Hugo Krebs

Hugo Ernst Krebs (1714-1776) was from Neumagen, Rhineland, Germany. His parents were Johann Kriebs or Krebs and Anna Charitas Fritsch.

Around 1730, Hugo moved to Pascagoula, Mississippi to work for the La Pointe Plantation.

Joseph Simon de La Pointe, Joseph was one of the earliest settlers to arrive in 1699 with Iberville and Bienville. He married Catherine Foucault in 1701 a union that produced four children, with two daughters surviving.

Marie Josephe, the youngest daughter born in 1720, married Hugo Ernestus Krebs. As La Pointe got older he returned to France and placed most of his land to his son-in-law control.

Hugo Krebs, a successful plantation owner and surgeon, cultivated various crops including cotton, rice, indigo, sugar cane, and wax myrtle. However, cotton emerged as the most profitable crop, with Krebs pioneering the first documented cotton gin on the same land. Documented in 1772, predating Eli Whitney’s invention by at least two decades.

Krebs, who married twice and fathered seven children with each wife, saw his descendants spread across New Orleans, Mobile, and beyond.

When Hugo’s first wife, Marie Josephe, passed away, he remarried Marie Ann Chauvin de Joyeuse from the Illinois area of the Louisiana Territory.

From Hugo Krebs’s second wife, Marie de Joyeuse, comes their daughter Anna Charite Krebs.

Anna Krebs later married Francois Dubuisson.