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Guerin: Did that road connect up with anything else.
LaFrance: No, it just went down to that house.
Guerin: Well, I might still drive down to the right turn, just to see your grandmother?s house.
LaFrance: I think they?ve got a gate there now. I don?t know if they?ve got it locked or not, but they?ve got a gate, just when you pass my cousin?s house.
If you want to go up to the cemetery over there, they?ve got ? Ladner. They?ve got it on a big stone over there.
Guerin: Yes, I found Cadet LaFontaine?s grave there.
LaFrance: Yes, that?s the old man.
Guerin: He settled this area, right? And that?s how Bayou Caddy got its name?
LaFrance: The way I understood it, when he first come here, he settled at Point Cadet, Biloxi. He left from there on a schooner and come up Bayou Caddy, and when it got so narrow, he got to this hill, and there?s where he built that house. That?s just past the graveyard, that same road I was telling you about. Just inside that gate was his house.
Guerin: Is that house still standing?
LaFrance: No. His son, old man Raymond LaFontaine, he had a log house right here, just across the railroad. Raymond and Celeste and [Siss?]- two sisters; one married Falco and one married Riemann (?) All this land in here was Caddy LaFontaine?s land. All this land in here belonged to them. At that time, they homesteaded all that stuff.
Guerin: Do you know how he managed to survive in here?
LaFrance: No I imagine he done like the Indians, he just hunted and lived off the land. I reckon that?s what they did.
Guerin: Tell me how you found the anchor that is in your front yard.
LaFrance: Well, we was catching bait, live bait. We catch shrimp in the river, down below the bridge and up above the bridge. South of the bridge and north of the bridge. So these Bordages, Ray told me, he told me there is something across the river there, you?ve got to make that bend before you drop over there. He said, ?I lost nets there.? So this time we [went] up the river there, but I don?t know why, the boy through the net overboard. We just left it out We was 200 foot, 300 foot above the bridge, I saw this old schooner there for years, not the whole schooner, but part of it, you know. It was on this flat, and every time the march would catch afire, it would burn down to the water. So it just got so
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