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Jacob had dark hair, but turned ?white? early in life. Myrtle said that he was raised Presbyterian, but followed the Methodist Faith and raised his children as Methodist.
Following his death, he was buried in Cedar Rest Cemetery in Bay St. Louis. He has a headstone with his date of birth and death. We have many records on him and several good photos of him and his wife. We will now discuss their children, grandchildren, etc. Much of the information on the following descendants came from questionnaires completed by close family members in 1973 and updated in 2010. This questionnaire contains personal information on each individual to include their correct name, date of birth and date of death, name of spouse(s), marriage date and place, where buried, cause of death, physical description, occupation, religion, children, places of residence, siblings, etc. Some of the information contained in this paper is verified by Jacob's Family Bible that belonged to his daughter,	Lelia	Heitzmann Crawford. She later gave it to her adopted daughter, Peggy Trapani, who
gave	it	to her	cousin, George E. Heitzmann, and is now in the possession of his son, Robert J.
Heitzmann. Other information came from census records, church and civil records, news articles, cemetery records, etc. We also have photos for most of the named descendants in this report.
I.	George Heitzmann was bom in Summit, MS on September 21,1880. He was baptized there on April 9, 1882, and this record is in the Pisgah Presbyterian Church. He lived there with his parents and moved to Ocean Springs, MS for a short while, then to Bay St. Louis, around 1894 where he spent the rest of his life until he died from bladder cancer on June 25, 1953. He is buried in Cedar Rest Cemetery in Bay St. Louis with a stone head-marker. He was married to Pauline Catenaro on November 19, 1904 by a Methodist Minister in Bay St. Louis and had his marriage ?blessed? by the Catholic Church on May 19, 1911. Pauline was born on April 22, 1883 in New Orleans, LA to Giuseppe ?Joseph? Catenaro and Samantha Mary Cameron. She died in Bay St. Louis on February 8, 1977 and is buried next to here husband. More on her will be covered in a separate piece of research on her and her family.
I	(Jerry) was only age six when George died and remember him to be ?old,? with ?white?
hair,	and piercing, light colored eyes. I well remember the day he died, when my dad came
home from work and was crying. That was the only time, I ever saw my dad cry. I also remember George as being a man of few words, the opposite of his wife Pauline. As anyone who knew Pauline will tell you that she was quite a ?character.?
Pauline had an excellent memory all the way until her death in 1977, at age 93. She was a walking, talking history book! She told us that she was living in New Orleans in 1904 and would come to Bay St. Louis to visit her half-sister, Agnes Rhodes Luke. They would go to the home of Ella Colson located in the second block of Sycamore Street. Mrs. Colson would entertain young adults with dances and ?candy pulls? and that is where she first met George. They only dated four months, fell in love, and got married. Knowing Pauline, she is probably the one who did the proposing! She was definitely one-of-a-kind, and very much loved by her family and friends.
Anyway, Pauline gave us much of the following information on George Heitzmann and by the way, he never had a middle name. Pauline told us that she knew George went through the eight grade at Bay High School, with one year at St. Stanislaus. He was a carpenter by trade and enjoyed fishing. After they were married, they moved to Pascagoula, MS for a year where he worked on ships following the outbreak of WWI.
George enlisted in the Mississippi National Guard for three years on September 16, 1921 in Bay St. Louis and was classified as a carpenter. On his enlistment papers, he is described as 5'11? tall, hazel eyes, gray hair, dark complexion, 151 lbs., and with 20/20 vision.
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