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CHARLES BANDERET INTERVIEW ,_Jfl2/l977 Cont) w Margaret M» Gibbens Hancock County Historical Society Page 3 Mr. Banderet you were born in Bay St. Louis? YES MAM, IF MY MOTHER BEEN LIVING ON THE 20th OF LAST MONTH (April 1977) SH'D BEEN BORN IN BAY ST. LOUIS 103 YEARS AGO. SHE WAS BORN IN BAY ST. LOUIS IN 1875 (102 Yrs. ?) What was her Maiden name? SHE WAS A CAPEDEPON, HER FATHER AND MOTHER WAS FROM BORDEAUX FRANCE. MY FATHER WAS FROM THE FRENCE PART OF SWITZERLAND„ AND HE A HALF BROTHER, BOTH FROM THE SAME MOTHER0 BOTH FROM THE FRENCH PART OF SWITZERLAND. IN THE EARLY DAYS, LIVING IN NEW ORLEANS. LOUIE DALEY IS LIVING IN NEW ORLEANS TODAY, HE IS HALF BROTHER TO MY FATHER, AND SOME OF THE POLKS WERE HERE AND I SAID HE 93 > AND THEY SAID NO DON'T MAKE IBIM THAT OLD, HE'S 92 IN JANUARY. ANB your daddy had the trick works here in Bay St. Louis YES MAM HE HAD A BRICK YARD HERE ON MAIN STREET ACROSS FROM WHERE THAT WINN DIXIE STORE IS (No. West corner of Hwy 90 and Main St.) HIM AND OLD MAN GUILLIOT (Tilliot^ XIMfltSKM*XX I REMEMBER THAT I WAS A LITTLE BITTIE BOJ, AND HE HAD ANOTHER BRICK YARD ON FELICITY STREET. YOU KNOW WHERE ED LARROUX LIVES, HIS HOUSE IS RIGHT WHERE HE DUG THE PIT.
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