The Saucier Family - Page 19
Leona Lee Saucier was the tenth child and daughter of Calvin Jackson Saucier and Martha Ophelia Warden. She was born on Tuesday December 11, 1906 in the Beulah community near Lyman and died in Gulfport, Mississippi on Tuesday January 17, 1995 at the age of eighty-eight. She was a granddaughter of Henri (Henry) Severin Saucier and Elizabeth Jane Tanner, great granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; second great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, third great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, fourth great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and she was a fifth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Leona was engaged to be married on several occasions, but never married, remaining singe her entire life, residing in the old family home together with her older sister Bertha until she passed away, and Leona continued to live there until she was no longer able to live alone. Leona was employed for a number of years by the Coca Cola Bottling Company at its old location in Downtown Gulfport, working in the bottling area. After the Coca Cola Company she worked for Brister's General Store on Highway 49 in Lyman and in the Lyman Post Office that was located in Brister's. In her later years she drove a Harrison County School Bus for the school district, to the delight of her many young relatives that rode her bus. Leona as a young girl lost fingers on her left hand from an exploding dynamite cap she found. She always had Coca Cola pencils, tablets, rulers, pencil sharpeners and other novelties on hand to give to the children in her family when they visited.
A news article from September 28, 1911 tells the story about the injury of young six year old Leona Lee Saucier. Leona lost her fingers from the exploding dynamite cap she placed on the old wood burning stove in the kitchen her mother was cooking on. Her father and his brothers had been using the dynamite caps to remove tree stumps in the fields around their home. The story goes on to say the accident to Leona occurred in the kitchen of the home when supper was being prepared by her mother. Leona found one of the dynamite caps about the house and caring it unnoticed to the kitchen lit a match on the hot stove and applied it to the cap, an act that was followed by an explosion which tore two fingers from her left hand and filled her breast and face with fragments of the cap. The child's face is said to be terribly disfigured by the pieces of the cap which entered it and which the physician has been unable to remove. The story may have been just a little exaggerated, as we know her face was not disfigured, but she did have the missing fingers. The story of her missing fingers was told many times by Leona to family children over the years who questioned her about her hand.
During the years this writer was growing up, Bertha and her sister Leona were still living in the old home of their parents Calvin and Martha, where they had grownup. The old home in these earlier years was heated by a wood burning fireplace and a pot belly wood burning heater, as well as their mother’s old wood burning cook stove in its kitchen. This writer has fond memories of that old stove and the hot coffee and the tasty food they prepared on it. In the 1950’s the old home was damaged by a fire that was started by the old pot belly heater in the rear of the home. After repairs to the home, by this writer’s father and their brothers, they continued living in the old home, Bertha until her death in 1979 and Leona until she was no longer able to care for herself and moved into the home of a nephew in the early 1990s. The old home was eventually sold and moved after Leona’s death.
Ora Mae Saucier, called Mae, was the youngest of the eleven children of Calvin Jackson Saucier and Martha Ophelia Warden. She like her other siblings were born in the Beulah community near Lyman. She was born on Monday September 20, 1909 and died on Monday November 10, 1986 in Gulfport at the age of seventy-seven. She was a granddaughter of Henri (Henry) Severin Saucier and Elizabeth Jane Tanner, great granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; second great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, third great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, fourth great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and Mae was a fifth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Mae married Charlie King, born on Saturday May 12, 1906 and died on Thursday June 19, 1980 in Gulfport at age seventy-four. He was the son of William King and Katie Cruthirds. They had two sons, Charlie Ray King and Richard Jewell King. Mae, as everyone called her, also worked for a number of years for the Coca Cola Bottling Company in Gulfport along with her sister Leona. Mae and Charlie lived on a section of land that was given to them by her father in the Beulah community.
**Clarence Alfred Saucier, son of Alfred Ellis Saucier, was raised by Ophelia Warden Saucier, his aunt, as one of her children after his mother died in 1919 following his birth. After her death in 1923 he remained living in the old family home with his four cousins Roy, Bertha, Leona and Mae. Clarence was four years old when his aunt died. After Clarence's and Nettie’s marriage they lived in the household with his cousins Bertha and her sister Leona for a number of years before building a home of their own.
