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(Extract from "History of Harrison County, Mississippi", written by John H. Lang, published by Dixie Press, 1935, page 145)
Barney E. Eaton, the subject of this sketch, was born at Taylorsville, Miss., December 5th, 1878. He is the son of James S. Eaton and Olivia Sharbrough Eaton. His grandfather, Capt. H. 0. Eaton was captain of a Calvalry (sic) Company in the Confederate Army. The improverishment (sic) of the Civil War followed by the more disastrous results of reconstruction fell heavily on his parents.
Barney E. Eaton attended the county schools of his time which were usually one room school houses with one teacher. In September 1896 he entered Millsaps College at Jackson and received an A. B. degree in June 1901. He took a LL. B. degree in June 1903. His Alma Mater conferred the honorary degree of LL. D. in June, 1922.
After his admission to the bar he resided in Hattiesburg, for something more than a year and then moved to Laurel. While in Laurel he served as District Attorney .for the 13th judicial district from May 1906 to September 1909. When he resigned to accept the position of attorney for the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Co., as assistant to Judge Jas. H. Neville, then its general counsel, he moved to Gulfport, October 1st, 1909, where he still resides.
He served as attorney of the Gulf & Ship Island from March 1911 to April 1912 and as general counsel from the later date until the latter part of 1924, when the Mississippi Power Co. was organized. Upon the organization of this company he was elected as its President, and is still serving in that capacity. He is also engaged in the practice of law in association with his sons, Barney E. Eaton, Jr., and James S. Eaton, under the firm of Eaton & Eaton.
On August 4th, 1905 he married Helen Gray Simpson, a native of Mississippi, and they have four children: Mrs. Robt. A. Murphy, Barney E. Eaton, Jr., James S. Eaton and William Douglas Eaton.
(Extract from "History of Harrison County, Mississippi", written by John H. Lang, published by Dixie Press, 1935, page 146-147)
Mrs. Adair Humphries Ewin (1859-1930), botanist, minature (sic) painter, educator, for 20 years a teacher in the Gulfport High School, made an indelible impression on the Coast community through the students whom she taught and the civic work of which she was an integral part.
Founder of the Gulfport Garden Club and consecutively its president until her death, she was deeply interested in the garden clubs of other coast towns and served as an officer of the Garden Clubs of Mississippi.
Three major objectives for the Coast she hoped to see accomplished : first, the conservation of native wild flowers, shrubs, and trees; second, the beautification of the beach highway; and, third, the setting aside of a local Coast swamp or marsh as a park where the wide variety of swamp flowers and plants might flourish in their native habitat, and be easily accessible for study and enjoyment.
Mrs. Ewin was an authority on Coast flora. In pursuance of her botanical interest she studied for several seasons at Tulane University, where her work was outstanding.
As a member of the Gulfport High School she taught a number of subjects, including history, Spanish, physics and French, but her keenest interest was botany. Her profound knowledge of the subject and her unique practice of making the fields and the woods her laboratory made the course a favorite among students who sought her classes.
Mrs. Ewin was the daughter of the late John Adair Humphries, attorney of Handsboro, Mississippi, who died early in life, and Mrs. Lucy Minor Scales Humphries who survived her daughter by three years. Mrs. Ewin was born November 8, 1859, near Hudsonville, Marshall County, Mississippi. She was reared in Memphis and Clarksville, Tennessee. She attended St. Mary’s Episcopal School at Memphis and was a student at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, where she specialized in pipe organ music, and at Cincinnati, Ohio, where she studied minature (sic) painting and pottery making and decoration. In 1887 she married John Overton Ewin (1861-1925) of Tennessee. They established their home in Florence, Alabama, and 23 years later moved to the Mississippi Coast. She has four children: Miss Lucy Herndon Ewin, Miss Adair Humphries Ewin of Gulfport, James Perkins Ewin, New Orleans and Gulfport, and Mrs Dorothy Ewin (Guy) Carpenter of New York, N. Y.
(Extract from "History of Harrison County, Mississippi", written by John H. Lang, published by Dixie Press, 1935, page 147)
Born in Harrisburg, Pa., 1838, was reared and educated by an uncle, A. M. Holbrook, in New Orleans. In 1861 he joined the Washington Artillery and served throughout the war between the States.
In 1866 he married Miss Sallie Webb of Thomaston, Georgia, and divided- his time between New Orleans and DeLisle, Miss. His first wife died in 1871. Two sons were born to this marriage, Ritchie T., who died in 1915, and E. Morris who was born in 1871, graduated from the Louisville Medical College in 1897 and now practicing in Gulfport.
His second wife was Bland Thompson, to whom was born one daughter, M. Bland, (now Mrs. S. H. Dedeaux). Ritchie T. married Lucia Shakleford of Rome, Georgia, who survives him. E. Morris marrried (sic) Jane Harrison of Florence, Rankin County, Miss., in 1898. Two sons were born to this union, John Morris of Gatun, Canal Zone, and Harris H. of Huston (sic), Texas.
(Extract from "History of Harrison County, Mississippi", written by John H. Lang, published by Dixie Press, 1935, page 148)
Frank F. Farrell, son of Martin Farrell and Ellen Carmody, both of Ireland, was born in Pass Christian in 1881. He is one of ten children, all residents of Pass Christian, where the family is largely connected, there being no less than 24 family connections, many of! direct descent, others by marriage.
Frank, as he is familiarly called, operates a family grocery store on the corner of Front and Market Streets in Pass Christian and owns all the property on that corner.
He is a quiet, uassuming (sic) man, is married, his wife being the former Miss Bernadine Graver of Rolling Green, Mo.- They have no children.
(Extract from "History of Harrison County, Mississippi", written by John H. Lang, published by Dixie Press, 1935, page 148)
Was born in West Meade, Irleand (sic) in 1840 and came to America in 1856, finally settling in Pass Christian, 1865.
He married Miss Ellen Carmody of County Claire, Ireland, at Rutland, Vermont, in 1864. From .this union there were 10 children and 33 grandchildren.
He continued his residence in Pass Christian where he was a solid, substantial citizen until his death, November 23rd, 1905. His wife died July 6th, 1923.
His children are all citizens of Pass Christian and are worthy, substantial people now being connected through marriage, with I think 24 of the various families of the city.
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