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('page', 0, 58, 61, 'en', 0, '<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>THE EARLY TALTAVULL FAMILY</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>of&nbsp;The&nbsp;</strong></span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Mississippi</strong></span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Gulf</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Coast</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The family name Taltavull has been spelled many ways in the Federal Census and the Roman Catholic Church records of the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Gulf</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Coast</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Among them are: Tantabouille, Tartavle, Tartavull, Tataole, Taltabull, Tartarie, Taltavel, Taltavaul, Taltaral, Taltevae, Sartain, Taltavout, Taltavully, Tartavole, Tartabou, and Taltuval.&nbsp; Today, the name is generally spelled Taltavull in this region.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In the 1850 Federal Census of Harrison County, Mississippi, there were two Spanish immigrants, Nicholas Tataole and Bernard Tartarie, living at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, which is now called D&#39;Iberville.&nbsp; They were ship carpenters employed in the small shipbuilding industry located where Bill Holland&#39;s wooden boat yard is today on the east side of the old&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;bridge.&nbsp; These men were probably brothers, Nicholas Taltavull and Bernard Taltavull, who immigrated here from the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">island</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Menorca</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in the Balearic group off the southern coast of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Spain</span></span></st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mediterranean Sea</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; It is known with a high degree of certitude that the Catchot brothers, Jose Catchot (1823-1900), Antonio Catchot (1828-1885), and Arnaud Catchot (1836-1912), of Ocean Springs arrived on the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;coast from&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Menorca</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;about the same time.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The genealogy of the Catchot family extracted from the Catholic Church records of the Archives of the Diocese of Menorca at Ciudadela, Menorca by archivist, Father Fernando Marti, for Ray L. Bellande in September 1991, indicate that Antonio Catchot Morla, the half-brother of Jose Catchot Neto, who was the father of the Catchot brothers of Ocean Springs, married Magdalena Taltavull Guivernau in 1819.&nbsp; Her parents were Jose Taltavull and Apolonia Guivernau.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The appearance of the names Taltavull and Catchot on the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;coast at about the same time in the mid-19th Century also indicates that some familial relationship between these two families may exist.&nbsp; An argument against this postulation is that at Roman Catholic marriages and baptisms, neither family is a witness or sponsor for the other, except when Elisa Catchot witnessed the 1868 marriage of Mary A. Taltavull and Antony Manent in Ocean Springs.&nbsp; This fact may or may not indicate a familial relationship.(Lepre, Vol. I, 1991, p. 333)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>NICHOLAS TALTAVULL (1830-1900+)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Nicholas Taltavull was born in January 1830, probably at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Menorca</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in the Spanish Balearic Islands.&nbsp; He immigrated to the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">United States</span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in 1848.&nbsp; Nicholas Taltavull married Adelaide Carco (1829-1904) on December 20, 1849.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Carco Jr. and Gertrude Fournier.&nbsp; Their children were: Marie T. Balius (1850-1911), Margaret T. Seymour (1852-1880+), Francis Taltavull (1853-1920), Josephine T. Fayard (1856-1923+), Elizabeth Taltavull (1857-1926), Cecele Taltavull (1860-1874+), Rosa Taltavull (b. 1861), Peter Taltavull (1864-1884+), Clara Taltavull (1868-1874+), Nicholas Taltavull (1869-1931), and Pauline Taltavull (b. 1873).</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In November 1867, Nicholas Taltavull bought a 5.2-acre tract in&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;from John and Mary Colley for $200.&nbsp; The land had 120 feet on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;and was bounded on the west by&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Reynoir Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">along which it ran south for 1900 feet.&nbsp; Most of this tract was sold off by the turn of the century.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Book 10, p. 333)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">As early as April 1878, Nicholas Taltavull was associated with Rafael Sancho in the bakery business at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; They advertised in May 1878, in&nbsp;<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star</em>&nbsp;as follows:</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>&nbsp;Sancho &amp; Taltavull</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>Biloxi</em></strong></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, Miss.,</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>Confectionery &amp; Bakery</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>There is now attached to this establishment</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>An elegant soda water and ice cream saloon</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong><em>The Public is respectfully invited to give us a call.&nbsp; All orders for Balls, Parties, Soirees, etc. attended to on short notice, and at moderate prices.</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em>(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, May 31, 1878, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In October 1902, C. Taltavull filed a law suit, Cause No. 1494, in the Harrison County Chancery Court against her husband because he had sold their homestead, which was described as a lot with 120 feet on Back Bay Avenue and 250 feet on Reynoir Street, to Bernard Marigny of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mandeville</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Louisiana</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">for $800.&nbsp; The suit alleges that Mrs. Taltavull did not sign the deed, Mr. Taltavull was not supporting her finacially, and that the property was valued between $3,000 and $5,000.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The judge awarded Adelle C. Taltavull $250 in back alimony, $50 for attorney fees, and a monthly alimony of $20.&nbsp; Mrs. Nicholas Taltavull died at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Long Beach</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on September 14, 1914.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were interred in the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">County</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Chancery</span></span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Court Cause No. 1494, &quot;Adelle Taltavull v. Nicholas Taltavull&quot;, October 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Nap L. Cassibry II,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Ladner Odyssey</strong></span>, (</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Miss.</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Coast</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Historical &amp; Genealogical Society:&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi-1987, p. 587.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Former Biloxi Lady Died at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Long Beach</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&rdquo; (</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Adelaide</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Taltavull Obit), October 2, 1914, p. 2, c. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Pascagoula</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Democrat-Star, &ldquo;Sancho &amp; Taltavull&rdquo;, May 31, 1878.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">US</span></span></st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;CENSUS (1880)-</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison County</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>THE CHILDREN of NICHOLAS TALTAVULL and&nbsp;</strong></span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>ADELAIDE</strong></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;<b>CARCO</b></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><b>1.&nbsp; MARIE TALTAVULL</b>&nbsp;(1850-1911) married Ramon T. Balius (1845-1912) on August 16, 1869.&nbsp; He was the son of Ramon Balius and Cecile Fayard.&nbsp; Balius served with Company E, 3rd Mississippi Infantry from September 1863 until February 1865.&nbsp; Their children were: Mrs. R. Pickett, Mrs. C.C. Holliman, Mrs. Seymour Desporte, Ernest Balius, Herman Balius, and John Balius.&nbsp; The family resided on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Thomas Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong size=\"0\">REFERENCE:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Nap L. Cassibry,&nbsp;<b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Ladner Odyssey</span></b>, (Miss. Coast Historical &amp; Genealogical Society:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1987), p. 672.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><b>2.&nbsp; MARGARET TALTAVULL</b>&nbsp;(1852-1880+) married Edmond Seymour (1848-1925) on May 19, 1874.&nbsp; They parented two children: Regina Seymour (1874-1880+) and Selina Seymour (1879-1880+).&nbsp; Margaret worked as a seamstress in 1880.&nbsp; They probably divorced as he married Virginia Young on May 18, 1875.&nbsp; Edmond Seymour and Virginia Young had a large family at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Edmond Seymour was a butcher in 1910.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><b>REFERENCES:</b></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Nap Cassibry II,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>The Ladner Odyssey</b></span>, (Mississippi Coast Historical &amp; Genealogical Society:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1987), p. 805.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><b><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Taltavaul%2C Frank.jpg\" style=\"width: 192px; height: 250px;\" /></b></span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,serif;\"><b>FRANK TALTAVAUL (1853-1920)</b></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><b>3.&nbsp; FRANCIS TALTAVULL</b>&nbsp;(1853-1920) married on June 5, 1900, Anna Stiglets (1867-1941), the daughter of ship carpenter, Vincent Stiglets (1805-1893) and Felicite Ladner (1824-1896), of Stonewall,</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">County</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, Missisippi.&nbsp; Francis Taltavull died at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Lorraine</span></span></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">County</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, on November 25, 1920.&nbsp; He and Anna are interred in the&nbsp;</span></span><st2:sn><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">St.</span></span></st2:sn><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st2:middlename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">James</span></span></st2:middlename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st2:sn><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st2:sn><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Handsboro</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCE:</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><i>The Daily Herald</i>, &quot;Frank Taltavull Was A Respected Citizen&quot;, November 29, 1920, p. 3, c. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">4.&nbsp; <strong>ELIZABETH TALTAVULL</strong> (1857-1926) was born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">. She never married and was a resident of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;where she died on December 4, 1926.&nbsp; She was survived by a brother, Nick Taltavull, and sisters, Mrs. F. Fayard and Mrs. A. Menuier.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">EFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Elizabeth Taltavull Obit&quot;, December 6, 1926, p. 2, c. 3.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Bradford O&#39;Keefe Burial Book 15, &quot;Elizabeth Taltavull&quot;, p. 27.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">5. <strong>CECILE TALTAVULL</strong> (1860-1874+) was baptized on March 27, 1874, at the Nativity of the BVM at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Vol. 1, (Diocese of Biloxi:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 333.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">6. <strong>ROSA TALTAVULL</strong> (b. 1861) was born January 7, 1861? &nbsp;She was baptized at the Nativity of the BVM at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on May 25, 1861.&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCE:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Volume 1, (Diocese of Biloxi:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 334.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">7.&nbsp; <strong>PETER TALTAVULL</strong> (1868-1884) was born on February 15, 1864.&nbsp; He bought a lot on the east side of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Reynoir Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on April 19, 1884, from Mary Bellande (1840-1894).&nbsp; The tract was 220 feet long and 120 feet deep.&nbsp; Nicholas Taltavull owned the lot to the north and P. Harvey was to&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">the south.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Book 20, p. 101)</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Vol. 1, (Diocese of Biloxi:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 333.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">8.&nbsp; <strong>JOSEPHINE TALTAVULL</strong> (1856-1923+) married Celestine Fayard Jr. (1859-1923), son of Celestine Fayard and Euphemie Ladner on September 18, 1883.&nbsp; They resided at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">850 Fayard Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; They had six children: John Fayard (1881-1901+) married Angelina Hill on December 25, 1901; Therese Fayard; Frederick Fayard married Pinky Smith on October 6, 1907, then Clara Roland on April 12, 1925; Sydney Joseph Fayard married Mamie Reed on May 11, 1912, then Alice McGill on June 27, 1921; George Fayard (1892-1968); Jefferson Fayard married Louvine Gericevich on October 8, 1922.&nbsp; Celestine Fayard Jr. expired on July 18, 1923.&nbsp; Buried at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, (Diocese of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991, p. 333.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Nap Cassibry, The Ladner Odyssey, (Miss. Coast Historical &amp; Genealogical Society:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1987), p. 365.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Resident Dead&quot;, July 18, 1923, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Personal Communication:</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Tracy B. McDonald-November 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">9.&nbsp; <strong>CLARA TALTAVULL</strong> (1868-1889+) was born on May 1, 1868. She was baptized on February 21, 1882 at the Nativity of the BVM in&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; She married Phillip Wagner on March 15, 1889.&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">REFERENCE:</span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Volume 1, (Diocese of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 334.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">10.&nbsp; <strong>NICHOLAS TALTAVULL</strong> (1869-1931) was born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on February 7, 1869.&nbsp; He resided at</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">947 Main Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;and appears to have remained a bachelor.&nbsp; Nick worked at factories and restaurants and was well known, especially in the Back Bay section of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; He expired on March 6, 1931, and was survived by Mrs. C. Meunier (</span></span><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">), Mrs. Fayard (</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Long Beach</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">), and a brother, Tom Taltavull (may be Peter?) (</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">).</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Volume 1, (Diocese of Biloxi:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 333.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Nick Taltavull Dies&quot;, March 6, 1931, p. 3.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">11.&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>PAULINE N. TALTAVULL</strong> was born February 15, 1873 and baptized on June 12, 1873&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">at the Nativity of the BVM in&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCE:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Volume 1, (Diocese of Biloxi:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 333.</span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">BERNARD TALTAVULL</span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Bernard Taltavull (1829-1870+) married Marie Louise Moran (1834-died before 1873), the daughter of Joseph Moran III and Virginia Fayard, on April 12, 1850.&nbsp; Children: Mary T. Rousseau (b. 1853) and Francis Taltavull (1851-1930).&nbsp; Family lore says that he brought the family to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cuba</span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;during the Civil War. He was a ship carpenter at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in 1850.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Nap L. Cassibry II, The Ladner Odyssey, (Mississippi Coast Historical and Genealogical Society:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1987), p. 142, and p. 667.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Personal Communication:</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Jane T. Smith-November 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>THE CHILDREN of BERNARD TALTAVULL and MARIE LOUISE MORAN</strong></span></span><strong style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>MARY LOUISE TALTAVULL</strong>&nbsp;was born on October 1, 1853.&nbsp; She married Daniel Rousseau (b. 1842) on July 31, 1873.&nbsp; He was the son of Joseph Rousseau and Arthemise Ladner.&nbsp; Their&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">children were:&nbsp; Frederick Daniel Rousseau (b. 1875) who married Laura Ryan in December 1895, Joseph Bernard Rousseau (b. 1876), and Charles Francis Rousseau (b. 1878).</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Nap L. Cassibry II, The Ladner Odyssey, (Mississippi Coast Historical and Genealogical Society:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1987), pp. 666-667, and p. 847.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Volume III, (Diocese of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1995), p. 349.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>FRANCIS A. TALTAVULL</strong>&nbsp;(1851-1930) married Mary Margaret Bertheaud (1860-1904) on March 19, 1879.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Benjamin Bertheaud (d. pre 1866) and Anna Marie&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Abbley (1842-1917).&nbsp; The Bertheauds were married by Justice of the Peace, Berry Wells (1812-1876), on October 23, 1858, in&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">County</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Their other children were Rosalie Bertheaud (b.1862), and Mary Victorine Bertheaud (b. 1865).&nbsp; After the death of Benjamin Bertheaud, Anna Marie married Joseph Santa Cruz (1809-1886) on July 10, 1866.&nbsp; Anecdotal history relates that there were eight children born to this union, but only four sons survived: Fritz Santa Cruz (1870-1952), Rudolph Santa Cruz (1872-1932), Adolph Santa Cruz (1881-1972), and Randolph Santa Cruz (1882-1971).&nbsp; Joseph Santa Cruz was born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Palma</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">island</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Majorca</span></span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1880, Francis and Margaret Taltavull were residing at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;(now D&#39;Iberville) next to her mother, Mrs. Joseph Santa Cruz.&nbsp; Both men are ship carpenters.&nbsp; The children of Francis A. Taltavull and Marie Marguerite Bertheaud were: Mary &ldquo;Maggie&rdquo; T. Moran (1880-1948), wife of W.E. Moran; William Bernard Taltavull (1882-1948), Francis A. Taltavull (1883-1950), Alphonsine Taltavull (1885-1885?), and Margaret T. Venus (1888-1966), wife of Joseph Venus.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Frank Taltavull learned the Spanish language and the art of shipbuilding from his father, Bernard, on the shores of&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">North Biloxi</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; His father took him to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cuba</span></span></st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;during the Civil War and he later worked for the Brooklyn Boat Works at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New York City</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;where he learned large shipbuilding methods.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In March 1880, Frank Taltavull bought a tract of land in a State tax sale for $3.20.&nbsp; It was formerly owned by William Sylvester.&nbsp; The land was located on the north&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">shore</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;and had one arpent (192 feet) on the water and was one mile deep.&nbsp; Pierre Quave was to the east and Joseph Moran to the west.&nbsp; There is a high degree of certitude that Taltavull located a shipyard here.&nbsp; This is corroborated by The Biloxi Herald of March 19, 1892.&nbsp; The journal announced that the new schooner, Emma R. Clemens, owned by John Moran was launched from Frank Taltavull&#39;s shipyard.&nbsp; Home belles who attended the ceremony were: Laura Quave, Coline Harvey, Virginia and Theresa Moran, Edna Studebaker,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Lena</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;and Josephine Newman, and Melissa and&nbsp; Viola Seymour.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Book 17, p. 370)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Frank Taltavull advertised his business in The Biloxi Herald of October 5, 1893 as follows:</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>BACK BAY</strong></span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;<strong>SHIP YARD</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>F. Taltavull practical Ship Carpenter and Boat Builder</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><em><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Vessels built, hauled out and repaired on short notice and at reasonable prices.&nbsp; The yard is supplied with all the modern appliances necessary to do first class work, and vessels also hauled out by steam.</strong></em>(p. 4, c. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The October 1893 Hurricane washed away Taltavull&#39;s shipyard on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Probably as a result of losing his business and to locate closer to the seafood canneries on the south&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">shore</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, Frank Taltavull moved to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in 1894, and resided on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Reynoir Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; By 1895, he was operating a shipyard on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Mr. Taltavull was known for constructing fast sailboats, schooners, steam launches, and tugs.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In May 1894, the new, 18-foot catboat, Rosina, built by Mr. Taltavull was for sale by Wallace Montross of the Montross Hotel.&nbsp; Asking price $65.(The Biloxi Herald, May 26, 1894, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Two Frank Taltavull built vessels, the schooner, A. Gerdes and Brother, and the steam tug, Julius Elbert, became involved on May 29, 1901.&nbsp; Captain Antoine V. Bellande (1829-1918) was in command of the schooner in the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi Sound</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;en route to Ocean Springs.&nbsp; The seven-man crew was below preparing for bed with a green sailor at the helm.&nbsp; The weather roughened and his inexperienced allowed the vessel to capsize.&nbsp; Captain Bellande and his crew were found by the Julius Elbert clinging to their stricken ship.&nbsp; They were rescued and having lost all their possession to the sea.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, May 29, 1901)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1905, the Taltavull &amp; Rerecich Shipyard is in operation at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">402 East Back Bay Avenue</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; It was sold by Bernard Taltavull to George Melvin in August 1908.&nbsp; Casimero Rerecish (1858-1918) was an 1896 Austrian (probably Croatian) immigrant.(HARCO, Ms. Chattel Bk. 10, p. 216.)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Frank Taltavull was beset with eye disease in his old age.&nbsp; Described as &ldquo;paralysis of the eye&rdquo;, he visited an eye specialist at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in March 1928 with some relief.(The Daily Herald, March 26, 1928, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Mrs. Taltavull died on July 12, 1904.&nbsp; Mr. Frank Taltavull passed on January 6, 1930.&nbsp; Remains of both are interred at the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Charles Dyer, Along The Gulf, &quot;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&quot;, (reprinted by the Women of Trinity Episcopal Church:&nbsp; Pass Christian, Mississippi-1971).</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Santa Cruz</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Family, (Lepre: New Orleans, Louisiana-1990), pp. 49-52 and p. 59.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">City</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Directory, Volume 1-1905, (The Biloxi Daily Herald Printery:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1905), p. 49 and p. 138.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Biloxi Cemetery Records Book E, &quot;Francis Taltavull Sr.&quot;, (microfilm:&nbsp; Biloxi Public Library), p. 214.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">The Biloxi Herald, &quot;Launching of the new schooner, Emma R. Clemens&quot;, March 19, 1892, p. 4.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Herald, &quot;Terrific Gale&quot;, October 5, 1893, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Herald, &ldquo;Local Happenings&rdquo;, May 26, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Daily Herald, May 29, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Daily Herald, &quot;Moran-Taltavull&quot;, January 26, 1905, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Daily Herald, &ldquo;Venus-Taltavull&rdquo;, November 26, 1908, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Casimero Reresich Obit&quot;, February 8, 1918, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &ldquo;Returns From&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&rdquo;, March 26, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Personal Communication:</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Rusty Barnes-November 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Jane Taltavull Smith-November 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">2A.&nbsp; <strong>MARY AGNES TALTAVULL</strong> (1880-1966) was born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">North Biloxi</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on October 14, 1880.&nbsp; She married William Ernest Moran (1880-1930) on January 25, 1905, at the residence of&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">her parents.&nbsp; His parents were Ernest Moran and Catherine Kornman.&nbsp; The Moran-Taltavull nuptials were a small quite ceremony performed by Judge Z.T. Champlin (1847-1924). &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Only relations and intimate friends were in attendance.&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Captain William Ernest Moran, called Naneece, and his family resided at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1002 Lameuse Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; He made his livelihood as a carpenter and the captain of the pleasure boat, Iona Louise, which he had operated since 1905.&nbsp; Captain Moran took tourist primarily for the Midwest to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Ship</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Island</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;and up the</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Tchoutacabouffa</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">River</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;for $1.00 per day.&nbsp; He was well known at the Biloxi Yacht Club.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Moran children were: Voyle Moran (1905-1997), Margaret M. Bullard (1907-1995), Naomi M. Porter (b. ?-1992), Nita M. Saucier (1912-1996+), and&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Iona</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;L. Moran (1918-1996+).&nbsp; Iona L. Moran resides in the old family home on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Lameuse Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;today.&nbsp; She was a telephone operator for&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Southern Bell</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">for many years.&nbsp; Margaret lived at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Pensacola</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;where she is buried.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Captain Moran died on June 27, 1930.&nbsp; Mrs. Moran expired on October 14, 1966.&nbsp; Both are interred at the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">City</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Burial Records Book 19, &quot;Captain Wm.Ernest Moran&quot;, p. 56.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Burial Records Book 50, &quot;Mary Agnes Moran&quot;, p. 62.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">Brother Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Volume 1, (Diocese of Biloxi:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 333.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Daily Herald, January 26, 1905, p. 5, c. 4.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Captain Moran Dies After Short Illness&quot;, June 28, 1930, p. 1, c. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Mrs. Mary A. Moran&quot;, October 19, 1966, p. 2, c. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald,&nbsp; &quot;Voyle Moran&quot;, September 28, 1997, p.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Personal Communication:</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Iona</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;L. Moran-November 1996</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Tessie M. Tootle-November 1996</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">2B.&nbsp; <strong>WILLIAM BERNARD TALTAVULL</strong> (1882-1948) was born February 6, 1882 at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Lorraine</span></span></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison County</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; He married Elsie Lyle Maxwell (1886-1962) on August 6, 1910.&nbsp; She was the daughter of John Lyle Maxwell (1845-1889) and Mary Scott (1864-1938).&nbsp; Mr. Maxwell was born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Canton</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Illinois</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; He married Mary Scott, the daughter of Alexander C. Scott (1848-1878) and Jane Sheppard (1842-1905), on January 31, 1884 in&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Scotts were English.&nbsp; Mrs. Scott was born Jane Sheppard in 1842, at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">South Shields</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,</span></span><st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">England</span></span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; South Shields is located in the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">county</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Tyne</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;and Wear on the North Sea at the mouth of the</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Tyne</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">River</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, ten miles east of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Newcastle upon Tyne</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; She married Alexander C. Scott in the Anglican Church at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">South Shields</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in 1862.&nbsp; They immigrated to the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">United States</span></span></st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in 1871, arriving at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; The Scotts came to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;circa 1872.&nbsp; Mr. Scott died as a result of yellow fever during the epidemic of 1878.&nbsp; Mrs. Scott expired on January 4, 1905 at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Her surviving children were: Mrs. Fred Dorhauer, Mrs. Mary Scott Maxwell, Alexander C. Scott Jr. and Edna F. Scott.&nbsp; In addition, Jane Sheppard Scott left two sisters at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">South Shields</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">England</span></span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">:&nbsp; Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Forest.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">From the union of William Bernard Taltavull and Elsie L. Maxwell, two daughters were born: Jane T. Smith (b. 1911) and Mary Edna T. Gillis (1919-1996).</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Ship carpenter</strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">William Bernard Taltavull was known as Bernard.&nbsp; He was educated in the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;school system.&nbsp; Bernard learned the shipbuilding business from his father, Frank Taltavull.&nbsp; In August 1901, young Taltavull while using the circular saw at his father&rsquo;s shipyard severely cut his thumb and forefinger.&nbsp; Dr. Bolton (1859-1923) was called to the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;boatyard to attend to Bernard&rsquo;s hand.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Bolton</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp; opined that his lacerated hand would recover from the accident.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, August 7, 1901, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">During the September 1906 Hurricane, Bernard Taltavull&rsquo;s shipyard on Back Bay suffered $400 damage.(The Daily Herald,, September 28, 1906, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Seafood</strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1912, Bernard Taltavull announced that he would open an oyster business on the beach at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; By 1917, Bernard had become active in the seafood packing industry at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Taltavull operated the Bay View Packing Company (formerly Henry Diaz Fish and Oyster Packers) until May 1924, when he bought the Biloxi Canning Company, which was located at the head of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Reynoir Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">across the street from his Bayview Packing Company.&nbsp; The vendor was the Maritime Food Products Company, an&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Illinois</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;corporation, and the price $10,000.&nbsp; Dr. Charles Albert Babendreer (1867-1938) who resided at Ocean Springs was the president of Maritime Food Products.&nbsp; Taltavull merged the two canning operations.( (The Daily Herald, October 15, 1912, p. 8 and Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Book 142, p. 129)</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Biloxi Canning Company</strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In February 1925, the Biloxi Canning Company was chartered.&nbsp; The incorporators were:&nbsp; Elsie Taltavull, Bernard Taltavull, and W.J. Wadlington.&nbsp; In 1934, the factory had forty boats of which two-thirds were utilized for oystering and the remainder to catch shrimp.&nbsp; At the height of the packing season, the Biloxi Canning Company employed 200 boatmen and 300 factory workers.