson County, Mississippi historian discovered this article in <strong><em>The Daily Picayune,</em></strong> scion&nbsp;of <strong><em>The Times-Picayune</em></strong>.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On&nbsp;Saturday&nbsp;night inst, Messrs&nbsp;<strong>Edward&nbsp;Keith</strong>&nbsp;[O\' Keefe]&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Blaze Leitzler</strong>&nbsp;had a difficulty,&nbsp;<strong>resulting in the death of Leitzler</strong>, <strong>who received a fatal wound in the bowels and back with a pocket knife. </strong>So far as we have been able to gather the particulars, they are as follows: Ned Keith went to the barroom of Leitzler in search of a friend, and when he knocked at the door Leitzler answered, opened the door and asked Keith what he wanted. Keith replied that he came after his friend (naming him) and must see him, but refused to go in and drink with Leitzler; <strong>whereupon Leitzler pushed Keith away from the door, at the same time telling him he did not care a d—n for him or his friend. </strong>They then clinched and fell to the ground, Leitzler being topmost, and during the scuffle Leitzler received the wounds from which he died a few hours after, notwithstanding the best medical aid that could be procured in the town. It is a lamentable affair; they were both old citizens with families. &nbsp;Mr. Keith immediately took the&nbsp;<strong><em>Creole</em>&nbsp;</strong>(steamer) for East Pascagoula, where he at once gave himself up to the Sheriff, Mr. John C. Clark, who delivered the prisoner to our Sheriff&nbsp;last Sunday, who placed him in jail, where he awaits his examination in Jackson County.<span style=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)\">[The Daily Picayune, October&nbsp;26, 1870]</span></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>1878 Yellow Fever</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The 1878 Epidemic started at New Orleans in July and took nearly four months to run its course through the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.&nbsp; When it was over, the nation recorded more than 100,000 cases of fever and a mortality rate estimated as high as 20,000 people.&nbsp; Particularly hard hit were the cities of Memphis (approximately 6,000 deaths), New Orleans (between 4,000 and 5,000 deaths), and Vicksburg where about 1,000 victims fell to the pestilence.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fever cases and deaths occurred as far north as St. Louis on the Mississippi River and Louisville, Kentucky and Gallipolis, Ohio on the Ohio River.&nbsp; The economic impact to the nation was over $100,000,000 due to the suspension of industry and trade, lost wages, medical attendance, and relief for the thousands of sick and unemployed.&nbsp; It is estimated that New Orleans lost $15,000,000 during the crisis. &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\">By late September 1878, health conditions in Mississippi had gotten so grave that Governor John M. Stone made a proclamation.&nbsp; Part of which read as follows:&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>\"I, J.M. Stone, Governor of the State of Mississippi, do recommend that on Friday, the 30th day of September, all Christian people throughout the State repair to their respective places of worship and offer up their united petition in prayer to God, that He will withdraw from our people this terrible affliction, and that He, in His infinite goodness and mercy, will restore them to health and bring peace to their mourning households\".</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Since the yellow fever quarantine had shut off the people of Ocean Springs from the outside world, conditions were very difficult.&nbsp; The Ocean Springs Relief Society was formed in early September 1878, to assist those in need.&nbsp; H.H. Minor Sr. (1837-1884) was president, Robert A. Van Cleave (1840-1908)-treasurer, and J.M. Ames, secretary.&nbsp; The society collected $767.25 with the Howard Association of New Orleans, the citizens of Galveston, Texas, and the Moss Point Relief Committee being the largest contributors.&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\">There were approximately one hundred seventy-five cases of yellow fever recorded at Ocean Springs from the nearly six hundred people believed to have been here at the time.&nbsp; From this population about thirty deaths were recorded.&nbsp; Many were small children and unfortunately&nbsp;<strong>Mary Helen O\'Keefe</strong>&nbsp;(1863-1878) died from the fever at Ocean Springs on September 5, 1878.&nbsp; Miss O\'Keefe was probably buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Ocean Springs.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe Boarding house plat-1904.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:206px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>O’Keefe Boarding House plat-</strong>The O\'Keefe Boarding House was located on the northeast corner of Jackson Avenue and Porter Street in Lot 6 of Block 27 of the Culmseig Map (1854) of Ocean Springs.&nbsp;&nbsp; The structure was a two-story, wood framed edifice with 2824 square feet of living area under roof.&nbsp; There was a lower and upper gallery on the south and west side of the building of 1710 square feet.&nbsp; The dining room was attached to the main building and had an area of 874 square feet.&nbsp; The kitchen appears to have been detached and to the north of the building but was connected by a covered breezeway.&nbsp;The lower floor of the structure was moved to 2122 Government Street in 1910, after the edifice present today, was erected in 1909 by Jeremiah J. O’Keefe (1860-1911) as his family home.&nbsp; Today the former O’Keefe-Dale building at 911 Porter is utilized as the Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home.</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>O’Keefe Boarding House</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In February 1881, Mary Tracy O\'Keefe commenced her boarding house and store operations on the northeast corner of Jackson Avenue and Porter Street at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; The structure was an attractive and hospitable inn.&nbsp; It is very likely that the O’Keefe boarding house had a strong Irish flavor and catered to Hibernian families from New Orleans and Irish born railroad workers.&nbsp;(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, February 4, 1881, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In January 1891, when Alfred E. Lewis was erecting the Artesian House, a two-story edifice on Jackson Avenue and diagonally opposite the O’Keefe place, Jerry O’Keefe’s boarding house was referred to a Jerry O’Keefe’s Hotel<em>.(The Biloxi Herald, January 10, 1891, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The O’Keefe boarding house property was purchased by, Ned O\'Keefe, in two parcels.&nbsp; The first lot was bought from Enoch N. Ramsay (1832-1916), in April 1867, and described as Lot 6 of Block 27 (Culmseig Map of Ocean Springs) and comprised 52 feet on Jackson and 200 feet on Porter.&nbsp; In August of the same year, Ned Keith acquired Lot 5 of Block 27 (Culmseig Map of Ocean Springs) from George A. Cox (1811-1887).&nbsp; This tract became the site of his livery stable.(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, February 4, 1881, p. 3 and&nbsp;</em>JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 62, p. 475 and Bk. 62, p. 476)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Not all boarders in O’Keefe’s inn were Irish.&nbsp; In August 1896, the&nbsp;<em>Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>&nbsp;reported that one Alphonse Gauthreaux of Donaldsonville, Louisiana&nbsp;<em>\"beat his board, decamped, stole a pocket book containing $5.00 and prayer beads, shoes and some clothes....whereabouts unknown\".(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>, <em>August 14, 1896, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1895, the O\'Keefe family was tragically struck by fire on two occasions.&nbsp; The most devastating occurrence was in February when Mrs. Mary O\'Keefe\'s gown caught fire from the hearth and she died as the result of her burns.&nbsp; Later in the fall of the same year, the kitchen was badly gutted by a fire caused by a defective flue.&nbsp; Jerry O\'Keefe gave a generous donation to the fire department which was very effective since this was the first fire fought with the assist of fifteen new fire wells which provided ample water<em>.(The Daily Picayune, February 19, 1895, p. 9 and The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>,&nbsp;<em>September 20, 1895)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe Children ca 1930.jpg\" style=\"height:157px; width:105px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefes in carrage.jpg\" style=\"height:162px; width:200px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>O’Keefe Children-</strong>Although born at New Orleans, the children of Jeremiah J. O’Keefe (1860-1911) and Alice Cahill O’Keefe (1864-1921) were reared at present day 911 Porter Street.&nbsp; John A.W. O’Keefe was a leader of men and made his career in public service and the military.&nbsp; Mary C. O’Keefe was an outstanding educator and is memorialized with our Mary C. O’Keefe Arts and Cultural Center on Government Street.&nbsp; Jeremiah J. “Ben” O’Keefe II was a funeral home proprietor at Biloxi and Ocean Springs.&nbsp; J.H. ‘Jody’ O’Keefe was a sugar chemist and lost his life in a diving accident while working in Cuba.&nbsp; L-R: Jeremiah J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe (1894-1954); Joseph H. “Jody” O’Keefe (1897-1932); Mary Cahill O’Keefe (1893-1981); and John A.W. O’Keefe (1891-19).</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>The Jeremiah J. O’Keefe Family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jeremiah Joseph O’Keefe(1860-1911), called Jerry, was born at Ocean Springs on February 5, 1860. &nbsp;He met his future wife, Alice Cahill (1864-1921), a New Orleanian, whose family came to Ocean Springs for a visit and stayed at the O’Keefe lodge on Porter Street.&nbsp; The couple wedded in the Crescent City at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on April 3, 1888.&nbsp;Their children all born in the Crescent City were: Edward J. O’Keefe (1889-1890), John W. A. O’Keefe (1891-1985), Mary Cahill O’Keefe (1893-1981); Jeremiah J. “Ben” O’Keefe II (1894-1954), and Joseph H. “Jodie” O’Keefe (1897-1932).(NOLA, MRB 13, p. 105,&nbsp;<em>The Daily Picayune, &nbsp;April 1, 1888, p. 9</em>&nbsp;and The History of Jackson County, Miss., 1989, pp. 301-302)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alice Cahill was born at New Orleans into an Irish immigrant family. Her parents, <strong>Thomas Cahill</strong>&nbsp;(1819-1865) and&nbsp;<strong>Mary Britton&nbsp;</strong>(1832-1906), an 1852 Irish immigrant, were also the parents of: Margaret Cahill Connors (1856-1931) m. Michael Connors; John L. Cahill (1858-1926) m. Margaret Orrell (1855-1958); and Ellen Cahill Hill (1862-1940) m. Stephen J. Hill (1861-1935).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary Britton Cahill expired on April 9, 1906 at 2822 Palmyra Street at New Orleans.(The Daily Picayune, April 12, 1906, p.&nbsp; 7)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Margaret Cahill Connors died at the O’Keefe home at Ocean Springs on January 28, 1931.&nbsp; Her funeral was held at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church and transported to St. Patrick No. II Cemetery in the Crescent City for internment.&nbsp; (<em>The Times-Picayune, January 29, 1931, p. 2</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Ellen Cahill Hill (1862-1940) passed on July 9, 1940 in New Orleans.&nbsp; She had married Stephen J. Hill who expired at 3117 Jena Street in December 1935.&nbsp; They were the parents of Thomas J. Hill Jr.; Joseph S. Hill; Mary Hill Vogt; and Mrs. Charles R. Brennan.&nbsp; Her son, Thomas J. Hill Jr. once served as the Clerk of the City Commission Council of New Orleans.(<em>The Times-Picayune, December 14, 1935, p. 2 and July 9, 1940, p. 2</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">After Mrs. Ned O\'Keefe\'s demise in February 1895, Alice Cahill O\'Keefe in addition to rearing her children: Edward Joseph O’Keefe (1889-1890); John Aloysius William O’Keefe (1891-1985) m. Amelia Castenara (1905-2000); Mary Cahill O\' Keefe (1893-1981); Jeremiah Joseph ‘Ben’ O’Keefe II (1895-1954) m. Teresa “Tess” Josephine Slattery (1894-1995); and Joseph Hyacinth (Jodie) (1897-1932), ran the family boarding business on Porter Street.&nbsp; Her husband, Jerry, had already expanded his undertaking service to create the O\'Keefe Funeral Service in 1892.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Although born at New Orleans, the children of Jeremiah J. O’Keefe (1860-1911) and Alice Cahill O’Keefe (1864-1921) were reared at present day 911 Porter Street.&nbsp; Edward Joseph O’Keefe died in his infancy; John A.W. O’Keefe was a leader of men and made his career in public service and the military.&nbsp; Mary C. O’Keefe was an outstanding educator and is memorialized with our Mary C. O’Keefe Arts and Cultural Center on Government Street.&nbsp; J.J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe II was a funeral home proprietor at Biloxi and Ocean Springs.&nbsp; J.H. ‘Jody’ O’Keefe was an Ocean Springs businessman and sugar chemist and lost his life in a diving accident while working in Cuba.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Politically, Jerry O\'Keefe was elected the first Alderman from Ward 2 in 1892, in the newly incorporated town of Ocean Springs, and served in that office for two years.&nbsp; He also was a road overseer in Jackson County Beat Four being in charge of Jackson Avenue from the Front Beach to O\'Keefe’s Corner on Porter Street and Jackson Avenue and from O\'Keefe’s Corner to the Illing Place on Washington Avenue.(Ellison, 1991, pp. 5-7)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe Castle-Jackson Avenue.jpg\" style=\"height:225px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">318 Jackson Avenue</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The 1885 O’Keefe Castle-Seven Gables</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\">The “O’Keefe Castle” also known as the O\'Keefe-Saxon House and \'Seven Gables\' at present day 318 Jackson Avenue was erected by Jeremiah J. O’Keefe (1860-1911), circa 1885, on a lot acquired from Kate Peniston M. Jourdan (d. 1943) and Augusta Sophia M. Jourdan (1858-1952) of New Orleans.&nbsp; In 1855, the Jourdan-McGehee families had become involved in the hostelry business at Ocean Springs as they owned the Seashore House on Jackson Avenue and Front Beach, opposite the Ocean Springs Hotel.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 11, pp. 410-412 and Bellande, 1994, p. 25)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The spinster Jourdan sisters were the daughters of Augustus W. Jourdan (d. 1860) and Mary Josephine McGehee (1837-1878).&nbsp; Mr. Jourdan was an attorney and in the hierarchy of the Louisiana Democratic party.&nbsp; There is some degree of certitude that he was appointed by Louisiana’s governor to have the Louisiana’s Napoleonic Code modified to concur more readily with the English law of other states.(The Times-Picayune, February 24, 1949, p. 13)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Augusta and Kate Jourdan were aristocratic women of New Orleans.&nbsp; Augusta was a gifted writer and had been an honors graduate of the Peabody Normal Seminary in the Crescent City.&nbsp; When she graduated in July 1878, she gave dissertations in Latin and French.&nbsp; She was a member of the Quarante Club, one of the oldest and most prestigious Women’s literary organizations in America.(<em>The Daily Picayune, July 7, 1878, p. 15, The Daily City Item, July 14, 1878, p. 2 and The Times-Picayune, February 24, 1949, p. 13) &nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the early years of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, Augusta and Kate Jourdan settled in the Saint-Mande district of Paris.&nbsp; They traveled to Egypt from where Augusta wrote essays of their adventures, which were published in <em>The Daily Picayune</em> in June 1908.&nbsp; Both woman died in France and their corporal remains were interred in the Metairie Cemetery with their parents.(<em>The Daily Picayune, June 21 and June 228, 1908 and The Times-Picayune,</em> <em>February 24, 1949, p. 13 and </em>November 7, 1952, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss Mary C. O’Keefe acquired this beautiful home from her siblings in July 1930.&nbsp; It was sold to Cecile Brodeur Saxon (1893-1980), by Mary C. O’Keefe in August 1933. &nbsp;Mrs. Saxon was the mother of Rose Annette Saxon (1924-1998) who in March 1944 married Miss O\'Keefe\'s nephew, Lt. Jeremiah J. O\'Keefe III (b. 1923), a young USMCR fighter pilot, at Camp Pendleton, Ocean Side, California.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 63 p. 524-525 and Deed Bk. 66, pp. 46-48 and&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald, March 13, 1944, p. 7</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss Mary C. O’Keefe’s great niece, Susan M. O’Keefe Snyder (b. 1952) and her spouse, Christopher T. Snyder, acquired the “O’Keefe Castle” in March 1982.&nbsp; In early 1997, Paul Campbell, general contractor, and Carl Germany, architect, were hired by the Snyders to undertake a major interior renovation of their historic home.&nbsp; With the heavens watching and the luck of the Irush, the Snyder home was spared the wrath of Karina in August 2005.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 730, p. 116)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe Home-1940.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:230px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The 1909 Neoclassical Mansion </strong>[circa 1940]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">It is believed that the 1909 Jeremiah J. O’Keefe home at present day 911 Porter was modeled on that of the Dr. Case-H.F. Russell edifice, which stood on the southwest corner of Washington Avenue and Porter Street until it was demolished in the 1930s.(<em>The Jackson County Times, September 29, 1934 and&nbsp;</em>J.K. Lemon, 1993)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1909, Jerry O\'Keefe built a large family home behind the O’Keefe boarding house.&nbsp; This 2 1/2 story mansion of Beaux-Arts \"polite\" design, Corinthian columns, and wide galleries has become an iconic symbol of the O\'Keefe family prosperity and financial calamity.&nbsp; Built on the colonial style with massive pillars, at a cost approaching $10,000, the Jerry O’Keefe mansion was lauded in 1909, as a handsome addition to the numerous beautiful edifices situated in Ocean Springs.