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he was seen loading laths
commute.
“The Poitevent & Favre Lumber Company had a large commissary,” Mrs. Williams continued, “It was well stocked and also there was a Drug Store. Other stores were the Orr Brothers, C. K. Russ,
Frank Guiterrez, Sam Potter Russ. My father had a meat market next door to the Cash Store. Beside beef and pork, he sold live fowls, vegetables, cow’s milk and eggs. In season he sold fruit and pecans.” All of this was produced on the old Doby Plantation.
Mrs. Williams said occasionally her father bought live stock to salughter for his market and often, in winter, bought dressed beef from New Orleans. She explained the L. and N. train and local mailboat were used to transport this produce.
“Captain Dan Boardman had a bakery,” Mrs. Williams reminisced, “memory of that delicious smell of hot bread returns to my memory when I pass his former place of business.”
“We were a closely knit group of people,” she said,
“many were related, others	GUARDIAN ANGEL - statue reaches out above Favre plot in
just friends. Fol’is helped	Pearlington cemetery. Plot is owned by descendants of Simon
each other in times of sickness	Favre, first White settler in area, and on whose soil the first
or death. We had good doc-	of the United States was planted. (Staff photo Ellis
tors. Those I remember were	Cuevas)
GRAVE OF GEN. NIXON- Geneal George H. Nixon, founder of Pearlington, is buried here within crumbling walls of brick enclosure, as is his wife, Rebecca, and nearby herdaughter, Eliza. Gen. Nixon died on Aug. 20, 1821, age 46. Epitaphs on headmarkers read: General Nixon: ‘Brave generation and just, to fellow mortals kind, He put in God W« onH »" " world resigned; ’ Rebecca Nixon: ‘Blessed are the pure in heart for J. Seal, daughter of George and Rebecca, wife of Roderic Seal-Died April 4,1885. ’ (Stall p. Ellis Cuevas)