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lasted is not known. No sale is listed but in 1850 Mrs. Armstrong was a widow in (lie U. S. Census report.
"On November 25, 1853, the next partners of Asa H. Hursey . were F. W. Delesdenier, W. L. Burgess and Thomas Bailey. These three owned half interest while Asa H. Hursey owned the other half and operated the mill.
"On May 25, 1852, Nathan K. Hall, Postmaster-General of the United States, appointed Asa H. Hursey postmaster of the Pearlington postoffice. He was also elected Justice of the Peace of the First District (Beat 1) of Hancock County May 28, 1849.
Asa H. Hursey seems to have been a man with a wide range of interests in Hancock County.
??His next venture in the mill business was alone and he seems to have operated alone until the Civil War.
"There were battles fought at Pearlington and at Gainesville in which superior Yankee forces captured these old river towns. Immediately thereafter New Orleans fell and all business on Pearl River ceased. Yankee patrol boats regularly visited all the towns up and down the river. All goods that were ot any value were confiscated. If a person tried to keep anything that javhawkers wanted they would inform the Yankees and they would take away the property of local citizens. If there was anv objection expressed or any outcry on the part of the owner he would be put in jail. This happened to Captain John Orr' who spent several years as a prisoner at Fort Pike during the war for protesting seizure of some of his property.
??During the war there was little or no law and order in Pearlington. Pillage and robbery went unpunished, in fact, Federal soldiers winked at such lawlessness and were themselves involved in these crimes. Because of this condition the Hursey family went to live on the McCall old place southwest of Nicholson, making their home across Pearl River in Honey Island in order to be further away from Yankee marauders. Asa Hursey had bought out the heirs of Duncan McCall, his wife?s brothers and sisters, and owned a good sized tract of land near Nicholson which extended on both sides of the river. That old
claim still goes by the name Duncan McCall Claim Section 4, Township 7 South, Range 17 West. The river across this old claim on the Mississippi side is still known as Me- * ? Call?s River.
"While the Hursey family lived on the old McCall place across the river they were residents of Louisiana. Asa was either elected or appointed a member of the Police Jury of St.
Tammany Parish. Mrs. Crawford has a five dollar certificate issued to him by the St. Tammany Police Jury dated February
1,	18G2. She also has a letter to Mr. Hursey asking him to list all the dependents of the volunteer company of the Confederacy so that their money could be drawn fr^ni the state treasury. This letter is signed by F. A. Cousin, president of the Police Jury.
?After the close of the Civil War the Hursey familv returned to their home in Pearlington.	J
?The next venture of Asa H. Hursey wa* with the Walker Mill located on the Winchester Mill site on\Bayou Galere above Shieldsboro, now known as Bay St. Louis. He employed freed men for the first time in this mill. Among his old papers are the bonds issued by these men with me bank stamp attached. J 1 Some of these men were Paul Benoist, Napoleon Jenkins, Jerry Leggett, and Benjamin Mirtler. Co-partners in this business were a Mr. Hasam and a Mr. Pooley.^?
"In 1869 the military aide-de-camp who had power under the reconstruction acts, appointed Asa H. Hursey coroner of Hancock County. These were the last ventures of Asa H. Hursey and took place between 1866 and 1871. He died December 24, 1871, leaving the following children: Emma, born	1843,	J r f~
married Charles McCarty, died 1912; Adelaide, born	1844,
married Asa Downs; Asa II, bom 1845, married Laura	Jane
Orr, died 1912; Nancy, born 1850, married Andrew Scott;
Duncan, born 1853, married Caroline Parker; Richard, born 1858. married and moved to Calcaisseau, La.
?Mrs. Isabella McCall Hursey lived with her son Asa II until her death in 1885. Asa II. Hursey and his wife are buried in
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