Paul Harrison Hitchens

  General Notes:

Paul H. Hitchens is the son of William Dallas Hitchens and Mary L. Hitchens
Mariner's Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Ocean View, Sussex Co., Delaware
Mary L.Hitchens, b. 1884, d. 1954, s/w Wm. Dallas Hitchens, Sec. 2, Row 5
Wm. Dallas Hitchens, b. 1881, d. 1950, s/w Mary L. Hitchens, Sec. 2, Row 5


The 1920 Federal Census for Baltimore Hundred, Sussex Co., Delaware, District 96, page 130A, dated January 13, 1920 records Wm D Hitchens (37 - DE/DE/DE) with his wife Mary L. (38 - DE/DE/DE) and children Paul H. (13), Daisy W. (7), James H. (4 6/12), and Ernest D. (3 2/12) living along Atlantice Avenue in Ocean View. William is a Clerk in a General Store.

The 1930 Federal Census for Ocean View, Sussex Co., Delaware, District 32, page 59B, dated April 15, 1930 records William D Hitchens (46 - DE/DE/DE) with his wife Mary L. (43 - DE/DE/DE) and children Paul H. (22), Daisy W. (16), James H. (13), Ernest D. (12), and Raymond H. (10). William and Mary have been married for 25 years.

Paul married Mary Elizabeth Beale, daughter of James McDowell Beale and Effie Jane Daughtrey. (Mary Elizabeth Beale was born on 1 Dec 1912 in Fluvanna Co, VA, died on 12 May 2007 in Islip Terrace, Suffolk Co., NY [Long Island] and was buried on 17 May 2007 in Mariner's Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Ocean View, Sussex Co., Delaware.)