A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > New Castle http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=641 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50841 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: August 29 1723 Article Description: James M'CURDEY, Servant man, Runs Away From John KEYLL. Article Text: Run away from John KEYLL on Cristeen Creek in New Castle County, on the 18th of this instant, a servant man, fair complexion, pretty fresh coloured, fair short hair, he had on a grey Frys coat, a brownish cloth jacket and Mohair buttons, a pair of buck-skin breeches and brownish stockings, a felt hat. Whosoever takes up the said servant and conveys him to his said master shall have a pistole reward and reasonable charges. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50754 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Biloxi Daily Herald Article Date: January 10 1907 Article Description: New Weather Signal Tower at Lewes Article Text: Uncle Sam will erect the highest warning and storm tower in the Government Weather Service at Lewes, Delaware. THEODORE F. TOWNSEND, chief of the weather bureau for the Philadelphi district has invited bids for the erection of the tower which will be 115 feet in height and surmounted by a 20 foot mast for flying the weather signal flags. The new tower will make the weather station at Lewes one of the moet complete in the government service. Other warning towers are at Fort Norris and Cape May Point. The new one, larger, will differ in several respects. Across the top will be a large steel arm with a cable on which eight feet square international code signal flags wil be displayed to constantly signal vessels of weather conditions and warn of danger. Lewes is one of the most improtant stations along the coast and the Marine Exchange reporting station has been improved. There are two breakwaters at Lewes and the exact location for the tower has not yet been fixed. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50751 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: September 23 1917 Article Description: Forts to be Placed at Mouth of Delaware Bay. Article Text: Wilmoington, Del., Sept 23: Lewes expects that within a short period of time a fort will be erected at that place by the government for the protection of Philadelphia and other cities on the Delaware River. For several days two War Department engineers have been in Lewes looking over lsnd. They stated that it was the purpose of the government, in the near future, to establish forts at the entrance to the bay. The most suitable site appeared to be one between Cape Henlopen Light and the Marine Hospital already owned by the government. It is expected that as soon as a reeport is made the Congressional Delegations from Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey will make an effort to have the forts established both at Lewes and on the New Jersey shore. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50750 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: October 27 1919 Article Description: Lewes To Get New Fertilizer Plant Article Text: Lewes, Del., Oct. 20, 1919: Five factories to operate on Lewes Beach next year. One of a chain of fish fertilizer factories along the Chesapeake and Atlantic coast will be erected at Lewes following action of Town Council in leasing the company a 3000 foot strip of land on the beach at an annual rental of $300. There are now three fertilizer factories on the Lewes beach and following the leasing of the new piece of land, one of the companies already located here leased an additional strip of 100 feet adjoining their present lease for the erection of another factory, making five in all that will be in operation next year. The present factories have had the most successful season in their history, their products being mostly used for paints and for fertilizer, all of which command high prices at present. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50708 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: April 24 1919 Article Description: Hospital Men Return to Lewes, Delaware Article Text: Lewes, Del., April 23, 1919: Captain EICHARD C. BEEBE of Lewes, who has served the past eighteen months in a U. S. Medical Corp Hospital in France, and WILLIAM HORN, his orderly, from Rehoboth Beach, have both arrived home. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50707 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: March 13 1917 Article Description: Doctor 'Joe' Dies at Lewes: Article Text: Lewes, Del., March 12, 1917: A physician of the old school who compounded his own pills and did not believe in modern surgery, DR. JOSEPH W. MARSH, who had dedicated his life to the practice of medicine in a country district, died yesterday at the age of 77 years. He and his brother, DR. ERASMUS MARSH kept up an office near Lewes, where there were no machine made pills on the shelves and from where they attended the ills of hundreds of patients in Sussex County. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50706 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: July 5 1903 Article Description: Call to Lewes Pulpit: Article Text: Lewes, Del., July 4, 1903: The Rev FRANK E. WILLIAMS, of Elkton, has been unanimously called to the pastorate of the Lewes Presbyterian Church. Rev. Mr. Wiliams is a former pastor of Boundary Avenue Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, but was obliged to resign owing to ill health. He since has been recuperating at his famr near Elkton. Rev. Williams is a son to the late REV. T. S. WILLIAM, who was a well known member of the Wilmington Conference. