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Eloise was born on August 6, 1821, as the following baptlsaal
record Indicates.	^	.
On July 6, 1822, I, the undersigned missionary	U	fr
priest, baptized Louise, daughter of Jean Baptist Ladner	? X v
and Julianne La'Fonta ine/marrled in the Church/ born on	*
August 6, 1821. The godmother is Louise Ladner. (Mobile Cathedral, BB 2, p. 184-a.)	* *
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Eloiae's birth probably took place at the old Ladner homestead, which was built ? on the old point of land where Jean Baptls ??J untaln would eventually build hla home. The reason for this assumption rests on the fact that the grant was confirmed on April 25, 1812. Her birth took place nine years later.	#
Taking possession of a grant took place quickly, so as to satiafy governmental regulations. Unless an indlv^ual farmed or grazed or lived on a ^rant, so as	to make use of it,	the grant would revere to	the government	which gave
It, after a specified time. It	is thus taken for granted	here that Jean	lUptlste
Ladner satisfied thi s? regulation. Old members of the Fountain family still living today, recall Some rather old buildings and foundations that existed on the 'property when they were children. These rimnants ofJdays gone% by could have been some of the first buildings on the north side of Back Bay, that la, lonedlately across the hack Bay from Biloxi. In the 1819 re-confirmation of the above grant,
It is noted that Jean Baptiste Ladner's western neighbor was/4xmls A. Calllavetfc * descendant of- Symphorien Caillavet of France. The Calllavet property Included the present site of the'Fountain Cemetery in'd* Iberville. Jean Baptiste Ladner's
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son-In-law ^Franco is Fotag^ne, would eventually purchase the Calllavet grant? all
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of which. In	1841, wquld become	part of Harrison County, Mississippi.	j	.
So	it was, then, that	Louis Hroue'a early years	were spent on the , .
property Inherited by his mother, Eloise. He learned the fine points of the seafood	,
industry from his father. And, no doubt, he learned how to make nets, fish, and grow the crops common to the area.