&nbsp; Some employees were furnished free housing and water.&nbsp; This custom was phased out in the late 1930s. (</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">County</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, Ms. Charters of Corps. Book 36, p. 133)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In 1934, the Taltavull family resided at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">525 East Howard Avenue</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Mr. Taltavull&#39;s hobby was racing the champion schooner of the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Gulf</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Coast</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, the <strong><em>Mary Margaret</em></strong>.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In May 1943, Bernard Taltavull sold the Biloxi Canning Company to Roy Rosalis (1909-1984) and Virgilio dos&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Santos</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;for $60,000.&nbsp; Taltavull conveyed the factory, buildings, warehouses, machine shops, grinding mills, wharfs, and houses located on the property.&nbsp; It also included all the machinery fixtures, and personal property used by the Biloxi Canning and Packing Company and the Bay View Crushing Company.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Book 255, pp. 112-115)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In addition, the act of sale included the following power boats and schooners: Bride, H.E. Gumbel, Geraldine F., Zenia, Winnie Davis, Galle-Kelly, Golden Hope, Kanuga, Anais, Ida T., Lucky Lindy, Coca Cola Girl, Hulda Velma, Gertrude B., Ferda, Dauntless, I. Heidenheim, Anna Eve, Oxalis, Silver Pearl, Knox, and Teddy F.</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>Bernard Taltavull Shrimp and Oyster Company</strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In September 1944, Mr. Taltavull commenced a modern packing operation on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;known as the B. Taltavull Shrimp and Oyster Company.&nbsp; It was located on the waterfront just east&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Lameuse Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on property that he bought from Mrs. Lillie Cruso for $3500.&nbsp; Clell Dildy was the manager.&nbsp; Mr. Taltavull had seventeen boats and employed a maximum of 150 people, which included pickers, weighers, inspectors, and handlers.&nbsp; Production capacity was thirty barrels per hour.&nbsp; A conveyor belt carried the shrimp directly from the vessels to the plant.&nbsp; Additional land was added to the Taltavull operation in December 1945, when a tract east of the factory was acquired from A.T. Cvitanovich for $1400.(</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Harrison</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">County</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, Ms. Land Deed Book 259, p. 270 and Book 281, p. 101)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">After WW II, the health of Bernard Taltavull began to fail.&nbsp; At this time, the management of the factory was assumed by his daughter, Jane T. Smith, and son-in-law, W.W. &quot;Buddy&quot; Gillis.&nbsp; The September 1947 Hurricane brought five feet of water into the Taltavull factory.&nbsp; Ironically, three of Taltavull boats, Bobby C., Jeanne, and Mary Ann Gillis were blown westward onto the roadway of the Biloxi Canning Company, formerly owned by Bernard Taltavull.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mr. Taltavull expired on January 22, 1948.&nbsp; His wife passed on March 20, 1962.&nbsp; Both are buried at the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Bernard Taltavull factory was sold to Precision Drawn Steel of Camden County, New Jersey on August 21, 1968, by Jane T. Smith and Edna May T. Gillis for $116,000.(Harrison County, Ms. Deed of Trust Book 530, p. 331)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">2B1.&nbsp; <strong>Jane Margaret Taltavull </strong>(1911-2003) was born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on August 16, 1911, and was named for her great grandmother, Jane Sheppard Scott.&nbsp; She received her education in&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;and matriculated to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Newcomb&nbsp;</span></span></st1:placename><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">College</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;where she graduated in 1932.&nbsp; In 1934, Miss Taltavull was employed as the secretary for the Biloxi Canning Company.&nbsp; Jane married Robert A. Smith, a native of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Oakland</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Tennessee</span></span></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, on April 12, 1942 at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; They divorced with no children.&nbsp; Upon the death of her father in January 1948, she assumed the management of the B. Taltavull Shrimp and Oyster Company on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Jane retired in 1968.&nbsp; She traveled extensively and took an exclusive &quot;around the world flight&quot; stopping at twenty countries in the 1980s.&nbsp; Mrs. Smith resided in the Seashore Personal Care, a Methodist retirement community, at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">1450 West Beach Boulevard</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, until she relocated to a similar situation at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Gulfport</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in 2000. &nbsp;Jane died on August 20, 2003.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">2B2. <strong>Mary Edna Taltavull</strong>&nbsp;(1919-1996) was born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on March 31, 1919.&nbsp; Circa 1940, she married William Warren &quot;Buddy&quot; Gillis (1920-2008).&nbsp; He was born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on September 19, 1919.&nbsp; A young Buddy Gillis matriculated to the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">University</span></span></st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;where he studied chemical engineering.&nbsp; With this education, he was employed by Monsanto and worked at the nuclear research facility at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Oak Ridge</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Tennessee</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;during WW II.&nbsp; It was here that &quot;Fat Boy&quot;, the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare, was constructed.&nbsp; When Bernard Taltavull became ill circa 1946, Buddy Gillis left Monsanto and joined Jane T. Smith at the B. Taltavull Shrimp and Oyster Company.&nbsp; He remained here until the sale in of the factory in 1968.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Gillis children were:&nbsp; Mary Ann McDougall (c. 1942), Pam Gillis Snyder (b. May 21, 1947), and Jane P. Gillis (1947-1947).&nbsp; Jane, named for her aunt, Jane T. Smith, expired a week after her birth on May 21, 1947.&nbsp; Mary Edna T. Gillis died February 7, 1996.&nbsp; Buried at the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Burial Book 32C, &quot;Bernard Taltavull&quot;, p. 492.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Webster&#39;s New Geographical Dictionary, &quot;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">South Shields</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&quot;, (Merriam-Webster Inc.:&nbsp; Springfield, Massachusetts-1988), p. 1143.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Golden Jubilee Number, The Daily Herald, (1884-1934)- Fiftieth Anniversary Souvenir, &quot;Biloxi Canning Company&quot;, (The Daily Herald:&nbsp; Gulfport, Mississippi-1934), p. 82.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Daily Herald, &ldquo;City News&rdquo;, August 7, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Daily Herald, &quot;Mrs. Jane Sheppard Scott&quot;, January 4, 1905, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald,, &quot;Aftermath of Great Storm&quot;, September 28, 1906, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &ldquo;Bernard Taltavul (sic) To Engage In Oyster Business&rdquo;, October 15, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Taltavull Plant Starts Operations&quot;, September 15, 1944, p. 7.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;One Life Lost, Heavy Damage Done at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&quot;, September 20, 1947, p. 1 and p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">The Sun Herald, &quot;William &#39;Buddy&#39; Gillis&quot;, October 19, 2008.</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Personal Communication:&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Jane T. Smith-November 1996</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">2C.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>FRANCIS ALPHONSE TALTAVULL</strong>&nbsp;(1883-1950) was born on July 19, 1883 at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">North Biloxi</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; He married Ida May Brander (1897-1953) on August 18, 1909, at the home of her parents in</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; She was born on April 9, 1897 at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Houston</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Texas</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, the daughter of John C. Brander (1840-1913) and Emma Sandow (1863-1925).&nbsp; Mr. Brander was born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Nova Scotia</span></span></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;while his wife, Emma, was a native of&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New York</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; The Branders came to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Pascagoula</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in 1885.&nbsp; They relocated to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">in 1906.&nbsp; Mr. Brander was a master boat builder and constructed sailing vessels for canneries at both cities.&nbsp; He was the proprietor of the Brander Shipyard on&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Back Bay</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; His son, Francis A. Brander (1885-1965), the husband of Margaret Fayard (1895-1981), later was in business with his father as J.C. Brander &amp; Son.&nbsp; F.A. Brander born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Galveston</span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Texas</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">It was appropriate that Francis A. Taltavull marry the daughter of a ship carpenter as that was the profession linked with the Taltavull family since Bernard Taltavull arrived at Back Bay (D&#39;Iberville), probably from&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Menorca</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, in the 1840s.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In the 1920s, Frank was the proprietor of a grocery store at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">101 East Bayview Avenue</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; The family resided at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">942 Main Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; His father, Frank Sr., lived with them.&nbsp; By 1940, Frank was building boats and he and Ida May had relocated to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">510 Bohn Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Francis A. Talatvull passed on January 6, 1950.&nbsp; Mrs. Taltavull died on February 15, 1953.&nbsp; Both buried at the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Daily Herald, &quot;Pretty Home Wedding&quot;, August 19, 1909, p. 1, c. 4.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Brander Funeral This Afternoon&quot;, June 16, 1913, p. 8, c. 4.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Death Claims Mrs. Brander&quot;, March 18, 1925, p. 1, c. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">2D.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>ALPHONSINE TALTAVULL</strong>&nbsp;(1885-1885?)-was born on February 16, 1885 at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">North Biloxi</span></span></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; She appears to have died as a child.&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCE:</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Brother Jerome Lepre,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Catholic Church Records Diocese of&nbsp;</strong></span></span></span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Biloxi</strong></span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:state></st1:place></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, Volume 1-(1843-1900), (Catholic Diocese of Biloxi:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 332.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">2E.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>MARGARET PAMELA TALTAVULL</strong>&nbsp;(1887-1948) was born on August 20, 1887 at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; She married Joseph Venus (1883-1948), the son of German immigrant, Charles Venus, and Elodie Landry of St. James Parish,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Louisiana</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; Joseph Venus was born at Convent,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Louisiana</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;on September 1, 1883.&nbsp; The young couple were married on November 25, 1908, at the Church of the Nativity of the BVM.&nbsp; Father Finley officiated with Willie Collins and Miss Victoria Venus standing for the couple.&nbsp; They spent a short honeymoon at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Venus had two sons born at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; They were: Joe Venus Jr. (1909-1965) born December 27, 1909 and Bernard Venus born on July 8, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Joe and Margaret Taltavull moved to&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;circa 1918 and resided at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">2206 Second Street</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; She expired there on January 19, 1948, and was interred in the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.&nbsp; He passed on November 5, 1948 also at&nbsp;</span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">. &nbsp;Corporal remains of both were interred in the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Biloxi</span></span></st1:placename><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;</span></span><st1:placetype><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Cemetery</span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Burial Book 32C, &quot;Margaret T. Venus&quot;, p. 498.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Bradford-O&#39;Keefe Burial Book&nbsp; 32C, &quot;Joseph Venus&quot;, p. 41.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Brother Jerome Lepre,&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Catholic Church Records Diocese of&nbsp;</strong></span></span></span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><st1:place><st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>Biloxi</strong></span></span></st1:city><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">,&nbsp;</span></span><st1:state><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mississippi</span></span></st1:state></st1:place></span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, Volume 1-(1843-1900), (Catholic Diocese of Biloxi:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 333.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Venus-Taltavull&quot;, November 26, 1908, p. 1, c. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Joe Venus, Jr. Birth&quot;, December 27, 1909, p. 8. c. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The Daily Herald, &quot;Venus Male Birth&quot;, July 8, 1911, p. 8, c. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\"><strong>JAMES TALTAVULL</strong></span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">James Taltavull (ca 1832-1881+) lived at Ocean Springs.&nbsp; He was probably a brother or cousin of Nicholas and Bernard Taltavull.&nbsp; He was married to Anna Vaguevizas.&nbsp; Their children were: Mary T. Manent (b. circa 1850-1868+) and Antonia Taltavull (1862-?).</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">There are several land transactions at Ocean Springs in July 1881, concerning this family.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In July 1881, James Taltaral (sic) et al bought land from Antoine Ryan.(JXCO Land Deed Bk. 5, pp. 209-210)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">In July 1881, James and Anna Taltavull sold a tract of land in Section 37, T7S-R8W to Francisco Coyle (1813-1891), a Spanish immigrant.&nbsp; Francisco Coyle was married to Magdalene Ougatte Pons (1813-1904).&nbsp; She immigrated to the&nbsp;</span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">US</span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">&nbsp;in 1866.&nbsp; In 1874, their daughter, Laura Coyle (1857-1931), married Charles Ernest Schmidt (1851-1886), the grandfather of Dr. Frank O. Schmidt, Charles Ernest &ldquo;Uncle Ernie&rdquo; Schmidt (1904-1988), and Harry J. Schmidt (1905-1997).&nbsp; C. Ernest Schmidt was a mechanical engineer who invented the hydrolevel and other technical devices.&nbsp; He also wrote the only comprehensive history of Ocean Springs, Ocean Springs French Beachhead, which he published in 1972.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 5, pp. 207-209)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Mr. Coyle owned a restaurant at Ocean Springs in 1857.(The New Orleans Daily Crescent, June 2, 1857, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>A.&nbsp; MARY A. TALTAVULL</strong>&nbsp;(c. 1850-1868+) married Anthony Manent, son of Vincent Manent and Mary Prats, at the St. Alphonsus Catholic Church at Ocean Springs on May 2, 1868.&nbsp; No further information.(Lepre, Vol. I, 1991, pp. 332-333)</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;, times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>B. ANTONIA TALTAVULL</strong>&nbsp;born October 6, 1862.&nbsp; No further information.&nbsp; Interestingly, there is an Antonia Tartabou, daughter of Antonio Tartabou and Pamela Cajechas, who married Albert Tournier at the Church of the Annunciation in Kiln, Mississippi on September 20, 1892.(Lepre, Vol. II, 1991, p. 248)</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\">One Antonio Tartavole married to Pamela Calagias/Callagas has two children, Estelle Tartavole (b. 1877) and Michael Stephen Tartavole (b. 1884), baptized at Our Lady of the Gulf in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.(Lepre, Vol. III, 1991, p. 349)</span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: \'times new roman\', times, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Volume I, (Diocese of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), p. 332 and p. 333.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Jerome Lepre, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Volume II, (Diocese of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1995), p. 248.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">Jerome Jerome, Catholic Church Records Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi, Volume III, (Diocese of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1995), p. 349.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">The&nbsp;</span></span><st1:street><st1:address><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">New Orleans Daily Crescent</span></span></st1:address></st1:street><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times,serif;\">, June 2, 1857.</span></span></p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><strong>RECENT</strong></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<strong style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\">Alvina LaFrance Tartavoulle</span></strong></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\">September 21, 1923--September 7, 2013</span><br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\" />\r\n	<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\" />\r\n	<span style=\"background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\"><strong>Alvina Claire LaFrance Tartavoulle</strong> (1923-2013), age 89 years, of Waveland, Mississippi passed away Saturday, September 7, 2013 in Kiln, Mississippi.&nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\">Mrs. Tartavoulle was a lifetime resident of Hancock County and a member of St. Clare Catholic Church. She was a wonderful person who will be missed by all.</span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\">She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill Tartavoulle, parents, Jules and Fannie LaFrance Sr.; four brothers, Jules, Jr, Lester, Charles, and Edgar LaFrance and two sisters, Adelaide Herring and Leona Fayard. &nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\">Survived by her niece and caregiver, Debbie Smith and one sister, Lillian Lott both of Bay St. Louis, MS. &nbsp;</span><span style=\"background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216);\">Visitation will be from 10:00 am until 12 noon Monday, September 9, 2013 with a Mass of Christian Burial to follow at noon at St. Clare Catholic Church in Waveland, Mississippi with intombment at Bayou Caddy Cemetery in Ansley, Mississippi.[The Sun Herald, September 8, 2013]</span></span></p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\" style=\"margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 0px;\">\r\n	&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(236, 233, 216); width: 1px; height: 1px; font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; overflow: hidden;\">\r\n	<span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif;\">Read</span> more here: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sunherald/obituary.aspx?n=alvina-tartavoulle&amp;pid=166842049&amp;fhid=21451#storylink=cpy</div>\r\n', NULL, '2');
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('page', 0, 59, 62, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;JOHN C. TOCHE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Born at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mobile</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;between 1828 and 1840.(Act 844, p. 223)</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>WILLIAM F. TOCHE (1862-1937)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Born in&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mississippi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, the son of Joseph P. Toche of&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">France</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, and Mary Anderson of&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alabama</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; W.F.&nbsp;Toche married Mary Gary Toche (1858-1934), a native of&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mississippi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Parents&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alabama</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">North Carolina</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp;Children: Laura Toche (1878-1940) m. Gideon \'Git\' Tillman (1872-1925); Elizabeth Toche (1882-1978) m. Hall Peter Madsen (1879-1918) and Harry Samuel Struchen (1891-1977); Victor Toche (1887-1962) m. Norma Rapon (1885-1918) and Myrtle Spicer; and Emily Toche (1890-1970) m. Charles Ryan (1883-1939).</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\">Children</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\">Laura Toche</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/157439017_1453818018.jpg\" /> <img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202018-07-10%20at%208.04.27%20AM_0.png\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(250, 250, 250); color:rgb(54, 50, 45)\">[The Daily Herald,&nbsp;July 26, 1940, p. 5 and&nbsp;</span>The Daily Herald, April 2, 1925, 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\"><strong><span style=\"background-color:rgb(250, 250, 250); color:rgb(54, 50, 45)\">REFERENCES:</span></strong></span></span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(250, 250, 250); color:rgb(54, 50, 45); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald, \'Gideon&nbsp;Tillman dead\', April 2, 1925, p. 3.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(250, 250, 250); color:rgb(54, 50, 45)\">The Daily Herald, \'Mrs. Tillman dies\', July 26, 1940, p. 5.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(250, 250, 250); color:rgb(54, 50, 45)\">The Daily Herald, \'Oscar Tillman\', January 20, 1964, p. 2.</span><br />\r\n<br />\r\n<span style=\"background-color:rgb(250, 250, 250); color:rgb(54, 50, 45)\">The Jackson County Times, \'Prominent Building Contractor dead\', April 4, 1925.</span></span></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/u4/Struchen%2C Elizabeth Toche.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:110px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Elizabeth Toche</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Elizabeth Toche</strong> was born December 28, 1882 to William F. Toche (1853-1937) and Mary Gary (1854-1934). &nbsp;She married <strong>Hall Peter Madsen</strong> (1879-1918). &nbsp;Their children were: Hal Peter Madsen (1902-1971), Helen M. McDaniel Belton (1906-1988), Ruth M. Mullin (1912-1999), and Murrell Vera M. Beckham (1916-1938).&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\">Mrs. Elizabeth Madsen’s father, William Toche, was a house painter.&nbsp; In November 1896, he painted the interior of the Methodist Church free of charge.&nbsp; His service was given to the Ladies Aid Society.(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, November 20, 1896, 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\">Peter Madsen was an interesting man.&nbsp; He made his living as a pecan grafter and worked in the field of herpetology.&nbsp; Mr. Madsen’s labors often involved travel to set up pecan orchards in other regions.&nbsp; It is believed that the pecan culture brought him as far as South Texas.&nbsp; From his Dewey Avenue home, Pete Madsen would also capture poisonous snakes, “milk” their venom, and sell it to pharmaceutical laboratories for anti-toxins.&nbsp; He would often place a “pet” reptile in his shopping bag when he went to Albert Gottsche’s or another local merchant.&nbsp; Madsen’s “snake-in-the-bag” act was an excellent repellent for would be thieves!(Trixie M. Urie, February 5, 2001)</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 addition to her maternal and household duties, Elizabeth T. Madsen, like her violin playing brother, Victor Toche (1886-1962), was also musically inclined.&nbsp; She and Ethel T. Dalgo Manuel (1896-1978) played piano at Illing’s Airdome Theatre before talking movies were in vogue.&nbsp; Mrs. Madsen and Victor Toche would on occasions “jam” together.(Ibid.)&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\">Victor Toche, like his father, a house painter, became a well-known Gulf Coast musician.&nbsp; In December 1924, he competed in a fiddling contest at Biloxi where he played “The Mocking Bird”.&nbsp; Clearly the audiences’ choice for first prize, Mr. Toche lost to an old Civil War veteran from Beauvoir, in what was clearly a sympathy vote from the judges.(<em>The Jackson County Times, December 13, 1924, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In January 1916, Peter Madsen and his spouse sold land their land to J. Lillian Miles Russell (1890-1929), the spouse of H.F. Russell (1858-1940) for $500.00.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 42, pp. 167-168)&nbsp; This transaction amounted to a loan as they reacquired it from Mrs. Russell in January 1919, for $650.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 46, p. 304)</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>Hall Peter Madsen expired on November 3, 1918.&nbsp; At the time, he was employed with the Dierks-Blodgett shipyard at Pascagoula.&nbsp; Mr. Madsen had been stricken with the Spanish influenza.&nbsp; He returned to work to soon and relapsed with pneumonia, which took his young life.(<em>The Jackson County Times, November 9, 1918, p. 5)</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\">Mrs. Elizabeth Madsen remarried at Gulfport, in February 1928, to Harry Samuel Struchen (1891-1977), a native of Fairview, Pennsylvania.&nbsp; Mr. Struchen had found Ocean Springs with the skating troupe of Eugene F. Mullin (1896-1974), who would wed his stepdaughter, Ruth Madsen (1912-1999).&nbsp; In the early 1940s, after the Mullins’ skating entourage ceased their seasonal traveling circuit, Struchen worked as a seaman aboard iron ore carriers plying the chilly waters of the Great Lakes.&nbsp; Before retirement, he labored as a concrete finisher on the Gulf Coast. Harry S. Struchen&nbsp;passed on January 19, 1977.&nbsp; Mrs. Elizabeth Madsen Struchen expired on September 13, 1978.(<em>The Jackson County Times, February 18, 1928, p. 5,</em> <em>The Daily Herald, January 20, 1977, p. A-2 and September 14, 1978, p. A-2 and </em>Trixie M. Urie, February 5, 2001<em>)</em></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:16px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Victor Toche</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Victor Toche, 76 year old blind lifelong resident of Ocean Springs, Mississippi was found dead at his Forest Hills residence about 3 p.m. on Thursday, December 13, 1962. The police department reported that Josephine Hayden Toche (1925-2010), his daughter-in-law, found the body shortly after his demise. Victor had been in residence with Alvin A. Toche, his son, for several years.</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\">An inquest was held at the police station by Jackson County Corner J. Leslie Nelson and the jury returned a verdict of death by natural causes. Bailiff at the inquest was Constable Roy Tootle and jurors were: Bernard Beaugez, Leonard Allen, Shirod Miller, Raymond Cox, Louis Noble and Penny Cates.</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\">Victor Toche (1887-1962), a house painter and violin player, married Norma Rapon (1885-1918), a Louisiana native. Widowed in 1920: Children: Irma B. Toche (1910-1929), Alvin A. Toche (1916-1983), and Norma Toche (b. 1918).</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\">Victor married Myrtle Spicer and had three daughters: Molla Marion Toche m. Curtis Ladnier, Robert A. Reeder and Anthony Anselmo Jr. (1916-1981); Gladys L. Toche m. Frank B. De Costa (1921-2014); and Thelma Louise Toche m. Willard Bridges (1915-1991).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In June 1937, Myrtle Spicer Toche was granted a divorce from Victor Toche in Jackson County, Mississippi.(The Daily Herald, June 17, 1937, p. 3)</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. Toche was survived by his son and four daughters: Mrs. J.H. McGee and Thelma Louise Toche (1927-2013) m. Willard Bridges (1915-1991), both of Kentwood, Louisiana; Mrs. Tony Anselmo of Biloxi; and Mrs. Frank B. DeCosta of California; two sisters, Elizabeth Toche Madsen Struchen (1882-1978) m. Hall Peter Madsen (1879-1918) and Harry Samuel Struchen (1891-1977); and Emily Toche (1890-1970), wife of Charles Ryan (1883-1939), both of Ocean Springs.</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\">The funeral was held from the J. Ben O\'Keefe Memorial Chapel with internment in Evergreen Cemetery at Ocean Springs.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">REFERENCES:</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald, \'Chancellor grants three divorces in Jackson County\', June 17, 1937, p. 3.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">The Daily Herald, \'Victor Toche\', December 14, 1962, p. 2.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Jackson County Times, \'Local and Personal\', December 13, 1924.</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\">Children of Victor Toche</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Alvin A. Toche</strong>&nbsp;(1916-1983)-born at Ocean Springs on January 15, 1916.&nbsp; Worked as a public school&nbsp;maintenance man.&nbsp; Married Josephine H. Toche (1925-).&nbsp; Children: Shirley F. Toche m. Bill Parker and had&nbsp;three children - Linda K. Parker, Susanne Parker and Charolette Parker; Alvin J. Toche (1947-1984) m.&nbsp;Genevieve R. Bullock and had three children: Tonya M. Toche (b. 1974) m. Jason A. Howard (b. 1972);&nbsp;Jeremy L. Toche and Kimberly Toche (b. 1978); Frederick M. Toche m. Virginia G. \'Trudy\' Newman and&nbsp;had two children: Trudy Toche Jr. and Jennifer Toche; Charles M. \"Peanut\" Toche m. Linda Jo Taranto and&nbsp;had three children: Charles Toche Jr., Billy Wayne Toche and Samantha Toche; Bufford Walter Toche m.&nbsp;Cecelia \'Cindy\' Dollene Driver and had two children: Brandee L. Toche and Leslee J. Toche.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">___________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Emily Toche</span></strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Emily Toche (1890-1970) was born August 8, 1890. &nbsp;She married Charles Ryan (1883-1939). &nbsp;Children: Mickey Ryan; Oral Mae Ryan m. Anthony B. Senseney (1928-1997);&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">_________________________________</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>CAPTAIN JOSEPH A. TOCHE</strong>&nbsp;(1848-1908)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joseph A. Toche</strong>, a sailor, was born at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mobile</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alabama</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;and baptized at the Cathedral of the&nbsp;Immaculate Conception(Act. 464, p. 154).&nbsp; His father was from France and mother an Alabamian.&nbsp; Circa&nbsp;1869, he married Caroline Mathieu (1830-1895), the widow of John ? Westbrook.&nbsp; She was born on&nbsp;February 25, 1830 at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Louisville</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Kentucky</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Her parents were from&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Italy</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;and&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">France</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;respectively.&nbsp; Niece of&nbsp;Joseph Tosso, the well-known composer.&nbsp; At Ocean Springs, a midwife, and mother of seven children.&nbsp; Died&nbsp;February 13, 1895 at home of her son, Edwin M. Westbrook.&nbsp; Buried Bellande Cemetery.(The Pascagoula&nbsp;Democrat-Star, February 13, 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\">Caroline Mathieu\'s children with John Westbrook were: Martha Westbrook (1851-1919) who married&nbsp;Leonard Fayard (1847-1923); Edwin M. Westbrook (1858-1913) who married Hattie Clark; Henry R.&nbsp;Westbrook (1860-1938) who married Francis J. Hadley (b. 1860); and Viola Westbrook (b. 1865) who&nbsp;married John Bourgeois.&nbsp; Her children with Captain Joseph A. Toche were: Mary Adele Toche (b. 1870 at&nbsp;NOLA) and Joseph A. Toche Jr. (1872-1960).</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 Joseph A. Toche family moved to&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;in 1879.&nbsp; They were residing at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">211 Myrtle Street</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;in&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, when Mr. Toche passed on January 19, 1908.&nbsp; He had been a foreman at the Barataria Canning&nbsp;Company until July 1907, when he was forced to retire because of illness.(The Biloxi Daily Herald, January 20,&nbsp;1908, p. 1)</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>CHILDREN</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>Mary A. Toche</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary Adele Toche was born February 26, 1870, at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">New Orleans</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Louisiana</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">. No further information.</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>Joseph A. Toche II</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joseph A. Toche II</strong>J(1872-1960) married <strong>Angelina Labash</strong> (1878-1893+) in August 1893.&nbsp; Married <strong>Olivia&nbsp;</strong><strong>Ryan</strong> (1872-1953), the daughter of Calvin Ryan and Pauline Anderson in 1895.&nbsp; Children: Lillie Agnes Toche&nbsp;Ellzey Cruso (1896), Wesley Joseph Toche (1898-1971), Caroline Pauline Toche (1899-pre 1910), John&nbsp;Adolphe Toche (1900-1988), Mary Olivia Toche (1902-1917), Henry Marcellas Toche (1904-1985),&nbsp;Calvin Toche (1907-1984), Tabitha \'Doody\' T. James (1912-2014), and Joseph Toche (b. 1917). &nbsp;Joseph A. Toche expired on February 29,&nbsp;1960.</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>Children</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Lillie Agnes Toche</strong> (1896-1968) was born on March 14, 1896, at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">New Orleans</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Married J<strong>ohn Samuel Ellzey</strong>&nbsp;(ca 1893-1969) at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;in August 1914.&nbsp; One child: <strong>Eugene Ellzey</strong> (b. 1915).&nbsp; Divorced Mr. Ellzey and&nbsp;married <strong>William Charles Cruso</strong> (1893-1975) in March 1919.&nbsp; Nine children.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joseph Wesley Toche</strong> (1897-1971) was born on November 23, 1897, at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">New Orleans</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Married Anita Sonnier (1906-1949), the daughter of Julian Sonnier and Amee’ Hebert.&nbsp; Married Doris Maxine Fletcher (1910-1971), native of&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Nashville</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Tennessee</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Shop foreman for Cruso Canning Company.