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GRANDMA BIRDIE (FRYE) CUEVAS & FAMILY
All through the late 1800's and into the early years of the
1900's, money and ways of making money were rare. One way of
making money was selling logs to the saw mills, which were
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located along river banks. Creeks and rivers were the only avenues by which the giant virgin pine logs could be moved to the saw mills. Railroads had not yet been introduced to the rugged forest of north	Hancock	County.
The sweet lady that	told me	the following story made	her
mark as mother, grandmother and great-grandmother of a family that will always love her very much.
William S. Frye was	awarded	a 160 acre	homestead	in section
33, township 5, range 15 West.	A patent	No. 14923	was	issued
on May 12 1884 by the United States Land Office. Recorded in book 1 page 33, Hancock County Courthouse, Bay St. Louis, MS.
His homestead was located on Hickory Creek in the northern part of Hancock County. Grandma Cuevas' parents were William S.(Bill) Frye and Ellen Eran (Smith) Frye. In early records the name was spelled two ways, Fry and Frye, both referring to the same family.
In 1967 Grandma Birdie (Frye) Cuevas told me a story about her Father's land. She said she was very young when her father died and was about 9 years old when her mother died.
You see son, she said, in those days the only way to get timber to the mill at the Kiln was to float them into hickory creek, which flowed close to our farm, then into Jourdan River to the Kiln. The mill would stretch a cable across the river to catch the raft of logs. Each Farmer that had logs in the float would have his mark hacked into the butt end of each log. Their mark was registered with the lumber mill and they would use that mark to pay the men.