Alphabet File page 179

Hunt, The charming petite Miss Fannie, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. D. Smith, on Sunday. (SCE 11/19/1892)

 

The lovely and fascinating Miss Fanny Hunt and Miss Sadie Smith were at the Bay Sunday, numbering among our many N. O. visitors on that day. (SCE 03/18/1893)

 

Hunt, Miss Fanny, is spending awhile with her sister, Mrs.

 

  A. D. Smith.  (SCE 7/15/1893)

 

Hunt, Miss Fanny, formerly of the Bay, writes that she is meeting with much success on the stage in California with Rhea's company.  Miss Hunt will be before New Orleans foot lights next month. An original article from (SCE 12/16/1893)

 

Hunter, Ernest r 146 Surf, Waveland (Ph 55)

 

Hunter, Jane Mina, 85, Cedar Rest 25 Apr 1944 (CEC) (Sister of Miss Zadie Hunter and Mrs C. A. Worsley - Also there was another sister whose name I do now know - A niece Mrs. Jack Heuer, 6745 Wood Iron, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78413 has promised to send IBM compatible disk on family -  CHGray)

 

Hunter, Miss Mary visited L. Leonhard, at "Elmwood," Sunday and returned to New Orleans the same day.  (SCE/10/22/1892)

 

Hunter, Miss Mary, of New Orleans, was the guest of Mrs. L. Leonhard, at "Kimwood"?, (Elmwood) Sunday. (SCE,12/24/1892)

 

Hunter, Miss R. E., spent several days at Elmwood, the guest of Mrs. Louis Leonhard. (SCE 8/20/1892)

 

Hunter, Miss Zadie, Cedar Rest 10 Dec 1935 (CEC) (Sister of Miss Jane Mina Hunter and Mrs. C.A. Worsley. Also there was another sister whose name I do not know - A niece, Mrs. Jack Heuer, 6745 Wood Iron, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78413 has promised to send IBM compatible disk on family. CHGray)

 

Huntoon, Gail - The first grade pupils were examined in spelling last week.  Those who attained honors were Mary Ellen Ansley, Louise Saucier, Thelma Eagan, Gail Huntoon, Edwin Briggs, Tom Trawck and Sam Tuminia. (The High School Idea, Vol 1, BSL March 1908)

 

Huntoon, Gail, letter to teacher.  March 17, 1908.  (The High School Idea, Vol 1, BSL March 1908)

 

Hurley, Kate Miss - The lovely Miss Kate Hurley, of New Orleans and a niece of Hon. Juo. Fitzpatrick, mayor of that city is visiting Mrs.  Peter Callery and gracious daughters at their home on the Jordan banks.  (SCE 8/6/1892)

 

HURSEY - SEE SEPARATE FILE "HURSEY"

 

ASA HURSEY, SR.

 

  A remarkable mn lived in Pearlington from 1845 until he died in 1912.  He was a self taught architect, draftsman, engineer for a big sawmill in the United States with capacity to cut 200,000 board feet of lumber a day.  This sawmill was also the first big sawmill in America to be built without posts - he used long trusses, constructed with lumber, to carry the roof load.  Another interesting thing about this man, Asa Hursey, Sr., was that he kept a record of practically every personal transaction during his life.  His granddaughter, Mrs. Joe Crawford of Slidell, has 14 boxes, each about 20x12x6 inches, filled with his old papers.  Mrs. Crawford has written the following interesting history of the life of her grandfather and a great-grandfather:

 

  “Asa H. Hursey came to Hancock County, Mississippi, from Rome, or Readfield, Maine, in the 1830’s.  He was born October 28, 1813, at Rome, Maine.  He was the youngest child of Nancy and Richard Hussey.

 

  After his arrival in Mississippi he changed the spelling of his name from Hussey to Hursey, however, all his legal papers were signed Asa H. Hussey.  His father was the son of Robert Hussey who served in the Revolutionary War.  This branch of the Hussey family were descendants of a Richard Hussey, a weaver, who came to America in 1651.  His loom is now on display in the museum at Salem, Massachusetts.

