Alphabet File page 210

Ladner, Josph, Biloxi, (Hancock County, Mississippi Tax Rolls 1818, VF Tax Rolls)

 

Ladner, Leon-   Wilde, Mrs. W. V., of Poplarville, Miss., spent last week with Mrs. Leon. U. Ladner, at Waveland. (SCE 03/18/1893)

 

Ladner, Leonard V. r Clermont Harbor (Ph 55)

 

Ladner, Lillian Miss, 217 Kellar Av. (Ph 48-49)

 

Ladner, Lizzie - Walters, Miss Lelia, of Bay St. Louis, paid a visit to her friend, Miss Lizzie Ladner in Gulf View./ (SCE, 1-28-1893)

 

Ladner, Miss Lydia - Cards will be out next week for the marriage of Mr. H. E. Deleuze to Miss Lydia Ladner, to take place Wednesday, September 28th, at the residence of the brides parents.  (SCE 9/03/1892)

 

Ladner, Lydia M. & Delcuze, Mr. E. H. were married on Wednesday evening at the residence of the bride's parents. Good wishes are extended to the happy young couple. (SCE 10/01/1892)

 

Ladner, Nolan, 121 Union (Ph 48 thru 50, 55)

 

Ladner, Pauline Necaise (  ?  )

 

Ladner, Mr. Rainey, was married to Miss Annie Wilkinson by J. E. Saucier, J. P., on July 12, 1893.  Both parties are from Harrison County.  Justice Saucier tied the nuptial knot in the most approved style and sent the couple on their way rejoicing. (SCE 7/15/1893)

 

Ladner, R. J., Lakeshore (Ph 48 thru 50)

 

Ladner, Randolph J.  Served on various boards.  Also member of board of Hancock Bank.  (SCE Jubilee 1942 pg 6.)

 

Ladner, Robert F. r Lakeshore (Ph 55)

 

Ladner, Stanislaus.  Worked in F. J. Ladner Store.

 

  Ladner, Sylvan J. Jr., 320 Carroll Av. (Ph 48 thru 50, 55)

 

Ladner, Sylvan. (1908 Feb 15 SCE).  Sylvan Ladner, former mgr of Bay's Mercantile Co's Hardware, formerly the Combel's establishment will open his own hardware at the same place.  On Democratic Primary ballot Aug 26, 1975 for Sheriff of Hancock Co. against Earl "Buck" Ladner - Who won?

 

Ladner, Vernon r Old Spanish Trail (Ph 55)

 

Ladner, Vester, 215 Ballentine (Ph 48 thru 50)

 

Ladner, Mr. Victor (Gulf View), our jovial friend, has completed his contract with the L.& N. R. R. for piles, but will shortly undertake another, which shows they appreciate his facilities. (SCE 01/07/1893)

 

Ladner, Victor.  Blazed a line from BSL to Pearlington

 

  (SCE 5 Sep 1903 pg. 4).

 

Ladner, Victor. - #3 J. A. Cuevas List (VF MJS III 00350)

 

Ladner's Hardware. Advertisement. No address. (SCE 7 Mar 1908)

 

Ladner's Seafood Market, 508 Hancock (Ph 48 thru 50, 55)

 

La Fargue Henry, 183 St. Joseph, Waveland (Ph 48 thru 50, 55)

 

Lafaye - Ganzburg, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, of New Orleans, were at the Bay Sunday on a visit to Mrs. P. Lafaye. (SCE, 7/15/ 1893)

 

Lafitte, 649 N Beach, # 21 J A Cuevas, (VF MJS VIII 00350)

 

LAFITTE, Jean Until  very  recently, the beginning and  ending of the life of Jean Lafitte,  whose exploits were well known to all school children in these parts, were dark mysteries.

 

Some  recent   works  have shed new light on  the  life of the famous buccaneer.

