Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Milton Fried Rehoboth Publisher

MILTON KENNETH FRIED
UNCLE MILTIE
REHOBOTH PUBLISHER

Wilmington News Journal, Friday, March 16, 1993: Rehoboth:

Uncle Miltie, Milton Kenneth Fried, Rehoboth Beach publisher , died Thursday last

at Kemt General Hospital, Dover, where he was a patient.

Mr. Fried was born 1910 in New Jersey most records say. We also know he graduated

High School in Pemms Grove, New Jersey in 1927.

Mr. Fried first published the Public Press in 1944 which newspaper later resumed the name

Delaware Coast Press, the weekly Sussex county newspaper, that he sold in 1968.

He retired in 1980 from his Fried Publishing Company. He had been Grand Master of

Odd Fellows, an office of both the Kiwanis and Lions clubs, The elks club, the Moose Club,

Rotary club and president of the Chamber of Commerce.

Survivors are , two sons, Buddy of Seaford and Wayne of Salisbury, daughter Lelinie,

Rehoboth. A sister Blanch Slone, Wilmington. Five grandchildren and three great grand

children. A son Dale Kenneth, died in 1985. Mr. Fried is buried in Henlopen Memorial Park

on the Broadkill River.

His wife, Ruth Ewing Fried , who he married in 1931, died in 1978.

Do not know when Uncle Miltie came to Rehoboth but he is listed as being in the group of

Rehoboth men, Leon, 'Blub' Thompson, Preston West, himself, who started the Rehoboth

Air Service at the new Rehoboth airport at Midway,  1928.

Also have record of his 1938 marriage to a Rehoboth girl, Ruth Ewing.

My personal thoughts, repeat my personal thoughts, are that this lady, Ruth Ewing Fried,

should be awarded a medal, like the Silver Star. Milt Fried had his own habitual way of

behaving.

Since we do not have more data for Uncle Miltie, lets take a look at his wife Ruth Ewing

Fried, and her family.

Ruth A Ewing was born in Rehoboth, 7 January 1910 to Harry Gustavus Ewing, born

1871 and died 1941 and Olive Mae Goslee, born 1878, died 1948. As we already know she

married Milton Fried in 1931 and had children. We also know she died 12 May 1978 and is

buried in Hemlopen Memorial Park on the Broadkill River.

Her father, was a railroad man, filled jobs as waterman, fireman, watcjhman and laborer. The

family lived at 45 Rehoboth Avenue,

The Ewing family had six girls and on son. One daughter, Edna Virginia, only lived one year,

dieing in 1898.   The son, Clarence Adolphus,  a carpenter,   born 14 March 1895, married

Eugenia Hall Virden Holland, in 1928 and they had two children,   Charles Holland and

Elizabeth Virden Ewing.    Holland, as he was known, graduated Rehoboth High, married

Barbara Walker, daughter of Joe and Lillian, Joe a Coast Guard..  Barbara married James

Joseph after Holland died at young age.    Elizabeth married John Hazzard and is the mother

of the Hazzards with the auto supply at Middway.

Laura Scott Ewing married Harry Clendaniel who was a horse trainer and had the Reboboth

Riding Stables on the canal. There were a bunch of Clendaniels in Rehoboth High School

too, one Johnny , my age, and Barbara, a bit younger.

Tenie Kathering married Elbert Ross Reynolds, I did not know them.

Emily Hester Ewing married Fred Phillip, the father of Delaware Baseball Hall of Fame,

Cliff Phillips.

Ruth we known was wife of Milton Fried, our subject.

The last daughter, Eugenia, married Jack Ingram, died at age 83. I did ot know them either.

May the mentioned live in memory forever.



Saturday, January 27, 2018

REHOBOTH HAYDEN FAMILY

HELEN LOIS HAYDEN CAMPBELL
OF
REHOBOTH'S HAYDEN FAMILY
This obituary, Wilmington New Journal, Wednesday , March 10, 1993, for Helen Lois Hayden Campbell of Rehoboth Beach who died Tuesday March 9th 1993 of heart failure in the Beebe Medical Center at Lewes.

