Zoé Broussard Demet was born June 22, 1912, in Youngsville, Louisiana, to Alceé and Aurelia Trahan Broussard. She was the second of...

Noah Demet was born December 2, 1905, in Maurice, Vermillion Parish, Louisiana, to Jean and Regina Broussard Demet. He was the third of...

Born in Aviles, Asturias Province, Spain in 1850, Lazaro Lopez left his homeland for Cuba at the age of 13. He immigrated to the United...

Ivan Skrnich, who was known as “John”, immigrated to the United States from Milna, on the Island of Brac, in the Austrian/Hungarian...

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...

Godfred Hennig was born in 1881 in Friedland, Germany and immigrated to the United States arriving in Gulfport in 1903 where he began...

Elizabeth “Elisa” Toups was born in Abbeville, Louisiana in 1879 to Valerin and Eugenie Desormeaux Toups. In 1895, she married Iberia...

Born in St. Martinsville, Louisiana, in 1856 and 1862 respectively, Ernest Alexandre Delahoussaye and Cecile Dore grew up in farming...

Wally Harold Gollott was born in 1964 to Edgar M., “E.M.” and Elizabeth “Betty” Gollott. Their combined family included nine children,...

William Nels Johnson was born in 1861 to Nels and Caroline Johnson, Norwegian immigrants who came to the United States in the 1840s. He...

Born in 1908 to August Tremmel and Mamie Ott, Louis Tremmel grew up destined to participate in the family’s business, August Tremmel...

Born in Milna Brac, Croatia in 1898 and arriving on the Gulf Coast at the age of twenty-two, Mary Consetta Bonocich Thian was a resident...

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...

The eldest daughter, Clara Skrnich Cosmich was born to John and Antonia Skrnich, in 1912 in Biloxi. Her parents had immigrated from...

Annie Cosmich was born in Bay St. Louis to Francesco “Frank” Cosmich and Maria Nicolich, both from Istria, Yugoslavia in 1912. Moving to...

Marshall J. Marble was born in 1912, the youngest of five children of Mary Virginia and Marshall Marble, Sr. Unfortunately, his father...

Norman McSwain, Sr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1891. While he lived with his grandparents in Biloxi during his teenage years,...

Born into a schooner-building and seafood industry family, Augustus, better known as “Gussie” was the son of Augustus Fountain, Sr.,...

E.C. Joullian Fish & Ice Company/E.C. Joullian Packing Company Born and raised in Selma, Alabama in 1861, Edward Carey Joullian would...

Elizabeth “Libby” Roberts, born in 1958 in Moss Point, MS, was a trailblazer for women in the merchant marine industry. When she first...