 

  Most biographers say  that Lafitte was born "ca  1780," adding that  nobody is sure.  A Lafitte biographer,  Catherine  Gonzales,  wrote that information "about his early life is  obscure,"  and  she catches up with him in 1810, when  he  opened  his black-smith shop  in  New  Orleans as a cover for smuggling.

 

As for Lafitte's last days, Gonzales wrote that "he was  reported  in  many places, but most accounts say he  died  in   Yucatan peninsula about 1825."

 

  The Encyclopedia  Brittanica  claims that "nothing authentic" is known  about Lafitte's early years, and concludes that after the Americans destroyed his

 

Galveston Bay community, Lafitte "picked a crew to man his favorite vessel, The Pride, and sailed away to the legendary realms from which he had come."

 

  Following are excerpts from the work of recent Lafitte  scholars, one of whom was convinced that the famous privateer bought property in Hancock County and spent his  last days in the "Pirate House" on the beach of Bay St.  Louis - Waveland, a house built expressly for him.

 

  Another has produced evidence that Lafitte was born in Port-Au-Prince in 1782 of Sephardic Jewish parentage.

 

  Read them and decide for yourself. EBB (Edith B. Back)

 

  BAY  HOUSEHOLDER?  People investigating titles to land around Bay St. Louis have often pondered a name which appeared on a deed  to property transferred on Dec. 6,  1825.  The deed for a hunk of land about two blocks up the bay from where  U.S. 90 crosses it, was written in French  and signed by Jean B. Nicaise and his wife, Genevieve, heavy land-holders of their day.  It was made  out to Sieur

 

Jean Lafitto."

 

  This was four years after the United States Navy had last   seen and chased the ship of Jean Lafitte, the pirate, in the waters around Havana, Cuba.

 

  This  "Lafitto" (A Spanish spelling which Jean Lafitte frequently used in his  peak privateer years) lived at Bay St. Louis in quiet retirement for about twenty five years according to more deeds made out to him, and was reported  to have died around 1850.

 

  The oldtimers claimed that he had no visible occupation but seemed to live off what he already  had. They also claimed he was known to be a famous "fighting man" in the Battle of New Orleans.

 

  Was Jean Lafitte retired from the no longer profitable privateering and now in his late fifties who returned to  peacefully live out his final years on the Coast he loved?   The residents of his day seemed to think  so - and to  support their story there is, also, the bayou on the property he was supposed to own, known as Bayou Jean et Pierre, which was very coincidentally the names of the two  famous Brothers Lafitte.

 

  Was "Lafitto" of Bay St. Louis the famous corsair? Well,  this  writer  who has been researching Lafitte for nearly   fifteen years is inclined to agree with those old-timers - on the  basis of logic alone.          

 

  No  historian has yet  been able to prove when or where

 

Lafitte died.  All theories  advanced  have been based on supposition or legend. Only the  records at Bay St. Louis have turned up as "provable evidence" that Jean  Lafitte  may well have retired to the Coast to end his days quietly. His career as a privateer, or pirate if you  prefer,  was  over...in fact the days  of  privateering were at  an end.  He had led a full and dangerous life and was now in his late fifties.

 

  And  while he was never able to regain any of the fortune  confiscated  by the U. S. government at Grand Terre, having been the most successful privateer of his day,  he undoubtedly had sufficient means (he was a hard-headed businessman) on which to retire.

 

  "Lafitto" of  Bay St. Louis acquired sizable property   holdings, lived unostentatiously but very comfortably - and was rather a mystery to his neighbors. Yes, we incline to agree with the  old-timers that Bay St. Louis has a good case to lay claim  to  Jean Lafitte, gentleman pirate-patriot  in retirement.  (Ray  Thompson, the Daily  Herald,  July 29, 1958)

 

MAN OF MANY FACES - Jean Lafitte, in on - [the  plot to bring  Napoleon  to  New Orleans]   was  a   fervent supporter of the  emperor, a free thinker, an enemy of Spain, a utopian visionary, the last great pirate and yes, I can verify, a Jew.