Mrs. Campbell retired in 1990 as desk clerk at Admiral Motel in Rehoboth Beach where
she worked many years She was a member of the Epworth United Methodist Church.
Her favorite pastime was meeting friends for lunch at Rehoboth Mall.

Surviving her are two brothers, Edward of Annapolis and Ray of Hamburg, New York.

Graveside services were Thursday March 11th at the Epworth United Methodist Cemetery
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

Helen Lois Hayden was born 1925 in Danville, Virginia to Edward Luther Hayden and
Emma Love Grant Hayden. Her father died 23 May 1986 at Milford at age 85. Emma Love
had died in 1944. The family had moved to Rehoboth by April 1 1940. Her father was also
better known as 'Scoop' as he drove the dry cleaners pickup and delivery truck for his brother
Eugene's dry cleaning business all over town and gathered local news items for the Delaware Coast News, which the Hayden's also published before Milt Fried came to town.

Helen had two brothers, Edward who was several years older and Ray, several year younger.
Ray served in the service, probably the Navy, during World War 2. He and Franky Small
were schoolmates and joined up together. Ray Lee Hayden died in 2010.

I do not know the Campbell she was married to, nor when they were married , how long
they were married as he is not listed in the obituary nor do I find any record of him.

Uncle Eugene Tardy Hayden, Sr., also born in Virginia, 24 September 1894 at Buena Vista
served in World War 1, 1918 to 1919 in France and Germany. Eugene married Mabel Irene
Lucas, born 1900 and died at age 84 in Milford after an auto accident. She is buried in the
Epworth Cemetery, Rehoboth. Mabel was into real estate and built Hayden development at
Dewey Beach. She was active in local politics, a die hard Republican, and the America Legion.
Eugene owned a laundry and dry cleaners business, also was publisher of the Coast News , both on Rehoboth Avenue, third block, north of where city hall is today.

She and her husband had seven children, five lived to adulthood. Eugene. Jr., better known as


 'Henie' the sign painter, who did 1974,, James, a WWII vet of Combat Engineers, and was a local contractor for many years, Robert, also WWII decorated veteran, Rehoboth postman, daughet Lorraine, died at age 2, son Vaughn, died at birth, Charles, born 1934, became a well known waterman and pleasure boat captain, then involved in deep sea diving. Died 2012 in Florida. The last daughter, Anna Louise born 1935, I thought she was named Eugenia, was married to Robert A. Edgerton, Jr., of Milton. She died 1985. She had two sons, James V. and Michael W., two daughters, Maria L. and Lorraine. Some reason I have the basketball coach of early Cape Henlopen, Ralph Bayard involved in this family, but can not place him.

Sunday, January 21, 2018

JOHNSON - MORGAN WEDDING 1955


JOHNSON – MORGAN WEDDING

REHOBOTH BEACH

AUGUST 1955


Miss Barbara Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of Delaware State Senator and Mrs Thomas I.Johnson of Rehoboth Beach, was wed to Joseph Edward Morgan, son of Mr. and Mrs  William J. Morgan of Rehoboth Beach, September 8th, in Westminster Presbyterian Church by the pastor Rev. Dr. William Drysdale Gibson.

The bride was given in marriage by her father.

Maid of honor was Miss Nancy Lowe of Glen Falls, New York. Bridesmaids were Miss
Virginia Walter of Wilmington and Miss Frances Clendaniel of Miltom, Barbara's
classmates at the Beebe School of Nursing in Lewes and Mrs Robert Parker of
Harrington.

Mr. William Morgan was his sons best man. Ushers were Robert Van Pelt, John Papajohn,
Walter Messick and James Joseph, all of Rehoboth.