 

  Asa H. Hursey worked in sawmills in Maine.  When he was only 21 he was part owner of a sawmill in Calais, Maine.  This mill was probably located at one time in New Brunswick Canada.  He probably lived with his brother Sephen Hussey because Stephen died in Calais, Maine, in 1834.  He continued in the mill business until 1838.  His next venture was as an able seaman according to the paper issued to him by a Mr. Morse in Maine.

 

  Asa H. Hursey, like a number of others who settled on the lower reaches of Pearl River, apparently made his way to Pearlington the first time as a member of a boat crew.  Christian Koch and Henry Weston were among others who first came to Logtown by boat.  It is interesting to note that many, if not most of the early settlers along the Pearl made their way up the river instead of coming across country.

 

  Hursey has a receipt from Sherwood and Foster of Pearlington for some work he had done for a Mr. Daily, dated June 7, 1841.

 

  He was in this area only a short time when he married Miss Isabella McCall on March 3, 1842.  Richard Foster, Justice of the Peace, performed the ceremony.  Duncan McCall, father of Isabella, owned two tracts of land on Pearl River, one in Mississippi southwest of Nicholson and the other in Louisiana across the river from the Mississippi tract.  Apparently the newly married couple must have lived in the Nicholson-Picayune section for on March 28, 1842 he bought a bill of groceries from Leonard Kimball who operated a store and was postmaster of Hobolochitto postoffice in what is now northwest Picayune.  The receipt for the work previously mentioned and the bill for the groceries are now in Mrs. Crawford’s pssession.

 

  Among his papers are the articles of agrement between Asa H. Hursey and Emile Mazily daated June 18, 1844, stating tht he bought a steam sawmill that was formerly owned by Ford and Boardman located on Pearl River above Pearlington.  This mill could have been as far above Pearlington as Hobolochitto because Emile Mazily sent him a letter dated Feebruary 22, 1845, and addressed it to Hursey and Mazily at the Hobolochitto Mill.

 

  This mill continued to run until Dec l, 1848, when Hursey and Mazily were given a lease on the river front of Square 4 by the Pearlington Compnay for a consideration of $10 per year.  The officers of the company were Samuel White, president, and Wilois H. Arnold, secretary-treasurer.  Included in this indenture are the householders who signed giving their permission to put the mill on the “public quay”.  When Pearlington was laid out by the Pearlington Company, the river front was evidently the public quay.  The Town of Pearlington still has a small public quay in front of the Guittirez and Poitevent old places.

 

  The next areticles of agreement are between John Armstrong and Asa H. Hursey when said Armstrong buys out Emile Mazily’s part on December 3, 1848.  How long this partnership  lasted is not known.  No sale is listed but in 1850 Mrs. Armstrong was a widow in the U. S. Census report.

 

  On November 25, 1853, the next partners of Asa H. Hursey were F. W. Delesdenier,  W. L. Burgess and Thomas Bailey.  These three  owned half interest while Asa H. Husey owned the other half and operated the mill.

 

  On May 25, 1852, Nathan K. Hall , Postmaster-General of the United States, appointed Asa H. Hursey postmaster of the Pearlington postoffice.  He was also electd Justice of the Peace of the First District (Beat l) of Hancock County May 28, 1849.  He seems to have been a man with a wide range of interests in Hancock County.

 

  His next venture in the mill business was alone and he seems to have operated alone until the Civil War.

 

  There were battles fought at Pearlington and at Gainesville in which superior Yankee forced captured these old river towns.  Immediately thereafter New Orleans fell and all business on Pearl River ceased.  Yankee patarol boats regularly visited all the towns up and   down the river.  All goods that were of any value were confiscated.  If a person tried to keep anything that jayhawkers wanted they would inform the Yankees and they would take away the property of local citizens.  If there was an objection expressed or any outcry on the part of the owner he would be put in jail.  This happened to Captain John Orr who spent several years was a prisoner aat Fort Pike during the war for protesting seizure of some of his property.