Ocean County , NJ History

from New Jersey Courier 2 Jun 1909 A pretty home wedding occurred Wednesday in East Fourth Street, when Miss Mary Ethel Johnson, daughter of Mr and Mrs J C Johnson, became the wife of Mr Frank Edgar Baldwin, of Red Bank, the ceremony occurring at one o'clock and performed by the Rev C P Butler of the Presbyterian Church. The bride was gowned in a charming princess dress of white batiste with lace and embroidery and carried white roses. Her going away gown was of London Smoke broadcloth and she wore a panama hat with lilacs. The young couple received many pretty gifts. After the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served to the company and the bride and groom left amid showers of rice and confetti to their home in Atlantic Highlands which is in readiness for them. The wedding company numbered about twenty six and included the relatives and a few friends from Lakewood, the grooms mother, sister and brothers, Mrs G W Baldwin, Miss Estelle Baldwin and Messrs George B and Will

from the Trenton Evening Times, 13 Aug 1909 BODY OF MYERS WAS BURIED TODAY Solemn Closing Chapter of Drowning Accident Enacted Today in Burlington. Special to the Times. BURLINGTON, Aug 13. - The closing chapter of the sudden disappearance of Harold Myers from the pleasure launch Viking has taken place, and the body has been interred. After the body had been discovered by J. Dougherty, an undertaker at Nineteenth and Callowhill Streets, Philadelphia, who was returning home after a fishing trip, and turned over to Harry Rue, an undertaker in Bristol, Pa., and a coroner, the body was identified by the watch and other belongings in Myers's pockets. Viewing the remains and discovering no signs of foul play, the coroner decided an inquest was unnecessary. Yesterday morning Bert Goldman, who was on the boat when Myers disappeared, accompanied Undertaker Slack to Bristol and identified the body and later brought it to this city. The funeral took place from his late home at two o'c

From the New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

New Jersey Courier,19 Aug 1909

New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

From the New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

From the New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

From the New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

From the New Jersey Courier, 19 Aug 1909

From the New Jersey Courier , 19 Aug 1909

From the New Jersey Courier 19 Aug 1909

from the Trenton Evening Times, 2 Mar 1909 FISH. - In this city, on the 28th ult., Anna L., wife of Thomas Fish, in the 68th year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral from her husband's residence, No. 20 Emory Avenue, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment at Mt. Holly, N.J., at convenience of the family. (another article with the same information says burial will be at Mt. Holly Cemetery.)

Trenton Evening Times, 17 Feb 1909 FORMER SURROGATE DEAD MOUNT HOLLY, Feb 17 - William K. Armstrong, 93 (or 98 ?) years old, former surrogate of this county and a Justice of the Peace for many years, died Monday evening at his home in Lambaton, of pneumonia.

Below are a few snippets from the New Jersey Mirror concerning the murder of John Webb by his brother, David. The names of this family seem similar to those of the family of Cassville famous for beginning cranberry cultivation in the 1840s, but I can't be sure. 20 Oct 1909 David L. Webb, of Webbsville, after killing his brother, John Webb, in a quarrel, walked 16 miles to Toms River on Saturday(presumably a reference to October 16, 1909) and gave himself up to the Sheriff after confessing murder. Search revealed the dead body of his brother in his home. The man is believed to be insane 27 Oct 1909 Inquistors appointed by the Coroner to investigate the death of John L. Webb, of Webbsville, Jackson township, in Ocean county, brought in a verdict that Webb came to his death from pistol-shot wounds inflicted by his brother, David L. Webb, who is now in Toms River jail, he having walked sixteen miles to surrender to the authorities. During the inquest the funeral of the murdered