Ocean County , NJ History

The following Adams family info comes to me from a visitor to my site, ,Jmjcmink. He tells me that he has ancestors from Washington Township and provided this little family info to me: Franklin Adams was the husband of Mary Ann Mathis; he is buried in the Miller Cemetery at New Gretna. Franklin and Mary Ann had a number of children. They were: Willard Adams, who married Laura Falkinburgh Blanchard Adams Calvin Adams Alfred Adams Charlotte Adams Elizabeth Adams, who married Charles Deacon Eugene Adams Mary Adams, who married John Gray Alvah Adams Walter Adams an unnamed child, who apparently died in infancy Unfortunately, I was not provided with any dates for these individuals. Further information regarding this same family comes to us from another visitor, WendyL5971@aol.com. Additional information can be found at Wendy's Home Page. Descendants of Franklin Adams Generation No. 1 1. FRANKLIN ADAMS was born 1821, and died September 2, 1885. Franklin is buried in

From the New Jersey Courier 17 Jan 1901: The Tom Thumb wedding in the Methodist Church last Friday evening was a perfect success in every way. The bridal party composed of the little ones dressed to imitate their mommas and papas looked very sedate and ministerial. A reception was held after the ceremony and even to the wedding breakfast was reenacted, the bride cutting her wedding cake in the latest fashionable cut. The other parts of the program given by older talent was well rendered and received by an appreciative audience. The entire program was repeated on the following evening to as large if not larger audience than attended the first. Mrs. F.K. Cranmer of Beardsley, Minn., has been visiting Mrs. A.M. Cox. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Spader and daughter are visiting at J .S. Storm's. A donation was tendered to the Rev. O.W. Wright, pastor of the Presbyterian Church on Tuesday evening of this week. Extra meetings are being held in the Methodist Church. There has been consid

I've only once come across any reference to this place. It was apparently in Washington Township (Burlington County); years ago (ca.1996), I was looking at a poll book in the research library at Batsto, and came across a page for Piping Hill. In 1892, the following residents of the township listed their residence as Piping Hill: Arthur Miller Johnathan Ford George W. Ford Watson Ford In 1894, only George Ford listed Piping Hill as his residence. I still have no idea where in the township this actually was (or is).

Found this story in the Tuckerton Beacon of 12 Jun 1914. Asbury Park, June 6 --- A rather good looking young woman who says she is Mrs. Raymond Miller, colored, but who the police say is a white girl from a Forked River family, was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail in the city court this morning as a disorderly person. Detective Sergeant Broderick told Judge Borden the girl had been supporting Raymond Miller, a west side negro, by the money she made on the streets. Miller did no work, and lived with the girl in a three room bungalow on Borden Avenue. The girl said she had been married to Miller last June in Belmar by a Hamilton justice whose name she could not remember. She said she was colored because her father had been a Cuban. She declared that she had left Miller when he tried to force her to a life of shame in order to suupport him. She had obeyed him, she declared, until she sickened of it. Beside Miller, there was a second man in the Borden Avenue house whom the