(<em>The Ocean Springs News, November 27, 1909, p. 1)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1964, Miss Mary Cahill O’Keefe who at this time was domiciled on Porter Street two houses east of her childhood home related her memories of the 1909 O’Keefe home place as follows: &nbsp;</span></span><strong><em>“as having beautiful lawns, and tennis courts and as the scene of many gay young parties.&nbsp; With the four children of Jeremiah&nbsp;</em></strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">[O’Keefe]&nbsp;</span><strong><em>the house was filled with young people and the tennis courts were a popular place.&nbsp; The house was originally surrounded by a picket fence and with wonderful oak trees and green lawns, the marvelously attractive Colonial house and all, it was a real beauty spot.”</em></strong><em>(The Ocean Springs News, August 6, 1964, p. 3)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Boarding House</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1909-1910, with the new O’Keefe family residence completed on West Porter, the old, wooden, O’Keefe boarding house was sold in July 1910 to Samuel Backous (1855-1921), a farmer from Indiana, who had recently returned to Ocean Springs from Texarkana, Texas.&nbsp; Mr. Backous and his wife had sold their Texas farm, and planned to reside at Ocean Springs permanently.&nbsp; In September 1907, they had purchased the NW/4, NW/4 of Section 29, T7S-R8W from E.E. Clements of Buncombe County, North Carolina.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 32, pp. 616-617 and&nbsp;<em>The Ocean Springs News, July 23, 1910) &nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The O’Keefe boarding house was moved to the Backous place in 1910.&nbsp; The upper story was removed.&nbsp; It is speculated that it was transported over the shell roads of Ocean Springs using a method popular at this time: &nbsp;<strong><em>When one wished to move a house, he called his neighbors together and organized a hauling bee or halerie.&nbsp; With a dozen yoke or oxen and three wagons, they soon had the house underway with no difficulty. &nbsp;First they took the beds off two wagons, and in place of the regular coupling poles they used long logs perhaps thirty feet long.&nbsp; They jacked up the house then ran poles under it.&nbsp; Next they chained them up to the two front pair of wheels, thus supporting the house, and it was ready to roll.&nbsp; They hitched five or six yoke of oxen to each of the wagons, and away they went across the open prairie.</em></strong>(Post, 1974, p. )</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Backous family developed their twenty-acre site on Old County Road, now Government Street, into a farm and pecan orchard, and probably utilized the boarding house as a home.&nbsp; Only the first floor of the old structure was relocated to present day 2122 Government Street where it became the residence of Mary Anne Lightsey Clark, the widow of Alvah Clark (1918-1990).&nbsp; The Clark home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, as an individual listing. It remains in the Clark family.(Bellande, 1994, p. 65 and Kemp Associates Ltd., 1996, p. 15)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Dale%2C Willy with drums_0.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:116px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>William F. \'Willy\' Dale&nbsp;</strong>(1899-1990)-Willy Dale has been described as a&nbsp;<strong><em>“hard working, good businessman and mechanical wizard”.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong>He was a passionate fisherman and speedboat racer.&nbsp; Here circa 1927, Willy is&nbsp;shown with two drum that he caught in Biloxi Bay near Gulf Hills.[Courtesy of H. Randy Randazzo-Arlington, Virginia]</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>Willy Dale</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Unfortunately, what has become Ocean Springs’ &nbsp;“architectural jewel”, the former 1909, Jeremiah J. O’Keefe (1860-1911) home at present day 911 Porter Street was lost by his heirs during the Great Depression, when it was repossessed in December 1938, by the Home Owners Loan Corporation, a federal government corporation.&nbsp; The family had a mortgage balance of $5612.17 on their prized residence, when it was sold by this governmental agency to&nbsp;William F. Dale&nbsp;in December 1939, for $3850.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 71, pp. 580-581 and Bk. 74, pp. 158-160)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">William Frederic Dale (1899-1990) was born March 4, 1899, at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; He was known in the community as Willy Dale.&nbsp; His parents were George William Dale (1872-1953) and Harriet ‘Hattie’ Rose Seymour (1876-1956), the daughter of Narcisse Seymour (1849-1931) and Carolyn V. Krohn (1847-1895).&nbsp; They were married on December 9, 1897 at the St. Alphonsus Catholic Church.&nbsp; George W. Dale was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church on June 27, 1897, several months before his marriage to Miss Seymour.(Lepre, 1991, p. 78)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mechanical genius</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">As a young man Willy Dale learned to repair automobiles.&nbsp; In May 1926, he went into business as the Dale Motor Company.&nbsp; He opened a 3500 square-foot garage on West Porter, in a structure, which was once the locus of the J.J. O’Keefe Livery Stable.&nbsp; Dale’s garage was of the most modern on the entire coast.&nbsp; Dale\'s machines and tools were mostly electrically powered, state of the art for the period.&nbsp; Among his inventory of apparatuses were: the electrical valve resurfacing and reseating tool; electrical riveting; counter-sinking machine for relining brakes; cylinder hones; aligning gauges for front wheels; acetylene welding and cutting torch; weaver wrecker for hauling in disabled vehicles; air pump; Weaver tire change stand; Humpy-Cooper re-babbiting machines and other appurtenances applicable to automobile repair.&nbsp; At this time Willy Dale was the local Chevrolet dealer.&nbsp; He also sold Texaco gasoline, oil, and greases and his Porter Street auto service business.<em>(The Jackson County Times, June 12, 1926)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">It appears that Willy Dale must have initially rented the “O’Keefe Livery Stable Lot”, east of the O’Keefe home on West Porter because in August 1927, he obtained a lease from the O’Keefe family on the tract where he operated his garage and sold Texaco products.&nbsp; Mr. Dale later vended Shell gasoline here.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 70, pp. 196-200)</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>Motorboat Racing</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Willy Dale was a passionate man and motorboat racing and fishing were his salient avocations.&nbsp; His <strong><em>Ocean Wave </em></strong>and <strong><em>Ocean Kid</em></strong> were the only competitive speedboats at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; These watercraft were powered by a Lockwood Motor, since Willy’s Dale Motor Company was the agent for Johnson and Lockwood outboard motors.&nbsp; Willy raced his boats very successfully in the late 1920s at most of the Gulf Coast regattas as this was a very popular sporting event at this time.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">During the W.F. Dale ownership from 1939 to 1986, the O’Keefe home at 911 Porter Street was used primarily as a restaurant and lounge although it was once leased to Perkinston Junior College.&nbsp; In the spring of 1941, Willy Dale hired Clarence Kornman (1890-1973) of Biloxi to move the former O\'Keefe residence back 32 feet from its former location. &nbsp;Mr. Dale planned to convert the structure&nbsp;into an apartment house with additional space for a restaurant and another business.(The Daily Herald, March 3, 1941, p. 6)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">On August 31, 1959, college classes began in the former O’Keefe home and Dale’s Restaurant.&nbsp; The regional junior college offered seventeen evening classes and one morning class in practical nursing, which included a simulated twelve-bed hospital.&nbsp; Subjects available for prospective scholars to enroll in the evening curriculum were: English, English literature, algebra, trigonometry; general business, accounting; shorthand, general psychology; sociology, American government, world history, personal health, speech, music appreciation and introduction to teaching.&nbsp; Admission to the Perkinston classes was open to high school graduates or mature individuals demonstrating the ability to utilize the material offered by the lecturer.<em>(The Ocean Springs News, May 27, 1959, p. 1 and August 27, 1959, p. 1)</em>&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">One of the great success stories of Ocean Springs was the return of the O’Keefe family residence on Porter Street to the family.&nbsp; When they lost it in the late 1930s, the J.J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe Jr. family relocated to Biloxi and resided on Fayard Street behind the O’Keefe Funeral Parlor at 601 West Howard Avenue.&nbsp; A young Jeremiah J. “Jerry” O’Keefe III (b. 1923) and his sister, Alice O’Keefe Sebastian (1922-2011), vowed that someday, they would reclaim their former home in Ocean Springs.(Alice O’Keefe Sebastian, September 13, 1999 and&nbsp;<em>The Ocean Springs Record, July 3, 1986, p. 2, July 10, 1986, p. 2, and December 3, 1987, p. 1) &nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">This was accomplished in July 1986, when the W.F. Dale family sold the O’Keefe mansion to Gulf National Life, an O’Keefe family corporation.&nbsp; The O’Keefe family held a ‘homecoming party’ and celebrated with music, food and friends at their ‘new home’ in Ocean Springs on July 2, 1986.&nbsp; At the O’Keefe fete long time owner, Willy Dale, commented in regards to his almost fifty year ownership of the property: “The first day was fun and the last day was fun.”&nbsp; J.J. ‘Jerry’ O’Keefe III responded:&nbsp; “Mr. Dale has taken real good care of this property for us.”(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 863, p. 159 and The Sun Herald, July 3, 1986, p. A-1)</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/O\'Keefe Doors-911 Porter.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:200px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Egan Doors-</strong>were a wedding gift to Jerry O’Keefe (1860-1911) from Jefferson Davis Egan (1864-1907), his childhood friend. &nbsp;From 1938 until 1971, the O’Keefe cut-glass doors remained at Ocean Springs in Miss Mary C. O’Keefe’s cottage, which was located on West Porter between Dale’s Garage and the W.S. Van Cleave Store, now the locus of Five Seasons, a health store.&nbsp; After Miss O’Keefe’s domicile was demolished to erect the Villa Maria in the early 1970s, the doors were stored in Biloxi.&nbsp; They were installed on the O’Keefe mansion during its restoration, which was completed in December 1987.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">An adjunct to this tale is that of the fabulous, cut-glass portals on the O’Keefe mansion that had been constructed by Jefferson Davis Egan (1864-1907), the son of Irish immigrants John J. Egan (1827-1875) and Julia Egan (1833-1907), as a wedding gift for his childhood friend, Jerry O’Keefe (1860-1911).&nbsp; From 1938 until 1971, the O’Keefe cut-glass doors remained at Ocean Springs in Miss Mary C. O’Keefe’s cottage, which was located on West Porter between Dale’s Garage and the W.S. Van Cleave Store, now the locus of Five Seasons, a health store.&nbsp; After Miss O’Keefe’s domicile was demolished to erect the Villa Maria in the early 1970s, the doors were stored in Biloxi.&nbsp; They were installed on the O’Keefe mansion during its restoration, which was completed in December 1987.(Ellison, 1991, p. 67, Alice O’Keefe Sebastian, September 13, 1999 and&nbsp;<em>The Ocean Springs Record, December 3, 1987, 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\">The&nbsp;1909 J.J. O’Keefe home on Porter Street was restored under the supervision of Lloyd J. Vogt (1941-2002), a Biloxi and New Orleans architect, and Maria C. Bargas, architect at Ocean Springs, worked on the historical certification for the structure’s placement on the National Register of Historic Places.&nbsp; It was opened in early December 1987, after a $1 million dollar restoration.&nbsp; The edifice became the funeral parlor for Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home, which it has continued to do so to the present day.(<em>The Sun Herald, July 3, 1986, p. A-1</em>and <em>The Ocean Springs Record, December 3, 1987, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Entrepreneurial O’Keefe Brothers</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">At Ocean Springs, from about 1913 and throughout the 1920s, the O’Keefe Brothers, John A.W. O’Keefe, J.J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe II, and J.H. ‘Jodie’ O’Keefe, continued aggressively in their entrepreneurial projects.&nbsp; In addition to the funeral parlor, they were involved in a Ford automobile dealership, livery and drayage, coal delivery, construction materials, gasoline retailing, and a taxi and limousine service.&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>‘White House’ Tract</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The locus of many of the O’Keefe Brothers commercial activities in Ocean Springs were centered on their valuable commercial lot situated on the southeast corner of Washington Avenue and Robinson Street opposite the L&amp;N Depot.&nbsp; In February 1906, Jeremiah J. ‘Jerry’ O’Keefe (1860-1911), their father, acquired the ‘White House’ property from Mary Artemise Rodriguez Marie (1840-1912), the widow of Antonio Marie (1832-1885), a Spanish, immigrant mariner and pioneer settler of Bayou Puerto, now Gulf Hills.&nbsp; The consideration was $1100 for the tract which had one hundred-seventy feet on Robinson Street between Cash Alley and Washington Avenue and ran south two hundred twenty-five feet.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 35, p. 642)</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 White House tract was located just east of the Commercial Hotel, which was situated on the southeast corner of Washington Avenue and Robinson Street.&nbsp; It had been erected by R obert A. VanCleave (1840-1908) in 1880.&nbsp; This event was noted in the Pascagoula newspaper as:&nbsp;<strong><em>Van Cleave\'s new hotel on the depot grounds is going steadily forward to a speedy completion and gives employment to a number of workmen.&nbsp; He seems to believe in the right way of doing things - that is employing home folks when he has work to be done</em></strong>.(<em>The Pascagoula</em>&nbsp;<em>Democrat-Star</em>,&nbsp;<em>January 16, 1880, 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\">The first person to develop the White House tract was Charles Ernest Schmidt (1851-1886) and Laura Coyle Schmidt (1857-1931), his spouse.&nbsp; In February and August 1877, they acquired this land from E.W. and Mary T. Clark of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.&nbsp; Charles E. Schmidt was born in New Orleans of Ernst Schmidt and Euphrosine Schoser, immigrants from Baden, German.&nbsp; Charles E. Schmidt came to Ocean Springs and met Laura Coyle, the daughter of an immigrant, Menorcan father, Francisco Coyle (1813-1891) and Magdalene Ougatte Pons (1813-1904).&nbsp; They married in October 1874 at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church.&nbsp; Their son, Francis Ernest Schmidt (1877-1954), later owned a bakery on Washington Avenue from 1901-1938, and served as Ward One Alderman (1915-1922 and 1925-1929) and Mayor of Ocean Springs from 1935-1938.&nbsp; A son of F.E. Schmidt, Charles Ernest Schmidt (1904-1988), would write&nbsp;<strong><u>Ocean Springs French Beachhead</u></strong>&nbsp;(1972), the first and only comprehensive history of the city, and also serve as Mayor (1961-1965).&nbsp; Two other sons, Frank O. Schmidt (1902-1975) and Harry J. Schmidt (1905-1996) would become prominent physicians on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.(Jackson County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 3, pp. 103-106 and Lepre, 1991, p. 303)</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 journal du jour,&nbsp;<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>, had the following items published between 1879 and 1881 concerning the Schmidt’s White House:&nbsp;<strong><em>Mr. Charles E. Schmidt, commonly called \"Handsome Charlie\" has opened a retail family grocery store and says he will sell goods as cheap as anybody.&nbsp; Schmidt keeps almost everything good to eat in his store and at his other establishment (White House) everything good to drink</em></strong>.(<em>November 7, 1879</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><em>When you go to Ocean Springs call at the White House and see Charlie and Frank</em></strong>.(<em>November 7, 1879</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><em>Last Saturday in the early evening, the kitchen of the White House caught fire.&nbsp; Proprietor Charles E. Schmidt, had help from friends in battling the blaze.&nbsp; Postmaster VanCleave brought two garden and house sprinklers.</em></strong>(<em>November 26, 1879</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><em>The White House is the place to get liquid refreshments</em></strong>.(<em>February 4, 1881, p. 3</em>).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Vahle %26 Egan Stables-1895-OS 3.jpg\" style=\"height:190px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>White House and the Vahle &amp; Egan Livery</strong>-situated on the south side of Robinson Street opposite the L&amp;N Depot, these buildings and land were owned by Mary A. Rodriguez Marie (1840-1912) after Charles E. Schmidt (1851-1886) built the White House.&nbsp; The Vahle &amp; Egan Livery burned in early December 1900, the same evening that the Ocean Springs Drug Store on Washington Avenue and Porter Street was torched by alleged arsons.&nbsp; Casper Vahle (1869-1922) and Herman Nill (1863-1904), his brother-in-law, and proprietor of the Ocean Springs Drug Store, soon departed Ocean Springs to commence commercial enterprises at Biloxi and then Gulfport-then a new port town rapidly developing west of Mississippi City.&nbsp; J.J. ‘Jerry’ O’Keefe acquired the White House tract from Madame Marie in 1906 and demolished the White House in 1911.&nbsp; The O’Keefe Brothers would develop this tract and acquire adjacent land between 1913 and the late 1920s.&nbsp; The White House is the structure east of the Vahle &amp; Egan Livery.[from Along the Gulf, Dyer, 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\">In August 1881, Charles E. Schmidt made the decision to sell the White House.