Josephine Saucier, the fifth child of Henri (Henry) Severin was born on July 2, 1866 in Mississippi City. The date of death for Josephine is unknown; it is believed she died young. She was a granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Josephine was baptized at the Church of the Annunciation in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on June 15, 1873, at the same time as her brother Andrew Henri, and her baptism was witnessed by her uncle Narcise and her cousin Martha Saucier. On February 14, 1884, when she was seventeen years old, she married her twenty-two year old first cousin, Victor Saucier; he was born in about 1862 and died in about 1900. Exact birth and death dates for Victor are also unknown. Victor was the son of Josephine’s uncle, Narcise Edouard Saucier and Delilah Cameron, a brother and sister in law of her father Henry Severin. The Saucier family was very unhappy about and disapproved of the marriage of the two first cousins. Josephine and Victor had three daughters, Elizabeth, Luticia and Teresa Saucier. Elizabeth and Teresa both died in the typhoid epidemic of late 1900, within months of each other and are buried near their great grandfather Pierre in the old Pierre Saucier cemetery at Worthman, east of Saucier.
Rosalie (Rosa) Saucier was the sixth child of Henri (Henry) Severin Saucier and Elizabeth Jane Tanner. Rosalie was born on November 1, 1868 in Lyman and died on October 1, 1954 in Biloxi at the age of eighty-six years. She was a granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Rosalie was baptized at the Church of the Annunciation in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on June 15, 1874, her baptism sponsors were Joseph Saucier and Louise Saucier. At the age of seventeen, she married seventeen year old Summerfield Sidney Swetman; he was born on September 25, 1868 and died on August 25, 1956. Summerfield was the son of Thomas A, Swetman and Jane Harriet Holley of Handsboro, Mississippi. They had seven children, Lillian, Ursula, Hattie, Rosa, Summerfield Sidney, Windfield and Mildred Jewell Swetman. Rosalie and Summerfield are buried in the Handsboro Cemetery on the banks of Bayou Bernard in Gulfport. Numerous descendants reside in the Biloxi area and are very active in local and area activities.
John Randolph Saucier was the seventh child and third son of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane Tanner. He was born at Biloxi on January 1, 1869 and died in Kerrville, Texas on November 7, 1921. He was the grandson of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great grandson of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great grandson of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Twenty-six year old John Randolph married twenty year old Henrietta Coudroy, of Jeanerette, Louisiana on September 5, 1895 in Jeanerette. She was born in March of 1875 and died in Kerrville, Texas on March 10, 1912. John Randolph and Henrietta had five children, Mary, Cecile, Louise, John Randolph and Roy Francis Saucier.
Andrew Henry Saucier aka Henry Marvin Saucier was the eighth child and fourth son of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane Tanner. He was a grandson of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great grandson of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great grandson of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary, early settlers of the Louisiana Territory and the French Colony at Mobile. Born Andrew Henry Saucier, he was the eighth of the twelve children of Henry Severin Saucier and Elizabeth Jane Tanner. Andrew was born on May 17, 1871 in Harrison County, Mississippi and died on January 1, 1958 in Louisiana. Andrew was baptized at the Church of the Annunciation in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on June 15, 1873, at the same time as his sister Josephine. His baptism sponsors were Cheri Laurent Fayard and Elizabeth Saucier. In the baptismal records of the Church his name is listed only as “Henri Saucier”. Andrew was married twice, at age eighteen he married his first wife, Laura Holly, in about 1889 in Harrison County, Mississippi. She was the daughter of Alfred Holley and Sarah Richards. Laura was born in 1868 and died in Stone County, Mississippi about twenty to twenty-five years after Andrew disappeared. Andrew and Laura were the parents of four sons, William Cleveland, Ollie Washington, John Henry and James Theodore Saucier.
Andrew Henry Saucier had an altercation, sometime around 1896, with another man in the Woolmarket area to the east of Lyman and Gulfport, which resulted in a fist fight. Andrew thought he had killed the man in the fight and fled the state of Mississippi and disappeared out of fear of being arrested for a possible murder, and in doing so, in a way, he lost both his family and his freedom. If Andrew had just waited for a few days he possibly would have discovered that the other man was alive and well, that he was not a criminal, and he would not have to flee the area. After settling in Louisiana, Andrew quickly changed his name to Henry Marvin Saucier, hoping I guess, that this would help him to not be found by the authorities in Mississippi or anyone that could possibly be looking for him. A Few years later, in 1899, now twenty-eight years old and living comfortably under his new name, Henry Marvin Saucier, he married a second time, without ever obtaining a divorce from his first wife Laura. His first wife Laura had no idea where he was or even that he was still alive. Henry Marvin Saucier (aka Andrew Henry Saucier) married twenty-one year old Alabama "Allie" Nichols in Louisiana; she was the daughter of Joe Nichols and Martha Cannon. His prior marriage and the fact that he was still married to the first wife were never mentioned to anyone. With his second wife, Alabama Nichols, who was born February 24, 1878 in Texas and died on June 28, 1958 in Louisiana, he had nine more children, Joseph Henry, Ida Mae, Maybelle, Fossie Jewel, Albert Jefferson, William Van Buren, Alfred Ellis, Ada Letitia and Woodrow Wilson Saucier.
