StreetNamesOfOld

By Ray L. Bellande

KNOW OUR HOMES

Contents

1872-Hansen-Hanemann Cottage-305 Front Beach Drive

1881-Case-Russell House-southwest corner of Washington Avenue and Porter

1884-Miss-La-Bama-243 Front Beach Drive

1890-J.J. Garrard House-1119 Iberville Drive

ca 1890-Honor-Attaya House-422 Martin Avenue

1891-C.W. Madison Railroad Cottages-Robinson Avenue

1894 Clement-Jacobs-Porter House-604 Porter Street

1898-Geiger-Friar House-611 Jackson Avenue

1907-Hanson-Mitchell House-112A Shearwater Drive

1908-Vancleave-Smith House-528 Jackson Avenue

1909-Pace-Elizardi-Weldon Cottage-207 Washington Avenue

1911-Mestier-Carter House-213 Washington Avenue

1912-Carter-Calloway House- 916 State Street

1916-Newcomb-Dick House- Porter Street

ca 1920-Honor-Nissen-Redding House-608 Cleveland Avenue

1923-Knotzsch-Fussell House-305 Ward Avenue

1923-Maxwell-Bellande House-525 Jackson Avenue

1924-Hellmers-Duckett Cottage-918 Calhoun Avenue

1925-Del Castle-Legate Place-Government Street

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OCEAN SPRINGS HOUSE NAMES

DID (DOES) YOUR HOUSE HAVE A NAME?

It can be observed in the earliest accounts that exist concerning Ocean Springs that some people named their homes. Probably the first homes at Ocean Springs were named by families relocating here in the 1850s from plantations in the Mississippi Delta and South Louisiana. House naming may have been a function of affluence, family tradition, pride of ownership, etc. The reason isn't relevant to the fact that house nomenclature is now an integral part of our local history.

If your home has a name and it hasn't made this list and you would like to share this information, or if it is on this list and you find fault, please contact me and I will make appropriate changes. If anyone has photos of these older homes especially those that no longer exist, I would appreciate knowing that some historical record is available. In addition, I would sincerely appreciate some input into this column. Please address all comments, questions, etc. to: PO BOX 617, Ocean Springs, Ms. 39566-0617. Merci beaucoup!

HOME NAMES AT OCEAN SPRINGS

ALLANDALE - Eighteen and one-half acre farm located in the N/2 of the NE/4 of the NW/4 of Section 28, T7S-R8W when owned by Nels and Anna Strale of Chicago, Illinois. Bought by Robert T. Harvey in January 1924, and became known as the Harvey Farm. Greyhound Stadium located here today.

ANCHORAGE - Silas Weeks-Mrs. J.M. Boyd home on Shearwater Drive circa 1890-1940. Miss Jessie M. Boyd (1881-1963) was probably the last owner. Destroyed by demolition according to G.E. Arndt. Joseph Rogers Taylor (1875-1945), a lawyer and writer, may have built a home at this site later.

ARBOR VITAE - Bungalow of Walter G. Minnemeyer, Chicago glass manufacturer and yachtsman, at 1106 Iberville Drive circa 1933-1950s. He also owned a summer home at Duquesne

Island, Georgian Bay, Ontario. Extant.

ARNDT HOUSE - George E. Arndt (1857-1945) built rental cottage at 822 Porter. Erected 1895 on land purchased from A.E. Lewis, the "artesian prince". Extant

ARTESIAN HOUSE - Early hotel located on the SW/c of Porter and Jackson. Built by A.E. Lewis (1862-1933) circa 1893. Later known as the Oak View Hotel, Anderson Apartments, and White House. Demolished in 1936.

AUDUBON - two-story home of Colonel Frederick Le Cand (1841-1933) on Government Street (County Road) in 1905.

AUDUBON PLACE - Miss Bessie Collier of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania here in September 1925.

AUSTIN SPRING LOT - Located at the NW/C of Martin and Cleveland

BALLYSHEAR-1940s home and estate of Sarah Gardner Brown at 310 Shearwater Drive.

BAY HOME - Captain Junius Poitevent (1837-1919) built this wonderful Greek Revival home at 309 Lovers Lane in 1877. Extant. Also used for the Adeline A. Staples home next door.

BAYOU HOME - Franklin Sumner Earle (1856-1929) home from 1890-1902 at Gulf Hills. House located approximately where the clubhouse now sits. Destroyed by fire?

BAYOU HOME - Joseph Bacon Garrard (1871-1915) and Carrie Ann Johnson (1886-1968) Colonial Revival home at 1119 Iberville. Mrs. Garrard married Alexander Fleet Everhart (1881-1957)

in 1924. Now owned by Jack K. Garrard.

BAYOUSIDE FARM-A.R. Pecaut place north of Ocean Springs.(JXCOT, LNI, 9-8-1917)

BAY VIEW - A.G. Tebo home on Beach Front Drive near present day OSYC in early 1900s. When used by D.H. Holmes as summer vacation home for their women employees it was called "Haven-on-the- Hill". Later owner, O.D. Davidson (1872-1938). Destroyed by demolition circa 1940?.

BAY VIEW - Parker Earle (1831-1917) home located at Fort Point (Lovers Lane) from 1887-1902. Later owned by Annie L. Benjamin (1848-1938) of Milwaukee and called Shore Acres. Demolished in the 1940s, probably after the September 1947 Hurricane.

BAYVIEW - Christian Hanson (1845-1914), Danish shipmaster and cotton broker from New Orleans. This Prairie Renaissance home was originally on a 50 acre tract east of the Shearwater Pottery in Section 30, T7S-R8W. Bought from Anna Marks in 1906. Sold to John L. Dickey in the 1920s. Known today as Shadowlawn and the Hanson-Dickey House.

BAYWOOD - Otto Schwartz 1950s home located on Back Bay. Destroyed by Hurricane Camille in 1969.

BEAU-OAKS - Henry "Pee Wee" Beaugez home at 1112 Helmer's Lane. Now owned by Sun Herald reporter, Ken Fink.

BEL VUE - Altered Greek Revival home of Bobbie Davidson Smith at 810 Iberville. Reputed to be the oldest home at Ocean Springs.

BELLE FLEUR - Mrs. Julia E. Brown of Chicago (1902) home located on East Beach. Formerly the Williston home??.

BLUE HAVEN - Alice T. Austin home at 545 Beach Drive.

BIRDWOOD - John Anderson home at Lovers Lane.

