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Henry C. Havard

13 Apr 1852 – 19 Aug 1925

Birth	13 Apr 1852
Death	19 Aug 1925
Cemetery	Perdido Baptist Church Cemetery Perdido , Baldwin County , Alabama , USA
Added by	The Wanderer on 01 Sep 2004
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6242215

Bio

Henry Havard was reared in the Rocky Creek community (which then WAS part of Greene County, MS, but NOW is located in George County, MS). His death record says he was born at "Mullet." In an e-mail of 25 February 2003, Bill Thomas writes: "I talked with David Eugene Eubanks tonight and he told me that Mullet is in Rocky Creek. It was not named for the fish. There was a little post office there at the time about half way between Highway 63 and the Baptist Church, and they were pronouncing Mallett so it sounded like Mullet and so the name. Of course, the post office has been gone for many years." In the early 1870s, Henry operated a sawmill in Rosinton community (near Robertsdale) in central Baldwin County, Alabama. He was hipping lumber out of Perdido Bay. It is assumed that Henry met his wife Nancy Allen at Rosinton, since 3 of Nancy's siblings (Lena Allen Cooper-Lowell, Ellen Allen Thomley and George Washington Allen) lived there at one time. Henry and Nancy's first two children, Willie and Johnny, were born at Rosinton. The family went to Rocky Creek, MS where the children Frances and Dora were born. The Havards came to Perdido, in north Baldwin County, Alabama by 1882 where Neal, Claude and Arthur were born. They established the post office in Perdido. Henry and Nancy Havard were charter members of the Perdido Baptist Church in 1882. Henry donated the land for the church's cemetery in 1907, and his wife Nancy was the first person to be buried there prior to donation in 1903. The original Perdido Baptist Church building was located behind where the cemetery is. It was a old one room schoolhouse, which later became a two room building. The church was later moved to its current location near the railroad tracks in Perdido where the land was donated by Henry's son Johnny Havard. The Perdido Fire Department is on the site of where Henry Havard's home use to be. It was tore down about 2004. In Perdido, Henry Havard owned the local Livery Stables, general store and owned and operated a sawmill in Perdido. He also operated a turpentine business, spirit of turpentine and rosin. Henry used Clydesdale horses because of their large hooves, so they would not get bogged down.

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