Alphabet File page 106
There were only two priests on the Coast then - Father Gerin at Biloxi and Father Bisrot at Bay St. Louis. They would come to the island about once a month, the former had Deer Island and the latter Cat Island.
My father (Raymond Cuevas) moved to Shieldsborough in 1849 and I can remember every house there at that time."
- 1 Jackson House (where Buccaneer Park is)
- 2 Maximillian and Bernard Bourgeois
- 3 Victor Ladner
- GRAND BEND - (WAVELAND)
- 4 Capt. Woods
- 5 John Merchant
- 6 Col J.F.T. Claiborne "Sea Glen"
- 7 Mr. Peters (Collector of Customs N.O. & Lighthouse inspector)
- 8 Pollock (Son in law of Mr. Peters)
- 9 Lockett
- 10 Emile OBrien, 977 S. Beach
- 11 Fink (Bank cashier in New Orleans)
- 12 Parsley
- 13 Nixon Hotel
- 14 Carson
- 15 Napoleon Fayard
- 16 Eugene Ladner
- 17 Carver
- 18 Spotorno (Louisiana Wharf in front owned by John Martin) 608 S Beach
- 19 Arnold
- 20 Luke Mitchell
- 21 Lafitte (the pirate?)
- 22 Auguste, Later Stockton house
- 23 Nicaise 426 S. Beach (probable)
- 24 Judge John Graves, Ramagousa, Hale, Swoop, 414 S. Beach
- 25 Raymond Cuevas 412 S. Beach
- 26 Bookter 400-402 S. Beach.
- 27 Clennan
- 28 Henry Saucier
- 29 Casanova
- 30 OLG Church
- 31 Edouard Saucier
- 32 Manuel (kept store)
- 33 Tom Murphy
- 34 Edgar Combel (kept store)
- 35 Mendes Toulme.
- MAIN STREET
- 36 Toulme and Carver Store
- 37 Toulme house
- 38 George Weinberg (who kept a shoe store)
- 39 Lassabe (a druggist with home and store together)
- 40 Gillum
- 41 Belloir (Well to do colored woman who made Sasparilla)
- 42 Bell
- 43 John B. Toulme, 218 N. Beach
- 44 Carroll, 224 N. Beach
- 45 Colomb
- 46 A barroom
- 47 Louis and Bob Carr's Hotel
- 48 Capt Wilkinson (widow married Raymond Cuevas 3 Nov 1850)
- 49 John Martin (owned Hancock Wharf in front of house)
- 50 Lawrence barroom and grocery
- 51 Dr. Patro
- 52 Bayard
- 53 Ploci
- 54 Dumont Fayard
- 55 Boulanger
- 56 Landis
- 57 Judge Monette
- 58 Dimitry Casas
- 59 Arnoitte
- 60 Carriere
- 61 Rosaville
- 62 Saucier
- 63 Jean Baptiste Favre
- 64 George Johnson
- 65 Bienville
- 66 Tilden
- 67 Guardia
- 68 Labatte
- 69 Cowand
- On Main Street North Side
- 70 Evarista Saucier
- 71 Masonic Lodge
- 72 Vosau
- 73 A blacksmith shop
- 74 Titot and his bakery
- 75 Dave Bontemps
- Main Street South Side
- 76 Guarnio
- 77 Albert Fayard
- 78 Jules Fayard
- 79 Schoolhouse
- 80 Calaboose
- 81 Sadler
- 82 Pieri and his bakery shop
- 83 Dr. Dupre's office
- 84 Casper Garco was the one house on Washington St.
- 85 There was one house on Union St. but Mr. Cuevas did not remember the owner's name.
-------------- These were the houses in Shieldborough in 1849. (cont. about above Mr. Cuevas) (Times Picayune 5/7/22)
One of the inmates of the Beauvoir Home, James A.
Cuevas is a grandson of that famous Cuevas to whom a grateful government donated Cat Island, seven miles off the Mississippi coast and near Ship Island, in recognition of his services to his country in the War of 1812 when he refused to lead General Packenham into New Orleans through the Rigolet and Lake Pontchartrain, and thus prevented a surprise attack on Jackson's American forces. James Cuevas was reared on Cat Island in the historic house built by his grandfather. This old gentleman is now ninety-one years of age, totally blind, and bound to his chair by a broken hip. He expressed a wish for a rooster who would crow and tell him when daylight came. Mr. Lampton heard this, and immediately secured a rooster for him. Now, Mr. Cuevas is an ardent admirer of Gov. Theodore G. Bilbo, and he said that when the rooster crowed he was saying "Hurray for Bilbo". Another old gentleman there who was angry with Mr. Cuevas, and who disapproved of Governor Bilbo's politics, took issue at this assertion, and in retaliation killed the rooster. The sorrow of Mr. Cuevas in the loss of his rooster was equaled only by his anger over the loss of his daylight announcer. Mr. Lampton again stepped into the breach and this time purchased two bantams, a rooster and a hen, built them a snug, screened quarters, and stationed them just outside the hospital window; and now each morning "Mr. Bilbo" steps into the window, announces daylight and "Mrs. Bilbo" follows with a "Good Morning", then each receives breakfast from the hands of the appreciative owner. ("A Friend In Deed" by Nannie Mayes Crump, Gulfport reproduced in the "Confederate Veteran" in 1928.)
Cuevas (Quavre, spelling on document, possibly Cuevas), Jean - WHT POL 1, FPC 0, SLV 0. (Hancock County, Mississippi Tax Rolls 1820, VF Tax Rolls)
Cuevas, Monroe Mrs. r 117 State (Ph 55)
Cueves, Mr. R., was conducting five rafts of 35,000,500 feet of lumber on Monday from the Cue mill, of Kiln, to the Bay, the heavy gale caused the rafts to part, causing a general trouble, however, none of the lumber was lost. (SCE, 12/24/1892)
Cuevas, Ramon: wife Irma Mignot, widow of A.J.Wilkerson, decd. and several children. Daughter Isabella Whitman by first wife. 9-6-1869 (Wb A p 58-59) 412 S. Beach (probable)
Cuevas, Robert Mrs., Jeff Davis Av., Waveland (Ph 48 thru 50, 55)
Cuevas, Roland, Kellar Ave. (Ph 50), 111 St. Charles (Ph 55)
Cuevas, Rosarie, 1524 N. Beach.
Nunez C. Pilet (1968 ph.)
Brantley, remolded (1977, loose paper, untitled)
A Post Pilgrimage Presentation. In the March
Mississippi Coast Spring Pilgrimage the Bay-Waveland Garden Club introduced to the visitors and guests a new Coast attraction - the home of Colonel and Mrs. Nunez Pilet at 1524 North Beach in Bay St. Louis. Both the house and its present occupant deserve a Know Your State Column.
The first historic occupant of this 90 year old house was ROSARIE CUEVAS of that prolific Coast clan that has had so much to do with the early settlement of the Mississippi Coast. Remember Jean Cuevas, the Hero of Cat Island? Rosarie was the amphibious mail carrier of Bay St. Louis who used a horse and buggy on most of his route and then switched to a skiff to deliver around Kiln. He married an elderly spinster who had lived in the house before their wedding. This sturdy house has weathered many storms including the savage 1947 hurricane and the more recent Hurricane Betsy during both of which the water stood shoulder high in the house.