BON SILENE - Fred W. Norwood (1840-1921), Massachusetts born lumberman, home at East Beach during early 1900s. Lizzie W. Norwood bought the land from James Charnley in 1896 and conveyed it to Fronie Parks in 1911. Daughter of Norwood, Mrs. Edward Shapker (1909). Owned by Edsel Ruddiman since 1963. Original home designed by Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924) or Frank L. Wright. Badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

BONNIE OAKS - East Beach residence of John Alderson of Leadville, Colorado. Acquired from Williams in late 1890s. Now the site of the Gulf Coast Research Lab. Known as the Perryman Place to many octogenarians.

BON SEJOURS - Anthony M. Usner home at East Beach (1929). Betty and Leila Usner. "Good Dwelling" in French.

BON SILENE-James and Helen Charnley Cottage on East Beach (1890-18 ). good silence. Also the name of a variety of

roses.

BOULEVARD FARM - Property of Chauncey S. Bell (1842-1917+) owner of the Pine Nursery. The Boulevard Farm was probably located on Holcomb Boulevard in the early 1900s.

BREEZY POINT - Captain Christian Hansen (1845-1914), Danish shipmaster and cotton broker from New Orleans. Breezy Point was located on a 35 acre tract at the west end of Fort Point from 1895 to 1904 until it was destroyed by fire. No known photo.

BRIAR CREST - Home of J.G. Ramsay at Vancleave in 1897.

BRYAN HOME - Queen Anne structure at 406 Jackson Avenue built in 1910 by J.A. Weider (1879-1931) for Frank H. Bryan (1872-1936) on lots bought from L.A. Lundy (1876-1941) in 1910. Formerly owned by Mrs. Julia Love.

CAMELLIA HILL - Cottage at 1210 Sunset owned by the Ames and Catchot families. Present owners Gary and Lois Johnson.

CAMELLIA PLACE - Office of Dr. and Mrs. Jay Segarra at 1300? Government Street.

CARLANA ACRES - Farm of Dr. Carl Lindstrom (1873-1951). Located between Gus Nelson and J.C. Wright farms on Fort Bayou. Came to Ocean Springs in 1929, from Chicago. Native of Sweden. Retired dentist. Named for granddaughter, Carlana Lane, of Pascagoula.

CARR ACRES also called CARRACRUS- Charles Carr (Mount Pleasant, Texas) estate on Holcomb Blvd. Circa 1935 consisted of farm, fish ponds, pecan orchards, and a residence. Formerly the Fish place.(The Gulf Coast Times, 2-3-1954, p. 3)

CARRIES HAPPY HILL - Miss Carrie Seymour Ames home on Calhoun Avenue.

CASA FLORES - F.E. Lee House located on Davis Bayou. Built 1926. Jensen Brothers contractors.

CASE VILLA - Carl T. Case Estate of 9.67 acres west of the Inner Harbor originally called Lyndhurst when Mrs. Carl Case's father, Thomas B. Lynd (1862-1915), owned it from 1893-1915. Case sold to W.R. David in 1919. Charles Grady Parlin bought it 1921, from Edwina David The house burned in December 1922. Now owned by Alice T. Austin.

THE CEDARS - now Conamore at 319 Lovers Lane. Probably called The Cedars by ? who owned the home in early 1900s.

THE CEDARS - appelation used by Rosambeau family for their cottage at 908 Calhoun in 1934.

CEDAR HILL - Former Egan Cottage at 314 Jackson Avenue now owned by Ray and Maureen Hudachek.

CENTENNIAL HOUSE - Carrie Ames Cottage at Calhoun. Owned by Harriet Perry. Name coined by Ray L. Bellande in 1992, as this home was erected in 1892, the year Ocean Springs was incorporated as a town.

CENTENNIAL OAK - Steve and Lana Robinson cottage on a five acre tract at 3305 Government Street. Named for an oak tree planted in 1992, the Centennial Year (1892-1992) for Ocean Springs. Original cottage built by Frank E. Galle (1877-1934).

CHASE VILLA - Tom H. Chase from Rogers Park area of Chicago circa 1915-1918. Located on the Ocean Springs-Vancleave Road.

CHERRY WILD - Home of Bishop Keener on Biloxi Bay (1879).

CHEZ RENE - Eldon Cazaubon home at 517 Front Beach Drive. Owned by Rene Cazaubon (1881-1970) from 1936 until 1953.

CHINQUAPIN FARM - Fort Bayou estate of Fred and Ann Moreton at 2109 Bienville Boulevard named for the edible nut of the dwarf chestnut tree called a chinquapin (Native American origin). The Moretons came to the area from Brookhaven in the mid-1940s. Mrs. Moreton is a distinguished writer and photographer.

CLEMATIS BOWER - Edward E. Young home (1914) probably on Ray Street, or Cox Avenue.

COMMANCHE JUNIOR - The White family of Chicago had a ranch in Michigan called "Commanche". They named their place on Holcomb Boulevard after the Michigan place.

CONAMORE - Queen Anne edifice and estate of Ethelyn Connor and daughter, Patricia Joachim, at 319 Lovers Lane. Ocean Springs first full time mayor, Mayor Donald L. "Pat" Connor (1912-1982) resided here during his lifetime.

COZY NOOK - Jackson Avenue home of Mrs. Edward Brou (NOLA). Destroyed by Hurricane Camille in 1969. Built early 1900s.

DARRACH MO'R - Home of Scotsman, Duncan Sinclair (d.1902 at NOLA), located on Front Beach at present day Gulf Oak Condominiums. Gaelic for "Great Oaks". Frank Faessel took (1870-1953) possession circa 1910.

DE GUISE - Spanish Colonial Revival home of Jacob Guice at 325 Lovers Lane. Formerly called Holmcliffe by original builder R.H. Holmes in 1925.

DE HUTTE-Louis H. Sullivan home on East Beach. Built in 1890.

DELCASTLE - Spanish Eclectic Style home at 3628 Government Street. Built by Jenson Brothers Construction Company for realtor, F.E. Lee, in November 1925, and originally called Casa Flores by Lee. The architect was Gordon Hite of New Orleans.

DILL HILL - Ira W. Simmons home at 703 Cox Avenue. Built 1911. Formerly Laniappe Restaurant.

DOON DOCK-Bache Whitlock home on Hellmers Lane and Inner Harbor.

DOONECOTE - Home of Mrs. Charles M. Carr at Pointe-aux-Chenes in 1964. 1957 Pointe-aux-Chene winter home of Sheldon Widmer of Brown County, Indiana.

DOONGATE or DOONE GATE - James R. Leavell (Lake Forest, Illinois), President Chicago Bank and Trust Co. home at Pointe-aux-Chenes (1944-1968), built by Joe Fountain.

