Smyrna times., 1922-09-27
DEATH RECORD OF THE WEEK
Daniel c. COrbit, Odessa, Well-KnOwn
In Smyrna and Prominent Della
warean. Passes Away, Aged 79


most estimable citizens of Delaware,
died Wednesday night at his home in
Odessa, at the age of 70 years. Death
resulted from the infrmities of age.
He had been i'll for some time. The
funeral will be held on Saturday af
ternoon, with services at the house at
1.30 and interment in Friends Gene
terry. Mr.. Corbit, son of the late
Daniel Corbit, ", and Eliza Naudain
Corbit, was born on March 7, 1843, in
the old Colonial mansion at Odessa in |
which he died. After attending the
Westtown Boarding School and Clark
son Taylor's School, the latter in Will
mington, he was prepared by the late
Rev. ]. Walker Macbeth at the Della
ware City Academy for admission to
Haverford College, which he entered
in 1861 and of which he was an alum
nus. While the Civil War was in pro-
gress he enlisted in the Seventh Della
ware Regiment. For many years Mr..
Corbit was owner and manager of
farms near Odessa. He was president
of the New Castle County National
Bank and the Cantwell Mutual Fire
Insurance Co., Odessa institutions, and
was also president of the Odessa Loan
: Association and a director of the
, Equitable Trust Co., of Wilmington.
, Mr.. Corbit once was an Orthodox
' Friend and later a Presbyterian. He
. was a member and elder of Old Draw
yers Presbyterian Church, clerk of its
4 session and president of the Society
n of Friends of Old Drawers. In poll
o tics Mr.. Corbit was a Republican, but
: he never held an elective political Of
s flee. His first vote was cast in 1864
r for Abraham Lincoln. He was ap-
g pointed trustee of Delaware College
: by the late Governor Ebe w. Tunnel
r and reappointed by subsequent COVER
s nors and was trustee of the Univer-
v sity of Delaware at the time of his
ii death. Appointed a trustee of the
n New Castle County Workhouse by the
IS late Chief Justice Charles B. Lore and
r reappointed by the resident judge of
l. New Castle county, he served con-
IS tinuously as such from the date of the
v, institutions founding until January
m 1922. Mr.. Corbit was also president
DR. of the Delaware State Library Com
s mission and a member of the Patrons
V, of Husbandry, the Sons of Colonial
V. Wars and the Delaware Historical So
q, ciety. He frequently attended the
5: meetings of the Delaware Bankers
n. Association. Mr.. Corbit's wife nee
n. Mary Clark Higgins, daughter of tn,
v, late Anthony NJ. Higgins and siste
k, of the late United States Senator An
il thony Higgins, died several years ago
o., Two daughters, Mrs. Charles Megarg
he Lewis, of Wilmington and Mrs. Ed
lc- ward L. Duer, of Odessa, survive Nh
tn Corbit, as do also two nephews, Gen
of eral Alexander P Corbit and DAME
65 Corbit, of Odessa, and niece, Mr.:
on Preston Lea, of Wilmington. Mrs. +
ire Tatnall Worner, of Wilmington is hi
only surviving sister.
Thomas ]. Middleton, Aged 73, Dea
Thomas ]. Middleton, aged 79, re
a. tired farmer who moved here severe
months ago from Odessa, died at tn
home of his sister, Miss Annie Mic
a' dleton, on Friday last after lingel
am ~, ;llross U,;lo ~ fo;linn baol+
Iay for more than year, he was onl
an confined to his bed a little over
n.y. week. The death of Mr.. Middleto
'he removes a most estimable citize
'hu Born and raised on the home far
'nu near Smyrna, the youngest son of Il
eir late Thomas and Elizabeth (Blacl
se' Middleton, he spent his whole life
DIS farming and made a success of
get Twenty years ago he retired fro
ere farming and moved to Odessa. T
lay lived there in a fine brick proper
ing which he purchased. After the dea
ser of his wife, who was Miss Mary AM
ler' Ewell, daughter of the Rev. DIR. Eve
tne he sold his home and moved to Smy
g, ,ch- ma. He had no children. One brot
Inc er, Benjamin F. Middleton and tv
hty sisters, Miss Annie Middleton al
ody Mrs. Benjamin C.. Collins, of Smyrr
me survive. Mr.. Middleton was a mel
lere ber and more or less active in t
ales Methodist Churh, and lived quiet,e
I'M empliary life and made many frien
em' who mourn his death. Funeral 81
vices took place from the residence
IN his sister, Miss Annie Middleton
West Mt. Vernon street, yesterd;
xty- Tuesday, afternoon and the renal
were taken to Old Drawers cemete
five near Odessa for interment. Rev. ].
'tet- Bunting had charge of the services
'",s Death of Mrs. Earl V. Francis
arly Mrs. Alice Collins Francis aged
side wife of Earl V. Francis, near Listo
ries. Point, Thorougfare Neck, died in
n to Delaware Hospital, Wilmington, y
here terday. She was the daughter of v
ured liam L. and Lydia (Brimer) Coli
ord and was born, raised and spent