This double house was sold by James B. and Marietta Zebly (heirs of Thomas Lamplugh Zebly) in 1888 to Catherine J. Horner. Catherine sold it in 1913 to Charles Warren Deppish (b. 1869) and Angeline Horner “Annie” Deppish, Annie being Catherine Horner’s daughter. However, it appears that the home may have been an investment property for Catherine and her daughter because the Dye family is known to have lived in #501 at that time. However, Catherine and Annie could have lived in #503.

It is known that from at least 1895 until 1918, #501 was the home of William Morrison Dye (1865-1911), who was the second son of the widely acclaimed decoy carver, Captain Benjamin Franklin Dye (b. 1832 in New Jersey) and his wife, Adeline Mitchell Dye. Adeline had died in 1887 and it was also here in their son’s home that Captain Ben died from tuberculosis in 1895 at age 63. His obituary said that Captain Dye had moved to Havre de Grace in 1884 and was “engaged in gunning and fishing.” William Dye ran a licensed Harford County sink box in 1891 and again in 1898 and 1902, and described himself as a “fisherman,” but William died at the age of 45 in 1911 leaving a young family. His widow, Carrie Horner Dye (1869-1925), who had married William at St. John’s Church in 1888, was one of a few Havre de Grace mothers who had more than one son serving in WWI. Their two sons listed below were living at this address in 1917-1918.

William Benjamin Dye was born in 1891 and enlisted in the National Guard in May 1917. By August 1917 he was a Private First Class, a Cook and a Sergeant in March 1918, and Mess Sergeant in May 1919. Sgt. Dye served in Company D of the 1st Maryland Infantry and Company D of the 115th Infantry. He served overseas from June 1918 to May 1919, when he became a patient at Camp Stuart, Virginia, and then at Fort McHenry, Maryland. He was honorably discharged September 1919, and is listed on the Roll of Honor at Tydings Park. He died 10 years later.

Robert C. Dye was born in 1895 and lived here when he was inducted in May 1918. He was promoted to Private First Class in August 1918 and to Corporal in December 1918. He served in the 9th Battalion 154th Depot Brigade, Company G and the 313th Infantry and saw action in the Avocourt Sector, Meuse Argonne, and Troyon Sector, and was slightly wounded. He was overseas from July 1918 to June 1919 and honorably discharged June 7, 1919. He died three months after returning home from WWI. He is listed on the Roll of Honor at Tydings Park.

Charles Deppish predeceased his wife and when Annie died she left a Will in 1940 that bequeathed the property to their son, John Roebling Deppish (1911-1953). John, his wife Myrrell, and their son George sold this property in 1947 to Philip C. Tyler (1913-2002) and Grace H. Tyler. Philip had served in WWII—the War Department had announced just two years earlier that Private Philip C. Tyler was one of eighteen Maryland men who were liberated from German prison camps.

In 1949 this home was sold by Philip and Grace Tyler to J. Franklin Mitchell (1885-1962) and Bessie M. Mitchell (1887-1979). Bessie was the daughter of George and Susan Thompson. Bessie continued to live here through the death of her husband and in 1980 the personal representative of her estate sold the home to Harford Memorial Hospital.