Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-21
TWO ENoCH ARnENs.
Complications in a Delaware Village
Mariners Not Dead

Complications in a Delaware Village
Mariners Not Dead.
Over three years ago the schooner JOS
eph Maxfeld, owned principally by Jona-
than May, of this city, says the Philadel-
phia Record of the 18th inst, sailed out of
the Delaware upon a voyage to the W est
Indies. Lemuel Williams commanded
her, and George Daisey was her first mate.
Each left behind wife, living near the
little seacoast hamlet 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 treacherOus ocean. 1t was a fatal
voyage. and, as week succeeded week and
month followed month without tidings of
vessel or crew, dread succeeded anxiety,
and as the months grew into years a
gloomy 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 Capt. 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, a wealthy resident of Ocean
View, suddenly died, and a few weeks
afterward the widower asked Mrs. Will
liams to marry him. After a little strug-
gle with recOllectiOns Of the past she con-
scented. Soon afterward Mrs. George
Dalsey married young Luther Evans, and
the memory of the two unfortunate sailors
began to fade away. The neighbOrs and
friends had long since ceased to speculate
upon the fate of the MaXfeld and her
crew.
A few months ago Capt Eben Williams,
the son Of the lost Captain, sailed in the
Mary Il. FenWick for the same port to
which his father had started upon his last
voyage. As nothing was heard from his
vessel for a 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 almost a tumult Of excite
ment upon the receipt of information not
only that the Captain Of the FenWick. but
that Capt. Lemuel Williams 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 far Eastern
port. Mrs. Lemuel Williams, now
Mrs. Isaac Wharton, and George
Daisey's wife received this Won
derful news with mingled feel
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, set
tied beyond question the truth of the news
as to the safety of Capt. Eben Williams,
and more definite information is awaited
as to the facts about the other two missing
husbands. Mrs. Wharton has not as vet
been satisfied of the truth of the infOrma-
ton so far received, but says that as soon
as it is verified, if it 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 Frank
ford, Del, on Thursday and wanted to
have the Justice Of the Peace send a con-
stable out to his house to take away the
little old women who were plaguing him.
One especially he desired to have re-
moved, an old bag, 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.