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Updated March 12, 2012.

GRIMSTEAD, DELON.

September 1, 2010. LYDIA GRIMSTEAD SMITH celebrates 60 years of marriage.

November 29, 2011. CHARLES WASHINGTON GRIMSTEAD

April 1, 2010.

August 28, 2010.

September 17, 2010. Russell Harvey Grimstead was born on Knotts Island in 1924, served in the Coast Guard and Navy during World War II. He served with his brother William on the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter George M. Bibb. Following WW II, he became the caretaker and guide at the Flyway Club.

Louis & Beulah Grimstead with William (baby) born 11/9/22. Front. Lucille Grimstead Shores, Edna Etheridge Hooper, Frances Grimstead Dixon.

Family in 1918, Beulah Grimstead, John Corbell, Louis Grimstead, Blanch & George Pallette, Mr and Mrs DeLon.Front row unknown.

Thomas DeLon and wife.

Capt. Delon, Lucille Grimstead Shores, Boy unknown.

Comment - April 9,2010 - Jane Brumley: Thomas H. DeLon was appointed keeper of Station False Cape, Virginia on August 15, 1910. This station started in 1881, was abandoned in 1946.

March 12, 2012. Comment - Janet Simons.
Following is some info from Fielding Tyler, who was at the restored Coast Guard Station at the Oceanfront.
Thomas Harvey DeLon...His first record in the US Life-Saving Service was in 1905 where he was assigned as a Surfman at False Cape. He had probably entered the service at some period prior to the turn of the century. (He was born 12/9/1872) He participated in the rescue of survivors of the Belgian schooner Antigoon which stranded on the beach in December 1905. In 1907 he and other surfmen from the False Cape was well as the Little Island Life-saving Station received awards from the Belgian Government. Surfman DeLon was presented with a Belgian Civic Cross, 2nd Class and five dollars (25 Belgian francs.) In 1908 DeLon appears on the roster at False Cape Life-Saving Station as Surfman Number 1. In August 1910 he was appointed Keeper of the False Cape Station. He served as Keeper at least until 1918. No further mention is available after that date. From the award document--other members listed from the False Cape Station: William H. O'Neal, coxswain; and Harry W. Cason, William J. Stevens, Walter J. Williams, Clayton Ewell, Henry N. Holmes and Charles H. Wroton.