MARY HICKMAN EVANS
1879 LEWES SCHOOL GRADUATE
The class of 1879 of Lewes
School was the first graduating class of Lewes High School in
which there were four girl
graduates.
In 1948 there was one, the
last, remaining member living and she celebrated her 88th
birthday
yesterday, June 1st,
1949 at her Second Street home in Lewes.
She is Mrs Mary Hickman
Evans, born in Lewes, June 1, 1860, the daughter of the late
Nathaniel W. and Hannah
Howell Rodney Hickman . She is the widow of one of the veteran
Delaware River & Bay
Pilots of Lewes, Louis Pasterfield Evans. Of this family there are
three sons
living, Captain Nathaniel H.
Evans, Delaware River & Bay Pilot living on Lewes Beach,
Commander
Donald R. Evans, U.S. Navy
Retired, of Lewes, and Roy Evans of Boston, Massachusetts.
Mrs Evans later taught in
Lewes High School.
SOURCE: Wilmington Morning
News, Thursday, June 3, 1948.
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