EGLIN HOUSE - Miss Annie Eglin's "tourist home" at 635 Washington Avenue. Damaged by fire in 1964. Demolished in 1968. Villa Maria located here today.

ELK LODGE - East Beach estate of Colonel J.B. Rose (d. 1902 at NYC) from 1895 to 1901. Rose founded the Royal Baking Powder Company. He was a well known yachtsman being a member of the Atlantic Yacht Club (NYC) and Southern Yacht Club (NOLA). Rose owned the large Rose Farm north of Fort Bayou. His yachts were named "Florence" (1896),"Nepenthe" (1899) and "Crescent" (1902). Land once owned by John Martin Tracy (1843-1893) who is remembered in the international art world as "America's Great Sporting Painter".

FAIRHAVEN - named used by Mrs. Annette McConnell Anderson (1867-1964) in the 1920s for her Vernacular Greek Revival cottage at what would become the Shearwater Pottery in 1928. Formerly the Adam DePass (1851-1909) and B.W. Tiffin (1825- ?) of Ohio twenty-four acre estate in Section 30, T7S-R8W..

FELICITY FARMS - estate of Mrs. Victor (Florence) G. Humphreys (1883-1946+) east of Ocean Springs. Used in 1946.

FIELD LODGE - East Beach estate (32 acres) of Major Rushton H. Field, in the 1890s. Field was the proprietor of the Revier House at Chicago (1894). Field Lodge was sold to Captain M.G. May of Pass Christian by his widow, Mary Florence Field, in September 1909 (Jackson County Deed Book 35, pp. 58-60). Purchased in 1941, by James and Francis Tuttle.

FIELD PLACE - Estate (35 acres) of Erastus S. Perryman (1857-1926) who died at Chicago in November 1926. He bought the Lewis Place on East Beach in March 1915 from Annie and I. Giles Lewis (Chicago). The Gulf Coast Research Lab now located here (1947). Mrs. Perryman (1866-1953) died in August 1953, and buried at Mobile..

FORT BAYOU BEND - Home of George C. Kindley, northeast of Ocean Springs. The old Snyder Place on the Ocean Springs-Vancleave Road. Kindley rented fishing boats here.

FOUNTAINBLEAU - Belle Fountaine estate of Robert W. Hamill of Chicago.

FRIED FISH INN - Appelation given to the Rosambeau Cottage at 910 Calhoun when reknown baseball writer and humorist, Charles Dryden (1860-1931) stayed here in the early 1900s.

FRUITLAND - Colonel William R. Snyder (1864-1918) large country estate 6 miles east of Ocean Springs in Section 13, T7S-R8W.

GEHL VILLA - Summer home of John M. Gehl of New Orleans in 1920s. Germaine's located here today. Former home of Mayor Charles R. Bennett

GLENGARRIFF - The estate of Captain Francis O'Neill (1844-1936) of Chicago, Superintendent of Police at Chicago (1901-1905), located on Front Beach Drive. O' Neill was an Irish history and music collector. He also wrote books on Irish music. O'Neill wintered at Glengarriff with his family from 1914-1936. Probably demolished to build El Madrid Apts circa 1969. Former home of J.J. Kuhn, New Orleanian, who owned the artesian waterworks at Ocean Springs in the late 1890s.

GLENGARRIFF II - An Ishee house built in 1965 located at 406 Schmidt. Named by Thomas and Mary Mooney Wade (1910) for Glengarriff, the home of Mrs. Wade's grandfather, Captain Francis O'Neil. Glengarriff was just east of the Wade home.

GRANDVIEW - Built in 1992 by Ken Snider and Kirk Halstead. This attractive, raised oriental style cottage is on Halstead Road facing scenic Halstead Bayou to the north.

GREEN LAWNS - Home of Colonel Frederick Le Cand (1841-1933) at 200 Dewey Avenue. The Le Cand family moved from "Audubon" their County Road estate to Dewey in October 1917. Now owned by the Snyder Family. Rosalie Todtenbier Snyder is the grandaughter of Colonel Le Cand who was locally called Captain Le Cand. Formerly owned by Henry Wirth and Jane Flood (1904).

GREENWOOD LODGE - Home of Idelle B. Watson (1856-1956+) on Iberville Drive. Miss Watson came to Ocean Springs in 1932. Had a travel agency.

GROVELAND PARK - Pecan acreage and or farm of Fred Einfeldt of Brooklyn, New York.

HAPPY HILL - The home of Antonio "Toy" Catchot and Lucy Flower probably located on Sunset near Evergreen Cemetery.

HARBOR HILL - Twin-gabled 1993 built home of Brad and Peggy Bradford at 111 Pine Drive. Features a panoramic vista of the charming Ocean Springs Inner Harbor on a 1.5 acre wooded and landscaped lot.

HAVEN-ON-THE-HILL - O.D. Davidson place on front beach near the Yacht Club, 475 feet on beach. Was bought in August 1936, by Mrs. Lorna Leavell of Chicago. She planned to demolish the old house. Name used by D.H. Holmes of New Orleans for the F.J. Lundy home on LaFontaine at Washington.

HERMITAGE - Lundy rental cottage on Jackson Avenue. Built in 1911.

HERON PLACE - Captain June Poitevent's farm on Heron Bayou. He grew pineapples here in 1915.

HIGHLAND PECAN FARM - Vancleave area 900 acre farm of Edward G. Minnemeyer and Walter Minnemeyer of Chicago. Developed in the 1920s. Minemeyers had summer home at Duquesne Island in Georgian Bay, Canada.

HILLSIDE - Mrs. S.A. Calogne of New Orleans home at 204 Washington Avenue. Built in the fall of 1909 for $3000 (OSN, August 28, 1909). Contractors Weider & Friar (OSN, October 23, 1909). House extant and owned by Miss Litt VanCourt.

HILL TOP - Mrs. Emma Pace of New Orleans (1905), and James Elizardi (1946) home at 207 Washington Avenue. Now owned by the Weldons, John, Germaine, and Jackson (hey, Jackson).

HOLLY LODGE - H. Pitts Flateau home at Pointe-aux-Chenes. Later L.L. Cook

HOLLYWOOD - Residence of Mrs. Martha Lyon Holcomb (1833-1906) of Chicago. Home located on the NE/C of Rayburn and Porter. Built early 1890s. Destroyed after 1915. Dale Cottages located here today.

