Ocean County , NJ History

From the Lakewood Citizen, 30 Dec 1932: Miss Mary S Turner, a pioneer resident of Lakewood, who for many years resided at Washington, DC, died in that city, yesterday morning. Miss Turner was the sister of the late John S Turner, who died at the Paul Kimball Hospital on July 11th of this year. She was the daughter of the Samuel Hubbard and Joanna Saxton Turner. Funeral service will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon at the Westhall Chapel on Second Street, with the Rev J H H Darling, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial will be made in the family plot in Evergreen Cemetery

New Jersey Mirror 30 Dec 1818 To be rented a house and a blacksmith's shop in the village of Frogtown. Apply to John L. stratton of Mount Holly.

New Jersey Mirror 29 Dec 1920 The trial of Raymond W. Schuck for the murder of David S. Paul, has been postponed from January 4 to February 7. Application for the postponement was made before Supreme Court Justice Katzenbach at Camden on Monday, by J. Russell Carrow, counsel for Schuch. Prosecutor Wolverton did not interpose any objection. The ground on which the postponement was asked was that time might be given for the drawing of a special jury panel. The postponement of Schuck's trial may result in putting off the sentencing of his confederate in crime, Frank James, already convicted of murder in the first degree. The State may want to use James as a witness against Schuck. The latter claims that he entered into no plot with James to murder Paul and that he had nothing to do with the actual killing, James said that Schuck was as deep in the revolting crime as the former and that as a matter of fact Schuck struck some of the blows that caused death. There is no attempt made to ...

from the Trenton Times 28 Dec 1915 CANNON- In this city, on the 26th inst., Sarah B., widow of Garrett Cannon, of Bordentown, N.J. The relatives and friends are invited to attend the services at the Christ Episcopal Church, Bordentown, N.J. on Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock sharp. Interment at St. Mary's Burlington, N.J. Friends may view the deceased at the residence of Mr. Clarence BIDDLE, No. 322 West State Street, Trenton, N.J., on Wednesday afternoon and evening.

New Jersey Mirror 28 Dec 1938 Charles Panczer, 54, committed suicide in an outbuilding in the rear of his home on Crosswicks street, Bordentown, on Friday, by hanging himself to a rafter. He was a wire worker in Crescent Mill, in Trenton. His wife, Rose, worried by his absence, went to the building and found his body. Coroner John N. Swartz, of Palmyra, issued a certificate of suicide. Mrs. Panczer said her husband had steady employment and she could offer no reason why he had ended his life. The pair had resided in Bordentown since last April. They formerly lived in Trenton.

desperately trying to track down this family from Brooklyn, children of Daniel Lawrence, who lived in Brooklyn in the early 1900s and in Pennsylvania before that.

Gloucester County Times, Dec 24, 1943 Mrs. Susie A. Mathis, widow of Theodore Mathis, died on Friday. She was 80 years old. Born in Egg Harbor, Mrs. Mathis lived most of her life in Glassboro and was widely known in that community. Surviving are six children. They are Mrs. Ella Mae Wickward, of Gloucester; Mrs. Wilhelmina Cossabone of Camden; Stephen Mathis, Mrs. S. Nevada Adams and Mrs. Charlesanna A. Long, of Glassboro and Eugene V. Mathis, of Vineland; There are 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren also surviving. The Rev. William A. Robbins, pastor of the Trinity Protestant Church, will conduct the services at 11 A.M. Tuesday from the Albert D. Mathis Funeral Home, 43 N. Delsea Drive, Glassboro with burial in Trinity cemetery. Friends may call this evening. Mathis -- At Glassboro, NJ, on December 24, 1943, Susie A., nee Bailey, widow of the late Theodore N. Mathis, aged 80 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services on Tuesday, December 28,...

New Jersey Mirror 22 Dec 1920 It took the jury only twenty minutes to find Frank J. James guilty of the murder of David S. Paul, at he conclusion of the sensational trial in Camden on Monday night. The verdict carried with it the infliction of the death penalty upon the self- confessed slayer of the bank messenger, the jury refusing the appeal of the prisoner's counsel to exercise clemency and recommend life imprisonment instead of capital punishment. The verdict came at the end of the five-day trial, during which the defendant's oral and written confessions were admitted in evidence in the face of counsel's strenuous objection. Dapper and apparently self-possessed, James entered upon his ordeal last Wednesday but as the trial wore on and damning evidence piled up against him his confidence petered out and several times he collapsed, once having to be taken from the court room in order to allow him to regain his composure. The Camden court house was besieged by a grea...

