LOCATION:  Section 22, T7S-R9W, Harrison County, Mississippi.

DIRECTIONS:
          From “Five Points”, the intersection of Central Avenue, Gorenflo Road, and Race Track Road in the city of D’Iberville, Mississippi go northwest on that part of Race Track Road, which was formerly Cedar Lake Road for about 500 feet.  The Quave Cemetery is situated off Race Track Road about 200 feet to the southwest.  It is reached from Race Track Road by an unpaved road.

HISTORY:
          The name Quave is well established on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and very prevalent in the D'Iberville community.  Pierre "Parik" Baptiste Cuevas (1808-1889), the son of Spanish immigrant, Juan de Cuevas (1774-1849) and Marie Helene Ladner (1775-1853), is the forebear of the Quave name as it became known at Back Bay, now D’Iberville, and Biloxi.
          Pierre Cuevas had lived at Cat Island, and on the Jourdan and Wolf Rivers before moving to Biloxi in 1834.  In sworn depositions in the Harrison County Chancery litigation, “Laroissini vs. Heirs of Carco”, Cuevas stated: "in 1834, I moved to Biloxi and there resided until the year 1847".  At Biloxi, he operated a market on Lameuse Street.(Cassibry II, 1986, p. 24)
           Also in October 1834, Pierre Cuevas acquired a tract of land from Dominique Ladner on the north shore of the Back Bay of Biloxi in the southeast corner of the Dominique Ladner Claim, Section 22 T7S-R9W.  The consideration was One Hundred and Eighty Dollars ($180.00).  This transaction is recorded in Harrison County Land Deed Book 2, pages 193-194 as follows:

          "all that certain parcel of land, with its appurtenances, situated in the said County of Hancock, measuring nine arpents (1728') front on the said Bay of Biloxi, by thirty five arpents (6720') deep be the same more or less, bounded on the East by land belonging to Emanuel Sanchez, on the West by land belonging to the Seller, on the North by public lands, on the South, by the said Bay of Biloxi".

          When Cuevas left Biloxi in 1847, it is believed he moved to Jackson County where he had acquired forty acres in the SE/4 of the NE/4 of Section 14, T7S-R9W in 1846.  This parcel is in the western portion of Gulf Hills.  In the 1860s, he moved to St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana and started a new life with Marie Arsene Ladner LaForce who bore him eight children.(Cassibry II, 1988, p. 455)
           Cuevas's first family with Marie Helene Ladner was quite large: Peter Simon Quave (1828-1862) married Anna Mallett (1828-1904): Christopher L. Quave (1829-1862) married Elizabeth Mallette and Delphine Moran, the widow of Benjamin Seaman; Ursant Quave (1835-1889) married Mamie Sarah Davis (1840-1908); Louise Quave (1838-1916) married Vincent Peter Mallette and Maximilian Garlotte; Josephine (Zoe) Quave (1841-1912) married Jules Guilotte (1836-1910); Francoise Emilie “MiMi” Quave (1843) married Yvon Garec; Caroline Louise Quave (1845) married Sherrod Seymour;  John Warne Quave (1847) married Victoria Garlott and Lorena Lavinghouse; Celestine Quave (1849-1917) married Francois Fournier;  Clementine Quave (1849) married John Noble; and Isabella Quave (1851-1920) married Thomas Garlotte.(Cassibry, 1888, pp. 111-116)
          These Quave children remained in the Back Bay or Fort Bayou area north of Ocean Springs.  Peter Simon Quave (1826-1862) ran a large mercantile store at Back Bay until the Civil War.  He and brother, Christopher L. Quave (1829-1862), who was Sheriff of Harrison County from 1856 to1862, were killed in that conflict.  The descendants of Peter Simon Quave were merchants at Back Bay for almost one hundred years operating stores near the bay front.
           In March 1860, Pierre Quave divided some of his land at Back Bay and sold it to his twelve children. This tract ran west from the land of John Foretich for 1343 feet along the bay front and then north to Section 9, T7S-R9W.  A cemetery for the internment of Quave family members was later reserved within this 185-acre parcel.
 In March 1890, the land for what would become the Quave Cemetery was described in Harrison County, Mississippi Land Deed Bk. 9, pp. 257-258, as:

         There is a reserve made for a graveyard commencing at a point between the property of Emily (Quave) Garec and the herein surveyed land strikes the road of twenty feet herein reserved, thence running east along said road one-half arpent, thence south one arpent, thence west one-half arpent, thence north to the place of beginning”.

