Watson

Edward James Fugate

b. 1912. d. 1964. Age 52.

“Accawmack,” as it was anciently spelled, is the northern most of the two counties forming the Eastern Shore of Virginia m. Vesta Noble (1921-2003) Age 83.

as “Ye Antient Kingdome of Accawmack.” The word means “land beyond the waters,” and is the name of the tribe of

Inez Fugate Liftig

Indians that inhabited the peninsula when Captain John Smith visited it. The county contains 252,945 acres and has a b. 1948

population of about 34,795.On the ocean side a chain of islands acts as a breakwater to the mainland. One of the largest of m. Robert Liftig, 1971. b. 1947

these islands is Chincoteague, well known to the sportsmen of the North and of vast importance to the commercial life of the county because of its large fish industry. On Paramore’s Beach, Cedar, Metompkin, Wallop’s and Assateague Islands Anya Liftig

are United States life saving stations.Onancock is one of the oldest towns in Virginia. Incorporated in 1880, records show b. 1977

that as early as 1670, Onancock, while still an Indian town, had four of five white families. Francis Makemie, the founder m. Noel Hartman, 2011

of organized Presbyterianism in America, lived there in 1682.The records of Accomac and Northampton Counties are the Dorothy Liftig

oldest continuous records in the United States. The first play ever presented in English America, entitled “Ye Bare and Ye b. 1981

Cubb,” was given at Pungoteague, Accomac county, in the year 1665.

m. David Martin, 2009

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