Alphabet File page 282
Penn, Dr. of Florianville, was a visitor to the Bay this week. (SCE 10/29/1892)
Penn, Rev. Mr., and family were sent to us in Pearlington by the Conference, and have settled in our midst. He has the best wishes of the community. (SCE 1-13-1894)
Penn, W. D. or W. P. ? - see: Circuit Court article (SCE 10/28/1893)
Penny, Gertrude Cowand. Writer for SEC. Died l year after marriage. Left one daughter. (SCEJUB42p29).
Penny, Gertrude Cowand, 1st wife of Stephen Penny, Born 1875, Died 1906 Bay St. Louis (CFC)
Penny, Mae Cowand, 2nd wife of Stephen Penny. Born: 1879, Died: 1962, New Orleans, La. (CFC)
Penny, Stephen. Married (1) Gertrude Cowand (2) Mae Cowand, Born 1876, Died 1943 New Orleans, La. (CFC)
Penrose, Bell Harris, 88, Waveland Cemetery 24 Aug 1976 (CEC)
Penrose, C. B., 318 Beach, Waveland (Ph 48 thru 50, 55)
Penrose, Clement B., 87, Waveland Cemetery 19 May 1969 (CEC)
Penrose, Clement Jr., 71, Waveland Cemetery 01 Jul 1981 (CEC)
Penrose, Norvin H., 318 Jeff Davis Av., Waveland (Ph 48-49) 380 Jeff Davis Ave. Waveland (Ph 50, 55)
Penton, Abner, Biloxi - (Hancock County, Mississippi Tax Rolls 1818, VF Tax Rolls)
Penton, Mr. Calven, and Miss L. Lott were joined in wedlock in our locality last Tuesday week. (BOLY) (SCE 02/25/1893)
People's Building and Loan Association, the, was organized to aid public improvement and its purpose has been admirably sustained. The association was organized in March 1890, with the following officers: J.F. Cazeneuve, president; George Planchet, Treasurer; J. E. Saucier, secretary and manager. The association now has nearly ten thousand dollars out in loans, and by this assistance many are taking advantage of the easy payments and are thus building neat homes, which build up the city and thus they build themselves good houses and pay them as easy as renting. (SCE 05/20/1893)
Peoples Building and Loan Association. Offices in Masonic Building. Founded 1890. Officers, A. F. Cameron, president; Richard Mendes, vice president; John Osoinach, treasurer and Judge J. A. Breath, secretary. (date ?)
Peoples Federal Savings & Loan Assn., Masonic Temple Bldg.(Ph 48 thru 50, 55)
Pepin, Mr. A. and family left on Wednesday for New Orleans, their future home. These excellent people came here some time ago and occupied the pretty Ullman place. Their departure is much regretted. (SCE - 10/1/1892)
Pepin, Mrs. Ernest of New Orleans, was in the Bay on Tuesday. (SCE 11/5/1892)
Pepperdene, Kenneth W., Jourdan River (Ph 48 thru 50, 55)
Peppers - Glaycomb, Miss Blanche, Miss Clara Belle Peppers, and Master John Peppers, are among the guests of Mrs. J.L. Daly's on Main Street. (SCE 7/29/1893)
Peppers, Mrs. R. A., wife of Capt. Peppers, of the steamer "PAUL TULANE", accompanied by her son, Mr. Jerry C. Peppers, came over last Sunday to remain with Bay friends awhile. (SCE 7/29/1893)
We have received with thanks a neatly engraved card from New Orleans bearing the following: "Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Peppers, at home, Thursday evening. October nineteenth, cake cutting, Foucher and Jersey Streets." (SCE 10/21/1893)
Peranich, Fred J., autos 130 Court (Ph 48 thru 50, 55)
Pere, Alice- Hecht, Miss Henrietta, of the Crescent City, enjoyed the New Year holidays with her charming friend, Miss Alice Pere. (SCE 01/07/1893)
Pere, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. spent last Thursday in New Orleans. (SCE 01/14/1893)
Welcome Store, has awarded its prizes to the followingnamed: 1st prize, silver watch, Mrs. Frank Taconi, Jr.; 2nd prize, pair of gold earrings, Mrs. H. A. Pere; 3rd prize, E. Noilete, one pair of finest shoes in stock.
