Harrison County MsArchives News.....Mrs. Hannah Sprinkle 1929
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Times Pic. Newspaper - Oct. 20, 1929, New Orleans, LA 1929
Woman Taxidermist

Times Pic. Newspaper - Oct. 20, 1929, New Orleans, LA
 
To Mrs. Hannah Sprinkle of Pass Christian, Mississippi goes the distinction of 
being the only woman taxidermist in the state and probably the only one in the 
entire section.  

Mrs. Sprinkle, the daughter of a sea-captain and the wife of the keeper of the 
Breton Island Reservation in the Gulf of Mexico, early learned the art of 
curing and mounting birds, animals and fish, but she prefers to work with sea-
specimens and for years has devoted her time to them exclusively. 

Her ability is known far and wide and her handiwork not only adorns the walls 
of lodges and dens of many prominent sportsman over the United States and is 
on display in the Edna ? Water Beach Hotel in Chicagoand the Illinois Central 
Station (can't read the next line) and in Gulfport, Miss.

Mrs Sprinkle is 62 years old.




Additional Comments:
Note: She was a native of Horn Island, Mississippi. She was married to her 
cousin, William Morgan "Billy" Sprinkle, 1855-1931; her mother was Emma 
Waters, born 1842 and father was George Halfred, a sea-captain. 

Emma Waters and her daughter were both born on Horn Island. Hannah Halfred was 
born 1866 on Horn Island and died 1946 in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Hannah 
was named for her grandmother, Hannah Waters 1819-1903.

Source: David Sprinkle
 

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