MOBILE DAILY REGISTER - 12 DECEMBER 1891

DEATH OF MR. GAUTIER

That old and respected gentleman died at his residence in West Pascagoula (MS), on Saturday, December 5, after a brief illness, aged seventy years. His funeral took place on Sunday evening and was attended by a very large concourse of relatives and friends from Scranton, Moss Point, Pascagoula, Mobile, New Orleans, and the intervening towns, who reached there by rail and the tug boat Eva. His remains were interred in the family graveyard at that place. Mr. Edgar Hull performed the burial services in a most impressive manner.
Mr. Gautier settled at West Pascagoula about twenty-eight years ago and engaged in the sawmill business, which he successfully conducted ever since.
He was a man of the most active habits, and noted for the excellence of his work in any line of business to which he gave his attention as a mill man, a farmer, and a boat builder. In the last mentioned he acquired the reputation of constructing some the fastest pleasure yachts that ever entered the regattas, which have taken place along this coast, was most hospitable towards all who visited him in his beautiful home, and generous, charitable, and kind in his actions. He leaves a widow and a very large family of children and grandchildren to mourn his loss.
After the funeral, the tug Native, Captain Henry C Urie, with the schooner Maggie in tow, brought back the attendants to Scranton.

Not my family, just sharing from the newspaper archives of the Mobile Public Library.