HOLMCLIFFE -Spanish Colonial Revival built by R.H. Holmes at 325 Lovers Lane. Formerly the Julian Place. Construction commenced November 1929. J.A. Wieder superintendent of construction. Now called De Guise by current owner, Jacob Guice. (see JXCOT, 11-30-1929, L&P).

INDIAN TRAIL LODGE - H. Pitts Flateau (1935), located at Pointe aux Chenes. Friend of Leavells.

INGLESIDE - Mrs. H.S. Davis's country home (1897-1928) near Vancleave. Planted Cedar tree at Community Center of Iberville.

ISLAND VIEW PLACE - home of Mayor F.M. Weed (1850-1926) on East Beach before he moved to Old Fort Bayou.

KIMCREST - Roswell S. Kimball (1886-1948) home on Front Beach. The old W.B. Schmidt home.

KINHEUSE - S.M. Hilligoss, realtor and associate of F.E. Lee, home at Lovers Lane circa 1934. Probably present day Taquino property. Hilligoss from Fort Worth, Texas?

LA BARACA - Guest cottage on Vermont of Ray Allen circa 1947.

LAKEVIEW - Charles W. Zeigler (b. 1865) of New Orleans 1890s -early 20th Century home located on Front Beach Drive. Lot later owned by D.V. Purrington (1841-1914) of Chicago.

LATTITUDE - Dr. William F. Pontius and Molly Pontius home at Hellmers Lane. Home built in 1994 and 1995 by Victor Sheely of Gulfport. Contemporary design of stucco painted coral. Faces small craft harbor.

LAVENDOONE - Appellation used for cottage at present day 1119 Vermont when owned by Chicagoan, Lorna Leavell, who donated its use for the garden club meetings during the 1950s.

LINGER LONGER – home of Olaf K. Petersen of New Orleans.(see JXCOT, 8-3-1929)

LYNDHURST - Thomas B. Lynd (1862-1915) of New Orleans. Lynd was a cotton broker and owned Lynd & Stouse which dealt extensively in cotton futures. Lynd began his career as a clerk for Chaufe, Powell, and West, a New Orleans cotton brokerage. Lynd resided on Prytania Street at New Orleans. His daughter, Edwina Marguerite Lynd, married Carl Case of Nashville, Tennessee in June 1910 (OSN, June 4, 1910, p. 1).

Ocean Springs druggist, Herman Nill, sold this 9.67 acre estate on Front Beach west of Bayou Bauzage (Inner Harbor) to Lynd in 1893 for $6000 (Jackson County Deed Book 14, p. 452). After Thomas B. Lynd died in April 1915, his son-in-law, Carl T. Case, and daughter, Edwina Marguerite Lynd, took possession and called the estate, Case Villa. They sold to W.R. David in July 1918, for $2250 (Jackson County Deed Book 45, pp. 607-608). Elizabeth Parlin purchased the property from Edwina David for $2200 in April 1921 (Jackson County Deed Book 50, pp. 326-327).

The house burned in December 1922, when owned by H.O. Parlin. Now Alice T. Austin at 545 Front Beach Drive.

LYNDWOOD-This home at 915 Ocean Avenue was built in the winter of 1934-1935 by A. Lynd Gottsche (1902-1974) and Mae Kettles Gottsche (1907-2001). The Gottsche family utilized lumber salvaged from the derelict Case-Russell situated on the southwest corner of Washington Avenue and Porter. This edifice had been damaged by fire in February 1933. A. Lynd Gottsche Jr. acquired his childhood home from his parents in December 1972. He and spouse, Patricia Field Gottsche, conveyed Lynwood to the First Presbyterian Church of Ocean Springs in December 1989. The family of the Reverend Andy Wells have lived here since their arrival in Ocean Springs

MAGNOLIA-Home of Dr. Dan Newcomb on Davis Bayou. He spent the spring of 1897 here. Dan and Fred Richardson farmed here in 1897.(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, March 5, 1897, p. 3)

MAGNOLIA GROVE - Residence of Dr. Edward J. Rodrigues probably at Lovers Lane (1-8-1897). Painted by G.F. Endres of New Orleans in April 1897.

MAGNOLIA HOUSE - Bed and breakfast home of Naomi Fields located at 300 Ward Avenue. Home built by Alcide Veillon circa 1924. The Magnolia House was established in 1994.

MAGNOLIA PLACE - New office complex built by Richard Furr family on Government at M.L. King, Jr. in 1994. Henry Furr, architect.

MAGNOLIA VILLA - Home of Paul Julien of New Orleans. Used October 5, 1906.

MANY OAKS - 315 Front Beach Drive. Dutch Colonial Revival home and estate of John B. Honor (1856-1929) of New Orleans and Margaret Soden (1860-1932). Built in the summer of 1918 by Fred Bradford for $15,000. Now owned by Mary Zala.

MARINER’S REST-Home of Thomas Hanson in present day Gulf Hills.

MARTINDALE - Farm of Alfred Martin of Gary, Indiana. Purchased J.K. Porter land 5 miles east of Ocean Springs in 1909. Adjoined the place of Mrs. T.H. Chase. Set out fruit and pecan tress. May purchase place in town. Martin was steward at Ocean Springs Hotel when it burned in 1905. Moved to Gary, Indiana where he ran the North Works Inn. Made cane syrup. Daughter, Alice Martin. (see OSN, 3-13-1909)

MENDENHALL - Three acre Lovers Lane estate of H.C. Mendenhall (d. 1914) and Lizzie Darrah Bonsal (1850-1933). Land purchased in 1880 from E.I. Israel. Mendenhall sold to Alfred E. Lewis (1862-1933) and Julia Johnson Lewis (1861-1933) in September 1890 (Jackson County Deed Book 12, pp. 96-97). Lewis conveyed to Julia Oser Rodriguez in April 1895 (Jackson County Deed Book 16, p. 398). Located (Lot 10) in Section 24 and Section 25 of T7S-R9W.

MILLSITE - Fort Bayou home of Kentucky born attorney, Ray Allen. Allen resided at Ocean Springs in 1940s. Son and grandson both architects. Grandson. W.R. Allen, Jr and Maria Bargas developed Millsite Subdivision northwest of Vermont Avenue in the 1980s. Home torn down to build present day Weems home at 1229 Vermont.

MAGNOLIA GROVE - 1850s Beach Front home of George A. Cox (1811-1887) probably located near the W.B. Schmidt Estate of later days.

MIRAGE WATERS - formerly the old Hollingworth Place on Davis Bayou at Ravenswood Point. This name was used by soldier, lawywer, traveler, judge, and Illinois born writer, Paul Myron Wentworth Linebarger (1871-1939) when he lived here from 1916-1919. Linebarger wrote under the nom de plume, Paul Myron. Some of his books were: "Bugle Rhymes From France" (1916), "Chinese Interpretive Lyrics" (1920) and "Sun Yat Sen and the Chinese Republic" (1925).

