Saturday, May 23, 2015
The Balloon Farm and the Big Tree
The Farm of John G. Kinnikin, just west of Laurel, was once known as "Balloon farm." It got the name because during the American Civil war an Union Army observation balloon landed on the farm. The next great excitement on the farm came in 1937 when the second largest white Oak in the state of Delaware was alive on the farm and it split in half from rot in the heart of the tree, damaging the house and a couple of cars when it came down. The tree was thought to be over 300 years old. A large portion of the people in Western Sussex County drove onto the farm to see the tree after it fell.
Orval Lee Nichols and Robert Lee Fitzgerald Enlist
TWO DELMAR BOYS ENLIST
Two Delmar Boys, one a resident on the Delaware side and one on the Maryland side, enlisted in the U S Army. The Delaware boy is Orval Lee Nichols, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Nichols, and the Maryland youth is Robert Lee Fitzgerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fitzgerald. The enlistee are getting their training at Fort Meade, Md.
From The State Register January 12, 1951 edition
Two Delmar Boys, one a resident on the Delaware side and one on the Maryland side, enlisted in the U S Army. The Delaware boy is Orval Lee Nichols, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Nichols, and the Maryland youth is Robert Lee Fitzgerald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fitzgerald. The enlistee are getting their training at Fort Meade, Md.
From The State Register January 12, 1951 edition
Friday, May 22, 2015
Mary Sweeney - 1951
From the State Register January 12, 1951
DELMAR GIRL SEVERELY BURNED
Mary Sweeney, four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Sweeney, of Delmar, is recovering in Milford Memorial Hospital from severe burns received last Thursday at her home. Mary was outside watching a fire when her dress ignited.
DELMAR GIRL SEVERELY BURNED
Mary Sweeney, four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Sweeney, of Delmar, is recovering in Milford Memorial Hospital from severe burns received last Thursday at her home. Mary was outside watching a fire when her dress ignited.
John Stanford LeCates
From The Laurel Delaware State Register February 9, 1951
John Stanford LeCates
John Stanford LeCates,
82, died Feb. 4 in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Spencer LeCates, at Seaford. He was the son of the late Alexander and
Isabella LeCates and was long a resident in the area around Lowes Cross Roads.
Survivors include
three sons, Granville R. LeCates, of Wilmington; Samuel S. LeCates, of Salisbury,
and Norman C. LeCates of Delmar; another daughter, Mrs. Oliver J. Collins of Baltimore;
eight grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, one brother, William LeCates, of
Parsonsburg, Md., and one sister Mrs. Martha Hearn of Whitesville.
Funeral services were
held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Bethesda Methodist Church of the Laurel Circuit. Rev. J. B. Pettus, assisted by Rev. Oliver J.
Collins, a son-in-law of Mr. leCates. Burial
was in the adjoining church cemetery.
Old Sussex New Sussex
At one time Maryland claimed over half of Sussex County. After the ownership was settled the part that Maryland laid claim to was referred to as New Sussex and the part Delaware had always owned was called Old Sussex. Over the years the difference was forgotten and now Sussex County is just Sussex County.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
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