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Fallen officer memorialized, almost a century later (LINK)
Source: Easter Shore News (The Daily Times)
Descendants of William Sweeny of Chester, PA
Chester, PA, near Philadelphia, is no longer the best area to live, but used to be a thriving city where many of my ancestors originated from.
The Death of Sergeant James Alfred Taylor
Cape Charles, Virginia police sergeant dies from a gunshot would trying to capture a killer.
John Sweeny of Lewes, Sussex, Delaware
John Sweeny could be the father of William Sweeny of Chester, PA. John's will leaves William out, but does that mean he is not his father?
Review of the Sea Gate Bed and Breakfast
I recently stayed at the Sea Gate Bed and Breakfast for a memorial Service I attended in Cape Charles, VA. My second great grandfather was killed in 1918 while working as a police officer in the town. He had not been remembered until recently.
The bed and breakfast is wonderfully located just off the beaches of Cape Charles. The house was built in 1912 and has ample space for several guests.
The BB has a wonderful porch to sit on and the house is appropriately decorated to match the old town of Cape Charles. It is also within walking distance to the “Main St.” of Cape Charles, which is Mason Ave. There are small shops and eateries on Mason Ave.
Every morning you are served a wonderful breakfast by the owner of the BB that surpasses any breakfast you would get at a normal hotel or somewhere like Denny’s. During your breakfast you can read the newspaper while listening to soft classical music. I really cannot express to you how nice the breakfast was.
I stayed in the Blue Room, which had it’s own bathroom (shower), queen bed, TV (cable), reading chair, desk, night stands and plenty of mirrors.
The owner is very kind and is very easy to talk to. If you are going to stay in Cape Charles, VA, The Sea Gate Bed and Breakfast is a great place to stay.
www.seagatebb.com
www.seagatebb.com
3 Shot by Negro at Cape Charles
Police Sergeant Taylor's wounds Critical - Sailors Guard Town
Special to the Washington Post
Cape Charles, VA., Nov 29, [1918] - James Nottingham, aged 29, was shot through the groin, and Artis Scott, aged 21, was shot through the leg at a negro dance hall here last night. Nottingham's condition is serious. Both are colored mess attendants at the Cherrystone Naval Base. Nottingham's home is in Norfolk, where he was taken for treatment. The shooting, which is said to have resulted over the jealousy of a woman, was done by Jerry Warren, a negro.
Early this morning a squad of sailors from the naval base, headed by Ogden Lescallette, a warrant officer from the naval base, and town police sergeant, James Taylor, started in search of Warren. While the sailors stood on guard the officers entered a house in the negro settlement which was known as the negro's rendezvous. As Sergt. Taylor entered a room Warren opened fire. Taylor was shot through the arm, leg and stomach, the bullet passing through his body. His conditional is critical.
As the negro was making his getaway Officer Lescallette shot the gun from his hand. Picking up the weapon the negro fled. Although sailors pursued, firing as they ran, he succeeded in escaping. As the negro is believed to be in hiding here the town is being guarded by a cordon of sailors and marines. Sergt. Taylor has done police duty in this town for fifteen years, and is well known on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Officer Lescallette is a native of Crisfield, Md.
Source: The Washington Post (1877-1922); Nov 30, 1918; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Washington Post (1877-1993) pg. 3
Special to the Washington Post
Cape Charles, VA., Nov 29, [1918] - James Nottingham, aged 29, was shot through the groin, and Artis Scott, aged 21, was shot through the leg at a negro dance hall here last night. Nottingham's condition is serious. Both are colored mess attendants at the Cherrystone Naval Base. Nottingham's home is in Norfolk, where he was taken for treatment. The shooting, which is said to have resulted over the jealousy of a woman, was done by Jerry Warren, a negro.
Early this morning a squad of sailors from the naval base, headed by Ogden Lescallette, a warrant officer from the naval base, and town police sergeant, James Taylor, started in search of Warren. While the sailors stood on guard the officers entered a house in the negro settlement which was known as the negro's rendezvous. As Sergt. Taylor entered a room Warren opened fire. Taylor was shot through the arm, leg and stomach, the bullet passing through his body. His conditional is critical.
As the negro was making his getaway Officer Lescallette shot the gun from his hand. Picking up the weapon the negro fled. Although sailors pursued, firing as they ran, he succeeded in escaping. As the negro is believed to be in hiding here the town is being guarded by a cordon of sailors and marines. Sergt. Taylor has done police duty in this town for fifteen years, and is well known on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Officer Lescallette is a native of Crisfield, Md.
