I found this to be true also. Another thing I recently noticed - I had been skipping over references to my relatives in the Social pages. I now check them out. I noticed references to an ancestor "visiting" another ancestor in MS. Don't know if they lived there for a while, if it was a camp or if they had a summer home. But, if you have GenealogyBank or something similar - check it ALL out. Also check Harrison Co - they are so close together! On Oct 2, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Carolyn Long wrote: > We should always consider Hancock County, Mississippi, as a > possibility. I > found some of Marie Laveau's descendants living there at the turn of > the > 21st Century. > > Carolyn Long > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan Strickland" <[email protected]> > To: "LAOrleans" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:31 PM > Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Jan Strickland's records > > >> Some wonderful angel found the cemetery survey from Hancock Co, MS >> and she >> was on it. And then I rechecked "Find A Grave" and there was a >> picture of >> the tombstone. Then someone (another angel) from this fantastic, >> wonderful >> list send me a thing from the paper in New Orleans, called a >> Necrology >> Report, showing the following: 11/16/1909 - Mrs. S. H. >> Baumgartner. Bay >> St. >> Louis, Miss., Nov 15, Mrs. Saraphine Hepp Baumgartner died here >> Saturday >> (11/13/1909). Her funeral took place from Christ Church, in Front >> Street, >> Rev. Dr. Duffy officiating. >> >> Have not yet found an obit in the Bay St Louis papers, but >> eventually. >> Unfortunately for me, Mississippi did not begin keeping death records >> until >> 1912. Evidently when my Ggrandfather, William Allen Baumgartner, >> decided >> to >> move his family to Jacksonville, FL shortly after 1900 (they were >> all in >> that census) Seraphine went to live with her daughter and her family. >> Rosalie and husband Francois Marin. I even have pictures of those >> two >> with >> two of their children in MS. >> >> Merle, thanks for remembering my relentless & endless search for the >> lovely >> and mysterious Seraphine Hepp Baumgartner, my GGgrandmother. >> >> Jan S - Orlando, FL >> >> >> >> >> -------Original Message------- >> >> From: Merle Ann Farrington >> Date: 10/1/2010 2:07:13 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Jan Strickland's records >> >> Jan, how did you find out that Seraphine died in Bay St. Louis? >> Congratulations on your find. >> >> Merle >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Jan Strickland" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:06 AM >> To: "LAOrleans" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Jan Strickland's records >> >>> Carolyn, >>> >>> Yep, I agree, I would love to know where the family was for the 1880 >>> census >>> and who she lived with from 1830 until she married Rudolphe >>> Baumgartner >>> in >>> 1848. Finally found where the lovely and mysterious Seraphine >>> Hepp died. >>> In Bay St. Louis where she was living with her daughter, Ms. >>> Francoise >>> Marin >>> >>> >>> She and her Hepp family are a joy to search for. They were all so >>> wild >>> and >>> crazy. >>> >>> Jan S - Orlando, FL >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------Original Message------- >>> >>> From: [email protected] >>> Date: 10/1/2010 10:32:02 AM >>> To: ORLEANS MESSAGE BD >>> Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN] Jan Strickland's records >>> >>> Jan, We must set up a signal of some kind when you go so that you >>> can let >>> us >>> know where in the name of goodness that Hepp woman was hiding all >>> those >>> years. >>> >>> My vision of heaven, not to be irreverent, is that upon arrival, >>> each >>> lister >>> will look across the expanse and yell out to some long-lost-never- >>> located >>> relative, "Where were you?" I know I will. >>> >>> Carolyn Tregre >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message Peggy Rooney [email protected]