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Favreport, just north of Pearlington. Asa Hursey helped build the Favre mill and worked there until the mill burned. He then took a job building a sawmill at Holtonville, La., across the Tchefuncta River from Madisonville. At this time several of the Hursey children were living in Slidell, La. Asa contracted pneumonia. His wife and sons went immediately to his bedside but he never recovered. He died December 6, 1912. Transportation between places like Pearlington and Madisonville was a big problem back then. The sons of Asa chartered a large boat to carry' their father's body back home to Pearlington for burial there. The coffin was lashed to the cabin. Mrs. Hursey rode inside the cabin. By the time they reached the Southern Railway bridge across Lake Portchartrain at North Shore a quick December storm had whipped up. The bridgekeeper refused to open the bridge. The boat had to circle about in the lake for about one hour. To keep the body from going overboard, Asa?s sons lashed themselves to the cabin top. It took all their strength to save themselves and their father?s bodv. They finally reached home in Pearlington and buried Asa in the Pearlington cemetery.
I am indebted to Mrs. foe Crawford of Slidell for the information about the Hursey family.
Asa Hursey left the following children: May Ora Hursey married Oscar Leonard?one child Laura, now Mrs. Joe Crawford of Slidell; Philip Agnue Hursey who married Annie Bethea of Slidell?one adopted son who lives in Mobile, Ala. He was a successful business man as Vice-President and General Manager of Gulf States Creosoting Co. of Slidell; Sidney Hassam Hursey married Maria Miles in Pearlington, he followed his father in the sawmill business and built the Poitevent and Favre sawmill at Mandeville; Ames Mead Hursey?he never married; Marv Ruth married Charles Farr?they have seven children; William Abner Maguire Hursey married Christina Beyer and had three children: he was very successful in the boating business running ferries from Pearlington to the Chef after Highway 90 was completed but before the bridges were built
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he ran ferries at both the Rigolets and the Chef under a state franchise; Laurentza Isabella married Cornelius Carr?they had two children; Asa Hursey III married Glyda Connerly of Collins, Mississippi?they have two children and he worked for the veterans bureau in Jackson for over 30 years; Octavia Hursey, the youngest child never married.
The Kiln
?No section of the state is more beautiful than the environs of Kiln, lying on the banks of the Jordan River, as it winds its way from the upper part of Hancock County to the Gulf of Mexico, or more correctly, to the Bay of St. Louis. Here the giant oak, stately pine, tall cypress and beautiful magnolia vie with each other for supremacy along the beautiful bends of the river.?? So wrote E. C. Schilling about Kiln, Hancock County, Mississippi.
The place called Kiln has a long history. The name came from the fact that charcoal kilns were burned at this high point on Jordan river for shipment to New Orleans. Originally it was "The Kiln? because there was always a coal kiln burning there to supply the New Orleans market for this product so important to that citv in the old days. Besides charcoal much fireplace wood and stove wood were shipped into New Orleans from Kiln in the early days. Many schooners were busy hauling these products to New Orleans one hundred years ago. Each cargo would usually include all three types of fuel.
Because of the heighth of the land at Kiln above all overflow from the river it was a natural place to build a sawmill to cut and ship the virgin pine which grew right down to the river bank. More than 100 years ago a man named Thompson built a sawmill at this strategic location. It was a small mill by present day standards. He sold the mill and the land around it to Frank Guiterrez who later sold it to Emilio Cue. Cue
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