&nbsp; He advertised it in&nbsp;<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star&nbsp;</em>of September 2, 1881 as follows:</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>FOR SALE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>White House Billiard and Beer Saloon</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>With fixtures is offered for sale at a great bargain.&nbsp; The White House is opposite and near the depot.&nbsp; Apply to Chas. E. Schmidt</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In November 1881, the Schmidt family sold the White House to Antonio Marie for $1200. &nbsp;After Antonio Marie died intestate in December 1885, Madame Marie began leasing the White House.&nbsp; In October 1887, she entered into a two year contractual agreement with John Vogt Miller.&nbsp; The rent for the first four months was set at $5.00 per month, and $8.00 per month for the remaining twenty months.&nbsp; Mr. Vogt expected Madame Marie to repair the doors, windows, and blinds of the building.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk.&nbsp;6, p. 19 and Bk.&nbsp;11, pp. 10-12)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Madame Marie allowed Herr Vogt the use of the following articles in her building:&nbsp;<strong><em>20 beer glasses, 8 chairs, 1 baseball club and deer horns, 2 round tables, 1 large mirror, 2 plaster images, 1 marble top wash stand (damaged), 1 ice stand, and 1 beer closet ( 1 door off).</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By December 1892, the Vahle family, formerly of New Orleans, took a long lease on the White House property and built a livery stable here just west of the White House.&nbsp; Casper Vahle (1869-1922), the proprietor, oversaw the erection of the 1200 square-foot barn.&nbsp; In March 1894, Richard Egan (1858-1896) joined Casper Vahle to form Vahle &amp; Egan.<em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star,</em>&nbsp;<em>December 28, 1892, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1895, Charles L. Dyer in&nbsp;<strong><u>Along the Gulf</u></strong>&nbsp;stated that while visiting Ocean Springs:&nbsp;<strong><em>The firm of Vahle &amp; Egan furnished us with carriages upon all occasions and we were rather surprised to find in a town of this size such a finely equipped livery stable.&nbsp; Messrs. Casper Vahle and Richard Egan are both young enterprising, energetic business men and have built up a fine trade since their partnership, which commenced in March, 1894.&nbsp; Previous to this, both members of the firm had conducted livery stables of their own.&nbsp; They have a number of fine driving horses and several speedy matched pairs and a number of carriages to select from, among which are tally-hos, three and two-seated surries, buggies, wagonettes, transfer wagons, and they also have several teams for heavy hauling.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After the untimely death of Richard Egan in 1896, the business appears to have dissolved as Soden &amp; Illing were operating a livery at this location in 1898.&nbsp; By 1900, Mrs. Marie had moved to Biloxi.&nbsp; In December of that year, she entered into another lease agreement with Casper Vahle.&nbsp; This lease was for five years, January 1901 to January 1906, and called for a $5.00 per month rental.&nbsp; Vahle must have decided to purchase the White House from Artemise Marie as the deed records of Jackson County indicate Mrs. A. Marie of Biloxi sold \"the frame building known as the \"White House\" and a certain parcel of land, situated on the south side and opposite the L&amp;N Railroad depot\" to Casper Vahle on December 12, 1900.(Jackson Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 22, pp. 208-209)</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>The Fire</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Casper Vahle and Herman Nill (1863-1904), his brother-in-law, and owner of the Ocean Springs Drug Store, on the northwest corner of Washington Avenue and Porter Street, were victimized by vandals in early December 1900.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>&nbsp;of December 7, 1900 reported its demise in \"Ocean Springs Locals\" as follows:&nbsp;<strong><em>The most distressing scene witnessed in our town for a long time was the burning of the Ocean Springs Drug Store and Vahle\'s Livery Stable Monday night.&nbsp; The fire was discovered about midnight by Walter Davis the night operator for the Cumberland Telephone Exchange, which was on the second floor of the drug building.&nbsp;The fire alarm being given the two companies responded immediately and by heroic efforts saved the Illing House, A. Switzer\'s Store and Mrs. M.A. Case\'s property from similar fate.&nbsp; The flames spread so rapidly that nothing was saved from the drug store, and had it not been for the rain during the evening, which made the housetops wet several other buildings would probably been lost.&nbsp;Mr. Herman Nill, proprietor of the drug store and his family were in New Orleans at the time and the place was temporarily in charge of Dr. E.A. Riggs, who lost everything in his office which was also a room in the building.&nbsp; The drug store was insured for $3,900 in the Home Insurance Company, of New York, probably half its value with the stock.&nbsp; There was no insurance on the livery stable.&nbsp; The telephone exchange was completely destroyed, but will be installed again as soon as possible.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Caspar Vahle and Herman Nill and his family left Ocean Springs shortly after the conflagrations and settled at Gulfport.&nbsp; On February 10, 1906, Madame Marie sold the White House property to Jeremiah J. ‘Jerry’ O\'Keefe (1860-1911).(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 35, p. 642)&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 excursion train 4.jpeg\" style=\"height:150px; width:300px\" /></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 years later Jerry O \'Keefe demolished the White House on Robertson Street.&nbsp; It had apparently deteriorated with age and neglect.&nbsp; Its demise was related in&nbsp;<em>The Ocean Springs</em>&nbsp;<em>News</em>&nbsp;of August 19, 1911:&nbsp;<strong><em>The dilapidated old lady that has stood for years opposite the depot-antiquated relic of byegone days- is now being torn down by the owner, Jerry O\'Keefe.&nbsp; The old structure was at one time one of the principal business places of the town.&nbsp; It was known as the White House, and was a hotel and barroom.&nbsp; Old residents tell of great doings at the old tavern.&nbsp; Of late years it has fallen into decay and has not been inhabited for a long time.&nbsp; Something more substantial and ornamental will doubtless be built in its place.</em></strong></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>Ocean Springs Livery Stable and Ford Agency</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">By July 1914, John and Ben O’Keefe were local agents for the Ford automobile and Prest-o-lite, an exchangeable acetylene gas tank for the running lights of an automobile.&nbsp; The O’Keefe Brothers through their Ocean Springs Livery Stable provided transportation at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; In their stable of motor cars was a Cadillac touring car and large enough to accommodate seven passengers in comfort.&nbsp; They advertised in the local journal as follows: &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J. O’KEEFE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Ocean Springs Livery Stable</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>UNDERTAKING</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Modern Automobile Service</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Fine cars, careful drivers, reasonable charges.&nbsp; Ford agents.&nbsp;&nbsp;Prest-o-Lite tanks refilled.&nbsp; All orders promptly attended to.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Telephone 46</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><em>(The Jackson County Times, September 26, 1914, p. 1)</em></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\">They sold rural mail carriers, Walter Armstrong (1878-1945) and Fred Newcomb (1880-1932), their Ford automobiles.&nbsp; Mr. Armstrong delivered the US mail to the Larue-Latimer communities while Newcomb handled the East Beach-Fontainebleau-Vancleave route.(<em>The Ocean Springs News, August 1, 1914)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The O’Keefe Brothers sold their Ford agency to W.B. Hollingsworth who had come to Ocean Springs in March 1915, from South Bend, Indiana.&nbsp; Mr. Hollingsworth rented the John B. Honor place on Front Beach for one year.&nbsp; In November 1915, Orey Young &amp; Son bought out the Hollingsworth Garage and Ford Agency.<em>(The Ocean Springs News, November 4, 1915, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In October 1915, Fred Davidson (1885-1915+), a native of Illinois and the son of Jerome T. Davidson (1845-1918) and Jessie Montgomery Davison (1859-pre-1930), bought the Buick, Overland, and Hudson agencies from W.B. Hollingsworth who returned to the Hoosier State.&nbsp; The Davidson family acquired present day 420 Martin Avenue, the Mestier-Sheehan House, in February 1917.&nbsp; At this time there were fifty-two automobiles at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Dr. O.L. Bailey (1870-1938) had bought nine since 1906.<em>(The Ocean Springs News</em>, October 11, 1915, 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\"><strong>O’Keefe Brothers Commercial Hotel Tract</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jerry O’Keefe and sons owned a large tract on Robinson Street and later the northeast corner of Washington Avenue and Robinson Street in the years between 1906 and 1944.&nbsp; Here they operated a Ford automobile dealership, livery and drayage service, coal delivery business, sold and transported construction materials, gasoline retailing, and operated a taxi and limousine service.&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 December 1953, Wendell Palfrey (1896-1956) constructed a 2100 square-foot, Arkansas tile, building on a portion of this land, which he leased to the U.S. Postal Service. The building was later the location of the Salmagundi Gifts shop, which closed in January 2014. Salmagundi was founded circa 1963 by Lois Marye Robertson Raum (1926-1967) and Pam Smith of Pascagoula in the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building on Washington Avenue.&nbsp; The business later moved across the street into the former US Post Office on the southeast corner of Robinson and Washington. &nbsp;Jeannie Steveson, the last proprietor, acquired the business from Mary and Bob Costa circa 1991.(The Ocean Springs Gazette, January 16, 2014, 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/u4/Commercial Hotel-1915.jpg\" style=\"height:141px; width:300px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Commercial Hotel tract-Salmagundi Gifts</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[view south from L&amp;N tracks down Washington Avenue between 1913 and 1920]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Van Cleave-Commercial Hotel</strong> [1880-1920]-Robert Adrian Van Cleave (1840-1908), was a founding father of the Town of Ocean Springs.&nbsp; He arrived at Ocean Springs in 1867 from Yazoo County, Mississippi with his new bride, Elizabeth R. Sheppard (1842-1912).&nbsp; She was the step-daughter of entrepreneur George A. Cox (1812-1887).&nbsp; With Mr. Cox, who came to Ocean Springs in the early 1850s, Van Cleave established a store on Bluff Creek to trade with the charcoal burners in that area.&nbsp; This commercial venture led to the development of the present day village of Vancleave.&nbsp; The hotel was called the Commercial Hotel when it was destroyed in a large conflagration on Early in the early morning of October 26, 1920.&nbsp; H.F. Russell, a protégé of Van Cleave, sold the hotel tract to Ben O\'Keefe and Jody O\'Keefe on May 18, 1921 for $1500.&nbsp; J.K. Lemon Jr. (1914-1998) remembers as a boy that circa 1925 the O\'Keefe brothers had a livery stable, automobile service station, and a taxi service on Robinson Avenue.&nbsp; The former hotel lot was utilized as a parking area.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The Commercial Hotel tract was situated on the southeast corner of Washington Avenue and Robertson Street, just west of the O’Keefe ‘White House’ parcel which had been acquired in February 1906.&nbsp; The Commercial Hotel was erected in 1880 by R.A. Van Cleave (1840-1908) and was destroyed by fire in the early the morning of October 26, 1920.&nbsp; After flames were discovered in the Commercial Hotel, immediately fire alarms consisting of fire bells, pistols, and engine whistles were sounded.&nbsp; Unfortunately the entire structure was consumed by fire in only a few minutes.&nbsp; Guest on the second floor made a hasty departure into the cool autumn darkness.&nbsp; Although winds were light, firemen had difficulty securing a convenient water supply, and the building was quickly lost to the conflagration.&nbsp; The Farmers and Merchants Bank Building opposite the inn on the west side of Washington Avenue had window damage from the intense heat originating from the hotel fire.&nbsp; Although the structure was fully covered by fire insurance, H.F. Russell (1858-1940), the owner, stated that he would not rebuild on the site.&nbsp; Commencing with the Ocean Springs Hotel in 1905, and the Shanahan House in 1919, the Commercial Hotel became the third Ocean Springs hotel to be lost to fire in these early years of the Twentieth Century.</span><em>(The Jackson County Times, October 30, 1920, p. 1)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">H.F. Russell sold the vacant Commercial Hotel lot on May 18, 1921 to Jeremiah J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe II (1894-1954) and Joseph H. “Jody” O’Keefe (1897-1932) for $1500.&nbsp; This acquisition now gave the O’Keefe brothers one hundred-ten feet on Washington Avenue and approximately three hundred front feet on Robinson Avenue opposite the L&amp;N Depot.&nbsp; Unarguably, a most advantageous location for business and commerce.&nbsp; J.K. Lemon Jr. (1914-1998) remembers as a boy circa 1925 that Ben O\'Keefe had a livery stable, automobile service station, and a taxi service on Robinson Avenue.&nbsp; The former hotel lot was utilized as a parking area.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 50, p. 400)</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\">J.J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe II held the Commercial Hotel property on Washington Avenue until October 1944, when he conveyed it to Isabel Hodges (1902-1981).&nbsp; Here in December 1953, Wendell Palfrey (1896-1956) constructed on a 2100 square-foot, Arkansas tile, building which he leased to the U.S. Postal Service. The lot and structure cost $27,500. &nbsp;It was completed by E.T. Hoffis, general contractor, in late April 1954, and turned to Oscar T. Davis (1894-1963), Postmaster of Ocean Springs, in June 1954.&nbsp; The new post office had its main entrance on Washington Avenue and a side portal on Robinson Street.&nbsp; Congressman William Meyers Colmer (1890-1980) was the primary speaker at the late April dedication of the new post office.(Jackson County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 106, p. 120 and 140, pp. 484-488 and&nbsp;<em>The Gulf Coast Times, December 10, 1953 and January 13, 1954, p. 14, and April 28, 1954, p. 1</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The old U.S. Post Office-Palfrey structure is extant at 922 Washington Avenue as Poppy’s, a unique gift boutique which was formerly located on West Porter.&nbsp; Salmagundi, under the proprietorship of Jeanne and Jack Stevenson, natives of Mobile, operated here from about 1991 until they closed the portals in January 2014.<em>(The Ocean Springs Record, October 6, 2005, p. A4 and </em><em>The Ocean Springs Gazette, January 16, 2014, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n</div>\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>O’Keefe Transfer Company</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After acquiring the Commercial Hotel tract the O’Keefe Brothers promptly built their office and garage fronting on Washington Avenue in late June 1921.&nbsp; The building was one-story and 2500-square feet in area.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 23, 1921, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In July 1923, the O’Keefe brothers were awarded a contract for hauling materials for the construction of that portion of US Highway No. 90, “The Old Spanish Trail”, known locally as “The Million Dollar Highway”, between Moss Point and the Mississippi-Alabama state line.&nbsp; They had just acquired six Ford trucks, which had been specially built for heavy duty tasks.(<em>The Jackson County Times, July 7, 1923, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In late August 1927, the O’Keefe’s formally opened their new Liberty Pep Gasoline pumps at their filling stations.&nbsp; As an inducement for their clientele to use the new petroleum fuel, they gave one gallon of motor oil free with each five gallons of petrol purchased.(<em>The Jackson County Times, Local and Personal, August 27, 1927)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Government Street ca 1920.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>O’Keefe Service Station</strong>-In 1925, J.J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe II (1894-1954) acquired a lot on the NW/C of Government Street and Bellande Avenue.&nbsp; A gasoline service station was erected here which was leased to Liberty Oil, Standard Oil of Kentucky, and sold to Wofford Oil.&nbsp; In this vintage made by George H. Granitz (1909-1981) from the McLeod Lodge F&amp;AM building, one can observe the former O’Keefe structure being utilized by George T. Rehage (1878-1937), a native of NOLA.&nbsp; Mr. Rehage was a tailor and operated a dry cleaning business here.&nbsp; At 1011 Desoto [center right], one can observed the home of W.E. ‘Ed’ Wilson (1873-1926) and Ida Fayard Smith Wilson (1884-1978) and the Wilson Cash and Carry store just east of their residency.&nbsp; The Texaco gasoline pump on the north side of Government is probably that of Philip J. Wieder (1887-1985).[Courtesy of the First Presbyterian Church of Ocean Springs]</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">In late August 1927, the O’Keefe’s formally opened their new Liberty Pep Gasoline pumps at their filling stations.&nbsp; As an inducement for their clientele to use the new petroleum fuel, they gave one gallon of motor oil free with each five gallons of petrol purchased.