NINE OAKS -

MYRTLES - Home of Charles E. Engbarth (1885-1962) at 1105 Ames Avenue. Built in 1916. When U.S. 90 was built in the early 1950s, the Engbarths sold land south of their home for

the new road. Nineteen pecan trees were removed, and myrtles planted for privacy. The name of the house became "The Myrtles" at this time.

NICHE-IN-WOOD - home of M.L. Rose east of Ocean Springs in January 1906.

OAK CIRCLE - 1915, Captain C. Ansel's home (probably at Gulf Hills).

OAK DALE - Childhood home of Mrs. John Tillinghast (nee Cammie Bilbo) outside of Ocean Springs. Located off of Old Spansh Trail, north of Gulf Park estates.

OAKESS - Albert B. Ackander (1858-1926) and Annie M. Nilsson (1870) home on 18.5 acres in Section 28, T7S-R8W bounded by Government, Hanley Road, Pine Hills Road, and the Baben-

drier tract to the south. The Ackanders were Swedish immigrants (immigrated 1891) and came to Ocean Springs from Chicago about 1907.

OAK HAVEN - 1926, East Beach home of F.B. Thomas at East Beach. Thomas from Winnetka, Illinois. Thomas grew oranges, Japanese persimmons, pecans, and peaches at his estate. James S. Bradford (1884-1963) was his orchard manager.

OAKNOLIA - Carl Birdsall (Chicago) home at Pointe-aux-Chene adjacent to his associate, James R. Leavell. Circa 1934. Later owned by Wayne Johnson in 1957.

OAK REST - Home of Mrs. C.D. Stuart of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1903).

OAKROYD-Home of Miss Idele Watson on Fort Point.

OAK SHADE - 1993 "bed and breakfast" place of Marion Wingo and Chris Vinsonhaler at 1017 LaFontaine.

OAK SPRINGS - Home of Minnesota native Dudley Scheffer (1873-1929) who arrived at Ocean Springs in 1915 from Sioux City, Iowa. Scheffer bought the Beal Farm in 1915. He

later sold real estate. Wife, Lillian A. Hass (d. 1926).

O'KEEFE CASTLE - Appellation for the two story multi-gabled Queen Anne home at 318 Jackson Avenue. Built by Jeremiah O'Keefe (1859-1911) circa 1887. Called the Saxon House when

owned by Cecile Brodeur Saxon (1893-1980) who purchased it

from Mary C. O'Keefe in 1933. Now the residence of Christo-

pher T. Snyder and Susan O'Keefe Snyder..

OLDFIELDS - Although located on the Mississippi Sound at Gautier, this 1850s A.E. Lewis (1812-1885) built plantation estate home has strong historical and emotional ties with Ocean Springs through the Grinstead-Anderson families who owned it from 1905 to the 1950s. The period of time from 1940-1947 when Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-1965) lived and painted here has become known as his "Oldfields Period".

PALMETTO - Ed and Mary Anderson Pickard's contemporary home at the Shearwater compound. The structure was built at the waters edge in 1984, utilizing materials indigenous to the area, i.e. cypress and southern yellow pine.

PALMETTO PLACE - New name for the old Young-Shanteau garage on Government at Kotzum. Furr family bought in 1994. Sam Furr, architect.

PARK PLACE - The 1911-1919 East Beach home of Samuel T. Park and Fronie Stealy. The original cottage of James Charnley of Chicago built circa 1890. Now Edsel and Mary Ruddiman. Mr. Park was a retired railroad executive.

PECAN NURSERIES - Charles E. Pabst (1850-1920) homestead on Calhoun Avenue. Later residence and farm of Fred B. Dusette of New Haven, Michigan. Now owned by Cecelia Fink.

PINE ACRES – Dr. J.D. Davenport home on the OS-Vancleave Road.(The GCT, January 13, 1954, .16)

PINE CONE COTTAGE-Home of Mrs. Bruce Fain of Kane, Illinois at 89 Lovers Lane.(JXCOT, I-7-1942, p. 4)

PINECREST - Troy G. Holt home at 1206 Sunset Avenue since 1967. Formerly owned by Mrs. Clendinen B. Smith (1958), the Minnemeyers (1935), and Pfhals (1910). Originally part of the Ames Tract. The Ames Hotel tract and home of Miss Eliza Ames (1845-1917) were located north of Pinecrest.

PINEWOOD - Dr. Charles Albert Babendreer home at 601 Pine Hills Road. Now John Vallor. Used as medical clinic for wife, Dr. Estelle Babendreer.

POPLAR GLEN - Home of Newcomb Clark on Porter. PD-S, OSLN, 6-22-1894.

REBEL OAK - Southern Colonial style home at 343 Lovers lane.

REST HAVEN - Retirement home of Chauncey S. Bell (1842-1925) on Iberville Avenue. Bell was born at New York state and raised in pioneer Michigan. He was a successful lumber and timber man and came to Ocean Springs becuase of his failing health. Here he developed pecan orchards and nurseries on Holcomb Boulevard. Bell lived on Holcomb for more than

thirty years. Moved to Iberville circa 1921.

ROSEDALE- home of Mayor F.M. Weed (1850-1926) on Fort Bayou. Now residence of Ernest Boney at 1007 Iberville.

ROSE FARM - Nearly 1000-acre farm devloped by Parker Earle (1831-1917) and Sons in the 1890s. Bought by New York entrepreneur and yachtsman, Joseph Benson Rose (d. 1902), in 1897. Owned by Colonel H.D. Money (1869-1936) from 1909 until its dismemberment by real estate sales commencing in 1915. The Rose Farm was noted for its fine pecan, satsuma, and grape fruit orchards. Extreme cold weather in 1917 and the 1920s led to demise of citrus growing in the area.

Ocean Springs first golf course and country club was located in the north part of the Rose Farm.

ROSE GARDEN - Ruth Chase of Chicago and Hopkinton, New Hampshire, and F.J.A. Forster (1927) estate probably located on East Beach.

SANS SOUCI - Captain Ralph Beltram home at foot of Jackson Avenue (1886-1899). Later convent of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.

SEVEN PINES - Ralph C. Curtiss of Waverly, Illinois winter home at East Beach in 1897.

