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stolen in Georgia being brought to Louisiana and Florida and vice versa. We also found where his mother, Celia McArthur, had to sue him in the Hancock County Chancery Court, case #38, dated May 11, 1859, when he tried to beat her out of 80 acres of land!
There is also a family of “mulatto” McArthurs that appear in Hancock County land records, marriage records, and census records. The 1880 census records identify Eldridge McArthur, age 43, mulatto, a teacher, he and his father bom in MS while his mother was born in Virginia. His wife was Heneritta McArthur, age 34, mulatto, and children: Valence, female, age 7, and Charles, age 4. Same census, next door is Valentine B. McArthur, age 33, mulatto, wife Olivia, mulatto, age 29, bom in Alabama, with children: Willard age 5 and Blanch age 6 months. This Valentine married Olivia Denson on April
16,	1874 according to Hancock County Court House marriage records. In the 1900 Hancock census, we find Olivia McArthur, bom in December 1851, black, no husband listed and children, Blanch, bom January 1880 and Eugenie, bom March 1882. We found Valentine as a witness on marriage and land records of known whites. He was a postmaster at one time in Bay St. Louis, and Eldridge was a teacher and land owner. We also found where Eldridge McArthur married Henrietta Knight on August 2, 1871 in New Orleans, LA.
John “Jack” McArthur is known to be the father of Nancy and Johnny McArthur discussed below. He apparently had one other daughter by another woman of color. Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church has a “Hanna McArthur,” daughter of “John McArthur and Fannie McArthur,” widow of Francois Raymon, marrying Emest Fayard, son of Hilaire Fayard and Emma George, on June 18, 1875. The witness was “Henrietta McArthur.” This Henrietta is the wife of Eldridge McArthur, the “mulatto” previously mentioned.
The above Fanny McArthur is listed in the 1870 Hancock census as “Fanny McCarty,” age 63 (1807), mulatto, and bom in Mississippi. She was living with “Ramond H. McCarty” age 28, Kaiser Toni McCarty, age 4, and V. B. McCarty, age 22, all mulattos. As mentioned earlier, the above “V. B. McCarty” is later found in the 1880 Hancock census as “Valentine B. McArthur, age 33, and mulatto. The above “Hanna McArthur” is also found in the 1870 Hancock census as “Hannah Ramond” age 20 (1850), mulatto, wife of Frank Ramond, also mulatto, and no children listed. Then in 1880, Hannah Fayard, age 32, mulatto is found with Emest Fayard, also mulatto. In the home are children: John Fayard age 20, Thomas Fayard, age 14, and Alice Fayard, age
10.	They lived between families of Eldridge and Valentine McArthur, also mulattos.
It would seem that our John “Jack” McArthur is most likely the ancestor of these mulattos because his age is close to that of Fanny and there was only one John McArthur living in Hancock County at that time. Additional research into these lines should be able to positively establish their link, if any, to our McArthur line.
John lived with or married a full blooded Choctaw Indian called Milly “Kowasha” Yarby (also spelled - Yarbey or Yabby), bom in 1830 according to the 1880 Hancock County census. Mr. Johnny “Galoute” Favre, of Bay St. Louis and Mr. Alcide Carver of
B.	S. L. both remember Milly very well. Johnny’s father, Charles Anatole “Galoute” Favre was the husband of Milly’s daughter - Nancy McArthur. Mr. Favre told us that Milly was the wife of old John “Jack” McArthur of Honey Island Swamp. She also lived on Four Dollar Bayou near Bay St. Louis. She, in later life, lived with Dave Jules Favre in Bayou La Croix until her death around the year 1907. He also said that Milly went to
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