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50705 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: October 9 1908 Article Description: Ocean Pier at Lewes Damaged in Storm: Article Text: Lewes, Del., Oct. 8, 1908: With about seventy five feet of the big ocean pier torn out by a recent storm, Lewes is left without a handy landng place for tugs and steamers which desire to land passengers or to take on supplies. The piling and top of the pier were all taken away by the wind and the rest of the pier is in danger of going down at the first hard blow that comes up. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50704 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: December 7 1907 Article Description: Sons of Delaware Talk on Delwaware River Ship Channel: Article Text: Philadelphia, Pa., Dec 7, 1907: Delaware Congressman HIRAM R. BURTON, of Lewes, Del., declared last night at the eigth annual banquet of the Delaware Society of Philadelphia that he was more favorable to a thirty foot channel for the Delaware River, 1200 feet wide, that for a waterway thirty-five feet deep and only 600 feet wide. He said: " I believe what the Delaware River needs is a thirty foot channel at low water, 1200 feet wide. I would favor such a channel over one thirty five feet deep and only 600 feet wide. The majority of the pilots on the Delaware River live in my home town, Lewes. I have interviewd all and have found them, as a unit, favorable for a thirty foot channel, 1200 feet wide". Congressman Burton also lauded the movement for a chain of connected inland waterways from Boston to Florida. He was eulogistic in his praise of Congressman J. HAMPTON MOORE, of this city. The dinner was held in the Red Room of the Belleview-Stratford. Among the guest were JOHN O. SHEATZ, State Treasurer-elect. JOHN J. HOFFECKER, president of the society was toastmaster. Other speakers were County Commissioner RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG, of this city; WILLIAM H. HEALD, former Postmaster of Wilmington, and JOHN S. RUSSELL. Governor STUART , who was to have been one of the speakers, sent his declination in the afternoon because of the press of official business. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50703 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: The Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: December 29 1907 Article Description: Mayoralty Ccontest in Lewes Article Text: Lewes, Del., Dec. 28, 1907: MAYOR THOMPSON will have opposition the first of January when the town election is held, the latest candidate being A. W. MARSHALL. The fight against the present Mayor is being made by a few men who wish to sell the electrict power plant to a corporation. As most Lewes citizens favor municipal ownership, the reelecton of Dr. Thompson is looked for. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50702 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: October 15 1910 Article Description: Boy's Club Organizes at Lewes Article Text: Lewes, Del., Oct 14, 1910: Adopting the constitution and rules of the famous ST. GEORGES BATTALION CLUB, which was the first boys club to be organized in America, the result of an idea by the REV. DR.RAINSFORD and supported by J. P. MORGAN. The Lewes Boy's Club will be modeled on the same lines, with the ultimate intention of being finally incorporated into the State National Guard. This week, two companies were formed for the marching club, Company A being composed of boys of 15 years of age and over, and Company B, composed of smaller lads. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50701 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: August 11 1907 Article Description: Nine Year Old Lewes Hero Article Text: Charles B. Buchannan, son of George and Effie V. Buchannan, of Lewes, Saves Life of the Marshall Baby. Lewes, Del, Aug 10, 1907: Lewes boast of the youngest candidate for a Carnegie Medal in the country. CHARLES B. BUCHANNAN, only 9 years old, all washed up and dressed in the nattiest of summer suits, walked down one of the Lewes piers just in time to see little JOHN MARSHALL. 4 years old son of JOHN MARSHALL, a citizen of Lewes, fall backward off the pier into the water and sink beneath the surface into the muddy bottom. Buchannan, with his fine suit on waited a second or two and then plunged in withour a thought of his own danger and struggled to the surface with the baby and put him back safely on shore, then reappeared himself having the exact appearance of the proverbial "drowned rat". ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50700 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Philadelphia Inquirer Article Date: August 11 1907 Article Description: A None Year Old Lewes Hero Article Text: Charles B. Buchannan, son of George and Effie V. Buchannan, of Lewes, Saves Life of the Marshall Baby. Lewes, Del, Aug 10, 1907: Lewes boast of the youngest candidate for a Carnegie Medal in the country. CHARLES B. BUCHANNAN, only 9 years old, all washed up and dressed in the nattiest of summer suits, walked down one of the Lewes piers just in time to see little JOHN MARSHALL. 4 years old son of JOHN MARSHALL, a citizen of Lewes, fall backward off the pier into the water and sink beneath the surface into the muddy bottom. Buchannan, with his fine suit on waited a second or two and then plunged in withour a thought of his own danger and struggled to the surface with the baby and put him back safely on shore, then reappeared himself having the exact appearance of the proverbial "drowned rat". ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > New Castle http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=641 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50566 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: The American Weekly Mercury Article Date: April 26 1722 Article Description: Eleanor MOORE and Elizabeth GARRETSON Sentenced to Death for Murder of the Bastard Child Born of Eleanor MOORE. Article Text: New-Castle, April 24. At a Court of Oyer and Terminer and Goal-Delivery, held at this place for the County of New-Castle upon Delaware, before Col. John FRENCH, Samuel LOWMAN, Benj. SHNRMER and James STEEL, Esqs. Eleanor MOORE and Elizabeth GARRETSON, received sentence of death upon their being convicted of the murder of a bastard child born of the body of the the said Eleanor MOORE. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50386 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Salisbury Times Article Date: October 16 1942 Article Description: Lewes Marriage of Lodge - Lord. Article Text: Lewes, Del., Friday Evening, 16 Oct., 1942: MRS MINNA HOPKINS LORD, of Lewes, daughter of THOMAS HOPKINS and the late LENA F. HOPKINS, of Wilmington, and EDSON C. LODGE, prominent banker of Lewes, and son of the late GEORGE W. & EMMA C LODGE of Lewes, were married Monday at Lewes by the REV. H. V. BRANFORD. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50385 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Salisbury Times Article Date: February 26 1941 Article Description: Helen Carson Death at Wilmington Hospital Article Text: Lews, Del., Feb. 26, 1941: Funeral services will be held here Friday for Miss HELEN NORMAN CARSON, age 48, the only daughter of the late CAPTAIN WILLIAM J. CARSON, former town treasurer and Coast Guard official. She died Monday night in the Wilmington Memorial Hospital of pneumonia. Born and raised in Lewes, she was graduated from the Lewes High School and later from Goldy College in Wilmington. She worked with the duPont Company in Wilmington sometime before going to work in New York. Her only immediate survivors are an aunt, MRS G. W. COVERDALE, and a number of cousins here in Lewes. The services will be at 2 P.M. Friday in the Melson Funeral Home here, with the Rev. H. V. BRANDFORD, Methodist pastor officiating. Burial will be beside her parents in the Lewes Methodist Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50384 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Salisbury Times Article Date: May 5 1941 Article Description: Lost Man, 74, Found in Marsh. Article Text: Lewes, Del., March 5, 1941: After being lost in the masrsh around Cape Henlopen for nearly two nights and two days, GEORGE SHUTTS, 74, was found this morning. The half blind man had been hunted by groups of firemen, the Lewes Coast Guard, and a detacgment of soldiers from the Coast artillery encampment at Lewes since Friday. He was last seen walking toward the marsh near Lewes. Thomas Dirk, an employee at the Lewes Electric Light Plant saw the man stumbling along near the town dump area and brought him home. While his scant clothing was all bloody from scratches, he was apparently unharmed from his prolonged exposure to the cold and wind. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50361 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Salisbury Times Article Date: September 16 1944 Article Description: Lewes Pastor Leishman Returns Article Text: Lewes, Del., September 16, 1944 The Rev. Dr. William Leishman of Lewes, pastor of the Lewes and Midway Presbyterian Churches, will return to his charges on Sunday after three months of illness. He will deliver the sermon in the Lewes Presbyterian Church Sunday at 11 A.M. on the subject "There is Room", the biblical meaning of the name Rehoboth. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50360 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Salisbury Times Article Date: August 3 1943 Article Description: 100th Birthday Tomorrow of Lewes Woman Article Text: Lewes, Del., Aug 3, 1943: Pleasant things are in store for the last srviving resident of the candle light era that once was ancient Lewestown. She is Mrs Rodney Quillen, descedent of the Rodney ancestry of Delaware, who will be 100 years old tomorrow. Among the surprises planned for the "oldest mother in Lewes-Rehoboth Hundred' is a family gathering and when the Lewes Chamber of Commerce meets this month , honor will be paid her at a special program. Born near Berlin on August 4, 1843, she was the daughter of Phillip Rodney and granddaughter of Schoffel Rodney, who owned a plantation known as 'Head of the River' near Georgetown. She had eight children, all but one still living and at family gatherings she can assemble seventeen grandchildren, nine great grandchldren and several great great grandchildren. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com

A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Delaware > Sussex http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=642 Also visit our new sister sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=50359 Submitted by: Harrison H Howeth Article Title: Salisbury Times Article Date: August 3 1943 Article Description: 100th Birthday Tomorrow of Lewes Woman Article Text: Lewes, Del., Aug 3, 1943: Pleasant things are in store for the last srviving resident of the candle light era that once was ancient Lewestown. She is Mrs Rodney Quillen, descedent of the Rodney ancestry of Delaware, who will be 100 years old tomorrow. Among the surprises planned for the "oldest mother in Lewes-Rehoboth Hundred' is a family gathering and when the Lewes Chamber of Commerce meets this month , honor will be paid her at a special program. Born near Berlin on August 4, 1843, she was the daughter of Phillip Rodney and granddaughter of Schoffel Rodney, who owned a plantation known as 'Head of the River' near Georgetown. She had eight children, all but one still living and at family gatherings she can assemble seventeen grandchildren, nine great grandchldren and several great great grandchildren. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ DE-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com