(</span><em>The Jackson County Times, Local and Personal, August 27, 1927)</em></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 O’Keefe’s also supplied construction materials in the form of cement, lime, plaster, gravel and sand for the erection of the 1927 Ocean Springs Public School on Government Street.&nbsp; On October 9<sup>th</sup>, 1999, a historical marker was dedicated on the former school grounds in honor of Miss Mary Cahill O’Keefe (1893-1981), the sister of the O’Keefe Brothers and former school superintendent, for whom the building is now named.(<em>The Jackson County Times, September 10, 1927)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe Parlors-West Howard Ave.-)ct0ber 1934.jpg\" style=\"height:169px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">601 West Howard Avenue</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"background-color:#f0fff0\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">O’Keefe Funeral Parlor-Situated at 601 West Howard Avenue, opposite Nativity BVM Catholic Church, J.J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe II (1894-1954) acquired the Frank Voivedich residence in March 1923.&nbsp; On June 4, 1923, Mr. O’Keefe commenced his funeral business in Biloxi, which had been started by J.J. ‘Jerry’ O’Keefe (1864-1911) , his father at Ocean Springs circa 1890.&nbsp; The O’Keefe Funeral Home was demolished in 1960 to erect a modern commercial building, which was leased to Goodyear who operated a tire sales and automobile repair business here for many years.&nbsp; The O’Keefe family sold their large land holding on Howard Avenue, Fayard and Thomas Streets in May 1994</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>O\'Keefe Funeral Service-Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March 1923, J.J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe (1894-1954) acquired for $6800 the Frank Voivedich and Josephine Fayard Voivedich property at 601 West Howard Avenue and Fayard Street, opposite Nativity BVM Catholic Church.&nbsp; The tract had 84 feet on West Howard Avenue and ran south on Fayard Street for 122 feet.&nbsp; By early June 1923, the Frank Voivedich residence had been refurbished and transformed into the O’Keefe Funeral Service, a modern funeral parlor equipped to do a general undertaking business and conduct funerals.&nbsp; Ben O’Keefe planned to continue his large business interests in Ocean Springs and had Joseph ‘Jody’ O’Keefe, his brother, assisting him there.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 135, p. 351 and The Jackson County Times, May 19, 1923, p. 5 and June 16, 1923, p. 5)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The O’Keefe Brothers commercial activities increased dramatically in June 1923 when they received the contract to haul materials to build the last section of US Highway No. 90 through Jackson County from Moss Point to the Alabama state line.&nbsp; They acquired six large, specially constructed Ford trucks for the work.(The Jackson County Times, July 7, 1923, p. 5)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May 1957, J.J. ‘Jerry’ O’Keefe III acquired the “Bradford Funeral Home and all property, ambulances, etc.” from Paul S. Bradford and Ruth Gates Bradford.&nbsp; The&nbsp;merger of the Bradford Funeral Home and O’Keefe Funeral Service was not completed until July 1960.&nbsp;&nbsp;The company now called&nbsp;Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Service was situated at the former Bradford funeral parlor&nbsp;on East Howard Avenue where improvements and additional parking had been acquired on the north side of the street.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 422, pp. 317-326)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1960, the&nbsp;former O\'Keefe Funeral parlor at 601 West Howard Avenue was demolished and a 6500 square-ft., Goodyear Service Center was built&nbsp;on its former location.&nbsp; In addition to selling new tire, the Goodyear enterprise did front end alignments and wheel balancing, as well as replacing mufflers and tail pipes.&nbsp; General Electric appliances were also sold.(<em>The Daily Herald, June 17, 1960, p. 2 and </em><em>November 2, 1960, p. 12)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mrs. Theresa ‘Tess’ Slattery O’Keefe made a 15-year lease with Goodyear in May 1971 and the building and land were sold in May 1994 to James E. Sablich et ux by Tess O’Keefe and sons, Dr. John B. O’Keefe and Joseph Ben O’Keefe.(Harrison Co., Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 21, p. 271 and Bk. 273, p. 204)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1964, Bradford-O’Keefe built the Ben O’Keefe Chapel at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; It was located on the northwest corner of Government Street and Pine Drive.&nbsp; The chapel was later closed, but became the temporary City Public Library in 1994-1995.&nbsp; In August 1997, the structure was dedicated as the&nbsp;<strong>New Hope Center</strong>, a joint venture between the Gulf Coast YMCA and the O\'Keefe Foundation.<em>(The Ocean Springs News, August 6, 1964, p. 3 and The Ocean Springs Record, August 7, 1997, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1929 Buyout</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Shortly after the October 1929 Wall Street Crash, Ben O’Keefe acquired the interest of his siblings in the O’Keefe Funeral Service of Biloxi which had opened on June 4, 1923 at 601 West Howard Avenue opposite the Nativity B.V.M. Catholic Church and the O’Keefe Transfer and gasoline filling station enterprise on the southeast corner of Washington Avenue and Robinson Street at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Ben O’Keefe assumed about $28,000 in mortgages and other debt.&nbsp; He also gave up his rights, title and interest to several tracts of land at Ocean Springs and New Orleans.&nbsp; Among them were: the J.J. O’Keefe family home at present day 911 Porter; the ‘O’Keefe Castle’, also called the-‘Saxon House’ and ‘Seven Gables’, present day 318 Jackson Avenue;&nbsp;the old livery stable on Porter Street; the White House tract on Robertson Street; and the Mary C. O’Keefe domicile on Porter Street, which was sold in February 1970 to the Catholic Charities Housing Association in to erect the Villa Maria.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 63, pp. 511-515 and Bk. 371, p. 506)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe John W. with Mayor Braun.jpg\" style=\"height:173px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">This vintage image was very probably executed at Biloxi, Mississippi between 1937 and 1940.&nbsp; The event is also unknown but was of a major importance as it is composed of the Governor of Mississippi, the head of the Mississippi National Guard, the elected municipal leadership of Biloxi and three Harrison County Board of Supervisors.&nbsp; [L-R: Biloxi City Commissioner John A. Swanzy (1881-1965); Governor Hugh Lawson White (1881-1965); unknown; Beat I Supervisor Walter L. Nixon Sr. (1895-1960); unknown; Adjutant General John W.A. O’Keefe (1891-1985); Biloxi City Commissioner F.A. Tucei (1889-1954); and Mayor Louis J. Braun (1890-1951).&nbsp; John W.A. O’Keefe elected Mayor of Biloxi in August 1934 to succeed R. Hart Chinn (1888-1972).&nbsp; Mayor O’Keefe announced in early February 1936, that he would resign as Biloxi’s Mayor on February 10, to take the position of adjutant general of the State of Mississippi.&nbsp; He had been selected for the position in November 1935, by elect, Governor Hugh L. White.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>John A. W. O’Keefe</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>John Aloysius William </strong>O’ Keefe (1891-1985) was born at New Orleans on February 24, 1891, the son of Jeremiah J. O’Keefe (1860-1911) and Alice Cahill O’Keefe (1864-1921).&nbsp; At this time, the O’Keefe family was domiciled in the O’Keefe Boarding House’ on the northeast corner of Porter Street and Jackson Avenue at Ocean Springs, Mississippi.&nbsp; The O’Keefe family had settled here in the late 1850s, when Irish immigrants, Edward \"Ned\" O\'Keefe (1815-1874), a native of Bincher Parish, Tipperary County, Ireland, and Mary Tracy O’Keefe (1832-1895), acquired land on the northeast corner of Porter and Rayburn.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 7, p. 272 and Lepre, 1991, p. 165)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Education</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John A. O’Keefe attended local schools and the Jesuit College at New Orleans.&nbsp; There is a high degree of certitude that he attended the Lynch Academy, a private school at Ocean Springs, operated by James Lynch (1852-1935), an Irish immigrant and merchant.&nbsp; This is corroborated by the 1900 Federal Census, which notes that “John A. O’Keefe is a student residing with his parents and siblings on Porter Street.”(1900 Jackson County, Mississippi Federal Census T623 812, p. 2B, ED 45)</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\">Mr. Lynch’s school was situated on the northwest corner of Porter and Jackson Avenue, opposite the J.J. O’Keefe home at present day 911 Porter.&nbsp; In early December 1896, James Lynch advertised his private school in&nbsp;<em>The Ocean Wave</em>&nbsp;as follows:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Preparatory School</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>To the general school instructions already offered, I will add a course of elementary classics and French, Algebra and Geometry, Stenography and Typewriting, as a preparatory for college or commercial studies.&nbsp;For particulars apply to&nbsp;<em>James Lynch,&nbsp;</em>Jackson Avenue-Ocean Springs, Mississippi.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John A. O’Keefe’s sister, Mary Cahill O’Keefe (1893-1980), who would establish herself as an excellent educator of the French and English languages in the school systems of Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana, and at Biloxi, and Ocean Springs, Mississippi, was an attendee of the Lynch Academy.&nbsp; Miss O’ Keefe became Superintendent of public schools at Ocean Springs in 1929, and held this position until 1945.&nbsp; She was also the first woman appointed to the Board of Trustees of Perkinston Junior College.(<em>The Daily Herald, April 6, 1945, p. 3, c. 6 and Charles L. Sullivan, October 28, 2006)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By 1901, John A. W. O’Keefe was in New Orleans and under the tutelage of the Jesuits.&nbsp; He was promoted from first sergeant to first lieutenant in the Jesuit Cadets.&nbsp;&nbsp; Young O’Keefe received his A.B. degree from the College of the Immaculate Conception at New Orleans.&nbsp; In 1911, the College of the Immaculate Conception of New Orleans was divided into Loyola University and Jesuit High School.&nbsp; John A.W. O’Keefe graduated from Tulane University in 1911. (<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, December 3, 1901 and The Daily Herald, 50<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Anniversary Souvenir Golden Jubilee, 1934, p. 50)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John A. O’Keefe married Amelia “Nicki” Castanera (1905-2000), the daughter of Captain Frank B. Castanera (1870-1934) and Amelia Desporte (1880-1953), in December 1929.&nbsp; Amelia Castenera was the Queen of Les Masques, a Biloxi Mardi Gras krewe, in 1927, and taught school at Biloxi.(<em>The Daily Herald, February 12, 1927, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1937, John and Nicki O’Keefe adopted a Jackson, Mississippi born baby girl and named her Patricia Mary O’Keefe (1937-2009). Patricia M. O’Keefe was born on September 27, 1937.&nbsp; She was a graduate of the Immaculate Seminary at Washington D.C. and a 1959 graduate of Chestnut Hill College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. &nbsp;Patricia married Ensign Badger Conley Smith III on July 4, 1959 in the Walter Reed Memorial Chapel at Washington D.C. Ensign Smith had graduated from St. John\'s College, Washington D.C. and the US Naval Academy in 1959.(<em>The Daily Herald, July 8, 1959, p. 8</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Patricia Mary O\'Keefe married Frank Obrimski in May 1965. &nbsp;She worked for the Library of Congress for fifteen years. Patricia died on September 20, 2009 at Garrett Park, Maryland. &nbsp;She and Frank Obrimski were the parents of Margaret Obrimski Bonacorda and Sharon Obrimski Portillo.(The History of Jackson Co. Ms., 1989, p. 302 and&nbsp;<em>The Sun Herald, October 4, 2009)</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>The O’Keefe’s Troubled Thirties</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/o\'keefe%2C jody (1897-1932).jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:104px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Joseph H. ‘Jody’ O’Keefe </strong>(1897-1932)</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">Jody O’Keefe worked as a sugar chemist primarily in Cuba, although he had worked at a sugar beet factory in Mt. Clemons, Michigan in the fall of 1927.&nbsp; At the time of his demise on August 1, 1932, he was the assistant superintendent of the Matanzas Sugar Company at Matanzas, Cuba.&nbsp; Jody O’Keefe fractured several neck vertebrae in a diving accident while swimming in Matanzas Bay.&nbsp; His older brother, John A.W. O’Keefe (1891-1985), was also a sugar chemist in his early life.&nbsp; Ocean Springs produced several more sugar chemists, Louis Jean-Baptise Mestier (1883-1954) and Eugene W. Illing (1895-1978).[L-R: Jeremiah J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe (1894-1954), top row; Jody O’Keefe [sitting], Mary Cahill O’Keefe (1893-1981), and John W. &nbsp;O’Keefe (1891-1985).[Courtesy of Maureen O’Keefe Ward]</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>Jodie’s Death</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The O’Keefe family like many other Americans faced the Depression with determination and hope.&nbsp; Several years after the infamous October 1929 stock market crash, their brother, Joseph Hyacinth “Jodie” O’Keefe (1897-1932), died on August 1, 1932, from neck and cervical injuries incurred while springboard diving at Matanzas Bay, Cuba.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe and her New Orleans friends, Mrs. J.T. Nix, Rosary Nix, and James T. Nix, had just visited Jodie at Matanzas, where he was a sugar chemist and assistant manager of the Matanzas Sugar Company.&nbsp; They were on a Caribbean cruise and the vessel had stopped in Havana for a few days.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 2, 1932, 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\">Joseph Hyacinth O’Keefe (1897-1932) was born at New Orleans on February 13, 1897, the son of Jeremiah J. O’Keefe (1860-1911) and Alice Cahill (1864-1921).&nbsp; Joseph H. O’Keefe was called “Jody”.&nbsp; He was a graduate sugar chemist from Loyola University at New Orleans.&nbsp; Young O’Keefe began his career in the sugar industry in 1920, with most of his technical work at sugarhouses in Cuba.&nbsp; When the sugar season ended in the Caribbean tropics, he would return to Ocean Springs to work in operated family enterprise.(History of JXCO, Ms., 1989, p. 302)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Prior to entering the sugar refining business, young Jodie O’Keefe was employed by a large oil company in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.&nbsp; In June 1918, he returned to the family home at present day 911 Porter Avenue in Ocean Springs from this assignment in the Shreveport area of North Louisiana.<em>(The Jackson County Times, June 15, 1918, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May 1923, Jody was helping Ben with his business interests at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Ben had bought an old home in Biloxi on West Howard Avenue opposite the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to open a modern funeral parlor.<em>(The Jackson County Times, May 19, 1923, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1925, Jodie O’Keefe worked in Cuba until mid-July, when he returned to Ocean Springs.&nbsp; He was the assistant superintendent of two sugar refineries.&nbsp; Cuba produced more than 5,000,000 tons of sugar this year.<em>(The Jackson County Times, July 18,1925, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April 1927, J.H. O’Keefe returned from Central Espana of the Matanzas Sugar Company in Cuba.&nbsp; He had been here since December 1926, as first assistant superintendent of the refinery.&nbsp; O’Keefe reported that sugar production was down, but the price for the commodity was sufficient to make the industry profitable.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 19, 1927, p. 9)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jody traveled widely in his profession and in October 1927, went to the northern climes of Michigan where he was employed at a large sugar beet factory in Mt. Clemens, northeast of Detroit.&nbsp; O’Keefe returned from Michigan in December 1927.(<em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp; October 9, 1927, p. 2 and December 27, 1927, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John W. A. O’Keefe flew to Havana, Cuba via Atlanta-Miami to recover his brother’s corpse.&nbsp; He accompanied Jody’s corporal remains on its return to America via New Orleans.&nbsp; They sailed from Cuba aboard the United Fruit Company’s freighter,&nbsp;<strong><em>Cataga.</em></strong><em>(The Daily Herald, August 5, 1932, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jodie H. O’Keefe’s funeral was held on August 9, 1932 in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; It was one of the largest ever held on the Mississippi coast.&nbsp; A Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church by Father Joseph H. Chauvin (1867-1959) with assistance from four Biloxi priests: Fathers O’ Sullivan, McGlade, Maloney, and Mulrooney.&nbsp; Hundreds were in attendance.&nbsp; In respect for Ben O’Keefe, Jody’s brother, funeral directors from Coast cities and Mobile conducted the funeral services.&nbsp; Arthur Lang of Gulfport was in charge.&nbsp; He was assisted by: H.A. Fails, Moss Point; Calvin Dees, Perkinston; and Joseph Thompson and James Duffee of Mobile.(<em>The Daily Herald, August 9, 1932, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jody O’Keefe’s corporal remains were carried to the Evergreen Cemetery at Ocean Springs on August 9, 1932 for interment.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 9, 1932, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>CWA and the O’Keefe Airfield</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">While in business at Biloxi, John W. A. O’Keefe continued his involvement in the military.&nbsp; At this time he held the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corps reserves.&nbsp; In April 1932, Captain O’Keefe was sent to the Air Corps headquarters in New York for two weeks duty.