Tuckerton Beacon 21 Dec 1950 Mr. and Mrs. Tomas Milnamou of Collingswood were callers on the Island on Sunday. Mr. Chappie Jones of Egg Harbor and his father Mr. Walter Jones of Barington called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Burrel Adams on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomas spent Saturday in Philaelphia.

from the New Jersey Courier 21 Dec 1917 Last Saturday evening the children of the Brookville school held a ten and twenty cent sale of fancy articles at the home of Hiram Parker. Although the night was stormy, most of the goods were disposed of. The proceeds are to pay for Victrola records.

Tuckerton Beacon 21 Dec 1950 By Mrs. Lee Thomas phone B.H. 3-5151 Hi all, here it is only one week til Christmas. The last minute rush is on, trying to get off the cards to people you forgot completely. Hoping they will get there in time. It is so nice to ride around and look at the houses all lit up at this time of year. This whole Island is right on the ball with Christmas spirit. Can hardly wait until Christmas Eve to put the tree up. Well, I had better get down to brass tacks now cause I still have a million and one things to do. John J. Thomas, Bills father, came down from New York Wednesday evening and stayed until Sunday. Mom and the girls stayed in the city this weekend to finish up the shopping. Mr. and Mrs. William Mac Reynolds of Idaho Ave., spent Sunday at their home. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gallagher of Beach Ave were also weekenders. Mr. and M rs. Al Salottolo of Tennesee ave. were down for the weekend and have put up Christmas lights. I hear they are planning to spend t...

Tuckerton Beacon 21 Dec 1950 by Mrs. Nancy Weiselsen After serving the public as city traffic engineer for 14 years in Philadelphia, Mr. Robert A. Mitchell has resigned; he will, after Dec 31, take up his new position as traffic engineering division of Gannett, Fleming, Corddry and Colpenter, Inc., consulting engineers in Harrisburg, PA. Mr. R. Sturgis Ingersoll has been chosen as one of the Board of Managers for the Assembly Hall, to be held Friday evening, December 22 at the Bellevue -Stratford Hotel. Mrs. Walter Lyon was in charge of the Christmas Party December 16, which was very successful, at the Fire House, Santa remembered all the children. Dr. and Mrs. Allan Green were at their cottage for a few days. Mrs. Green is M r. and Mrs. Lovins daughter.

New Jersey Courier 21 Dec 1917 Armsted Hutchinson filled his ice house with 6 inch ice on Monday; Henry Larrison filled his on Tuesday and George Hartshorn on Wednesday. Ellis Cox also filled his icehouse on Wednesday and James Larkin on Thursday. A.C. Hutchinson, Thomas Hartshorn and Charles Atkinson attended on Tuesday the cattle sale of Willaim Reid of Tennent. Ashton E. Clift and wife will entertain over the Christmas holidays, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Horner and children of South Amboy. Aaron B. Wainwright of Philadelphia was a guest of his father, Joel Wainwright, on Monday. Miss Emily Buck was a Sunday guest of her mother, Mrs. Harry Borden, of Jacobstown. Miss Florence Miller of Cookstown, Mrs. Clifford Horner and two children David and Edgar visited Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Horner.

New Jersey Courier 20 Dec 1929 The State Motor Vehicle Department has had an auditor here this week, going over the docket and account books of Allen SEAMAN, Justice of the Peace of Tuckerton. The December grand jury recently indicted Seaman for retaining funds collected in fines, which he should have turned over to the Motor Vehicle Department monthly. It was alleged that he was some $2700 behind in these accounts. William SCHABLE is the name of the auditor.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 20 DEC 1929 State Troopers, as is customary in deer season, took their stand at Toms River bridge and looked over every car coming from the deer woods. Tuesday night they found a supposedly doe deer in a car, cut up in sections, to show no sex. Peter KUZINA, Caldwell, NJ, was taken before Justice KING and fined $107.50, including costs. Because he just had to see his best girl and she lives in Trenton, was the excuse given by George FALKNER, Toms River, when arrested for taking a car belonging to Mrs. John EWART on Sunday last. Falkner made his trip to Trenton, it is understood, having taken the car from Main Street where it was parked. Word was sent all along the line and on his way home he was stopped by in Lakewood.

