Smyrna times., 1930-10-08
DEATH RECORD OF WEEh
Theodore II. Helms, Architect,
Millwright and Civil Engineer
of Cheswold, Died Saturday

of Cheswold, Died Saturday
Theodore Robert Helms, age II
wears. of Cheswold, died on Satur-
dav. Mr.. Helms was an architect,
millwright and civil engineer by
trade and profession. His special
ty was erecting timber and flour
mills in different parts of the
world over a period of two score
wears. This profession and travel
connected thereto carried him to
tie large timber districts of south
ern. western and northwestern U.
S. A. and Canada; Hong Kong and
Shanghai, China; Panama City,
Panama; Melbourne, Australia;
Liverpool, Glasgow, Cologne and
Bordeaux; Santiago, Chile; Nagi-
saki, Japan; Odessa, Russia; Sing
apore, Straits Settlements, Malay
Peninsula; Sinabang. Sumatra;
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Budapest,
Hungary, Saigon, French Indo
China; Chihuahua, Mexico; Cal
cutta and Bombay, India. Exten-
sive travels carried him four times
around the Globe, during which
time he became conversant with
eight languages including the Ma
lay and Chinese tongues. He had
occasion to superintend the install
lation of flour mill machinery in
the Pillsbury Mills at Minneapolis
and at Budapest, Hungary, the
worlds largest flour mills. Also
he installed sawmill machinery at
Bugalcosa, Louisiana, where
plant of 75O,OO0-foot capacity was
put into operation. twenty-five
years ago Mr.. Helms moved his
family from southern Virginia to
Cheswold, where he resided at the
time Of his death. He is surviv-
ed by his wife, Mrs. Agnes Milton
Helms, who resides at Cheswold
and five children, Mrs. Katherine
Bradley, of Tallahassee, Florida;
Mrs. Marian Massey, of Harring-
ton, Del; Mrs. Cecilia Davis, of
New York City; John Milton
Helms, whose headquarters art at
Chicago, and Ernest Ayres Helms,
Of the U. S. Engineer Department
who at present is located in the
ST. Louis District.
Death of George Carey, Kenton
George Herman Carey, one Of
the best known farmers in upper
Kent County, aged about So years,
living near Kenton, was found
dead on Monday morning in a
chair in the kitchen at his home
by a negro boy, who was employ
ed on the farm. There was a bull
let wound in his throat. The
wound is believed to have been
judging from the po-
sition of a revolver found nearby,
as Mr.. Carey is thought to have
pressed the trigger with his toe
while holding the gun between his
two feet. Mr.. Carey, was the son
Of the late Philip and Ruth Boggs
Carey, formerly of near Smyrna.
Besides his wife, Mrs. Grace Gar
rison Carey, he leaves chree chill
dren, Messrs. Russell Carey, Don
aid Carey, and Mrs. Herman Cook
all of near Smyrna. Funeral ser
vices will be held at FAIRIES Fun
eral Parlors at 130 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon, Thursday, and
interment made at Odd Fellows
Cemetery.
Mrs. John A. b. Wilson, California
Mrs. Mary Jefferson Wilson,
wife of the late John A. B. Wilson
who passed away at the home Of
her son, DR.. Herman Fowler Will
son, in San Francisco, was buried
at Milton, this state, at two-thirty
p. m, on Thursday of last week.
The body Of both Dr. and Mrs.
Wilson are being moved from Cal
ifornia for interment at Milton
where for nine generations the
family has had its home. DIR.
Wilson was pastor and presiding
elder on the Delmarva peninsula
many years ago. His life long
friend, DR.. Wilbur F. Corkran will
have charge Of the funeral service.
Mrs. Wilson was the mother of
four sons DR.. Clarence True Will
son, of the Methodist Board Of
Temperance, Washington, d. G.;
DR.. Herman Fowler Wilson, of
San Francisco, with whom she
made her home; John Ralph Will
son, an attorney at San Francisco,
and DR.. Carl Groves Wilson,
at Paloalto, California.
CT. Hoffman Formerly of Smyrna
Charles F. Hoffman, aged "a,
formerly of the Smyrna Leipsic
vicinity, who, with his father, was
IN the timber business, died in
Wilmington Sunday and buried to-
DAY in Riverview Cemetery. He
was a member of Morning Star
Lodge, No. 16, l. o. o. F., of
Smyrna, and kept up his member
snip in this Lodge though he had
not been here for years.
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