&nbsp;&nbsp; Seven children: J. Wesley Toche Jr., John Wallace Toche (1926-1976), Curtis Anthony Toche (1931-2006), J. Eugene Toche (1937-1998), Robert Conner (stepson?), Anita T. Ferrill, Ruby T. Buchanan, Mrs. Elston Johnson.&nbsp; J. Wesley Toche died May 1, 1971 and Doris Fletcher Toche on October 21, 1971.&nbsp; J. Wesley Toche and Doris Fletcher Toche buried Southern Memorial Park at Biloxi.(The Daily Herald, May 2, 1971, p. A-2 and The Ocean Springs Record, October 28, 1971, p. 2)&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>Anita Sonnier Toche </strong>died June 24, 1949.</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. Wesley Toche Jr.</strong> married Bernice Marie Thibodeaux (1922-2006), a native of&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Erath</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Louisiana</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;in 1945.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Cestia and Emily Thibodeaux.&nbsp; They were the parents of: Gary James Toche married Judy Breaux; Wesley Toche III married Susan Cochran; and Kathleen Toche married Thomas E. Roberts.(The Sun Herald, February 23, 2006, p. A6)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joseph Wesley Toche III</strong> married Susan Cochran, the daughter of Edward Henry Cochran Sr. and Mary Fountain Cochran.&nbsp; Kathryn Emiline Toche, their daughter, married Michael Sean O\'Grady, the son of Thomas L. O\'Grady and Bernadette Cavalier O\'Grady, on November 24, 2007 at Nativity B.V.M. Cathedral at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Aimee Rebecca Toche , another daughter, married Robert Benjamin Jordan on June 13, 2009 at Nativity B.V.M. Cathedral in Biloxi.(The Sun Herald, November 4, 2007, p. F12 and May 24, 2009, p. F11)</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>Curtis Anthony Toche </strong>(1931-12/3/2006) married Phyllis Fay Strong (1933-8/2-2008), the daughter of Rupert Strong (1901-1989) and Clara Griffin (1908-1990), circa 1950.&nbsp; Children: Curtis \'Bo\' Anthony Toche Jr. married Patricia ?; Paulette Toche married Paul Baudry; Perry Stephen Toche Sr. married Janis Lynn Baldwin and Beverly McKee; Donna Toche married Buck Neel; Gayle Toche married Pat Gray; Danny Ray Toche Sr. married Melina Sue Moss; Anne Michele Barhanovich; and Julie Lynn Clark; and Terri Toche married Kenny Hollomon.(The Sun Herald, December 5, 2006, p. A9 and The Biloxi-D\'Iberville Press, August 14, 2008, p. A5)</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>Caroline Pauline Toche</strong> (1899-pre-1910)-the daughter of Joseph A. Toche and Olevia Ryan was born July 13, 1899.&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Adaulph Toche</strong> (1900-1988) was born at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;on October 9, 1900, the son of Joseph A. Toche (1872-1960) and Olevia Ryan (1872-1953).&nbsp; In November 1922, he married Mary Martinez (1905-1977), the daughter of William Martinez (1877-1930), a Spanish immigrant and Theresa E. Stevens (1889-1965) of St. Bernard Parish,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Louis<strong>iana</strong></span></span><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Made his livelihood as a boat builder. Children: Marie Cecile Toche (1924-1925), Pauline T. Alfonso,&nbsp;</span></span></strong><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Iona</span></span></strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;T. Couture</strong>, <strong>Theresa T. Fountain</strong>, <strong>Joseph Adolphe Toche</strong>, <strong>John Anthony Toche</strong>,<strong> William Rogers Toche</strong> (1932-1982).&nbsp; Died October 16, 1988.&nbsp; Buried at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">City</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Cemetery</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">. (The Ocean Springs Record, November 22, 1972, p. 7 and The Ocean Springs Record, October 20, 1988, p. 3)&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\">Adaulph Toche and his father, Joseph A. Toche II, were ship carpenters at Biloxi in 1920, when the family resided on Myrtle Street. Adaulph\'s grandfather, Captain Joseph A. Toche (1848-1908) a native of Mobile, had been a foreman at the Barataria Canning Company until July 1907, when he was forced to retire because of illness.</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\">It is interesting to note that Joseph A. Toche had married the Widow Westbrook, Caroline Mathieu (1830-1895) of Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1869. Caroline M. Westbrook was the mother of: Martha V. Westbrook (1851-1919) who married Leonard Fayard (1847-1923); Edwin M. Westbrook (1858-1913) who married Harriette Clark (1857-1927); Henry R. Westbrook (1860-1938) who married Francis J. Hadley (b. 1860); and Viola Westbrook (b. 1865) who married John Bourgeois. Her children with Captain Joseph A. Toche were: Mary Adele Toche (b. 1870) and Joseph A. Toche II (1872-1960). The Joseph A. Toche family moved to Biloxi in 1879. They were residing at 211 Myrtle Street in Biloxi, when Mr. Toche passed on January 19, 1908.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">At the age of thirty-four, Adaulph Toche commenced his own boatyard on the Biloxi Channel adjacent to the DeJean Packing Company. This is Grand Casino country to you recent arrivals. Here until 1955, he built wooden fishing boats for the Sekul, Mavar, Cruso, Dubaz, and Leckich and Fayard canneries. In 1937, Mr. Toche also constructed the Pan American Clipper, the Ship Island tour boat.</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\">Annoyed with renting boat yard space at Biloxi and unable to purchase a suitable waterfront site, Adaulph Toche acquired 18.54 acres on Old Fort Bayou in Sections 14 and 23, T7S-R8W, for $10,500 from Stanford Williams in August 1955. Here with his sons, he commenced Toche Boat Builders and platted the Toche Subdivision. By the 1960s, the Toches called themselves Toche Enterprises, Inc. and were operating a hardware store, lumberyard, and variety center in addition to boat construction and repair.</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 Toche family primarily built wooden vessels until after Hurricane Camille (1969), when steel-hulled fishing boats came into vogue. In fact the last ten vessels constructed at the facility before it closed in 1976, were ten, steel-hulled, refrigerated fishing boats for foreign investors. Five went to Korea and five to Venezuela.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After Jim Vickers acquired the Toche facility in 1976, it has had several owners, among them: Coastal Shipbuilding (1979-1983), and Galmer Inc. (1984-1985). Warren Strayham has owned the former Toche boatyard since December 1986, and currently leases it to Michael Toche, the grandson of Adaulph Toche. Michael Toche continues an almost one hundred year old family tradition-building quality, seaworthy vessels for world.</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\">J. Adaulph Toche expired on October 16, 1988. His corporal remains were sent to the Biloxi Cemetery for burial.</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>CHILDREN</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Toche%2C John Anthony.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:93px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>John Anthony Toche</strong></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Mary Olivia Toche</strong> (1902-1917)-was born at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Died on July 28, 1917, at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">211 Myrtle Street</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;in&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Buried in the&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, July 28, 1917, p. 3)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Henry Marcellas Toche </strong>(1904-1985) was born March 19, 1904, at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Married Dorothy \"Dimples\" Elizabeth Terry (1912-1968).&nbsp; Three children: H.M. Toche Jr.; Dorothy T. Fink (1938-2006) married Irvin Fink; and Mena O. Andrews.&nbsp; M. Marcellas Toche died April 3, 1985.&nbsp; Buried Southern Memorial Park at Biloxi.(The Sun Herald, March 17, 2006, p. A8)</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>Calvin Toche</strong> (1905-1984)-Born December 23, 1905, at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Married Alma Leola Weldon (d. 3-18-1980) on June 15, 1930.&nbsp; Cavin Toche lived at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Crockett</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">California</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;where he was a boat builder at the Mare Island Naval Yard.&nbsp; Died on March 13, 1984.&nbsp; Buried at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, June 16, 1930, 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>Tabitha Ione Toche James</strong> (1912-2014)-Married Richard E. James in August 1941.&nbsp; Three children.&nbsp; Died March 31, 2014 at Spring, Texas.(The Sun Herald, April 4, 2014)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Joseph A. Toche III</strong> (1917-)-Married Bernice Marie Thibodeaux in March 1944 at&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.&nbsp; Three children: Joseph A. Toche.</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 Toche Subdivision</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Location: Sections 14 and 23, T7S-R8W&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Platted&nbsp;on August 20, 1955, JXCO, Ms. Plat Book 2, p. 90 and November 25, 1955, Plat Book 2, p. 93.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Replatted-November 1956, Bk. 162, pp. 197-198.</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 Toche Family (Catholic Records)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mrs. Toche-died February 13, 1895.(SA)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Caroline Pauline Toche-born July 13, 1899.&nbsp; Father Joseph Toche, mother Olivia Ryan.(BVM)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John Adolphe Toche-born November 9, 1900.&nbsp; Father Joseph Toche, mother, Olevia Ryan.(BVM)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph Toche married Angelina Labash (1878-1893+), the daughter of John Labash (1848-1915) and Adeline Labash (1857-1900+) on August 9, 1893.(BVM)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Lillie Elizabeth Toche-born March 5, 1897.&nbsp; Father, Joseph A. Toche, mother Sarah E. Daley.(BVM)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary Adele Toche-born February 26, 1870.&nbsp; Father Joseph Toche, mother Caroline Mathew (sic).(SA)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John C. Toche (Baptism 1828-1840)-CIC-</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mobile</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph A. Toche (Baptism 1847-1851)-CIC-</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mobile</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>The Toche Family (Social Security Death Index)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alvin Toche (1916-1983)-born January 5, 1916, died April 1983.&nbsp; OS</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alvin Toche (1947-1984)-born October 20, 1947, died June 1984.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Doris Toche (1920-1989)-born October 23, 1920, died May 29, 1989.&nbsp; OS (</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Cemetery</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Henry Toche (1904-1985)-born March 19, 1904, died April 1985.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John Toche (1900-1988)-born November 9, 1900, died October 16, 1988.&nbsp; OS</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John Toche (1926-1976)-born August 13, 1926, died August 1976.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph Toche (1937-1998)-born January 24, 1937, died March 15, 1998.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary Toche (1905-1977)-born June 3, 1905, died April 1977.&nbsp; OS</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mildred Toche (1929-1993)-born April 25, 1929, died August 14, 1993.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Wesley Toche (1897-1971)-born November 23, 1897, died May 1971.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Biloxi</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">William Toche (1932-1982)-born April 1, 1932, died May 1982.&nbsp; OS</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>Harrison</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>County</strong></span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp;Marriages</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph Toche married Angelina LaBash on 8-9-1893.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph Toche married Georgie Swing on 11-22-1895.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary Torche married Frank Tucker on 11-19-1893.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Margaret Mary Toche married James Albert Parker on November 24, 1973.</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>Bradford-O’Keefe Burial Books</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Anita Toche (1906-1949)-born November 22,1906, the daughter of Jullian Sonnier and Amee’ Hebert.&nbsp; Died June 24, 1949.&nbsp; Bk. 0, p. 0.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Irma Toche (?-1929)-born ?.&nbsp; Died May 29, 1929.&nbsp; Bk. 15, p. 298.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Joseph A. Toche (1872-1960)-born August 27, 1872, the son of Joseph Toche and Caroline Mathieu.&nbsp; Died February 29, 1960.&nbsp; Bk. 42, p. 325.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary Toche (1856-1934)-born 1856, the daughter of Adner Gary and Martha McClendon.&nbsp; Died August 3, 1934.&nbsp; Bk. 21, p. 266.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary Olivia Toche (1902-1917)-born September 16, 1902, daughter of Joseph Toche and Mary Olivia Ryan.&nbsp; Died July 28, 1917.&nbsp; Bk. 7, p. 36.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Olivia Ryan Toche (1872-1953)-born November 29, 1872, the daughter of Calvin Ryan and Pauline Anderson.&nbsp; Died February 20, 1953.&nbsp; Bk. 35, p. 33.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">William F. Toche (1857-1937)-born 1857, the son of Joseph P. Toche and Mary Anderson.&nbsp; Died November 18, 1937.&nbsp; Bk. 25, p. 163.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Evergreen Cemetery &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Alvin A. Toche &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1-5-1916 to 4-12-1983</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Irma Toche &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1910 to 5-27-1929</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Josephine H. Toche &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;8-8-1925 to</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Kimberly Toche &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;4-13-1960 to 4-13-1960</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Mary Toche &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1858 to 8-3-1934</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Norma Toche &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1885 to 1918</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Victor Toche &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1887 to 1962</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<div id=\"cke_pastebin\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">William Toche &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1862 to 11-19-1937</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>THE TOCHE SHIPYARD</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">At the age of thirty-four, J. Adaulph Toche (1900-1988) commenced his own boatyard on the Biloxi Channel adjacent to the DeJean Packing Company. This is Grand Casino country to you recent arrivals. Here until 1955, he built wooden fishing boats for the Sekul, Mavar, Cruso, Dubaz, and Leckich and Fayard canneries. In 1937, Mr. Toche also constructed the <strong><em>Pan American Clipper</em></strong>, the Ship Island tour boat.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Annoyed with renting boat yard space at Biloxi and unable to purchase a suitable waterfront site, Adaulph Toche acquired 18.54 acres on Old Fort Bayou in Sections 14 and 23, T7S-R8W, for $10,500 from Stanford Williams in August 1955. Here with his sons, he commenced Toche Boat Builders and platted the Toche Subdivision. By the 1960s, the Toches called themselves Toche Enterprises, Inc. and were operating a hardware store, lumberyard, and variety center in addition to boat construction and repair.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Toche family primarily built wooden vessels until after Hurricane Camille (1969), when steel-hulled fishing boats came into vogue. In fact the last ten vessels constructed at the facility before it closed in 1976, were ten, steel-hulled, refrigerated fishing boats for foreign investors. Five went to Korea and five to Venezuela.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">After Jim Vickers acquired the Toche facility in 1976, it has had several owners, among them: Coastal Shipbuilding (1979-1983), and Galmer Inc. (1984-1985). Warren Strayham has owned the former Toche boatyard since December 1986, and currently leases it to Michael Toche, the grandson of Adaulph Toche. Michael Toche continues an almost one hundred year old family tradition-building quality, seaworthy vessels for world.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">J. Adaulph Toche expired on October 16, 1988. His corporal remains were sent to the Biloxi Cemetery for burial.</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\">Time Line</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Location:&nbsp; 18. 54 acres + located on Old Fort Bayou in SE/4 of section 14 and the NE/4 of Section 23, T7S-R8W</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>1944</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In June 1944, Florence Sauer of Wayne County, Michigan, the widow of Lorenz Sauer Jr., et al to Stanford and Jessie S. Williams.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 87, pp. 50-51)</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>1955</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In August 1955, Stanford A. Williams to J. Adaulph Toche (1900-1988) two parcels for $10,500,(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 151, p. 332).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Parcel One-All of the SE/4,SE/4 of Section 14, T7S-R8W south of Old Fort Bayou.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Parcel Two-Irregular shaped tract in the NE/4 of Section 23, T7S-R8W, containing 18.957 acres bounded on the southeast by the OS-Vancleave road.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>Toche Subdivision</strong>-platted on August 20, 1955, JXCO, Ms. Plat Book 2, p. 90 and November 25, 1955, Plat Book 2, p. 93.</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>1956</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Toche Boat Builders and Repair Yard, Inc. chartered in Jackson County, Mississippi in June 1956.&nbsp; Four hundred shares of stock with a par value of $100 per share.&nbsp; Incorporators: John Adaulph Toche; Joseph Adaulph Toche; William Rogers Toche; and John Anthony Toche.(JXCO, Ms. Charter Bk. 3, pp. 93-98)</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\">Captain Frank, a 56-foot Florida type shrimp boat was the first vessel built at the new Toche Boatyard in Ocean Springs.(The Daily Herald, February 25, 1959, p. s24)</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\">Toche Subdivision replatted on November 5, 1956.&nbsp; Owners listed as: John Adolph Toche, John Anthony Toche, William Rogers Toche, Elsie Seymour Toche, Arlene Seymour Toche, Joseph Adolph Toche, Aline Ryan Toche, Pauline Toche Alfonso, and Walter T. Alfonso.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 162, pp. 197-198)</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>1958</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In December 1958, Toche Boat Builders borrowed money from P.M. Bank.(JXCO, Ms. Deed of Trust Bk. 119, pp. 380-384).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">John Duncan Moran of Jardel Inc. acquired for taxes in September 1958.&nbsp; Conveyed in September 1965 to J.A. Toche, John Anthony Toche, Joseph A. Toche, and William Rogers Toche.(Bk. 280, p. 334)</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>1959</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Toche Boatyard on Old Fort Bayou in Ocean Springs was the only boatyard operating a Travel Lift. &nbsp;This dynamic hoist could lift vessels up to 50 tons and 80 feet in length and allowed the Toche yard to service up to 35 boats at one time.(The Daily Herald, February 25, 1959, p. 24)</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>1960s</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Toche Enterprises, Inc. formed.&nbsp; Consisted of Toche Boat Builders, Toche Hardware,&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Toche</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Variety</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Center</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">, and Toche Lumber &amp; Supply Company.</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>1965</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In September 1965, Jardel Inc. to J.A. Toche, John Anthony Toche, Joseph A. Toche, and William Rogers Toche.(Bk. 280, p. 334)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Three vessels have recently been launched at Toche Boat Builders in Ocean Springs. &nbsp;All three boats are 72 feet long and 22 feet wide and are steel, shrimp trawlers. &nbsp;Owners of these watercraft are: L.E. and Fuller Childress of Fairhope, Alabama; Alton Fabre of Barataria, Louisiana; and the George Engine Company of Harvey, Louisiana. A 45-foot, wooden shrimp boat was also launched for John Martinez of St. Bernard, Louisiana. &nbsp;Two keels are being laid at Toche for two 75-foot steel trawlers and another 72-foot steel trawler is being built for Clarence Billiot of Marrero, Louisiana. &nbsp;W.W. Swan of New Orleans is having the shipyard build a 50-foot yacht.(The Daily Herald, August 3, 1967, p. 24)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1968</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">1968 payroll was approximately $275,000 with about 80 employees (75% residents of Jxco).(letter march 17, 1969, to Eddie Khayat from William R. Toche Sr.)</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><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In March 1969, Toche Boat Builders had the following vessels under construction: ten steel shrimp trawlers; one steel lugger-type supply boat; 2 wooden shrimp trawlers; and one wooden party boat-Coast Guard approved.&nbsp; At this time, vice-president of the company, William Rogers Toche Sr., wrote an appeal to Edward Khayat, president of the JXCO, Mississippi Board of Supervisors to have the mouth of Old Fort Bayou and particular sections of the water course deepened to accommodate vessels with a draft of 10.5 to 11 feet.&nbsp; Toche indicated that larger vessels could be built on Old Fort Bayou and potential industries might develop here if a permanent marked channel was constructed.(letter dated March 17, 1969, to Eddie Khayat from William R. Toche Sr.)</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>1971</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In July, Toche was completing the <strong><em>Misty Dawn</em></strong>, a 200 ton, 103-foot long clam boat, for a client on the Atlanic seaboard. &nbsp;This was the largest vessel that Toche had ever built. &nbsp;The yard has three shrimp boats under construction.(The Ocean Springs Record, July 8, 1971, p. 1)</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>1975</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In July 1975, Toche Enterprises delivered five steel-hulled refrigerated fishing boats to the Venezuelan government.&nbsp; The vessels were 75-feet long and of 100 tons displacement.&nbsp; A Swedish consultant, Captain Sten Sylvander, hired by the Venezuelans lauded the Toche boats as “the best fishing boats ever bought by&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Venezuela</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">.”(The Daily Herald, July 23, 1975, p. B-!)</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>1978</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Jim Vickers running Toche Industries.&nbsp; The company had been in bankruptcy court, since April 1978.&nbsp; In the summer of 1978, Vickers defied an order by the US Corps of Engineers to cease and desist from dredging Old Fort Bayou in order to launch, Lady Elda, a 121-foot vessel.&nbsp; He defied the Corps order and pulled the boat through the bayou, which caused environmental damage.&nbsp; Vickers also dumped the spoil on the banks of the pristine stream.&nbsp; He was fined for his actions.&nbsp; Avondale Shipyard of&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">New Orleans</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">&nbsp;sued Toche Industries for payment of $606,000 for materials that it had furnished Vickers.&nbsp; The Wholesale Supply Company also sued in the amount of $34,890 for unsatisfied liens on four boats under construction at the boatyard.&nbsp; Toche was never fined by the Corps of Engineers.(The Ocean Springs Record, September 14, 1978, p. 3 and October 26, 1978, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>1979</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Bankruptcy judge sold Toche Industries to Coastal Shipbuilding in March 1979, for $611,000.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 643, p. 284)</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>1983</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In October 1983, Albert Prevot of Coastal Shipbuilding to 1st Mississippi National Bank for $450,000.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 774, p. 452)</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>1984</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In May 1984, 1st Mississippi National Bank to Galmer Inc.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 791, p. 327)</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>1985</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In April 1985, Trustee to 1st Mississippi National Bank for $400,000.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 821, p. 518)</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>1986</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In December 1986, 1st Mississippi National Bank to Warren L. Strayham et ux.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 875, p. 436)</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>1994</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">In November 1994, Special Commissioner’s Deed to Warren L. Strayham on Lots 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 1052, pp. 300-301).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, \"Toche Boat Builders operate only Travel Lift on Gulf Coast\", February 25, 1959, p. s24.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Daily Herald, Purchase of fishing vessels may open relations with&nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">Venezuela</span></span><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">”, July 23, 1975.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Ocean Springs Record, “Toche (Vickers) Industries in Bankruptcy Court”, September 14, 1978.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Ocean Springs Record, “Toche never fined by Corps of Engineers\", October 26, 1978, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n', '', '2');
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('page', 0, 60, 63, 'en', 0, '<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"width:100%\">\r\n	<tbody>\r\n		<tr>\r\n			<td>\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JOHN L. HENLEY [1866]</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Lyman B. Holley [1868; 1870 see Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Land Deed Bk. 11, p. 372]</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>[No Records? from 1869-1875]</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<hr />\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1879-1880</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Caillavet%2C Raymond.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:255px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>RAYMOND CAILLAVET&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet (1838-1898) called \"Medeaux\" was born at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;in 1838.&nbsp; He was the eldest son of Francois Caillavet (1815-1883), a carpenter, and Euranie Fayard (1818-1895).&nbsp; Raymond Caillavet was the grandson of Louis Arbeau Caillavet (1793-1860), a native of the Opelousas Post,&nbsp;Louisiana&nbsp;and Marguerite Fayard (1787-1863) of&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; Louis A. Caillavet was baptized on March 31, 1793, with Louis Carriere and Marie Despaux standing as his godparents.&nbsp; L.A. Caillavet\'s father, Symphroen Caillavet (1746-1806), was born at&nbsp;Bordeaux,&nbsp;France.&nbsp; His mother was Marie Rose Carriere (1766-c. 1855), a native of&nbsp;New Orleans.</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\">The Caillavet family at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;was well respected.&nbsp; Louis A. Caillavet, the progenitor of the family here, had arrived in 1809, from&nbsp;Opelousas,&nbsp;Louisiana.&nbsp; His mother, Rose Carriere and brother, Adolph Caillavet (c. 1803-1842) joined him at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;later .&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\">L.A. Caillavet (1793-1860) married Marguerite Fayard (1787-1863) circa 1811.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Jean Baptist Fayard, Jr. (1752-1816) and Angelique Ladner (1753-1830).&nbsp; These families are among the oldest at&nbsp;Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">L.A. Caillavet was fluent in the French and English languages and acted as an agent-interpreter and representative to wealthy Creole families from&nbsp;New Orleans&nbsp;as well as his neighbors in land and legal matters.&nbsp; He was often called as a witness in Probate (Chancery) Court matters and his depositions in several court cases reveal something about his life.&nbsp; From Nap Cassibry\'s excellent two volume series,&nbsp;<u>Early Settlers and Land Grants at Biloxi</u>, the following has been extracted concerning L.A. Caillavet:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1.&nbsp; was in&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;in 1809 and no later than 1812.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2.&nbsp; sometimes he was the only one in&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;who could write.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3.&nbsp; served as an interpreter and notary in legal matters.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">4.&nbsp; he was blind by 1848.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">L.A. Caillavet acquired much land on the&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;coast.&nbsp; In February 1837, he received a U.S. Government land patent on 71.85 acres at Jackson County, Mississippi described as Lot 1 of Section 32 T7S-R8W.&nbsp; It comprised the NE/4 and SE/4 of the NE/4 of that section.&nbsp; This land&nbsp;is located on the beach front at east Ocean Springs west of&nbsp;Halstead Road.&nbsp; Louis A. Caillavet was elected treasurer of the Harrison County Board of Police (Board of Supervisors) for the term 1841-1843.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 96, pp. 325-326)</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\">As a young man, Raymond Caillavet took the call of the Confederate cause and joined Company E (Biloxi Rifles), 3rd Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A.&nbsp; He served as a private.&nbsp; The Biloxi Rifles were mustered into State service on May 21, 1861, at&nbsp;Jackson, and Confederate service at Shieldsboro (Bay St. Louis) on October 5, 1861.&nbsp; They were originally expected to be sent to&nbsp;Virginia, but Governor Pettus thought they would be better utilized as a home guard protecting the&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;Coast&nbsp;from Union excursions. &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Young Caillavet must have left the Coast during the Civil War for&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; Here he met and married Celina Joucheray (1841-1903) circa 1864.&nbsp; Their first two children were born at&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; They returned to&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;for birth of their third child in 1869.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Celina Joucheray</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Young Caillavet must have left the Coast during the Civil War for&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; Here he met and married&nbsp;<strong>Celina Joucheray</strong>&nbsp;(1841-1903) circa 1864.&nbsp; Celina Joucheray was born at&nbsp;New Orleans&nbsp;on November 24, 1841.&nbsp; Her father was&nbsp;<strong>Pierre Joucheray</strong>&nbsp;(1809-1842) and mother,&nbsp;<strong>Louise Denis&nbsp;</strong>(ca 1812-ca 1849).&nbsp; Pierre Joucheray was born at Chare sur&nbsp;Argos, Canton Conde, Department of Maine andLoire&nbsp;on March 16, 1809, while Louise Denis was a native of Sable, Department of Sarthe.&nbsp; The Joucherays were married at&nbsp;Paris,&nbsp;France&nbsp;circa 1836.&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\"><strong><em>Joucheray, Celina</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Be it remembered that on the day to wit: the fourteenth of November of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two and the sixty seventh of the Independence of the United States before me, Alfred E. Farstall, duly commissioned and sworn Recorder of Births and Deaths in and for the Parish and City personally appeared.&nbsp; Mrs. Louise Denis, widow of the late Mr. Pierre Joucheray, a native of Sable, Department of the Sarth in France, about thirty years of age and residing on Royale Street No. 358 in the first Municipality of New Orleans who in the presence of undersigned witnesses , doth declare that she bore a female child Celina Joucheray, the legitimate child of the late Mr. Pierre Joucheray born at Chare sur Argoz Canton Conde , born at Chare sur Argos Canton Conde Department of Maine and Loire in France, on the sixteenth of March eighteen hundred and nine and since about six years ago married at Paris in France, in (illegible) Department.&nbsp; The child was born on the twenty fourth of November eighteen and forty one at half past eleven o’clock A.M. in a house on Louise? Street between Marigny&nbsp; and Mandeville Streets in the first Municipality of this city.</em></strong>(Louisiana Department of Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Birth Records Volume 7, p. 189)<em>&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Joucheray, Pierre</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Be it remembered that on the day to wit: the fourteenth of November of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two and the sixty seventh of the Independence of the United States before me, Alfred E. Farstall, duly commissioned and sworn Recorder of Births and Deaths in and for the Parish and City personally appeared.&nbsp; Mrs. Louise Denis, widow of the late Mr. Pierre Joucheray, a native of Sable, Department of the Sarthe in France, about thirty years of age and residing on Royale Street No. 358 in the first Municipality of New Orleans who in the presence of undersigned witnesses , doth declare that her lawful husband Mr. Pierre Joucheray, born at Chare sur Argos, Canton Conde, Department of Maine and Loire in France, on the sixteenth of March eighteen hundred and nine and since about six years ago married at Paris in France, departed this life on the twenty first of May last past at ten o’clock P.M. by falling accidentally into the Blind River Parish of St. Tammany in the state of Louisiana.</em></strong>(Louisiana Department of Archives, Baton Rouge, Louisiana<em>,&nbsp;</em>Death Records Volume 9, p. 383)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">After Pierre Joucheray’s death in May 1841, Madame Joucheray and Celina disappear until the Orleans Parish Federal Census of 1850.&nbsp; At this time, Celina is living in the household of Marcelin Effort (1828-1850+), a&nbsp;Louisiana&nbsp;born pilot, in the first ward of&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; It appears that her mother remarried or died before 1850.&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>Coming Home</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet and Celina’s first two children were born at&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; They had returned toBiloxi&nbsp;for birth of their third child in 1869.&nbsp; On February 26, 1869, Raymond Caillavet bought a lot fronting on&nbsp;North Street&nbsp;at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from his father.&nbsp; It was described in the land deed records as having a front of eighty-five feet on&nbsp;North Street&nbsp;and being two-hundred feet deep.&nbsp; It was bounded on the north by North Street, east by Mrs. Lefaure, south by lands of Cook, and west by a street or road (Cuevas Street?).(2)&nbsp; He paid $200 for the land.&nbsp; Here Raymond Caillavet reared his family and made his livelihood as a carpenter.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In June 1869, young Raymond Caillavet for $100 acquired another lot from his father.&nbsp; It had a width of sixty-five feet and was one-hundred twenty five feet in depth.&nbsp; The lot was bounded on the north by John Latour Caillavet, east by Charles T. Couave (Cuevas), south by a street, and west by an alley.(3)&nbsp; Caillavet conveyed this property to Phillip Lestrade (1832-1912) on January 5, 1876, as partial repayment for a debt owed Lestrade in a partnership that they had once participated.