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 11, 1932, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In 1933, John W. A. O’Keefe was appointed Civil Works Administration aeronautics advisor for Mississippi.&nbsp; The CWA was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’ to combat the lethargic American economy of the Depression.&nbsp; It also was an economic failure and was disbanded by April 1934.&nbsp; In March 1934, John A.W. O’Keefe had retired as the Grand Knight of the Biloxi Council Knights of Columbus relating that his active position as CWA aeronautics advisor and his third term as Grand Knight, as salient reasons.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 20, 1934, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In November 1934, the town of Newton, Mississippi and the Newton County American Legion Post dedicated their new $12,000 airport in honor of Major John A.W. O’Keefe, former CWA aeronautics adviser for Mississippi.&nbsp; The event was highlighted by a visiting U.S. Army Air Corps aircraft from Maxwell Field, Alabama National Guard planes from Birmingham, and eighteen commercial southeastern United States, including a tri-motor airship.&nbsp; Mayor John Summers of Newton made the presentation to Major O’Keefe.&nbsp; U.S. Senator Byron ‘Pat’ Harrison (1881-1941) also spoke at the dedication.&nbsp; The Newton County airfield is no longer called O’Keefe Field.&nbsp; It is now known as James H. Easom Field.&nbsp; It is located at 266 O’Keefe Road one mile southeast of. Newton, Mississippi.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 13, 1934)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Biloxi Mayor</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John A.W. O’Keefe was elected Mayor of Biloxi in July 1934 to succeed incumbent Mayor Robert Hart Chinn (1888-1972), called Hart Chinn.&nbsp; Chinn had born on April 9, 1888 at Vandalia, Audrain County, Missouri the son of James Buchanan ‘Buck’ Chinn (1857-1912) and Martha Ella Hart (1857-1938).&nbsp; In 1890, Buck Chinn came to Biloxi to start the Biloxi Milling Company with fellow Missourians, E.G. Burklin, R.D. Chinn and Mr. Brewton.&nbsp; In April 1893, the Biloxi Milling Company commenced operations making flour and meal.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, January 7, 1893, p. 8 and April 22, 1893, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Chinn%2C R. Hart-1934.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:121px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">R. Hart Chinn</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;<strong>R. Hart Chinn</strong> (1888-1972), called Hart, was unarguably the most controversial and belligerent politician ever to serve the people of Biloxi.&nbsp; He was first elected Mayor of Biloxi after Mayor John J. Kennedy (1875-1949) resigned from office in June 1933 to become Comptroller of Customs at New Orleans.&nbsp; Mr. Chinn became Biloxi’s Mayor by winning the August 25, 1933 general election.&nbsp; Incumbent Mayor Chinn lost his reelection bid to John W.A. O’Keefe (1891-1985) in August 1934.&nbsp; After Mayor O’Keefe resigned in February 1936 to become Mississippi’s Adjutant General.&nbsp; Hart Chinn lost to Louis J. Braun (1890-1951) in the April 1936 election to replace Mayor O’Keefe who had relocated to Jackson, Mississippi.&nbsp; Hart Chinn did serve another term as Biloxi’s Mayor in the early 1950s.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">After a brief military career during WW I, Lt. Hart Chinn returned to Biloxi where he made his livelihood as manager of the Foster-Fountain Packing Company.&nbsp; He married Mrs. Vera L. Dukate Bond (1886-1977) on November 11, 1918 at Camp Sherman, Ohio.</span><em>(The Daily Herald, November 14, 1918)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Vera Dukate was the daughter ofWilliam K. M. Dukate (1852-1916), a native of Fredericksburg, Washington County, Indiana and Linda Rose Lienhard (1859-1939), born in Harrison County, Mississippi, the daughter of Peter J. Lienhard (1812-1873), a Swiss immigrant, and Malinda B. Seaman (1826-1890).&nbsp; Linda Rose and Mr. Dukate had married in her mother’s residence at Biloxi, Mississippi on April 27, 1878.&nbsp; The Dukate children were: <strong>Elbert L. Dukate</strong> (1881-1943) m. Corrine Desporte (1882-1973); <strong>Eula T. Dukate</strong> (1882-1894); <strong>Vera L. Dukate</strong> (1886-1977) m. Brantley A. Bond (1880-1966) and R. Hart Chinn (1888-1972); <strong>Leola May Dukate</strong> (1888-1967) m. William L. Ewing (1888-1967); <strong>Irma Dukate</strong> (1890-1974) m. Daniel J. Gorenflo (1888-1965); and <strong>Beulah L. Dukate</strong> (1900-1983) m. Carl E. Matthes (1896-1972).<em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, May 3, 1878, p. 3 and</em> Lepre, 1991, p. 99<em>)</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\">Vera Dukate Bond was the mother of two daughters:&nbsp; Vera Leola Bond (1909-1989) m. Leslie Baltar Grant (1908-1986) and Whillamene Linda Bond (1911-1998) m. Hawthorne Eddy.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In July 1933, Mayor John Kennedy (1875-1949) of Biloxi resigned his position to accept the post of Comptroller of Customs, New Orleans, Louisiana for the Gulf District, which included Mississippi, Alabama, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas.&nbsp; His recommendation for this Federal position had come from U.S. Senator Byron Patton ‘Pat” Harrison (1881-1941) of Gulfport, Mississippi and appointment by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945).&nbsp; R. Hart Chinn was elected Mayor of Biloxi at the August 25, 1933 general election.&nbsp; In the Democratic primary held earlier, Mayor Chinn ran against Walter H. ‘Skeet’ Hunt (1887-1960) and Dr. George F. Carroll (1884-1962).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">During Chinn’s brief first tenure as Mayor of Biloxi, he became involved in a heated argument on August 22, 1934 at a Biloxi City Council meeting with City Commissioner John A. Swanzy (1881-1965).&nbsp; R. Hart Chinn struck Mr. Swanzy in the head with a paperweight.&nbsp; Mayor Chinn and William Parks, his secretary, was also involved in the altercation with Commissioner Swanzy.&nbsp; R. Hart Chinn was charged with assault and battery with intent to kill by the Harrison County grand jury.<em>(The Daily Herald,</em>&nbsp;<em>August 22, 1934, p. , August 24, 1934, p. 1, and October 3, 1934, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>O’Keefe’s Mayoral campaign</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The 1934 Biloxi Mayoral election was held at Biloxi on July 17, 1934.&nbsp; John W. A. O’Keefe ran against R. Hart Chinn, Mayor incumbent, and defeated him by three hundred fifty-six votes.&nbsp; There were 2029 total votes cast in the Mayoral election.&nbsp; John W. A. O’Keefe had campaigned with enthusiasm and based his candidacy on five issues: reduction of taxes; industrial development to spur employment; harmony between elected officials for the greater good of Biloxi; hard work and endeavor; and honesty in the office of Mayor.&nbsp; Mr. O’Keefe related to the electorate that he would not waste time with trite conversation, but would toil diligently to place Biloxi where it belongs.&nbsp; He promised if elected that: &nbsp;<strong><em>“you’ll find Biloxi a better place to live in four years.”</em></strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>(The Daily Herald, July 18, 1934, p. 1, July 10, 1934, p. 1, and July 14, 1934, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayoral candidate O’Keefe was not meek on the stump.&nbsp; He criticized his opponent at several public forums.&nbsp; Repeatedly future Mayor O’Keefe related that Mr. Chinn was often absent from his office and that Chinn had attempted to obfuscate the election by introducing issues with other men, communities, and States.&nbsp; O’Keefe was alluding to the rumor running amok at Biloxi that Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana was involved behind the scenes in the Biloxi mayoral race.&nbsp; The Louisiana Conservation Commission had an office in Biloxi at this time and it was alleged that they supported R. Hart Chinn.&nbsp; When asked about this, Huey Long stated that he didn’t even know that Louisiana had a Conservation Office in Biloxi.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 12, 1934, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe%2C John and Clark Griffith 1.jpeg\" style=\"height:200px; width:300px\" /></div>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Washington Nationals arrive at Biloxi in 1935-</strong>This vintage image was made in the winter of 1935 at the L&amp;N Depot at Biloxi, Mississippi. BiloxI Mayor elect John A.W. O’Keefe and City Commissioners F. A. Tucei and John A. Swanzy are welcoming Clark Griffith (1869-1955), president and owner, of the Washington Nationals of the American League.&nbsp; The Nationals held their spring baseball training at Biloxi for several years during the early 1930s. Clark Griffith arrived here in mid-February to complete arrangements for the opening of the 1935 baseball spring training session. [L-R: Mayor John W. A. O\'Keefe&nbsp;(1891-1985); Frederick A. Tucei (1889-1954), City Commissioner; Clark C. Griffith (1869-1955), owner Washington Nationals; John A. Swanzy (1881-1965), City Commissioner. Image by Anthony V. Ragusin (1902-1997) from the Ray L. Bellande Historical Imagery Archives and&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald, February 19, 1935, p.&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>City Commissioners</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">With John A.W. O’Keefe, the Biloxi voters elected two City Commissioners John A. Swanzy (1881-1965), a longtime incumbent, and F.A. Tucei (1889-1954), a political newcomer.&nbsp; Mr. Swanzy swept into office in the first primary<em>.(The Daily Herald, August 14, 1934, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Captain Castanera expires</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The summer heat and intensity of the Mayoral election were stilling boiling in Biloxi when Nicki C. O’Keefe lost her father on August 21, 1934.&nbsp; Captain Frank B. Castanera (1870-1934) had been born in Pascagoula, Mississippi and received a Jesuit education at Spring Hill College in Mobile.&nbsp; He settled at Biloxi in 1893 and organized the Biloxi and Ship Island Tow Boat Company in February 1897 with J.B. Roberts.&nbsp; The steam tug&nbsp;<em>Biloxi</em>&nbsp;built by the Taltavull Shipyard for Frank B. Castanera was used in the towing operations along the Mississippi coast.&nbsp; Circa 1900, he was in the retail lumber and general supply business in Biloxi.&nbsp; In 1905, he was appointed a member of the Ship Island Bar Pilots\' Association, and served as a pilot between Ship Island and Gulfport until the commencement of World War I.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 21, 1934, p. 1)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">During the Great War, he offered his services to the Government as a member of the U.S. Shipping Board.&nbsp; While at sea duty in the post-War years, Castanera met with a many&nbsp;&nbsp; adventures on the seas.&nbsp; Two notable events at this time of his life reported in the Biloxi News of April 25, 1926, were the saving of the life of an ill seaman by radio diagnosis with a land based physician, and the rescue of the abandoned Norwegian steamer&nbsp;<strong><em>Johanne Dybwad</em></strong>&nbsp;in the stormy North Atlantic.<em>(The Biloxi News, April 25, 1926, p. 1&nbsp; and May 2, 1926, p. 7)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Captain Frank B. Castanera had married Amelia Desporte (1880-1953) at Biloxi on June 30, 1897.&nbsp; In addition to Amelia C. ‘Nicki’ O’Keefe, their other children were: Eugene Ernest Castanera (1898-1932); Ursula C. Provensal (1900-1991) married Sidney W. Provensal (1888-1977); Delauney Castanera (1903-1935) married Louise Tremmel; and Theodore Castanera (1905-1978) married Bessie Welch (1914-1989).(Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court MRB 11, p. 211)</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>The Biloxi Battler-John A. O’Keefe &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In August 1934, John A. O’Keefe had been elected Mayor of Biloxi defeating incumbent R. Hart Chinn by a wide margin.&nbsp; When time came for the watch to change at the Biloxi City Hall in early January 1935, Mayor Chinn refused to leave office claiming that O’Keefe and the other newly elected city councilmen, John A. Swanzy and F.A. Tucei (1889-1954), were not qualified electors as they had been late in paying city taxes.&nbsp; Chinn also alleged that John W. A. O’Keefe was a registered voter in both Jackson and Harrison Counties.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 7, 1935, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">A few minutes past mid-night on January 7, 1935, Mayor-elect O’Keefe and his cabinet took the oath of office administered by Judge George B. Wink on Biloxi’s Point Cadet.&nbsp; Immediately thereafter, Mayor O’Keefe, who at the time was a Major in the Mississippi National Guard commanding the 3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;Battalion, 114<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Field Artillery, and his armed followers took the Biloxi City Hall by force, ousting Chinn supporters among them Police Chief George Bills.&nbsp; Mayor O’Keefe brought a cot with him and slept in his office during the crisis week.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 7, 1935, p. 1 and p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The O’Keefe contingent soon discovered that R. Hart Chinn had absconded with the city books and records making it nearly impossible to manage the daily operations of the municipality.&nbsp; Chinn excused this act, as he believed that he was protecting them from the O’Keefe led mob that he had heard would invade City Hall in the early morning hours of January 7<sup>th</sup>.&nbsp; When Chinn refused a court order to return Biloxi’s records, he was cited for contempt of court.&nbsp; The net result of this chaos at Biloxi, which lasted about two weeks, was that Chinn was fined $100 and ordered to pay court costs.(<em>The Daily Herald, January 24, 1935, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Car wreck</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In early March 1935, Mayor O’Keefe, spouse Nicki C. O’Keefe, Amelia Desporte Castanera (1880-1953), his mother-in-law, and Dorothy Daspit (1908-1937+), an Ocean Springs school teacher and native of Houma, Louisiana, were traveling west to New Orleans for a Mardi Gras&nbsp;celebration.&nbsp; While driving the beach road through Pass Christian, the steering mechanism of Mayor O’Keefe’s automobile failed and the vehicle struck a tree.&nbsp; Nicki C. O’Keefe broke her hip-bone while her mother and Mayor O’Keefe suffered cuts and bruises.&nbsp; Miss Daspit was not seriously harmed in the accident.<em>(The Jackson County Times, March 9, 1935, p.1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe John W. .jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:189px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">General John W.A. O’Keefe</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">General John W.A. O’Keefe- Mayor John A. O\'Keefe of Biloxi became Adjutant General of Mississippi on January 22, 1936.&nbsp; Hugh Lawson White (1881-1965), the Mississippi Governor-elect, had promised O’Keefe this position in his administration for the Mayor’s influence and political support during his campaign for the office to lead Mississippi. Mayor O’Keefe’s announced to his constituency that he would resign as Biloxi’s Mayor on February 10, 1936 to lead the State’s 2000 National Guardsmen. The salary was $2700 per year.&nbsp; Mayor O’Keefe succeeded Thomas Grayson, also from Biloxi, and an appointee of Governor Martin Sennett ‘Mike’ Connor (1891-1950).&nbsp;</span></span></div>\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>Resignation-Adjutant General</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">With the inauguration of Hugh Lawson White (1881-1965) in January 1936 as the Governor of Mississippi, John A. O\'Keefe became Adjutant General of Mississippi.&nbsp; The Governor-elect had promised Mayor O’Keefe this position in his administration for his influence and political support during his campaign for the office to lead the people of Mississippi. &nbsp;Mayor O’Keefe’s appointment as Adjutant General was confirmed by the Mississippi Senate in executive session on January 22, 1936, although he did not announce his retirement as Biloxi’s Mayor until February 10, 1936 to lead Mississippi’s 2000 National Guardsmen. His &nbsp;salary as Adjutant General was $2700 per year.&nbsp; John W.A. O’Keefe succeeded Thomas Grayson, also a Biloxian, and an appointee of Governor Mike Connor.&nbsp; O’Keefe and family found an apartment on West Capitol Street in Jackson.&nbsp;<em>(The Daily Herald, October 17, 1935, p. 2,</em>&nbsp;and <em>The Daily Herald, November 8, 1935, January 22, 1936, p. 1 and The Jackson County Times, February 1, 1936, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In August 1936, Adjutant General O’Keefe and 2175 officers and troops of the 155<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Infantry-Mississippi, the 156<sup>th</sup>Infantry-Louisiana, the 106<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Quartermasters Regiment-Mississippi and other Louisiana National Guard units spent two weeks training at Camp Beauregard near Alexandria, Louisiana.&nbsp; The medical detachment from Biloxi was led by Lt. Eldon L. Bolton, MD (1910-1990), the quartermasters unit from Ocean Springs was in charge of Lt. Walter Holloway, and Company M out of Gulfport with Captain Glenn Rutledge in command were also encamped. (The Daily Herald, August 24, 1936, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In September 1939, Adjutant General O’Keefe was Grand Marshal of the Mississippi delegation in the National American Legion parade at Chicago.&nbsp; In August, Ben Hilbun, of Laurel, Mississippi and&nbsp;the newly elected American Legion state commander, had made the first announcement of General O’Keefe’s selection as Grand Marshal for the Illinois event<em>.(The Jackson County Times, August 5, 1939, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/seafood-schrieber oyster crates.jpg\" style=\"height:207px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Lurline Schrieber Hall</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Marion Lurline Schrieber Hall</strong> (b. 1920), called Lurline, our guest contributor today, was reared on East Porter Street near Vancleave Avenue by her parents, Joseph Louis “Dode” &nbsp;Schrieber (1873-1951) and Etta Augusta Clark (1888-1979).&nbsp; Lurline is pictured with the oyster boxes that her father built for Biloxi’s seafood factories in the 1920s.