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i that is gone now since A took over all that land buffer zone. But we have of happy memories. The fome place still has some r pecan and cedar trees. iy imagination I can still the old saw mill whistles Ing at four o’clock in the ting - to wake every one | start another work day.
OLDEST HOUSE in Pearlington now owned by Mr. and Mrs. T.V. Lott, was built 125 years ago by Phoebe Hawthorne, early settler. Located on Monroe Street, with its back towards the river, Hawthorn owned the first merchantile establishment in town. (Staff photo F.lHs Cuevas)
Pearlington remembered when population 1,700
Mrs. Jeanne Doby Williams who lived in Pearlington in an area now known as “Oak Harbor” vividly recalls many events in the then thriving and prosperous river town --important lumber center -•and home of “the world’s largest sawmill.”
By 1900, Mrs. Williams recalled, “there were about
1,700 persons living in Pearlington. We had a branch of Hancock Bank. It was in a brick building and was operated for quite a while daily, later only one day a week. Mr. Joseph Cazeneuve was the banker, and his daughter “Miss Ruth,” or one of her sisters assisted their father.”
The Cazeneuves lived in Bay St. Louis, Mrs. Williams explained, but she said they took the L. and N. Train and the
Dr. J. Q. Fountain, Dr. George the hour of burial and church McGowan, Dr. Audie Mead, service. Harvey Jordan, and Dr. Mintem - he was a affectionately known as dentist. My parents often “Uncle Harvey,” a black man spoke of Dr. Champlain, served as grave digger. He however, I do not remember also had a hand pulled cart him.” #	and was the local ice cream
vendor.
In those days there was no undertaker in Pearlington. It “Another well liked old was the custom for men to colored man was Henry - prepare the bodies of men, Holmes,” Mrs. Williams said, ladies to prepare the bodies of
their female friends. “Mr. “H could neither read or Asa Hursey built the coffins write, but he used a basket and ladies would line and and got mail from the post cover them,” Mrs. Williams office for several families. He related. Notices of death were was never known to deliver placed in prominent places in the wrong mail to anyone,” stores. The notices announced Mrs. Williams marveled.