Mrs Melvin W. Fell of Rehoboth Beach played the wedding music and Mrs. Harvey Groff
of Lewes was solo singer.

A reception was held at Rehoboth Country Club following the ceremony.

A rehearsal dinner for the wedding party was held by the brides parents at the Ocean House
on Lewes Beach on Tuesday the 6th. A breakfast party by Mrs Frank Swezey and daughter
Joan of Wilmington at the Ocean house, a luncheon at the Rehoboth Country Club by Mrs
G. M. Wiltbank and Mrs Irvin Burton and a bridal shower by Mrs James Beebe and Mrs.
Ernest VanPelt at the Beebe home at Lewes, a bridesmaid lunch at the Dinner Bell Inn
were also held the week of the wedding.

Miss Johnson is a graduate of Beebe School of Nursing 1955 class in Lewes and a 1952
graduate of Rehoboth High School.

Mr Morgan is a 1951 Rehoboth High graduate and University of Delaware in 1956.




Abstract January 21, 2018, Harrison H. of Wilmington News Journal Wednesday,
17 August 1955.



Saturday, January 20, 2018

GROOME CHURCH STAINED GLASS WINDOWS


GROOME CHURCH

STAINED GLASS WINDOWS


Most churches have stained glass windows of varying degrees of beauty and craftmanship

with biblical scenes but at the Groome United Methodist Church in Lewes, Delaware there is a

distinct local touch.

That is a nautical atmosphere in keeping with Lewes; ancient ties to the nearby Atlantic

Ocean and the towns headquarters for the pilots which take ocean going ships up the Delaware

River to Phildelphia.

Groome Church is 75 years ld and the stained glass windows were recently restored. One

of the nautical scenes depicts a lighthouse keeper headed for his station on the Breakwater, another

shows the Overfalls Lightship, once a beacon at sea for passing ships.





Abstract January 20, 2018, of Salisbury Daily Times, Friday May 28, 1982 by Harrison H.  

Friday, January 19, 2018

EMORY BRITTINGHAM


EMORY BRITTINGHAM



Emory Brittingham, former police chief and state magistrate died at age 82 in Lewes
Convalescent Home after a years illness.

He was one of the first city police officers to be graduated from the Delaware State Police
Academy in 1957. during his Lewes police service he designed new uniforms and adopted the
Great Seal of Lewes, England as the logo of the local police in Lewes Delaware. He was Lewes
chief from 1965 to 1968 when appointed a state magistrate from which he retire in 1983. He was
also a town commissioner.

At Fort Milles in 1944 to 1945 he was chief of the auxiliary military police unit and in 1941
to 1944 he was in a similar position at the duPont Nylon plant in Seaford.

He owed Britt's Restaurant in Lewes from 1948 to 1957.

Mr Brittingham was an Army veteran and served in Hawaii where he at one time guarded
Amelia Earhart's airplane, then while assigned to Manila he was on the Harbor Patrol.

Upon discharge in 1946 he came back to Lewes where his family had founded Lewes
Dairy which he joined.

He was a member of the Groome Methodist Church and a life member of the Fraternal
Order of Police, Sussex Lodge #2.

Surviving are Hazel downs Brittingham, his wife, a son Kim, six grand children and
four great grand children.

Burial was in Bethel Methodist Cemetery, Lewes.




Abstract Wilmington News Journal , January 27, 1998.


Thursday, January 18, 2018

TOWER HILL OF LEWES BY PRETTYMAN

SUSSEX COUNTY DELAWARE
TOWER HILL OF LEWES

From an abstract of Wilmington News Journal
by Lynn Parks
&
A book “History of Tower Hill” by Ralph Prettyman



Tower Hill, a tract of land north and a wee bit west of downtown Lewes, 475 acres, pert
wooded and part farm land, in Rehoboth- Lewes Hundred.

The Duke of York granted it to Daniel Browne in 1676.

