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F.	Sarah Bilbo - bom August 12, 1856. She married John J. Stewart, lived in St. Tammany Parrish and Hancock County, and is buried in the Turtleskin cemetery. They had:
1.	John M. Stewart
2.	Laura Stewart
3.	William C. Stewart
4.	Unnamed infant bom and died on June 7,1897.
G.	James Bilbo - bom February 20, 1860. He married Nancy P. Spiers and lived in Pearl River County. They were first buried in the old Gainesville, Mississippi cemetery and later removed to the New Palestine cemetery in Picayune, Mississippi. They had:
1.	John Bilbo
2.	Emile “Eli” Bilbo
3.	Emiline Bilbo
4.	Caroline Bilbo
5.	Omia Bilbo
6.	Ida Mae Bilbo
7.	Ethel L. Bilbo
8.	Enos Bilbo
9.	Isaac Bilbo
10.	Mathew L. Bilbo
11.	Thomas A. Bilbo
12.	Ellen Bilbo
H.	Solomon “Solley” Bilbo - bom 1864, married Angeline Smith, daughter of John Lloyd Smith, and lived in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
We will now go back to our Jesse Cameron and provide additional information on Jesse, his wife, Lavina Stanford, and their children. Jesse Cameron was bom in 1789 in South Carolina according to the 1850 census of Marion County, Mississippi. We feel this is incorrect because there would be too many years between him and his siblings. Also the pronunciation of “61” could have easily been mistaken for “51” as we feel it should have been. Possibly, he could have had a mouth full of chewing tobacco when he told the census taker his age, thus his age was recorded as “61” instead of “51”. Then, in the 1860 Marion County census, Jesse is listed as bom in 1800 in South Carolina. We believe this is more accurate, because this age would be in line with the ages of his brothers and sisters and his wife, Lavina, who we know was bom in 1810.
We do not have a death date for Jesse, but we do know he was still living during the Civil War (1861 - 1865). This is based on a story told by Jerry’s grandmother, Pauline Heitzmann, a granddaughter of Jesse Cameron, regarding the execution of Pauline’s uncle at the end of the Civil War. This story will be covered shortly. On April 26, 1866, at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, we find Jesse’s daughter, Elizabeth Cameron, being baptized. Her parents are named as “Jesse Camon
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