(4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Public Service</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet also had a career in public service in&nbsp;Harrison&nbsp;County&nbsp;and as a city official at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; He served as Justice of the Peace District 1 (1873-1875), Corner and Ranger (1875-1877), Mayor of Biloxi (1877-1882), Corner and Ranger (1889-1891), and City Councilman (1891-1892 and 1894-1895).&nbsp; In the January 1879 mayoral election, Caillavet defeated J.R. Harkness receiving 151 of the 200 votes cast.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In October 1883, while serving as street commissioner of&nbsp;Biloxi, Raymond Caillavet was lauded in&nbsp;<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star&nbsp;</em>for his expertise in opening the beach road from&nbsp;Porter Avenue&nbsp;to a point near the&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;City&nbsp;Cemetery&nbsp;to connect with the shoreline thoroughfare from&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;City.&nbsp; Mr. Caillavet removed trees and stumps, but when completed, the road had the appearance of a&nbsp;<strong><em>“long avenue shaded on both sides”</em></strong>.&nbsp; It was said of Commissioner Caillavet that,&nbsp;<strong><em>“The city fathers could not have appointed a more efficient man for commissioner that the present incumbent.”</em></strong>(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, October 5, 1883, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet was elected as Secretary of the City of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;in January 1885.&nbsp; He defeated Thomas D. Bachino 147 votes to 72 votes.(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, January 9, 1885, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mr. Caillavet lost to John Walker in the&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;mayoral election of 1888.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, March&nbsp;&nbsp; , 1888)</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>Construction</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet built a large storage house for the Biloxi Artesian Ice Manufacturing Company.(<em>The Biloxi Herald, February 18, 1888, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On February 26, 1869, Raymond Caillavet bought a lot fronting on&nbsp;North Street&nbsp;at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from his father.&nbsp; It was described in the land deed records as having a front of eighty-five feet on&nbsp;North Street&nbsp;and being two-hundred feet deep.&nbsp; It was bounded on the north by North Street, east by Mrs. Lefaure, south by lands of Cook, and west by a street or road (Cuevas Street?).&nbsp; He paid $200 for the land.&nbsp; Here Raymond Caillavet reared his family and made his livelihood as a carpenter.(</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In June 1869, young Raymond Caillavet for $100 acquired another lot from his father.&nbsp; It had a width of sixty-five feet and was one-hundred twenty five feet in depth.&nbsp; The lot was bounded on the north by John Latour Caillavet, east by Charles T. Couave (Cuevas), south by a street, and west by an alley.(3)&nbsp; Caillavet conveyed this property to Phillip Lestrade (1832-1912) on January 5, 1876, as partial repayment for a debt owed Lestrade in a partnership that they had once partcipated.(4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet also had a career in public service in&nbsp;Harrison&nbsp;County&nbsp;and as a city official at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; He served as Justice of the Peace District 1 (1873-1875), Corner and Ranger (1875-1877), Mayor of Biloxi (1877-1882), Corner and Ranger (1889-1891), and City Councilman (1894-1895).&nbsp; In the January 1879 mayoral election, Caillavet defeated J.R. Harkness receiving 151 of the 200 votes cast.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond and Celina J. Caillavet reared their family at&nbsp;New Orleans&nbsp;and&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; Their children were: Marie Blanche Caillavet (1865-1940), John Caillavet (b. circa 1867-pre 1870), Aristide Bertrand Caillavet (1868-1898), Emma Rose C. Murray (c. 1869-1955+), Alice C. Bellande (1872-1955), Edward Caillavet (1874-1923), Clarissa Rita Caillavet (1877-1885), William (1879-1940), Lillian C. Holley (1883-1967), Louise C. Morgan (1881-1965).&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Raymond Caillavet expired on February 16, 1898.&nbsp; Mrs. Caillavet died on March 15, 1903.&nbsp; Both are buried at the&nbsp;Old&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Cemetery.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Marie Blanche Caillavet</strong>&nbsp;(1865-1940)-born December 12, 1865, at&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; She moved fromBiloxi&nbsp;to&nbsp;New Orleans&nbsp;circa 1915, where she resided at 830 Governor Nicholls in the Vieux Carre..&nbsp; Blanche never married.&nbsp; She kept house for her sister, Emma, before she married William P. Murray.&nbsp; Miss Caillavet died April 19, 1940 at&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; Mrs. Calvin Strayham and Alice Bellande, her sister, were with her when she died.&nbsp; Blanche Caillavet\'s remains were interred at the&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Cemetery.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>John Caillavet</strong>-born circa March 1867, at&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; Probably died before 1880.&nbsp; This may be the same person as Aristide Caillavet.&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Aristide Bertrand Caillavet</strong> (1868-1898)-born February 10, 1868 at&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; Aristide Caillavet married Ellen Gannon on June 17, 1890 at Biloxi (BVM).&nbsp; She was the daughter of Patrick Gannon and Anna Pennel.&nbsp; Their children were:&nbsp; Celina (b. 1890), Arthur Aristide (1893-1893), Mary Winnie Mon (1895-1977), Edward Aristide (1898-1963).&nbsp; Aristide Caillavet died on January 19, 1898.&nbsp; He was buried at the&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Cemetery.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Emma Rose Caillavet Murray </strong>(1869-1955+)-born 1869, at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; Emma Caillavet married William P. Murray on May 19, 1891 at&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; Their children were: Edgar Murray (b. 1891) and Robert Murray (1893-1955+).&nbsp; Emma C. Murray\'s remains are buried at&nbsp;New Orleans.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Alice Louise Caillavet Bellande</strong> (1872-1955)-born October 7, 1872, at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; She married Peter Bellande (1871-1933) on August 19, 1894 at BVM.&nbsp; Peter Bellande made his livelihood as a bartender and a policeman.&nbsp; They resided at&nbsp;837 Lameuse Street.&nbsp; Children:&nbsp; Roy P. Bellande (1895-1964), Faye B. Davidson (1898-1974), Aristide C. Bellande (1901-1976), Elliott A. Bellande (1904-1977), Ruth B. Ragusin (1906-1993), Marcel J. Bellande (1909-1982), Alton L. Bellande (1912-1970).&nbsp; Alice C. Bellande died on July 10, 1955.&nbsp; Buried at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Cemetery.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Edward Caillavet</strong> (1874-1923)-born December 1874, at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; Edward Caillavet relocated to&nbsp;New Orleans&nbsp;circa 1896.&nbsp; He was familiarly known as \"Nig\" Caillavet.&nbsp; Edward Caillavet died November 15, 1923, at&nbsp;Jackson,&nbsp;Louisiana, after a long illness.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Clarissa Rita Caillavet</strong>&nbsp;(1877-1885)-born April 22, 1877.&nbsp; Died April 10, 1885.&nbsp; No further information.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>William Fernand Caillavet</strong>&nbsp;(1879-1940) born January 14, 1879, at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; He married Eulalie Rita Louge (1887-1941) on March 19, 1910.&nbsp; W.F. \"Grits\" Caillavet made his livelihood as a carpenter.&nbsp; The family resided at&nbsp;701 West Howard Avenue&nbsp;at the time of his demise on February 27, 1940.&nbsp; Rita Louge Caillavet was the daughter of Michael J. Louge and Mary Fayard of&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; She was born on July 17, 1887 at&nbsp;Biloxi, and died there on June 21, 1941.&nbsp; Their children were:&nbsp; William Caillavet (1911-1912), Irma Lucille Caillavet (1912-1994), and an unnamed son (1914-1914).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Lucille Caillavet, their only surviving child never married, and lived on&nbsp;Thomas Street&nbsp;most of her life.&nbsp; She was close to Arnice Sanders Wagner of Mobile, the daughter of her aunt, Mrs. T.J. (Eugenie) Louge Cox.&nbsp; All members of this family are buried at the&nbsp;Old&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Cemetery.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Louise Clemence Caillavet Morgan</strong>&nbsp;(1881-1965)-born February 3, 1881, at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; As a young woman, she worked as a salesgirl in the Julius Cahn establishment.&nbsp; Louise married Alvah Clark Morgan (1881-1979) who she met while he worked in&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;as the cashier at the L&amp;N freight depot.&nbsp; Their nuptial vows were taken on August 28, 1911, at&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; Al Morgan was born at Trilla near Matoon in south central&nbsp;Illinois.&nbsp; After leaving&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;in 1911, the Morgans resided at&nbsp;Memphis, Forth Worth, and&nbsp;Wichita Falls,&nbsp;Texas&nbsp;before settling at&nbsp;Denver,&nbsp;Colorado&nbsp;in 1917.&nbsp; Mr. Morgan worked for the Colorado Fuel &amp; Iron Company until 1931.&nbsp; Their only child, Trilla Morgan Reilly (1913-2004), was born at&nbsp;Fort Worth,&nbsp;Texas&nbsp;on April 25, 1913.&nbsp; She was named for&nbsp;Trilla,&nbsp;Illinois, the birthplace of her father.&nbsp; Louise C. Morgan died November 6, 1965, at&nbsp;Denver,&nbsp;Colorado.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mary Liliana Caillavet Holley</strong>&nbsp;(1883-1967)-born July 19, 1883, at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; She was known as Lillian.&nbsp; Lillian Caillavet married Anson Holley (1882-1967) at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;on January 29, 1907.&nbsp; They resided at&nbsp;139 Magnolia Street.&nbsp; The Holley children were:&nbsp; Anson Holley, Jr. (1908-1975),&nbsp;Lillian H. Maumus (1910-1981), Lionel Holley (1910-1993), Pat H. Daley (1913-1986), and Raymond Holley (1920-1940).&nbsp; Anson Holley built&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;schooners for&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;\"Lel\" Desporte and the C.B. Foster Packing Company.&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\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;Harrison&nbsp;County&nbsp;Land&nbsp;Deed Book 10, p. 614.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2.&nbsp; ------------------------- Book 11, p. 522-523.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3.&nbsp; ------------------------- Book 15, p. 24-25.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;Nap L. Cassibry, II,&nbsp;<strong>Early Settlers and Land Grants at&nbsp;Biloxi</strong>, Volume I, (Mississippi Coast History and Genealogical Society:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1986), p. 48.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;Nap&nbsp; L. Cassibry II,&nbsp;<strong>Early Settlers and Land Grants at&nbsp;Biloxi</strong>,&nbsp; Volume II, (Mississippi Coast History and Genealogical Society:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississppi-1986), p. 24, p. 50, and pp. 118-119.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;Nap&nbsp; L. Cassibry II,&nbsp;<strong>The Ladner Odyssey</strong>, (Mississippi&nbsp;Historical and Genealogical Society:&nbsp;&nbsp;Biloxi,&nbsp;Mississippi-1988), p</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Gladys de Villier,&nbsp;<strong>The Opelousas Post</strong>, (Polyanthos, Inc: Cottonport, Louisiana-1972) p. 25.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Grady Howell,&nbsp;<strong>To Live and Die in&nbsp;Dixie</strong>, (Chickasaw Bayou Press:&nbsp; Jackson, Mississippi-1991), pp. 30-3333 and p. 566.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jerome Lepre,&nbsp;<strong>The Caillavet Family</strong>, (Mississippi Coast History and Genealogical Society:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1984), p. 30, p. 66, and p. 76.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jerome Lepre,&nbsp;<strong>Catholic Church Records Diocese of&nbsp;Biloxi</strong>,&nbsp;Mississippi, (Diocese of Biloxi, Mississippi:&nbsp; Biloxi, Mississippi-1991), pp. 45-48.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;Harrison County,&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;Register of Commissions, pp. 22, 26, 28, 37, and 51.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;Harrison&nbsp;County&nbsp;Chancery Court Cause No. P-2781B, \"Estate of Irma Louise Caillavet\", August 26, 1994.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"William Murray-Emma Caillavet\"</strong>, May 19, 1891, p. 4 see also July 18, 1891, p. 4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"F.W. Elmer elected\"</strong>, January 10, 1891, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"Uranie Cailavet\"</strong>, December 28, 1895, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"Aristide B. Caillavet\"</strong>, January 22, 1898, p. 8,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"Captain Raymond Caillavet\"</strong>, February 19, 1898, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald ,&nbsp;<strong>\"Zeline Caillavet\"</strong>, March 16, 1903, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Holley-Caillavet\"</strong>, January 29, 1907.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Louge-Caillavet\"</strong>, March 21, 1910, p. 8, c. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Moran</strong>&nbsp;(sic)-<strong>Caillavet\",</strong>&nbsp;August 30, 1911, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Edward Caillavet Dead\"</strong>, November 16, 1923, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Blanche Caillavet dies\"</strong>, April 20, 1940, p. 7.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Mrs. Wm. Caillavet Dies\"</strong>, June 23, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Pascagoula</em>&nbsp;Democrat-Star,&nbsp;<strong>\"Elections at&nbsp;Biloxi</strong>\", January 10, 1879, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Lionel J. Holley, Sr.\"</strong>, February 23, 1993, p. 2.</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\">U.S.&nbsp;Census-Harrison County,&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;(1850, 1860, 1870,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1880, and 1900).</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\">Personal Communication:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Hazel M. Bellande-September 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Fern Davidson Dubaz O\'Neal-September 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Laura Thompson Creel-September 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Trilla Morgan Reilly-September 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Thelma G. Bellande-October 1995.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">______________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;<strong>F.W. ELMER&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1883</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Frederick W. Elmer (1847-1926) was born at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;on January 23, 1847.&nbsp; He was the son of two European immigrants, Jacob Elmer (1812-1894) and Barbara Gettendorf (1823-1858).&nbsp; Jacob Elmer was born at Canton Glarus in&nbsp;Switzerland, the same area of the Hosli and Abbley family origination.&nbsp; Mr. Elmer came to&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;in 1836 and circa 1837, he married Barbara Gettendorf, a native of Winweiler,Rhein Kreis,&nbsp;Bavaria.&nbsp; In 1850, Jacob Elmer was a merchant at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;worth $15,000.&nbsp; His children with Barbara Gettendorf were:&nbsp; Helena Elmer Northrop (1838-1869+), Anna Elmer (b. 1839), Jacob Elmer (1843-1885), John P. Elmer (b. 1843), Henry M. Elmer (1844-1868),&nbsp;<strong>Frederick William Elmer</strong>&nbsp;(1847-1926), Augustus Elmer (b. 1848), Otho Elmer (1851-1926+), and Charles Elmer (1852-1926+).(1850 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census&nbsp;&nbsp; )</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">After the demise of his wife in 1858, Jacob Elmer married Louisa B. Wetzel (1844-1894) in January 1863.&nbsp; She was the daughter of German immigrant, Jacob Wetzel (1802-1860+) and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; .&nbsp; Her mother was dead before 1860.&nbsp; Their children were: Coresta E. Bachino (1866-1900+), Effee Elmer Dulion (. 1866-193 ), Clarence Elmer (1868-1901), Percy L. Elmer (1873-1949), Edward Ross Elmer (1878-1934), and the twins, Albert (1881-1900+) and Arthur Elmer (b. 1881).&nbsp; Jacob Wetzel\'s siblings raised by Jacob Elmer were: Julia Wetzel (b. 1853), and Catherine Wetzel (b. 1855).( Harrison Co.. Ms. MRB&nbsp;&nbsp; , p.&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>Elizabeth Carson Maycock</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">F.W. Elmer married Elizabeth Carson Maycock (1850-1905) in May 1871.(Guice, 1968?, p. 19).&nbsp; She was the daughter of Captain James Maycock (1825-1892) and Mary Emily Carson (1827-1900), born atCape May,&nbsp;New Jersey.&nbsp; Captain Maycock was a native of&nbsp;Hull,&nbsp;Yorkshire,&nbsp;England&nbsp;and arrived atBiloxi&nbsp;on an English vessel in 1839.(Harrison Co.. Ms. MRB&nbsp;&nbsp; , p.&nbsp; and&nbsp;<em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald, March 19, 1892, p. 4)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Captain Maycock was a seafood pioneer at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; In 1881, he and Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903), F. W. Elmer (1847-1926), W.K.M. Dukate (1853-1916), and William Gorenflo (1844-1932) with a capital stock of $8,000 organized the Lopez, Elmer and Company which became the Biloxi Canning Company.&nbsp; This factory was situated on the Back Bay of Biloxi, at the head of&nbsp;Reynoir Street.</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\">F.W. Elmer and his spouse were the parents of ten children.&nbsp; Eight survived into the 20<sup>th</sup>Century.&nbsp; The known Elmer children are: Marie Ann Sichirich (1872-1946), Ida L. Elmer (1873-1891), Nina V. Scott (1877-1937+), Cora V. Enochs (1878-1962), F.W. Elmer II (1881-1948), James C. Elmer (1883-1920), Inez F. Ebersole (1885-1937+), Margueryte E. Cole (1887-1965), and Edward E. Elmer (1892-1900+).</span></span></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>&nbsp;REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;<u>The&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902), p. .</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\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"F.W. Elmer elected\"</strong>, January 10, 1891, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;Loses Noted Citizen”, December 24, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;________________________________________________________________________________________________&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JOHN</strong>&nbsp;<strong>A. BOUSQUET&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>[Mayor in 1885, 1886, 1893, 1894]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/37148071_0.jpg\" style=\"height:350px; width:206px\" /></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Jean Alphonse Bousquet</strong>&nbsp;(1845-1908)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">[from T.H. Glenn, 1893, p. 55]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jean Alphonse Bousquet (1845-1908) was born August 2, 1845, the son of Jean Baptiste Bousquet, and Marie Caillavet, the daughter of Louis Arbeau Caillavet and Marguerite Fayard.&nbsp; He married in November 1867 to Marie Eugenie Sabourin (1852-1894?), a native of&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;and the daughter of Charles Sabourin and Jan Thurber.(Lepre, 1991, p. 38)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></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\">Jean A. Bousquet and Marie E. Bousquet were the parents of four children: Joseph Arthur Bousquet (1871-1880+) m. Florence Savage; Edgar Gabriel Bousquet (1873-1962) m. Ella Mullen (1875-1900+); Lelia Marie Bousquet (1875-1936) m. James V. Hagan (18&nbsp; -1929); and Denella Bousquet (1878-1900+) m. S.L. Coward.</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Children</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Edgar G. Bousquet married Ella Mullen (1875-1900+) at&nbsp;New Orleans&nbsp;on December 15, 1898. James E. Bousquet, first child, was born July 1900 at NOLA.</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=\"background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255); color:rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:georgia,serif; font-size:14px\">Lelia M.&nbsp;Bousquet</span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Lelia Marie Bousquet (1875-1936) married James V. Hagan (18-1929) of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;on June 24, 1897 at New Orleans.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, June&nbsp;&nbsp; 1897, p. 8 and The Daily Herald, November 30, 1936, p. 5)</em></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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Danella Bousquet</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(250, 250, 250); color:rgb(54, 50, 45)\">Daniella Bousquet (1878-1921) was born at New Orleans. She married Sidney L. Cowand (1878-1930+) at Biloxi on December 9, 1905. He was born at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. In 1920, the Cowands were domiciled at Ocean Springs, Mississippi where he owned a cabinet making shop. They lived on Porter Street with Ada Cowand (1907-1920+), their teenage daughter.(1900 Harrison Co., Circuit Court&nbsp;Ms. MRB 17, p. 275;&nbsp;Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T623_808, p. 3B, ED 28; and 1920 Jackson Co., Mississippi Federal Census T625_879, p. 2B, ED 66) </span></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\"><span style=\"background-color:rgb(250, 250, 250); color:rgb(54, 50, 45)\">Mrs. Cowand gave birth to another daughter on October 11, 1921 at Ocean Springs. She died on October 15, 1921 only four days after delivery. Her corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, October 14, 1921, p. 6 and October 21, 1921, p. 2).</span></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\">J.A. Bousquet expired at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;on December 12, 1908.&nbsp; Eugenie died at NOLA on June , 1898.&nbsp;&nbsp;J.V. Hagan expired on 12-7-1929.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">New Orleans</span></span></strong></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/inline/images/Screen%20Shot%202018-07-19%20at%206.27.58%20AM.png\" /></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">[The&nbsp;Daily&nbsp;Picayune, February&nbsp;27, 1876, p. 3]</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Bakery</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In December 1893, Mayor Bousquet acquired full interest in the Sun Bakery when he bought his partners vested interest in the company.&nbsp; Bouquet planned to operate the business himself and retain the services of Fred Quint, who managed the bread making department of the bakery.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, December 2, 1893, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>New Orleans</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Bousquet family left&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;for&nbsp;New Orleans&nbsp;circa 1895 and planned to return August 1, 1897.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 17, 1897, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Jean Alphonse Bousquet-Mayor 1885-1886</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jean A. Bousquet served&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;as its Mayor from 1885-1886.&nbsp; He defeated Emile Laudner 161 votes to 148 votes in the 1885 election.<em>(The Daily Picayune, January 5, 1885)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Other elected&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;City&nbsp;officials for 1885-1886 were:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Secretary: Raymond Caillavet (1838-1898)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Treasurer: Edward Glennan (1854-1933)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Aldermen: E.L. James; R.M. Balius; Pedro Perez (1866-1927); and Phil McCabe.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Marshall:&nbsp;Cary&nbsp;Holleman</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;T.H. Glenn,&nbsp;<strong><u>The&nbsp;Mexican&nbsp;Gulf&nbsp;Coast&nbsp;on&nbsp;Mobile&nbsp;Bay&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Mississippi Sound</u>&nbsp;<u>Illustrated</u></strong>, (Delchamps: Mobile, Alabama-1893).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jerome Lepre,&nbsp;<strong><u>Catholic Church Records Diocese of&nbsp;Biloxi,&nbsp;Mississippi</u></strong>, Volume I, (Catholic Diocese of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1991)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,<strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>“Local Happenings”</strong>, December 2, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Latest</strong>&nbsp;City&nbsp;News”,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Latest</strong>&nbsp;City&nbsp;News”,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Latest</strong>&nbsp;City&nbsp;News”,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Latest</strong>&nbsp;City&nbsp;News”,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Latest</strong>&nbsp;City&nbsp;News”,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“James V. Hagan dies”</strong>, December 7, 1929?</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. Hagan died in&nbsp;Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;today”, November 30, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Picayune,&nbsp;</em>January 5, 1885.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Pascagoula</em>&nbsp;Democrat-Star,&nbsp;<strong>“Local News”</strong>, January 9, 1885, p. 3.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">______________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1887</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EMILE LAUDNER [Ladner]&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor-Emile Laudner</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Aldermen</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">M.J. Grady, E.L. James, E. Bakeler, and Joseph R. Davis.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">REFERENCES:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Biloxi herald, \'Town Council\', January 21, 1888, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EMILE LAUDNER [Ladner]&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">[Mayor 1887]</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Walker%2C John (18-1908).jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:207px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JOHN C. WALKER</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;Mayor of Biloxi 1888-1889</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>The City election at Biloxi for Mayor and City Council was held on March &nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John C. Waker, Mayor</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Kuhn</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Elmer</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">S.C.&nbsp;Stirling</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Gorenflo</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>The&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u></strong>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902), p. 52.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Charles L. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong><u>Along The Gulf</u></strong>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church:&nbsp; Pass Christian-1971.&nbsp; Originally published 1895).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><strong>Journals</strong></em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;<em>Herald, </em><strong>\"Announcement\"</strong>, March 3, 1888.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;Herald, </em><strong>\"Official Municipal Vote\"</strong>&nbsp;March 10, 1888.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;<em>Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\" &nbsp;\"</strong>,&nbsp;March , 1888.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Captain Walker fatally shoots himself and wife”</strong>, June 8, 1907.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Captain Walker’s will\"</strong>, June 15, 1907.</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\">______________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Howard%2C Harry Turner.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:205px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>HARRY T. HOWARD</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi 1889-1890</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>F.W. ELMER</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of&nbsp;</strong><strong>Biloxi</strong><strong>&nbsp;1891-1892</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Frederick William Elmer was elected Mayor of Biloxi on January &nbsp;6, 1891. &nbsp;He defeated two opponents, Zachary Taylor Champlin and A.B. DeLamarre. &nbsp;Of the votes cast, Mr. Elmer received 392, Champlain 102 and DeLamarre 74. &nbsp;Mr. Elmer was lauded in the local journal with these words:&nbsp;<strong>\"</strong>[F.W. Elmer is]&nbsp;<strong>a man of sound ideas, liberality of opinion, energy and progressive tendencies, and during the years he has previously served his constituency, both as a municipal officer and state legislator, has proven fidelity to Biloxi, his interest inher welfare and displayued an executive ability which fits him for the office to which he had been called.\"</strong>(The Biloxi Herald, January 10, 1891, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1891 Biloxi City Council</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">F.W. Elmer, Mayor</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Treasurer-Edward Glennan</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Francis A. Caillavet,&nbsp;Marshall</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John A. Bousquet, Secretary&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman 1st Ward-Emile V. Laudner</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman 2nd Ward-Phil McCabe</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman 3rd Ward-Raymond Caillavet (1838-1898)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman 4th Ward-James O. Donohoe</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>The&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u></strong>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902), p. .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>\"F.W. Elmer elected\"</strong>, January 10, 1891, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Proceedings of the Town Council”</strong>, January 4, 1892, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;Loses Noted Citizen”, December 24, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JEAN A. BOUSQUET</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from 1893-1894.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In early January 1893, the new&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;city government took office.&nbsp; In the Mayoral race, Jean A. Bousquet beat challenger Zachary T. Champlin (1847-1924) in a very close contest sixty-six to sixty-three votes.&nbsp; Other elected officials were: W.K.M. Dukate (1852-1916), treasurer; Ward 1-T.H. Gleason; Ward 2-A.M. Dulion; Ward 3-Michael J. Louge (1847-1921); Ward 4-John C. Bradford.&nbsp; Phil McCabe (1867-1935) was city clerk and W.P. Murray, city marshal.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, January 7, 1893)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Biloxi</strong>’s new municipal officers”, January 7, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Latest</strong>&nbsp;City&nbsp;News”, July 17, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;<strong>1894</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1895</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Glennan%2C Edward-1.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:206px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EDWARD GLENNAN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Edward Glennan Mayor of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from 1895-1896.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Edward Glennan<strong>&nbsp;</strong>(1911-1933) was born at&nbsp;New Orleans&nbsp;on February 13, 1854, the son of James Glennan and Anne Daugherty, both Irish immigrants. In October 1884<strong>,&nbsp;</strong>Edward Glennan married Mary E. Colbert (1858-1938), the daughter of Anthony Colbert and Bridget Kirby at&nbsp;Biloxi,&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;in the Nativity BVM Catholic Church.&nbsp; Five children: Francis E. Glennan (1885-1914) m. Jennie Frees; Celestia Violet Glennan (1887); Ethel L. Glennan (1889-);&nbsp; Hazel L. Glennan (1891-1891), Roy O. Glennan (1894-1982); and Althea S. Glennan (1898) m. George R. Anderson.(Lepre, 1991, p. 136)Biloxi&nbsp;merchant since 1880.&nbsp; Resided on&nbsp;Howard Avenue.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The election was held on January 1, 1895.&nbsp; In the Mayoral contest, Edward Glennan and Thomas E. Gleason both garnered 103 votes.&nbsp; The City Charter required that the tie be broken by drawing lots and Glennan won.&nbsp; Other City officers elected were: T.P. Dulion, treasurer; J.R. Fowler, 1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Ward Alderman; J.B. Lemon, 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Ward Alderman; Raymond Caillavet, 3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;Ward Alderman; and John C. Bradford, 4<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Ward Alderman.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, January 5, 1895, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Biloxi</strong>’s City Election”, January 5, 1895.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1896</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1896 City Officers</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor Ed Glennan</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Aldermen:&nbsp;</strong>1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Joseph R. Fowler (1840-1914) and Isidore Heidenheim (1857-1918).&nbsp; 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: J.B. Lemon and L. Lopez. 3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Raymond Caillavet (1838-1898) and Nicholas Voivedich (1850-1937).&nbsp; 4<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Ward: John C. Bradford (1855-1928) and William Gorenflo.<strong>&nbsp; Alderman-at-Large-</strong>Daniel A. Nash (1858-1904).<strong>&nbsp; Recorder-</strong>Thomas H. Gleason (1857-1935)<strong>.&nbsp; Marshal-</strong>Joseph C. DeLamarre<strong>&nbsp;</strong>(1855-1931).<strong>&nbsp; Street Commissioner-</strong>Joseph R. Fowler<strong>. Assessor and Tax Collector-</strong>Richard J. Lowery (1867-1939).<strong>&nbsp; City Clerk-</strong>Phil McCabe (1867-1935).<em>(The Biloxi Herald, February 18, 1896, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>Bradford-O’Keefe Burial Book</u></strong>&nbsp; No. 20A,&nbsp;<strong>“Edward Glennan”,&nbsp;</strong>(Bradford O’Keefe Funeral Home-Biloxi, Mississippi-1933)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>The&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u></strong>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902). P. 51.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jerome Lepre,&nbsp;<strong><u>Catholic Church Records Diocese of&nbsp;Biloxi,&nbsp;Mississippi</u></strong>, Volume I, (Catholic Diocese of Biloxi: Biloxi, Mississippi-1991)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>&nbsp;</em><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“New Officers”</strong>, February 18, 1896.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“The new administration of the City of&nbsp;Biloxi</strong>”, January 4, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Glennan dies at&nbsp;Biloxi</strong>&nbsp;home”, December 18, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Howard%2C Frank Turner_0.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:197px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>HARRY T. HOWARD</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of&nbsp;</strong><strong>Biloxi</strong><strong>&nbsp;1897</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>City Officials</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1st Ward-F.H. McCaleb and Isidore Heidenheim</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2nd Ward-Joseph W. Swetman and Charles Redding</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3rd Ward-Lazaro Lopez and John McCormick</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">4th Ward-John C. Bradford and Raymond Caillavet</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman-at-Large-Edward C. Glennan</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">O.G. Swetman, Clerk</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">J.H. Neville, City Attorney</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">T.H. Gleason, Police Justice and City Recorder</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">R.J. Lowery, assessor and tax collector</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Charles Blake, Marshal</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">William T. Curry, Janitor</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;<em>(The Biloxi Herald, January 9, 1897, p. 1 and p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Resignation</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald, <strong>\"The City Officials\"</strong>,&nbsp;January 9, 1897, p. 1 and p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“City Officials”</strong>, January 28, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“City Council”</strong>, September 9, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">___________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Howard%2C Frank Turner_1.