Josiah Clark ChadwickFamily HistoryJosiah Clark Chadwick (known to family and friends as "Joe", but known to me as "Grandaddy")was a quiet man who didn't talk much about his life. Most of the facts gathered in this writingare from documents | inherited and stories by family members told long after he was gone.Josiah was born on March 28, 1898 on Shackleford Banks, North Carolina. His birth wasrecorded in Straits, NC on the mainland. He was one of the last babies born on ShacklefordBanks, since the devastation of the 1899 hurricane caused all residents to move to themainland by 1902.Josiah was born to Josiah Willis Chadwick and Missouri Moore Chadwick, both of long timeNorth Carolina fishing families whose history can be traced back to the whaling days. JosiahWillis was with the Bogue Inlet Life Saving Station, and his service jacket from that duty is ondisplay at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort, North Carolina.The Chadwick family established residence in Beaufort shortly after moving from ShacklefordBanks and the family home is still occupied by Chadwick descendants to this day.Joe had two siblings: Samuel Thomas Chadwick and Pauline Ruth Chadwick.Joe married Stella Sophia Morris from Staten Island, New York, in 1926, and had three sons:Francis Clark Chadwick, John (Jack) Willis Chadwick (my father), and Warren J Chadwick.Joe's career was on the water from nearly his first working days, although he didn't carry on thefamily fishing tradition. He started as a radio operator with Western Union in 1917, thenmoved quickly to the shipping industry, working in various positions on freighters running fromNorth Carolina to New York, before finding a position with the Army Corps of Engineers inNorth Carolina (then a part of the War Department) in 1927.He worked 32 years for the Corps, and his work carried him into practically all of the 1500 milesof federal waterway projects in Eastern North Carolina. His primary tasks were with dieselengines for the majority of his career and then in 1949 shifted to inspection work aboarddredges. His service includes duty on the Manteo, Albemarle, Neuse, Kitty Hawk, DredgeJosenhans and numerous others.Grandaddy passed away March 31, 1980, just days after turning 82 years old. He lived aproductive work and home life, enjoying a 53-year marriage to Stella, who died in 1979, andraising three successful sons.