Manitou Park, 1970
Asbury Park Press 4 Jan 1970
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Two car accidents in Burlington, 1939
New Jersey Mirror 30 Mar 1939 Two persons were killed in automobile accidents in Burlington county during the past few days. Elliean Rhodes, 42, an unmarried colored woman, was fatally injured when she was struck by a car while crossing the road at Eighth and Broad streets, near her home in Burlington, on Saturday night. Louis Smith, 44, of Creek Front, Camden, died from a fractured skull, received when his car skidded on Coopertown road, near Delanco, late on Tuesday, and crashed into a tree. The driver of the car which killed Miss Rhodes is Amos Hope, of Burlington, who was held under $1,000 bail on a charge of involuntary homicide by automobile. Coroner Hiram H. Earnest, of Mount Holly, found that the victim suffered fractures of both legs, a broken neck and fractured skull. He issued a burial certificate. Smith, who was pronounced dead when taken to Zurbrugg Hospital, Riverside, was returning from Roebling, where he and his companion had gone to visit a friend. The injured a
Burlington City Census, 1860 (part 12)
Pg# # Hse# Fam# Name Age Race Occupation Birth 103 1 837 848 WOOLMAN Franklin 46 w conveyancer NJ 103 2 837 848 WOOLMAN Jane C. 43 w PA 103 3 837 848 WOOLMAN Anna K. 10 w NJ 103 4 837 848 WOOLMAN Henry C. 8 w NJ 103 5 837 848 WOOLMAN Ellen H. 6 w NJ 103 6 837 848 WOOLMAN Franklin C. 1 w NJ 103 7 837 848 HITCHINS Ellen 25 w domestic NJ 103 8 838 849 SILPATH John 42 w grocery NJ 103 9 838 849 SILPATH Margaret 41 w NJ 103 10 838 849 SILPATH Susanna 17 w NJ 103 11 838 849 SILPATH John 15 w NJ 103 12 838 849 SILPATH Martha 12 w NJ 103 13 838 849 SILPATH Margaret 8 w NJ 103 14 838 849 SILPATH Mary L. 5 w NJ 103 15 838 849 SILPATH Anna 2 w NJ 103 16 838 849 LUCAS John 18 w shoemaker NJ 103 17 839 850 QUICKSALL William 56 w potter NJ 103 18 839 850 QUICKSALL Anna 50 w NJ 103 19 840 851 GARWOOD William 54 w
Burlington City census, 1860 part 2
Hse# Surname Given Name Age Birthplace Occupation 534 ?? John W. 32 PA Bertha 31 PA Ida 5 PA Ella 4 NJ Franklin 2 NJ 535 Hoover Samuel 53 PA master carpenter Mary 52 PA Arthur 32 NJ carpenter Samuel 20 NJ baker Letitia 14 NJ Eliza J. 9 NJ William 6 NJ 536 Silpath Daniel 22 NJ shoemaker Mary 20 NJ Nathan 1 mo NJ 537 Woolman Benj. R. 40 NJ shoemaker Mary L. 35 NJ Parrish 10 NJ Emma L. 7 NJ Jacob 3 NJ Mary J. 1 NJ Shedaker Charles 21 NJ shoemaker Stanlayer Edward 21 Ireland shoemaker 538 Keck Charles 36 PA shoemaker Fayetta 35 PA Milton 14 PA Mary 17 PA 539 Chambers Daniel
Bricksburg in the 1870s
While 1870-71 was a very newsworthy year for Bricksburg, by mid-decade the excitement had died down and news items from that part of the county became increasingly rare. In NJ from June 10, 1875 it does mention a "Mr. Jones of Bricksburg", who went to the Tuckerton Sunday schools, apparently to organize an excursion for the students to Long Branch the following month. One of the only other news items to come out of Bricksburg in 1875 was a marriage announcement--on 21 July, Clara W. Phifer of Bricksburg married Theodore M. Nichuals of Camden. There was also mention of another family from Bricksburg in 1874: "The wife of one Charles Porter, a druggist, of Bricksburg, died on the 14th inst.(July, 1874), from the effects of an abortion produced by the use of instruments by her husband. The coroner's jury found a verdict to the above effect. Porter escaped. The case caused considerable excitement in the neighborhood." In 1876 there are a few more mentions of th