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:197px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>HARRY T. HOWARD</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of&nbsp;</strong><strong>Biloxi</strong><strong>&nbsp;1898</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor Pro Tem</strong>-Joseph W. Swetman</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Aldermen</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1st Ward-F.H. McCaleb and Isidore Heidenheim</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2nd Ward-Joseph W. Swetman and Charles Redding</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3rd Ward-Lazaro Lopez and John McCormick</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">4th Ward-John C. Bradford and William Gorenflo</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman-at-Large-Edward C. Glennan</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Attorney-James H. Neville</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Clerk and Auditor-O.G. Swetman</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Acessor and Tax Collector-Richard J. Lowery</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Registrar-W.L. Gilbert</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Physician-W.T. Bolton</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Marshal and Market Clerk-Charles W. Blake</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Street Commissioner-Raymond Caillavet</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Fire Department-Dan Markey</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;<em>Herald</em>,&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>“City Directory”</strong>, January 1, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;<em>Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>“”</strong>, .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">____________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Howard%2C Harry Turner_0.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:205px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>HARRY T. HOWARD</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of&nbsp;</strong><strong>Biloxi</strong><strong>&nbsp;from 1899</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor Pro Tem</strong>-Joseph W. Swetman</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Aldermen</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1st Ward-F.H. McCaleb and Isidore Heidenheim</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2nd Ward-Joseph W. Swetman and Charles Redding</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3rd Ward-Lazaro Lopez and J.C. Clower</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">4th Ward-John C. Bradford and William Gorenflo</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman-at-Large-Edward C. Glennan</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Attorney-James H. Neville</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Clerk and Auditor-O.G. Swetman</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Treasurer-T.P. Dulion</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Acessor and Tax Collector-Richard J. Lowery</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Registrar-W.L. Guice</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Physician-W.T. Bolton</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Marshal and Market Clerk-Charles W. Blake</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Street Commissioner-Raymond Caillavet</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Fire Department-Dan Markey</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;<em>Herald</em>, <strong>\"City Election\"</strong>, December 14, 1898.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>“”</strong>, .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;<em>Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>“City Council”</strong>, January 5, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;<em>Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>“Opposed to shell mountains\"</strong>, January 10, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_______________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Nash%2C Daniel A..JPG\" style=\"height:350px; width:244px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>DANIEL A. NASH</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of&nbsp;</strong><strong>Biloxi</strong><strong>&nbsp;from 1899-1900.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Dr. Daniel Arthur Nash (1858-1904) was born at Livingston,&nbsp;Sumter County,&nbsp;Alabama&nbsp;on December 10, 1858.&nbsp; His parents were Preston G. Nash (1821-1880+), a&nbsp;Virginia&nbsp;born attorney and later Chancery Clerk of&nbsp;Sumter&nbsp;County,&nbsp;Alabama, and by birth and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , a native of&nbsp;North Carolina.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Marriage and family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1900, he married&nbsp;Elizabeth&nbsp;‘Lizzie’ Carraway (1869-1935) of&nbsp;Jackson,&nbsp;Mississippi.&nbsp; She was the daughter of John Chapman Carroway (1843-1901) and Arcola Carroway (1848-1933).&nbsp; John C. Carroway (1873-1931), Mrs. Nash’s brother, was cashier at the Bank of Biloxi and later .&nbsp; The couple had a child born circa 1901 that expired at birth.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Professional</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Painless Dentistry</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Dr. D.A. Nash</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>DENTIST</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Office in the&nbsp;Picard</strong>&nbsp;Building&nbsp;opposite the Opera House</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Biloxi,&nbsp;Mississippi</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Teeth pulled and extracted without pain.&nbsp; My method is a simple discovery scientifically applied and perfectly harmless.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>(The Biloxi Herald, July 22, 1893, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Politics</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Elected Alderman-at-Large and served in this capacity in 1895? And 1896.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, February 18, 1896, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1900, the Carroway family lived on Front Street at Biloxi.(1900 Harrison County, Mississippi Federal Census T623 808, p. 1A, ED 31)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayoral appointment</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">With the resignation of Mayor H.T. Howard,<strong>&nbsp;</strong>Dr. Daniel A. Nash, Alderman of Ward 3, was appointed Mayor of Biloxi by Governor Anselm J. McLauren (1848-1909).&nbsp; After resigning his position as City alderman, Daniel A. Nash took the oath of office on September 5, 1899.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Yachtsman</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Dr. Nash was heavily involved in the Biloxi Yacht Club and Southern Gulf Yachting Association.&nbsp; He served as Commodore of the BYC and</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Urania</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Dr. Nash and William Via owned the swift racing, yacht&nbsp;<strong><em>Urania.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong>At the 1903 Annual Gulfport Yacht Club Regatta, they decided not to sail&nbsp;<strong><em>Urania&nbsp;</em></strong>to defend the GCYA cup held by the Biloxi Yacht Club.&nbsp; The owners felt that their craft could win the upcoming Gulfport regatta, but were offended by criticism resulting from the Bay-Waveland race in which Mr. Via’s piloting of the&nbsp;<strong><em>Urania&nbsp;</em></strong>met with scrutiny.&nbsp; William Nels Johnson (1864-1903+), the builder of&nbsp;<strong><em>Urania</em></strong>, had sailed her to six wins in seven matches against all comers.&nbsp; The boat had new sails and the owners felt that she had no other rival on the Mississippi Coast except the&nbsp;<strong><em>Gladiola.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong>Dr. Nash commented that the&nbsp;<strong><em>Urania&nbsp;</em></strong>was for sale.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, July 29, 1903, p. 1)</em><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Nash home and Fire</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the spring of 1897, Dr. Nash let a contract to William P. Burke (1858-1924) to erect a six-room cottage in the Keller Addition Subdivision on the Biloxi front beach. &nbsp;John C. Carraway, his brother-in-law, was also having his residence built nearby by John R. Harkness (1827-1903).<em>(The Biloxi Herald, April 3, 1897, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Dr. Nash’s beach front domicile west of the Biloxi Cemetery was destroyed in a large conflagration on February 10, 1902.&nbsp; Faulty electric wiring was believed to be the origin of the fire.&nbsp; Dr. Nash escaped from the burning structure with a minimal amount of clothing on his person.&nbsp; The vacant Judge H.C. Turley home adjacent to the Nash place was saved by a volunteer bucket brigade.&nbsp; Dr. Nash estimated his losses at $5000, which included many painting and silverware.&nbsp; He carried $3000 in insurance with the Swan Agency.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, February 11, 1902, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">It is interesting to note that Judge H.C. Turley was appointed Postmaster at Natchez in April 1897 during the William McKinley (1843-1901) presidential administration.&nbsp; Judge Turley was Republican National Committeeman for Mississippi from 1900 to February 1904.<em>(The Biloxi Herald, April 3, 1897, p. 1 and The New York Times, February 28, 1904, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In June 1902,<strong>&nbsp;</strong>Dr. Nash and family took up quarters at the Montross Hotel on the Biloxi waterfront.&nbsp; They later relocated to a home on the corner of Howard Avenue and Couevas Street.&nbsp; In late August 1903, he planned to hold a fire works celebration at his home for the children of Ward 2, if James K. Vardaman (1861-1930) was elected Governor of Mississippi.&nbsp; Mr. Vardaman was elected and served one term as Governor.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, June 30, 1902, p. 8 and August 27, 1903, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>D.A. Nash</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Doctor of Dental Surgery</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Hours 8:30 a.m-6:00 p.m.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Office upstairs Bank of Biloxi building</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 21, 1903, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Accidental death</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Dr. Daniel A. Nash expired at his Biloxi residence in late March 1904.&nbsp; He was accidentally shot to death with his own shot gun.&nbsp; The funeral was held at his Couevas Street residence with the Reverend H.W. Van Hook of the Biloxi Methodist Church presiding.&nbsp; Dr. Nash was eulogized by&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi&nbsp;</em>Daily:<strong><em>in his death the City of Biloxi has lost a useful and progressive citizen who had the future of the place he had adopted as his home close to his heart.”&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong>His corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi Cemetery.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, March 26, 1904, p. 5 and The Progress, April 2, 1904, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Elizabeth C. Nash and H.D. Lowd</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In May 1908, Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Carraway Nash married Howard Dickson Lowd (1860-1910) at Biloxi.&nbsp; Howard was her childhood sweetheart in Jackson, Mississippi.&nbsp; Initially, he made his livelihood in the newspaper business as a printer’s apprentice and bookkeeper for&nbsp;<em>The Clarion&nbsp;</em>at Jackson.&nbsp; In 1886, Howard D. Lowd commenced his own journal,&nbsp;<em>The Daily Advertiser.&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>It failed after two years and he went to Washington D.C. to work for the Government Printing Office.&nbsp; In 1907, H.D. Lowd returned to his native Jackson to become manager of&nbsp;<em>The Daily News&nbsp;</em>composing room.&nbsp; He became telegraph editor before relocation to Birmingham, Alabama to work in a similar post with&nbsp;<em>The Birmingham Ledger.&nbsp;</em>Howard D. Lowd expired in the nation’s Capitol in January 1910.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 12, 1910, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Lizzie Carroway Nash Lowd and her mother eventually relocated to St. Louis, Missouri.&nbsp; They were residence of the Washington Hotel in 1930 and of the Monterrey Hotel in August 1931, when John C. Carroway, her brother, expired at St. Louis on July 30, 1931.&nbsp; His corporal remains were sent to Biloxi, Mississippi for internment in the family plot in the Biloxi Cemetery.<em>(1930 St. Louis Co., Missouri Federal Census R1244, pp. 8A and 8B, ED 218 and The Daily Herald, August 6, 1931)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;<strong><u>The Biloxi Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u></strong>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902), p. 53.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“A Fish Story”</strong>, July 1, 1893, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Advertisement”</strong>, July 22, 1893.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local Happenings”,&nbsp;</strong>December 28, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Woodmen of the World”</strong>. August 31, 1895.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“New Officers”</strong>, February 18, 1896.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ”</strong>, April 3, 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>&nbsp;The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City Officials”</strong>, January 28, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi’ New Mayor”</strong>, September 1, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City Council”</strong>, September 9, 1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“John C. Carroway dies”</strong>, April 21, 1901, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Dr. Nash’s house burned to the ground last night”</strong>, February 11, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News”</strong>, June 29, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Senator McLaurin”</strong>, October 21, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Races Saturday”</strong>, August 19, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bank of Biloxi”</strong>, May 2, 1903<strong>.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“<em><u>Urania</u></em>&nbsp;will not enter”</strong>, July 29, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Firework-If”</strong>, August 27, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Advertisement”</strong>, October 21, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Dr. Nash Killed”</strong>, March 26, 1904.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Funeral of Dr. Nash”</strong>, March 28, 1904.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Clarion&nbsp;</em>[Jackson, Mississippi],&nbsp;<strong>“Mortuary Notice”</strong>, April 27, 1887.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Howard D. Lowd dies at Capital”</strong>, January 12, 1910.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Weekly list of deed filed”</strong>, September 27, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“John Carraway&nbsp;</strong>(sic)<strong>&nbsp;buried”</strong>, August 6, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Arcola Carroway”</strong>, September&nbsp;&nbsp; , 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Lizzie C. Lowd”</strong>, June&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; , 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The New York Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Southern Republican quits”</strong>, February 28, 1904.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;</em>[Ocean Springs]&nbsp;<em>Progress,</em>&nbsp;<strong>“Personal News Interest”</strong>, April 2, 1904, p. 4</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JOSEPH W. SWETMAN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Swetman%2C J.W..jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:127px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi from 1901-1902.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Joseph William Swetman (1863-1937) was born at Handsboro, Mississippi on August 26, 1863 to Emery Swetman and Susan H. Long.&nbsp; On January 7, 1900, he married Sophie Pauline Schumann (1883-1965) in Harrison County, Mississippi.&nbsp; They were the parents of: Joseph W. Swetman II (1901-1937+); Evon Swetman (1902-1976) married Hazel Mattina (; Lloyd E. Swetman (1904-1992) married Louise E. Stewart; and Olga Swetman (1908) married Reginald H. Sewell (1906-1991).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Joseph W. Swetman was married twice before 1900 and had Mabel Beatrice Swetman (1891-1937), a daughter, who married Charles Dunbar Lancaster Hewes (1887-1917+) at NOLA in March 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Business</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Began his long career as a railroader and became a passenger conductor.&nbsp; Circa 1890, he established Swetman’s Drug Store, a pharmacy at Biloxi, which he enlarged substantially over the next forty years.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Election</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Dual Government</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Charles L. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong><u>Along The Gulf</u></strong>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church:&nbsp; Pass Christian-1971.&nbsp; Originally published 1895).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ,</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“The Quo Warranto”</strong>, January 13, 1901.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Jos. W. Swetman taken by Death”</strong>, May 31, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">___________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;<img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Elmer%2C W.F._1.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:187px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>F.W. ELMER</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi 1903</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor F.W. Elmer&nbsp;</strong>was notified by the&nbsp;<strong>Department of Commerce and Labo</strong>r that&nbsp;<strong>Chandeleur</strong>,<strong>Heron, North and New Harbor Islands</strong>&nbsp;were made&nbsp;<strong>bird sanctuaries</strong><em>(The Daily Herald, November 17, 1914, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ten years ago today”</strong>, November 17, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;_________________________________________________________________________________________________</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Bradford%2C John C. [older].JPG\" style=\"height:350px; width:235px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JOHN C. BRADFORD</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi from 1905-1906.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John Comstock Bradford (1855-1928) ran with no opposition for the 1905-1906 Mayoral term.&nbsp; City elections were held in December 1904 with the following results:&nbsp;<strong>Mayor:</strong>&nbsp;J.C. Bradford. &nbsp;<strong>Aldermen:&nbsp;</strong>1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Edward S. Balthrope (1873-19 39) and Harry Edwards.&nbsp;2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Joseph W. Swetman (1863-1937) and Charles Redding (1857-1926).&nbsp;3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: T.J. Rossell (1861-1923) and C.M. Buckingham?&nbsp;4<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Henry Latimer (1855-1941) and Judson C. Batton (1869-1943).&nbsp;<strong>Alderman-at-Large: Ed Glennan</strong> (1854-1933). &nbsp;<strong>City Clerk</strong>: O.G. Swetman. &nbsp;<strong>Treasurer</strong>: Percy L. Elmer (1873-1949). &nbsp;<strong>Tax Collector</strong>: Henry J. Meaut. &nbsp;<strong>Marshal</strong>: J.A. McKinley. &nbsp;<strong>Street Commissioner</strong>: Henry J. Guiterrez (1869-1953).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Board Appointments:&nbsp;</strong>Police Justice: Judge Thomas H. Gleason (1857-1935);&nbsp;Fire Chief: Louis E. Gill (1851-1919)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Superintendent of Water Works: Joseph O. Laska (1863-1911);&nbsp;Water Rent Collector: Edward L. Suter (1866-1943)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Health Officer: Dr. Walter J. Greaves (1868-1910+);&nbsp;City Attorney: W.H. Maybin;&nbsp;Street Sweeper:&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>The Biloxi Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u></strong>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902), p. 53.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“The City Election”</strong>, December 14, 1904.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“The New Board”</strong>, January 14, 1905.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>\"John C. Bradford died last night\"</strong>, January 1, 1929.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">__________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Glennan%2C Edward-1_0.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:206px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EDWARD GLENNAN&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor of Biloxi from 1907-1908</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Edward Glennan’s only opposition was George W. Grayson. &nbsp;In the first primary held in early November 1906, he garnered 245 votes to 159 for Mr. Grayson.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, October 20, 1906, p. 4 and November 7, 1906, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Aldermen:</strong> 1st Ward-Jacob D. \'Jack\' Covacevich; 2nd Ward- Edward H. Benedict (1868-1920); 3rd Ward &nbsp; &nbsp;; 4th Ward Jules A.A. Rousseau (1843-1913), Jacob D. ‘Jack’ Covacevich; Joseph Ott;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Chief: Louis Staehling</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Biloxi Daily Herald, <strong>\"Elmer\'s Sweep\"</strong>, November 14, 1906.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Municipal Candidates”</strong><em>,&nbsp;</em>October 20, 1906.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi’s new administration”</strong><em>,</em>January 7, 1907.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>THOMAS J. ROSELL</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor of Biloxi from 1909-1910.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Thomas Jefferson Rosell (1861-1923) was born on April 28, 1861, at Monroe County, Missouri.&nbsp; Married Kizzie Catron.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Expired at Biloxi on November 19, 1923.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Aldermen: Laz Lopez, John Reynoir, Thomas H. Gleason; Meunier; Judson C. Batton; Edward H. Benedict; Frank B. Castanera; and John J. Kennedy (1875-1949).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Clerk: William Gaston Henderson</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Tax Collector: Henry J. Meaut</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Chief: Louis Staehling</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Attorney: John J. Curtis</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>T.J. Rossell Manufacturing</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1903-new residence</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Nearly complete was the T.J. Rosell “pretty” cottage on Howard Avenue.<em>&nbsp;(The Biloxi Daily Herald, April 27, 1903)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1905 building boom</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The year 1905 at Biloxi was one of rebuilding and growth.&nbsp; Mr. Rosell’s company was a major player having erected since May 1905, the following: four residences for W.K.M. Dukate; a residential buildings for Daniel J. Gay and Charles Elarbee; a cottage for W.F. Swan; a cottage for Dr. Hiram M. Folkes; a residence for Mary Hunt; a $3000 residence for J.E. Swetman; a residence for E.L. Doyle; a $3500 residence for W.A. White; and a residence for T.J. Rosell.&nbsp; By late November 1905, the T.J. Rossell Manufacturing Company was progressing with the following developments at Biloxi: three buildings for W.A. White; one building for W.K.M. Dukate; a building for Dulion &amp; Rosell and Tony Benachi.&nbsp; In the planning stage were five cottages for William Watson on the Parson Property in the Avondale section.&nbsp; In addition, Rosell’s crews were busy at the Rigolets erecting a Catholic Church, which cost $1500, for the workers of the Lopez &amp; Dukate cannery.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 20, 1905, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1908 election</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Held on July 7, 1908.&nbsp; T.J. Rosell defeated J.W. Swetman, former Mayor, in an extremely close race.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1909-Commission form of government</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>The Biloxi Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u></strong>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902), p. 55.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Charles L. Dyer,&nbsp;<strong><u>Along The Gulf</u></strong>, (Women of the Trinity Episcopal Church:&nbsp; Pass Christian-1971.&nbsp; Originally published 1895).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, , p. .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News”</strong>, April 27, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi’s building boom”</strong>, November 20, 1905, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Recount asked for vote on Mayor”</strong>, July 8, 1908, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“To vote on commission form of government”</strong>, June 4, 1909, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“John J. Curtis is Biloxi\'s City Attorney”</strong>, January 19, 1910, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EDWARD GLENNAN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi 1911</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&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/Glennan%2C Edward-1_1.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:206px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EDWARD GLENNAN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Edward Glennan ran unopposed for Biloxi Mayor in the 1910 election.<em>(The Biloxi Daily Herald, August 9, 1910, p. 4)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>ALDERMEN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Edward Barq (1871-1943)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Edward H. Benedict (1868-1920)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: John J. Kennedy (1875-1949)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">4<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Joseph Venus (b. 1884)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman-at-Large: Isidore Heidenheim (1857-1918)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Clerk: William Gaston Henderson, $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Tax Collector: Henry J. Meaut (1842-1934), $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Marshal: Louis Staehling (1865-1938), $85 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Policemen: Peter Bellande (1871-1933); Nat Bolton; and R.M. Randolph.&nbsp; Each $70 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Justice: James C. Elmer (1888-1920)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Attorney: Louis Goldman, $50 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Health Officer: Dr. George F. Carroll (1885-1920+), $40 per month in summer and $50 per month in winter.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Street Commissioner: John L. Swanzy (1881-19&nbsp;&nbsp; )</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Waterworks Superintendent-Eugene L. Castanera (1868-1917), $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Janitor and street sweeper-Martin Cavanaugh</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Pound keeper: Delmas Seymour, $40 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Candidates; Announcements”</strong>, August 9, 1910.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Facts about retiring Biloxi Council”</strong>, January 3, 1911, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Last meeting of old Council”</strong>, January 3, 1911, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“The new administration of the City of Biloxi”</strong>, January 4, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Lively meeting Biloxi Council”</strong>, January 4, 1911, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Fix salaries of City Officers”</strong>, January 5, 1911, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EDWARD GLENNAN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi 1912</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>ALDERMEN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EDWARD GLENNAN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi 1913</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp;The term of Mayor Glennan</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Naval Reserve Park</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Under the aegis of Edward Everette Moore (1879-1947), Alderman, a cemetery comprising twenty acres was laid out in the Naval Reserve Park in early June. &nbsp;He was assisted by Aldermen John E. Lewis and John Eistetter, as well as W.F. Swan. &nbsp;By late August 1913, the City Council has accepted the $825 bid of H.E. Latimer &amp; Son to harvest and clear the standing timber on the cemetery lot. &nbsp;At this time, Alderman Moore presented the City Council a plat for the new cemetery prepared by Fred Voak. &nbsp;Approximately 1500 gravesites, several small parks, and pine tree preservation areas were depicted on the cemetery plat.(The Daily Herald, June 6, 1913, p. 8 &nbsp;and August 27, 1913, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>J.R. Meunier resigns</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John R. Meunier resigned from his Alderman\'s post to accepted the postion of US Postmaster at Biloxi in early August 1913. &nbsp;He was replaced by Benedict.(The Daily Herald, August 6, 1913, 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\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>ALDERMEN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Isadore Heidenheim (1857-1918); Jacob Tremmel (1876-1941),</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;Ward; Edward Everette Moore (1879-1947); John Eistetter; Hugh McCallum; John E. Lewis; John Meunier; Lee Elder; and Pascal Meaut.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Street Commissioner: John L. Swanzy (1881-19&nbsp;&nbsp; )</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Clerk: J.V. Hagan, $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Tax Collector: Henry J. Meaut (1842-1934), $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Chief: Louis Staehling (1865-1938), $85 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Policemen: Peter Bellande (1871-1933); Nat Bolton; and R.M. Randolph.&nbsp; Each $70 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Justice: Z.T. Champlin</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Attorney: Louis Goldman, $50 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Health Officer: T.O. Hunter, $40 per month in summer and $50 per month in winter.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Waterworks Superintendent-Eugene L. Castanera (1868-1917), $75 permonth.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Janitor and street sweeper-Martin Cavanaugh</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Sanitary inspector-Julius Sablich</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Pound keeper: C.C. Kirk, $40 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi new City Council meets; officers named and pay is fixed”,&nbsp;</strong>January 8, 1913, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Will lay out cemetery”</strong>, June 6, 1913, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Meunier resigns; Benedict seated on City Council”,&nbsp;</strong>August 6, 1913, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Plat prepared for Cemetery”</strong>,<strong>&nbsp;</strong>August 27, 1913, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EDWARD GLENNAN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi 1914</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Naval Reserve Park</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the spring of 1914, H.E. Latimer and his work crew of eight men and mule teams began to cut a road into the Naval Reserve Park from Pass Christian Road. &nbsp;Called Glennan Avenue, the new road went north from Pass Christian Road for 1/4 mile and turned west for 1/4 mile to the site of the new cemetery. &nbsp;There were still virgin pine and gum trees in this area of Biloxi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Glennan Avenue</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp;</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>ALDERMEN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Edward Barq (1871-1943) and C.J. Keller</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: John Eistetter and Theodore Desporte</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Everette E. Moore (1879-1947) and Jacob Tremmel</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">4<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Charles B. Foster and J.C. Batton</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman-at-Large: John E. Lewis</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Street Commissioner-John Swanzy</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Water Works Superintendent-</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Clerk: J.V. Hagan, $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Tax Collector: Henry J. Meaut (1842-1934), $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Chief: Louis Staehling (1865-1938), $85 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Policemen: Peter Bellande (1871-1933); Nat Bolton; and R.M. Randolph.&nbsp; Each $70 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Justice: Z.T. Champlin</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Attorney:&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Health Officer:&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Janitor and street sweeper-</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Pound keeper:&nbsp;</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Street Commissioner: John L. Swanzy (1881-19&nbsp;&nbsp; )</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Clerk: Tax Collector: Henry J. Meaut (1842-1934), $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Chief: Louis Staehling (1865-1938), $85 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Policemen: Peter Bellande (1871-1933); Nat Bolton; and R.M. Randolph.&nbsp; Each $70 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Justice:</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Attorney: Louis Goldman, $50 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Health Officer: T.O. Hunter, $40 per month in summer and $50 per month in winter.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Waterworks Superintendent-Eugene L. Castanera (1868-1917), $75 permonth.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Janitor and street sweeper-Martin Cavanaugh</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Pound keeper: C.C. Kirk, $40 per month.</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“E.E. Moore seeks reelection”,&nbsp;</strong>May 14, 1914, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Glennan Avenue now gives excess to the cemetery”, </strong>June 2, 1914, p..</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Staehling re-elected Police Chief”,&nbsp;</strong>July 1, 1914, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Walter Hunt is elected in Second Ward”,&nbsp;</strong>December 9, 1914.</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>EDWARD GLENNAN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi 1915</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor Edward Glennan (1854-1933) started his final year as Mayor of Biloxi with turmoil in the Police Department.&nbsp; In January 1918, when it was time to reappoint patrolmen, Walter H. Hunt (1887-1961), 1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Ward Alderman, opposed that Frank J. ‘Zudie’ Hightower (1890-1976), Peter Bellande (1871-1933), and John W. Mabry (1873-1940) continue with the force.&nbsp; The Board of Aldermen<strong>&nbsp;appointed Joseph Mattina&nbsp;</strong>(1889-1969), a barber;&nbsp;<strong>Willie Ryan</strong>&nbsp;(1876-1958), Biloxi Yacht Club keeper; and&nbsp;<strong>Martin Green Jr.</strong>&nbsp;(1875-1951), a boat dealer, to replace the three men.&nbsp; None of the City Council’s new policemen had any law enforcement experience and they had to be trained by Chief R.M. Randolph. &nbsp;Chief Randolph further stated that he was greatly surprised and&nbsp;<strong>was unwilling to part with Officer Bellande.