&nbsp; Dode Schrieber was an interesting man.&nbsp; He was multi-talented and made his livelihood at various times as a carpenter, boat builder, and oysterman.&nbsp; Dode Schrieber made an amazing contribution to the chronology of Ocean Springs in the fall of 1949, when he was interviewed in the twilight of his life by Captain Ellis Handy (1891-1963), then a&nbsp;writer for<strong>&nbsp;<em>The Gulf Coast Times.&nbsp;</em></strong>Captain Handy’s column<strong>&nbsp;“Know Your Neighbor”&nbsp;</strong>was published between July 1949 and November 1949.&nbsp; It included interviews with some of Ocean Springs’ most notables: Antonio John Catchot (1864-1954); John Edward Catchot (1897-1987); Henry L. Girot (1886-1953); John W.C. Mitchell (1871-1952); Alfred Peter Moran (1897-1967); Fred J. Ryan (1886-1969), and George Washington Smith (1857-1953).&nbsp; The VanCleave, Bradford, Davis, and many more pioneer families and individuals were highlighted by Mr. Handy.&nbsp; In addition to details of his own Schrieber-Letzler family, Dode Schrieber related much about the unpublished events of the mid and late 19<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Century chronology of Ocean Springs.&nbsp; For any local genealogist or history buff, the Handy and Schrieber reports are a must!Marion Lurline Schrieber Hall (b. 1920), now a resident of East Letohatchie, Alabama, attended the Ocean Springs public school in the 1920s and 1930s graduating with the OSHS Class of 1937. &nbsp;Her personal recollections of Miss Mary Cahill O’Keefe, her former teacher and principal follows: &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><em>Mary O’Keffe, a home-town girl, became the principal circa 1930, of Ocean Springs High School.&nbsp; This was a complete surprise since there had never been a female head of the school.&nbsp; Mr. Chandler resigned when I was in the fifth grade and we not only had to get used to a lady at the helm, but a strict lady.&nbsp; She let it be known from the beginning that she would stand for no foolishness-she gave us rules to follow and we knew we had to live by them.&nbsp; She showed no favoritism but expected courtesy from each of us and we knew exactly what she expected from us.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe was always fair but stern.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>During the time my class was in the eighth grade, which was during the tight financial years of the Depression, we only had school for eight months of the year due to the shortage of money.&nbsp; The teachers agreed to the eight-month term, and we compressed nine months of learning into eight.&nbsp;</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Mary O’Keefe, who was known in Ocean Springs as “Mamie”, had to take on a few teaching chores herself.&nbsp; She taught our English class and always addressed us as ‘my dear child’.&nbsp; Her first instructions to us were:&nbsp;“When I call the roll, you are to answer ‘prepared’ or ‘unprepared’.&nbsp; If you answer ‘unprepared’, I will expect an acceptable reason.&nbsp; I will not accept excuses.&nbsp; I will accept reasons and they must be good ones”.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Rest assured you could count the ‘unprepared’ responses with the fingers of her one hand.&nbsp; Her next admonition to us was not to say ‘yes, Mame’ or ‘no, Mame’ when addressing her.&nbsp; We were requested to say, “yes, Miss O’Keefe” or “no, Miss O’Keefe”.&nbsp; Even when reprimanding us, Miss O’Keefe spoke to her students as ‘my dear child’.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Each day at noon when we were dismissed for lunch, Miss O’ Keefe stood at the foot of the stairs-sometimes at the girls’ stairs and at other occasions the boys’ stairwell.&nbsp; This was to discourage the stomping of feet as we descended.&nbsp; We never knew which stairway she would select and even the high school boys refrained from loud stomping.&nbsp; Yes, the sexes were segregated, even on the playgrounds.&nbsp; One had to ask permission from the teacher on playground duty to cross over an imaginary boundary separating the sexes- even if a ball was accidentally sent crossed the “barrier”.&nbsp; This form of segregation was enforced primarily to prevent larger boys from unintentionally running into smaller females and possibly inflicting bodily injury.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Miss O’ Keefe captained a taut ship.&nbsp; During the Depression, Ocean Springs High School was never removed from the list of accredited schools and colleges.&nbsp; She provided the curriculum that would enable her students to attend college or make a livelihood of ones choosing after graduation.&nbsp; She operated the school in a most outstanding manner steering her students on a straight course with caring, yet with authority.&nbsp; Someone once said that Miss O’Keefe was trying to excel in order to prove that a local girl was capable of managing an exceptional school even though many people thought that a female was incapable of doing it.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>During the years that Miss O’Keefe was our valued mentor, her brother was killed in a diving accident.&nbsp; For a year she wore mourning black in fall and winter and white and lavender in spring and summer.&nbsp; Mrs. Weyerstall made her clothes and they were lovely.&nbsp; This was her outward expression to us for her deep love for her departed brother, “Jody”.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>Miss Mary C. O’Keefe was a lady who demanded respect and she returned respect if it was earned.&nbsp; She had the best interests of her students at heart and worked continuously to obtain the very best for Ocean Springs High School.&nbsp; To name our old school building for her would certainly be an appropriate and deserving tribute.</em></strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Lynch Academy building.jpeg\" style=\"height:163px; width:200px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/lynch academy sign.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:200px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\"><strong>Lynch Academy and marker</strong>-The Lynch Academy, a private school, was located on the northwest corner of Jackson Avenue and Porter Street.&nbsp; James Lynch&nbsp;(1852-1935), an Irish schoolmaster, lived here, taught school, and also managed a dry goods and grocery store.&nbsp; Mr. Lynch served as an Alderman and later Town Clerk from 1917-1929.&nbsp; In the image, note the US Highway 90 sign.&nbsp; In September 2006, workmen in the employ of Brad Lemon, a resident of 509 Ward Avenue discovered a small concrete marker with the designation: LYNCH ACADEMY 1890-1916 inscribed into its surface.&nbsp; The Lemon house was built circa 1928 by P.J. Wieder (1887-1985).&nbsp; It is not known who made the Lynch Academy marker or how it got to the Wieder-Lemon home on Ward Avenue. &nbsp;</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>Early Education</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss Mary C. O’Keefe attended St. Alphonsus School and the Lynch Academy, both located on Jackson Avenue in Ocean Springs.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Lynch Academy was located on the northwest corner of Porter and Jackson directly across the street from the O’Keefe residence.&nbsp; James Lynch (1852-1935), the school master, was himself Irish, probably a native of County Cavan, Eire.(<em>The Daily Herald, April 6, 1945, p. 3, The Jackson County Times, July 6, 1935 and The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, August 27, 1897)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Former Mayor and local historian, Charles Ernest ‘Uncle Ernie’ Schmidt (1904-1988), paints a vivid image in his description of Master Lynch’s teaching methods, which follows:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>His curriculum was grounded in the fundamentals of language and ciphering, that is, reading, writing, parsing, and constant drilling tables; addition, multiplication and division, up to the 19<sup>th</sup>.&nbsp; Informality was the order. When a lesson was learned, it was “heard”.&nbsp; If satisfactory, the pupil was advanced; if not he was set down to study it again.</em></strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Discipline carried over from a past age; a slap on the head with a closed book restored order.&nbsp; The old man’s explosive expletives were something to be avoided.&nbsp; A wrong answer as to the product of 13 times 16 would draw a thunderous “balderdash”, or if the pupil failed completely, he would likely be assessed as a “confounded mope”.</em>(</strong>Schmidt, 1972, p. 69)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">May 29, 1904, was a special day in the spiritual life of Mary C. O’Keefe.&nbsp; She and other young contemporaries received the Roman Catholic sacrament of Holy Communion at the St. Alphonsus Church on Jackson Avenue.&nbsp; Among those in her Holy Communion class were: Henry Beaugez, Moses Beaugez (1891-1973), Deo Bertuccini (1893-1979), Paul Bertuccini, Leila Catchot, Lena Eglin Gilbert (1890-1928); Elizabeth Joachim, John King, Josephine Mon, Ella Ryan, Blanche von Rosambeau (1892-1982), Gertrude Soden McGregor (1893-1987), Mamie Starks (b. 1891), Tom Starks (1892-1917), George Van Court, and Alice White (1890-1960).(<em>The Progress, May 28, 1904, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Miss O’Keefe completed her high school education at St. Mary’s Dominican Academy at New Orleans.&nbsp; Her brother, John A. O’Keefe (1891-1985), was attending Jesuit High School concurrently.&nbsp; He was appointed Captain of Company D-Jesuit Cadets in December 1905.(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, November 3, 1905 and December 8, 1905) &nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John A. O’Keefe would go on to a distinguished career in politics and the military.&nbsp; He served the city of Biloxi as its Mayor in 1935, before being appointed as Adjutant General of Mississippi by Governor Hugh Lawson White. (<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, November 3, 1905 and December 8, 1905 and The Daily Herald, September 16, 1985, p. A-2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At the Dominican Academy graduation exercises in late June 1910, Miss O’Keefe was awarded five gold medals for excellence in various academic disciplines.&nbsp; She matriculated to Sophie Newcomb College at New Orleans in the fall of 1910, and after taking a private examination was admitted to the sophomore class.(<em>The Ocean Springs News, October 15, 1910, p. 4&nbsp; and&nbsp; June 25, 1910)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Miss O’Keefe graduated from Newcomb College in 1913.&nbsp; In 1917, she was voted president of her 1913 class for life.(<em>The Jackson County Times, July 7, 1917)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>A Peripatetic Career-</strong><strong>North Louisiana</strong>&nbsp;(1913-1923)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">After her stellar academic accomplishments in the scholastic halls of New Orleans’ finest educational institutions, Miss Mary C. O’Keefe went to Shreveport, Louisiana to teach French at the high school level.&nbsp; She spent the summer of 1914, at Ocean Springs, and departed in September 1914 to resume her position as Professor of French in the Central High School.(<em>The Ocean Springs News, September 26, 1914)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At this time, it was extremely common for single schoolteachers to room and board with local families.&nbsp; At Shreveport, Miss O’Keefe found shelter on Fairfield Avenue with the Roman Catholic family of John B. Slattery (1844-1927), a prominent attorney and widower.&nbsp; His spouse, Mary Ellen Herron, a native of Wisconsin, had expired in 1899.&nbsp; They were the parents of four sons and two daughters.(Alice O’Keefe Sebastian, September 13, 1999)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Although Mr. Slattery’s daughter, Teresa “Tess” Josephine Slattery (1894-1995), had met Jeremiah ‘Ben’ Joseph O’Keefe II (1894-1954) while on a seashore summer holiday to visit Mary C. O’Keefe at Ocean Springs in 1919, it was his journey to Shreveport for the Thanksgiving holiday of the following year that sealed their fate.&nbsp; At Ocean Springs, Ben had been the steady escort of the widow Carrie Johnson Garrard (1886-1968), but he was smitten with Miss Slattery, and they were wedded at Shreveport’s St. John Berchman’s Roman Catholic Church in April 1921.&nbsp; Mary C. O’Keefe was the maid of honor in her brother’s wedding.&nbsp; She appropriately carried Killarney roses.(Alice O’Keefe Sebastian, September 13, 1999 and&nbsp;<em>The Jackson County Times, September 20, 1919, and May 7, 1921, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe Mary C. 1924 Beacon Glow.jpeg\" style=\"height:200px; width:137px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mary Cahill O’Keefe</strong>-This image was made for The Biloxi Beacon, the 1924 Biloxi High School Annual.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe’s career as a foreign language instructor began at Shreveport, Louisiana in 1913 and she retired from her profession while at Ocean Springs in April 1945, as Superintendent of Education.&nbsp; During her tenure as School Superintendent at Ocean Springs, Miss O’Keefe instilled in the community the value of excellence in education, and raised the level of learning to a higher standard, as well as being an inspiration to her students to excel in their chosen vocations after graduation.&nbsp; In Mary Cahill O’Keefe’s beloved memory, the 1927 Ocean Springs Public School was named the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts and Education, fondly called the “Mary C”, in December 1998, by the City of Ocean Springs.&nbsp; A Mississippi Historical Marker for this purpose was dedicated on the former school grounds on October 9, 1999. &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Shreveport Years</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Until the summer of 1918, Miss O’Keefe continued her educational career at Shreveport, routinely spending her summer and Christmas holidays at Ocean Springs. (<em>The Ocean Springs News, December 30, 1915, The Jackson County Times, September 15, 1917, and January 5, 1918) &nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1918, however, she passed the Civil Service examination and spent that summer working in government service at Washington D.C.&nbsp;Miss O’ Keefe returned from Washington to Ocean Springs in early September 1918.&nbsp; Again she went dutifully to Shreveport to teach French that fall.(<em>The Jackson County Times, May 25, 1918, p. 5 and September 7, 1918, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The academic year of 1918-1919 also brought Miss O’Keefe a new wrinkle.&nbsp; In addition to her French language classes, she coached the girls’ basketball team.&nbsp; 1919 was also the memorable year that Miss Tess Slattery from Shreveport came home with Mary C. O’Keefe for a summer holiday at the seashore in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; They returned to Shreveport in September 1919.<em>(The Jackson County Times, April 5, 1919, May 31, 1919 and September 20, 1919)</em>&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Monroe, Louisiana&nbsp;(</strong>1921-1922)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Miss O’Keefe left her position as Head of the Modern Language Department in the Shreveport, Louisiana school system, after the 1921-1922 academic year.&nbsp; During the late spring of 1921, she attended the annual alumni reunions of Newcomb College and St. Mary’s Dominican Academy.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe was elected president of her Dominican Academy high school class.&nbsp; She reported to Monroe, Louisiana in October 1922, to teach French at the high school there.&nbsp; She returned to Biloxi in June 1923, for her annual summer holiday.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 21, 1922, p. 5 and June 23, 1923, p. 5 and The Jackson County Times, June 18, 1921, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Biloxi, Mississippi&nbsp;</strong>(1923-1926)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Miss O’Keefe did not return to Monroe, Louisiana in the fall of 1923.&nbsp; Evidently, this assignment wasn’t agreeable as she commenced the 1923-1924 school year at the Biloxi Central High School on September 10, 1923.&nbsp; She had been elected to teach French to the students here.(<em>The Jackson County Times, June 16, 1923, p. 5 and September 15, 1923, p. 5)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In early June 1924, Miss O’ Keefe departed Ocean Springs for a globe-trotting&nbsp;summer of adventure, discovery and learning.&nbsp; She visited friends at Washington D.C. and New York before embarking for the Continent via ocean liner from Montreal.&nbsp; Dr. Margaret Bowden had feted her with a luncheon at the Pickwick Club in New Orleans before leaving America in late August.(<em>The Jackson County Times, June 14, 1924)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In Europe, Mary Cahill O’Keefe spent several weeks in the larger European capital cities, London, Rome, Paris and Brussels, took a trip along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea by motorcar, visited the battlefields of France, and had an audience with Pope Pius XI.&nbsp; In addition to visiting all the cities and points of interest on the Continent, it is believed that Miss O’Keefe took courses in French at the Sorbonne while in Paris.(<em>The Jackson County Times, August 30, 1924, p. 5 and The Daily Herald, September 5, 1924, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">After the 1924-1925 school term had ended, Miss Mary C. O’ Keefe and Margaret Dacey, who taught girls’ physical education at Biloxi High School, left the Mississippi Gulf Coast in June 1925, for Chicago, where they were joined by Miss Cunningham.&nbsp; The Biloxi educators were guests of the Edgewater Beach Hotel in the Windy City.&nbsp; From Chicago, Miss O’Keefe and Miss Dacey went to Detroit and Niagara Falls before arriving at New York City to attend Columbia University.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe returned home to Ocean Springs from Columbia in late August better prepared to teach languages at Biloxi High School in the fall.<em>(The Jackson County Times, June 20, 1925, July 4, 1925, p. 1,&nbsp; and August 29, 1925, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Although she was rated as one of the best instructors in the school, Miss O’Keefe resigned her position at Biloxi High School in January 1926.&nbsp; She cited health reasons for her leaving the classroom.