Charles R. Havens of Emlay's Hill escapes an injury, 1905
New Egypt Press 8 Dec 1905
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Jane White obituary 1905
N J Courier, Thursday June 15,1905: " Miss Jane D White, aged 58 years, died June 6th at Whitesville. She was the daughter of the late Judge James White. There are three sisters and brothers, as follows: Mrs Joseph Hankins, Mrs William Davis, Mrs C L Holman, John Wesley, Edward Pugh and Joseph E White. Miss White led a quiet, unobtrusive life and was a consistent member of the M E Church for many years. Services were held in the Whitesville Church on Tuesday afternoon and the burial was in the home cemetery. County Clerk Holman and other relatives from Toms River attended" (Burial was at Whitesville Cemetery per Anderson & Campbell records & NJ death certificate, grave is unmarked)
John Henry Hendrickson obituary, 1905
NJ Courier, Thursday June 15,1905: "John Henry Hendrickson of Prospertown, died May 27, after an illness of two months, from heart failure. He was 78 years old. When 16 years old he married Elizabeth Ann Burk of Jackson Mills, and the following children survive with the widow: William of Jersey City; Timothy, Charles and Thomas of Prospertown; Ulyesses of Jackson Mills; Henry of Crosswicks; George of Cream Ridge; Gordon of Allentown; Mary of Yardville; Frances of Lakewood; Letitia of Florence; Hannah of Red Valley, and Emma of Prospertown, All the 13 children attended the funeral services. Also 36 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren survive, and one brother, Richard Hendrickson of Easton, Pa. The deceased was a farmer. He was a member of the 14th N J Vols, and of G A R Post No 72, of New Egypt. He lived his entire life near Prospertown and had been a member of Imlays Hill Methodist Church many years". (Burial was at Emley's Hill Cemetery
John Hendrickson obituary, 1905
from the New Jersey Courier 15 Jun 1905: John Henry Hendrickson of Prospertown, died May 27, after an illness of two months, from heart failure. He was 78 years old. When 16 years old he married Elizabeth Ann Burk of Jackson Mills, and the following children survive with the widow: William of Jersey City; Timothy, Charles and Thomas of Prospertown; Ulyesses of Jackson Mills; Henry of Crosswicks; George of Cream Ridge; Gordon of Allentown; Mary of Yardville; Frances of Lakewood; Letitia of Florence; Hannah of Red Valley, and Emma of Prospertown, All the 13 children attended the funeral services. Also 36 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren survive, and one brother, Richard Hendrickson of Easton, Pa. The deceased was a farmer. He was a member of the 14th N J Vols, and of G A R Post No 72, of New Egypt. He lived his entire life near Prospertown and had been a member of Imlays Hill Methodist Church many years
News from New Egypt, 1905
New Egypt Press 21 Apr 1905: The Tuckahoe River is the favorite haunt of many Philadelphia anglers. The Carpenters and Joiners Local Union, of Millville, celebrated its sixteenth anniversary with a banquet on Monday night. Struck by a Jersey Central train at Greenwich yesterday, 14 year old Robert E. LEAMING had a leg cut off. He was taken to Bridgeton Hospital. There is a slight improvement in the glass condition of South Jersey and manufacturers say the factories now in operation will continue to the end of the blast, June 30. The Board of Freeholders of Cape May County has awarded the contract of regraveling the new county road across teh meadow, from Five Mile Beach to the mainland, to former Senator Hand. It is believed at Paterson that the woman who committed suicide in Altoona, PA Monday by throwing herself under a freight train was Mrs. Fannie LONG of Paterson. She had gone to Altoona to see her husband, who was ill in a hospital.
Elizabeth Burke obituary, 1908
New Jersey Courier, April 16,1908: "Mrs Elizabeth Burke, wife of Aaron Burke, died at her home near Cassville April 4, aged 52 years, 11 months and 26 days. Brights disease was the cause of death. She had been failing for more than a year, but had been about the house to within a little more than an hour before she died. She was born in the vicinity of Cassville and had always lived there. She was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs James Moore. Besides her husband nine children, five sons and four daughters, survive as follows: C A Burke, Smithburg; Frank Burke, Lakewood; Charles, Oliver and Norman Burke, who live at home; Mrs Hattie Griggs of Cassville; Mrs William A Horner, Freehold; Mrs Flora Bills, Cassville; and Miss Flossie Burke of home. Five brothers, George and William Moore of Cassville; Barzilai of Lakewood; Peter of Toms River and A J Moore of Clarksburg, also survive. Interment was made at Cassville cemetery".
News From Archertown, 1905
New Egypt Press 31 Mar 1905 A party of friends were entertained on Monday evening by Walter Bell and wife, it being their first evening in their new home. Those present spent a very pleasant evening playing bingo, Jenkins up Copenhagen, and various other games. Refreshments were served at a late hour. There were about forty people present. There have been many moving here during the past week. Walter Bell moved his family on the farm at the schoolhouse corner, lately vacated by Thomas Riley whom moved on the Davis farm. Alfred Southard moved on the old Henry Moore place; George Horner moved from the corner house formerly occupied by Jackson Southard, on the road to the Hopkins place; Alfred Bell moved in the house vacated by Walter Bell, and Ellis Hopkins moved where Albert moved from. Nearly everyone of Archertown's inhabitants have moved in new homes. Edward Ivins whose birthday was on Wednesday of this week, had the misfortune to be sick all day. He is twelve years old, and
New Egypt News, 1905
New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905: William HOMES, of Forked River, and Miss Stella JONES, of Waretown, were married at Barnegat last Thursday. John WEBB, of Tuckerton, is in the Hanemann Hospital, Phila., receiving surgical treatment. He was operated on Wednesday last and is doing nicely. Not for sometime has the oyster situation at Tuckerton assumed such serious aspects as at the present owing to the continued freeze. The ice is from a foot to a foot and a half thick, and the skipper's reserves stock is exhausted. Some shippers who have standing orders have been compelled to cut holes in the ice and tong for the oysters. Not only is a famine threatened but many of the planters are afraid that the continuance of the ice will kill their stock.
Jane D White obituary, 1905
from New Jersey Courier 15 Jun 1905 Miss Jane D White, aged 58 years, died June 6th at Whitesville. She was the daughter of the late Judge James White. There are three sisters and brothers, as follows: Mrs Joseph Hankins, Mrs William Davis, Mrs C L Holman, John Wesley, Edward Pugh and Joseph E White. Miss White led a quiet, unobtrusive life and was a consistent member of the M E Church for many years. Services were held in the Whitesville Church on Tuesday afternoon and the burial was in the home cemetery. County Clerk Holman and other relatives from Toms River attended
