The son of Willis and Dora Fayard Powell, Joseph was born in the St. Martin community of North Biloxi in 1935. With his father working...

Born at Point Cadet, Biloxi in 1936, Julius Broussard spent his early years in the Cruso Camps, but felt he was raised in a “virtual...

Obrey Langlinais was one of 19 children, and one twin of five sets, born to Reaux and Ophelia LeBlanc Langlinais. Born in 1901 in...

John Cosmich was born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi in 1909. When he moved to the Point Cadet area of Biloxi, John began his work in the...

John Mark Rosetti was born in Biloxi in 1912, to Giovanni (John) Paulo Johann Rosetti and Sima (Simeona) Kovacevich, who had earlier...

Biloxi native, Mark Compton, grew up fishing the Gulf waters aboard the HAPPY LANDING with his father, John Compton, Sr., a Chandeleur...

Alvin Baker was born and raised on Deer Island, just off the Biloxi shore in 1941. Born the son of a third-generation fisherman, Alvin...

Lewis Voorhis Langlinais was born in 1916, in Youngsville, Louisiana, to Jules and Livie Langlinais. At the age of nine years, the family...

A native of Hancock County, Herman Rieux, also known by friends and family as “Ribs” and “Rosemond”, has contributed to the growth,...

Peter M. Jurich was born on the island of Brac, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia to Dominick and Katherine Sekul Jurich. He and his four...

Alec and Alice McCaleb were the owners and operators of the ALICE M. Alec, also referred to as "Alex", was a boatbuilder for A.W....

Robert Begnaud served as captain of the PECK WILLIAMS for 18 years. Built in Mobile, Alabama, in 1971, the PECK WILLIAMS was the largest...

Mateo Marinovich was born in Milne, Brac Dalmatia, Austria and immigrated to America arriving at the Port of New York in 1905 under the...

Captain Jack Gazzo, Sr. was the third generation of Gazzo’s in Biloxi after Frank Gazzo immigrated to the United States from Italy in...

Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, William Cruso migrated to Biloxi in 1904 and, as many children of that era, he began working in a seafood...

The matriarch of the vast Ross/Allen family was born in Alabama Port, Alabama to George Allen and Rosa Wescovich Allen. But her place in...

Gregory Taliancich was one of three children born in Olga, Louisiana to Anthony Taliancich of Vrac, Yugoslavia and Lena Helen Kuluz...

George Ross was born in Strasbourg, France to George and Emma Therese Holland Ross of Baden-Baden, Germany. Having immigrated to the...

Born on December 13, 1947 in the old Biloxi Hospital located on the beach, Earl Ross grew up “in the yard” of his grandparents' home on...

The Jurich Family at the 1953 Blessing of the Fleet. Domenik Jurac of Bobovisce, Brac, Yugoslavia arrived to the United States aboard the...