Evening journal., 1908-10-08

new steamboat facilities and came 10 him
from the Quaker City This. Of coursi
could only be attributed to the fact that
the steamboat was a handy mode Of con-
vcyance two boats running to that city
one each way every day; hut when Peter
Deakyne came to need second wife he
wooed closer to home and found a rum
ming mate al Tayor's Corner. near Town
send-and John Collins was even more
loyal TO the "Neck'' and allowed his ar
fections 20 settle on the adjoining farm
by making a bargain with James Staats'
daughter.
II is a very noticeable fact that fire.
Quently the staats family was looked to
by the young men of other old families on
the Neck" for helpmates, TO say nothing
Of the male members of the Staats maj
rying into the good old families. George
and William Deakyne brothers. married
lsaac' staats sisters Abram staats, son
of William Frank Staats married Jacob
Stats daughter:James Stats sons Per
kins and James Married Jacob Stats
daughters. Charles w. Jarrel Of one OF
the old families Of the Neck which has
almost become extinct married two Of
Isaac Stats daughters. Henry Wood
keeper Of another. Of the old Thorough
fare stock, married one Of Isaac staatS
daughters.
I started this letter 10 do up the Dea-
kyne family and in the one to follow this
TO do the Walker family, which viii be
the last one for this particular neighbor-
hood but | find myself drifting back into
afr IL
paid some attention TO in "A previous LETT
ter as we'll as getting into The Walker
family which have not reached as yet
Now. Strange TO say, OF an the large
and world famed families named Jones {
only find one Of that name i'm the Meek %
First Peter Jones, up on the margin
adjacent to Gumbush. who had one son,
Thomas Jones, who loft two sons and
one daughter One of the sons, Thomas
Jones married a daughter Of Isaac +
Walker ANA now lives on the farm where
the steamboats, formerly landed, then
known as the Thoroughfare. where all ths
steamboats, plying Smyrna Creek made
port and there was a tremendous traffic
at that wharf. Many a horse was warmed
under the collar trying to beat boat ia
the wharf after the vessel could he seen
TO start from shorts Landing further up
the creek and on the Kent side Charles
W. DeaSyne also married one Of Isaac =
Walkers daughters and Peter G. Warner
married a third daughter
Now we will get back to where we starr
ed. George Deakyne Of the old stock men.
toned was . man Of some prominence
intelligent, well-read and noted for his
piety. He carried an exhorters Hcensr.
was famed for his quotations Of Adam
Clark. ana named one Of his sons for that
Individual. This son is now a practcing
physician in Philadelphia
George c., tho second son. married Miss
Rebecca Jane Hartup and is now a widow .
er Of good. honorable. old age and lives
with his brother Joseph b. Deakyne on a
farm near Townsend
William Deakyne left two sons and
three daughters-Jacob. who married
Joseph Fleming daughter. and william
S. Deakyne. who married Jacob stats
daughter. one Of the daughters married
Richard Armstrong. one Of whose daugh.
ters is Samuel c.. Derlckson's wife. and
another married Wilson W. Walker and
q part Of the two atters children reside
Ia this city-onc "a milliner on king street
and another has an ice cream saloon on
Market street
Thomas Deakyne had four sons
Thomas, Albert. Napoleon and Charles
John Junior-Baptist-B -Bernadotte Deakyne,
better known as Bernadotte Thomas mar.
ried a widow, Henry Harmp's daughter
who was first married to Henry Hartup at
eighteen; but Mr. Stats soon died and
then she married Mr. Deakyne, and by
this union had five children, two sons and
three daughters and is now living at the
good old age Of IS with all her mental
faculties unimpaired, and is very ac-
tive person for her age. She may fire.
quenty be found at her daughters resi-
dence, Mrs. Abram Hayden, northwest
corner Sixth and jackson streets, this
city. She has elevn grandchildren and six
great grandchildren to comfort her in her
declining years. Her husband. Thomas
pealSyne. was a life long Democrat and
a Methodist He was a justice of tho
peace from the early sixties until the time
Of his death. a few years ago. His brother
Albert, left no children. Napoleon was a
prominent figure i'm New Castle as a mail
agent and left son who Is now prominent
In New Castle and who was a champion
speller at a spelling bee at the Institute
building a few years ago in this city.
Bernadotte died and left children in this
city I know little of them. Baymon
Deakyne, the last Of the old stock. except
the father Of George A. and John Dea-
kyne (whose father I did not know. had
four sons George. John ". Alexander
and Baymon. / know neither Of the two
first; but Alexander married Robert Dea-
kyne's daughter, and her mother is still
living al a good ripe age with one Of her
grandchildren near Taylors Bridge and
had The pleasure of conversation with
her few weeks ago Baymon married
James Stats daughter. Of whom I know
very little. lie had two daughters-onc
married Enoch Fleming by which union
they had ono daughter. now Mrs Chand-
Ter Of this city. The other daughtor mar
ried Richard Mailey of a prominent
French family. located on fine farm near
McDonough Del. This place was known
as the White Hall farm. Richard was one
OF the sons OF the former
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