Ocean County , NJ History

from New Egypt Press 31 Mar 1905 Joseph Foster died at his home in North Egypt on Tuesday of this week. He was about 53 years of age and had lived in this neighborhood all of his life.

from the New Egypt Press 25 Mar 1910 Mrs. Mary J. Challender, aged 80 years, died at the home of her daughter-in-law, in Pemberton on Tuesday the 22nd inst. Mrs. Challender was well known in this community, being the mother of the late Richard Challender of this place. Funeral was held at Pemberton yesterday.

from the New Egypt Press 18 Mar 1910 Mrs. Julia Harker, wife of Thomas Harker, died last Friday after a lingering illness of consumption.

TUCKERTON BEACON 18 Mar 1920 Capt. Edwin Cranmer has returned after a two weeks' stay in Hammonton. He was called there by the death of his son. R.P. Shinn and J.C. Horner of Philadelphia, spent the week end here. Mrs. Rebecca Gaskill is visiting in the Quaker City. Leon Holloway is home again and is on the sick list. Mrs. Hazelton Cranmer is visiting in Beach Haven C.R. Rutter is spending a week in Philadelphia. Mrs. Mary Brown has returned after spending the winter in Chatsworth. Mrs. Lydia Garrison and daughter, Lydia Ella, of Atlantic City, were guests of Mrs. W.P. Rutter. Mrs. J. Tierney has gone to Philadelphia for treatment at the hospital. We are glad to have our minister, the Rev. Wolsifer Johnson with us again for another year.

from the Greenville News, Greenville, SC, 16 Mar 2000 Roy Wainwright Hulehan Sr., 84, husband of Mamie Lee Lentz Hulehan, of 68 East Mountain Creek Road, died March 15, 2000. Born in Bordentown, N.J., he was a son of the late John and Laura Urban Hulehan. He was a retired steel worker with C.F.&I. Steel and a member of Berea First Baptist Church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Loretta H. Host and her husband, Robert, of Martinez, Ga., and Denise DuPell and her husband, Richard, of Levittown, Pa.; two sons, Wayne E. Hulehan and his wife, Peggy, of Fairless Hills, Pa., and Roy W. Hulehan Jr. and his wife, Patricia, of Greenville; two sisters, LaVerne Jones of Beaumont, Calif., and Francis DiVito of Fairfield, N.J.; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Isabel D. Hulehan. Services will be held today at 2 p.m. at The Mackey Mortuary, Century Drive, with the Rev. Robert Lentz officiating. Visitation will be held t...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 16 MAR 1905 Clarence, son of Edward Irons of this village, who recently graduated from a Trenton business college, has a position as bookkeeper with the Schwarzchild and Sulsberger beef company in that city.

from the Trenton Times 16 Mar 1905 DAVID H. FOLEY IS DEAD He Was for Twenty Years Baggage Master on P.R.R. Passed Away at Bordentown Home Bordentown, March 16. - David H. Foley, brother of Postmaster William H. Foley, died at his home on Park street yesterday after a lingering illness, aged 55 years. He had been in the employ of the P.R.R. Company as baggage master between Trenton and New York for more than twenty years, until his sickness required him to abandon his position.

from the New Jersey Courier 16 Mar 1905 Mrs. Heber R. Bishop, widow of a well known New York Millionaire, died Monday. She was a sister in law to the late Nathaniel Holmes Bishop of Toms River.

New Jersey Courier 16 Mar 1905 George Bishop of Philadelphia who married Emma Sheaff, died last week and was buried on Monday. He was a publisher in Philadelphia, and for some years got out the Temple Magazine, connected with the Baptist temple, of which Russell Conwell is pastor.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 15 MAR 1918 Mrs. William Horner, Jr. and son Edward have gone to lvier where Mr. Horner is in the Coast Guard station. Mrs. Atmore Holman is visiting friends and relations in Merchantville, Mt. Holly and Philadelphia. Clarence Price who is employed as Coast Guard at Avalon NJ is spending his liberty days here with his parents, Capt. and Mrs. A.M. Price. We are very sorry to hear that Leon paul Parker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parker, of Camp McClellan, Ala., has just been through an operation and is confined to the hospital there. We hope to hear of his improvement at an early date. Our Red Cross members here are kept busy knitting and we are all trying to do our bit in a small way, but have been unable to attend the meetings on account of the weather conditions. Carlisle Gaskill of New Gretna is spending some time here with his daughter, Mrs. Grace Horner.

from the Trenton Evening Times 14 Mar 1911 BOWEN - In this city, on the 14th inst., Robert John, infant son of Frank J. and A. Marie Danz Bowen, aged 2 days. Funeral private. Interment at Lumberton, NJ cemetery.

from the New Egypt Press 11 Mar 1910 Mrs. M. Feakes was suddenly called to Sussex, N.Y. on Monday by the death of her mother, Mrs. Hayward.

