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SHIELDSBOROUGH 11 * WAVELAND or	^
"GRAND BEND"
SEA ISLAND COTTON ? CLAIBORNE NIXON HOTEL ? CARR*a HOTEL 18503
James A. Cuevas, grandson of jean^Cuevas^of^Cat Island, sat on the poroh at "Beauvoir" in 1922, a blind Confederate Veteran, and reminisced with zoe Posey about living in Bay St. Louis.
My father-(Raymond""Cuevas) moved to shieldsborough (now Bay St. Louis) in 1849, and I oan remember every house there at that time, yes,
I	oan see them now.
There was first, beginning at the ?.vest End?the jaokson^house, Maxlmil-lian and Bernard Bourgeois and Viotor Ladner * s , old plaoe.
What is now called waveland was then known as Grand-BQnd, and there were the homes of Captain Woods, John Merohant and Colonel J.F.T. Claiborne. The latter raised seaT^island cotton and his plantation was called "Sea Glen." He had another plantation farther down the ooast too what is new Baldwin's Lodge on the&Louisville fcjNashville Railroad.
The Jaokson place also was a oo?ttoni.plantation. Each place had its	own^gin.	The	cotton	was shipped	to	New	Orleans.	It	was	a	fine
grade and brought	a	good	prioe.
The next	house	was Mr-^peter s ?? he	was	Collector	of	customs	in
New Orleans and Lighthouse Inspector, and this was his summer home.
Next came Pollook, the~ former * s son-in-law, then the Lockett plaoe,
Emile O'Brien--Eink, he was a bank oashier in New Orleans?parsley and the Nixon Hotel. This was a nice plaoe and always full in the summer.
Then^j^euthe homes of Carson, Napoleon^Fayard, Eugene.,,Ladner,
Carver, ^potojpno, Arnold, Luke -Mitchell, Lafitte, Auguste?later known
as the - Scockton: House--the homes of Nioaige, judge John. Grav,e3r-who
was Sheriff *of Hancook County?later this was bought by Ramogasa, then
by Dr. Hale and later by Julian swoop of New Orleans, whose heirs now
own it, I believe.
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Our place was next?the Raymond Cuevas place?then came Bookter, Clennan, Henry Sauoier, Casanova and the Catholio ..church, Edouard Sauoier, Manuel, who kept a store; Tom Murphy, clerk of court;
Edgar Combel, who made cigars and kept a store; walker, Mendes( .Toulme.
Reaching Main Street we find the store of Toulme and carver; another house of Toulme; George Weinberg, who kept a shoe store; L'assabe, a druggist, whose home and store were together, and it was the only drug store there; Gi-llum and Belloir. The latter was the name of a very well-to-do oolored woman who made and sold "sarsaparilla," a tonic, for which she found a ready sale at a dollar a gallon. I remember my father bought five gallons for me at one time.
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