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Cazeneuve, Sheriff, wound up his tax-collecting tour of the county at Kiln last Saturday. (SCE 11/26/1892)
Cazeneuve, Sheriff's, home on Main Street is completed and he moved in this week. Mr. Cazeneuve is not only a model officer of the law but is an architect of merit, so we judge from the plan of his new home. (SCE 12/17/1892)
Cazeneuve, Sheriff, visited New Orleans on Thursday. (SCE 02/25/1893)
The courthouse of Hancock is a large two story frame building 50x70, which was erected in 1874, at a cost of $6,000. The court, jury and consultation rooms are upstairs, while the offices are on the ground floor, and these are supplied with fire-proof vaults and all-steel safes, thus rendering the county's records absolutely secure., There is in the same yard a brick jail, fitted with steel cells, and the peculiar fence with which it is enclosed makes it almost impossible for a prisoner to escape. The courthouse is manned by a good and careful set of officers, none of whom are more painstaking and competent than Jas. F. Cozenenvee (Cazeneuve), the sheriff and tax collector of the county. (SCE 05/20/1893)
JAS. F. COZENENVEE (CAZENEUVE) the sheriff and tax collector of the county. Of course every well regulated county must have a sheriff to open and close court, arrest people without insulting them, attend mortgage sales and serve in the capacity of best man at all executions. Mr. Cozenenvee was elected to the office in 1883, after having served for three years as deputy and there proven his fitness to fill the office, and he has continued in office from that time until the present, and now is filling his last term, as the full limit of the constitution is ten years, and his being elected so many times is the best of assurance that he pleased the people and they did not find their confidence misplaced. He executed the business of the office to the satisfaction of his constituents and in a manner that marks him as a man of honest worth and integrity. Bay St. Louis is the city of his nativity and here he received his education, attending the Commercial College. He afterwards engaged in bookkeeping and clerking, so that he was experienced in the clerical duties that would fall to his lot before he entered the office of deputy and while in that position became the better fitted to fill the position he now occupies as one of the best in the gift of the people of the county, and his holding it for so many consecutive years is a tribute of esteem the people have been pleased to show him. He has made a very careful sheriff and deals with all in justice, and as a ministerial officer is giving the best of satisfaction, and his duties as tax collector are filled with results equally satisfactory.
He is prominent in all matters of a public nature and is one of our most highly respected citizens, and one whose every interest is centered in the good of his own town, and he will never be accused of standing in the way of public improvement, but on the other hand lends his aid to all enterprises that are worthy of it., He owns a commodious home property in the city, besides other lots fronting on the Gulf, and very desirable building sites. He is President of the People's Building and Loan Association, and one of the men who was instrumental in its organization. (SCE 05/20/1893)
Cazeneuve, Sheriff, has been absent this week on a tax collecting tour. Our Sheriff is popular throughout Hancock and he receives a warm welcome. (SCE 11-18-1893)
Iron Safe Used As Bank - You will read in other parts of this Centennial Edition that Bay St. Louis was an incorporated city for 41 years before it secured its first banks - the Hancock Bank in 1899, followed by the Merchants Bank four years later.
Professional historians have a habit of overlooking the interesting details. For instance, they tell you that Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo, but neglect to relate that at the time Napoleon was suffering acute pain from his ulcers which could have influenced the outcome of the battle. Also, the historians emphatically state that Bay St. Louis got its first bank in 1899 - but neglect to say what people did with their money before that. So, we have to fall back on the memories of the old-timers, who fill in the interesting details.
One 79-year old former resident of the Bay in the Nineties stated that August Keller, who operated the famous Blue Store at Washington Street (so named because it was painted a bright blue), had a huge iron safe in the back of his store where customers and citizens kept their money for safekeeping payable on demand. And also, then Joseph F. Cazeneuve, who was sheriff at the time, permitted the country folk to put their money in the huge county safe, each person's money or valuables properly marked. And we learn in another section of this edition that John Osoinach, who worked for Keller a long time and who later opened his own store, acquired the unofficial title of the Bay's first banker because he cashed and issued checks for his customers. Could be, of course, that the people of Bay St. Louis and its surrounding county folk didn't have too much hard cash to handle in those days. (Sun Herald 7-291958)
McCorry, Miss Marion, who was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cazeneueve, has returned to New Orleans. (SCE 9/3/1893) see: Circuit Court article (SCE 10/28/1893) see: article under Hancock Bank (SH 7/29/1958)
Mentioned also in article under "Hancock Bank" from (Buyers Guide dated June 23, 1976)
Cazeneuve, Sheriff is having his home on Main street enlarged and improved otherwise. When completed, we have doubt to believe, that it will prove an ornament to Main street. (SCE 9/10/1892)
Cazeneuve, Sheriff J.F., gave a delightful party at his residence Thursday evening. (SCE 04/22/1893)
Cazeneuve, Sheriff Jos. F., our mutual friend, is our most prominent arrival in Pearlington at this writing. He is experiencing some difficulty in finding who he wants. (SCE 04/22/1893)
Cazeneuve, Jos. F. One of the pioneer merchants of Bay St. Louis was G. Planchet who operated a dry goods store during the last part of the century on Front Street (Now Beach) near Union, known as the Oak Cottage Store. When Mr. Planchet died his business was purchased by Jos. F. Cazeneuve whom Bay St. Louis old-timers remember as one time sheriff and tax Collector and in later years as an officer and cashier of the then Hancock County Bank.
Then in 1903 Joseph O. Mauffray, the former teen-age clerk in Planchet's store bought out Cazdneuve and two years later founded the hardware business next door, now known as Mauffray's Hardward. (SCE July 29, 1953)
Cazeneuve, Joseph F. - purchased "the tannery" on Main St. with F. C. Bordages from the Minerva Association (VF Gardebled)
Cazeneuve, Mr. Joseph F. (Sr or Jr) , See Planchet, "Oak Cottage". (ATG 8).
Cazeneuve, Joseph F. Store. On Front St. near Union. (ATG pBSL-8)
In this photo you can make out the tower of the church to the right edge of the picture. He was a member of the first board of directors of the Hancock County Bank. Photo. (SCE 5 Sep 1903 pg 13).
Joseph F. Cazeneuve Sr. 28 Nov 1855 - 18 Oct 1924. Sheriff and Tax-collector several times. Officer and cashier of Hancock County Bank. Married Martha Longren (1859 - 1898) One son, Joseph Caseneuve Jr. Six daughters, Mrs. Jesse Elmer, Mrs. Mable Loog (Long?), Mrs. Gertrude Boswell, Mrs. Clemmie O'Conner, Miss Irene and Miss Ruth Cazeneuve. (SCE Jubilee 1942 pg. 4, col 1). Cazeneuve, J. F., 328 Main (Ph 48 thru 50)
Cazeneuve, Joseph F. (Wb C pg. 63) Dec. Son: Joseph Evareste Cazeneuve. Dau: Mrs. Jessie r. Cazeneuve Elmen, Mrs. Mabel V.Cazeneuve Loog, Mrs. Martha Clementine O'Conner, Gertrude L.Cazeneuve,Marie Irene Cazeneuve, Ruth L.Cazeneuve. Probate Aug. 20, 1920. S.L. Engman, N.P. Oct. 31, 1924.
Cazeneuve, Mabel, assisted Mr. T.L. Trawick in teaching in the BSL schools, Sept 21, 1904 (CCS)
Cazeneuve, Miss Ruth. Daughter of Joseph F. Cazeneuve Sr. is presently living on the Cazeneuve homesite at 328 Main, although elderly and bed-ridden. Phone is still listed to J. F. Cazeneuve. (1987).