Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-05-22
RECALLED TO LIFE.
Tho Strange Story Of which Sussex
is Awaiting the SEQUEL.

The Philsdelphia Record thus dishes
up q story from Sussex which has been
previously reported in briefer shape:
Over three years ago the schooner
Joseph MsxAeld, owned principally by
Jonathan May OF this city, sailed out OF
the Delaware upon voyage to the West
Indies. Lemusl Williams commanded
her, and George Dsisey was her first
mate. Esoh left behind q wife, living
near the little seaooast homlet of Ocean
View, south OF Cape Henlopen. The
vessel sailed beyond the Break.
water, and the two wives might have
Seen her spreading CANVAS as the
schooner passed their seaside home out to
the treaoherous ocean. 1t was a fatal
voyage, and, as week succeeded week and
month followed month without tidipgs OF
vessel or crew, dread succeeded anxiety,
and as the months grew into years a
sloomy certainty settled upon the home
of those who had gone down to watery
graves. Mrs. Daisey, the wife of the
mate, was less than 20 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, 8 wealthy resident Of Ocean
View, suddenly died, and a few weeks
afterward the widower asked Mrs.
Williams to marry him. After little
struggle Of recoilections Of the past she
consented. Soen afterwards Mrs. Geor, q
Dsisey married young Luther Evans,
and the memory of the two unfortunate
sailors began to fade away. The neigh
bJrs and friends had long since ceased
TO speculate upon the fate OF the Maxfield
and her crew.
A few months ago Captain Eben Will
liams, the son Of the lost captain sailed
in the Mary Z. Fenwick for the same port
20 which his father had started upon his
last voyage. As nothing was heard from
his vessel for long time it was supposed
that he also had been lost at sea. The
good people Of Ocean View and the sur
rounding country have been, therefore,
thrown into almoat o tumult of excite
ment upon the receipt Of information not
only that the captain OF the Fenwick but
that Captain Lemuel Williams and his
mate, George Dsisey, 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 news 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 Fenwick,
on Thursday, settled beyond question
the truth of the news as to the safety Of
Captain Eben williams, and more def
mite information ia awaited as to the facts
about the two other missing husbands.
Mrs. Wharton has not as yet been satisfied
of the truth OF the information 80 far re-
ceived, but says that as soon as it is veri-
fed, If 1t ever is, she will leave her
present home. Her daughter, 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
Del, on Thursday and
wanted TO have the justice of the psscs
send constable ont to his house to take
away the little old women who were
plasuing him. One especially he desired
to have removed, an old hag, he said,
who sat up on the head Of rail and
pestered him almost to death. He was
assured that some one would be sent out,
and he went away satisfied.