&nbsp; Her tenure here in the modern languages department had been for three and one-half years.<em>(The Jackson County Times, January 29, 1926, p. 2)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By July 1926, Mary C. O’Keefe’s health had been restored sufficiently for her to travel to Chicago for two weeks to attend the Eucharistic Congress.&nbsp; She was a guest at a reception in honor of the crown prince and princess of Sweden.<em>(The Jackson County Times, July 10, 1926)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe%2C Mary C. Porter House 2.jpeg\" style=\"height:154px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Miss Mary C. O’Keefe’s Cottage</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Located on the north side of West Porter Street between Jackson Avenue and Washington Avenue, Miss O’Keefe acquired this structure with acreage in August 1925 with her three brother, John A.W. O’Keefe, J.H. ‘Jody’ O’Keefe, and J.J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe.&nbsp; They conveyed the cottage and other tracts to her sole ownership in July 1930.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe’s Cottage was a memorable venue for her great nieces and great nephews and many eclectic friends.&nbsp; Memories of it were evoked by Maureen O’Keefe Ward as follows: &nbsp;</span></span><strong><em>The words “Aunt Mary” immediately conjure up specific and rich memories-approaching her neat white picket fence which wasn’t so high that it scared a child, walking up onto her tiny front screen porch and immediately confronting her colorful Blackbeard figurines by the Andersons (the historical significance of which Aunt Mary was always happy to dramatize with great verve); and then entering through the front door into the wonderland of her small, but beautifully appointed, white frame house.&nbsp; Aunt Mary and her petite house were always in perfect order-from antique wicker furniture covered in cozy pillows, to elderly oriental rugs topped by glass-front cabinets filled with jewel-like demitasse cups and saucers gathered patiently on her world travels, to the paintings and lovely Della Robia sculpture on the walls, through to her tiny dining room, kitchen and bedroom.</em></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>She loved to host my sisters and me at tea parties during which we got to select our favorite cup and saucer from which to sip.&nbsp; Sitting around her dining room, we would nibble and drink and converse with our best manners on display.&nbsp; Without ever needing to ask, Aunt Mary always called forth our most perfect behavior (we didn’t want to risk her displeasure).</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Miss O’Keefe’s Cottage</strong>&nbsp;(1925-1971)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In August 1925, Mary C. O’Keefe,&nbsp;J.J. “Ben” O’Keefe&nbsp;(1894-1954),&nbsp;Joseph H.&nbsp;‘Jody’ O’Keefe&nbsp;(1897-1932), and&nbsp;John A.W. O’Keefe&nbsp;(1891-1985) acquired for $1200, a lot and improvements fronting on West Porter from Daniel Dick (1900-1971). This was the site of Miss O’Keefe’s cottage where she would reside for the next forty-six years.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 56, pp. 349-350)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Mary C. O’Keefe’s cottage was situated primarily on Lot 3 of the Seidenstricker Tract in Lot 12 of Block 27 of the Culmseig Map of Ocean Springs (1854).&nbsp; This lovely oak-shaded site was located on the north side of West Porter between Jackson Avenue and Washington Avenue.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe’s .523-acre, irregularly-dimensioned, lot had a front of 94 feet on Porter and went north 262 feet on the eastside and had 143 feet on the western perimeter.&nbsp; It is postulated that Miss O’Keefe’s cottage was erected here in the late 19th Century, probably by the Herman Nill family of New Orleans who had purchased this tract from A.G. Tebo (1848-1929) in March 1891.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 17, p. 355)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Caroline Vahle Nill (1862-1949) and Herman Nill (1863-1904) had sold this property to Sallie Grayson Orrell (1866-1948) in January 1903, for $1200.&nbsp; The Vahles had built a two-and one-half story building on their lot on the NW corner of Washington and Porter in 1893. Here Mr. Nill ran a drugstore and let offices to local doctors.&nbsp; In what was an apparent arson, local vandals destroyed Nill’s building in December 1900.&nbsp; By 1903, the Nill family had relocated to Gulfport, Mississippi.(JXCO Land Deed Bk. 25, p. 521,&nbsp;<em>The Ocean Springs Record, July 22, 1993, p. 18, July 29, 1993, p. 17, and August 5, 1993)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Sallie Grayson Orrell was the daughter of Judge Thomas W. Grayson (1825-1904) and Anne Hyde Grayson (1832-1906).&nbsp; Her father was the fourth Mayor of Ocean Springs [1897-1898].&nbsp; Sallie married John C. Orrell Jr. (1862-1931) in November 1889.&nbsp; He was the son of John C. Orrell (1830-1917), a North Carolinian, who established the turpentine industry in western Jackson County during Reconstruction.&nbsp; By 1900, J.C. Orrell Jr. was a baggage master for the L&amp;N Railroad and rearing three daughters, Lucille Orrell (1893-1910+), Lillian Orrell (1895-1931), and Irene Orrell (1898-1920+), on Porter Street.&nbsp; The J.C. Orrell Jr. family left Ocean Springs for 208 State Street in Mobile before 1917, as they were residing here when his father died in November 1917.(<em>The Mobile Press Register, December 1, 1917, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mrs. Sallie G. Orrell conveyed their Porter Street cottage to Daniel Dick (1900-1971) for $1200 in August 1924.&nbsp; Mr. Dick was born at Ocean Springs, the son of Eugene Dick (1868-1918) and Mary Cecile Seymour (1869-1953).&nbsp; Eugene married Marie E. Starns (1901-1971), the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Starns of Bogalusa, Louisiana.Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 54, pp. 181-182 and <em>The Daily Herald, December 16, 1933, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">It was from Daniel Dick that the Nill-Orrell house was acquired by Mary C. O’Keefe, Ben O’Keefe, John A. O’Keefe, and Jody O’Keefe for $1200 in August 1925.&nbsp; Mr. Dick left Ocean Springs and made his livelihood at Los Banos, Merced County, California.&nbsp; His brother, Carl “Mexi” Dick (1909-2000), resided in San Ramon, California where he expired on September 22, 2000.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In July 1930, Mary C. O’Keefe acquired three parcels of land at Ocean Springs, from her brothers, J.A. O’Keefe, J.H. O’Keefe, and J.J. “Ben” O’Keefe.&nbsp; The cottage property on West Porter was included in this sale.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe had to assume a mortgage of $1250 held by Miss Josephine Friar (1883-1958).(Jackson Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Cause No. 5649, Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 63, pp. 524-525, and Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed BK. 56, pp. 349-350)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Miss O’Keefe sold her Porter Street cottage to the Catholic Charities Housing Association in February 1970.&nbsp; It was removed when The Villa Maria was erected in mid-town Ocean Springs between April 1970 and September 1971.(Jackson Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 371, p. 506)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Villa Maria3-December 2014.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:188px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Villa Maria</strong>-Considered the Coast’s first skyscraper and still one of the tallest buildings on the Mississippi Coast, the Villa Maria is located on West Porter Street in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; This 198 unit, 13-story, $2.5 million dollar, apartment complex was erected by the Catholic Charities Housing Association commencing in April 1970 and being completed in September 1971.&nbsp; The ribbon cutting was held on November 28, 1971.&nbsp; Structures along Washington Avenue and West Porter Street were demolished to erect the structure.&nbsp; Miss Mary C. O’Keefe sold her cottage on West Porter to Catholic Charities and moved into the Villa Maria.&nbsp; She expired here on January 22, 1980.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ocean Springs&nbsp;(1927-1930)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss O’Keefe joined the faculty of the new Ocean Springs Public School in the fall of 1927.&nbsp; She taught English her first year at the facility for&nbsp;$115.00 per month or $1035.00 per year.(<em>The Jackson County Times, September 24, 1927, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Although Mary C. O’Keefe never married, she led an active social life and appeared to be peripatetic by nature.&nbsp; She had family and friends in New Orleans and traveled there often for parties, football games, and the Mardi Gras season.&nbsp; The year 1928 wasn’t one of her better ones, as in late February, Miss O’Keefe was badly bruised and shaken up in a car accident on her way to New Orleans to view the Carnival.&nbsp; Her car had skidded in loose gravel and overturned.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe’s friends, Pierre F. Donnes Jr. (1878-1938) and Louise [sic] Donnes (1885-1938) also received minor injuries.(<em>The Daily Herald, February 28, 1928, p. 4 and The Jackson County Times, February 25, 1928)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Pierre F. Donnes Jr. was a New Orleans born architect and yacht designer.&nbsp; He built a home in Gulf Hills at present day 6200 Ridge Road, which is extant and generally remembered as the Warren Jackson (1886-1972) home since it remained in the Jackson family from September 1936 until October 1973.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In June, Mary C. O’Keefe was recovering from an appendectomy at Hotel Dieu in the Crescent City.<em>(The Jackson County Times, June 23, 1928, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the spring of 1929, Mary O’ Keefe was elected Superintendent of the Ocean Springs Public Schools.&nbsp; She was to succeed Professor Sterling Chandler at the commencement of the fall semester.<em>(The Jackson County Times, March 16, 1929, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Prior to the new school term, Miss O’Keefe and Miss Salome Bailey (later Watkins), the daughter of Dr. O.L. Bailey attended for several weeks, a lecture course at Columbia University in New York City.&nbsp; Miss Bailey went initially to visit with relatives in Atlanta and met O’Keefe en route to New York.<em>(The Jackson County Times, August 24, 1929)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>New Homes</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Another woe of the 1930s for the O’Keefe family, as previously mentioned, was the loss of their family homestead, the 1909 O’Keefe mansion on Porter Street in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; It was forfeited to a government mortgage agency in December 1938.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March 1923, Ben O’Keefe acquired the Frank Voivedich property on West Howard Avenue and Fayard Street.&nbsp; He planned to make commercial use of this tract during the summer.&nbsp; Mr. O’Keefe was operating a funeral parlor and burial business building in Ocean Springs.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 27, 1923, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Ben and Tess O’Keefe and their family, Alice Mary O’ Keefe Sebastian (1922-2011), Jeremiah J. “Jerry” O’Keefe III (b. 1923), Dr. John B. O’Keefe (1925-200), and Joseph B. O’Keefe (1930-1999), relocated to Biloxi when Mrs. Tess O’Keefe acquired a home and lot on Fayard Street from Josephine Fayard Voivedich (1862-1940) in July 1937.&nbsp; This residence was in the rear of the O’Keefe Funeral Parlor at 601 West Howard Avenue. (Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 216, pp. 29-30)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">During the final year of WW II, Ben and Tess O’Keefe and young Ben, moved into the old Hopkins place at 823 West Beach Boulevard.&nbsp; Mrs. O’Keefe acquired this home on a 2.3 acre tract on the east side of Hopkins Boulevard and fronting the Mississippi Sound for $20,000, in February 1945, from Dr. Ralph Hopkins of New Orleans.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 273, pp. 29-30)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In July 1945, the Main Street Methodist Church of Biloxi purchased about one acre of land north of the O’Keefe home for a new sanctuary.&nbsp; In early March 1948, Dr. B.Z. Welch, chairman of the Main Street Methodist Church building committee, announced plans for a&nbsp;new sanctuary on Hopkins Boulevard. &nbsp;Carl Matthes was named architect.&nbsp; In early January 1949, ground was broken to erect the new $200,000 Methodist Church on Hopkins Boulevard.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 276, pp. 569-570 and The Daily Herald, March 1, 1948, p. 2 and January 7, 1949, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In November 1960, several years after J.J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe expired in his Biloxi beach front domicile, Mrs. Tess O’Keefe and her son, Dr. John B. O’Keefe, sold 823 West Beach Boulevard to Gulf Towers Inc.&nbsp; By early November, Gulf Towers, a ten-story, $2 million, apartment building at 824 Central Beach Boulevard, was ready to break ground. &nbsp;Barlow and Plunkett designed the structure for&nbsp;Gulf Towers Inc. lead operated by Charles Crisler Jr., a Jackson attorney, and&nbsp;Jerry J. O\'Keefe, a Biloxi businessman. &nbsp;Howie Construction of Jackson, Mississippi was the general contractor.(Harrison Co., Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 471, pp. 57-58 and The Daily Herald, November 5, 1960, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After the Villa Maria was opened on West Porter Street in September 1971, Miss O’Keefe moved there and was a resident until her demise in January 1980.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/1699 Fete-1939.jpg\" style=\"height:229px; width:300px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Preview image prior to the First 1699 Landing at Ocean Springs</span></span></strong></div>\r\n\r\n<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">Miss Mary Cahill O’Keefe was the director of the first 1699 Iberville Landing celebration at Ocean Springs, which was held in conjunction with the Coast wide pageant of March 17-19, 1939.&nbsp; Miss&nbsp;Elinor Wright (1913-1953), the niece of H.L. Hunt, Dallas oil tycoon, and who would later married Orwin J. Scharr (1914-2002), researched and wrote the script for the Iberville Landing.&nbsp; Other members of the planning committee for this event were:&nbsp;Iola F. Davidson&nbsp;(1883-1963),&nbsp;</span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">Gertrude W. McClure&nbsp;(d. 1971),&nbsp;Henrietta M. Gladney&nbsp;(1900-1978), Virginia&nbsp;T. Lee&nbsp;(1901-1986),&nbsp;A.P. Moran&nbsp;(1897-1967), and&nbsp;Mayor Charles Bennett&nbsp;(1884-1971).&nbsp; In addition,the daughters of Henry L. Girot (1886-1953) and Mabel Judlin Girot (1890-1956) were involved in the celebration with Rose Annette Saxon, Mary Handy and Henry Weyerstall.[L-R: Henry Weyerstall (1913-1987), Beryl Girot Riviere (1916-2010), Sally Girot Williams Staley (1913-1961), Georgine Girot Nicholson (1918-1998), Rose Annette Saxon O’Keefe (1913-1987), Mary Handy Lackey, and A.P. “Fred” Moran (1897-1967), in his first of many appearances as Iberville, the French Canadian soldier of fortune.(Courtesy of Beryl Girot Riviere)</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Ocean Springs (1931-1945)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">It would appear that Miss O’Keefe’ didn’t let the Depression years at Ocean Springs interfere with her social life and summer holiday travel.&nbsp; She went abroad in the summer of 1931 with Vera Malter Nix (1891-1979), the wife of Dr. James T. Nix (1887-1945), and her daughter, Rosary Nix Hartel (1914-2000).&nbsp; They were accompanied by Miss Mildred van Kamp of Augusta, Georgia.&nbsp; As previously related, Mary C. O’Keefe&nbsp;cruised the Caribbean Sea with her dear friends, the Nix family, of New Orleans in the summer of 1932, and visited her brother, Jodie O’Keefe (1897-1932), at Matanzas, Cuba, shortly before his demise.(<em>The Daily Herald, Times, August 11, 1931, p. 2 and August 2, 1932, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The following information summarizes some of Mary C. O’Keefe’s activities during the captioned years.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1934</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In January 1934, Miss O’Keefe attended the ball and supper dance of the Athenians Mardi Gras organization at New Orleans.(<em>The Jackson County Times, February 3, 1934)&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April 1934, she went to two plays at New Orleans during her weekend visit with friends.(<em>The Jackson County Times, April 21,&nbsp;1934)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1935</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss O’Keefe was the guest of Dr. James Thomas Nix and Mrs. Spouse of New Orleans.&nbsp; She assisted in the receiving line at a Yuletide dance given at the New Orleans Country Club for their daughter, Miss Rosary Nix.&nbsp; Miss Alice O’Keefe, her young niece, accompanied Miss O’Keefe to the Nix soiree.(<em>The Jackson County Times, December 28, 1935)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1936</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In July 1936, Mary C. O’Keefe left Ocean Springs and spent her summer vacation traveling.&nbsp; Her initial stop was at Jackson, Mississippi where she visited with her brother, Major John A. O’ Keefe.&nbsp; From Mississippi, Miss O’Keefe stopped at Winnetka, Illinois to see Mrs. F.B. Thomas.&nbsp; The culmination of this journey was Montreal where she was the guest of Mrs. E. Valliquette. (<em>The Jackson County Times, July 25, 1936)</em>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><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\">Miss O’Keefe was the director of the first 1699 Iberville Landing celebration at Ocean Springs which was held in conjunction with the Coast wide pageant of March 17-19, 1939.&nbsp; Miss&nbsp;<strong>Elinor Wright</strong> (1913-1953), the niece of H.L. Hunt, Dallas oil tycoon, and who would later married Orwin J. Scharr (1914-2002), researched and wrote the script for the Iberville Landing.