Middletown transcript., 1902-04-05
DEATH or aEoaaR ". IocKWoop


/ George y. lockwood one of tie Issost
prominent farmers 81 Cecil County, Mar, :
hand. died It bis residence. Tie Kill. =
sshort distance below Warwick 81 Mon
slae, MafcIl 3Ist. Mr.. LoekwuoI lad
been suffering With val1uiar affection
# lie heaft and had h.eil III al Is
his gio:a ai,.ssii sse lno 4 $ u Liz
i.is death MAS nvt tibex pected it came IS
/ . great shock to this community, where
Mr.. Lockwood's fine physique and appar-
antly excellent health had long marked
him as seemingly typicalIy perfect man
The funeral on Thursday was one Of
She largest, il not the largest eyerheId in
this section Of the country. The hour
set for leaving the house was one o'clock
and at that hour several hundred people
were present, while many more who did
not 20 to the house assembled at the
church to await the coming Of the fun,
eral procession.
The pall-bearers were Austin Crothers,
William D. Bradford and E. E, Marsh, of |
Cecil County; Richard 7. Lockwood, Of
Kent County and M. N. Willis and Al
bert Price. Of this towr. The services
were held in st. Francis Xavier R. G.
Church on the Bohemia, and in the beau
tiful churchyard adjoining he was quietly
laid 10 rest
George Nv. Lockwood was born on the
18th Of February, 1847, on one of his
grandfather's plantations, known as
THE Meadows near Warwick, in old
Cecil Comfy, and the grand old Com
of Maryland. He came of
an ancestry of noble men and women,
long conspicuously honored in the his
tory OF this State and the nation.
He was the eldest son of Edward VIII
son Lockwood and Sarah E. tAlrichs)
Lockwood, both native Delawareane. ,
His grandfather was Richard Lockwood,
8 man of noble and amiabIe character,
whom the writer remembers as q pictur-
esque pefsonage, with hair as white as
snow, forty years ago, living at Middle
town. in the comfort of q quiet hour at
The close of an eventful life. The first scion {
5f the Lockwood family il America was
planted upon the soil Of New England.
In 1880 Edmund and Robert Lockwood, |
brothers, came from England and settled Y
1t Watertown, Macs, of whom the
Lockwoods, of Delaware are lineaI de- :
Icendants The late General Lockwood | 4
vas one OF them, distinguished soldier
If the late Civil War, whose daughter is
he wife of Captain Sigsbee, of the fated z
Maine. Sarah E. AIrichs. .
be mother Of George W. Lockwood,
anne Of people no less distinguished b
han those of his gires. She was q lineal u
of Peter Alrichs, the third /
Governor of Delaware, whose uncle, o
acob AIrichs, was the first Governor OF
Delaware when province under the
dutch, in 1851.
Mr.. Lockwood received his earlier edu-
alton at the public schools at Middle
own. Delaware, and FredeFicktown, y
iaryIand, and finally at the University
Georgetown, in the District Of Colum- "
ia, where he devoted special labor to the
Judy OF mathematics. After leaving coll
,ge, be at once began farming ON one of dl
he Lockwood plantations, Fair Oaks
] Cecil County, Maryland, which, under .,
Is management, became famous for It's
roduct Of fine peaches, to which he soon
,ok bis young wife, Mary Adelaide Nor u
IN, of strawberry Hill, = Cecil County, q
[aryland, the eldest daughter of the late n
hamilton Morton and Mary T. (Durkeel
Iortou The father ei Hamilton was for CT
any years g resident Of Cecil County, Pc
ut was born in Philadelphia, and q
ember of the Morton family which he
I've to our country John Morton, one Of nj
le signers Of the Declaration Of Inde-
sndence. ~
Mr.. lockwood was baptized and ~ u
ised an Episcopalian, but later became ~
convert to the Roman Catholic faith,
ID worshiped at Bohemia, in old st. "a
raneis Xavier Church, historic, beauti- an
!: around Whose affairs broods sacred ne
emories, and meath the shadow of
hose walls lay the forms OF many whom
; knew; and loved, and honored. He
ed March 31st, 1902. His wife sur.
res him, with six children: Marie, c
anche, Harry, George, Julia aud James. w
daughter, Grace, died some years ago.
Within a very short while It has been III,
Q sad misfortune Of this community to en-
e many valued and useful citizens, e
me Of whom were in the prime Of life, MI
{ never has on gone from us so univer- CO
ly Iamented There 10 scarcely man Ec
the whole country side who does not ca
j a sense Of personal loss; and many Of Crt
bereaved 10 the going of friend loved La
hon0red through q lifetime. His Iiy
1nsel was wise, his Judgment was sure, Pot
purpose Was steadfast We will be
lely without him. His noble form =
] presence will greet Us here no more.