</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;He declares that Officer&nbsp;<strong>Peter Bellande has always proven himself a&nbsp;very efficient Police Officer</strong>. &nbsp;Officer Bellande also has a large number of friends in the city administration as well as among citizens who are nor connected with the city.<em>(The Daily Herald, January 3, 1918, p.&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>ALDERMEN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Edward Barq (1871-1943) and C.J. Keller</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: John Eistetter and Walter Hunt</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">3<sup>rd</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Everette E. Moore (1879-1947) and Jacob Tremmel</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">4<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Ward: Charles B. Foster and J.C. Batton</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alderman-at-Large: John E. Lewis</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Street Commissioner-John Swanzy</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Water Works Superintendent-</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Clerk: J.V. Hagan, $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Tax Collector: Henry J. Meaut (1842-1934), $75 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Chief: Louis Staehling (1865-1938), $85 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Policemen: Peter Bellande (1871-1933); Nat Bolton; and R.M. Randolph.&nbsp; Each $70 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Police Justice: Z.T. Champlin</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">City Attorney: Louis Goldman, $50 per month.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Health Officer: Dr. W.T. Bolton</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Janitor and street sweeper-</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Pound keeper:&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“E.E. Moore seeks reelection”, </strong>May 14, 1914, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“W.T. Bolton is chosen Health Officer bu caucus”</strong>, January 4, 1915, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Glennan certain of victory, say Biloxi citizens”</strong>, June 27, 1916, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JOHN J. KENNEDY</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Kennedy%2C John J.-Mayor.2jpg_0.jpg\" style=\"height:300px; width:202px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi from 1919-1933</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">J</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">ohn Joseph Kennedy (1875-1949) was born at New Orleans on June 12, 1875, the son of Patrick Kennedy and Margaret M’Kenna Kennedy.&nbsp; J.J. Kennedy relocated to Biloxi from the Crescent City in 1897.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Patrick Kennedy (1845-1913) was born at Gaulestown, County Kilkenny, in southern Ireland.&nbsp; In 1866, he immigrated to America settling at New Orleans.&nbsp; Here he married Margaret M’Kenna (1845-1905), also an 1860s Irish immigrant.&nbsp; The Kennedys had eleven children of which five survived into the 20<sup>th</sup>Century:&nbsp; Katherine M’Kenna Coyle (1864-1952); William P. Kennedy (1873-1951) married Fantie Wright (1876-1969); John J. Kennedy (1875-1949) married Minnie Gilbert; Kennedy (1876-1900); and Mrs. W.W. Baltar, Mrs. K. Coyle.(<em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Sons who were born at New Orleans and became outstanding business men at Biloxi.&nbsp; John J. Kenndey in restaurant and hotel business, as well as politics.&nbsp; Kennedy Hotel on Reynoir.&nbsp; W.P. Kennedy engaged in retail drugs and oyster business.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Patrick Kennedy was in the hotel business at Biloxi.(BDH-pp. 57-58 and p. 64)&nbsp; On November 12, 1892,&nbsp;<em>The Biloxi Herald</em>&nbsp;announced that P. Kennedy &amp; Co. is the name of the new firm in Biloxi which will engage in the shipment of raw oysters.(\"local happenings\", p. 1, c. 1).&nbsp; Also selling beer in Gulfport.(Biloxi Daily Herald, March 11, 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\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Education and interests</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John J. Kennedy was educated in New Orleans at the Jesuit College, McDonough School No. 13, and Soule College.&nbsp; BYC, Biloxi Golf Club, Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce.<em>(The Biloxi News, March 21, 1926, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1898, J.J. Kennedy married Minnie Gilbert (1876-1900).&nbsp; One daughter, Sarah Kennedy (1899-1990) who married Gustave Philip Bentz (1890-1977) of New Orleans. &nbsp;Gustave Philip Bentz (1890-1977), age 86 years, Santa Maria del Mar Apartments, Biloxi, died at 8:20 a.m. Sunday, January 16, 1977 at Howard Memorial Hospital. He had been a patient here for four weeks. &nbsp;Gustave was born September 18, 1890 in New Orleans the youngest of the ten children of Henry Bentz (1847-1915) and Margaret Poppe (1849-1932). He was a retired rice buyer and had lived at Biloxi for three years. Mr. Bentz was a member of Nativity BVM Catholic Church. &nbsp;Gustave Bentz married Sarah Kennedy (1899-1990), the daughter of John Joseph Kennedy (1875-1949) and Minnie Gilbert (1876-1900). J. J. Kennedy was Mayor of Biloxi from 1919 until 1933. Mr. Kennedy, also a native of New Orleans, became an outstanding business men at Biloxi with interest in the hotel and seafood industry.&nbsp;Mr. Bentz was survived by his wife and a sister, Lea B. Laub (1888-1987), of Roanoke, Virginia. &nbsp;Bradford-O\'Keee Funeral Home of Biloxi directed the Bentz funeral with services at Nativity BVM Catholic Church followed by internment on Biloxi Cemetery.(The Daily Herald, January 17, 1977, p. A-2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Kennedy Hotel</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1926, Mayor Kennedy lived in the Kennedy Hotel with his daughter Sarah and Kate Coyle, his sister.<em>(The Biloxi News, March 21, 1926, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>THE KENNEDY</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Opposite L. &amp; N. Depot</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Member&nbsp;Mississippi Hotel Association</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Modern-Convenient</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Near Business Center and Beach Front</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Hot and Cold Running Water in Every Room</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Reasonable Rates</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>John J. Kennedy</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Proprietor &nbsp;</span></span><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>(The Biloxi News, March 28, 1926, p. 19)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1918 Election</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Elected in 1918 with W.H. Hunt and M.L. Michel as City Commissioners..</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Commission Government-1919</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">When John J. Kennedy took office as Mayor of Biloxi on January 6, 1919, he became the first mayor to govern the city under a commission form of government.&nbsp; The citizens of Biloxi in a special election held in late 1917, voted in a landslide decision to replace their Mayor-Alderman method of representation for the Commission system.&nbsp; In addition, the only pave streets in Biloxi at this time were: Reynoir to Howard Avenue; Howard Avenue from Fayard to Nixon Street; and one block of Lameuse Street.<em>&nbsp;(The Daily Herald, January 4, 1918, p. 1 and The Biloxi News, March 21, 1926, p. 1)</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1919 City Government</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor-J.J. Kennedy; &nbsp;Commissioner-W.H. Hunt;&nbsp;Commissioner-M.L. Michel;&nbsp;City Attorney-Louis Goldman;&nbsp;Pound Keeper-Baptiste Moran (1860-1927)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1921 City Government</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor J.J. Kennedy;&nbsp;Commissioner W.H. Hunt;&nbsp;Commissioner M.L. Michel;&nbsp;City Attorney: ?; Tax Collector- H.J. Meaut; Police Chief-George Bills; Health Officer-Dr. G. Frank Carroll; Commissioner\'s Secretary-Miss Josephine Marie;&nbsp;Waterworks Superintendent-Thomas Espisito and assistant, B. Villa; Street Foreman-William Cavanaugh; City Janitor-James Hunt; Pound Keeper: Baptiste Moran (1860-1927).(The Daily Herald, January 15, 1921, 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\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Gulf Coast Canners Association</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor Kennedy was elected executive secretary of the Gulf Coast Canners Association in early November 1921.&nbsp; The seven member executive council consisting of: E.L. Dukate, Charles B. Foster; and Hart Chinn of Biloxi; J.B. Humphries of NOLA; J. McDermott of Mobile; R.R. Rice of Apalachicola, Florida; and H. Taylor of Brunswick, Georgia.&nbsp; There was some concern that John J. Kennedy might tender his resignation as Biloxi’s Mayor.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 8, 1921, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1922 Elections</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor Kennedy ran in the July 1922 Democratic Primary against three challengers: Edward Glennan; George W. Grayson; and Dr. Anthony Ferrer. &nbsp;He won handily garnering 771 votes. &nbsp;Grayson ran second with 376 votes followed by Glennan with 367 votes and Dr. Ferrer with only 6 votes. &nbsp;Commissioner W.H. Hunt was defeated and replaced by M.L. Michel while John Swanzy was relected. &nbsp;Other candidates for Commissioner were Ed Ott with 503 votes and David J. Venus with 195 votes. &nbsp;This was the first election at Biloxi in which were allowed to vote. &nbsp;The newly elected municipal officers took office on January 1, 1923 to commence their four years terms in office.(The Daily Herald, July 7, 1922, 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\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Baton Rouge-1926</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In late May 1926, Mayor J.J. Kennedy was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to lobby against several bills in the Louisiana legislature that were serious impediments to the immediate future of the seafood industry at Biloxi.&nbsp; Sponsored by Senator Jules Fisher of Jefferson Parish and House Representative Allen J. Ellender (1890-1972) of Terrebonne Parish, this legislation sought to prevent person, firm, association or corporation that were not domiciled or residents of Louisiana from catching, taking, canning, packing, shucking, dealing in or transporting any oysters or shrimp harvested in the State waters of Louisiana.&nbsp; Mayor Kennedy was certain that the New Orleans’ delegation to the Louisiana legislature would oppose these proposals.<em>(The Jackson County Times, May 29, 1926, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Runs unopposed</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor Kennedy faced no Democratic opposition in the Democratic primary held at Biloxi on July 8, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Police Department-1928</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By early February 1928, the new police station on the first floor of Biloxi’s City Hall was nearing completion.&nbsp; Chief George Bills (1867-1945) had just hired Felix Mattina (1886-1946) and Frank Hecht (1901-1981) to the work with the night force to fill the void in his ranks created by the death of Officer Jake Stanovich (1891-1927).&nbsp; Mr. Mattina had prior law enforcement experience and had been a deputy sheriff.&nbsp; Frank Hecht had no police experience as he had worked for Standard Oil and the City Bus Company.&nbsp; With the new hires, the Biloxi night force consisted of the following men: Charles Lowd; Omer Graves (1886-1933); Evon Swetman; Richard Grady (1891-1958); and Lawrence Stockton (1893-1956).&nbsp; Chief Bills and Alonzo Gabrich (1894-1948), City Detective, comprised the day force.<em>(The Daily Herald, February 8, 1928, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Old Spanish Trail dedication-1929</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Governor Bilbo appointed Mayor Kennedy as Mississippi\'s official represented to the Boulder dedication ceremony at St. Augustine, Florida.</strong> &nbsp;This historic event&nbsp;marked the completion of the \"Old Spanish Trail\" from San Diego to the east Florida Coast.(The Daily Herald, March 18, 1929, p. 1)</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Resignation-July 1933</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On July 1, 1933, Mayor John Kennedy resigned his Mayoral post 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 an appointment from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945). &nbsp;Kennedy\'s presidential appointment was approved by the US Senate on June 13, 1933.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 13, 1933, p. 1, June 14, 1933, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">It was decided that there would be no Mayor pro-tem or appointee named to replace John J. Kennedy. &nbsp;City Commissioners M.L. Michel and John A. Swanzy would manage the business of Biloxi until a new Mayor was elected. &nbsp;Some of the potential candidates to replace Mayor Kennedy were: John W. Apperson; Anthony V. Ragusin; John W. O\'Keefe; William Baltar; Dr. A. Ferrer; William P. Kennedy; Jacinto Baltar; &nbsp;and Arnaud Lopez.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 14, 1933, p. 1, June 15, 1933, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Kennedy Hotel</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Exalted Ruler</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In March 1940, John J. Kennedy was elected exalted ruler of the Biloxi Elks Lodge replacing Denny Wambsgan.&nbsp; J.J. Kennedy had been exalted ruler in the past and was holding the office of trustee during the hotly contested contest for the Elk’s leadership of the position in 1940.&nbsp; Mr. Kennedy was comptroller of Customs for New Orleans district.&nbsp; Other officers elected were: Clyde Campbell (1896-1954), esteemed leading knight; Chester H. Rose, esteemed lecturing knight; C.M. Drey, secretary; Eugene Lacaze (1869-1949), toiler; John E. Breaux, trustee; Joseph Lawrence, treasurer; W.F. Hubbell, Alternate to grand lodge.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1940, p. 8)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Chinn’s election</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>The Biloxi Daily Herald, Business and Professional Men</u></strong>, (The Biloxi Daily Herald: Biloxi, Mississippi-1902).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>The Daily Herald 50<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Golden Jubilee Number Biographical and Historical 1884-1934</u></strong>, (The Daily Herald: Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi-1934).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City News”</strong>, January</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>The Daily Herald</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“John J. Kennedy elected to important office by canners”</strong>, November 8, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>Commission form of government wins in Biloxi election”</strong>, January 4, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Council in annual meet”</strong>, January 15, 1921.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi\'s Municipal election causes largest vote in history”</strong>, July 7, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Builders of Biloxi”</strong>, March 21, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“The Kennedy&nbsp;</strong>[advertisement]<strong>”</strong>, March 21, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“The Kennedy&nbsp;</strong>[advertisement]<strong>”</strong>, March 28, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Hard fight ahead on Louisiana sea food legislation”</strong>, June 6, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Cannery crisis safely averted”</strong>, June 6, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Kennedy’s re-election assured”</strong>, June 13, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Police chances”</strong>, February 8, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bilbo chooses Biloxi mayor”</strong>, March 18, 1929.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Kennedy Brothers attend class reunion”</strong>, March 30, 1930.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“President nominates Mayor Kennedy to be Comptroller of Customs”</strong>, June 13, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Many to seek Mayor\'s post”</strong>, June 14, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Senate approves nomination of Mayor Kennedy ”</strong>, June 14, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“No Mayor to be appointed”</strong>, June 15, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxians to elect Mayor on Aug. 25”</strong>, July 3, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxians to elect Mayor on Aug. 25”</strong>, July 3, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Kennedy’s friends give him send-off ”</strong>, July 5, 1933, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ferrer makes announcement”</strong>, July 6, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Staehling is out of race”</strong>, July 31, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City election will be August 18, 1933”</strong>, August 18, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Gabrich resigns as Police Chief”</strong>, August 18, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxians to elect Mayor on Aug. 25”</strong>, July 3, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Kennedy is new exalted ruler”</strong>, , 1940, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“John J. Kennedy, ex-Biloxi Mayor dies at residence”</strong>, September 13, 1949.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“W.P. Kennedy Sr. is buried Sunday with Catholic Services”</strong>, December 24, 1951.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Committee to visit Gulf Coast towns”</strong>, January 30, 1926, p. 4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor Kennedy fights for Coast Packers”</strong>, May 29, 1926.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune</em>, <strong>\'Women vote for first time\'</strong>, July 6, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>R. HART CHINN</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Chinn%2C R. Hart-1934_1.jpg\" style=\"height:320px; width:194px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of Biloxi from 1933-1934</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Richard&nbsp;Hart Chinn (1888-1972), called Hart, was 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; Buck Chinn was born in Salem, Virginia the son of Robert Chinn (1822-1880+) and Frances A. Chinn (1826-1880+).&nbsp; By 1880, the Robert Chinn family had relocated to Ralls County in northeast Missouri where they were farmers.&nbsp; Buck Chinn was married circa 1880 and had a son, Roy Chinn (1881).&nbsp; His wife died and he married Martha E. Hart, a native of Winchester; Kentucky.&nbsp; In addition to Hart Chinn, Buck and Martha H. Chinn had Mary F. Chinn (1891-19&nbsp; ); and Thomas Gill Chinn (1893-1953) who were born at Biloxi, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Biloxi Milling Company</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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,&nbsp;<strong>the Biloxi Milling Company,&nbsp;</strong>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\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Hart Chinn and Leo E. Ohr</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">R. Hart Chinn (1888-1972), who would become Mayor of Biloxi in the 1930s, and Leo E. Ohr (1890-1970), Biloxi’s master mechanic, were caught speeding on Ohr’s motorcycle and charged with a violating the bicycle law.&nbsp; They appeared at the City court and were discharged by the judge because the City had no ordinances applicable to motorcycles.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 12, 1911, p. 8)&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Chinn Motor Car Company-Chinn Auto Company Inc.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Chinn Motor Car Company was organized at Biloxi in September&nbsp;1913.&nbsp; Initially Hart Chinn was the manager and often went to New Orleans to buy automobiles for the business.&nbsp; In September 1915, the Chinn Motor Car Company was incorporated as the Chinn Auto Company Inc. with Martha E. Chinn, Mary F. Chinn, and Thomas Gill Chinn as incorporators.&nbsp; The company was in business to buy, sell, and repair automobiles, as well as motorcycles and bicycles.&nbsp; The Chinn enterprise, situated on Reynoir Street between Howard Avenue and the L&amp;N Depot, was considered as one of the well established car dealerships on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and had shown an increase in sales since its commencement.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 29, 1913, p. 8, January 21, 1914, p. 2 and September 9, 1915, p. 2 and&nbsp;</em>Harrison Co., Mississippi Chancery Court Charter Bk. 15. p. 319.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Chinn Auto Company sold the Saxon, Hudson, Hupmobile, and Overland brand of motorcars.&nbsp; When the Biloxi Airdome, an outdoor movie theatre, burned in early May 1914, the Chinn Motor Company was damaged by water to its fixtures and tools from the nearby conflagration.<em>(The Daily Herald, May 5, 1914, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mississippi A&amp;M</strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Lt. Hart Chinn married Mrs. Vera L. Dukate Bond (1886-1977) on November 11, 1918 at Camp Sherman, Ohio.&nbsp; She had two daughters with Mr. Bond: Vera Leola Bond (1909-1989) m. Leslie Baltar Grant (1908-1986) and Willamene L. Bond (b. 1912).<em>(The Daily Herald, November 14, 1918)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Foster-Fountain Packing Company</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Manager in 1922</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1928 School litigation</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1933 Election</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;R.&nbsp;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. Hunt and Dr. G.F. Carroll.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Chinn v. Swanzy</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">At a City Council meeting on August 22, 1934, Mayor R. Hart Chinn struck City Commission John A. Swanzy (1881-) in the head with a</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1936 Election</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Running for Biloxi\'s mayorial office were: Dr. A. Ferrer; Jacinto Baltar; Dr. G.F. Carroll; and Hart Chinn.&nbsp; Louis Staehling had dropped out in late July.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 31, 1936, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Chinn v. O’Keefe</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1936 Congressional run</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">R. Hart Chinn ran for the U.S. Congress in 1936.&nbsp; Was to speak with J.S. Easterling of Laurel at KC Bazaar in front of BYC in July 1936.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 10, 1936, p. 7)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>The Daily Herald 50<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Golden Jubilee Number Biographical and Historical 1884-1934</u></strong>, (The Daily Herald: Gulfport-Biloxi, Mississippi-1934).<em>&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local Happenings”</strong>, December 3, 1892.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Milling Co.”,&nbsp;</strong>January 7, 1893, p. 8.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Biloxi Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“</strong><em>&nbsp;</em>April 22, 1893, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn &amp; Carraway”</strong>, November 1, 1907.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“No law against speeding motorcycles”,&nbsp;</strong>June 12, 1911.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,</em><strong><em>&nbsp;</em>“J.B. Chinn prominent Biloxian, succumbs to apoplectic stroke”</strong>, June 6, 1912, p.1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>J.B. Chinn will be buried today”</strong>, June 7, 1912.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“kk”,&nbsp;</strong>January 21, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Finds countryman in Biloxi concern”</strong>, March 26, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Airdome prey to flames; Davis loses too”</strong>, May 5, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“New cars received by Chinn Motor Car Co.”</strong>, May 28, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn Motor Corporation”</strong>, September 9, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn-Bond”</strong>, November 14, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Government officials visit Biloxi to aid in dredging channel”</strong>, March 17, 1922, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Will secure some free attractions”</strong>, June 27, 1922, p. 4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi School regulation is aired in court\"</strong>, January 14, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn holds big lead in Biloxi”</strong>, August 15, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Guice resigns as City Attorney”</strong>, August 15, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Guice resigns as County Attorney ”</strong>, August 17, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn wins Mayors office as Carroll and Hunt withdraw”</strong>, August 17, 1933.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn and Swanzy fight-gasoline bill argument encounter between two Biloxi officials”</strong>, August 22, 1934, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn, Parks make bonds-Biloxi Mayor and Secretary free under bond”</strong>, August 24, 1934, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Prosecutor charges Mayor Chinn with assault and battery”</strong>, August 24, 1934, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor Chinn hearing set”</strong>, October 1, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor Chinn is bound over”</strong>, October 3, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Siege at City Hall”</strong>, January 5, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Motion to quash Chinn indictment”,</strong>&nbsp;January 14, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Two political speakers”,</strong>&nbsp;July 10, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxians to elect Mayor on Aug. 25”</strong>, July 3, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxians to elect Mayor on Aug. 25”</strong>, July 3, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Kennedy’s friends give him send-off ”</strong>, July 5, 1933, p. 2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ferrer makes announcement”</strong>, July 6, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Staehling is out of race”</strong>, July 31, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City election will be August 18, 1933”</strong>, August 18, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Gabrich resigns as Police Chief”</strong>, August 18, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxians to elect Mayor on Aug. 25”</strong>, July 3, 1933, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Hart Chinn taken by death”</strong>, February 3, 1972.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“”</strong>, , 19.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor O’Keefe takes office by force”</strong>, January 12, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JOHN W.A. O\'KEEFE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from 19-19.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\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%2C John A._0.jpg\" style=\"height:350px; width:158px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>JOHN W. A. O\'KEEFE&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John W. Aloysius 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 (1864-1921).&nbsp;</span></span></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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Attended local schools and the Jesuit College at New Orleans.&nbsp; In 1901, promoted from first sergeant to first lieutenant in the Jesuit Cadets.(<em>The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, December 3, 1901)&nbsp;&nbsp;</em>John A. O’Keefe graduated from Tulane University in 1911.&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></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 class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><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 class=\"rtecenter\"><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 Washiington 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.(The Daily Herald, July 8, 1959, p. 8)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Patrica Mary O\'Keefe married Frank O’ Brimski 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 The Sun Herald, October 4, 2009, p. A)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Employment</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">He was employed on sugar plantations in Louisiana, Cuba, Haiti, Santo Domingo, and Trinidad as a sugar chemist until he entered military service during WWI. &nbsp;In late October 1916, O’Keefe departed Ocean Springs for Thibodeaux, Louisiana to work for a large sugar mill.(<em>The Jackson County Times, October 28, 1916, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">O’Keefe’s last assignment as a sugar chemist before entering the military was at a sugar mill in Trinidad, BWI.&nbsp; On his return from the Caribbean, he visited Washington D.C. where he took an examination to qualify as an officer in the flying corps.(<em>The Jackson County Times, June 2, 1917, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>WWI military career</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On August 23, 1917, John W. O’Keefe with several other young men from Ocean Springs boarded at New Orleans, the “Ole Miss”, a special train carrying Mississippi student officers to Camp Funston, Leon Springs, Texas.&nbsp; Here in December 1917, O’Keefe won his commission as a Captain in the field artillery.(<em>The Jackson County Times, August 25, 1917, p. 5, and December 1, 1917, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">By June 1918, Captain John O’Keefe had arrived in France, after an uneventful voyage.<em>(The Jackson County Times, June 15, 1918, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Cuba</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Left Ocean Springs in late October 1925, for Manoplea, Cuba.&nbsp; He attended the Georgia-North Dakota football game in Atlanta and made visits to Miami and Coral Gables before departing for Cuba.<em>(The Jackson County Times, October 31, 1925, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">“John O’Keefe? and E.W. Illing at Cuba on a large sugar plantation for last six months.”(<em>The Daily Herald, June 13, 1925, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Post WWI-Business and politics</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In March 1928, John A. O’Keefe became a partner in The Biloxi Laundry with John Wright Apperson (1862-1939), George J. Collins, Eugene Dowling (1880-1944), and W.L. Guice.&nbsp; This organization was chartered to acquire by lease or purchase or construction a plant or plants for the conduct of a general steam and hand laundry and dry cleaning business.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 21, 1928, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">After the European conflict in which he served as a field artillery Captain and flying observer in France and Germany, he went into business at Biloxi.&nbsp; He continued his military career as a Captain and specialist in the US Army Air Corps reserves.&nbsp; In April 1932, O’Keefe left Biloxi for New York to serve two weeks in the Air Corps headquarters in Gotham.<em>(The Daily Herald, April 11, 1932, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In March 1934, John A. O’Keefe retired as Grand Knight of the Biloxi Council Knights of Columbus.&nbsp; O’Keefe cited his active position as CWA aeronautics advisor for Mississippi and it was his third term as grand knight.<em>(The Daily Herald, March 20, 1934, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John A. O’Keefe was a leader of men.&nbsp; He was elected mayor of Biloxi in August 1934.&nbsp;&nbsp; and later appointed as Adjutant General of Mississippi by Governor Hugh White.&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>O’Keefe Airfield</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In November 1934, the town of Newton, Mississippi and the Newton County American Legion Post dedicated their new $12,000 airport to Major John A. O’Keefe, former CWA aeronautics adviser for Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Les Ives, 266 O’Keefe Road. Newton, ms.&nbsp; (601) 683-0202</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Biloxi Mayor</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John A. O’Keefe was elected Mayor of Biloxi in August 1934 to succeed R. Hart Chinn (1888-1972).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Chinn refuses to leave office</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Hart Chinn, former Mayor of Biloxi, alleged that Mayor elect John A. O’Keefe and his two City Commissioners should have been disqualified from the municipal elections because of irregular tax payments.&nbsp; Mayor O’Keefe seized City Hall on January 7<sup>,&nbsp;</sup>1935 with a band of armed supporters<strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Siege at City Hall</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Car wreck</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Resignation-Adjutant General</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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.<em>(The Jackson County Times, February 1, 1930, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In November 1935, Mayor O;Keefe was tapped by Governor Hugh L. White (1881-1965) to served as adjutant general of Mississippi.&nbsp; Mayor O’Keefe succeeded Thomas Grayson, also of Biloxi.<em>(The Daily Herald, November 8, 1935, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Grand Marshal</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In September 1939, Adjutant General John A. O’Keefe rode in Chicago as Grand Marshal for the Mississippi delegation to the National American Legion parade.&nbsp; He was selected for this honor by Ben Hilbun of Laurel, the State Commander of the American Legion.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 31, 1939, p. 3)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In January 1940, General O’Keefe’s term as adjutant general ended.&nbsp; He was praised by Lt. General Stanley Dunbar Embick (1877-1957), 4<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Corp Army Commander,</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Washington D.C.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">He went to Washington, D.C. in 1940, as assistant to chief of the National Guard Bureau.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>WW II Military career</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In September 1941, the O’Keefes were in Washington D.C. and were planning a party for friends at the Army-Navy Club.&nbsp; Lt. Colonel O’Keefe flew to Louisiana with General Williams, commander of the National Guard Bureau, to observe war maneuvers.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 22, 1941, p. 7)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">During WWII, Colonel O’Keefe served in North Africa with the Air Transport Command.&nbsp; In June 1945, he participated in the historic Yalta Conference.&nbsp; In addition to his US military decorations, O’Keefe was recognized by the Sultan of Morocco and the Bey of Tunisia for his accomplishments in the Allied forces desert campaigns against the Germans and Italians in the deserts of North Africa.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the spring of 1945, the Westergard Boat Works at Biloxi launched a steel trawler named&nbsp;<strong><em>John A. O’Keefe,</em></strong>&nbsp;which was built for the DeJean Packing Company. &nbsp;In October 1946, John A. O’Keefe was recognized by Pope Pius XII of the Roman Catholic Church as he was made a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.&nbsp; In retirement, O’Keefe was recognized as a Major General in the Mississippi National Guard.&nbsp; He passed at Biloxi on September 14, 1985.&nbsp; Interment followed at the National Cemetery in Biloxi.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 21, 1945, p.1 and October 15, 1946, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Colonel O’Keefe underwent a serious eye operation at Bethesda, Maryland in February 1951.(<em>The Gulf Coast Times, February 22, 1951)</em>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John W. A. O\'Keefe died September 14, 1985 at Biloxi, Mississippi.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><u>50<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Anniversary Golden Jubilee,&nbsp;<em>The Daily Herald&nbsp;</em>&nbsp;(1884-1934)</u></strong>, (The Daily Herald: Gulfport, Mississippi-1934).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>The History of Jackson County, Mississippi</strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>“O’Keefe-Third Generation”</em></strong><em>,&nbsp;</em>(Jackson County Genealogical Society: Pascagoula, Mississippi-1989).