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-icttd, iiuc.iucu lor wnomever may find it, is self-explanatory and is quoted here in its entirety. Gertrude was then a young bride, having been married the previous year to Stephen Michel Penny, according to a wedding announcement! which she thoughtfully pasted at the top of the letter. Here is 'vhat she wrote almost 70 years ago.;
"This house was a long low building in 1821. In 1867 the gables were added.
?This is the year of 1905, and at the present writing the house is still in good condition, only needing a few new pieces of weather board thereon.
"This house has been in the possession of the Cowands nearly a century.
?At present it is owned and occupied by Sidney L. Cowand and his sister and her husband, Gertrude Cowand Penney and Stephen M. Penney.
"The house has been a ishowplace in Bay St. Louis for years.
"It is now being repaired by
Stephen D<I. Penney this beautiful sunshiney day.
?Gertrude and Stephen and Sidney are a united family and very happy together?all being in the springtime of life.
?The only other member of the family is a bright little horse named Baby.
?This is written here by Gertrude Cowand Penney this beautiful day of of our Lord 1905 on Wednesday, March 1st'.
The history of Bay St. Louis, as written by Mrs. Penney for the Echo in 1905 is also reprinted in its entirety to illustrate the charm and thoroughness of this remarkable woman.
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the soft skin of a wolf are studying the parchment suspended before them upon, an improvised easel of sticks, whereon are traced by the crude hand of the red man subjects for the young savages' receptive mind to grasp.
This scene is evidently pictured from the heart of the woodland, it is possible and probably, may have really been enacted upon the very site of the Bank, say some two centuries ago.
Yet, at this later day, we cannot fancy the corner of Main and Front Streets harboring such a scene, for the poor Choctaw, like the rest of his nation, gave way to the white man long ago, who brought with him civilization and progress.
It seems pathetic to have driven the red man from his haunts of a thousand years or more, but, in the course of events it had to be; for progress conquers all before
Family marker
The graves of Stephen Penny anfj his second wife, May, lie in a joint family plot with a site reserved for Gertrude's only child, her namesake.
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A Sincere
Thank You
To Everyone for their support in electing me School Board Trustee Saturday, March 1,
In the year of 1798 Loi Alexo Lessassier applied Manual Gayoso de Lemc Brigadier of the Royal Am and Governor General of tho provinces, and, at the reque of his excellency, the Baron t Carondelet,, General-Marai Gayoso de Lemos directed' secretary, Don Andrew Lop Armesto, to search for record of the Lessassii claim. It was found copied ai Louis Alexo Lessassier aga gained possession of the lan
The above mentioned o document is in the writer possession and was exact one hundred and seven yea )ld the 12th of last Decemb (1904). Time has touch its former white pages wi the tint of saffron, but it otherwise as perfect as wh< it was signed by the followii men, prominent in the Histoi of New Orleans; - First, H excellency, the Baron c Carondelet, one of the kinde hearted noblemen of his timi then Don Manual Gayoso ( Lemos, Don Andrew Lopes Armesto, Don Anesto Monti de Oca, Franco Masco de S Mareant and Hernanc Domingo Sansa.
All these signatures are wc written, and it is evident th; these old Spanish grande< and French noblemen wei men of character and i tellect.
This ancient deed bea: many marks left by tl proverbial ?red tape? of tl
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