Milford chronicle., 1932-09-16
FORMER DELAWARE
MAN DIES IN PENNA.

| George X. Pride, Wluely known
member of the Delaware family that
bears his name, and who were num-
bered among the earliest settlers of
Oak Orchard, died at the home of
his niece, Mrs. Josephine M. Rey-
nolds, nee Pride, at LeadOn, Pa, a
suburb of Philadelphia, on Saturday,
September 10, 1892, in his 94th year,
The passing of Mr.. Pride has clos
ed the career of one of the most out
standing personalities in the history
of Delaware of nearly century ago,
a history replete with stories of the
struggles of those early pioneers
who contributed so greatly toward
the development of what was destin-
ed to become one of the leading
states of the Nation.
Mr.. Pride was born in 1888, and
during his attendance at school ac-
quired the reputation of being the
champion speller of the district, and
engaged in many competitive spell
ing bees against a host of his old
time companions, among them being
Dan Burton, Fred Burton, Kennel r.
Stevenson, Hetty Dorman and Hetty
Jane Lingo, considered the leading
spoilers of the county.
Being an ardent fisherman during
his early life, he was the almost
constant companion of Nattick Car
mean ON his fishing excursions in
the Indian River. The latter died
many years ago at the age of SO
years. In 1860 Mr.. Pride with four
companions made what was said to
be a record fish haul which netted
them $125.00 apiece, and it was this
fund that enabled him to leave the
State of his birth for his future
home in Philadelphia. In 1861 he
chose the field of marine engineer
ing as a career, field in which he
made many friends, one of the most
intimate being an associate engi-
neer, Derrick Hazard, who now re-
sides at DagsborO, and is one of the
few surviving of the pioneer Della
wareans. Mr.. Hazard was an engi-
neer on the tugboat George w.
Pride" which was named after an
uncle of Mr.. Pride and traversed
the waters of the Delaware River
and Bay for many years.
Before leaving his birthplace, Mr..
Pride became a clerk of elections,
and upon reaching his majority, cast |
his first ballot for Abraham Lincoln,
and only recently expressed the
wish that he might live to cast his |
ballot for Herbert Hoover. 1t was |
he and his brother, Robert D. Pride, |
who died in 1922, and whose wife |
was Elizabeth DerricksOn, who gave |
to Oak Orchard the name it bears,
and where the family lived for sew
eral years.
After many years at sea Mr.. Pride
entered the mercantile business in
from which he later
retired. Up to the time of his death
he possessed a remarkably keen in
tellect, and was a most forceful and
conVersationalist, his
greatest delight being to discuss the
happenings of the early days of Del
aware with Alphonzo Hazard, who
is widely known in mercantile cir
cles in Philadelphia, and who was
Mr.. Pride's most frequent visitor,
spending many pleasurable hours in
listening to the stories of old Della
ware and its history.
Mr.. Pride had innumerable friends
and relatives in Delaware as well as
Philadelphia, among them being Lee
Joseph of Long Neck, who visited
him on his monthly visits to the
city on business, and the older res
dents of Delaware will doubtless
recall the boyhood days of Mr.. Pride
when he had as his companions, AL
Yin Lee Joseph, Morris Vessels, Pc
.er R. Burton, Joseph B. Lingo, Tai
)ert Warrington, AlphOnso Hazard,
ST., and the children of Robert D.
and that his first femi-
line choice in the section in which
le lived, was Hester Gosley, who
married William
Hurdle, Sr., of Hollyville.
Mr.. Pride married Mary Derrick
ION of Baltimore Hundred who died
several years ago, and is survived by
me son, Benjamin, who has been
II the service of the government for
many years, and granddaughter
Who became the wife of prominent
ivil engineer and who now resides
n Paris.
Interment was made in FernwOod
emetery, Philadelphia, on Tuesday,
september 13. at two o'clock.