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JEAN BAPTISTE TOULME J, o	k	1	'	^J/
My name is J. B. Toulme.
Because of a religious war my family left France in 1790 for the island of SanDomingo. After theJi&&e'uprising there in which they lost everything they came to Mobile, US, 1795 with their slaves and $25,<5(f0- G&uurdbuzr'
My wife and I are buried in this cemetery according to an obituary in the Bay St. Louis Gazette (August 24,1868) but I don?t know exactly where we are buried. This is my father?s tomb (died in 1830) and this is my daughter?s headstone - Madeleine Saucier), so more than likely I am buried here also.
I came to Bay St. Louis in the early 1800?s. Started the first mercantile business in 1819, married Victorie Saucier in 1820 and later built the Crescent Hotel on the beach. With the profit from my businesses I bought tracts of land in New Orleans, Mobile, and Bay St. Louis. I set aside ever?$20 gol3) /q piece I received and divided them among my children every New YearT"'^
Day.
I was the first postmaster of Shieldsborough (1819),Secretary of the city under the first mayor, P. C. Monet, and was later myself mayor.
I gave to the city of Bay St. Louis, land for this cemetery, the Methodist Church, land where the Masonic Temple stands and the land where the CourtHouse stands.
My Will leaving land, houses, furniture, cattle and slaves to my wife, six6 daughters and one son is recorded in the Hancock County Court House and is read as interesting history of the day.
One of the board members of the Historic Society repaired and painted my father?s vault last week in appreciation of my giving the cemetery to this city