SHADOW LAWN - John L. Dickey (1880-1938) and Jennie Woodford Dickey (1879-1969) Prairie Renaissance home facing Deer Island east of Shearwater Pottery. The Dickey's purchased from Magdalena Hanson in 1922 when it was called Bayview. Now owned by Ruth Dickey Scharr.

REST HAVEN - Chauncey S. Bell (1842-1925) retirement home on Iberville Drive from 1921 until 1925.

REBEL OAKS - Eldon D. McClain's Southern Colonial style home and historic, oak-landscaped estate at 343 Lovers Lane. Formerly owned by the Dressler Family of New Orleans.

SHADOWS - Named used by Mark Watson and Robert Fisher for the old Thomas R. Friar homestead (1872) on Front Beach and Washington. The Oyster commission may have been located

here as Friar was an oyster dealer. Now owned by Ross and Sharon Dodds who call their estate "Villa Rosa".

SHADY NOOK - Ed Brou family home on lowr Jackson Avenue.

SHANNONDALE PLACE - now the Fort Bayou Estates Subdivision. Owned by A.H. Shannon in the early 1900s. It consisted of 540 acres in the W/2 of Section 22 and the E/2 of Section 21 of T7S-R8W. In 1909, it was partially timbered and had a large house. G.E. McEwen bought Shannon place is putting a sawmill on the place having purchased a complete plant from the L.N. Dantzler Co. which operated a Cedar Lake. Mill has capacity of 10,000 board feet per day.(OSN-10-23-1909). Owned by G.E. McEwen in 1915. Also called "Bayou View

Orchards".

SHORE ACRES - Appellation first used by Mrs. A.L. Benjamin of Milwaukee (1848-1938) for her Fort Point Estate (called Benjamin Point during her occupation). Her son-in-law, Walter S. Lindsay (1888-1975), adopted the name for his Colonial Revival Home at 305 Lovers Lane after the Benjamin home was demolished in the 1940s. The Lindsay Place is now owned by J.K. and Eleanor Lemon, and retains the name, Shore Acres.

SPRING HILL COTTAGE - Appellation used by Fred Wing (NOLA) in the 1860s for his Greek Revival cottage on Iberville. Now owned by the Bobbie D. Smith.

SPRINGWOOD - Future home of ?? on Perryman Road.

SUMMER HILL - Front Beach estate of German born entrepreneur, W.B. Schmidt (1823-1900) of New Orleans. Schmidt owned the Ocean Springs Hotel and other valuable real estate including the Infirmary Property (Marble Springs) at Ocean Springs. He donated land for St. Johns Episcopal Church in the 1890s.

SUNNY RIDGE FARM - Country estate of Chicagoan J.C. Akely on the Vancleave Road. Son, Nate S. Akely lived at Wilmette, Illinois.

SUNSET LODGE - No information.

SWEET BAY FARM - 105 acres on Bay of Biloxi and Bayou Porteaux owned by Dalton Scales of Dallas, Texas in 1925.

SWEET HEART - The three hundred-twenty acre estate of A.E. Lewis (1862-1933) southwest of VanCleave. The Lewis Family may have relocated here from Ocean Springs after selling Mendenhall in 1895. Located in Sections 23 and 24, T6S-R8W.

TERRACED FIELDS FARM - Townshend, Vermont farm of Mrs. Mignon Courson Lundy, the widow of F.J. Lundy.

TERRACE HILL - German born entrepreneur, John H. Behrens (1848-1918), of Highland Park, Illinois built this bungalow style house circa 1911. It was formerly the Mattie Austin property at 414 Martin Avenue. Behrens founded the Fort Bayou Fruit Company in 1909. The house was later owned by Captain Alex L. Bisso (d. 1950) of New Orleans and his daughter, Mrs. Giles Peresich. Now the residence of Robert L. Hoomes.

THREE OAKS - Adolph Schrieber has purchased a lot from Charles Ruddy (Rudd?) near "Three Oaks" and expects to build a home thereon. (OSN-1-16-1909)

Appellation also used by Canadian, Dr. Henry Bradford Powell (1867-1949), on Front Beach and probably later on Ward Avenue. Now home of Jay and Lisa Segarra at 414 Ward.

In October 1926, Elizabeth Smith, an invalid, of Portage, Wisconsin? died. Owned "Three Oaks".

TWELVE OAKS - S.J. Logan's sixty acre estate at 1112 Hanley Road in the Johanna Blount Subdivision, SW/4 of Section 21, T7S-R8W. Formerly owned by W.L. Barbour (pre-1955).

TWIN CEDARS - Henry Louis Ryan (1900-1947) and Elsie Seymour Ryan (1905-1989) vernacular cottage at 1208 Calhoun. Built in 1941. Ryan owned the Rainbow Inn Restaurant on Government.

TWIN OAKS-Lot 5, Section 13, T7S-R9W. Adelin J. Martin place at Gulf Hills in the early 1900s. Became H.W. Branigar’s home site.

VILLA DEL MARE - Chicago State Street haberdasher, George B. Lytton, circa 1929 built this Mediterranean style home at Arbor Circle in Gulf Hills. Later owned by Dr. Karl Meyer and today home of Robert and Virginia Meyer. Probably built by a New Orleans contractor named Zeigenfelder who built the Peacock Home (now Tomsik) to the west. One of the original Gulf Hills estates.

VILLA ROSA - Ross and Sharon Dodds home at 505 Front Beach Drive and Washington Avenue. Formerly the Fisher-Watson home.

WHILE-A-WAY-LODGE - Dr. William Porter (1850-1921) and Pearl E. Porter (1861-1943) home at Lovers Lane. Demolished.

WHITE HOUSE HILL - Five bay Greek Revival cottage of Amanda Shaffer (1850-1920+) of New Orleans (1911) and "Minerva" in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Located at 214 Washington Avenue on Lots 6,7,8 of Block 5 (Culmseig Map). Formerly Wing Cottage and White-Spunner House. Now owned by Leake

Family.

WILDERMEAR - Halstead Family home on East Beach which was destroyed by fire in June 1911. Probably named for David Wileder Halstead (1842-1918) who came to Ocean Springs from Dodge City, Iowa in the Midwest in 1888. Present home on this site built by E.W. Halstead (1876-1933) in 1916.

WILJUMARRIE - built by L.N. Bradford for Mrs. Julia E. Brown of Chicago in Febraury 1894. Located on East Beach, east of Field Lodge. Mrs. Morgan Williams of Leadville, Colorado and Mrs. Rush Field of Chicago was an owner also.

WILDWOOD - Home of W.D. Penick of Des Moines, Iowa (1923). Probably located on East Beach. H.O. Penick moved to Kent, Washington. Spent winter of 1920 at Franklin, La. Wife, daughter of Louisiana Governor Murphy Foster of Franklin.

