LOCATION:  The Groue Cemetery is approximately 3 1/4 miles west northwest of Ocean Springs.  It is located in the very southeastern portion of the John Baptiste Ladner Claim,
Section 16, T7S-R9W of Jackson County.  This small family cemetery is near the entrance of the Langley Point residential area of the St. Martin Community.

DIRECTIONS:  From the intersection of Bienville Boulevard (US 90) and Washington Avenue in Ocean Springs go north 2 miles on Washington Avenue to LeMoyne Boulevard.  Turn left (west) on LeMoyne and go 2.67 miles to Brittany.  At Brittany go left (south) .75 miles to Race Track Road.  Turn left (east) at Race Track and go .32 miles to the Groue Cemetery to the left (north).

HISTORY:  The Groue Cemetery is a small family cemetery named for Louis Groue, Sr. (1813-1887).  Groue, the son of Francoise LaGroue and Marie Lafost, was born at Deer Island. LaGroue was a merchant and slave trader who met his demise in a naval engagement with British forces in 1814. Louis Groue married Eloise Ladner (1821-1890) circa 1838.  She was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Ladner and Julienne LaFontaine.  The Groues moved to Back Bay (North Biloxi) from Deer Island after 1850 to a tract of land in Section 16, T7S-R9W which had been given to her by her father, J.B. Ladner, in 1840.  (Jackson County Deed Records Book 4, pp. 474-475).  Ladner had earlier been granted the patent to Section 15 (Claim No. 158-609.32 acres).  The U.S. Government confirmed the claim in 1819.
The Groues built a home on their Jackson County waterfront tract and raised a small family.  Two children, Louis Groue, Jr. (1840-1917) and Estelle Groue Tiblier (1844- 1927), were born of this union.  In May 1880, Louis Groue bought the 320-foot tract east of his property from his brother-in-law, Stanislaus Beaugez (1813-1889) (Jackson County Deed Records Book 4, pp. 475-477).  This is the tract of land on which the Groue Cemetery is located.
In 1917, Louis Groue, Jr. conveyed the following tract of land to his sons, Alphonse and Napoleon Groue:

Beginning at a point 116 feet north of where the Point St. Martin Road crosses the line dividing the property of Louis Groue and Francis X. Fountain, and thence running north 80 feet along said line, thence 80 feet east, thence south 80 feet, thence west 80 feet to the point of beginning; thus including a tract 80 feet square which is now, and has been used as my family cemetery for many years.  (Jackson County Deed Records Book 45, pp. 97-98)

PRIMARY FAMILY INTERMENTS:  Cannette, Fayard, Fountain, Groue, and Ladnier.

Henry Fayard 1-4-1872 to 9-14-1915 Olivia Groue Fayard 4-5-1873 to 7-18-1959 Olivia Fayard 8-25-1897 to 4-11-1914 Lonzo Fayard 10-5-1908 to 6-11-1910 Oscar Fayard 2-14-1896 to 5-15-1911 Leonia Fayard 9-7-1910 to 9-9-1913 Rudolph Fayard 2-6-1880 to 5-23-1965 Leonied Groue Fayard 8-4-1885 to 8-7-1969 Adonia Fountain 6-30-1876 to 1-14-1962 Raymond Fountain 2-24-1874 to 8-16-1938 Betty Howell 11-26-1939 to 3-27-1940 Roosevelt Fountain 3-30-1908 to 4-11-1961 Charles Fountain 12-5-1907 to 2-18-1978 Emile Fountain 4-3-1900 to 6-2-1978 Louise Fountain 5-6-1892 to 2-5-1953 Alice Tiblier Fountain 1-23-1874 to 3-13-1934 James Corey Fountain 5-17-1941 to 4-16-1942 Hubie Fountain

Louis Groue 11-18-1814 to 10-11-1887 Eloise Ladner Groue 8-6-1821 to 1890 Louis Grou  12-19-1840 to 11-20-1917 Mary Parker Grou 4-24-1841 to 5-12-1910 Rosia Cecilia Groue 1869 to 6-28-1918 L.  Gilbert Groue 4-29-1862 to 8-13-1883 Alphonse Groue Jr.  8-22-1907 to 5-1-2001 Alphonse G. Groue 4-15-1879 to 3-1-1934 Louisa M. Groue 9-8-1883 to 12-28-1959 Alphonse J. Groue, Jr. 8-22-1907 5-01-2001 Emily M. Groue 10-11-1902 to 2-25-1991 Jackie L. Groue, Jr. 2-22-1964 to 1-28-1965 daughter of MJ and Mary Groue Arthur Napoleon Groue 2-5-1888 to 5-24-1964 Daisy Garcia Groue 12-25-1896 to 10-24-1967   Royal H. Groue 1-2-1911 to 10-1-1988 Fatima A. Beal Groue (corrected) 3-13-1914 to 1-13-1974 Royal H. Groue, Jr. 12-3-1933 to 1-12-2001 Margie N. Groue 1-9-1936 to 6-01-1999 Royal H. Groue, III "Bubby" 1-17-1957 to 4-8-1991 Norton Gum 3-11-1918 (living) Eleanor Gum 3-31-1920 (living)

 
 
 
 

H Mary V. Holley  10-17-1922 to 12-28-1922   K Jimmie King 12-19-1957 (living) Janice Marie King 7-2-1955 (living) Mary Beth King 10-7-1953 to 10-21-1953 Betty Jean King 7-21-1951 (living)                              L Emma V. Groue Ladnier 5-1-1864 to 5-11-1891 Gustave Ladnier 3-18-1888 to 5-27-1897 Celestan Ladnier 12-14-1884 to 5-27-1897 Landry (Plot Marker)

R Adonia A. Riche 1895 to 1981 Florence Groue Richard 3-18-1914 to 6-10-2001 Ellis Joseph Richard 1-12-1912 to 12-19-1994 Ellis Joseph "E. J." Richard  YNE US Navy Korea 10-18-1935 to 12-29-2000 Jessie Fay King Richard 7-4-1936 to   Jerry J. Richard PFC US Army Korea 12-24-1931 to 6-9-1978 Veryl Jude Richard PFC US Army Vietnam 6-3-1942 to 2-8-1978 Wallace Patrick Richard 8-28-1942 to 8-10-1986 Florence Ryan 1894 to 1918                            T Emile Tiblier Co E 3 MS INF CSA 1838 to 1923 Estella Tiblier 1844 to 2-20-1927

REFERENCES:

Nap L. Cassibry, II, The Ladner Odyssey, Mississippi Gulf
Coast Historical and Genealogical Society-Special Issue No.
6 (January 1988), pp. 734-735 and pp. 781-782.

History of Jackson County, Mississippi, (Lewis Printing
Services:  Pascagoula-1989), p. 226.

Requiem I, Jackson County Cemetery Records, (Jackson County
Genealogical Society-1969), pp. 80-81.

Surveyed and researched by:
Ray L. Bellande
PO Box 617
Ocean Springs, Mississippi 39564
January 22, 1992
 

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