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John B. Toulme
John B. Toulme left France (date unknown) and went to San Domingo.
He was forced to leave there because of an insurrection. He and his
slaves landed in Mobile. From there they came to Bay St. LoMs in the
early 1800's. In Bay St. Louis he married Evonia Viclerie Saucier.
His capital at that time is daid to have been $2,500. He purchased
an unfinished two room wooden structure at the corner of Union Street ,
weather boarded one room and here he started his married life.
He became the first person to engage in mercantile business in Bay
St. Louis and as years went by he accumulated a fortune. He habitually
put aside every $20 gold piece he received and on New Year's Day he
divided this money among his children. From this money one of his
daughters (The late Mrs. John A. Breath) bought the lot on Main Street
Mr. Toulme acquired large t*acts of land in New Orleans, Mobile and
Bay St. Louis. His gift to the city was the land where the Masonic
Temple stands, the ground for the Court House, The Methodist Church,
and the Cedar Rest Cemetery. He raised 7 children six daughters and V
one son, John B. Toulme.
The son, John V. was the	first man to organize a regiment	of
soldiers	from Hancock County	to enlist in the Civil War.	He	served
as Mayor of Bay St. Louis.
In Cedar Rest Cemetery on the old tomb is the inscrption "ICI Reposent, J.	B. Toulme, ne a Nantes
Department de la	Loise Inferieure, decede le
17 Janviere 1831 a l'age de ans.