Tower Hill lies southwest of Canary Creek, is bisected by Black Oak Gut run which
flows from Old Mill, aka, Coolspring Creek, right smack in the middle of “Hells Neck”

John Prettyman moved to Sussex county in 1696 from Accomack county, Virginia,
on the Eastern Shore of the Delmarva Peninsula, and bought 200 acres at Tower Hill.

The book by Prettyman is from his concern over the future of this tract and he has hope
that development will not disrupt the integrity of Tower Hill. Historian Hazel D. Brittingham
of Lewes encouraged Prettyman because of the lands history. Hazel is a member of Groome
United Methodist Church of Lewes that owns a big part of the Tower Hill tract.

Dr. John S. Prettyman figures in the book as the owner and publisher of the first Republican
Delaware newspaper, “ Peninsula News and Advertiser” . The doctor Prettyman and Ralph are
third cousins four times removed.

The doctor publisher, was unpopular because of his position against slavery.

President Lincoln named Dr. Prettyman U. S. Consul to Glasgow Scotland for his support
of anti slavery causes.

Others mentioned are Harbeson Hickman, wealthy hardware-man, Sussex land owner,
Joel Hickman, well to do farmer, and his wife, plump, sweet and gentle, wife Sarah.

Ralph Prettyman who was 36 in 1999, graduate of Sussex Central High School of
Georgetown and Eastern College in St. Davids, Pennsylvania, has wife Andrea, a son Zachary and
daughter Alyssa.


Source: Wilmington News Journal, Wednesday , 10 February, 1999. Abstracr by

Harrison H. Nassau.    

Saturday, January 13, 2018

Lewes OLdtimers Thomas Robinson.


OLDTIMERS
CAPT. THOMAS B. ROBINSON
ROBINSONVILLE, ANGOLA, SUSSEX DELAWARE

Captain Thomas B. Robinson, age 62 years, died early the morning of Tuesday, February
21, 1905 at his home in Angola, near Lewes. He had been ill only a few days with a cold
that developed into pneumonia. His death was sad news to a host of friends in the realm of
coastal shipping under sail, of which the captain was engaged for many years.

His daughter , 23 year old Anna , lay critically ill at his death and pass away in 1905
also.

The captain had retired several years ago and returned to the home farm where he had done
much improvement and modernized until it became the finest farm of Indian River Hundred.
The farm included, he held over a thousand acres of Indian River Hundred land around Angola
and Robinsonsville..

During the Civil War Thomas Robinson served in the U. S. Navy.

Captain Robinson married Lydia Burton the 15th of April 1868, and she died February
1914 at age 69 and is buried with the Captain in Conley’s Chapel church yard. They had two
sons and two daughters, son Joshua born 1870, son Thomas Burton, Jr. born 1876, daughter
Anna born November 2, 1872 and died at age 23 in 1905 soon after her father, and a daughter
Elnora born 1879.

Thomas Robinson’s father was Joshua, who lived 1805 to 1850, mother was Mary.

The captains wife, Lydia Burton was born 28 September 1844, died 20 February 1914.
Her parents were Benjamin and Catherine Marsh Burton. Her mother was from the family of
James and Margaret Rhodes Marsh of Sussex county.



Abstract of Wilmington Morning News, obituary, Tuesday 21 February 1905, by Harrison H.
January 13 2018.


Friday, January 12, 2018

EUGENIA DORMAN DAVIDSON & CHARLES OF HARBESON

EUGENIA C. DORMAN DAVIDSON

HARBESON'S GRAND OLD LADY


Harbeson's “grand old Lady” is today, Saturday. January 24th, 1946, observing her

79th birthday anniversary, with her husband , Charlres R. Davidson, age 82. Last December

they observed their 59th wedding anniversary.

