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she had: Louise, Patricia, and Nicholas. She lived in Dedeaux.
e.	Hazel Cameron - she married Joseph Ladner and also lived at Dedeaux. She had: Onamae, Lloyd, Virginia, Lennell, Betty,
Carl, and Otis.
f.	Etha Cameron - she married Ruben Lott and lived in Pass Christian. They had: Edward and Jacqueline.
2.	Nancy Cameron - no one remembers John and Nancy Cameron ever having a child by this name. She shows up in the 1860 census of Marion County in the home of her parents as age 6/12 (bom 1860). She probably died as an infant.
3.	Louisa “Briss” Cameron - she was bom on January 4, 1862, and died on June 15, 1892, as found on her headstone in Rotten Bayou cemetery. Her baptism record is on file at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Kiln, Mississippi, and says she was the daughter of “John Cameron and Elisabeth Walters” and baptized on May 27, 1888. Louise married John
B.	Garriga on June 17, 1880, as found in the Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church records, and lived in Fenton. As we will see, three Cameron sisters married three Garriga brothers - talk about keeping it in the family! Louisa had the following children:
a.	Elector V. Garriga - he married first to Lucreta Cuevas and second to Martha Frierson. He lived in Fenton and had no children by his first wife, and two by his second: Wallace and Ophelia.
b.	Emile Garriga-he married Mary Ladner and lived in Fenton. He had: Mitchell, Camellia, Pamela, and Cornelia.
c.	Chandler Garriga - he married Anita Ory and lived in Fenton. They had: Lester, Lathan, and Irma.
d.	Forrest Garriga - he married Nazile Necaise and also lived in Fenton. They had: Melvin, Eaton, Georgia, Frankie (girl), and Althea (girl).
e.	Corinne Garriga - she married Lombias Cuevas and lived in Kiln, Mississippi. She had: Avenel (boy) and Oswald.
f.	Katherine “Cub” Garriga - she married Emile Koenenn and lived in Fenton. They had: Bemadine, Jessie, Roy, John, Albert, Carrie, Bernice, Barbara, Robert, and Lois.
4.	Jesse Cameron - he was bom in September 1863 as found in the 1900 Hancock County census. He was baptized as “Jacob Cameron” on May 26, 1888, at age 25 (1863) at Annunciation Church. Parents listed were “John Cameron and Elizabeth ( Nancy) Walters.” He is buried in the Alphonse G. Malley cemetery with a headstone that reads “1851 - 1941.” He married his first cousin, Felicity “Maude” Ladner, on March 19, 1887, at Annunciation Catholic Church. They lived in the Fenton, Mississippi area and had:
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