New Jersey Courier 20 Dec 1929 POINT PLEASANT YOUTHS ESCAPE REAL PUNISHMENT The Christmas spirit is in the air, and that's the time to come up for sentence in court it would seem, and further that five Point Pleasant youths found it so, being given six months suspended sentences, and fined $200 each. It had been fully predicted that these youths, who had been cutting a wide swath of lawlessness and thievery in the Point Pleasant section, were in for some real punishment. It was alleged that they had robbed summer cottages, stole a pig, shot deer out of season, and had a real Robin Hood sort of a time. The men are: William Arthur Anderson Charles L. Birdsall Melvin Elly Henry Pearce LeRoy Reeves

NEW JERSEY COURIER 19 Dec 1878: Dr. J.W. WEBB and family have removed to Pointville, Burlington Co. This change is mainly due to the fact that the doctor is executor of the estate of his father, recently deceased, as well as to gratify the wish of his mother that he should locate near her.

New Jersey Courier 19 Dec 1878: Capt. Joseph Townsend is a happy grandfather. Not that he has not been so before, but this time there is a difference, you know. Why not call it Joseph? Pitman Anderson drives a handsome sporting team of blacks. Mr. Samuel Ridgway is recovering slowly from his severe illness.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 19 Dec 1878: The post office was broken into on Friday night and robbed of $4.

Lakewood Times and Journal 17 Dec 1874 We notice the finger-boards indicating direction and distance are being placed up at the prominent points of public roads.

New Jersey Courier 15 Dec 1900 Edmund Ridgway has resigned his position as surfman in Loveladies Island station

New Jersey Courier 15 Dec 1939 Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, former commandant of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, has been promoted to the rank of captain. He is among 81 commanders who have been elevated. Commander Rosendahl, survivor of the crash of the dirigible Shenandoah in 1925, is regarded as the best informed man in America on the operation of lighter th an air craft. He is as present on sea duty as executive officer of the cruiser Milwaukee. He was given his present assignment July 9, 1938 according to Navy regulations that land and sea duty must be alternated to remain eligible for promotion.

from New Jersey Courier, 15 Dec 1900 James Harley Compton, formerly of [illegible] died at [illegible] of spinal meningitis on October 18th, aged 47 years. He was a druggist by profession and was in business at New Egypt for a number of years. He leaves a widow (who was the daughter of the late Rev. David McCurdy of the M.E. Conference) and one daughter. He had been eleven years a member of the M.E. Church. Burial at Windsor.

from New Jersey Courier 15 Dec 1900 Dr. James Palmer Cleaver, son of Mrs. C.P. Cleaver, died at the Palmer house, Lakewood, on Thursday morning. He was twenty six years of age. His health broke down four years ago when he was physician in the French hospital in New York, and he went to Texas. There his health was restored so much that he built up a large practice. But last winter he had a severe attack of the grippe from which he never recovered. He came north from Texas in June and has lived here ever since. The funeral services were held at the Palmer house Saturday at noon. Rev. D. L. Schwartz officiating. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. Dr. Cleaver leaves a wife and two children.

from the New Jersey Courier 15 Dec 1900 Thomas M. Gifford died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Henry Van Lew, Point Pleasant, on Wednesday, in his 67th year. The deceased was a veteran of the Civil War, and he was an active member of the G.A. R. Post. For many years past he had held the office of constable. Four daughters and a son survive him.

from New Jersey Courier 15 Dec 1900 Mrs. Micajah Ellis, an aged resident of Island Heights and Bayville, died in a Philadelphia hospital on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Ellis was twice married, her first husband being Captain Joseph Lemon of Bayville. Her second husband died last spring. Since then she had been ailing and was taken to a hospital for treatment. Her maiden name was Woodley and she came to Bayville from Jersey City. She was a relative of Mrs. Fred G. Stanwood of Island Heights.