Last Name      Given Name             Born    to     Died         Remarks/ Headstone Inscriptions

B 
Borries         Theodore Oscar      01-21-1888 to 12-21-1918
                

D

Diaz            Delmas              07-14-1878 to 01-14-1953
Diaz            Maggie G.           08-09-1883 to 05-29-1967

F

Fournier        Alfred E.           11-14-1879 to 09-25-1944
Fournier        Francis                   1804 to       1896
Fournier        Celestine Cuevas          1849 to       1917
Fournier        Lavenia                   1872 to       1884   "Daughter of Francis Fournier"

Fournier        Ray F.              01-05-1917 to 04-26-1975
Fournier        Benjamin G.         05-18-1904 to 07-02-1991
Fournier        Velma Moran         01-06-1909 to 05-28-1982


G
Guilotte        Napoleon            07-26-1875 to 02-07-1949
Guilotte        Zoline Seymour      01-01-1881 to 04-08-1923

K

Krohn           John F.             09-16-1898 to 04-07-1929
Krohn           Ada Mae             02-17-1928 to 05-04-1930   "dau of John F."

Krohn           John Preston              1865 to       1935   "and Children"

L

Lepre          Cecile Seymour       02-01-1869 to 03-17-1929        "tombstone reads died 11 March 1929, Internment records died 17 Mar 1929 buried 18 Mar 1929"

M 
Mallett         Helen Moran         08-08-1928 to 01-24-2001    "dau of Noll Phillip Moran" “Angel on Earth – Angel in Heaven”
Manuel          Wm. G.              05-26-1872 to 02-14-1940
Manuel          Minnie Seymour      07-22-1878 to 12-29-1927
Manuel          Winnie May          1912       to 07-15-1913    (no marker) "1 yr old" "deaughter of Mr and Mrs. W. G. Manuel" Obit Biloxi Herald, July 16, 1913."

Mother ?                            03-17-1849 to 07-1?-1893
Moran           Murry               12-13-1916 to 09-02-1995
Moran           Elsie               10-21-1918 to
Moran           Milton W.           12-31-1937 to 10-13-1943    “at rest”
Moran           Marie Trochessett   01-25-1860 to 04-23-1942
Moran           George M.           04-02-1911 to 06-07-1965
Moran           Olga F.             06-17-1912 to
Moran           George Matt         11-19-1932 to 12-13-1968
Moran           Noll Phillip        03-07-1907 to 06-12-1965    “gone but not forgetten”
Moran           Ola Mae Robinson    02-04-1911 to
Moran           Matthew             05-20-1880 to 06-09-1958
Moran           Esperance           09-26-1884 to 02-06-1962
Moran           Fred Quave (bro)    12-19-1918 to 06-15-1981     “Rest in Peace”
Moran           John Roy SR.        07-20-1929 to  05-24-1977    ”May His Soul Rest in Peace”
  
Q
Quave           Lawrence John       09-22-1880 to 01-29-1961
Quave           Leonide M. Fayard   06-12-1882 to 02-07-1965
Quave           Raymond John        10-//-1851 to 10-02-1908
Quave           Mary C.             04-26-1855 to 04-12-1877       “Wife of J. Quave”

Quave           Neta Carroll        06-14-1931 to 12-13-1997

Quave           Randolph            12-12-1888 to 12-03-1902      “Son of R. J. Quave”
Quave           Melvin M.           12-28-1911 to 03-23-1992      "PFC US Army WWII”
Quave           Darrell George      02-16-1902 to 12-14-1956
Quave           Leslie J. SR.       04-15-1905 to 08-17-1994      “Husband of Lillie O. Joullian”
Quave           Lillie O. Joullian  02-12-1902 to 09-15-1973      “wife of Leslie Quave”  
Quave           Lazarus             05-03-1888 to 02-07-1961       “God be with You”
Quave           Alena M.            03-21-1889 to 11-15-1968       “Father, Not my Will but Thine Be Done”
Quave           Josephine Seymour   04-09-1859 to 08-30-1934       (Tombstone show DOB Apr 19, 1859, Baptismal records
                                                                    of 15 Aug 1859 shows DOB as April 09, 1859)
R
Reaux           Jeral J.            10-12-1932 to 07-17-1991        “PFC US Army Korea”