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Fifth Annual Masques Ball Scene of Exotic Brilliance”</strong>, February 12, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“The Charter of Incorporation of the Biloxi Laundry Incorporated”</strong>, March 21, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“O’Keefe Leaves For East”</strong>, April 11, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Resigns, As K.C. Head”</strong>, March 20, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“O’Keefe Airport Dedicated Monday”</strong>, November 13, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Siege at City Hall”</strong>, January 5, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“O’Keefe and supporters seize City Hall after midnight march”</strong>, January 7, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“No requests for troops Conner says”</strong>, January 7, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn talks with attorney, declines to reveal plans”</strong>, January 7, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>““New officers hold meeting”</strong>, January 7, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“City Bastille falls”</strong>, January 7, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn talks with attorney, declines to reveal plans”</strong>, January 7, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“6New attorney”</strong>, January 7, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn’s plan for regaining office are not revealed”</strong>, January 8, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Vote authority to collect taxes and other moneys due”,&nbsp;</strong>January 8, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi quiet, books needed”</strong>, January 9, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Importance of missing books”</strong>, January 12, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Indict Chinn for assault upon Swanzy”</strong>, January 12, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Taxpayer’s petition sets forth need of records in conduct of Biloxi business”</strong>, January 12, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Judge delays decision as Guice disputes claim of fear for personal safety”</strong>, January 19, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Activities at Biloxi City Hall increasing; taxes being received”,&nbsp;</strong>January 19, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn fined $100 and costs on contempt charge; Parks freed”</strong>, January 24, 1935, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“O’Keefe back from Capital”</strong>, April 26, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Mayor Will Succeed General Grayson, according To Jackson Announcement”</strong>, November 8, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Gen. O’Keefe Marshal of Legion Parade”</strong>, July 31, 1939.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“O’Keefes Plan Party”</strong>, September 22, 1941.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Westergard to launch trawler Friday morning”,&nbsp;</strong>June 21, 1945.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Col. John O’Keefe invested with St. Gregory medal”</strong>, October 15, 1946.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Speakers praise Col. O’Keefe at banquet held in his honor”</strong>, October 16, 1946.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Smith-O’Keefe”</strong>, July 8, 1959.</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Gulf Coast Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Personal Items”</strong>, February 22, 1951.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News Interests”</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News Interests”,&nbsp;</strong>October 28, 1916.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News Interests”</strong>, June 2, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News Interests”</strong>, August 25, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Ocean Springs Boys Win Commissions at Training Camp”</strong>, December 1, 1917.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News Items”,&nbsp;</strong>June 15, 1918.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local and Personal”</strong>, October 31, 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor O’Keefe Takes Office by Force”</strong>, January 12, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor and Mrs. Jno. O’Keefe Injured In Auto Wreck”</strong>, March 9, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Gen. John A. O’Keefe”</strong>, January 25, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“O’Keefe to resign as Biloxi Mayor, Feb. 10”</strong>, February 1, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“General O’Keefe and family take Jackson apartment”</strong>, February 1, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“O’Keefe praised by General Embick”</strong>, December 9, 1939, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Col. John O’Keefe accompanies the Secretary of War”</strong>, October 12, 1946, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Speakers praise Col. John O’Keefe at banquet in his honor”</strong>, October 19, 1946, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>&nbsp;The Ocean Springs News,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Local News”,&nbsp;</strong>July 4, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Ocean Springs News,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Prest-o-lite Tanks”,&nbsp;</strong>July 4, 1914.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;&nbsp;</em><strong>“Patricia O\'Keefe Obrimski”</strong>, October 4, 2009.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>__________________________________________________________________________________________________&nbsp;</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>LOUIS J. BRAUN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from 1897-1899.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\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/Braun3.jpg\" style=\"height:350px; width:133px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>LOUIS J. BRAUN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Louis John Braun (1890-1951) was born at Biloxi on July 1, 1890, son of Louis Edward Braun (1858-1915) and Gertrude Fayard. &nbsp;Louis E. Braun and Gertrude F. Braun acquired the Fountain home on Reynoir Street in February 1915 for $2800.(The Times-Picayune, February 15, 1915, p. 10)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1911, Louis J. Braun married Katherine Jones (1892-1983).&nbsp; Children: Russell J. Braun m. Louise Ruiz (1913-1992); June Elizabeth Braun (1915-2010) m. John Clark Sinclair; and Wallace Vogt</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Braun Packing Company</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In May 1924, Louis J. Braun acquired for $2000 from Foster and Fountain, R. Hart Chinn. President, and V.J. Olivari, vice-president, the Foster-Fountain Canning Company?, on Back Bay of Biloxi.(Harrison Co., Ms. Land Deed Bk. 141, p. 472)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In September 1933, Louis Braun’s Gulf Foods, Inc. was packing an average of 200 barrels of shrimp per day.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 26, 1933, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Replaces R. Hart Chinn</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Tourism</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor Louis J. Braun (1890-1951), John T. White, Ross L. Fickes, and A.V. Ragusin went to Marianna, Florida to convene on the promotion of tourist travel on&nbsp;<em>The Old Spanish Trail.(The Daily Herald, November 26, 1936, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Elected in 1937 and 1939.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">1936 City Government, p.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Louis J. Braun (1890-1951), Mayor</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Frederick A. Tucei, Commissioner of Finance and Education</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John A. Swanzy (1881-&nbsp;&nbsp; ), Commissioner of Public Works</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Frederick A. Tucei (1889-1954), City Clerk</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Charles H. Sentell (1884-1951), Fire Chief</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alonzo Gabrich (1894-1948), Police Chief</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1940 City Government</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Louis J. Braun, Mayor</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Frederick A. Tucei, Commissioner of Finance and Education</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">John A. Swanzy, Commissioner of Public Works</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Frederick A. Tucei, City Clerk</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Charles H. Sentell, Fire Chief</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Alonzo Gabrich, Police Chief</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>U.S.S. Biloxi launching</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On August 1, 1942, Katherine J. Braun and Martha Burnett, daughter of Dr. Riley Burnett and</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Former Mayor <strong>Louis J. Braun suffered a stroke </strong>in mid-October, which <strong>paralyzed his right side</strong>.(The Daily Herald, October 15, 1943, p. 5)</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u>Biloxi City Directory</u>&nbsp;(1936)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><u>Biloxi City Directory</u>&nbsp;(1940)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“L.E. Braun dies at early hour”,&nbsp;</strong>January 7, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi group visits Florida”</strong>, November 26, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>Mayor Louis Braun wins Biloxi’s Outstanding Citizen for Cup”, J</strong><em>anuary, 1, 1938, p. 1.</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. Braun to christen new cruiser”</strong>, June 3, 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Braun suffers stroke\"</strong>, October 15, 1943, p. 5.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Long illness is fatal to Mayor L.J. Braun”</strong>, March 19, 1951.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Times-Picayune,&nbsp;</em><strong>“News Item\"</strong>, February 15, 1915.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>CHESTER&nbsp;A.&nbsp;DELACRUZ&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of&nbsp;</strong><strong>Biloxi</strong><strong>&nbsp;from 1943-1947</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/37108574.jpg\" style=\"height:228px; width:200px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>Chester&nbsp;A. Delacruz</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Chester August Delacruz (1889-1964) was born on December 22, 1889 at or near Violet, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, the son of Simeon Delacruz (1869-1900+), sometimes spelled&nbsp;<em>Delacroix</em>, and Florence Heno (1871-1900+).&nbsp; He was the eldest of their surviving five children, as Florence Heno Delacruz had eleven born.&nbsp; Romaldo&nbsp;<em>Delacroix</em>&nbsp; (1835-1900+),&nbsp;Chester’s Spanish born grandfather, was living with them in 1900.&nbsp; There is a high degree of certitude that he Delacruz family was&nbsp;<em>Isleno</em>immigrants from the&nbsp;Canary Islands.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Delacroix</em>&nbsp;is the French equivalent of the Spanish, Delacruz, literally “from the cross.”(T623 579, p. 23A, ED 45)&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Los Islenos</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Like the French Acadians who located in southwestern&nbsp;Louisiana, Los Islenos came to&nbsp;Louisianawhen it was a European colony. They stayed, and today they\'re a cultural island.&nbsp; The French get all the attention in&nbsp;South Louisiana. But the Islenos -- literally, Islanders -- have just as rich a history and culture. The colonial government of New Spain brought some 3,000 of them here from the&nbsp;Canary Islandsbetween 1778 and 1783, to colonize the wild swamplands of St. Bernard Parish and serve as a frontier militia against British encroachment.&nbsp;&nbsp; For the next two centuries, they survived hurricanes and epidemics, and became expert shrimpers, crabbers, oystermen, muskrat trappers and bootleggers.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Marriage and family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Chester A. Delacruz married Julia Adele Brown (1891-1958) on May 17, 1908 at&nbsp;New Orleans.&nbsp; While residents of the&nbsp;Bayou&nbsp;State, Alice L. Delacruz (1908-1973), the young couples first child, arrived on December 18, 1908.&nbsp; Chester Louis Delacruz (1911-1996) was also born in&nbsp;Louisiana.&nbsp; Edna Mae Delacruz Moore (1915-1999), the third Delacruz child was born at&nbsp;Biloxi,&nbsp;Mississippi. &nbsp;She married Warner Oland Moore (1922-1994) in March 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Before relocating to&nbsp;Biloxi,&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;circa 1914, Chester A. Delacruz provided for his young family as a fur trapper in the marshlands of St. Bernard Parish,&nbsp;Louisiana.&nbsp; At&nbsp;Biloxi, he found employment with the C.B. Foster &amp; Company seafood processing and canning factory on&nbsp;Biloxi’s&nbsp;Back Bay.&nbsp;&nbsp;Chester&nbsp;rose rapidly in the company becoming assistant superintendent by 1917.&nbsp; He was promoted to superintendent of the C.B. Foster operation by 1920 and in 1930 was the manager.(1910 St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana Federal Census T624_527, p. 2A, Ed 60; 1920 and 1930 Harrison Co., Mississippi Federal Census T625_876, p. 23A, ED 42 and R 1146, p. 21B, ED 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\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Charles B. Foster</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Charles B. Foster (1877-1931), a native of&nbsp;Pascagoula,&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;became a good friend and business partner with Chester A. Delacruz.&nbsp; On several occasions they speculated in commercial real estate at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; Mr. Foster was reared in the seafood packing business at&nbsp;Pascagoula, as his father John Foster (1826-1903) founded in 1884, May bury &amp; Foster, successor company to the Mexican Gulf Canning Company of Joseph T. May bury (1841-1894).&nbsp;&nbsp; Lillie O. Foster (1865-1924), C.B. Foster’s half-sister, married Edward C. Joullian (1863-1931), who owned and operated the E.C. Jouillian Packing Company at&nbsp;Biloxi.&nbsp; In November 1903, at&nbsp;Biloxi, Charles B. Foster married Miss Mary E. Caillavet (1877-1951), the daughter of John Latour Caillavet and Georgiana Dees.<em>(The Daily Herald, June 27, 1931, p. 2 and The Biloxi Daily Herald, November 16, 1903, p. 6)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1914, the&nbsp;<strong>Foster-Fountain Packing Company was commenced by Charles B. Foster,</strong>Martin Fountain Jr., Gussie Fountain, and Louis Trochesset (1878-1933).&nbsp; Located at 278 East&nbsp;Back Bayin 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1916- Charles B. Foster Packing Company-</strong>founded by Charles B. Foster (1877-1931).&nbsp; Located at 224 East&nbsp;Back Bay&nbsp;in 1922.&nbsp; When the capital stock of the company was increased in 1920, from $5000 to $60,000, the ownership of the organization was revealed as follows:&nbsp; C.B. Foster, chaiman-20 shares; Chester A. Delacruz, secretary-10 shares; Mary E. Ford-20 shares; F.J. Ford-1 share; and W.H. Foster-20 shares.<em>(The Daily Herald, July 7, 1920, p. 5)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>I did a good bit of research on CB Foster Packing Company when I was doing my thesis. The company was founded by Charles B. Foster in 1915. He had previously partnered with the Martin Fountain Sr&nbsp;in Foster/Fountain Packing Company. Charles Foster\'s father John had owned a seafood company in&nbsp;Pascagoula</em></strong>&nbsp;back in the late 1800s and Charles Foster\'s brother in law was John&nbsp;Joullian. In 1915, when he opened his own company, Charles hired another in law, Anson Holley, to run the packing operation and to build boats for the company. Foster and Holley were married to cousins. Foster also had another relative doing his legal work him,&nbsp;a lawyer named Ford. CB Foster Packing Company was sold to Southern Shell and Oyster in 1934. Charles B. Foster died in 1931 I think.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>I&nbsp;believe&nbsp;Chester</em></strong>&nbsp;Delacruz II was manager at Southern Shell in the 1950s. My grandmother worked shucking and picking there at that time and she remembered him to me many years ago. When I talked with&nbsp;Chester&nbsp;II many years ago, he recalled working there, so I am pretty sure it was he that my grandmother remembered.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1922-Biloxi Oyster Shell Grit Company</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The Biloxi Oyster Shell Grit Company was organized in August 1922 by Chester A. Delacruz, Anson Holley, Charles Redding, C.B. Foster, and Mary E. Ford.&nbsp; The company was in business to crush and handle oyster and other shells.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 24, 1922, sec. II, p. 11)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em><u>Julia A. Delacruz</u></em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The&nbsp;<strong><em><u>Julia A. Delacruz</u></em></strong>&nbsp;was built by Anson Holley for the Charles B. Foster in 1924.&nbsp; Her official number was 224378 with registered dimensions: 58.7 feet long x 19.4 feet at the beam x 4.5 foot hold depth, and of 34 gross tons.&nbsp;&nbsp; Russell Barnes,&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;schooner historian, relates concerning the&nbsp;<strong><em><u>Julia A. Delacruz</u></em></strong>&nbsp;that: &nbsp;<strong><em>It’s just my opinion, but looking at the photos of this schooner, she was one of Holley\'s more impressive efforts. She had a beautiful sheer, a very fine sailor,&nbsp;and was a very good work boat. I have her tonnage and measurement in my collection as well as a photo of her from the 1928 race. &nbsp;The<u>Julia Delacruz</u>&nbsp;was built by Anson Holley for the C.B. Foster Packing Company in 1924.&nbsp; She was one of the last pure sailing schooners built for the local fisheries.&nbsp; I believe that&nbsp;Chester</em></strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Delacruz was working in some capacity for C.B. Foster at that time. That would explain why a boat was named for his wife. The&nbsp;<u>Julia Delacruz</u>&nbsp;worked in local waters for many years. She was converted to power in the early 1940s and survived until Camille. At that time she was owned by a man named Schmidt over inBay St.</em></strong>&nbsp;Louis and was named for his wife Carrie Schmidt.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Family home on&nbsp;Lameuse Street</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In May 1918, Chester A. Delacruz acquired at&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;a lot with improvements on the northwest corner of&nbsp;Lameuse Street&nbsp;and&nbsp;Division Street.&nbsp; This became his homestead until his demise in March 1964.&nbsp; The consideration to Elias H. Chisolm of&nbsp;New Orleans&nbsp;was $900.&nbsp; In November 1934, Julia A. Delacruz, his spouse, acquired for $800 and additional lot to the north of the family home from Sarah Kennedy.&nbsp; This gave the Delacruz family one hundred feet fronting on the west side of&nbsp;Lameuse Street.(Harrison&nbsp;County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 121, p. 573 and Bk. 203, p. 471)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mrs. Julia A. Delacruz sold her&nbsp;Lameuse Street&nbsp;residence to Chester L. Dealcruz and Lettie H. Delacruz, her son and daughter-in-law, in December 1957.&nbsp; The home was damaged in Katrina and torn down in 2006.(Harrison County, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 430, p. 7)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1934 trip</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the fall of 1934, Chester A. Dealcruz and family took a combination business-pleasure trip to&nbsp;Florida,&nbsp;Georgia, and&nbsp;South Carolina.&nbsp; As a president of the Biloxi Oyster Exchange, he was interested in these states where packers and shippers of seafood were situated.&nbsp; He found on this week sojourn that with the exception of a low shrimp catch, the packers were doing alright and expected business o improve during the winter.&nbsp; Mrs. Delacruz and Miss Edna Mae Delacruz also enjoyed their visits, especially to&nbsp;Jacksonville&nbsp;and&nbsp;St. Augustine.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 15, 1934, p. 3)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Chamber of Commerce</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Chester A. Delacruz was elected head of the Biloxi Chamber of Commerce in October 1935.<em>(The Daily Herald, October 5, 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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Delacruz Oyster and Shrimp Company</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Demise&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Chester A. Delacruz died on March 8, 1964 at&nbsp;709 Lameuse Street.&nbsp;&nbsp;First&nbsp;Methodist&nbsp;Church. Buried Southern Memorial Park.(Bradford-O’Keefe Burial Bk. 47, p. 193)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Chester&nbsp;L. Delacruz</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Chester</strong>&nbsp;L. Delacruz married Lettie Gloe Hendrix (1914-1999) of&nbsp;Gulfport&nbsp;at&nbsp;Pascagoula,Mississippi&nbsp;on December 19, 1932.&nbsp; Daughter of Mrs. C.I. Hendrix of&nbsp;Gulfport.&nbsp;&nbsp;Chester&nbsp;expired July 6, 1996 and Lettie on March 7, 1999.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1942 Election</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Bradford O’Keefe Burial Book No. 47</strong>,&nbsp;<em>“Chester</em>&nbsp;A. Delacruz”<em>,&nbsp;</em>p. 193.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Harrison County,&nbsp;Mississippi&nbsp;Chancery Court Cause No. 48806,&nbsp;<strong><em>‘The Estate of&nbsp;Chester</em></strong>&nbsp;A. Delacruz”-March 1965.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Death of a Prominent Citizen”</strong>, June 1, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Funeral Notice”</strong>, June 6, 1894.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Foster-Howe”</strong>, July 13, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“City Items”</strong>, September 25, 1902.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“Capt. John Foster”</strong>, September 26, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The&nbsp;Biloxi</em>&nbsp;Daily Herald,&nbsp;<strong>“City Items”</strong>, November 16, 1903.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Foster Ready”</strong>, June 25, 1925.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Foster-Clark”</strong>, November 15, 1927.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"Delacruz new head of C. of C.\"</strong>, October 5, 1935.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Foster-Holzner”</strong>, July 10, 1937.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Chronicle-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. Olivia Elizabeth Foster”</strong>, April 20, 1928.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Chronicle-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Charles B. Foster”</strong>, July 3, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Chronicle-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. Rourke Dies After Long Illness”</strong>, June 2, 1950.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Chronicle-Star,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mrs. Eva F. Ford Taken By Death”</strong>, August 11, 1959.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“C.B. Foster Packing Company”</strong>, July 7, 1920.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Oyster Shell Grit Co.”</strong>, August 24, 1922.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chas.</strong>&nbsp;B.&nbsp;Foster&nbsp;Passes&nbsp;Away”, June 27, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Charles B. Foster Funeral Sunday”</strong>, June 29, 1931.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Delacruz-Hendrix”</strong>, December 20, 1932.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Returns from trip”</strong>, October 15, 1934.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>TDaily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Delacruz is next Mayor of&nbsp;Biloxi</strong>, July 15, 1942.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Former Mayor C.A. Delacruz taken by death”</strong>, March 9, 1964.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;“Delacruz rites”</strong>, March 11, 1964</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,</em><strong>&nbsp;“Chester</strong>&nbsp;Louis Delacruz”, July 8, 1996.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>GEORGE B. COUSINS JR.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from 1947-1951.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">George Barrow Cousins Jr. (1909-1966) was born at Biloxi, Mississippi on September 10, 1909, the son of George Barrow Cousins<strong>&nbsp;</strong>(1883-1969) and Margaret ‘Maude‘ Clare Hannon (1890-1919).&nbsp; His mother died in early January 1919, shortly after she delivered their third child, baby boy Cousins (1918-1918).&nbsp; At Biloxi on April 20, 1908, George B. Cousins had married Maude Clare Hannon, a native of Louisiana and the daughter of Irish immigrants, Peter Hannon (1837-1889) and Mary Leaghy, Lahey or Leahey.&nbsp; Before her early demise, Maude had bore two sons: George B. Cousins Jr. (1909-1966) and Peter H. Cousins (1910-1979).<em>(The Daily Herald, April 21, 1908, p. 1, January 1, 1919, p. 1, January 2, 1919, p. 3, and January 6, 1919, p. 3&nbsp;</em>and Harrison Co., Ms. MRB 19, p. 379)</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\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">After the demise of his spouse, George B. Cousins married Alma Elizabeth Brander on December 23, 1923.(Harrison Co., Ms. MRB 35, p. 440)</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">G.B. Cousins Jr. was educated in the Biloxi Public school system and matriculated to the University of Mississippi where he received two degrees-Liberal Arts [1932] and Law [1934]. &nbsp;Mr. Cousins commenced his Biloxi law practice in 1934 and was appointed City Judge on May 15, 1935 and served as such for three years until he became City Attorney in August 1939 until he returned to the private practive of law in September 1941. During WW II, he served in the US Navy from 1943 until his discharge in June 1945. &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Marriage and family</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<h2 class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1936, George B. Cousins Jr. married Muriel Mead, the daughter of Walter R. Mead, a native of Mobile and Emelie Calogne (1887-) of New Orleans.&nbsp; Mr. Mead was a postal employee at New Orleans.&nbsp; He resided in Ocean Springs with his spouse and three daughters: Elaine Mead, Muriel Mead, and Audrey Mead. &nbsp;Two children: Patricia Claire Cousins m. William Wallace Weatherly in January 1958 and George \'Rabbit\' Barrow Cousins III m. Jean Ahern (1941-2013).</span></span></h2>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">G.B. Cousins Jr. was elected Mayor of Biloxi on July 16, 1946 by beating R. Hart Chinn in the general election. &nbsp;Mr. Chinn lost the election, but filed a complaint to void the contest. &nbsp;He claimed that one of the election commissioners</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor Cousins and A.J. \'Tony\' Creel and Gordon A. Dacey, newly elected City Commissiners, were sworn into office on January 6, 1947 by Circuit Court Judge Lawrence C. Corban. &nbsp;Creel was relected to his post while Dacey replaced John A. Swanzy who retired from politics after serving the City of Biloxi for many years.(The Daily Herald, January 6, 1947, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1947 September Storm</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Following the catastrophic 1947 Hurricane, which delivered strong winds and a thirteen-foot storm surge to the Biloxi shoreline, Mayor G.B. Cousins declared to property owners on Biloxi’s strand that&nbsp;<strong><em>“we are going to build a bigger and more beautiful city and not hurt a soul.”</em></strong><em>(The Daily Herald, September 23, 1947, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor Cousins appointed a committee of Biloxi citizens to aid in the planning and rebuilding of Biloxi following the 1947 September Storm.&nbsp; Judge Lelslie Grant was named committee chair and A.V. ‘Tony’ Ragusin, secretary.&nbsp; Committee members&nbsp; were: H. Mendum Dees, James Love, Anson Holley Jr., Dr. Riley Burnett, William Lee Guice, I. Daniel Gehr, Mrs. Sophie Desporte, George Collins, and G.J. Wiltz.<em>(The Daily Herald, September 23, 1947)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Demise</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>G.B. Cousins Jr. expired circa April 4, 1966.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Sr. expired circa 7-30-1969.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Cousins-Hannon”</strong>, April 21, 1908, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxians elect Cousins, Dacey Creel”</strong>, July 17, 1946.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Asks suggestions for rebuilding of Biloxi Beach Front”</strong>, September 23, 1947.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Election of Cousins as Biloxi Mayor declared valid\"</strong>, October 5, 1946, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Formal order is entered in Biloxi election contest”</strong>, October 17, 1946, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor G.B. Cousins Jr.”</strong>, January 6, 1947.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi\'s new Mayor and Commissioners take office”</strong>, January 6, 1947.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Citizens Committee is named at Biloxi”</strong>, September 23, 1947.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Cousins, ex-Mayor dies today”</strong>, April 4, 1966.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Showers and parties honoring Miss Mead are numerous”</strong>, August 29, 1936.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>, <strong>\"Jean Cousins\"</strong>, September 30, 2013, p. A-4.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>R. HART CHINN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Mayor of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from 1951-195.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In October, 1950 Mayor-elect, R. Hart Chinn, related to the Episcopal Men\'s Club at their dinner meeting that a salient feature of his administration would be to monitor that Biloxi\'s citizens got full value for every dollar expended by his administration. &nbsp;As an example of Biloxi\'s past government fiscal irresponibilities, he used the city of Meridian, Mississippi as an example. &nbsp;Meridan, although larger than Biloxi, operated for $770,000 each year, while Biloxi\'s operating expenses were $996,000. &nbsp;Chinn also stated to his attentative audience &nbsp;that certain conditions in reference to law enforcement in Biloxi would be corrected within two weeks afetr he was sworn in as Biloxi\'s Mayor.(The Daily Herald, October 11, 1950, p. 7)</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-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor-elect Chinn addresses&nbsp;church club; elect officers”</strong>, October 11, 1950, p. 7.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Williams enters race for Mayor”</strong>, March 25, 1953, p. 7.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Hart Chinn taken by death”</strong>, February 3, 1972.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Gulf Coast Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Chinn accuses ministers of accepting financial aid from Coast gamblers”</strong>, February 14, 1952, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>LAZ &nbsp;QUAVE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Quave%2C Laz Sheriff_0.jpg\" style=\"height:147px; width:117px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of&nbsp;</strong><strong>Biloxi</strong><strong>&nbsp;from 1953-1961</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Laz Quave was born on October 31, 1910, in rural Jackson County, Mississippi, near Vancleave,&nbsp; the son of Joseph Quave (1859-1928), a farm laborer, and Della ? Quave.&nbsp; In 1930, Laz Quave was a seaman stationed aboard the USCG Cutter&nbsp;<strong><em>Tallapoosa</em></strong>, near Annapolis, Maryland.(1930 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland Federal Census R 844, p. 29A, ED11)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Returning from his military duty, Laz Quave married Bernice S. Thornton (1908-2000) on June 6, 1934.&nbsp; She was the daughter of Arthur Thornton (1880-1922) and Sophronia ? Thornton (1883-19200+).&nbsp; Laz and Bernice T. Quave were the parents of three children:&nbsp; June Rose Quave m. Eugene L. Martino; Leon J. Quave m. Peggy Ann Cook; and Laz Quave Jr. m.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (Harrison Co., Ms. MRB 45, p. 210)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Police Chief</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Served as Chief of Police at Biloxi from January 4, 1943 to 1947, when he was appoined by Mayor Delacruz.(The Daily Herald, January 4, 1943, p. 5)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Sheriff Quave</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Laz Quave was elected Sheriff of Harrison County, Mississippi in August 1947 when he defeated Aubrey Beeson of Long Beach by about fourteen hundred votes.&nbsp; He succeeded Maxie M. Broadus of Gulfport.<em>(The Daily Herald, August 30, 1947, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the 1940s, Laz Quave had been a director and vice president of the Gulf Coast Shrimper’s and Oystermen’s Association.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Rosalis Inc.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On September 9, 1968, Charter of Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company amended and name changed to Rosalis, Inc.&nbsp; Roy Rosalis (1909-1984), president, and Rena LeBlanc Rosalis (1917-2004), secretary, 300 shares issued.(HARCO, Ms. Charter Bo. 2, pp. 175-178).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Venus and Quave</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On September 4, 1968, the Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company was chartered by D.J. Venus III, Gordon D. Venus, and Laz Quave.&nbsp; 150,000 shares par $1.00.(HARCO, Ms. Chancery Court Charter Bk. 2, pp. 179-182)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On October 10, 1968, Rosalis, Inc. conveyed to Biloxi Canning &amp; Packing Company for $610,000, all improvements, buildings, warehouses, docks, wharves, with riparian and littoral rights.&nbsp; (go 413.4 south along east side of Anglada x Landers x 253\' x Chartres (332.9) x 136\' (Stanovich) x Bay to Point of beginning on Anglada).&nbsp; Sale included the following brands:&nbsp; Negro Head, Biloxi, Sea Beach Canned Shrimp, Mobile Bay, Danny Boy, and Pueblo.(HARCO, Ms. Trust Deed Bk. 535, p. 47 and Bk. 535, p. 50).&nbsp; Mr. Rosalis then retired and resided at 872 Central Beach Boulevard.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Hurricane Camille</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Hurricane Camille of August 1969, according to company president, D.J. Venus, caused losses estimated at $1 million.&nbsp; There was doubt as whether the U.S. Pure Food and Drug inspectors would approve canned shrimp damaged by the tempest.&nbsp; Production was possible in two months.<em>(The Daily Herald,</em>&nbsp;<em>August 28, 1969, p. 18)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Loans</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">April 12, 1971, company under Venus borrowed $12,000 from Peoples Bank and bought more land to the west.(HARCO, Ms. Trust Deed Bk. 3, pp. 64-65).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">January 3, 1973, Venus-Quave borrowed $319,000.(HARCO, Ms. Trust Deed Bk. 49, p. 425).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In October 2, 1974, Henry Slay Guiterrez, president, and Pete Elder, secretary got a SBA loan for $500,000.(HARCO, Ms. Trust Deed Bk. 72, pp. 287-293).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Lease</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">On January 15, 1975, Henry S. Guiterrez leased a portion of the building to the Douglas-Guardian Warehouse Corporation of New Orleans.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 55, pp. 377-378).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Default</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In May 1976, Venus and Quave defaulted on payments to Rosalis and the Biloxi Canning Company was bought from Substitute trustee, David Cottrell Jr., for $200,000.(HARCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 65, pp. 486-488).</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor Quave</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">When Laz Quave placed his name in the race for Mayor of Biloxi, he was in competition with R. Hart Chinn, incumbent, Norman Levine (1918-1953+), poultry marketer, and Elmer Williams, owner of the DeJean Packing Company..<em>(The Daily Herald,&nbsp; April 13, 1953, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Supervisor Quave</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">From July 1962 to December 1971, Laz Quave served the people of Harrison County, Mississippi Beat 1, as their County Supervisor.(Sullivan, 2002, p. 581)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Laz Quave expired at New Orleans on December 20, 1985.&nbsp; His corporal remains were interred in the Biloxi City Cemetery.&nbsp; Bernice Thornton Quave followed her husband in death passing on February 26, 2000 at Gautier, Mississippi.&nbsp; Her corporal remains were also buried in the Biloxi City Cemetery.