New Jersey Courier 15 Dec 1900: Rev. A.M. Lake has been visiting Imlaystown friends. The Point Pleasant pharmacy has closed for the winter. Newbury and Son have built up a fine barn in the rear of the summer cottage belonging to Geroge R. Dilkes of Philadelphia. Tonight there will be a dollar social at the M.E. Church, where each one is expected to bring a dollar earned in some unusual way. Rev. J.A. Clyde and family are enjoying a three weeks vacation. Mr. Ray from Pittsburg has broken ground for his new summer home on the beachfront, adjoining Mr. Frew's cottage. Captain Benjamin Pearce and wife left this week for Newburyport, Massachusetts, where they will spend the winter. Mrs. Emma Dodd has closed her summer residence on the Manasquan River and with her daughter has gone to California. The Carrolltonhotel kitchen and dining room are being enlarged and other improvements made. Harry Pierce of Point Pleasant and Miss Fannie Albert were married on Wednesday afternoon at...

from New Jersey Courier, 15 Dec 1900 Miss Edna Celest Buckingam, daughter of Mrs. M.H. Buckingham, formerly Lakewood, died on Tuesday of last week at the residence of her aunt in Bridgeport, CT. Miss Buckingham was 20 years of age and had been ill all summer.

New Jersey Courier 15 Dec 1900: The Township Committee were in session on Friday last settling general township business. The Daughters of Liberty held a reception to the sister lodges in this vicinity on Tuesday evening, Nov. 13th. Delegates from New Gretna, Waretown and Toms River were present.

New Jersey Courier 13 Dec 1929 Our folks are responding generously to the Community Christmas tree. The trustees of the Presbyterian church have kindly agreed to allow the tree to be placed on the lawn between the church and Union Avenue. For this year, the tree will have to be temporary, but the intention is to have a sutiable tree transplanted on the site, and make it a permanent observance. A committee of the Exchange Club is arranging for a suitable tree and it's lighting, also a candy treat for the children of the community, and the officers of the club are receiving donations to cover the necessary expense. It is desired that all folks understand that this is actually a community affair and not for, or by, any one organization. A.W. CARR and wife visited in New York Friday of last week. Archie F. MURRAY and wife were Saturday visitors to Newark. A card party was held at the home of Mrs. Annie WALSH Tuesday evening. The attendance was large and all thoroughly enjoyed the a...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 13 DEC 1929 Toms River and all its surrounding is said by the telephone men and the gas and electric men to have shown the most consistent advance in the last decade of any place or vicinity on the Jersey shore-and all the shore has been growing

New Jersey Courier 13 Dec 1929 Mrs. and Mrs. C.W. STRATTON and children, Mrs. M.A. STRATTON and Mrs. Agnes MATHIS, motored to Tuckerton on Thursday, and Mrs. MATHIS remained for a visit with her sister.

from the New Jersey Courier, 13 Dec 1929 Santa Barbara, November 30--Carrying out his death bed request, the ashes of William Algernon Brackenridge, 71 years of age, retired senior vice president of the Southern California Edison Company, were strewn on the Pacific Ocean following cremation this afternoon. Brackenridge died in a local hospital after a lingering illness Friday night. During the past forty six years he has been connected with practically every great waterpower project in this country, Mexico, and Canada. He served on the board of consulting engineers making plans for the power development at Niagara Falls. He was appointed in 1904 by the Governor of New York to the advisory board of consulting engineers in charge of construction of the barge canal connecting the Hudson River and the Great Lakes. He came to California in 1909 to join the Southern California Edison Company. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Brackenridge and four children, Marian, Anne and Wil...

Lakewood Times and Journal 12 Dec 1874 We notice the fingerboards, indicating direction and distance are being placed up at the prominent points of public roads The evening train from New York was detained at Bricksburg on Tuesday last. The detention was caused by the leakage of some of the locomotive pipes. The citizens of Bricksburg have already forwarded a generous package of goods to one suffering family in Nebraska. The friends and neighbors of Rev. Isaac Todd will make him a donation visit on Wednesday afternoon and evening next, 16th inst.

Lakewood Times and Journal 12 Dec 1874

NEW JERSEY COURIER 12 DEC 1878: J.R. Schenck, Esq., editor of the Democrat, received the sad intelligence one day last week of the death of the wife of his brother, Dr. Wm. H. Schenck, of Flemington, which occurred very suddenly and unexpectedly from heart disease.

