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To: Ilaine who wrote (14948)	12/6/1998 12:49:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Right! I just did a mapblast and found the bridge and street. But good heavens what is that hunk of concrete called 110 doing there ? Not in my day... I used to ride my little 100cc Hodaka across that Di'berville bridge every workday to attend an avionics radio repair course over at Keesler. Which part of the bay was your grandparents home ? There were some really nice looking homes as I remember along the Biloxi side about where that freeway goes through now.

To: Ilaine who wrote (14948)	12/6/1998 1:26:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Coby, my mom's family are from New Orleans. The first of the line was a soldier with Bienville when the French founded Biloxi and New Orleans. There's a little town along the Mississippi named for them, Buras. One of this Buras line ran off and left his family around 1800; he returned to fight in the Battle of New Orleans, but left shortly thereafter. He had managed to accumulate a lot of money in his absence. Considering that Jaques LaFitte, the pirate, supplied some troops in the Battle of New Orleans, we think we know what Mr Buras was doing that made him rich.