In 1954, a few years before Alabama passed away, Henry Marvin finally at the advanced age of eighty years, after fifty-seven years of keeping his secret, told his wife Alabama and one of his sons from his present marriage, Joseph Henry Saucier, the details of the fight in Woolmarket, about his first family in Mississippi and his hasty flight from Mississippi. It must have been quite a shock for Alabama Nichols to learn that her husband of fifty-seven years was previously married and had never been divorced from his first wife and that he had four children in his first marriage. That would have been a very emotional moment, you can imagine at how confused and upset she must have been. This would have been an equally huge shock for their children when they learned of their father's former life and other family. The final secret he possibly revealed to Alabama and his children was the fact that he had changed his name when he fled to Louisiana.
Upon checking out his father's story, Joseph Henry located his father's first family. On July 22, 1954, the local coast newspaper published a short story about the initial meeting of the two sons of Andrew Saucier, Joseph and Willie in Baton Rouge, but did not mention the rest of the story. When Joseph Henry met members of his father's first family in Mississippi it was discovered that his father's first wife, Laura Holly, had died a short time back. Joseph Henry and Willie made arrangements for the two families to meet in 1956. It was also found during this special family reunion that the other man did not die, he was alive and well after their fight. Henry Marvin's (Andrew Henry) two families had now found each other and were reunited and Alabama got to meet his children from the first marriage. Alabama Nichols died on June 28, 1958 at age eighty in Franklin Parish, Louisiana. Andrew Henry (aka Henry Marvin) died on New Year's Day, January 1, 1958 at age eighty-seven in Franklin Parish, Louisiana.
Louisa Adelaide Saucier was the ninth child of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane Tanner Saucier. She was born on April 13, 1873 and died on February 9, 1908 at the young age of thirty-four years. Louisa Adelaide was a granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Louisa was baptized at the Church of the Annunciation in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on June 15, 1873, at the same time as his sister Josephine and brother Henri were baptized. Her baptismal sponsors were Louise Saucier and Alexis Thurin. On November 24, 1892, she married Benjamin Franklin Bush. Benjamin was born on September 7, 1873 and died in about 1910 at around thirty-seven years of age. They had six children, Joseph, Henri, Emma, Ethel, Irene, and Frank Bush. With both parents dying young, the children were split up and raised by different family members. Daughter Ethel married at the age of twelve years to Preston Conerly, who was twenty-nine years old at the time of their marriage. Ethel married Preston the son of Luke Ward Conerly whose daughter Clara had married Ethel's Uncle Alfred Ellis Saucier.
Elmer Seaman Saucier was the tenth child of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane. He was a grandchild of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great grandchild of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great grandchild of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great grandchild of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. At the age of seventeen, on June 15, 1892, Elmer married twenty-six year old Louella Gill, the widow of Charles Bond. Elmer was born on June 5, 1875 and Louella was born on May 10, 1866 and she died on May 20, 1946 at the age of eighty. Elmer and Louella were divorced in Harrison County on February 14, 1920. She sued his estate for $2500 and the court allowed her $75 per month for support from Elmer. They had ten children, Loren Randolph, Margie Viola, Louella Lucille, Maude, Ora Mae, Lester, Alton, Milton, Robert Finley and Elmer Seaman Saucier, Jr. The exact death date for Elmer has not been found, but it is believed to have been sometime in 1938 at around age sixty-three. It is believed Elmer remarried after his divorce from Louella to Bond Hopkins but no information or date for the marriage has been found.
Sarah Cecilia Saucier, called Cecilia, was the eleventh child of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane was born on May 27, 1879, and died September 28, 1940, in Biloxi at age sixty-one. She was a granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. On July 22, 1906, at age twenty-seven she married thirty-two-year-old Dock R. Steele. He was born in 1874 in Kentucky and died on November 28, 1924, in Spring Hill, Louisiana at age fifty years after being shot by a neighboring farmer after a quarrel. Dock is said to have stopped his neighbor in the road near his home in Shreveport, Louisiana to explain why he had released a cow his neighbor had impounded in a pen. He accused Dock of using objectionable language in the presence of his wife who arrived during their quarrel, after which he took his shotgun and opened fire on Dock seriously wounding him. Dock died late the next evening. After Dock's death, Cecilia moved with her children to Biloxi. They had six children, two that died shortly after birth and four surviving children, Belton, Elizabeth, Woodrow and Cecil Steele. Cecilia and her youngest son, Cecil, are both buried in the family cemetery at Beulah Methodist Church.