New Jersey Courier 12 Dec 1878 The large residence of Mr. Cornelius Lawrence caught fire on Saturday evening last, about six o'clock, from a defective flue. Mr. Lawrence was returning from Toms River and on nearing the house discovered the fire on the roof. He quickly gave the alarm and this was the first intimation the inmates received of their danger. The neighbors saw the work of destruction going on and at once repaired to the burning building and saved all of the furniture, and in fact everything but part of Mr. Lawrence's wardrobe and that of his housekeeper, Mrs. Josephine Troy, who also lost some jewelry and $20 cash. The lost articles were in the attic. Hundreds of buckets of water were thrown upon the wagon house and corn crib which were thusly saved. I was informed by Mr. Lawrence that the building was insured for $1200 and that $2500 would be required to replace it.

New Jersey Courier 11 Dec 1870 Our friend, Charles H. Applegate of Bennett's Mills, has been chosen Secretary and Treasurer of the Bricksburg Manufacturing Company and enters upon his duties this week. Mr. Applegate adds $10,000 to his already large subscription to the stock of this company. Benjamin Snyder has just moved into his new house corner of 1st and Madison Avenue. It is a very fine looking establishment. Mr. B. Sinclair met with an accident on Wednesday morning last, on the new machine shop. It threatened to be quite serious for a time, but has resulted thus far in nothing of a complicated nature

from Tuckerton Beacon 11 Dec 1975 Mrs. Olive Bozarth, 87, formerly of Maple st., New Gretna, died Dec 5 at Ocean Point Convalescent Center, Somers Point. She was born in New Gretna and lived there most of her life. Her husband, Delvin, died 14 years ago. Among here survivors are a daughter in law, Mrs. Dorothy Bozarth. Burial was from the Wood and Kedz Funeral Home, Tuckerton on Dec. 9 and interment was in Hillside Cemetery, New Gretna.

New Jersey Courier 8 Dec 1939 The old Tuckerton Railroad, famed in Ocean County history and known all over the United States as the smallest railroad company in the country, officially ended its existence Wednesday when the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington, D.C. granted its application to abandon the 12 mile line between Tuckerton and Barnegat and the spur from Manahawkin to Hilliard. While it was known as the Tuckerton Railroad in Ocean County, the company was officially the Southern New Jersey, following its reorganization in 1939 by the H.E. Salzburg company of New York. The company stopped running trains two years ago, but Tuckerton and Manahawkin residents hoped that having the railroad in existence would give th em hopes of revival of rail connection with the outside world. Mayor George W. PARKER, and residents of Tuckerton, were angered by the commission's ruling, and said they had not been officially notified of the hearing of the petition until Monday night....

New Jersey Courier 6 Dec 1900: The steam saw mill at Mannahawkin owned by William B. WILLS of Mount Holly, and recently destroyed by fire, will probably be rebuilt. The boiler, engine and planing machine were not badly injured. The woodwork of the bench and cut off saws and large sawing machine were destroyed, the line shafting and some of the pulleys were badly twisted. The loss is not so heavy as was first reported.

New Jersey Courier 6 Dec 1900: The stockholders of the Atlantic Burlington and Ocean Telephone Co. have elected the following officers and directors: President, Joseph I. SMITH; vice president James W. PARKER; Secretary, C.P. STEELMAN; treasurer, Howard MATHIS; directors, J.L.LANE,T.T. PRICE, B.S. STILES, R.A. MATHIS, D.P. CROWLEY, Walter ALLEN, B.H. CROSBY. Our young people who are away at school were generally home for the holiday. Lakeside council, Jr. O.U.A.M., attended service in the M.E. Church on Sunday evening last. W.S. AUSTIN is now employed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance company of New York from their Philadephia office. Tuesday evening, November 20th, at the home of Mrs. F.L. HOUGH, Media, Pa., Miss Rose A. PALMER, formerly of Tuckerton, was married to Fulton J. O'BRIEN, of Camden, who is telephone inspector for the Delaware and Atlantic Telephone Co. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. James BURNS of Camden, formerly of Tuckerton. The bridesmaid was Miss Je...

