Flavious Josephus and Mary O'Neal Gainer lived near Econfina Creek. In the incursion from St. Andrews Bay up through Econfina in July 1864, Yankee soldiers burned their house near Orange Hill. Grandma Mary and a nanny tied a few clothes in a diaper and hid them in a tree. The house and all their belongings burned, except the things hidden in the tree. Their daughter was Minerva Gainer McQuagge. Minerva's mother died shortly after that incident when she was a still a small girl and she was taken in by her Aunt Betsie Gainer Pierson, who raised two other children. She used to tell her children that the old folks and children came down to the bay to dry saltwater in vats to get salt for the Confederate Army when she was about 5 years old. Pierson Bayou, now Martin Bayou, near the paper mill got its name from this family.
Flavious Josephus and Mary O'Neal Gainer lived near Econfina Creek. In the incursion from St. Andrews Bay up through Econfina in July 1864, Yankee soldiers burned their house near Orange Hill. Grandma Mary and a nanny tied a few clothes in a diaper and hid them in a tree. The house and all their belongings burned, except the things hidden in the tree. Their daughter was Minerva Gainer McQuagge. Minerva's mother died shortly after that incident when she was a still a small girl and she was taken in by her Aunt Betsie Gainer Pierson, who raised two other children. She used to tell her children that the old folks and children came down to the bay to dry saltwater in vats to get salt for the Confederate Army when she was about 5 years old. Pierson Bayou, now Martin Bayou, near the paper mill got its name from this family.
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