Gena, as she was better known, was born August 1867 in Indian River Hundred, Sussex

County, Delaware to Abraham H. and Mary Hester Rust Dorman of Hollyville. Her mother
died at Hollyville in 1874 when Gena was 7 years old. Abraham Dorman, her father, died

21 May 1907.

Eugenia and Charles are both members of the Beaver Dam Methodist Church at Harbeson

and are active in the community affairs. They were married in 1887.

They had five children, Wilbert, born in 1887, who lived in Wilmington, Chattie May ,

a daughter, born 1892, who married Harry C. Walls and also lived in Wilmington, another

daughter, Elsie, who married John Reynolds of Milton, Martin who lived in Philadelphia, and

Harland, which there is no record.

There are seven grandchildren , Captain Preston R. Walls of the Army, Elsie and Esther

Walls, Katerine and Wilbert Davidson, Jr., of Wilmington, Betty and Norman Reynolds of

Milton` and a great grandchild, George R. Walls.

Charles Davidson died 1948 and buried in Beaver Dam Cemetery, Harbeson,


Gena died in 1949 and is also buried in Beaver Dam Cemetery. 

Monday, January 8, 2018

STRICKLAND TEWELOW BRONZE STAR

STRICKLAND TEWELOW

GETS BRONZE STAR

August 30, 1947 Rehoboth resident, Strickland Bernard Tewelow , received the

Bronze Star and Combat Medal for heroic service aboard his ship, the destroyer

U.S.S. Haynesworth, when Jap suicide bombers attacked.

Lt. Cmdr. Leon Thompason, U.S.N., representing the Secretary of the Navy, made

the presentation on the beach in front of the Henlopen Hotel which was well attended by

Rehoboth district Navy men, residents and summer visitors.

Strick, as he is better known, was a graduate of Rehoboth High School , is son of Mrs.

Bess Tewelow of Rehoboth Beach. He served in WWII in the Pacific as a bridge signalman

on the USS Hayneworth, a destroyer.

He is now in Wilmington attending the Beacom Business College.


SOURCE: Salisbury Daily Times, 30 August, 1947.

1947 LEWES GRADUATING CLASS


1947 LEWES HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES


May 31, 1947:

This will be the 67th class to graduate from Lewes High School and the Rev. Crockett,

pastor of Groome Memorial Methodist Church , tomorrow, will give baccalaureate service

at the school auditorium. Commencement night is Friday, June 6th.

Thee 30 graduates are; Fred Stevenson, Bob Lockerman, Evelyn Mitchell. Josephine

Guerin, Sam Howarth, Parke Perine, Betty Shipley, Evelyn Dodd, Charlotte Reim, Dolly

Bernice White, Elixabeth Lowe, Marge Strums, Donald Mitchell , Theodore Richards,

Peggy Warrington, Iris Conaway, Patnter Lynch, Ken Quillen, Louise Wagamon,

Helen Marsh, Dicky Brittingham, Donald Marsh, Rena Dirks, Mildred Elliott,

Elizabeth “Micky” Lawton, Virginia Russell, Louise Dickerson, Faye White, Elva

Marvel and Barbara Dayton.




Source: Salisbury Daily Times, 31 May 1947. Abstract Harrison H., 8 January 2018.  

Sunday, January 7, 2018

1948 ROLAND LEMAIRE SCAT BACK




REHOBOTH SCAT BACK
A LITTLE PACKAGE OF FIRE AND VINEGAR
1948


Rehoboth's Roland Lemaire is one of the smallest backs of lower Delaware High School

football teams but he's big in the Rehoboth lineup. At 135 pounds on a 5 foot 5 inch frame, full

of fury is hiked up over the game with Wicomico High this week.

This kid can take the bumps, got knocked out at Delamar last week, but shook the cobwebs

off and continued to play ball. His battered body apparently contains the gristle of a lions heart.

This is his third year of football, he also is a varsity basketball guard and an infielder at

baseball. He has plans to go to Alabama University to study science.

He is a brother of Albert, Reds as he is better known, a three letter varsity player who

graduated last year and is now in the Navy. They came to Rehoboth several years ago when their

father, in the Coast Guard, was transferred from Texas.



