chauvanon

Updated: April 30, 2025

He had acquired the words of "Hail Mary!" from a French Catholic with whom he had hunted on the banks of the Sewanee, as the Indians called it, and Chauvanon, as the Gallic tongue metamorphosed the name, perhaps these two were the first white men that ever trod those bosky ways, and he believed faithfully in total immersion as promulgated by the Baptists.

Mary Noailles Murfree - The Story of Old Fort Loudon