&nbsp; Other members of the planning committee for this event were:&nbsp;<strong>Iola F. Davidson</strong>&nbsp;(1883-1963),&nbsp;</span></span><strong>Gertrude W. McClure</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(d. 1971),&nbsp;</span><strong>Henrietta M. Gladney</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1900-1978</span><strong>), Virginia</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span><strong>T. Lee</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1901-1986),&nbsp;</span><strong>A.P. Moran</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1897-1967), and&nbsp;</span><strong>Mayor Charles Bennett</strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">&nbsp;(1884-1971).(</span><em>The Jackson County Times, January 28, 1939, p. 1)</em></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1940</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March 1940, Miss O’Keefe was honored with membership in Delta Kappa Gamma, a national honorary educational fraternity.&nbsp; A salient qualification for membership in Delta Kappa Gamma was extraordinary achievements in the field of education.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe had demonstrated outstanding leadership as during her short tenure as School Superintendent, the Ocean Springs Public School had: increased enrollment; the elementary school had been reclassified from B to A; the high school had become fully accredited; and the school district had also been enlarged.&nbsp; At this time, Mary C. O’Keefe held memberships and offices in the following organizations: Jackson County Teachers Association, vice-president; Harrison-Stone-Jackson Junior College, trustee; Jackson County High School Accrediting Commission, member; Examining Board of Jackson County, member; Newcomb Alumnae Coast Club, president; Junior Red Cross of Jackson County, chairman.<em>(The Jackson County Times, March 30, 1940, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss O’ Keefe spoke to the Ocean Springs Rotary Club in November 1940.(<em>The Jackson County Times, November 16, 1940, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1942</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">When Miss Rosary Nix (1914-2000) was betrothed to Stephen C. Hartel (1904-2003), a New Orleans attorney, in July 1942, Miss O’Keefe was invited to the nuptial ceremony and was the houseguest of Dr. James T. Nix and Vera M. Nix, her parents.&nbsp; The Nix’s edifice was situated at 1407 South Carrollton in the Crescent City.&nbsp; Rosary was a graduate of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Barat College at Lake Forest, Illinois, and had attended Newcomb College and Columbia University.&nbsp; She had been the Queen of Osiris and Nereus and a maid in several of the larger New Orleans’ carnival organizations.(The Times-Picayune, July 1, 1942, p. 19)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Wall%2C S.S. (1905-1963).jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:104px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Sibley S. Wall</strong> (1905-1963)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Following the retirement of Miss Mary Cahill O’Keefe in July 1945, the OS School Board hired Mr. S.S. Wall.&nbsp; Silbey S. Wall (1905-1963) was&nbsp;a native of Decatur, Newton County, Mississippi.&nbsp; Mr. Wall came to Ocean Springs in the fall of 1945 from Pascagoula where he had been since 1942.&nbsp; He was a graduate of Mississippi Southern College and had coached and was previously Superintendent at Beulah-Hubbard, now Newton County High School, and Vancleave High School.&nbsp;Superintendent Wall resigned in 1950 to accept position with the New York Life Insurance Company.&nbsp; S.S. Wall was succeeded as Ocean Springs School Superintendent by the following: Nolan E. Taconi [1950-1971]; Allen T. Curry [1971-1990]; Dewey L. Herring [1990-1999]; Anna P. Hurt [1999-2006]; Robert Hirsch [2006-2012]; and Bonita Coleman-Potter [2012-present day].</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1943</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Ocean Springs’ School Superintendent Mary Cahill O’Keefe and brother, Colonel John O’Keefe (1891-1985), went to the Pensacola Naval Air Station to attend the graduation of their nephew, Lt. J.J. “Jerry” O’Keefe III (b. 1923), naval aviator.(<em>The Jackson County Times, July 3, 1943)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">USMC Lt. Jerry O’Keefe learned well in flight training, as on his first combat mission in the South Pacific theatre during WWII, he destroyed five Japanese aircraft.&nbsp; It should be noted that Jerry O’Keefe’s father, J.J. “Ben” O’Keefe II (1894-1954), was also a Marine.&nbsp; He left Ocean Springs for New Orleans in late July 1918, with Jasper Colligan (1899-1951+) to join other recruits bound for basic training at an eastern camp.&nbsp; Ben’s departure left Joseph H. “Jodie” O’Keefe (1897-1932) in charge of the family businesses, livery and undertaking.&nbsp; In addition, Jerry O’Keefe’s son, J.J. “Jody” O’Keefe IV (1946-2007), served in the USMC from 1964-1967.(<em>The Jackson County Times, April 28, 1945, p. 1, July 27, 1918, and </em>The History of Jackson County, Mississippi, 1989, p. 303)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1945</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary C. O’ Keefe resigned from her position as Superintendent of the Ocean Springs public schools prior to the fall session of the 1945-1946 school term.&nbsp; Under her sixteen-year administration, the public school of Ocean Springs, maintained high academic standards, and reached new levels of proficiency.&nbsp; The elementary section advanced from a B to an A classification, the high school became fully accredited, and pupil enrollment increased by 33 per cent.&nbsp; In the near future, Miss O’ Keefe planned to work on a part time basis in the local school system.(<em>The Daily Herald, April 6, 1945, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Prior to her retirement from the field of education, Miss O’Keefe was recognized on May 22, 1945, by her faculty and students.&nbsp; She sat in the high school auditorium while the student body sang&nbsp;<strong>“Good Morning to Miss O’Keefe”</strong>.&nbsp; Gifts of flowers, photographs of the schools achievement during her administration, and others from the band and faculty were bestowed on her.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe spoke briefly to her pupils saying,&nbsp;<strong><em>“that she had always wished to sit and enjoy a program in the auditorium, and at last was realizing that desire.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong>After thanking everyone for their gifts, she concluded her comments with&nbsp;<strong><em>“the greatest gifts of all were carried in her heart, place there by pupils whom she had taught.”</em></strong>(<em>The Jackson County Times, May 26, 1945, p. 4 and The Daily Herald, May 28, 1945, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In June 1945, Miss Jessie Boyd (1881-1963), who was a life friend of Miss O’Keefe, and career Red Cross relief worker, was feted by her loyal friends at a buffet supper held at the Gulf Hills Country Club.&nbsp; Mary C. O’Keefe presented Miss Boyd with several savings bonds as gifts from the guests who included: Miss Ethel Rice (1887-1969), Mr. and Mrs. George Young, Miss Bernadine Wulff (1899-1992), Mrs. Ed (Clothilde Bailey) Campbell (1901-1995), Mrs. Chester Davis, Mrs. John Knippie, and Mrs. John (Vera Wulff) Cook (1906-1992).(<em>The Jackson County Times, June 16, 1945, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary C. O’Keefe was succeeded as Superintendent of the Ocean Springs public school by Sibley S. Wall (1905-1963), a native of Decatur, Newton County, Mississippi.&nbsp; Mr. Wall came to Ocean Springs from Pascagoula.&nbsp; He was a graduate of Mississippi Southern College and had coached and was previously Superintendent at Beulah-Hubbard, now Newton County High School, and Vancleave High School.(<em>The Jackson County Times, July 28, 1945, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Retirement Years (1946-1980)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss Mary C. O’Keefe’s retirement years are presented from information casually observed in local journals of the captioned interval as follows:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1947</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In June, Miss Mary C. O’Keefe returned to Ocean Springs after a delightful visit with Colonel John A. O’Keefe at Bethesda, Maryland, Mrs. L. MacWeeney, of Rye, New York, and Mrs. John Knipple in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (<em>The Jackson County Times, Local and Personal, June 7, 1947, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1950-1952</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss O’Keefe entertained family and friends from New Orleans, Shreveport, and Biloxi at Gulf Hills with a luncheon.&nbsp; The young children of the visiting families were sent to the Dude Ranch to ride horses.(<em>The Gulf Coast Times, August 25, 1950, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In the fall of 1950, Miss O’Keefe spent two months in the East visiting relatives and friends at Bethesda, Maryland, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia.&nbsp; In Maryland, she stayed with Colonel John O’Keefe’s family and at Washington D.C. Miss Helen Bliss.&nbsp; At Philadelphia, Miss O’Keefe was entertained by John and Ena Knippel. Mrs. Knippel was the supervisor of music in the public school of Philadelphia.<em>(The Gulf Coast Times, December 15, 1950, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary C. O’Keefe went to the Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans with the Ben O’Keefe family of Biloxi.&nbsp; Kentucky (10-1) led by Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant defeated No. 1 ranked Oklahoma Sooners (10-0) by the score of 13-7.&nbsp; Miss Mary stayed over for a short visit with her dear friend, Vera Malter Nix.(<em>The Gulf Coast Times, January 12, 1951)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In February 1951, Miss O’Keefe traveled to Bethesda, Maryland to visit Colonel John O’Keefe, her brother.&nbsp; He had just had a serious eye operation.<em>(The Gulf Coast Times, February 22, 1951.</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In November 1952, a tea was given for Miss Ann O’Neil. (<em>The Gulf Coast Times, November 27, 1952, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe%2C jeff-2014.jpg\" style=\"height:180px; width:180px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jeffrey H. O’Keefe</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:15px\">Jeffrey H. O’Keefe, called Jeff, was a great nephew of Miss Mary Cahill O’Keefe and with his siblings, Maureen O’Keefe Ward and Jeremiah J. “Jody” O’Keefe IV (1946-2007), shared some of their recollections of “Aunt Mary” with the author. Miss O’Keefe has been posthumously recognized as Mississippi’s first female school superintendent and also memorialized by having the 1927 Ocean Springs Public School renamed the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center for Arts and Education in her honor. &nbsp;Miss O’Keefe had a profound positive influence on her students and many credit their successful marriages and careers to her strict discipline, and high ethical and academic standards.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1957</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss O’Keefe broke a bone in her left foot resulting from a fall.&nbsp; Her foot was placed in a cast.(<em>The Ocean Springs News, January 24, 1957)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1959-1962</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss O’Keefe came out of retirement for a few years and taught French at the Sacred Heart Academy in Biloxi.&nbsp; She is remembered during this interval by her great niece, Maureen O’Keefe Ward, as “always dressed very elegantly, with touches of lace here and there, or a beautiful pin on her lapel, spiffy spectator pumps, and stockings”.(Maureen O. Ward, September 9, 1998)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1970</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Miss O’Keefe sold her cottage property on West Porter to the Catholic Charities Housing Association on February 20, 1970.&nbsp; The Villa Maria, a seven-story building which houses a retirement community, was built north of her property.&nbsp; Construction commenced here in April 1970.(Jackson County, Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 371, p. 506 and <em>The Ocean Springs Record, April 16, 1970, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1980</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary C. O’Keefe was living in the Villa Maria at time of demise on January 22, 1980.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were cremated and interred in the O’Keefe family burial plot at the Evergreen Cemetery in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe’s obituary relates that she was a former President of Jackson County Teachers Association and former member of the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College.&nbsp; Her university associations included being an alumna of Dominican and Newcomb Colleges of New Orleans, a member of the Iota Chapter of Delta Epsilon Sigma Alpha and Delta Kappa Gamma of which she was a charter member of the Zeta chapter.&nbsp; Miss O’Keefe worshiped at St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church where she was also a member of the Altar Society.(<em>The Ocean Springs Record, January 24, 1980, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Family Remembrances</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Several of Miss O’Keefe’s great nephews and a great niece now submit their childhood recollections of their wonderful “Aunt Mary” or “Tante Marie”, as she might have preferred being the unabashed Francophile that she was.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>J.J. “Jody” O’Keefe IV&nbsp;</strong>(1946-2007)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>I remember that as a child we used to visit Aunt Mary at her home on Porter Street.&nbsp; She had a very exquisite collection of demi-tasse cups and saucers.&nbsp; She loved to make us café au lait.&nbsp; We would usually sit on her porch and sip it while she would tell us stories about Jean Lafitte, Bluebeard, and other pirates and stories about other fascinating or exciting characters.&nbsp; She also taught us to sing “Frere Jacques” in French, “Hickory, Dickory, Dock”, and other nursery songs. Once she invited me to lunch with one of her friends at Allman’s Restaurant at the foot of the old Ocean Springs-Biloxi Bridge.&nbsp; She embarrassed the hell out of me because she and her friend both kept commenting throughout lunch about ‘how pretty I was” and “how long and beautiful my eyelashes were”-not good news or well accepted by a boy about five or six years of age!! (September 4, 1999)</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Jeffery H. O’Keefe</strong>(b. 1956)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>My memories of Aunt Mary differ drastically from other folks.&nbsp; I have heard that she ruled with an iron fist at the school.&nbsp; I remember going to her house where the Villa Maria’s asphalt parking lot is today.&nbsp; She was always so pleasant and loved to visit.&nbsp; Aunt Mary had those cut glass doors, which now hang on the funeral home, on the front of her house for many years.&nbsp; She had some beautiful antiques in her home.(September 2, 1999)</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Maureen O’Keefe Ward&nbsp;</strong>(b. 1945)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>The words “Aunt Mary” immediately conjure up specific and rich memories-approaching her neat white picket fence which wasn’t so high that it scared a child, walking up onto her tiny front screen porch and immediately confronting her colorful Blackbeard figurines by the Andersons (the historical significance of which Aunt Mary was always happy to dramatize with great verve); and then entering through the front door into the wonderland of her small, but beautifully appointed, white frame house.&nbsp; Aunt Mary and her petite house were always in perfect order-from antique wicker furniture covered in cozy pillows, to elderly oriental rugs topped by glass-front cabinets filled with jewel-like demitasse cups and saucers gathered patiently on her world travels, to the paintings and lovely Della Robia sculpture on the walls, through to her tiny dining room, kitchen and bedroom.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>She loved to host my sisters and me at tea parties during which we got to select our favorite cup and saucer from which to sip.&nbsp; Sitting around her dining room, we would nibble and drink and converse with our best manners on display.&nbsp; Without ever needing to ask, Aunt Mary always called forth our most perfect behavior (we didn’t want to risk her displeasure).</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>During summertime, when our many Shreveport cousins came to visit, she’d invite two or three tables of us to her house for an afternoon of canasta and iced tea or lemonade and cookies.&nbsp; In addition to expecting proper manners, she thought the well-trained great niece ought to know how to play bridge, canasta, hearts-ye gods—even battle, go fish, and old maid.&nbsp; She taught us carefully and joined the raucous, girlish fun as we mastered her tutelage.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>In later years, I got to know her as a formal teacher.&nbsp; She taught my Sacred Heart classmates and me French for several years, trilling her rrrr’s with great gusto and openly admiring Charles de Gaulle and everything “Francais”.&nbsp; Since we were typical young teenyboppers, though, I imagine that her majestic figure, perfect posture, fine clothes and blue-white hair made a far more lasting impression on us than her French vocabulary and culture lessons.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>I was very sad when her home was torn down to make way for Villa Maria, though Aunt Mary apparently was at peace with the move and cheerfully adorned her two rooms there with furnishings from the old house.&nbsp; Our routine during those years was to drive over each Sunday at noon, deliver a plate of our warm dinner to her and chat awhile, at least on the days when she didn’t come across to Biloxi and join in the family meal.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong><em>We were sad when she developed shingles and difficulty breathing and started mentioning to our mother that she was ready to “go home”, making it clear that she wasn’t describing her apartment at Villa Maria.&nbsp; I’m sure Tante Marie is elegantly adorning heaven now and having teas with Mama, Ceci, and Nannaw from time to time</em></strong>.(September 5, 1999)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong>[to be continued]</strong></p>\r\n', '', '2');