Source: Salisbury Daily Times, Ed Nichols Column, 10 November 1948.


Abstract: Harrison H. January 7, 2018 :

REV. DR RIGHTMYER


REVREND DR. NELSON WAITE RIGHTMYER



Rev. Dr. Rightmyer Episcopal Rector in Rehoboth Beach, has resigned his pastorate to become

a Professor at the Philadelphia School of Divinity next October .

The 35 year old cleric will round out 10 years of service here in June.

He will become professor of ecclesiastical history, liturgies and policy at the Philadelphia

Divinity School where he has been a lecturer of liturgies since 1944 while carrying on his
rectorship.




Source: Salisbury Daily Times, February 22, 1847. Abstract: Harrison H. January 7, 2018

Saturday, January 6, 2018

1975 OFF SHORE OIL

OFF SHORE OIL
1975

President Trump recently gave the Ok for off shore drilling for oil along the east coast in
2018.

Below newspaper abstract gives the Delaware coastal area thoughts about 'off shore drilling”.

From the Philidelphia Inquirer August 24, 1975, by staff writer Andrew Wallace :

Lewes, Delaware.. 24 August 1975;
Oil exploration has not yet begun of the Delaware Atlantic coast, but the residents of Lewes,
known to be a sleepy seaside town, talk about making room for pipe lines, tank farms and
refineries. They say it's inevitable.

Gordon West, age 39, who has the Sportsman Haven Bait Shop feels it will endanger the fishing,
the hunting and economy.

Other residents and merchants are just as sure the town will benefit. Drilling oil will bring new
money and fresh blood.

Sidney Sennenbaum, age 55, skipper of the party fishing boat “Penguin” thinks it will bring more
people which will increase business.

Last week the U. S. Interior Department designated sites off Rehoboth Beach that will be coming
up for sale in May. Lewes residents are sure it will be their town, not Rehoboth, that will be in
for a change. What may happen to land values, economy, fishing and above all of these, the placid
life style of Lewes.

Paul Stokes, Jr., owner ASCO Ltd., a real estate and insurance business said oil companies have
little interest and the biggest facility would be a support station and the effect would be small and
spread over a long time.

David Keifer, Delaware State Planner, says it is too early to speculate about anything and pointed
out the the prime site is closer to the New Jersey coast line.

Sonny Johnson, salesman for Suburban Propane of Rehoboth feels the influx of money would help
the economy and bring jobs.

Leonard Maull, Lewes native, feels the oil field need to be far out to sea, ubseen, and the oil
transported to refineries in Philadelphia, and would not like to see refineries or tank farms around
here.

Paul Hughes, who came here to open the Customhouse Book Store had said he would not like to
see Lewes become another Delaware City. He feels Lewes is the sleepy little seaside town but

maybe could stand a 'boost'.   

1974 LEWES FIREGIRL ETHEL PRIDE.



21 YEAR OLD ETHEL PRIDE
1974 LEWES FIREGIRL



Ethel Pride, age 21, is the only woman in the 54 member Lewes Volunteer Fire Company and says
“it's just something that I have always wanted o do and has nothing to do with woman's liberation
movement. “ She has proven herself to the other members that she can handle the task assigned
her. A long time family friend, Scott Pierce, was her sponsor. In her family, her father, George
Pride, an uncle and his son, the Henry Baymun's, are members of long standing. Her younger
brother, Bily, now in the Army, was a junior member while in high school.

June 16th she passed her Firemanship I and II courses that are required and fully learn “the ropes”.
She does not pay attention to the men's language while in the midst of a fire, they apologize later.

Since she joined last September she has attended 73 fires, that's better that 80 % attendance.

Miss Pride is a manager of the Lewes Diary Market and lived only a few doors from the fire house
and sually is 'on time' when the call comes.