A news article from September 28, 1911 tells the story about the injury of young six year old Leona Lee Saucier. Leona lost her fingers from the exploding dynamite cap she placed on the old wood burning stove in the kitchen her mother was cooking on. Her father and his brothers had been using the dynamite caps to remove tree stumps in the fields around their home. The story goes on to say the accident to Leona occurred in the kitchen of the home when supper was being prepared by her mother. Leona found one of the dynamite caps about the house and caring it unnoticed to the kitchen lit a match on the hot stove and applied it to the cap, an act that was followed by an explosion which tore two fingers from her left hand and filled her breast and face with fragments of the cap. The child's face is said to be terribly disfigured by the pieces of the cap which entered it and which the physician has been unable to remove. The story may have been just a little exaggerated, as we know her face was not disfigured, but she did have the missing fingers. The story of her missing fingers was told many times by Leona to family children over the years who questioned her about her hand.
During the years this writer was growing up, Bertha and her sister Leona were still living in the old home of their parents Calvin and Martha, where they had grownup. The old home in these earlier years was heated by a wood burning fireplace and a pot belly wood burning heater, as well as their mother’s old wood burning cook stove in its kitchen. This writer has fond memories of that old stove and the hot coffee and the tasty food they prepared on it. In the 1950’s the old home was damaged by a fire that was started by the old pot belly heater in the rear of the home. After repairs to the home, by this writer’s father and their brothers, they continued living in the old home, Bertha until her death in 1979 and Leona until she was no longer able to care for herself and moved into the home of a nephew in the early 1990s. The old home was eventually sold and moved after Leona’s death.
Ora Mae Saucier, called Mae, was the youngest of the eleven children of Calvin Jackson Saucier and Martha Ophelia Warden. She like her other siblings were born in the Beulah community near Lyman. She was born on Monday September 20, 1909 and died on Monday November 10, 1986 in Gulfport at the age of seventy-seven. She was a granddaughter of Henri (Henry) Severin Saucier and Elizabeth Jane Tanner, great granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; second great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, third great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, fourth great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and Mae was a fifth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Mae married Charlie King, born on Saturday May 12, 1906 and died on Thursday June 19, 1980 in Gulfport at age seventy-four. He was the son of William King and Katie Cruthirds. They had two sons, Charlie Ray King and Richard Jewell King. Mae, as everyone called her, also worked for a number of years for the Coca Cola Bottling Company in Gulfport along with her sister Leona. Mae and Charlie lived on a section of land that was given to them by her father in the Beulah community.
**Clarence Alfred Saucier, son of Alfred Ellis Saucier, was raised by Ophelia Warden Saucier, his aunt, as one of her children after his mother died in 1919 following his birth. After her death in 1923 he remained living in the old family home with his four cousins Roy, Bertha, Leona and Mae. Clarence was four years old when his aunt died. After Clarence's and Nettie’s marriage they lived in the household with his cousins Bertha and her sister Leona for a number of years before building a home of their own.
Josephine Saucier, the fifth child of Henri (Henry) Severin was born on July 2, 1866 in Mississippi City. The date of death for Josephine is unknown; it is believed she died young. She was a granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Josephine was baptized at the Church of the Annunciation in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on June 15, 1873, at the same time as her brother Andrew Henri, and her baptism was witnessed by her uncle Narcise and her cousin Martha Saucier. On February 14, 1884, when she was seventeen years old, she married her twenty-two year old first cousin, Victor Saucier; he was born in about 1862 and died in about 1900. Exact birth and death dates for Victor are also unknown. Victor was the son of Josephine’s uncle, Narcise Edouard Saucier and Delilah Cameron, a brother and sister in law of her father Henry Severin. The Saucier family was very unhappy about and disapproved of the marriage of the two first cousins. Josephine and Victor had three daughters, Elizabeth, Luticia and Teresa Saucier. Elizabeth and Teresa both died in the typhoid epidemic of late 1900, within months of each other and are buried near their great grandfather Pierre in the old Pierre Saucier cemetery at Worthman, east of Saucier.
