DAILY PRESS (Newport News Virginia)
TUESDAY OCTOBER 3 1967
YORKTOWN- Funeral services for John T. Gage, 60, of Dandy Loop Road, Yorktown, who died Sunday at home, will be conducted at 3p.m. today in Amory Funeral Home chapel, Grafton, by the Reverend Ed Hampton, pastor of Dandy Baptist Church.
A lifelong resident of York County, he was a member of York River Presbyterian Church, Camp Perry, and was a veteran of World War II. He planted and worked oyster beds independently.
Survivors include two brothers, Ernest O. Gage of Hampton and Sidney Gage of Williamsburg, and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Owens of Dandy and Mrs. Florence Grubb of Newport News.
Burial will be in York River Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Mark W. Owens, W.E. Gage, E.O. Gage,Jr., James W. Grubb, Phillip F. Gage and Frank Grubb.
Watermen oystering in a Yankee Skiff, on York River in Virginia, c. 1920. Photographer unknown. Robert H. Burgess Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of Dr. A. L. Van Name. Smith Island Yankee Skiff (Staten Island Skiff)
Yankee skiffs were built around Staten Island, New York, and brought down to the Chesapeake in the 1800s to tong for oysters in Virginia. Schooners journeying north carried live Chesapeake oysters to plant in the over harvested New York waters, and on their return trip to the Bay, they carried Yankee skiffs on their decks.John T. Gage of Dandy, York County, Virginia, started working this boat with his father when he was 14 years old. Always rowed, this skiff had neither a sail rig nor an engine. The floor boards, culling board, and seats have been replaced, but much of the boat shows wear from the many years of rowing out to oyster beds.
(photo) Watermen oystering in a Yankee Skiff, on York River in Virginia, c. 1920. Photographer unknown. Robert H. Burgess Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of Dr. A. L. Van Name.
Built: c. 1890, Staten Island, NY
Length: 22 ft, 6 in (6.88 m)
Beam: 6 ft, 2 in (1.89 m)
Yankee skiff, c. 1890. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of John T. Gage. 68-116-1.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 3 1967
YORKTOWN- Funeral services for John T. Gage, 60, of Dandy Loop Road, Yorktown, who died Sunday at home, will be conducted at 3p.m. today in Amory Funeral Home chapel, Grafton, by the Reverend Ed Hampton, pastor of Dandy Baptist Church.
A lifelong resident of York County, he was a member of York River Presbyterian Church, Camp Perry, and was a veteran of World War II. He planted and worked oyster beds independently.
Survivors include two brothers, Ernest O. Gage of Hampton and Sidney Gage of Williamsburg, and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Owens of Dandy and Mrs. Florence Grubb of Newport News.
Burial will be in York River Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Mark W. Owens, W.E. Gage, E.O. Gage,Jr., James W. Grubb, Phillip F. Gage and Frank Grubb.
Watermen oystering in a Yankee Skiff, on York River in Virginia, c. 1920. Photographer unknown. Robert H. Burgess Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of Dr. A. L. Van Name. Smith Island Yankee Skiff (Staten Island Skiff)
Yankee skiffs were built around Staten Island, New York, and brought down to the Chesapeake in the 1800s to tong for oysters in Virginia. Schooners journeying north carried live Chesapeake oysters to plant in the over harvested New York waters, and on their return trip to the Bay, they carried Yankee skiffs on their decks.John T. Gage of Dandy, York County, Virginia, started working this boat with his father when he was 14 years old. Always rowed, this skiff had neither a sail rig nor an engine. The floor boards, culling board, and seats have been replaced, but much of the boat shows wear from the many years of rowing out to oyster beds.
(photo) Watermen oystering in a Yankee Skiff, on York River in Virginia, c. 1920. Photographer unknown. Robert H. Burgess Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of Dr. A. L. Van Name.
Built: c. 1890, Staten Island, NY
Length: 22 ft, 6 in (6.88 m)
Beam: 6 ft, 2 in (1.89 m)
Yankee skiff, c. 1890. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of John T. Gage. 68-116-1.