The articles mentioned were donated as premiums to the highest purchasers of goods. (SCE 1-28-1893)
Pere, Mr. and Mrs. H. A., on Thursday morning at 4 o'clock, on the wing of death took flight the spotless spirit of their infant son. The bereaved parents have our heartfelt sympathies. (SCE 04/29/1893)
Pere, Mr. and Mrs., son, aged about 5 years, fell from a bathhouse wharf on Monday evening and struck a protruding nail with the upper part of his forehead, causing an ugly and painful wound. The boy was taken home by playmates and medical attention given. (SCE, 2/17/1894)
Pere, Robert, launched last Saturday a pretty little craft of 13 feet, 25 yards sail. It proved to be a hummer in speed, and the owner has right to feel proud of this "record breaker". Mr. A. J. Breath modeled and built the boat and to his credit too much good things cannot be said. (SCE 05/27/1893)
Perkins, G. R. r Railroad Ave., Waveland (Ph 55)
Letter from Mary J. Perkins to her sister Gertrude "Tess" Perkins who probably lived in Atlanta
Re: 1947 Hurricane
Saturday Night Sept. 20, 1947
Dear Tess, We, Grady, Tempie and I are o.k.. Norma and Grady Jr. are in New Orleans. We haven't heard from them since they left. I heard that the Glovers are o.k.. I have not seen them. Also heard that Terrell is o.k.. Well - This is the worst disaster I've ever seen or heard of. From Lake Shore to Cedar Point is a wreck - I don't know where to start to tell you all that has happened. I am so confused. The town of Bay St. Louis is no more. It is a ghost town. Half of the Beach, Drug and Barber shop - half of Osoniade (Osoinach) and DeMontluzin is standing. Everything else on that side of the street is gone. Just a part of deBenedetto is up. Dickens drug store and all its contents are on our beach.
Both bridges are partly gone. The street in front of (illegible) is gone all the way past Rebeccas. Not one tree in Gradys' yard is standing. The water was up in his house. It is about gone - Every fence all the way is gone. The water was up in my house. The waves were washing up on the front porch, half of it is gone. The oak tree saved me. The pecan tree in the front fell on the house and slid off to the side by Ruth's room that helped break the waves. The water was up to the little back porch. You could hear the waves dashing under the house. We still have a house which is one of the few standing. Gleasons house is just a frame. Orttes house next to Harold Weston is gone. The big oak tree in front of Jr. Breath blew down and washed almost in his yard. Cedar Point is almost gone. Not one whole house is standing. The old Steel house in Waveland, next to Polly is gone and the Hart house just across the street is gone. Mrs. Hart and her daughter were drowned. Not one house from the beach and Coleman Ave. in Waveland to the Waveland drug store is standing. Not even the foundation. J. T. Prowell is completely gone. Mrs. Knoblock the old Shield home is gone. Not one house on the beach in Clearmont is standing.
We have no gas lights, water and very little food. the Shears are feeding the neighborhood at present with the food they had in their quick freeze chest. We all eat over there in their back yard. The back yard of Gradys is so full of trash that you can't walk. I can't possibly describe it to you it is terrible.
There are 12 bodies at the funeral home now and I understand 20 more to be brought in. Tess it is awful.
Not one house is whole. Trees down every where.
It was a sight to see those huge waves coming over the street. I really thought we were gone.
The C. C. McDonalds and Shipp's house are about gone.
In fact most everything is gone. Tess, I can't describe it is a terrible thing. My car is in pretty bad shape -but when I look at Grady's I feel lucky it is terrible.
Every where there are dead cows and horses - There is bound to be sickness.