Date of Service: 1871-1875 1842+/-: John Phillip Crabbe is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. 1871-1872: John Crabbe serves as Assistant at York Spit Lighthouse, VA. His salary is $400/year. 1874-1875: John Crabbe serves as Assistant at York Spit Lighthouse, VA. 1886: John Crabbe is a farmer in Westmoreland County, VA. 1912: John Phillip Crabbe …
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Date of Service: 1871-1872 1839: Judith Hale is born in April, in Virginia. 1858+/-: George Henry Selden marries Judith Hale in Westmoreland, VA. 1871-1872: Judy Selden is appointed Second Assistant at York Spit Lighthouse, VA. Her salary is $400/year. (Her husband George H. Selden serves as Principal Keeper)
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Date of Service: 1870 – 1886 1837: George Henry Selden is born in March, in Virginia. 1839: Judith Hale is born in April, in Virginia. 1858+/-: George Henry Selden marries Judith Hale in Westmoreland, VA. 1864-1866: George H. Selden enlists in the U.S. Navy in September 1864, where he served as Petty Officer on the …
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Date of Service: 1888-1919 1862: Born July 24 in Mathews County, VA to parents John P. & Margaret E. (Thurston) Hurst. 1886: Marries Narcissus Phillips Hudgins on February 22 in Mathews County, VA. The couple raises two daughter, Pearl Lorraine and Gladys Leone, and one son, Warner Arnold. 1888-1891: Serves as First Assistant Keeper at …
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Date of Service: 1879-1882 1836: Born in Virginia. 1879-1882: Served as Second Assistant at York Spit Shoal Lighthouse, VA. His annual salary was $400/year. Sources: Familysearch.org, Chesapeake Chapter Database.
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Date of Service: 1873-1885 1844: Born in Virginia. 1873: Served as Second Assistant at York Spit Shoal Lighthouse, VA. His annual salary was $400/year. 1874-1876: Served as Assistant Keeper at Deep Water Shoals Lighthouse, VA. His annual salary was $420/year. 1876-1882: Served as Assistant Keeper at Point of Shoals Lighthouse, VA. His annual salary was …
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Date of Service: 1881-1883 1846+/-: In September, Dennis Hackett Bourbon is born a free man in Alexandria, VA., to parents Dennis & Rachel Lyles Bourbon. 1870: Dennis Bourbon, age 24, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in July at Boston, MA. He is described as 5’-8” tall and works as a ship carpenter. 1880: In the …
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1837: A request is made to the Secretary of the Treasury to provide a contract for construction of a light vessel on York River Spit, or a lighthouse in Virginia on March 3 for $10,000. 1853: A request is made to the Lighthouse Board from the Custom House Office in Yorktown, Virginia to provide a …
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Date of Service: 1894 – 1925 1877: Born in Mathews County, VA 1894 – 1903: Serves at Old Plantation Flats Lighthouse. 1904: Married Fannie May Hudgins. Had three children – two daughters – Jessie Olga Salter Crouch and Mabel Salter Best; and one son – Charles Bradley Salter. 1903 – 1908: Serves at York Spit …
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Date of Service: 1881 – 1916 1835: Born on June 18 in Mathews County, VA.1858: Marries Laberta F. Jarvis on November 11. Couple raises ten children: Martha, Louisa, Mary Ellen, Wesley, Mary E., Tommie, Robert, Delena, Maria, and Luther. 1860s: Ripley serves during the Civil War for the Confederacy on the Giles Light Artillery – …
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Date of Service: 1888 – 1915 1862: Born on July 24 – Barn Creek, Gwynn’s Island, VA.1888 – 1890: Assistant on Cape Charles Light Vessel #46. 1891 – 1893: Captain of newly christened Cape Charles LV #49.1892: Married Annie “Lovie” Grimstead on July 13.1893 – 1894: Service at Cherrystone Bar as Assistant ($435/year) and Old …
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Date of Service: 1922 – 1948 1894: Born on November 23 in Mathews, VA. 1917 to 1919: Serves as a Corporal in the U.S. Army during WWI in France; 7th Company, 154th Depot Brigade based in Camp Meade.1921: Marries Clementine Ware Forrest on April 25 in Norfolk, VA. Couple raises two children – …
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Date of Service: 1895 – 1923 1856: Born on January 17 in Mathews County, VA1879 or 1880: Married Ellen Gertrude “Mittie” Thomas and raised eleven children.1895: Serves at the Smith Point Lighthouse. The Chesapeake Bay freezes. Ice strikes lighthouse – carries it six miles away from the foundation. Lantern, fog-bell apparatus, oil and some supply …
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Date of Service: 1916 – 1943 1882: Born January 5 in Mathews County, VA1908: Married Edna Grey Brooks on November 18 at Bethel United Methodist Church in Laban (now Onemo), Virginia. The couple raises three children, daughters Edna Virginia, Alice Jeanette and a son, James Carlton.1916 to 1917: Serves as Second Assistant Keeper at Wolf …
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York Spit Lighthouse was built in 1870 in the Chesapeake Bay about 5 miles east of Rue Point at the southern entrance to the York River, Virginia. It was to mark a long shoal that paralleled the main channel into the York River eight miles into the Chesapeake Bay. Prior to the construction of the …
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