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ANTEBELLUM PERIOD
Jean (or Jaun) Cuevas died at Cat island In 1849. Following his death, his son Raymond Cuevas moved with his family to Bay St. Louis. James A. Cuevas, the grandson of the old Hero of Cat Island described the Bay St. Louis of 1849 - when he arrived there with his father - to a reporter who visited him In 1922 at the Old Soldier's home at Beauvoir (HERALD, 1958;20A):
"There was, beginning from the West End, the Jackson House, Maximillian and Bernard Bourgeois, and Victor Ladner's old Place. What is now called Waveland was then known as Grand Bend - where were the homes of Captain Woods, John Merchant, and Col. J.F.H. Claiborne. The latter raised sea cotton, and his Plantation was called Sea Glen. The Jackson place also was a cotton plantation. Each plantation had its own gin. The cotton was a fine grade, and brought a good price In Hew Orleans.
"The next house was the summer home of Mr. Peters who was the collector of Customs in New Orleans and lighthouse inspector. Then came the Pollock place belonging to Peter's son-in-law; then the Lockett place, that of Emile O'Brien and then Fink who was a bank cashier in New Orleans, the Parsley place, and the Nixon Hotel, which was always full in summer.
"Then came the homes of Carson, Napoleon Fayard, Eugene Ladner, Carver, Spotorno, Arnold, Luke Mitchell, Lafitte, Auguste
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