JEREMIAH
McNEILLY
The
lifeless body of Jeremiah McNeilly, age 28, of School View, in
Rehoboth,
was found by searchers in a Dover Airbase helicopter, in
the
marsh south of Lewes, Wednesday, November 13, 1968, face
down
and hidden by brush near his discarded red jacket. Evidently he
had wandered through the wooded marshy area of Willards Glade, in
the
heavy rain and high winds of the storm that lashed the coast
area
Monday
night and Tuesday. He had been missing since Monday night.
His
friends had been searching for him unsuccessfully before
letting
the
police know of him missing late Tuesday afternoon. McNeilly
had
been with the three friends, Frank Holson, Geoffery Vernon and
Dan
Lehman, Monday night, joyriding on the railroad tracks in an old
car
which brokedown on the tracks.
McNeilly
and Holson went across marsh towards Midway for help,
the
other two went toward Lewes on the tracks and called for a tow
truck.
Holson
went a short distance with McNeillt but returned to the car
because
of the bad weather.
McNeilly
was a nephew of Superior Court Judge John McNeilly. He
was
the son of Mr & Mrs Walter McNeilly of Rehoboth Beach.
There
were no services with burial in St. Luke's Episcopal Cemetery at
at
Seaford.
Abstract:;
Thursday, November 14 , 1968 , Wilmington Morning
News,
by Alan Poland of the Sussex Bureau of the News
Journal.
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