Milford chronicle., 1927-02-25
A BOY AT LEWES

ReV. Cornelius Mustard. His charge
was three churches: Lewes, Midway
and Coolspring, and his salary was
four hundred dollars per year. The
Lewes Church had services every
Sunday morning and in the after
noon he preached at Midway; then
at night in Lewes. The following
Sunday afternoon he went to Cool
spring. The choir in the Lewes
Church was Essie Russell, Mary
Russell, her sister, Rebecca and
MOllie Hall, Doctor David Hall, AL
fred &Jall and Edward Russell.
There was no Wilmington Metho-
dist Conference; all of the confer
ence sessions were held in Phila-
delphia. The first Methodist minis
ter that I remember was Jeramiah
Pasterheld; he had four churches:
Lewes, Ebenezer, Whites Chapel
and Conley's Chapel, and the salary
was four hundred dollars; Lewes
paying two hundred and the three
country churches two, and some
times it was pretty hard to raise.
The preachers had to own horses
and carriages to go to their country
charges. Mr.. Pasterfeld held a very
successful protracted meeting the
first year that he was there. Elihu j.
Norris and his wife, james Lewis
and his wife, Thomas kelluE, who
was then learning the blacksmith
trade with Mr. Morris, and many
other heads of families and scores
of youns men and women were con-
verted and joined the church. l re-
member David L. Arneu, David
Walker. George L. POOler Benjamin
Norman. John d. Marshall, Jr,
Gardner Burton and Hamilton Law
son. The old Methodist Church
was a one and a half story building
with no pews. but benches. one side
of the church was for the men, the
other side lor women. After the
meeting closed The young people or
ganized a choir and they sat up In
the gallery. which was at one end OF
the church: that gallery had two
benches on each side. and it used 10 I
he filled every sunday night. Inc
Young women in the choir We're:
Hettie Paynter. Eliza West, Mary
Prettyman. Hannah White, Mary
Naull OF Thomas. Hannah Naull,
Albertine Hickman, and these young
men and young women would make
the old church ring with good sing
ing of the old fashioned hymns.
Then Lewes had preaching sun
day mornings and every other Sun
day night. The first organ that went
into the old church, brought big
kick from some of the old members.
One old member said that they had
mn "AarOn's Bull" in the Church,
and had driven Religion out. Some
of the old and respected coloreu
people used TO so to the PresDyter-
ian and Methodist Churches, also the
Episcopal: each Church had a place
for them TO sit, and one old colored
woman named Hannah Seymore, al
ways went TO the Methodist Church'
She used TO get happy and shout
She was a good old cOlOred woman.
The first Episcopal minister that l
remember was Rev Wright; after he
left David McIlvaine held services.
An old lady by the name OF Bar
denia Bromley thought 1t time loI N
The Methodist TO have new church''
so she organized Mite Society
with the sunday School children.
Each child carried to her one cent
week. She talked new church at
almost every service. Then some OF
TIE men members got together. took
their axes and went to the "PupIlc
pines" on the beach, near the nSnI-
house. and cut the framing; by TINS
wav Mrs Bromley started the new
church, and it was completed uuI-
inc the administration OF MI. NJ |
Warner. That church is now USED as I
p shirt factory. on the same lot that /
if was built. Some of the preachers
+bat followed Mr. Pastertleld were /
John HUFF. Robert Kemp, Adam Wal
lace. Henry SandersOn, ana Mm.
Freed. they were considered at thaJ
time big preachers in the confer
ence.
Fresh beef then sold in Lewes
from six TO twelve cents per pouhG;
sirloin and porter house steaks sofa
for u cents per pound, round STEAK
-en cents, a soup shin from the lore
,uarter sold for twelve cents; what
vas called the shank from the hlnd
1uarter. sold for twenty-five cents
md nlenty of beef on them. N. W.
Hickman sold beef at his store.
Eli Simpler was his butcher, ana
Tohn Hilliard Burton ran a wagon
n sell beef; also VIM. Hurdle, ST.,
rom the country, used to come IN
own to sell his beef. These places
,nly killed and had beef two times d
week. VIM. Morris had a shop to
ell beef from; he had beef and pork
N hand every day.
The undertaken was Joseph Wa1k-
r who died in his fOrties. He was
onsidered an old man, as everyone
allied him Uncle JOSIE" John u.
IarshalI, Sr., died in his fOrties and
e was considered an old man.
When a man or woman passed thaC
ge, they were thought to be very
Id, There were some who llVeu
lnger: Thomas Coleman died when
e was sixty-six, and his hair and
-hiskers were as white as snow; ne
as a verv cid man.
Thomas Carpenter raised and solu
early all the vegetables in the
,wn. Mr.. Carpenter was black
NTH by trade. Other blacksmiths
ere Elihu Morris, Josiah Hollaway,
1bn Metcalf, Sr., and later, Edward
Phillips. The wheelwrights were
,mes Gordon, Samuel Paynter,
enry F. Maull, and c. T. Burton;
he firm Of Maull & Burton, all OF
ese men were kept busy making
w work and repairing old.
Later Maull and Burton stopped
cir wheelwright work, and started
'at building. They soon built up a
2 business; building all the boats
: the pilots, and all the big SURF
ats for the different wrecklng