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DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM JAMES POITEVENT
William James Poitevent b. 6-30-l8l4 N. C.
d.	5-14-1890 Gainesville, Miss, married in I83O:	Mary	Amelia	Russ	of' Belle Grange, N. C.
b. 6-10-1819 d. 10-23-1873 buried Gainesville, later both moved to Picayune, Miss., after NASA project was erected
(Pearl River - Highway to Glory Land, S. G. Thigpen contains many anecdotes on members of this line)
children:
Junius b. about 1837 d. 1919 married:	May Eleanor Staples
children:
a.	Schuyler, Sr.
married:	Thomasia	Overton	d.	4	-	1964
children:
al. Schuyler, Jr. Ocean Springs, Miss, married:	Virginia
b.	Cora Mae
John b. 6-4-1840 d. 3-12-1899 buried Pearlington, Miss.
(See Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, Vol. 2, page bOO)	9^06^
married 1st about 1864:	Emily	I.	Toomer
b.	10-2-1843 d. 4-1-1874 buried Pearlington, Miss, children:
William James b. 8-25-1868 d. 12-9-1912 unmarried
Mary Geneva b. 8-7-^1865 d. 8-14-1947 married:	Gordon	Smets Orme, of Savannah,
Georgia, d. 3-20-1961
children: bl-. Mary b. 1894
married:	Donald Markel of Hazleton,
Penn. children:	(7)
-	Mary Orme
-	Donald, Jr.
married:	Barbara	Dershuck