WINDSWEPT - Home of Neely and Katherine Crane Powers on LaFontaine. Now Irene Endt Powers.

WINTER REST -Rosambeau cottage at 908 Calhoun used as a winter retreat by Charles Dryden (1860-1931), nationally known sportswriter, for about twenty years (1901-1921).

WOODLAWN - Home of Miss L. Ready (1927). Location?

WOODLAWN - Name used by Miss Eliza Ames for her home on Cemetery Road (now Sunset) near Evergreen Cemetery.

WOODVIEW - Home of E.W. Blossman at 206 Shearwater Drive.

WYNDILLHURST - Front beach estate of Dillwyn V. Purington (1841-1914) and Jennie Purington (1846-1933). Mr. Purington was in the lumber and brick business at Chicago. He was President of the Purington-Kimball Paving Brick Company (Chicago) and the Purington Paving Brick Company (Galesburg, Illinois). They arrived at Ocean Springs circa 1904. The Puringtons spent eight months at their Front Beach home, and summered at Chicago and in the northeast. The house burned in the 1940s? Site now occupied by a contemporary structure at 221 Front Beach.

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HANSEN-HANEMANN COTTAGE: "BREEZY HILL"

305 Beach Drive

Hansen-Hanemann Cottage-Destroyed by Katrina in August 2005, this Creole cottage was probably built in the early 1870s by Lawrence N. Hansen (1823-1900), a Danish born mariner who settled at New Orleans. Captain Hansen later resided at 520 Jackson Avenue where he expired in October 1900. Image by Ray L. Bellande in June 1995.

Prologue

The Hansen-Hanemann Cottage at 305 Front Beach Drive was another victim of Hurricane Katrina. The structure was damaged beyond salvation and the remains of what were once a charming, vernacular, beach cottage were removed from the lot in the post-Katrina cleanup of late 2005. As of this date, the lot remains empty.

The Hansen-Hanemann Cottage was situated at an elevation of about 10-13 feet above mean sea level in Lot 2 and Lot 3 of the Austin tract, which was surveyed by H.A. Boudousquie in March 1872. These two lots have an 80-foot front on the Bay of Biloxi and run back to the north approximately three hundred-fifty feet.

Jerome Ryan

On August 31, 1846, Jerome Ryan (1793-c. 1878) and his wife, Euphrosine LaFontaine Ryan (1802-c. 1852), in the partition deed of the Widow LaFontaine Tract, a 237-acre plot of land encompassing all of Section 37, T7S-R8W, received Lot No. 1. It ran five hundred sixty-one feet east of Martin Avenue along the shore of Biloxi Bay and north to Section 19, T7S-R8W, a distance of approximately 2900 feet as surveyed in 1853. Catherine Bourgeois LaFontaine (1768-c. 1845), the Widow LaFontaine, and Louis Auguste LaFontaine (1762-c. 1813) were the parents of Euphrosine L. Ryan.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 4, pp. 548-549)

Martha E. Austin

Prior to the division and donation of Lot 1, the Jerome Ryan tract, to his children in November 1853, Jerome Ryan and his legal age children had conveyed the water front acreage of Lot 1 to Martha E. Austin (1818-1898), the wife of Dr. William Glover Austin (1812-1894), a New Orleans physician of Maryland birth. The sale of this approximate fourteen-acre tract was authorized by the Probate Court of Jackson County, Mississippi at its June term 1853. The sale to Mrs. Austin was consummated on September 21, 1853.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 12, pp. 632-633)

Also in 1853, Dr. W.G. Austin with would build the Ocean Springs Hotel a few blocks east of here on Calhoun (now Cleveland) and Jackson Avenue. In 1854, the Ocean Springs Hotel gave its name to this developing village on the eastern shore of the Bay of Biloxi. It had been called Biloxy by French Canadian explorer and soldier of fortune, Pierre Le Moyne, sieur d'Iberville (1661-1706), in 1699. By 1720, the French referred to the area as Vieux Biloxy when they moved across the Bay of Biloxi to present day Biloxi. In the early 1840s, people from New Orleans called the area East Biloxi and by 1853, the name Lynchburg Springs had been given to the first post office. Fortunately for the people of Ocean Springs, this appellation lasted only one year.

Lawrence N. Hansen

On March 1, 1871, Lawrence N. Hansen (1823-1900) purchased Lot 2 of the Austin Tract from Martha E. Austin for $200. He would acquire Lot 3 of the Austin Tract from Mrs. Austin in May 1871 for $300. By mid-April 1872, Lawrence N. Hansen also owned Lot 4 and Lot 5 of the Austin Tract. He now had one hundred-seventy feet on Biloxi Bay, just east of Martin Avenue and invested $1300 in these four lots.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 12, pp. 627-633)

It is believed that in 1872, Lawrence N. Hansen built the beach cottage, which before Katrina’s unwelcome visit on August 29, 2005 stood at 305 Beach Drive. This structure was described by the Mississippi State Department of Archives & History in their architectural survey of Ocean Springs (1986) as:

One-and-one-half story, wood frame Creole cottage with a side gable roof, full-width undercut gallery with a scalloped architrave. Twin centered French windows with transoms. Circa 1880.

It is known with a high degree of certitude that in 1875, Lawrence N. Hansen owned a residence valued at $1000 and Lots 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Ryan Tract. This information is recorded on page 74 in the Jackson County, Mississippi 1875 Land Roll Book. This fact seems to corroborate that L.N. Hansen built a cottage here before 1875.

