Betty's Critters - & History Views

From  The Peninsula Enterprise  newspaper, edition of Saturday, 7 January 1893, on page 3, column 2, under the "Neighborhood Notes" heading:     "Chincoteague.   Protracted meeting at our M. E. Church, this week.   The Xmas exercises at M. P, Union and Beulah Baptist Churches especially interesting, this year.   Mrs. Zippora Reed, wife of Capt. Wm. Reed, died December 28th, of lockjaw, aged 28 years.  Her husband and 4 children survive her.   Mrs. John and Charles Dale, summoned by telegram on this day of writing to beside of their dying father, Mr. John Timmons, Whaleyville, Md.   Frank P. Talbert, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Kate Johnson, of this place, were married in Salisbury, during December.  Chincoteague is to be their future home.   Mrs. Timothy Hill died December 23d, aged 63 years.  Her husband and 4 children survive her.  She had been a life-long member of M. P. Church and loved by all who knew her.   Schooner Elnora, Boneta and Palestine loaded with oysters th