New Jersey Courier 6 Dec 1900: Thanksgiving day passed off very quietly with us. Union services were held in the Methodist church. Rev. O.W. Wright of the Presbyterian church, preaching the sermon. The collection was given to the Methodist hospital at Philadephia. In the evening a "Yankee" sociable was held in the Presbyterian church and quite a number were present. The program consisted of readings, instrumental and vocal music and a guessing contest, after which enjoyable evening was spent. Ragamuffins as usual infested our town during the day and night, but the participants were mostly of the younger class. A representative of the Sanborn and Perris map company has been in our town the past week making a new insurance map. Among those home from Rider's business college at Trenton for holiday were Joe Storms, Win Predmore, Van Predmore, Clarence Harris and Arthur Ridgway. Among others visitors during the holiday we noticed Miss Nolia Pharo and Miss Emma Bowers of Ph...

from the New Jersey Mirror 4 Dec 1822 On November 14, 1822, a healthy, middle-aged man, of the name of Jesse Cranmer, was digging a well near Tuckerton, and while in the act of sending out the last bucket of earth from the bottom, about twenty-five feet deep, the well caved, and enveloped him so deep, that before he could be extricated from his direful situation, he suffocated to death.

Asbury Park Press 30 Nov 2001 Efforts to preserve an old fishing shack in Stafford are expected to get the Board of Freeholders' endorsement at its next meeting on Wednesday. Freeholder James J. Mancini said at this week's caucus meeting that he "passes that shack every day" as he travels along Route 72. Mancini said he supports the efforts of the Alliance for a Living Ocean and its board of trustees president, Joan Koons, to preserve the shack. The landmark structure on Cedar Bonnett Island was at one time used by hunters as a gunning shack, Mancini said. During the discussion, Freeholder Director John P. Kelly suggested the board pass a formal resolution of support, which was welcomed by Mancini and Freeholder Joseph H. Vicari. Freeholders John C. Bartlett Jr. and James F. Lacey were absent from the caucus meeting. The freeholders' regular meeting will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the Ocean County administration building, 101 Hooper Ave.

9 DEC 1869 - New Jersey Mirror: James Reynolds, of Bass River, committed suicide, on Sunday, the 29th ult.(November, 1868). He was in the last stage of consumption, and so weak that he was confined to his bed--but he gathered strength enough to leave it and grasp a razor, lying on a stand a few feet away. Staggering back to the bed, he deliberately drew the razor across the left side of his throat, severing the main artery, and causing death in a short time. The deceased was a laboring man, about 37 years old. No one but his mother was in the house at the time of his death.

New Jersey Mirror 27 Nov 1907 Startling disclosures made by State Detective Parker, of Mount Holly, after information had been received by Prosecutor Atkinson on Wednesday last, have proven beyond all question that Burlington county has another murder case to record, with the pine belt in the vicinity of Atsion as the scene of the crime, and Guiseppe Merchurio, an Italian, the victim of a fellow countryman whose name has not been divulged. The fact thus established is the third murder to be chronicled in Burlington county within a week, the crimes committed in Burlington on Thursday and Friday nights being the other two. The information received by Prosecutor Atkinson on Wednesday last was to the effect that on October 29 Merchurio and his companion left the camp on the cranberry bogs of Rider & Wilkinson, near Atsion, where they were employed as pickers, and started on a gunning trip. Soon after their departure in the direction of Hampton, which is north of the bogs, a single g...

from the Asbury Park Press 25 Nov 1991 FRANTISEK CINA, 60 of HOWELL TOWNSHIP, died yesterday at home. Mr. Cina, known as 'Frank', was a maintenance worker for Brockway Glass, Freehold, for 20 years. He was a communicant of St. Veronica's Roman Catholic Church, Howell. Mr. Cina was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States in 1969, settling in Howell. Surviving are his wife, Margit; his father, Frank Fabian, Chicago; three brothers, Joseph Fabian and Evzen Fabian, both of Toronto, Canada, and Rudy Fabian, Chicago; and two sisters, Clara Kalis, Toronot and Anna Cina.

