The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-05-24
RECALLED TO LIFE.
Strange Story of Which Sussex is
Awaiting the Sequel.

| The Philadelphia Rerord thus dishes
up story from sussex which has been
previously reported i'll blielcr shape:
Over three years ago the schooner
Joseph MaSiield, owned principally by
Jonathan May, of this city, sailed out of
the Delaware upon voyage to the West
Indies. Lemuel Williams commanded
her. and George Daisey was her first
mate. Each left behind d wife. living
near the little seacoast hamlet of Ocean
View, south of Cape lIenlopen. The
vessel sailed beyond the Break water,
and the two wives might have seen her
their seaside home out to the treacherous
ocean. 1t was fatal voyage, and, as
week succeeded week and month fol
lowed month without tidings of vessel or
crew, dread succeeded anxiety, and as
the months grew into years gloomy
certainty settled upon the homes of those
who had gone down to watery graves.
Mrs Daisey, the wife of the mate, was
less than 90 years of age, and was the
daughter of Captain Williams. Mother
and daughter, thus widowed by the sea,
were the last to abandon all hopes of the
return of the unfortunate master, mate
or crew of the ill-starred schooner.
One day last year the wife of Isaac
Wharton. wealthy resident of Ocean
View, suddenly died, and few months
afterward the widower asked Mrs. Will
liams to marry him. Aftera little strug-
gle of recollectionS of the past she con-
scented. Soon afterwards Mrs. George
Daisey married young Luther Evans,
and the memory of the two unfortunate
sailors began to fade away. The neigh
bors and friends had long since ceased to
speculate upon the fate of the NIaxfield
and her crew.
A few months ago Captain E0en Will
liams, the son of the lost captain sailed
in the Mary f. Fenwick for the same
port to which his father had started upon
his last voyage. AS nothing was heard
from his vessel for Il long time it was
supposed that he also had been lost at
sea. The good people of Ocean View
and the surrounding country have been,
therefore, thrown into almost tumult
of excitement upon the receipt of infor-
nation not only that the captain of the
Fenwick but that Captain Lemuel Will
liams and his mate, George Daisey, have
been found The former was reported
safe at Trinidad, while the other two
were on their way to their homes from a
far Eastern port. Mrs. Lemuel Williams,
now Mrs. Isaac Wharton, and George
Daisey's wife received this wonderful
Lews with mingled feelings of dismay
and pleasure. The gossips have been
busy every hour of the day, and the end
of the dreadful complication in the two
households has been the theme of all
tongues. The return of one of the crew
of the Fen lick, on Thursday, settled be-
yond question the truth OF the news as
to the safety of Captain Eben Williams,
and more definite information is awaited
as to the facts about the two other miss
ing husbands. Mrs. Wharton has not as
yet been satisfied of the truth of the ill.,
formation SO far received, but says that
as soon as it is verified, if it ever is, she
will leave her present home. Her daush-
ter, the wife of Mr.. Evans, has not made
up her mind yet what course to pursue
in case her first husband turns up.
The affair appears to have affected the
mind of Mr.. Wharton, who went to
Frankfort, Del, on Thursday and
wanted to have the justice of the peace
send constable out to his house to take
away the little old women who were
plasuing him. Ohe especially he desired
to have removed, an old bag, he said,
who sat up on the head of a rail and
pestered him almost to death. lie was
assured that some one would be sent out,
and he went away satisfied.