New Jersey Mirror 11 Mar 1908 Felice Ronca, royal consular agent at Trenton, conveyed information to Prosecutor Atkinson on Thursday of the arrest of Antonio Schiavo, in Italy, wanted for the murder of Guiseppe Merchurio, at the cranberry bogs of Rider & Wilkinson, at Hampton Gate, near Atsion, on October 29, last. He also advised the State's Attorney that as soon as all the testimony in the case has been taken and forwarded to the proper officials in Italy the prisoner will be tried there, and executed if found guilty, just as though the crime had been committed in that country. Prosecutor Atkinson is not yet sure that this form of trial proceedings will be satisfactory to him, and before taking any action toward forwarding testimony he will consult higher authorities to remove all doubt in his mind as to his rights in the matter. The crime for which Schiavo has been arrested occurred while he and Merchurio were out together gunning. The victim always carried at least $200 ...

TUCKERTON BEACON 11 Mar 1920 Mrs. James A. Parker and children, Garrett and Gladys have returned after spending the winter at Bradley Beach, where her husband is employed in the C.G.S. F.S. Parker recently spent a week in Camden at the home of his son, Vere. Miss Estella Cummings, of Camden, spent the week end as the guest of Miss Grace Parker. Mrs. Ayer Parker and daughter, Mrs. Wm. Thomas spent a day in Tuckerton last week as the guest of Mrs. Darnell Parker. Adam Price, who is employed in Camden, was a Sunday visitor at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mason Price. Chas. A. Mathis spent the week end with his family here. Solomon Holman, who is employed in Philadelphia, was a week end guest of Miss Helen Parker. Pupils of our school neither absent nor tardy: Marjorie Brown Erma Parker Mary Parker Hilliard Brown Jos.Cummings LeRoy Cummings Chester Holman Lawrence Parker Since the organization of the War Saving's Society in October, the pupils have saved $54.0...

NEW EGYPT PRESS 10 Mar 1905: C. H. CRANMER put a sample piano in the home of Ada ELBERSON last week. Olive P. CRANMER has returned home after undergoing treatment for a cancer at Jefferson Hospital, Phila. The Manahawkin orchestra have ordered two more new horns. Leon HAZELTON joined the orchestra Monday last which has about ten members.

Asbury Park Press 10 Mar 1994 A 16-year-old Lakewood boy plead guilty yesterday to his role in a botched armed robbery in which a liquor store owner was shot and killed. Thorntom Merriweather waived jurisdiction of his case from juvenile court yesterday prior to his entering a plea to first-degree aggravated manslaughter before Superior Court Judge James N. Citta in Toms River. Under questioning by his attorney, Steven N. Cucci, Merriweather admitting going to Best Liquors of Lakewood on Sept. 18, 1993, along with Raheem Montgomery, 19; Paris Martin, 19, and Teron R. Savoy, 18, all of Lakewood, and knowing that Montgomery possessed a handgun and Savoy a shotgun. According to Ocean County Prosecutor Daniel Carluccio, store owner Sridnar Baile, 23, and his brother, Shravan Baile, 32, both of Staten Island, were leaving Best Liquors on Ocean Avenue after closing the store at 10:23 p.m. when they were confronted by the four teenagers in the parking lot. Carluccio had said the youths we...

from the New Egypt Press, 10 Mar 1905 Claude Cranmer, son of Mrs. Rachel Cranmer, was brought here for burial last week. Pneumonia was the cause of his death. He was buried from the home of his uncle, C.H. Cranmer. The body was brought here from Boston. He was 28 years of age.

New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905 Russell LONGSTREET has been suffering from an abscess during the past week. Ambrose ARCHER and Alfred NORCROSS have finished a new barn for Walter Curtis on Main Street. Rev. Joseph MOORE preached his farewell sermon Sunday morning. He was ill in the evening so there was no service. Sarah BARKALOW is ill. Dave GRAVATT spent Sunday at the home of Frank GREEN. Mrs. Phillip REMSTINE visited Mrs. Harry DEVINNEY on Tuesday.

rom the Record 10 Mar 1985 FLORENCE KIRK GOULD, 71, of Wanaque, formerly of Whiting, died Friday. Surviving are her husband, Harold; a son, Harold Jr. of Wanaque; a brother, Louis Kirk of Haverstraw, N.Y.; a sister, Ethel Kurtz of Guttenberg, and one grandchild. Services will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the Richards Funeral Home of Riverdale, with burial in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa. Friends may visit today from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.