S

Santa Cruz      Adolph F.           08-22-1878 to 06-17-1972
Santa Cruz      Emma A. Quave       01-29-1881 to 08-25-1954
Santa Cruz      Mildred Marguerite  11-05-1904 to 11-06-1996        “Forever in our hearts”
Seymour         Glenn Randall (Randy) Sr. 07-25-1957 to 06-23-2001   "Go rest high on the Mountain”
Seymour         Francis Agustus     10-07-1885 to 01-22-1905        (AKA) “Gussie”
Seymour         Lyman L.            09-10-1907 to 02-19-1954        “Miss S2 USNR – WWII”
Seymour         Lindus Joseph       02-11-1928 to 01-24-1955        “US Army”
Seymour         Blanche             05-27-1884 to 02-04-1970
Seymour         Leon C.             05-18-1878 to 04-29-1954 
Seymour         Margaret Janet      09-10-1913 to 09-19-1913        (no marker) "daughter of Leon C. and Blanche Seymour"

Seymour         Rita Joyce           died      to 12-05-1966        “9 months 14 days - dau of Leon C and Blanche Seymour"                                                                                                                                                                                           Leon & Blanch Seymour)
Seymour         Lyle William        09-01-1959 to 07-04-1973        “A beloved Son and Brother”
Seymour         Loucille I.         05-15-1902 to 08-31-1984
Seymour         Aline T.            02-02-1900 to 09-20-1980
Seymour         Pliney Alexis       09-??-1852 to 01-17-1902
Seymour         Malinda Elizabeth   01-07-1855 to 01-03-1896        “maiden name Quave” “Wife of Pliney A. Seymour” NO MARKER
Seymour         Nanette             12-03-1924 to 12-31-1925        “Dau of Alphonse and Effie Seymour”
Seymour         Moses L.            01-31-1871 to 05-16-1928
Seymour         Laura Quave         05-29-1875 to 11-24-1965
Seymour         Longino L.          03-09-1901 to 10-13-1936
Seymour         Lee M.              01-02-1898 to 01-21-1948
Seymour         Eula Lawrenca       01-13-1901 to 02-27-1937
Seymour         Barbara M.          10-01-1896 to 12-20-1964

Seymour         Glen J.             04-16-1921 to 01-20-1965         “Son of Edgar Peter Seymour”
Seymour         Nola Alphonsine      08-15-1918 to 12-06-1918         “Dau of Edgar Peter Seymour”
Seymour         Edger Peter         12-16-1880 to 12-15-1943         “NO MARKER”
Seymour         Mary Agnes          04-14-1893 to 07-01-1979         “She was the Sunshine of our Home”
Seymour         Hildred Eliz        07-17-1904 to 03-13-1910
Seymour         Bernard             02-05-1911 to 04-12-1916
Seymour         Carl Omer           08-05-1915 to 08-25-1915
Seymour         Loretta Ann         02-28-1954 to 11-18-1954
T

Trochesset      Phillip John        10-05-1875 to 01-01-1979         “Age 103 Years”
Trochesset      Edith Fayard        12-05-1885 to 07-10-1958         “Age 72 Years”
Trochesset      John Victor SR.     12-31-1913 to 08-14-1996         “In loving Memory”
Trochessett     John                07-24-1840 to 08-14-1903         “Peaceful Be Thy Silent Slumber”
Trochessett     Raymond                   1923 to       1925         “Age 2 Years”



W

Wells           Leona M.                04-9-1906 to 03-31-1927
Wells           Mary Ann                0?-??-1870 to 0?-??-1926

Nap L. Cassibry II, Early Settlers and Land Grants at Biloxi, Volume II, Special Issue 5, (Mississippi Coast History and Genealogical Society: Biloxi, Mississippi-November 1986).

Nap L. Cassibry II, The Ladner Odyssey, Special Issue No. 6, (Mississippi Coast Nap L. Cassibry II, (Mississippi Coast History and Genealogical Society: Biloxi, Mississippi-January 1988).

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