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CUE STREET, Bay St. Louis, Miss.
CUE STREET, Bay St. Louis, Miss
Cue Street is NOT shown on the land records of the Bay St.
Louis city map. That's because it is NOT city property; it is county property	-cut	from the original tract	of the court house.
Land	for the court house was	deeded by John B. Necaise	(wife
Mary) to P. Ruteluis Pray for $3,000;	June 20, 1835* The description
is unusual:	neither meets and bounds,	nor,	lot and block.	It	reads:
S-land confirmed to Jos and Martial Necaise; W= public lands; N= land by John B. Lendap(?); E= Bay of St. Louis.*
P. Rutelius Pray (wife Maria L.) deeded to Hancock County as a "site for a court house", Oct. 7, 1838 that land South of Main Street
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between Second and Third streets, 200 ft wide and depth of 292 feet.
Hancock County was established in 1812. In 1817 the first court house was built at Center^which	later	became Caesar.	In	1837 the
county seat was moved to Gainesville.	When	the court house	at	Gaines-
ville burned in 1853 the county seat was moved to Shieldsborough and a <wooden court house was built in 1866. The present court house, the court house for Hancock County was built in 1910-1911. ^
Cue	street was cut from this	piece of courthouse land.	I	was
not	able	from	the minutes of the Board of Supervisor's meetings	to	de-
termine the exact date of its being built or named. It does not appear on the Drake map of Bay St. Louis in 1923. It does appear on the Sanborn map of August 1930.
The street was named "Cue" in honor of Emilio Joseph CuC, Jr.,
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son of Emi$ J. Cue, a native of Spain, and Ellen Favre Cue, a native of Mississippi.
When Emilio was 13 his father, a justice of peace, died. The
family lived near the Gex family behind the now St. Stanislaw school.
Emilio grew up with the Gex boys and thus was formed a life pattern:
the Gexes as lawyers and Emilio as the entrepreneur of the Gex and Cue
Construction, the Cue Oil Company, and officers in the Merchant's Bank.
On Aug 26, 1927 Emilio Cue beat Joseph 0. Mauffrey by 1 vote
to become Superviso r of Beat 5? Hancock County.*^
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On Sept. 1^, 1928 in the absence of H. Weston, Emilio Cue be-
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came President Pro Temp of the Hancock Board of Supervisors. On Oct. 11, 1929 he was elected President and on June 13, 1930*he became the permanent Chairman.