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Longevity seems to be a predominating factor among	i
natives of Hancock County-------last month Miss Alice	^	^	i\Ax
Necaise, daughter of the late Adele Luc deGuerre and Edmond N'ecaise, celebrated ST years of living, ail of them in Hancock County and most of them in Bay St.
Lou i s .
Born Jan.	1-4 13 6 2, Miss Alice was one of eight
chTTdren. STTe was born in the house on N. Beach in Bay S t^. Louis, now^owned By Kr~. and Mrs . Mac Languj^rand and known as "Hill top House." Here she spent her early childhood, until Bay" St.' Louis was occupled 5y CnTon '?"soldiers during the black day ~of the Civil war when ~
Sgt~ Edmond Necai s e of the Confederate Army moved his family to ~a safer quarters on Bayou Gallare where they remained until the end of the war.
Returning to Bay St. Louis, the family moved into a new	^
home on Main Street in the third block, and here Miss Necaise~lived until about three years ago, when she moved to make her home with her niece, Mrs. A. J.
Favre, Sr., on Dunbar Ave. At that time she was in good health and very active. A fall	about two years aso
resulted in a broken hip which	has made her an invalid.
Of the eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Necaise only two are living today, Miss "Alice"	and her sister, Mrs.
Ralph Blaze, the "baby" of the	family. Two of the
children, a boy and a girl, died at an early age during a yellow fever epidemic. A sister, Mrs. Adele Saucier,	a
mother of the police chief, Alice Saucier died in her	r,	,i
late seventies, a brother, Kermogene*. was in his middle'*	fu-/l
80?s at the time of his death-!	Three ~ sisters, Miss	0	i
Alice, Mrs. Marie Saucier, and	Miss Vina N'ecaise, lived	(jUCxl* '
together for a number of years	in the Main Street home.
Death claimed the other two sisters in their eighties.
Mrs. Saucier at 84 and Miss Vina at 86 years. It was at the death of this last sister that Miss Alice moved in with her niece. Vith a keen and active mind, Miss Alice recalls the days of her youth, when it was necessary to travel by boat to visit relatives living in Delisle and other parts of the county.
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