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Terry Firsching P.O. Box 667 Cloudcroft, NM 88317
February 21, 1995
Charles Gray
Hancock County Historical Society Box 312
Bay St. Louis, MS 39520 Dear Charles :
This is just a short note to give you a little information about the location of my grandparent's house. I visited with Dad for a couple of hours today and have been able to assemble the following:
You may be right in that all of grandfather's property--house, the work camp, caretakers house, and plant were all one large piece of land. I've made a crude sketch on an attachment.
Dad says that one could see the plant from their home on bay front road. A fence separated their house from Mrs. Jenks house, then proceeding toward town was maybe a house or two and then the Perkins house.
Toward the plant on the front road they built a house for the Costellos (several members of the family worked at the plant--more about that later). A fence separated the Costello house from the work camp. At that point the road split-one branch to the plant-another to their farm-and still another swung back to the left (he calls it the back road) and dead ended at the railroad in town. Grandfather's property extended all of the way to the back road.
Dad recalls that most of the houses were slightly angled on their lots except the Perkins home which was squared with the road. He remembers the senior Perkins, two brothers, and two s i, s t e r s .
More to come. Thanks for everything.
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Bestj regards,
Terry Fi
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