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Logtown family
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 born 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 I were both tiny communities ab-! out 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.
Grandma Carrie was a fine cook and a skilled seamstress. Grandpa Doug built her an outdoor oven, and she made bread to sell to the community as well as for her large family. She was so thrifty that she used the best parts of Grandpa Doug’s old shirts to make clothing for her small children. She also sewed shirts to sell to men in the community who worked at the sawmills of that period. In fact, she loved to sew so well that she often did so when she was so heavy with child that her oldest children remembered sitting on the floor and pushing the petals of the old-fashioned sewing ma-, chine that she used. She must f haWshai'ed that love of sewing,' because three ofher daughters, Mae, Edwina and Ruby, also be-came extremely skilled seamstresses.
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
Early family
The Osbourns were one of the early families to reside in the Logtown community, now occupied by the John C. Stennis Space Center. The Douglas Saint Osbourn family includes, from left, Maud, Eunice, Ruby, father, mother, Dennis, Percy, Edwina, Stella, Ed and May. Anote on the back ofthe post card photo said, “My father and mother’s original home in Logtown. The year -1 wish I knew. (Photos courtesy of Sue Osbourn ofWaveland, grandaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Osbourn.)
Ruby Osbourn Bennett, Douglas Saint Osbourn, Carrie Charlotte Crawford Osbourn, Dennis Osbourn (my father), Junius Percy Osbourn, Edwina Osbourn, Estelle Osbourn Talbot, Edwin Osbourn and Mae Bell Osbourn.
My father was born in 1898. He appears to be about 8 to 10 in this picture, so it was probably taken about 1906 to 1908. The house iS the old Osbourn home in Logtown. In later years, it burned down.
I should probably add that both pictures were taken in
Logtown.
In conclusion, may I add an appeal for information. Grandpa Doug’s father, Jeremiah Osbourn, is something of a man of mystery. I know from census records that he was bom approximately in 1816 in Philadelphia, Pa. He married Margaret Crawford Porter in St. Tammany Parish on Jan. 2.3, 1846.	,	....
They’ hadr three children, Douglas, James and Elizabeth, in addition to Margaret’s three children by a previous marriage. Unfortunately, I have
never been able to learn who Jeremiah’s parents were. If anyone in the newspaper’s readership is aware of additional information about him, I would deeply appreciate being made aware of it.
In the meantime, Happy Birthday, Grandpa Doug. Thanks so much for the tradition of hard work that you and Grandma Carrie handed down to* meTaftd'friy generation! Love you both.
Sincerely yours, Sue A. Osbourn Waveland