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ABOUT VICTOR LADNER, JR.:
He was born in Hancock County ca 1842. His parents, Victor and Honorine Carver Ladner, lived on the site of what is now the residence of Stephen Hartel in Waveland just south of Coleman Ave. There was a cemetery behind the house. In the Court records, Book I, P. 635, is the deed in which Victor, Jr., heir of Victor Ladner, Sr., sold the property to Florence Chaffe in 1883, reserving a 50 foot square piece of property and a right of way thereto known as the Victor Ladner Family Graveyard. It was fenced in and is no longer there. In 1984, Rosary Hartel (the owner of the house now) told me that when she was a child she used to walk back there in the woods and saw various headstones there. The 1947 hurricane destroyed the cemetery. Buried in that cemetery were Victor Ladner, Sr., Honorine Carver, some Zeiglers, the Jesse Knights, and Chadwicks. Honorine's remains were moved to the Waveland Cemetery by family members and is buried underneath Willie and Sedonia Ladner where the Chadwicks are buried. Ethel Ladner (age 80+ at this date) remembers going to the cemetery as a child and that when they moved the remains, they only found three bones. Victor, Sr.'s remains are unknown at this time, but he is probably buried in Waveland Cemetery also.
According to legend, Victor met Winnie Yarborough on his way back from the Civil War. Winnie's father had been gone from home for sometime, so the whole family came to the Coast with Victor and Winnie and settled in Lakeshore.
Victor owned a lot of land. He received land grants from the State of Mississippi. Copies of these grants and Swamp and Overflow Patents are attached to this file. Gary Ladner has the original deeds. These deeds bear the signatures of Presidents Polk and Pierce and are dated 1846,	1848,	1854.	At the time of his
death, he owned 640 acres in Hancock County (Lakeshore, Lower Bay Road area) which was divided up among his children. Many of his heirs still reside on that same land.
He also bought and sold land and dealt in timber. Legend has it that he supplied the timber that helped to build the Panama Canal. On some transactions, he signed his name Ladnier; others Ladner. He also had cows.
Winnie died February 28,	1895.	After	her death, Aunt
Mott had the responsibility of taking care of her siblings and cooking for them. The attached family photo was taken at the funeral.
Victor married Mrs. Theodore Walters (Josephine Nancy Sanderford) in a civil ceremony in New Orleans in 1900. They did not have any children, and I could not find any information on her.
After Victor's death, Carlos (my grandfather) was named guardian for Forest, then age 16. Forest, being the youngest son, as was the custom, inherited the homestead, mules, wagon, utensils,