<em>(The Sun Herald, February 29, 2000, p. A5 and December&nbsp; , 1985, p. )</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Charles L. Sullivan,<strong>&nbsp;<u>Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College: A History</u></strong>, (McNaughton &amp; Gunn, Inc.: Saline, Michigan-2002)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong><em>Journals</em></strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Jackson County Times,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Quave is elected in Harrison”</strong>, August 30, 1947.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>, <strong>\"New Police Chief\"</strong>, January 4, 1943.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“May 12 ballot at Biloxi will have 19 names listed”</strong>, April 13, 1953.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><em>The Daily Herald</em>, </em><strong>\"Coast Mayors take office\"</strong>, July 6, 1953, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Quave Grand Marshal, Ross East End Marshal”</strong>, July 8, 1954, p. 23.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Quave enter councilman race\"</strong>, March 23, 1981, p. A-2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>,&nbsp;<strong>\"Biloxi leader Laz Quave dies\"</strong>, December 22, 1985, p. A-1 and p. A-12.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Bernice Quave”</strong>, February 29, 2000, p. A5.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>DANIEL D. GUICE</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Guice%2C Daniel -1964.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:128px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of&nbsp;</strong><strong>Biloxi</strong><strong>&nbsp;from 1961-1973</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Daniel ‘Danny’ Dicks Guice (1925-2017) at Biloxi on December 1925, the son of&nbsp; William Lee Guice and Lee Dicks.&nbsp; Danny was reared on West Beach Boulevard in Biloxi. &nbsp;He graduated from BHS with the Class of 1942. &nbsp;Danny matriculated to Ole Miss, but after one year in Oxford, Mississippi, he transferred to Tulane University in New Orleans. &nbsp;He Danny studied the pre-law curriculum and graduated from the Tulane School of Law. &nbsp;In August 1947, he was licensed to practice law both Federal and State law. &nbsp;While at Tulane, Danny was a KA and president of the Pan Hellinic Council; a member of Phi Delta Phi, the honorary legal organization; and on the Moot Court board.(The Daily Herald, April 3, 1948, p. 7)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Guice%2C Margaret Barrett.jpg\" style=\"height:150px; width:118px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Margaret Carolyn Barrett&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Danny Guice married <strong>Margaret Carolyn Barrett</strong>&nbsp;(1927-2006) in the Main Street Methodist Church on June 25, 1948. &nbsp;Margaret was born April 16, 1927 at Chicago to Clarence Burton Barrett and Margaret Hoy. &nbsp;She was a 1945 high school graduate in LaGrange, Illinois. &nbsp;Miss Barrett attended what is now Southeast Missouri State College at Cape Girardeau, Missouri and was an English and Music major. &nbsp;Their children were:&nbsp;Carolyn Lee Guice m. John W. Bode Jr. and Joe H. Singletary; Daniel Dicks Guice Jr. m. Janie Sue Bertrand; and Barry Guice.(The Daily Herald, April 3, 1948, p. 7, Harrison Co., Ms. MRB 77, p. 330, Harrison Co. Ms. 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD MRB 5, p. 237, MRB 12, p. 485, and MRB 7, p. 323)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Congress</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In April 1972, Mayor Guice became a candidate for House of Representatives from the 5th Congressional District.(The Ocean Springs Record, April 13, 1972, p. 1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Margaret Barrett Guice expired on October 1, 2006. &nbsp;Her corporal remains were interred in 6th Addition of the Biloxi Cemetery. &nbsp;Mayor Guice died on April 13, 2017.(The Sun Herald, October 3, 2006 and April 14, 2017, p. 6A)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></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\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Miss Margaret Carolyn Barrett\"</strong>, April 3, 1948.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor Guice named&nbsp;</strong>[Firemen’s Day]&nbsp;<strong>parade Grand Marshall”</strong>, September 14, 1962, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Name Guice member of A&amp;I Board</strong><strong>”</strong>, July 23, 1964, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor Guice plans North Biloxi annexation”,&nbsp;</strong><em>August 3, 1970, p. 1.</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Mayor Guice seeks Congerssional post ”,&nbsp;</strong><em>April 13, 1972, p. 1.</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Ocean Springs Record,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Guice qualifies as candidate”</strong>, March 3, 1983, p. 6.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald</em>, <strong>\"Margaret Barrett Guice\"</strong>, October 3, 2006.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, <strong>\'Former Biloxi Mayor Danny Guice dies\'</strong>, April 14, 2007, p. 6A.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\">The Sun Herald, <strong>\'Funeral services set as Coast remembers for Biloxi Mayor Danny Guice\'</strong>, April 15, 2017, p. 6A.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_________________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; JEREMIAH J. ‘Jerry’ O’KEEFE III</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/O\'Keefe%2C Jeremiah J. III.jpg\" style=\"height:250px; width:186px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from 1973-1981.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<div class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Jeremiah J. O\'Keefe III</strong></span></span></div>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Jeremiah Joseph O’Keefe III</strong>, called Jerry, was born July 12, 1923, at Ocean Springs, the son of J.J. \"Ben\" O’Keefe II (1894-1954) and Teresa Slattery O’Keefe (1894-1995). The Ben O’Keefe family relocated to Biloxi in late August 1937. (<em>The Jackson County Times, September 4, 1937, p. 2)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jerry O’Keefe attended parochial schools at Biloxi and graduated from the Sacred Heart Academy in Biloxi with the Class of 1941.&nbsp; In February 1939, he was named Mr. Sacred Heart Academy with Mary Katherine Peresich Nourse (1924-2003), as Mrs. Sacred Heart Academy.(The Daily Herald, February 25, 1939, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In his youth Jerry was a Boy Scout in Troop 213 led by Louis J. Endris (1902-1988) and J. Kline Coquet (1911-1969), a legendary Biloxi scoutmaster.&nbsp; Jerry competed in sailing regattas at the Biloxi Yacht Club and starred as left halfback and left end on the Sacred Heart Academy Galloping Gaels football team led by Coach Joe Hudson.&nbsp; On the gridiron, Jerry was a good rusher and receiver, dropkick field goal specialist and was elected football team captain in 1940.&nbsp; In the Gaels game against the Ocean Springs varsity in mid-October 1940, they held their own fighting to a 12-12 tie.&nbsp; Robert Mohler of the Greyhounds scored the tying TD on a 45 yard sprint.(The Daily Herald, August 20, 1938, p. 7, October 12, 1940, p.&nbsp; 6, October 26, 1940, p. 7 and May 26, 1941, p. 5)</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\">Like many young Biloxians, Jerry O’Keefe attended Soule College at New Orleans to further his education and skills for his entrée into the business world.&nbsp; On his nineteenth birthday, he enlisted in the US Navy and was granted his naval aviator’s wings at Pensacola, Florida in June 1943. Jerry made 1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Lieutenant in April 1944, a month after he married his Ocean Springs sweetheart, Rose Annette Saxon, at Camp Pendelton, California. They were blessed with seven daughter and six sons born between 1945 and 1962.&nbsp; (<em>The Daily Herald, March 13, 1944, p. 7 and April 22, 1944, p. 4)</em>&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>WW II-USMC aviator</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the Pacific Theatre during World War II, 1<sup>st</sup> Lieutenant, Jerry O’Keefe flew in April 1945, his first aerial combat mission over the skies of Okinawa.&nbsp; During this mission O’Keefe destroyed five Japanese aircraft, which earned him the \"ace\" designation. (<em>The Daily Herald, April 25, 1945, p. 1)</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\">Before the Pacific theater hostilities with Japan ended in August 1945, Jerry O’Keefe&nbsp;was credited with two additional kills. For his valiant military service, he was bestowed the Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and Gold Star. He received these medals on October 14, 1946, at New Orleans. (<em>The Daily Herald, October 15, 1946, p. 5)</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>Marine Colonel Gelon H. Doswell</strong>&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ocean Springs also had another USMC pilot to reside here.&nbsp; He was Gelon Hann Doswell (1920-1992), a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and the son of Menard Doswell II (1892-1927) and Zoe Louise Hann (1893-1979).&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 WWII, Colonel Doswell was a naval aviator serving with Marine Corps Fighter Squadron 214 [VMF-214] in the South Pacific.&nbsp; VMF-214 was known as \"The Black Sheep Squadron\" and commanded by Major Gregory \"Pappy\" Boyington (1912-1988).&nbsp; Its moniker was earned since VMF-214 was composed of fighter pilots without a squadron, and replacement pilots from the United States.&nbsp; The heroics of VMF-214 were portrayed on television in 1977, in a series titled, \"Baa Baa Black Sheep\".&nbsp; In 1943, The Black Sheep Squadron performed well in the tropical skies over the Solomon Islands as they destroyed 97 Japanese aircraft in three months.(The Ocean Springs Record, May 29, 1986)</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\">For his military heroics in the Solomon Islands, Colonel Doswell was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses and six air medals.&nbsp; He flew over 1800 combat missions.(<em>The Sun Herald, August 6, 1992, p. A-2)</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/large_O%27Keefe%2C%20JJ%20%27Jerry%27-Corsair%20pilot.jpg\" style=\"height:180px; width:180px\" /><img alt=\"\" src=\"http://biloxihistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/O%27Keefe%2C%20Jerry-USMC%20pilot.jpg?itok=tLVeRlRy\" style=\"height:100px; width:70px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Marine aviator WW II</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">J. J. ‘Jerry’ Keefe III (b. 1923)-During World War II, Ocean Springs native Jerry O’Keefe, became a USMC aviator.&nbsp; He saw aerial combat with Japanese aircraft over the skies of Okinawa in 1945.&nbsp; Jerry was credited with destroying seven Japanese fighter planes between April 1945 and September 1945.&nbsp; His military awards include the following: Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and Gold Star.During his first WW II aerial combat mission flown with the 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;Marine Air Wing over the skies of Okinawa in April 1945, 1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Lieutenant Jerry O’Keefe destroyed five Japanese aircraft, which earned him the \"ace\" designation. (<em>The Daily Herald, April 25, 1945, p. 1)</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\">Before the Pacific theater hostilities ended in August 1945, Jerry O’Keefe&nbsp; had been credited with two additional kills. For his valiant military service, he was bestowed the Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, and Gold Star. He received these medals on October 14, 1946, at New Orleans. (<em>The Daily Herald, October 15, 1946, p. 5)</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\">It is interesting to note that J.J. \"Ben\" O’Keefe II, Jerry’s father, served in the Marine Corps during WWI, and his son, J.J. \"Jody\" O’Keefe IV, was a Marine from 1964-1967.Mr. O’Keefe resides in Biloxi today where he is active with fund raising for the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, advising the O’Keefe Foundation, and supervising the management of his business enterprises.</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 Funeral Service</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The O’Keefe Funeral Service was established by Jeremiah ‘Jerry’ J. O’Keefe (1860-1911) at Ocean Springs, Mississippi in 1892, the same year as the town became incorporated.&nbsp; The business relocated to Biloxi in June 1923 with Jeremiah J. “Ben” O’Keefe (1894-1954), John A. O’Keefe (1891-1985) and Joseph H. ‘Jody’&nbsp; (1946-2007) O’Keefe (1897-1932), sons of the late Jerry O’Keefe, operated the funeral service on West Howard Avenue opposite the Nativity B.V.M. Catholic Church.&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\">Ben O’Keefe was a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Embalming and licensed in Mississippi and Louisiana.&nbsp; In 1923, the company also commenced a burial insurance plan called the O’Keefe Burial Association.(The Daily Herald, November 19, 1954, p. 1.</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>1929 Buyout</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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 in June 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\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1948 Anniversary</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The O’Keefe Funeral Service celebrated its 25<sup>th</sup> year in Biloxi in early June 1948.&nbsp; At this time, Jerry O’Keefe, Ben’s son, was attending Loyola University at New Orleans and would graduate in July 1948.&nbsp; Jerry joined his father in the burial business after receiving his degree in business from the Jesuit University.&nbsp; At its West Howard Avenue location, the O’Keefe’s had a fleet of six automobiles and a 1948 Buick Flexible Ambulance.&nbsp; At this time, Mr. Ben O’Keefe employed four men: Frank L. Conway, D.J. Newman, Willie McKinnis, and Jeremiah J. ‘Jerry’ O’Keefe.(The Daily Herald, June 4, 1948, p. 9)</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>Ben’s Demise</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ben O’Keefe died on November 19, 1954 at 823 West Beach, his Biloxi residence.&nbsp; Mr. O’Keefe had been ill for approximately two years prior to his demise.&nbsp; Circa 1953, Jerry O’Keefe was granted proprietorship by his father and became owner and manager of the O’Keefe&nbsp; Funeral Service Company.(The Daily Herald, May 19, 1954, p. 1)</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>Bradford-O’Keefe</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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 1, 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 and <em>The Daily Herald, June 17, 1960, p. 12</em>)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Also in the summer of 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 tires, the Goodyear enterprise performed frontend alignments and wheel balancing, as well as replacing mufflers and tail pipes.&nbsp; General Electric appliances were also sold.&nbsp; In May 1971, Mrs. Teresa ‘Tess’ Slattery O’Keefe made a 15-year lease with Goodyear.&nbsp; The O’Keefe 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. 2nd JD Land Deed Bk. 21, p. 271 and Bk. 273, p. 204 and <em>The Daily Herald, June 17, 1960, p. 2 and November 2, 1960, p. 12)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/large_O%27Keefe%2C%20Ben%20and%20Tess.jpg\" style=\"height:180px; width:180px\" /></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>Jeremiah J. ‘Ben’ O’Keefe</strong>-This vintage image of J.J. “Ben” O’Keefe (1894-1954) and his bride, Teresa ‘Tess’ Josephine Slattery (1894-1995), was made at Shreveport, Louisiana on May&nbsp;&nbsp; 1921, following their nuptials officiated by Father Fields at St. John’s Catholic Church.&nbsp; The newly weds would reside at Ocean Springs and continue in several businesses with Ben’s brothers.&nbsp; The O’Keefe Funeral Service was relocated to West Howard Avenue at Biloxi in 1923.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">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><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/O%27Keefes-Willie%20Gary-3-Nov.%201995.jpg\" style=\"height:213px; width:250px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n			<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">&nbsp;<strong>Winning Team</strong>-This November 1995 image shows Annette Saxon O’Keefe (1924-1998) and spouse, J.J. “Jerry’ O’Keefe III (b. 1923), with Willie Gary, Stuart, Florida based attorney. &nbsp;The O’Keefes had just been awarded $500 million dollars by a Jackson, Mississippi jury. &nbsp;Jerry O’Keefe had sued Canadian based, The Loewen Group, for breach-of-contract and other allegations. &nbsp;Mr. O’Keefe settled the suit for about $175 million dollars and used some of the money to commence the O’Keefe Foundation.[&nbsp;from The Palm Beach Post, November 7, 1995]</span></span></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>Bradford-O’Keefe v. Riemann</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">The two largest funeral homes serving the Mississippi Coast are Bradford-O’Keefe and Riemann.&nbsp; Initially, both burial services were situated in their founding cities-Bradford-O’Keefe at Biloxi and Ocean Springs and Riemann in Gulfport.&nbsp; The two cities have many historical and cultural differences:&nbsp; Biloxi is much older, founded in 1718, and once predominantly Roman Catholic, while Gulfport was founded in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century with a predominant Protestant population.&nbsp; They were both built by a blue-collar, middle class citizenry with Biloxi having more immigrants and transients.&nbsp; The US military has been important to the growth and economic stability of Biloxi and Gulfport.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1985, the Riemann family opened it first Biloxi funeral home on Beauvoir Road making inroads into Biloxi, the traditional turf of Bradford-O’Keefe.&nbsp; Since then both organizations have worked aggressively to succeed in the mortuary business on the entire Coast.&nbsp; Bradford-O’Keefe now has two funeral homes in Biloxi [opened 1957 and 1979], Ocean Springs [opened 1987], Gulfport [opened 1979, 1989 and 2004], and Vancleave [opened 2010].&nbsp; In addition, Bradford-O’Keefe owns two cemeteries, D’Iberville Memorial Park and Crest Lawn Memorial Park at Ocean Springs and a crematory.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In January 1990, Riemann Funeral Homes, Incorporated joined with The Loewen Group International to form Riemann Holdings Incorporated of Canada.&nbsp; This action angered Jerry O’Keefe, president of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Homes, as he espoused that ‘local ownership is superior to foreign because money stays in Mississippi rather than being funneled outside the state and country.&nbsp; The Riemanns are deceiving the public by claiming that they have taken on new “partners” instead of admitting that hey have sold their funeral homes”</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>The Loewen Group</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the mid-1990s, Jerry O’Keefe, president of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home and the Gulf National Group, an insurance company, filed litigation in Mississippi alleging breach-of-contract against The Loewen Group Incorporated, the second largest funeral service in North America and based in Burnaby, British Columbia.&nbsp; At this time, The Loewen Group owned 814 funeral homes and 179 cemeteries in the USA and Canada.&nbsp; The basis for the O’Keefe law suit was the claim that the Wright &amp; Ferguson Funeral Home located in Jackson, Mississippi, which Loewen acquired in 1990, broke an agreement with Gulf National to act as its exclusive provider of certain types of funeral and burial insurance.&nbsp; The lawsuit also alleged that Loewen was diverting funeral insurance business to one of Gulf National\'s competitors and had secretly gained control of an insurance company to compete with O\'Keefe.&nbsp; Jerry O’Keefe hired attorney Willie Gary of Stuart, Florida to represent his companies in the subsequent litigation held in Jackson, Mississippi.&nbsp; In the seven-week trial that culminated on November 2, 1995, Mr. Gary and his staff of attorneys were able to persuade the jury to award Jerry J. O’Keefe the sum of $500 million dollars. (The Palm Beach Post, November 7, 1995)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In lieu of an onerous appeal, the Loewen Group agreed to settle the O’Keefe lawsuit for cash and stock valued at up to $175 million.&nbsp; The settlement was smaller than an earlier $500 million dollar jury award that Loewen had said could have put the company out of business.&nbsp; Ironically share values in the Lowen Group increased 40 percent after the settlement with O’Keefe was announced. The Canadian based company said the cash and stock settlement will be phased in over 20 years and carries an after-tax value of $85 million in 1995 dollars.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In his closing remarks to the jury at Jackson, Mississippi, Willie Gary said, “the workings of the jury system speak louder than any fancy words ever written by any speech or given by anybody……louder than the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his famous&nbsp; ‘I have a Dream’ speech.&nbsp; The system speaks.”&nbsp; Mr. Gary and his Mississippi co-counsel were paid 40 percent for their efforts. (The Palm Beach Post, November 7, 1995)</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\">The Riemann-O’Keefe competition continues as in February 2015, the Riemann Family Funeral Home made its boldest move into the Bradford-O’Keefe ‘homeland’ when it opened a funeral parlor in St. Martin on LeMoyne Boulevard.</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>Jerry J. O’Keefe-Mississippi House of Representatives-1960-1964</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Following in his grandfather’s success in local politics as Jeremiah J. “Jerry” O’Keefe (1860-1911) served as an alderman in Ocean Springs, Jeremiah J. “Jerry” O’Keefe III in the summer of 1959 began his political career in his campaign to represent the people of Harrison County, Mississippi in the State House at Jackson.&nbsp; O’Keefe’s opponent was incumbent Representative Daniel D. ‘Danny’ Guice.&nbsp; Mr. Guice ran on the slogan “Re-Elect a Lawyer for a Lawyer’s Job”.&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\">Jerry O’Keefe was elected to the House and served his constituents well.&nbsp; While in Jackson, he worked diligently for a local option liquor bill, which was narrowly defeated.&nbsp; One of O’Keefe’s major successes resulted from his efforts to redistrict the legislature to provide substantially more representation for Harrison County.&nbsp; He was confident that the Coast would get its local option liquor law—and other important rights, now that it would have adequate representation in Jackson.(Maureen O’Keefe Ward-May 2015)</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>Gulf National Life</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In 1960 Jerry O”Keefe moved the main Bradford-O’Keefe funeral home to its&nbsp;present location on Howard Avenue in Biloxi.&nbsp; Naming Audrey Murray President of Bradford-O’Keefe, Jerry delegated management of the funeral home operations so that he could focus in earnest on growing the life insurance division of his business. &nbsp;He began to market the company’s legal reserve insurance to funeral homes throughout the state as an added means of coverage once their smaller limits had been met and or surpassed. At one point more than 100 funeral homes, owned by Caucasians and African Americans, were writing these policies and Gulf National Life became the largest provider of excess coverage statewide.&nbsp; As with everyone else in the community, the funeral business experienced the wrath of Hurricane Camille in 1969, which also devastated the O’Keefe family residence on Beach Boulevard in Biloxi.(Maureen O’Keefe Ward-May 2015)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In the wake of Hurricane Camille’s widespread destruction, Jerry in late 1969, acquired two vacant lots on Biloxi’s Beach Boulevard between Lameuse Street and Delauney Street.&nbsp; &nbsp;To spur redevelopment, he began construction of a three-story office building. &nbsp;One of the O’Keefe lots had been former site of a popular skating rink owned by George E. Egeditch (1907-1987).&nbsp; The Gulf National Life Building was completed in 1971 and served as the company’s headquarters.&nbsp; The edifice also housed a number of smaller businesses and governmental agencies and the medical practice of Jerry’s brother, Dr. John Bernard O’Keefe (1925-2004).(Harrison Co., Mississippi 2<sup>nd</sup> JD Land Deed Bk. 10, p. 69 and Bk. 28, p. 139 and Maureen O’Keefe Ward-May 2015)</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\">Jerry O’Keefe also maintained his strong interest in politics. In 1971, he persuaded his eldest son, Jeremiah J. ‘Jody’ O’Keefe IV (1946-2007), to run for the State Legislature.&nbsp; Jody served two terms in the House of Representatives from 1971-1979.&nbsp; Like his father earlier, Jody was named Outstanding Freshman Legislator.&nbsp; In a bold move, Jody introduced horse racing legislation in January 1976<em>.(</em>Maureen O’Keefe Ward, May 2015 and <em>The Daily Herald, January 28, 1976, p. B-1)</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\">After Jody’s 2007 demise, the Mississippi State Legislature commended him for this, as well as the “notable, courageous vote” he had taken regarding civil rights, and his status as the only white legislator to stand with the newly formed black caucus.</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>Mayor of&nbsp;Biloxi&nbsp;from 1973-1981.</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Jerry O’Keefe was elected Mayor of Biloxi in June 1973.&nbsp; He had no opposition.&nbsp; Mr. O’Keefe was elected with City Commissioners, Frank Barhanovich Jr. (b. 1943) and A.H. ‘Lank’ Patterson.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">In his quest of his second term as Biloxi’s mayor, Jerry O’Keefe had three opponents in the May 1977 general election: H.L. Kent, Claude Morgan and Harry Viator.&nbsp; He easily defeated his opposition garnering 4122 votes of the 6515 ballots cast in the May 10, 1977 election.&nbsp; Only Mr. Kent’s supporters demonstrated any resolve in defeating O’Keefe, the incumbent, as they cast 2235 ballots for him.(The Daily Herald, May 11, 1977, p. A-1 and p. B-2)</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\">Incumbent Jerry O’Keefe was elected with Frank Barhanovich Jr. and Dominic Fallo (1911-1996), who were chosen by the Biloxi’s electorate as their City Commissioners.&nbsp; Also on the May 1977 election agenda was a referendum to increase the annual salary of the Mayor from $12,000 to $20,000 and raise the City Commissioner’s pay from $10,800 to $18,000.&nbsp; The last time that Biloxi’s governing body had a pay increase was 1965.&nbsp; The salary increase for Biloxi’s city officials was successful as the yeas said 3682 and the nays 2796.&nbsp; Mayor O’Keefe commenting on the voters’ granting them a raise related: “Everyone likes to get a raise.” (The Daily Herald, May 8, 1977, p. D-1 and May 11, 1977, p. A-1)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>REFERENCES:</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Lt. Jerry O’Keefe awarded DFC, Air Medal and Gold Star”</strong>, October 15, 1946.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<div>\r\n			<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Open house for Lt. Jerry O’Keefe”</strong>, October 16, 1946.</span></span></div>\r\n\r\n			<div>&nbsp;</div>\r\n\r\n			<div><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Dominic Fallo wins Commissioner’s post”</strong>, May 8, 1977, p. 1.</span></span></div>\r\n			</div>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Daily Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“Biloxi Commissioner’s in Tuesday’s runoff”</strong>, May 9, 1977, p. 1.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>The Sun Herald,&nbsp;</em><strong>“O’ Keefe’s life is filled with service”</strong>, March 28, 1999, p. F2.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">_____________________________________________________________________________________________</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>1981-1989</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Blessey%2C Gerald Henry.jpg\" style=\"height:200px; width:135px\" /></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>GERALD H. BLESSEY</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Gerald Henry Blessey was born on&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1942 at Biloxi, Mississippi the son of Walter J. Blessey III (1913-1987) and Geraldine Ann Fountain.&nbsp; Graduate Biloxi Sr. High School in 1960 and the University of Mississippi in 1964. &nbsp;Attended the University of Mississippi Law School (1964-1967) and was elected Class I president in July 1964. &nbsp;Harvard Law School. Married Rose Ann Joachim in July 1969 and Charlotte Paige Gutierrez in November 1984.(The Daily Herald, July 20, 1964, p. 16 and Harrison County, Mississippi 2<sup>nd</sup>&nbsp;JD Circuit Court MRB 1, p. 529 and 2nd JD Circuit Court MRB Bk. 29, p. 64)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Vietnam</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Gerald H. Blessey served in the Republic of Vietnam in 1967-1968 with the US Army as a 1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Lieutenant.&nbsp; He was assigned to the 55<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Military Intelligence Detachment and in July 1968, he was awarded the Bronze Star with three citations for his excellence.<em>(The Ocean Springs News, July 24, 1968, p. 1)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Representative Blessey</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Gerald H. Blessey, a Democrat, served in the Mississippi State Legislature as Representative from District 1 from 1973 to 1981.<em>(The Ocean Springs Record, October 18, 1973, p. 12)</em></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Mayor</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Gerald H. Blessey</strong>, assistant to&nbsp;<strong>Mayor Jeremiah J. \'Jerry\' O\'Keefe III</strong>&nbsp;and counsel for Federal grant programs, resigned in September.(The Daily Herald, September 18, 1975)</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\">Gerald H. Blessey was elected Mayor of Biloxi on June 23, 1981. &nbsp;He soundly defeated Frank Barhanovich (b. 1943), a former City Commissioner. &nbsp;Blessey\'s supporters gave him about 65% of the approximately 7700 votes cast.</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>1990 Extortion Trial</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Gerald H. Blessey and Michael Cavanaugh, Biloxi lawyers and business partners from 1979-1983, were accused of conspiring to extort 25 per cent of the bond fee paid to Page, Mannino &amp; Peresich, the Biloxi law firm hired by Blessey for the City of Biloxi\'s legal business when he was Mayor. &nbsp;The prosecution averred that Page, Mannino &amp; Peresich which were paid $2.8 million during Blessey\'s term as Mayor [1981-1989] and feared that it would lose the City\'s business if Mr. Cavanaugh were not paid. &nbsp;The Government siad that Cavanaugh did no work for the $134,267 &nbsp;he is alleged to have extorted from the law firm.(The Sun Herald, March 20, 1990, p. A-1)</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>School Board Attorney</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>In March 2004, Superintendent Larry Drawdy was verbally attacked by Gerald H. Blessey, newly hired Biloxi newly elected School Board attorney</strong>, alleging that Mr. Drawdy had mismanaged the school district and had kept salient infomation from school board members.(<em>The Sun Herald</em>,&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;March 2, 2004, p. A1)</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>Katrina</strong></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>COUNCILMEN</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ward I-<strong>Laz Quave</strong> (1910-1985)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ward II-<strong>Michael L. Esters </strong>(1951-1983)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Michael Leverne Esters (1951-1983) was born on May 25, 1951 to Rehofus Esters and Barbara Carter Esters. He graduated from Notre Dame High School at Biloxi, Mississippi and attended Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College and Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia. In April 1977, Michael married Gail Rose Tyler. They were the parents of Imari Esters, a son.(The Daily Herald, March 25, 1983, p. 2 and Harrison Co., Mississippi Circuit Court 2nd JD MRB 14, p. 525)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Michael L. Esters was employed by the City of Biloxi and was the first Black Councilman elected to the Biloxi city government. Michael was elected to represent the people of Ward II in 1981. He was killed in an automobile accident on March 24, 1983. Michael and his family were domiciled at 641 Fayard Street. They worshiped at our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church on Division Street.(The Daily Herald, March 24, 1983, p. 1 and March 25, 1983, p. 2)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Esters Boulevard was named by the Biloxi City Council in ? to honor Michael L. Esters It runs eastward from Bohn Street to ? and was formerly called Railroad Street.&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n			<p class=\"rtecenter\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ward III-<strong>Lewis M. Langlinais </strong>(1945-2012)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"/sites/default/files/u4/Langlinais%2C Louis (1945-2012).jpg\" style=\"height:80px; width:80px\" /></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Biloxi lost another son this week with the death of Lewis \"Louie\" Milton Langlinais (1945-2012) on September 23, 2012.&nbsp;&nbsp; Louie “Louie” Langlinais was born July 4, 1945, and was a life-long resident of Biloxi.&nbsp; He was preceded in death by his father Lewis V. Langlinais, a commercial fisherman, who taught Louie the value of hard work. He is survived by his loving wife of 45 years, Donna Winney Langlinais; two sons Michael Langlinais (Cathy) and Matthew Langlinais; mother Mandeline Langlinais, all of Biloxi. Sister, Frances McNabb (Don) of Ocean Springs, MS, six grandchildren Michael, Samantha, Ally, Jeffery, Tiffany and Shannon Langlinais, all of Biloxi. &nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Louie was the owner of Beacon Insurance Services along with his wife Donna. He has been in the insurance business since 1968 and was a member of the Million Dollar Round Table.&nbsp; He proudly served on Senator Trent Lott\'s staff for the MS Gulf Coast when Trent was a congressman and he served the city he loved as City Councilman from 1981 to 1985.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Louie was voted Outstanding Young Man in 1975 by the Chamber of Commerce, was a former American Heart Association President, Chairman of the Board of Directors for Gulf Coast Community Hospital, Knights of Columbus council #9409. As member of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.legacy.com/memorial-sites/elks-lodge/?personid=160097672&amp;affiliateID=954\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Visit Elks Lodge Memorial Site to see similar profiles\">Elks Lodge</a>&nbsp;606, Louie enjoyed playing Santa Claus for five years at the Crippled Children\'s Party which he chaired. He started power lifting at the age of fifty-five, winning numerous state and national titles. At the time of his death, he was a member of the prestigious Southern Elite Power Lifting Team. He had a very fond affection for everyone on his team and their accomplishments. Louie initiated Morning Call Coffee club while active in the Chamber of Commerce and this has also been adopted by neighboring cities. He was Chairman of President Gerald Ford\'s visit to the Gulf Coast in 1976. He and His family enjoyed having lunch with the President at Fisherman\'s Wharf during his visit. Louie enjoyed Mardi Gras serving as Duke of Gulf Coast Carnival Association, Charter Member and President of Le Badineurs and other Carnival Groups. He always enjoyed having friends &amp; family on Mardi Gras for an open house at the office.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">A Mass of Christian Burial will be at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church on Wednesday, Sept 26, 2012, at 2:30 p.m. where friends may visit from 12:00 p.m. until mass time. Interment will follow at Southern Memorial Park.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ward IV-<strong>Mary Carpenter</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ward V-<strong>Roy Mattina</strong></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ward VI-<strong>W.C. McManus</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\">Ward VII-<strong>Margaret Joyce Smith Sherry</strong> (1929-1987)</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n			<p><span style=\"font-family:georgia,serif\"><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Margaret Joyce Smith Sherry</strong> (1929-1987) was born in Mooringsport, Louisiana to Bernie W. Smith Sr. and Rubye Dyer Smith. She was the youngest of her two siblings: Bernie W. Smith Jr. (b. 1925) and Charles Raymond \"Red\' Smith (1926-2009) m. Ann Hall. &nbsp;Margaret was reared in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She graduated from Western Kentucky State College and taught school. On November 22, 1950, Margaret married Vincent Jerome Sherry Jr. (1929-1989), a native of Brooklyn, New York. They were the parents of four children: Margaret Lynne Sherry (b. 1952) m. Richard Sposito; Vincent J. Sherry III; Eric Smith Sherry m. Marian Venetia Bailey; and Leslie Anne Sherry m. Benjamin D. Miller III.&nbsp;&nbsp; Margaret Smith Sherry was active in politics on the Coast. She was elected to the Biloxi City Council; served as District V representative to the Harrison County Republican Executive Committee. Mrs. Sherry ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Biloxi in 1985.&nbsp; She was murdered with Judge Vincent J. Sherry Jr. (1929-1987) at their Biloxi home on September 16, 1987.</span>