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Toulme, John B. First merchant in BSL, having started in
1812. (ATG BSL-4 )	(	______________________
In 1880 he^Tiad a Teather factory employing
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Mr^^Tottime^TeftFrance and came to BSL in the early 1800's. He married VicTerie Saucier (In "Sketches", SCE 1942 she is listed as Evonia VicTerie) and bought a two-room house corner Union and the beach. Became a merchant. One daughter was Mrs. John A. Breath. He gave the land now occupied by the Masonic Temple, the Court House, the Methodist Church and Cedar Rest Cemetery to the city. He built the house where Dr. C. L. Horton and family Live (218 North Beach). He had six daughters and one son, John V. Toulme. He died 17 Jan 1831. Buried in Cedar Rest. (SCE Jubilee 1942 pg 20)
J. B. T. was city secretary in 1858 under Shieldsboro's first mayor, P. C. Monet. (Echo Jub. 1942 pg 27)
J. B. T. was Shieldsboro Postmaster from April 1837 -November 1846. (VF)
WILL OF JOHN B. TOULME signed Aug 4, I860.-Mr. Toulme divided his property in New Orleans,
Mississippi and Mobile among his seven children and his widow.
HCHS vertical file copy donated by Gordon Boh in Jan. 1990. Excerpts below: I declare that I was lawfully married on the 20th of December A.D. 1880 to Victoire Saucier, my present and only wife from which intermarriage were born unto me seven children, all of whom are now living.
To his widow, Victoire Saucier he specifically mentions slaves, Sylvester, Auguste, Angele, Harriet, Merante and her children (with the exception of Gertrude). He mentions cattle bought from Jesse Cowand and rents of properties on Chartres Street in New Orleans.
1.	Mary Adele married Francis G. Casanova.
He bequeathed the	lot	and houses in	Shieldsboro lying
north of Union Street	and adjoining	property of Francis	G.
Casanova. Also property next to that of heirs of ?George Carico and that formerly claimed by S. Broadwell. Slaves, Hampton, Anna and her five children and his share of the "Fayard" stock of cattle.
2. Mary Louise Azelia married Dudley R. Walker.
3. Victoire d. 2/17/1895 (CRC), Married Henry Saucier. ,V He bequeathed 1/2	the	steam sawmill	on Bayou Galere,
remaining part of	the	Guedon Toulme	land claim and half	the
7 men. (BSL
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