Rosalie (Rosa) Saucier was the sixth child of Henri (Henry) Severin Saucier and Elizabeth Jane Tanner. Rosalie was born on November 1, 1868 in Lyman and died on October 1, 1954 in Biloxi at the age of eighty-six years. She was a granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Rosalie was baptized at the Church of the Annunciation in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on June 15, 1874, her baptism sponsors were Joseph Saucier and Louise Saucier. At the age of seventeen, she married seventeen year old Summerfield Sidney Swetman; he was born on September 25, 1868 and died on August 25, 1956. Summerfield was the son of Thomas A, Swetman and Jane Harriet Holley of Handsboro, Mississippi. They had seven children, Lillian, Ursula, Hattie, Rosa, Summerfield Sidney, Windfield and Mildred Jewell Swetman. Rosalie and Summerfield are buried in the Handsboro Cemetery on the banks of Bayou Bernard in Gulfport. Numerous descendants reside in the Biloxi area and are very active in local and area activities.
John Randolph Saucier was the seventh child and third son of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane Tanner. He was born at Biloxi on January 1, 1869 and died in Kerrville, Texas on November 7, 1921. He was the grandson of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great grandson of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great grandson of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Twenty-six year old John Randolph married twenty year old Henrietta Coudroy, of Jeanerette, Louisiana on September 5, 1895 in Jeanerette. She was born in March of 1875 and died in Kerrville, Texas on March 10, 1912. John Randolph and Henrietta had five children, Mary, Cecile, Louise, John Randolph and Roy Francis Saucier.
Andrew Henry Saucier aka Henry Marvin Saucier was the eighth child and fourth son of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane Tanner. He was a grandson of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great grandson of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great grandson of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary, early settlers of the Louisiana Territory and the French Colony at Mobile. Born Andrew Henry Saucier, he was the eighth of the twelve children of Henry Severin Saucier and Elizabeth Jane Tanner. Andrew was born on May 17, 1871 in Harrison County, Mississippi and died on January 1, 1958 in Louisiana. Andrew was baptized at the Church of the Annunciation in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on June 15, 1873, at the same time as his sister Josephine. His baptism sponsors were Cheri Laurent Fayard and Elizabeth Saucier. In the baptismal records of the Church his name is listed only as “Henri Saucier”. Andrew was married twice, at age eighteen he married his first wife, Laura Holly, in about 1889 in Harrison County, Mississippi. She was the daughter of Alfred Holley and Sarah Richards. Laura was born in 1868 and died in Stone County, Mississippi about twenty to twenty-five years after Andrew disappeared. Andrew and Laura were the parents of four sons, William Cleveland, Ollie Washington, John Henry and James Theodore Saucier.
Andrew Henry Saucier had an altercation, sometime around 1896, with another man in the Woolmarket area to the east of Lyman and Gulfport, which resulted in a fist fight. Andrew thought he had killed the man in the fight and fled the state of Mississippi and disappeared out of fear of being arrested for a possible murder, and in doing so, in a way, he lost both his family and his freedom. If Andrew had just waited for a few days he possibly would have discovered that the other man was alive and well, that he was not a criminal, and he would not have to flee the area. After settling in Louisiana, Andrew quickly changed his name to Henry Marvin Saucier, hoping I guess, that this would help him to not be found by the authorities in Mississippi or anyone that could possibly be looking for him. A Few years later, in 1899, now twenty-eight years old and living comfortably under his new name, Henry Marvin Saucier, he married a second time, without ever obtaining a divorce from his first wife Laura. His first wife Laura had no idea where he was or even that he was still alive. Henry Marvin Saucier (aka Andrew Henry Saucier) married twenty-one year old Alabama "Allie" Nichols in Louisiana; she was the daughter of Joe Nichols and Martha Cannon. His prior marriage and the fact that he was still married to the first wife were never mentioned to anyone. With his second wife, Alabama Nichols, who was born February 24, 1878 in Texas and died on June 28, 1958 in Louisiana, he had nine more children, Joseph Henry, Ida Mae, Maybelle, Fossie Jewel, Albert Jefferson, William Van Buren, Alfred Ellis, Ada Letitia and Woodrow Wilson Saucier.
In 1954, a few years before Alabama passed away, Henry Marvin finally at the advanced age of eighty years, after fifty-seven years of keeping his secret, told his wife Alabama and one of his sons from his present marriage, Joseph Henry Saucier, the details of the fight in Woolmarket, about his first family in Mississippi and his hasty flight from Mississippi. It must have been quite a shock for Alabama Nichols to learn that her husband of fifty-seven years was previously married and had never been divorced from his first wife and that he had four children in his first marriage. That would have been a very emotional moment, you can imagine at how confused and upset she must have been. This would have been an equally huge shock for their children when they learned of their father's former life and other family. The final secret he possibly revealed to Alabama and his children was the fact that he had changed his name when he fled to Louisiana.
