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Longevity seems to be a predominating tactor among
natives of Hancock County------last month Miss Alice	jg i\tiJ
Necaise, d a u g ht_e r o f _t h e__ i a L e Adele_Luc_.de G u e rr e and
v~Edmond Necaise, celeb fated. 94 years of 1i\ i ng, ail of them in Hancock County and most ot them in Bay St.
Louis .
Born Jan. l-l 1862, Miss Alice was one ot eight children. She was born in the house on N. Beach in Bay St. Louis, now owned by Mr. and Mrs . Mac Langui_rand. ajid known as "Hill top _House . "	s^ie	sPerit.	Her^early^
childhood, until Bay St. Louis was occupied by In ion " soldiel's "dur'ing the b 1 ack?day_of the_ Civil war when Sgt. Edmond Necaise of the Coniederate Army mc\ed his
family to a safer quarters_____on Bayou iia 11 are uhere the.v
remained until the end of the war.
Returning to Bay St. Louis, the family moved into a new home on Main Street in the third block, and here Miss ~~
Necaise~liveduntil about three years ago, when she moved to make her home with her niece, Mrs. A. J.
Favre, Sr., on Dunbar Ave. At that time she was in good health and very active. A fall about two years ago resulted in a broken hip which has made her an invalid.
Of the eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Necaise only two are living today, Miss "Alice" and her sister, Mrs.
Ralph Blaze, the "baby" of the family. Two of the children, a boy and a girl, died at an early age during a yellow fever epidemic. A sister, Mrs. Adele Saucier,	1/ ^
mother of the police chief, Alice Saucier died in her	it P-	{>
late seventies, a brother, Hermogene*. was in his middle +
80?s at the time of his death. TFTrelP sisters, Miss
Alice, Mrs. Marie Saucier, and Miss Vina Necaise, lived 0^	^
together for a number of years in the Main Street home.
Death claimed the other two sisters in their eighties.
Mrs. Saucier at 84 and Miss Vina at 86 years. It was at the death of this last sister that Miss Alice moved in with her niece. With a keen and active mind, Miss Alice recalls the days of her youth, when it was necessary to travel by boat to visit relatives living in Delisle and other parts of the county.
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