REHOBOTH BEACH HISTORY
MARY ANN MEREDITH SULLIVAN
PROMINENT CITIZEN
During my newspaper
research I came across an ad in the Rehoboth Coast Press News in
the
year 1931 for Mary
Sullivan's “Halsey By The Sea Inn” on Brooklyn Avenue. I
do not know
just where it was . I do
know Brooklyn Avenue is a short street, a block and half off the
middle of Philadelphia Street to the boardwalk. In 1936, there was
the Star of the Sea Catholic Church on the
SE corner at Boardwalk and
Brooklyn. I also think there was a summer retreat for Catholic Nuns
between Brooklyn and Hickman Streets. On the beach at the ocean and
Brooklyn are the ship wrecks
of Rehoboth.
The question I have here is
this the Mary Ann Meredith Sullivan that was at 8 Olive Avenue
with the Mary Ann Inn later
I the 1930's My answer is “it has to be cause there are no more
Mary Ann Sullivans listed in the census of Rehoboth” in that time.
Her obituary has her coming to Rehoboth in 1927 to become a
beloved friend and prominent citizen of Rehoboth Beach.
Mary Ann Sullivan's name
was synonymous with Rehoboth Beach, not only with the
permanent residents but
with the summer visitors as well. Practically an institution, she
had her hand
in the town projects, it's
welfare for the aged and underprivileged , a moving spirit in
the
establishment of the Epworth
Methodist Cemetery as it's finance chairman while on the official
board of stewards,
president of Epworth Woman's Society, member of Rebekah Lodge and
Chamber of Commerce.
Mary Ann Merideth was born
16 October 1889 in Caroline Maryland, perhaps the village of
American Corners near
Federalsburg, to Alfonso and Anna Wilhelmina Horsey Merideth,
Alfonso being from Stockton, Worcester County, Wilhelmina born in
Caroline County.
Mary Ann Meredith married
around 1915 to Howard Peter Sullivan , born 3 November 1889 in
Caroline County Maryland and died 1965 in Baltimore. In 1915 Mary
Ann and Howard were living in the Bronx, New York, he was a
stenographer , there they had their son Howard , Jr., in 1915 and
daughter Elleen in 1917. In 1920 census the Sullivans were living
in Denton Maryland.
Mary Ann Meredith Sullivan,
at age 69, died 4 April 1958 in El Paso Texas, then living with
her daughter's family I nearby Alamogodo, New Mexico.
Her body lay in state in
the parlor of the Olive Avenue Mary Ann Inn of Rehoboth, where it
was estimated 1000 persons paid tribute. The Epworth pastor, Rev.
Ira Doyle, conducted the service and she was buried in the Epworth
Cemetery. Surving are Howard, her husband, daughter Mrs. James
Steel of Almagordo, New Mexico, two sisters, Daisy Rice of Denton
and Ruth Finley of Philadelphia.
Abstract: Newspaper
Abstract, Delaware Coast Press, Ancestry.com, by Harrison H. for
www,delmarhistory.blogspot.com
& facebook's 'growing up in Rehoboth'
page.
03/07/19
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