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The article belov/ appeared in the Sun-Hearld paper June or July i976, under the title "Coastlore" by Dale Greenwell- Billy Hay Quave.
I read it several tines, 1 was very interested, had heard of Simeon Favre from ny earliest childhood,
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'■lay 20, i6~0, must have been a freightening day for two young cabin boys who hai sailed with the French to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
It •■vas on this day that Pierre Le/oyne sieur a’ Iberville, leader of tne expedition, sent the two cabin boys away from the rest of the French at Fort />1aurepas to live withe savage Indians.
The French youths we re ordered to live with the Indians so they might learn the Indaians language and become interpreters.
One of the cabin coys, who was named LeFavre, was sent to live v;ith the Bayou Goulas, a Choctaw tribe which lived between Pearl and Mississippi Rivers, probably where New Orleans is tod ay.
History shows ~hat LeFavre not only became one of the principal interpreters between the French and the Indians, but three generations of this family served as interpreters.
'•v'hen LeFavre matured, he married an Indian and settled on the Pearl River the Acolapissa Indians. A tribe of Choctaw Indians. This place today is Pearlington.
-A son of LeFarve, who lived in Mobile became an interpreter for the Spanish , French, English and Choctaws, and eventually owned almost half of the land which is now Hancock County, which '.vas given to him for his services as an interpreter.
His son 5i~eo.n Favre, eventually owned the land. He was also an interpreter. He served as an interpreter between Andrew Jackson, General Hines and the Choctaw Chief Pushmataha during the Indian treaties from 1302 to 1331. Simeon Favre became a great friend of Pushmataha.
Simeon Favre permitted the Indians to camp on his land and to use it as a trading place for as long as Favre iived. After his death, the Indians relocated thier trading post to an area near Picayune called Center.
Today there are many Fayres, descendents of the cabin boy, -■.'ho lived primarily in Hancock County. They still own land in Hancock County.
Simeon Favre obtained a grant on Pearl River at a place named Napoleon. His claim was dated 1798. His historical importance lies in the fact that he was first government official under American rule. That was when he was appointed in 1311, by Governor Claiborne’s representative, the Justice of the Fe,ace of the parish of Biloxi, which then took in the territory between Pearl River and the Bay of Biloxi, At that time Biloxi had about h-ZQ inhabitants and Biloxi was spelled " Viloxy".
Hancock County was created in 13 22 at the time when the Cree Indians were stirring up trouble on the Gulf Coast. Red-headed Andrew Jackson was sent to subdue them, and Gov, Claiborne sent Militia to investigate and help.