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To the Editor:
I would like to submit these old photographs for publication in honor of the anniversary of my paternal grandfather’s birthday.
The picture of the couple is my grandparents, Douglas Saint Osbourn and Carrie Charlotte Crawford Osbourn. Grandpa Douglas was bom March 6, 1848 in Florenceville, La. He passed away Nov. 27, 1925 in Bay St. Louis. Grandma Carrie was born Jan. 30,1859 in Indianvillage, La. She passed away May 21, 1931 in Bay St. Louis. I should explain that Florenceville and Indianvillage were both tiny communities about 10 to 12 miles from Slidell.
My grandparents were married Feb. 9,1879 in Pearlington. They settled in Logtown, an area now occupied by the NASA facility, and had 11 children', including three sets of twins. Two of the children, Ruth and Douglas, died as infants. My father, Dennis, was their youngest child.
Both Grandpa Douglas and Grandma Carrie were highly industrious people. They did a little of any kind of honest work that would put food on the table.
Grandpa Douglas was a farmer and lumberman. He built a mill to make syrup for his family and he also raised his own farm animals. My father also told me that as a young man, he once delivered mail on horseback between Slidell and Pearlington. Perhaps that is what first gave him the idea of coming to Mississippi.
Both Grandfather Douglas and Grandmother Carrie died before I was born, but I take pride and no small delight in being descended from such hardworking people. I fact, it occurs to me that I am greatly blessed by all the families from which I am descended. I pay tribute not only to the Osbourns and the Crawfords, but to the Rutherfords and the Favres as well.
But, to continue, in the family group picture, from left to right, the people are Maud Euchrist Osbourn Parker, Eunice Charlotte Osbourn Parker,
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Saint Osbourn