Source: The Washington Post (1877-1922); Nov 30, 1918; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Washington Post (1877-1993) pg. 3
Warren to Die in Chair
Convicted of Murder of Sergt. J. A. Taylor at Cape Charles
Special to the Washington Post
Cape Charles, VA., Dec 21, [1918] - Jerry Warren, who shot and killed Sergt. James A. Taylor on thanksgiving and was captured several days later in Wilmington, Del., was tried here yesterday and, upon a verdict of first degree murder, was sentenced to die in the electric chair on June 25 next.
Source: The Washington Post (1877-1922); Dec 22, 1918; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Washington Post (1877-1993) pg. 7
Special to the Washington Post
Cape Charles, VA., Dec 21, [1918] - Jerry Warren, who shot and killed Sergt. James A. Taylor on thanksgiving and was captured several days later in Wilmington, Del., was tried here yesterday and, upon a verdict of first degree murder, was sentenced to die in the electric chair on June 25 next.
Source: The Washington Post (1877-1922); Dec 22, 1918; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Washington Post (1877-1993) pg. 7
Chester Couple Happily Married Sixty-Six Years
It isn't so much the lack of love as fast living, that is responsible for so many divorces in these times, is the opinion of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Sweeny, of 217 West Fifth St, who are today quietly celebrating the sixty-sixth anniversary of their wedding. The couple were married July 9, 1865, in the Methodist parsonage on Welsh Street, shortly after Mr. Sweeny had returned from service in the Civil War. The parsonage where they were united in wedlock has long given place to more modern structures, and memories have become vague of those times long ago when this city was slightly larger that a good sized village, but Mr. and Mrs. Sweeny, like the brook in Tennyson's famous poem, seem to, "go on forever."
Mr. Sweeny is 89 and Mrs. Sweeny is 84. Both are in excellent health despite their age and Mr. Sweeny works every day as a guard at the Delaware County Trust Company in the Crozer building, a position he has held for over thirty years.
Three sons were born to the couple, all of whom are living. They are, Charles R. Sweeny, Jr., 65; William B. Sweeny, 63; and John Sweeny, 59. There are eighteen grandchildren, thirty-five great grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild, representing five generations.
"It was always my desire to be a great-great grandmother." said Mrs. Sweeny this morning. "and now that I have realized my desires it gives me as much satisfaction as though I had amassed millions of dollars."
Grey-haired, aged, but ____, the elderly couple still stand staunch and ___ with life, widened by experience and happy.
Rap Fast Living
Both believe the present generation is living "too fast."
"Our opinion isn't occasioned by our lack of modernity and this generation's ideas, but we have seen and know both, and believe the old way of living is much better," they say.
"When we were young," Mrs. Sweeny said this morning, "we played hard and worked hard, and got plenty of sleep, which, after all, is the most beneficial factor of good health. But now, poeple think they must stay up until past midnight in order to have a complete day."
Mrs. Sweeny abhors the fact that women have taken to smoking and drinking. She doesn't believe it is just the thing to do and moreover, contends that is subtracts extremely from the innate dignity of women.
"When I was a girl, and indeed, up until several years ago, women who smoked were not tolerated in good society, but now that's all changed. If you don't smoke, you're liable to be a wall-flower, and no young girl wants to be that."
There is nothing prudish about Mr. and Mrs. Sweeny. Longevity has rewarded them with a sounded philosophy of life which they hold to be best for them. They criticize the present generation only in that the views of those who count themselves members of this "age" conflict so sharply with their views.
There will be no celebration today. As they term it, "we got tired of celebrations long ago," and the day will be passed quietly in their peaceful home, where they have lived for the past 24 years.
Mr. Sweeny is 89 and Mrs. Sweeny is 84. Both are in excellent health despite their age and Mr. Sweeny works every day as a guard at the Delaware County Trust Company in the Crozer building, a position he has held for over thirty years.
Three sons were born to the couple, all of whom are living. They are, Charles R. Sweeny, Jr., 65; William B. Sweeny, 63; and John Sweeny, 59. There are eighteen grandchildren, thirty-five great grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild, representing five generations.
"It was always my desire to be a great-great grandmother." said Mrs. Sweeny this morning. "and now that I have realized my desires it gives me as much satisfaction as though I had amassed millions of dollars."
Grey-haired, aged, but ____, the elderly couple still stand staunch and ___ with life, widened by experience and happy.
