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Cn the	war; thr family burial r^unc. Jesse Cowand,
bin v:ife, and descendants are buried there. Upon a division of the property to the various heirs at the August Term of Chancery Court in 1875 (Peed Book C-, pares 3^2-3, Hancock County Deed Records) it was specifically stated "Your Commissioners further respectfully report to your Honor that they find on a portion of the land to be divided, about half a mile back of the beach and near the line dividing the Estate of Joseph Field, deceased, from the lands of Melite Lessassier, a cemetery, which has been used for many years back as a place of interment for all the different families descended from the late Jesse Cowand. They find that the late Jesse Cowand himself and his deceased widow are buried there besides many others belonging to the family, and a general desire exists among the different heirs that this Cemetery should continue in the joint occupancy and possession of all, so that it can be used hereafter as well as heretofore for the interment of any member of the different families interested in the Estate. To secure this laudable object, the Commissioners have laid off, surveyed and staked out a lot of land containing one acre, in the shape of a square with sides 208 feet long for a Common Graveyard, as will appear from the map (Exhibit B) and ask your Honorable Court that this action in the premises be approved, and said Cemetery be forever set apart as a Common Grave Yard for the families of all parties interested in the Estate of Jesse Cowand, deceased." Also, a street to th^ beachfront was provided at this time which is presently known as Leopold Street. "Your Commissioners further report to Your Honor that they find a street, called Second Street, running in a direction nearly nortte and south, through the Estate of Jesse Cowand, deceased and of Joseph Field, deceased, which street gives the only access to the different divisions of the rear lands for the respective owners of the same.
They find that this street, as a means of access and communication will not afford the full benefit contemplated unless it be connected with the Front Street or Road running along the beach of the Bay, and for the purpose of affording this access from and to the front, and connecting not only Second Street, but also the Common Cemetery with said Front Street. Your Commissioners have - by the advice and with the consent of all parties interested - laid off a street or road 21 feet wide running from the beach along the line of the Kelite Lessassier Claim past the Cemetery to Second Street; as will more fully appear by reference to the map (Exhibit B).
In April of 1889 Helena Dorhauer Cowand, wife of Charles T. Cowand, and Julia Cowand Herrick, wife of Dr. S. S. Herrick, conveyed to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Bay St. Louis a strip of land to be used as a public street, to-wit:	On the part of
Helena D. Cowand, wife of Charles T. Cowand, a strip of land on the south side of land known as front lot No. 7 in the division of the Estate of Jesse Cowand, deceased, said strip of land being 16-2/3 feet wide and running between parallel lines fromwhat is known as Front Street to Cowand Avenue; and on the part of Julia Cowand, wife of Dr. S. S. Herrick, now residing in San Francisco, Calif., a strip of land on the north side of what is known as front lot No. 6 in the division of the Estate of Jesse Cowand, deceased, said strip of land being 23-1/3 feet wide and running between parallel lines from what is known as Front Street to Cowand Avenue. These two strips of land to make one street forty feet wide to be known as Julia Street; said Julia Street being in the corporate limits of the City of Bay St. Louis, County of Hancock, State of I'ississippi. Said Julia