Lawrence N. Hansen was a Danish mariner who lived at New Orleans and Ocean Springs. He came to America in his youth. In 1853, Hansen married Sophia Clasen (1834-1912), a native of Hanover, Germany.(1880 Jackson Co., Mississippi Federal Census T9_650, p. 13, ED 144)

Hansen-Dodds House

On January 13, 1873, Lawrence Hansen acquired Lot 3 of Block 34 (Culmseig Map of 1854) from Charles McMicken. At this time a Greek Revival cottage was probably located here at present day 520 Jackson Avenue. This house is referred to today as the Hansen-Dodds House and may have been built in the late 1850s. Captain Hansen died here on Jackson Avenue on October 14, 1900. His corporal remains were sent to New Orleans for internment in the Metairie Cemetery.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 2, pp. 417-420 and The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, October 19, 1900, p. 3)

Sophie C. Hansen left Ocean Springs after the demise of her husband and relocated to New Orleans to the domicile of Christian C.A. Hansen (1845-1914), a nephew of L.N. Hansen, her deceased spouse. She planned to rent her cottage on Jackson Avenue.(The Pascagoula Democrat-Star, October 26, 1900. p. 3)

On June 9, 1905, Sophia Clasen Hansen sold her Jackson Avenue home at Ocean Springs to Christian C.A. Hansen (1845-1914). The consideration was $1500. Christian C.A. Hansen was born in Denmark. He was a shipmaster and later entered the cotton brokerage business where he did well financially. Christian C.A. Hansen had married Magdelena Grob (1845-1929) in 1871. She was born in New Orleans, and was the widow of Henry Clasen (1814-1870). She and Henry Clasen had a daughter, Louisa Clasen Hatry (1852-1911), who died April 11, 1911. Louisa married Theodore Hatry (1851-1896) in June 1875.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 29, p. 599)

French Hotel-Edward House

Lawrence N. Hansen had sold his beach cottage property to Mrs. Kate Lewis Staples (1859-1930) for $3500 on July 24, 1891. She sold Lots 4 and 5 just west of her home to Marie Gouax Bertuccini (1863-1930) in December 1895. Corsican immigrant, Antoine Bertuccini (1844-1921), built the French Hotel on these lots at the southeast corner of Martin and Font Beach circa 1896. This structure later became the Edwards House, owned by James H. Edwards (1893-1950) and family.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 12, pp. 634-635 and Bk. 17, pp. 133-134)

Kate L. Staples

Kate L. Staples (1859-1930) was born Katherine L. Lewis. She was the daughter of Colonel Alfred E. Lewis (1812-1885) and Ann R. Farrington Lewis (1821-1901) who built Lewis Sha, a Greek Revival style plantation home at Gautier in 1845. The home is called Oldfields today having received this appellation from William Wade Grinstead (1864-1948), the father-in-law of Walter I. "Bob" Anderson (1903-1965).

Kate Lewis married Frederick “Fred” Staples (1852-1897) on April 3, 1880. Fred Staples was the son of Solomon G. Staples (1817-1870+) and Adeline A. Terrell Staples (1829-1902) of New Orleans. In 1874, Mrs. Adeline A. Staples bought a large tract of land on the Fort Point Peninsula at Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Here, the Staples family built a summer home on the Bay of Biloxi. One of their daughters, Mary Eleanor "May" Staples (1847-1932) married Captain Junius Poitevent (1837-1917) of Hancock County, Mississippi in 1865. In 1876, the Poitevents built their home, "Bay View", adjacent to the Staples place on present day Lovers Lane at Ocean Springs.

Fred and Kate Staples had three children: Alfred L. Staples (1881-1969), Catherine A. Putnam (b. 1883), and Ethel E. Burns (b. 1886). Fred Lewis made his livelihood at Ocean Springs as a merchant. His partners were his brothers-in-law, Robert W. Staples (1858-1886) and G.T. Beauregard Staples (1861-1880+). This joint venture commenced operations in October 1879, when they began to occupy the building formerly of Moses Smith Park (1846-1910+). Mr. Park was a Texan by birth and had been a resident of Ocean Springs as early as December 1870. At this time, he acquired two tracts of land from Cales Anderson in the Azalie LaFauce Clay Strip with frontage on County Road, now Government Street. A part of this land situated on the southeast corn of Washington and Government would become known as "Lundy's Corner." The 1926 Standard Oil-Zanca Service Station was demolished here in June 2005 by SEFCO LLC, a Mississippi limited liability company domiciled at 712 Washington Avenue. (JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 5, pp. 107-108)

Kate L. Staples’s granddaughter, Emily Staples Hearin (b. 1914), resides at Mobile. Emily S. Hearin relates in her booklet, Colonels, Cotton, and Camellias, that the Staples and Lewis Wharf was located at the foot of Jackson Avenue adjacent to the Antonio Catchot oyster shop.

In May 1895, Mrs. Staples sold her beach cottage property to Mrs. V.H. Hattier, nee Grazeilla M. Gourdain, of New Orleans for $1800.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 16, pp. 451-452)

Grazeilla Gourdain Hattier Leonard

Grazellia Louise Gourdain (1859-1931) was born at New Orleans, the daughter of John V. Gourdain (1813-1899) and Marie Odile Gourdain (1820-1898). Her father was an auctioneer and exchange broker in the Crescent City. Graziella married Victor Henry Hattier (1833-1898) at New Orleans on March 19, 1889. He was the widower of Rosa Castanedo Hattier (1831-1888). V.H. Hattier made his livelihood as a cotton classer.

(1870 and 1880 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census M593_522, p. 125 and T9_462, p. 41, ED 50)

After Victor H. Hattier’s demise, Grazellia G. Hattier married Leonce Leonard (1862-1940), the widower of Mary Meyer Leonard. Their vows were exchanged at New Orleans on September 8, 1900. Leonce Leonard made his livelihood in the sugar industry. In 1920, they were domiciled on Orleans Street at New Orleans.(1920 Orleans Parish, Louisiana T625_620, p. 1B, ED 90)

In September 1905, Mrs. Graziella M.G. Leonard, formerly Mrs. V.H. Hattier, conveyed her real property on the water at Ocean Springs consisting of Lots 2 and 3 and improvements to J.B. Morin of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana for $2000.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 30, p. 171)

Jean-Baptiste Morin

Jean-Baptiste Morin (1881-1918+) was February 25, 1881 in St. Landry, Parish Louisiana to Joseph Morin (1852-1918) and Eliza Kidder (1859-pre-1900), the daughter of Jean-Baptise Kidder and Florence Kidder. They married in February 1878 at Opelousas, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Jean-Baptiste Morin made his livelihood as a farmer and in 1918 was residing in Arnaudville, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.(WW I Draft Registration St. Landry Parish, Louisiana R 1684999 and 1880 and 1900 St. Landry Parish Federal Census T9_471, p. 49, ED 39 and T623 582, p. 2A, ED 77) In August 1910, Jean-Baptiste Morin conveyed his real estate at Ocean Springs to Clebert J. Falterman of Napoleonville, Louisiana for $1500 in August 1910.(JXCO, Ms. Land Deed Bk. 36, pp. 71-72)

Falterman Family

This vintage image was made circa 1920 on the pier of Clebert J. Falterman (1865-1934) in front his vacation cottage, now 305 Front Beach Drive. Mr. Falterman lived at Napoleonville, Louisiana were he was operated a successful mercantile business. Note the bath houses at the pier heads.[l-r: Corrine T. Falterman (1866-1921); C.J.