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found where Janies McArthur fought in the War of 1812, 13th Miss. Reg. under Lt. Col. George H. Nixon.
IV.	Mary Ann “Nancy” McArthur - according to her baptism record at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, she was born in “1828 in Mississippi” and was the widow of E. H. Frost. The record also names her parents, and the baptism was performed on March 13, 1888. In the 1880 Hancock County census of Bay St. Louis, household #381 appears M. A. Frost, female, age 45, widowed, and bom in MS. Also in the household is “A. Hoffman,” male, age 71, and widowed. If she was age 45 in 1880, she would have been bom in 1835, no doubt an error on the census taker’s part. Older family members remember her as old “Aunt Nancy Frost.” We find “E. H. Frost” enlisting in the Civil War for the South in 1862 - nothing else has been found on him. At first we thought they had no children, and then we found what appears to be a son. In the book “Life and Confession of James Copeland,” p. 224 a witness in Copeland’s trial said “Calico Dick (James McArthur, Jr.) made a visit to Escatawpa, then left for Mobile, Alabama, and in a few days after, his nephew, Frost, came to Escatawpa.” The book also states that his “nephew, young Frost, kept a cigar stand in Mobile and was arrested last year for murder and carried to Alabama.” Also quoting from the “Copeland Book,” we find “a woman named Nancy McCarthy (this family was generally spoken of as McCarthy) Frost who was considered the most beautiful girl in Hancock County was implicated in many of the robberies, killings, etc. She was the sister of Calico Dick, and it was her son who lived for some time in Bay St. Louis where he was arrested.”
Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church’s Death Register shows a “Nancy Frost,” parish member, died on March 18, 1897 at age 78. If this is correct, Nancy was bom in the year 1819. It also says she was bom in Hancock County, was buried in the Catholic Cemetery, (probably St. Mary’s), and she had all the Sacraments. We feel certain this is the same person with the baptism record at O. L. G. Church named Mary Ann McArthur.
V.	James “Jim” or “Calico Dick” McArthur, Jr. - bom in 1827 according to the 1850 Hancock census. That year he was living in Gainesville with wife, Jane age 19, with William age 11, and Walter age 7. Although the census does not give these two boy’s last names, we are fairly sure they are not his children because of their ages. He was living next door to his parents that year. In 1870, James McArthur, Jr. appears in the Shieldsbrough (Bay St. Louis) census as being 44 years old, bom in MS, with wife Jane, and children: Ceily age 9 and James age 6. Also in the house was William Roane, age 93, bom in South Carolina. This old man lived for years with James McArthur, Sr. and may have been related in some way. Then in 1880, the census of Bay St. Louis lists: J. McArthur, white, female, age 40, married with children - Celia, age 18 and James, age 16.
When we began looking for descendants of this family, we were referred to Mr.
Wesley McArthur (bom in 1906). On March 9, 1973, he told us considerable information about his family. The following is this information combined with the records and facts we have collected.
James McArthur, Jr. married Jane Colly in Hancock County. Her name appears on the baptism record of their son, James Lott McArthur. It also appears on the death certificate (MS Bureau of Vital Statistics) of this same child when he died in 1917. Wesley remembered his grandmother to be dark skinned, possibly part Indian. They had only two
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