Upon checking out his father's story, Joseph Henry located his father's first family. On July 22, 1954, the local coast newspaper published a short story about the initial meeting of the two sons of Andrew Saucier, Joseph and Willie in Baton Rouge, but did not mention the rest of the story. When Joseph Henry met members of his father's first family in Mississippi it was discovered that his father's first wife, Laura Holly, had died a short time back. Joseph Henry and Willie made arrangements for the two families to meet in 1956. It was also found during this special family reunion that the other man did not die, he was alive and well after their fight. Henry Marvin's (Andrew Henry) two families had now found each other and were reunited and Alabama got to meet his children from the first marriage. Alabama Nichols died on June 28, 1958 at age eighty in Franklin Parish, Louisiana. Andrew Henry (aka Henry Marvin) died on New Year's Day, January 1, 1958 at age eighty-seven in Franklin Parish, Louisiana.
Louisa Adelaide Saucier was the ninth child of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane Tanner Saucier. She was born on April 13, 1873 and died on February 9, 1908 at the young age of thirty-four years. Louisa Adelaide was a granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. Louisa was baptized at the Church of the Annunciation in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi on June 15, 1873, at the same time as his sister Josephine and brother Henri were baptized. Her baptismal sponsors were Louise Saucier and Alexis Thurin. On November 24, 1892, she married Benjamin Franklin Bush. Benjamin was born on September 7, 1873 and died in about 1910 at around thirty-seven years of age. They had six children, Joseph, Henri, Emma, Ethel, Irene, and Frank Bush. With both parents dying young, the children were split up and raised by different family members. Daughter Ethel married at the age of twelve years to Preston Conerly, who was twenty-nine years old at the time of their marriage. Ethel married Preston the son of Luke Ward Conerly whose daughter Clara had married Ethel's Uncle Alfred Ellis Saucier.
Elmer Seaman Saucier was the tenth child of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane. He was a grandchild of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great grandchild of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great grandchild of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great grandchild of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great grandson of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. At the age of seventeen, on June 15, 1892, Elmer married twenty-six year old Louella Gill, the widow of Charles Bond. Elmer was born on June 5, 1875 and Louella was born on May 10, 1866 and she died on May 20, 1946 at the age of eighty. Elmer and Louella were divorced in Harrison County on February 14, 1920. She sued his estate for $2500 and the court allowed her $75 per month for support from Elmer. They had ten children, Loren Randolph, Margie Viola, Louella Lucille, Maude, Ora Mae, Lester, Alton, Milton, Robert Finley and Elmer Seaman Saucier, Jr. The exact death date for Elmer has not been found, but it is believed to have been sometime in 1938 at around age sixty-three. It is believed Elmer remarried after his divorce from Louella to Bond Hopkins but no information or date for the marriage has been found.
Sarah Cecilia Saucier, called Cecilia, was the eleventh child of Henri (Henry) Severin and Elizabeth Jane was born on May 27, 1879, and died September 28, 1940, in Biloxi at age sixty-one. She was a granddaughter of Pierre Phillip Saucier and Isabelle Nicaise; first great granddaughter of Philippe Saucier and Ursula Grelot, second great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Pelagie Tixerand, third great granddaughter of Henri Saucier and Barbe LaCroix, and the fourth great granddaughter of Jean Baptiste Saucier and Gabrielle Savary. On July 22, 1906, at age twenty-seven she married thirty-two-year-old Dock R. Steele. He was born in 1874 in Kentucky and died on November 28, 1924, in Spring Hill, Louisiana at age fifty years after being shot by a neighboring farmer after a quarrel. Dock is said to have stopped his neighbor in the road near his home in Shreveport, Louisiana to explain why he had released a cow his neighbor had impounded in a pen. He accused Dock of using objectionable language in the presence of his wife who arrived during their quarrel, after which he took his shotgun and opened fire on Dock seriously wounding him. Dock died late the next evening. After Dock's death, Cecilia moved with her children to Biloxi. They had six children, two that died shortly after birth and four surviving children, Belton, Elizabeth, Woodrow and Cecil Steele. Cecilia and her youngest son, Cecil, are both buried in the family cemetery at Beulah Methodist Church.