James Pride and Ida May Millman spent all of their married lives in Lewes, Delaware. Further research is needed to document that their first home was on Third Street. A print of a watercolor painting of that home, shown at the right, is owned by Mary Jo Haverbeck, daughter of Mildred Hester Prettyman.

In 1919, sixteen years after their marriage in 1903, James Pride Prettyman purchased a lot on Mulberry Street for $1,600 from Henry C. and his wife Bessie C. Wingate. Their granddaughter Mary Jo Haverbeck, hired researcher Michelle Mumford to trace the deeds and titles on the property. According to Mumford, assessment records in Georgetown indicate the Prettymans built their home at 311 Mulberry at a later date. By 1919 James and Ida were raising three children: then 15-year-old Mildred, 14-year-old Milman Edward, Sr., and six-year-old James, Jr. The maturing family may have needed more rooms than their Second Street cottage provided. Another factor possibly fueling the move was that James had given up fishing for a living after being hired at the post office the year it opened in 1915. When the Prettymans hosted their grown children and grandchilren in later years, the house at 311 contained three bedrooms, all on the second floor. After James died in 1942, Ida rented an upstairs bedroom and the parlor, kitchen and a bathroom on the first floor. There was a natural separation in the house to make this possible as a staircase leading to the upstairs was right in the middle of the structure. That gave Ida an area for her washing machine next to the kitchen and a dining room and living room on the first floor with two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs.

A History Of The Deeds Regarding the Lot/Home On Mulberry Street
Research provided by Michelle Mumford of Rehoboth Beach, Del., 10/11/06.

Date	Names on the Deed	Sale Price
May 4, 1907	John W. and Anna B. Metcalf bought the lot from an estate	tba
Nov. 14, 1907	The Metcalfs sold to Henry C. and Bessie C. Wingate	$1,350
Feb. 21, 1919	The Wingates sold to James Pride Prettyman	$1,600
Jan. 30, 1969	When Ida Prettyman died in 1968, she willed the lot and house in equal shares to her sons Milman Edward, Sr., and James Pride, Jr., and her granddaughter Mary Jo Haverbeck who sold to Walter James, Jr., and Helen Marie Donovan.	$8,000
July 9, 1997	The name on the deed is changed to Walter James Donovan, Jr.	$1
Nov. 7, 2004	When Walter James Donovan, Jr., died Nov. 20, 2002 his estate passed to his brother Ronald Donovan who died March 25, 2003. Ronald died intestate (having made no valid will) and the title to the property passed to his surviving spouse Patricia Donovan and his children Thomas M. Donovan, Keith E. Donovan and Karen A. Markovic who sold the property to Barry S. and Stephanie A. Boright.	$372,000