from the Asbury Park Press, 25 Nov 1991 BERTHA FROOT, 82, of OCEAN TOWNSHIP, died yesterday at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune. She was a member of the Sisterhood of Congregation Agudath Achim of Bradley Beach, a member of ORT and a survivor of the Holocaust. She was born in Czechoslovakia and lived in New York before moving to Ocean Township 19 years ago. Her husband, Jacob, died in 1983. She is survived by two sons, Milan, Ocean Township, and Rudolph, Hawaii, and four grandchildren. Bloomfield-Cooper Jewish Funeral Chapels, Ocean Township, is in charge of arrangements.

from the Asbury Park Press 25 Nov 1991 WALTER J. EGAN, 81, of LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, died Saturday at home. He was partner and harbor pilot with the New Jersey Sandy Hook Pilots Association, Middletown Township, for 45 years, retiring in 1973. He was a Coast Guard commander during World War II. He was a member of the Master Mates and Pilots and American Pilots of Washington, both of Washington, D.C.. He also belonged to the Rudder Club, Propeller Club and the New York Athletic Club, all of New York. He was a member of St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Church, Tuckerton. Mr. Egan was born in Fort Monroe, VA, living in Closter most of his life before moving to Little Egg Harbor in 1973. Surviving are his wife of 52 years, Lucilla; a son, David E., Forked River section of Lacey Township; two daughters, Maureen C. Vernel, Ontario, Canada and Celeste M., Little Egg Harbor, and five grandchildren. Layton's Home For Funerals, Forked River, is in charge of arrangements.

New Jersey Mirror 25 Nov 1841: Died-Near Bass River Hotel on November 13, 1841, Charles Adams, aged 71 years.

from the Asbury Park Press 25 Nov 1991 MARY B. BOLTE, 66, of KEYPORT, died on Saturday at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was a communicant of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Keyport. Mrs. Bolte was born in New York, living in the Bronx before moving to Keyport over 40 years ago. Surviving are her husband, George P.; three sons, Christopher, John and Michael, all of Keyport; two brothers, John P. McGuinness, New City, N.Y., and George F. McGuinness, Bronxville, N.Y.; five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. David J. Hodder and Son Funeral Home, Yonkers, in charge of arrangements.

from the Asbury Park Press 25 Nov 1991 MARY B. BOLTE, 66, of KEYPORT, died on Saturday at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. She was a communicant of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, Keyport. Mrs. Bolte was born in New York, living in the Bronx before moving to Keyport over 40 years ago. Surviving are her husband, George P.; three sons, Christopher, John and Michael, all of Keyport; two brothers, John P. McGuinness, New City, N.Y., and George F. McGuinness, Bronxville, N.Y.; five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. David J. Hodder and Son Funeral Home, Yonkers, in charge of arrangements.

From the New Jersey Courier, 24 Nov 1910 Austin "Dayton spent Sunday evening at Bayville. Miss Elsie Worth is visiting in Bayville. Mrs. Westbrook and daughter of Cambridge, MD and Miss Clara Worth of Bayville spent the weeks end with Mrs. George H. Wainwright and family. William Platt has moved into the Phillips cottage. Miss Mabel Worth is home from Toms River for Thanksgiving week. Mrs. Joseph Platt has been visiting in Mt. Holly. Edward Crabbe and Reed Tilton have returned from a week's gunning down the bay. Fred Wilbert the night watchman of this place is laid up with an abcess on the arm. George Wainwright is filling the vacancy. Frank Keegan, who has been laid up with a very bad foot is slowly improving. Miss Lucy Hulse has been visiting Mrs. Ralph Cummings.

