Charles Ridgeway had an unfortunate accident in 1886
New Jersey Courier 21 Jun 1886 (Barnegat column)
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Elizaeth Whalen committed to jail, 1886
New Jersey Courier 8 Dec 1886 I tried to find out more about this woman...I haven't been able to locate her on the 1880 or 1885 census, and unfortunately there is no 1890 census for Ocean County, so without knowing how long she lived in Manchester it's going to be hard to be certain if any given entry is hers. I did find a death record for an Elizabeth Whalen of Ocean County in March of 1929, but it's impossible to say if this is the same person. However, this was not Mrs. Whalen's first time in jail. On 10 Jun of 1885, the New Jersey Courier also reported: And the Lakewood Times and Journal reported on that same incident on 13 June 1885 with a little more detail A June 18th, 1884 story in the Courier makes mention of one Maggie Whalen being a pupil at the Manchester school. Could this be one of Elizabeth's children? There was also a man named Thomas Whalen in some news items prior to 1886--Thomas had a wife named Catherine and several children (including an Eliz
Millard Jamison obituary, 1886
New Jersey Courier, Wednesday December 22,1886: "An accident occurred at the crossing of the New Jersey Southern Railway at Ridgeway yesterday morning, resulting in the death of a man directly in front of his home, and within twenty yards of it. Millard F Jameson, a son in law of John H Irons, had been at work with his father-in-law a short distance from his home. Shortly after eleven o'clock, he started for home to put up his team. To reach home he was compelled to cross the railroad track. Train No. 10, William Savage, engineer and George Brown conducter, left Lakwewood at 10:45, for Barnegat, being due at this town at 11:20. When within a short distance of the Ridgeway crossing, the engineer saw Jameson on the track with his team. The air brakes were at once put on, the engine reversed and the throttle pulled wide open, but too late to avert the catastrophe, although the train was stopped within two hundred feet of the spot where it was when Jameson was first seen.
Death of Abigail Pinion, 1886
New Jersey Mirror 17 Nov 1886 Died-At Timbuctoo, November 5, 1886, Abigail Ann, wife of Theophilus Pinion, aged 36 years