People named Richard Foretich

Family of: Richard B. Foretich Jean Baptiste Fayard>Louis Fayard I>Alexis Fayard>David J. Fayard> Mary Martha Fayard (Foretich). My GG~Uncle, David J. Fayard, was born in Woolmarket, Harrison County, Mississippi to: Alexis Fayard and Martha Ryan Fayard. This is an old pioneer family in Biloxi, Mississippi. The community was once called “Stonewall” because of the Post Office located on the West side of Biloxi River ran by the Richards family (Lorraine Community) . The Woolmarket community is on the East side of Biloxi River and was named “Woolmarket” because in the 1800’s the old schooners were the mode of transportation on the rivers that took goods to the markets of New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile Alabama. There was a staging area on the East side to take sheep to Market, thus the old community got its name from the big sheep business during that time. Louis Fayard was the father of Alexis Fayard and Louis settled in Biloxi during the 1700’s. His Father Jean Fayard originally came from France went to Canada and when the British arrived in Canada Jean “high tailed it” according to our family history, to New Orleans, Louisiana. Louis Fayard went to Biloxi Mississippi from New Orleans, Louisiana and was given a land patent on land in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi. His land included the Old French Cemetery (Biloxi City Cemetery) the land was donated by the Fayard Family for the cemetery, for the purpose of burials. The old Biloxi lighthouse was also part of the land grant of Louis Fayard and his home was on Magnolia and Water Street (now the Mary Mahoney’s Restaurant of which the old original home of Louis Fayard is a part of). The Fayard family of the Mississippi Gulf Coast are all descendants of Louis Fayard. Alexis Fayard, son of Louis Fayard, settled Nortwest of Biloxi, which was once inhabitated by the native americans, when the white men came, the Indians moved. Alexis Fayard settled on Parker’s Creek and the Tchouticabouffa River on 640 acres in the early 1800’s and was one of the first to settled in that area. The old family homestead was called “Oaklawn” because of all the old majestic oak trees that grew in and around the old Tchouticabouffa River. Alexis and Martha Ryan Fayards family cemetery is located on this property and has been attended by our family members for years. It was a quaint secret cemetery only known about by family mmbers until I put the cemetery online for all to share the genealogy information. My cousin said that there were also slaves buried in this little cemetery. Alexis and Martha Ryan Fayard owned according to the slave schedules about 13 slave and when the war was over they were given their freedom, but they all stayed and never left what was “home” to them. The old cemetery began with Cypress wooden markers on the graves, all of which have gone because of the elements and so many years passing. New stones were placed, but no one knows the names of the slaves that were buried there and time apparently destroyed the cypress markers leaving no names for us to find. Alexis and Martha Ryan Fayard had six sons that went to the Civil War, only two came home, Louis Fayard II and Andrew Sylvester Fayard (My G~Grandfather). Their brother David J. Fayard was killed in Georgia during the Civil War. This is where the story begins for Richard B. Foretiwh’s family. David J. Fayard married Martha Aquilla Bennett and they had one daughter, Mary Martha Fayard, born in 1862 in Woolmarket, Harrison County, Mississippi. David J. Fayard her father was in Georgia during the war and died there. We are not sure if his body is at Oaklawn Cemetery, but he has a tombstone erected there. Mary Martha Fayard’s mother Martha Aquilla Bennett Fayard went on to marry Moses Richards who was born in Lorraine (across the river west of Woolmarket). All of the old pioneer families knew each other in this area and were related by direct kinship or marriages. Moses Richards and Martha Aquilla Bennett (Fayard) (Richards) raised Mary Martha and she was listed on the census as being a Richards, however,she was Mary Martha Fayard. Mary Martha Fayard went on to marry Antony Vincent Foretich and they lived in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi. They were the parents of Florence Foretich (Grimes) (Anderson), Blanch Gertrude Foretich, Charles Joseph Foretich, Lawrence Foretich, Ethel Louis Foretich, Agnes Foretich, Mary Annie Foretich (Gillson), William Vincent Foretich and Julius Charles Foretich (Father of Richard B. Foretich and Julius Paul Foretich). Mary Martha Fayard Foretich died in Conroe Texas whil visiting her son Julius Foretich. She was buried at Saint James Catholic Church Cemetery in Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi. Her husband Anthony Vincent Foretich is buried at Biloxi National Cemetery, Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi. This family has many ties both in Biloxi, Mississippi and Texas. Bio by: Bobbie Mabry Graue GG~Niece of David J. Fayard (Father of Mary Martha Fayard Foretich) GG~Granddaughter of Alexis Fayard and Martha Ryan GGG~Granddaughter of Louis Fayard

Richard B Foretich of Montgomery County, TX was born circa 1934. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard B. Foretich.