Berry Pickers Living Conditions Circa 1909

 

Not Delmar but picked up from Bob Wynn Facebook page on Maryland Towns People Places

Circa 1909. Straw beds and footlockers in shack occupied by berry pickers. Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

The May Haverty Majorette School 1952

 

1952 Bi State weekly Ad

Mabel "May" Beasley Haverty came to Delmar in the early 1950s with her husband, Albert Page Haverty who worked for the railroad.  

She was born in 1924 at the Wash Woods Coast Guard Station in Currituck County North Carolina to Usef Beasley and Lucy Mae White Beasley.  By 1940 the Beasley family was in Norfolk, Virginia where May attended high school and developed a great passion for  being a Majorette.  She was with the Norfolk Fire department band as a majorette and ran a school for baton twirlers in Norfolk.  At the age of 18 she married 19 year old A P Haverty, who already worked as a fireman for the railroad in Norfolk. 

So early in the 1950s the family (they had a son by this time) came to Delmar.  They lived at 400 Lincoln street, which being just a few blocks from the high school, allowed May to assist with the high school band baton twirlers.  At the time the Delmar High School band had about 50 members and was directed by Bruce Henrickson.  As can be seen from the 1952 Ad she had her Majorette School up and running in Delmar. May is the adult one on the right. 

In 1954 their daughter was born at the Nanticoke Memorial Hospital. 

About 1957 the railroad transferred A P Haverty to Pennsylvania and in 1959 to Washington DC (Union Station) and the family left Delmar. Living  in the DC area May and her husband started attending Redskin games In a 1987 interview during the football strike they had commented they started attending Redskin home games in 1957 and had continued to attend them.  

Below is what is today 400 Lincoln avenue and I don't think the house numbering have changed since 1952 so this is where she had her Majorette school.  

May died in 2015 in North Carolina.  Her Husband, Albert died in 1998.

W H Draper

 

William Henry Draper (1882-1960) was the son of Thomas Reed Draper and Olivia Belle Bennett of Milford Delaware.  In 1905 William would marry Effie Jones Reed (1886-1955) of Lewes, Delaware. William became employed by the railroad as an engineer.  He was transferred around and he was assigned to Franklin City, Virginia (where his daughter Sarah Olivia was born in 1907) then transferred to Delmar by 1920.  He seem to always have a side business going beside the railroad.  As you can see in the 1940s he had an Allis-Chalmers dealership.  In addition to his daughter he had a son; William Reed Draper(born in 1906).  In 1923 they moved into the house at 806 Grove street.  In 1924 Effie shocked everyone when at the age of 15 she ran off on Christmas eve with Glen Wright to be married in Princess Anne, Maryland.  Needless to say this was annulled.  Sarah Olivia became a nurse and went to live in New York state where in 1935 she married James Jerome Abraham.  They would return to the Lincoln Delaware area.  William Reed Draper would marry Ruth E Kelley and live out of state.  In 1944 William sold the house on Grove street to Samuel and Georgia Jones.  He moved to the Milford area.  It is assumed he had retired from the railroad in 1944.  

1977 Bo's Pickle Barrel

 

Lunch at Bo Pickle Barrel in the Salisbury Shopper World (where K mart use to be) 1977

Tucked in a corner by Radio Shack in which at one time was a decent shopping center.

another photo from the Nabb research center

E. W. Palmer and Son

 

Edward W Palmer (1863-1941) was one of the largest poultry producers in Sussex County in the 1920s and 30s.  The hatchery was one mile north of Delmar. His farm was called Cherry Hill Poultry Farm.  His wife was Laura Emma Shockley Palmer (1864-1940).  His son was Luther William Palmer (1884-1952) and they other children; Minnie E Palmer (1891-1921), Annie May Palmer (1886-1888), and Marion T Palmer (1889-1891). All buried at St Stephens cemetery.

1962 Leonard Mill

 

Clyde Twilley Cucumber Label