Ether is also a qualified ambulance driver by the stare of Delaware, however, works mostly as an
attendant.




Abstract from Salisbury Daily Times, 14 July 1974, by Harrison H. January 6, 2018.   

Friday, January 5, 2018

TWIN INLETS


TWIN INLETS

The Delaware coast and Maryland coast have a feature not always found on the East Coast.

The twin inlets are the Indian River Bay to the Atlantic Ocean and the inlet at Ocean City

which connects the Sinepuxent Bay to the Atlantic.

These are not identical twins however and do differ.

The Indian River Inlet has no damage from erosion between the bulkheads with an open

channel of water. There is no filling or cutting away on the landward side of the bulkheads.

This inlet is so stabilized that it is spanned by a bridge connecting Ocean City with Reboboth.

Ocean City's inlet suffers from erosion of the landward side of the bulkheads. North of

the inlet sand is being piled up at a great rate and on the south side sand is being carried away

at a great rate and the Atlantic is moving back to the Sinepuxant.

One cannot wonder why the ocean acts one way at Indian River and entirely different at

Ocean City only 20 miles to the south.




Absteract of Baltimore Sun September 1 1953, by Harrison H., January 5, 2018.   

Monday, January 1, 2018

COLONIEL WOODLOT FIRE.


THE COLONIEL WOODLOT FIRE

The Cape Henlopen woodlot, 100 or more acres of pine forest, deeded years ago to Lewes

Rehoboth Hundred for the locals to gather their firewood, had a fire which burned all night and

was a threat to Fort Miles at one time.

Fort Miles and Lewes firemen, a dozen or so soldiers of Ft. Miles, fought the flames until

early this morning but the forest was destroyed. The fire started about 3 pm , ¾ a mile from the

military post, fanned by a stiff northwest wind, was an inferno by 6 pm. Firemen brought the fire

under control at 5 am this morning. .

There is no estimate of the damage or the cause of the fire available.




March 31, 1955 Salisbur

REHOBOTH DRIVE IN THEATER

REHOBOTH GETS DRIVE-IN MOVIE

The first drive-in theater to serve the Cape Henlopen resort area is a project for the

upcoming summer season.

William Derrickson of Rehoboth who operates two movies there announced that he

plans to have a 400 car outdoor theater on Rehoboth Highway near Midway.

Eventually he plans to erect a shopping center of 18 stores and a restaurant at

the same location and has purchased 30 acres of land with 1000 foot frontage

on the highway.




SOURCE: Salisbury Daily Times, 30 March 1953.    

LEWES OLDTIMERS JOHN STEEL WINGATE.


LEWES OLDTIMERS

COAST GUARD CAPTAIN JOHH STEEL WINGATE


Captain John Steel Wingate, age 77, died Wednesday, February 8, 1950 in the
Beebe Hospital after a one week stay.

Wingate was of the last of the old regime of the sailing vessels Coast Guard at
Lewes.

He was born in Lewes, June 29, 1872, son of the late John M. and Jane Pettyjohn Wingate.

In 1896 he enlisted in the Coast Guard at the Lewes Station, and served there, also Rehoboth
and Cape Henlopen stations. In 1898 he became Captain in charge of the Rehoboth station,
until 1909 when he took command of the Cape Station until 1929. He was master of the
Lewes station until he retired in 1932, serving 37 years in the Coast Guard.

During these years lifeboats were man powered and he made rescues of crew member of
windjammers. He was on duty when the Cape Henlopen Lighthouse fell in 1926.

Captain Wingate remembers the storms were worse and tells of the 1900 snowstorm as
the heaviest, blocking Lewes Harbor from February to March.

Captain John Steel Wingate was survived by a son, Urbon of Lewes, two granddaughters,
several great grandchildren.

He was buried in the Lewes Presbyterian churchyard after service by Rev. Dr. William
Leishman..




SOURCE: Wilmington Morning News, February 9, 1950