DAILY PRESS (Newport News Virginia)
TUESDAY OCTOBER 3 1967
YORKTOWN- Funeral services for John T. Gage, 60, of Dandy Loop Road, Yorktown, who died Sunday at home, will be conducted at 3p.m. today in Amory Funeral Home chapel, Grafton, by the Reverend Ed Hampton, pastor of Dandy Baptist Church.
A lifelong resident of York County, he was a member of York River Presbyterian Church, Camp Perry, and was a veteran of World War II. He planted and worked oyster beds independently.
Survivors include two brothers, Ernest O. Gage of Hampton and Sidney Gage of Williamsburg, and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Owens of Dandy and Mrs. Florence Grubb of Newport News.
Burial will be in York River Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Mark W. Owens, W.E. Gage, E.O. Gage,Jr., James W. Grubb, Phillip F. Gage and Frank Grubb.
Watermen oystering in a Yankee Skiff, on York River in Virginia, c. 1920. Photographer unknown. Robert H. Burgess Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of Dr. A. L. Van Name. Smith Island Yankee Skiff (Staten Island Skiff)
Yankee skiffs were built around Staten Island, New York, and brought down to the Chesapeake in the 1800s to tong for oysters in Virginia. Schooners journeying north carried live Chesapeake oysters to plant in the over harvested New York waters, and on their return trip to the Bay, they carried Yankee skiffs on their decks.John T. Gage of Dandy, York County, Virginia, started working this boat with his father when he was 14 years old. Always rowed, this skiff had neither a sail rig nor an engine. The floor boards, culling board, and seats have been replaced, but much of the boat shows wear from the many years of rowing out to oyster beds.
(photo) Watermen oystering in a Yankee Skiff, on York River in Virginia, c. 1920. Photographer unknown. Robert H. Burgess Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of Dr. A. L. Van Name.
Built: c. 1890, Staten Island, NY
Length: 22 ft, 6 in (6.88 m)
Beam: 6 ft, 2 in (1.89 m)
Yankee skiff, c. 1890. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of John T. Gage. 68-116-1.
TUESDAY OCTOBER 3 1967
YORKTOWN- Funeral services for John T. Gage, 60, of Dandy Loop Road, Yorktown, who died Sunday at home, will be conducted at 3p.m. today in Amory Funeral Home chapel, Grafton, by the Reverend Ed Hampton, pastor of Dandy Baptist Church.
A lifelong resident of York County, he was a member of York River Presbyterian Church, Camp Perry, and was a veteran of World War II. He planted and worked oyster beds independently.
Survivors include two brothers, Ernest O. Gage of Hampton and Sidney Gage of Williamsburg, and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Owens of Dandy and Mrs. Florence Grubb of Newport News.
Burial will be in York River Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Mark W. Owens, W.E. Gage, E.O. Gage,Jr., James W. Grubb, Phillip F. Gage and Frank Grubb.
Watermen oystering in a Yankee Skiff, on York River in Virginia, c. 1920. Photographer unknown. Robert H. Burgess Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of Dr. A. L. Van Name. Smith Island Yankee Skiff (Staten Island Skiff)
Yankee skiffs were built around Staten Island, New York, and brought down to the Chesapeake in the 1800s to tong for oysters in Virginia. Schooners journeying north carried live Chesapeake oysters to plant in the over harvested New York waters, and on their return trip to the Bay, they carried Yankee skiffs on their decks.John T. Gage of Dandy, York County, Virginia, started working this boat with his father when he was 14 years old. Always rowed, this skiff had neither a sail rig nor an engine. The floor boards, culling board, and seats have been replaced, but much of the boat shows wear from the many years of rowing out to oyster beds.
(photo) Watermen oystering in a Yankee Skiff, on York River in Virginia, c. 1920. Photographer unknown. Robert H. Burgess Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of Dr. A. L. Van Name.
Built: c. 1890, Staten Island, NY
Length: 22 ft, 6 in (6.88 m)
Beam: 6 ft, 2 in (1.89 m)
Yankee skiff, c. 1890. Collection of the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, MD. Gift of John T. Gage. 68-116-1.
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