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,nere was 100 pounds of rock candy, gum-drops filled vvith liquor, etc. Well cfiey danced and danced, backstep, frontstep, fandago, reel, cotilliom, waltz, polka, two-step polka.
They danced by fiddle, and when one set of musicians tired, others took their place. No one got drunk. This party lasted eight days and nights.
Cat Island had a great shipyard, and my father had a sloop built there of 45 foot keel, it cost $3,000, and the cabin, deck, etc., was of hardwood. It was called the Creole of Cat Island.
My grandfather had a brother, John Joseph Cuevas, who lived on Deer Island, * 1/4 mile from Biloxi, and I enjoyed visiting there. I was a bad little boy, and with my cousins we would run the cows and deer into the water to watch them swim.
I remember a lot of us boys used to swim out to the Creole in the Bay and hang onto the rudder as she came in, but the captain found out and reported it to our parents, and well ? we never did it again.
There were two priests on the Coast, one in Shieldsborough and another at Biloxi, they would come to Cat Island about once a month.
There were two physicians in Shieldsborough. Indians were all over Hancock County. There were fine steamboats, making daily trips from New Orleans.
My father?s uncle, Francois Cuevas? descendants deeded the 40 acres of the Rotten Bayou Cemetery to the county.
I have a son and granddaughter buried in this cemetery, a grandson buried at Rotten Bayou, at St. Mary?s and at Waveland cemeteries, and other relatives buried in every public cemetery along the Coast.
I thank for your time.