Rap Fast Living
Both believe the present generation is living "too fast."
"Our opinion isn't occasioned by our lack of modernity and this generation's ideas, but we have seen and know both, and believe the old way of living is much better," they say.
"When we were young," Mrs. Sweeny said this morning, "we played hard and worked hard, and got plenty of sleep, which, after all, is the most beneficial factor of good health. But now, poeple think they must stay up until past midnight in order to have a complete day."
Mrs. Sweeny abhors the fact that women have taken to smoking and drinking. She doesn't believe it is just the thing to do and moreover, contends that is subtracts extremely from the innate dignity of women.
"When I was a girl, and indeed, up until several years ago, women who smoked were not tolerated in good society, but now that's all changed. If you don't smoke, you're liable to be a wall-flower, and no young girl wants to be that."
There is nothing prudish about Mr. and Mrs. Sweeny. Longevity has rewarded them with a sounded philosophy of life which they hold to be best for them. They criticize the present generation only in that the views of those who count themselves members of this "age" conflict so sharply with their views.
There will be no celebration today. As they term it, "we got tired of celebrations long ago," and the day will be passed quietly in their peaceful home, where they have lived for the past 24 years.
Benjamin B. Bouchelle Obituary - 1927
BENJ. B. BOUCHELLE
Benjamin B. Bouchelle, a former resident of this city, died this morning after some months illness and the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Bowles of 3424 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. An operation over a year ago caused the ill effects from which Mr. Bouchelle died at the age of 70.
He was a member of the Chester Council, No. 36 _ of _ A. and also the Philadelphia Electric Quarter Century Club.
He is survived by his sons and daughters, Mrs. Bowles, Miss Marie Bouchelle of Philadelphia; Paul Bouchelle, Mrs. Charles Sweeny and Mrs. Florence Hoffecker, of Chester, and Benjamin Bouchelle, of Bortondale. For many years he was employed at the Beacon Light Company plant.
The funeral will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Hoffecker, at 1616 Upland St., this city. Internment will be private.
Benjamin B. Bouchelle, a former resident of this city, died this morning after some months illness and the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Bowles of 3424 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. An operation over a year ago caused the ill effects from which Mr. Bouchelle died at the age of 70.
He was a member of the Chester Council, No. 36 _ of _ A. and also the Philadelphia Electric Quarter Century Club.
He is survived by his sons and daughters, Mrs. Bowles, Miss Marie Bouchelle of Philadelphia; Paul Bouchelle, Mrs. Charles Sweeny and Mrs. Florence Hoffecker, of Chester, and Benjamin Bouchelle, of Bortondale. For many years he was employed at the Beacon Light Company plant.
The funeral will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock from the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Hoffecker, at 1616 Upland St., this city. Internment will be private.
Ella C. Bouchelle Obituary - 1945
MRS. ELLA C. BOUCHELLE
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Clever Bouchelle, 75, formerly of Chester, who died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Bowles, 3440 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Friday, will be held in Philadelphia at the convenience of the family.
Mrs. Bouchelle, widow of Benjamin Bouchelle, formerly employed here by the Philadelphia Electric Company, was born and raised in this city, moving to Philadelphia about 20 years ago. Survivors include, in addition to Mrs. Bowles, two other daughters, Mrs. William Hoffecker, of 200 Garvin Boulevard, Sharon Hill, and Mrs. Ella Sweeny, 1401 Melrose avenue, this city, and a son, Benjamin, of West Grove.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Clever Bouchelle, 75, formerly of Chester, who died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Bowles, 3440 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Friday, will be held in Philadelphia at the convenience of the family.
Mrs. Bouchelle, widow of Benjamin Bouchelle, formerly employed here by the Philadelphia Electric Company, was born and raised in this city, moving to Philadelphia about 20 years ago. Survivors include, in addition to Mrs. Bowles, two other daughters, Mrs. William Hoffecker, of 200 Garvin Boulevard, Sharon Hill, and Mrs. Ella Sweeny, 1401 Melrose avenue, this city, and a son, Benjamin, of West Grove.
Sarah H. Sweeny Obituary - 1924
SWEENY-On July 8th, 1924. Sarah H., beloved wife of Charles R. Sweeny. The Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services on Friday after-noon at 2 o'clock, from the residence of her son-in-law, A. R. Mahoney, 809 West Fifth Street. Friends may call on Thursday evening.
Internment at Lawn Croft Cemetery.
Internment at Lawn Croft Cemetery.