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had took over, and the graves had caved in and all that, so I did it over. I cut all the saplings. August Holden had given a piece of ground, so I went up there and took all the saplings and cleaned it all off. I dug some ditches and stacked the mud up in the yard and done all the graves over, built all the graves up again. They use the white sand to dress the graves up. When I was foreman, I?d get permit to go up and get it and bring it to the cemetery'. From a kid, my grandmother always did that. And another thing they did, they would never bum a candle until All Saints night and they would stay there until 10 or 11 o?clock until evert candle, everything was burnt. My grandmother wouldn?t go home with us unless all those candles was burnt. They had maybe two candles to each grave.
Guerin: Where does the name ?Poss? come from?
LaFrance: Well, my uncle started that - most everybody knows me by the name of Poss. Ask lots of people about Jules LaFrance, they don?t know him.
Guerin: Tell me about the hurricane in 1969 - Camille. I understand you have an interesting story about your boat.
LaFramce: I bought that boat in ?53. We went up the river the morning before the hurricane hit. We went up the river in ?65 [Betsy] and then we had to go up the river again in ?69. ?69 was really bad.
Guerin: You took boats up from where?
LaFraance: I had about 20 skiffs, and I had a big old bait boat - that was a big skiff that we carried bait in, about 24-foot long, 7-foot wide - there was a 10-foot well in it and we kept it full of holes. We carried live shrimp in it. And I had a boat from my brother-in-law.
Guerin: So you tied them together?
LaFrance: We tied them all together, and went on up the river. It took us three hours to pull them up there.
Guerin: So it must have looked like a parade.
LaFrance: Oh, it did. I had the big skiff first and then I had all the little skiffs, and I had his boat - he had about a 26-foot boat -1 had it on the side of mine.
Guerin: Where did you stay when Camille hit?
LaFrance: Just on this side of NASA. The river had a bad curve in it and NASA cut it straight through. The cut that big curve out and we went in that curve and there is where we anchored.
Guerin: And you stayed on the boat?
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