In the last few months of 1870, there was a great deal of building going on in Bricksburg. On November 22nd of that year, the New Jersey Courier gives us some more examples of the town's rapid growth: Rev. Mr. Graw, of Long Branch, visited Bricksburg a few days since and lectured on Temperance, and formed a Lodge of Good Templars, with about 35 or 40 members. A list of those members appeared the following week: they are: M. Bunker Mrs. Emma Patterson Mrs. Jones J. Tushingham Miss Huntley G.B. Stratton Jas. Patterson Henry Hoft Miss Rich Miss Bunker Clearly not a complete list, as both article mention between 30 and 40 members. The Bricksburg Bakery under the management of F.M. Marston and S. Lewis, has gained a widespread popularity. A.S. Larrabee, has been making recent changes in his buildings and they now cover nearly half an acre of ground, for the transaction of his country merchandising business. Later, in the Dec 11th issue of the Courier, a description of his...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 21 NOV 1930 A jury in Judge Gallagher's court on Tuesday gave a verdict of $650 to Mrs. Lucy A. Dorsett, wife of A.W. Dorsett in a suit growing out of an auto collission near Beach Haven. Mrs. Dorsett sued the Gehrig Motor Company of Philadelphia and John H. Cressman of that city. A non-suit as to the company was ordered by the court. Another auto accident suit resulted in a verdict of no cause for action. This was the case of Martin Pederson of Orange, against Jas. Cheneworth, of Toms River.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 21 NOV 1930 Mr. and Mrs. JWm. Holloway and daughters were callers in Manahawkin Sunday. Roy Cox of Barnegat was in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Harbolt of Jobstown spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Holloway. Arch Parker and friend of Parkertown were in town Wednesday. S.C. Haverley of Plainfield has been spending a few days with George Cranmer. Wm. Berry of Beach Haven was in town Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ridgeway of Barnegat were recent callers in town. Mrs. Sallie Penn, Marion and Dorothy Penn, of Waretown, were Friday afternoon callers on Mrs. Chas. Holloway. Wm. and Jack Wescott of Camden were in town Tuesday. Howard Wainwright of Waretown was in town Tuesday. Hill Corlis was in Sim Place Saturday. Mrs. Rogers of Bayville was a visitor in town Wednesday. H. King of Beach Haven was in town Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Genone and children of Chatsworth, were in town Sunday. Ellsworth Harris, Tracey Hitchner and Everett Hitchn...

New Jersey Mirror 21 Nov 1906 Drinking a two-ounce vial of carbolic acid on Saturday night, Mrs. Charles Workman, of Palmyra, committed suicide. She was despondent over continued ill health.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 21 Nov 1878: Samuel ROBBINS, a young son of Theodore ROBBINS, met with a severe accident last Thursday, by which one of his arms was broken. We learn that a horse which he was driving became unmanageable and ran away. Two other boys who were in the wagon with him were thrown out and were more or less bruised. This, we understand, is the seventh time the father has been called upon to have broken bones adjusted. A little daughter of Samuel GRAVATT, 18 mos. old, was severely scalded one day last week by upsetting a measure of boiling water upon itself which had been carelessly placed too near to the edge of the table by it's mother. The child was horribly burned about the face and body, but little hopes are entertained for it's recovery.

From the New Jersey Mirror 20 Nov 1907 Judge Horner held a session of court this morning and sentenced Caleb Rogers, convicted of manslaughter, to the Rahway Reformatory, and Theodore Wells, convicted of atrocious assault, to three months in the county jail and to pay a fine of $200. After a series of postponements, the trial of Caleb Rogers, Theodore Wells and Walter Simons, of Tabernacle, under an indictment charging them with manslaughter in connection with the death of David Beebe, at Chairville, on April 27, was begun on Thursday and ended on Friday afternoon, with the result that after about twenty hours of deliberation, terminating at one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a verdict was rendered convicting Rogers of manslaughter, Wells of atrocious assault and battery, and acquitting Simons. The jury was confronted with a difficult task, as the case was more or less complicated in view of some of the testimony that was surprisingly contradictory. The crime that resulted in ...

from the New Jersey Mirror 20 NOV 1912 J. Frank Hickey, a well-known chemist, was arrested near Whitings, Ocean county, by Sheriff Chilton, yesterday, at the request of the Buffalo, N.Y., authorities on a charge of murder. It is alleged that he was the slayer of little Joseph Josephs, whose dismembered body was found in a cesspool at Lackawanna, near Buffalo, Saturday. The Sheriff went to Keswick, just outside of Whitings, and placed Hickey under arrest, taking him to Toms River, where he will be held until the authorities arrive from Buffalo. According to the Sheriff, Hickey denied positively any knowledge of the murder of the boy. He denounced his arrest as an outrage and said that he would be able to prove his innocence very easily. The arrest was made on the telegraphed order of Chief of Police Regan, of Buffalo, who said that Hickey was employed at the Lackawanna Steel Company's plant at the time the Josephs boy was missed and that his handwriting corresponds with that of the...

New Jersey Courier 21 Nov 1930 November 19--Addison Abramowitz entertained a few of his friends in honor of his fifteenth birthday on Tuesday evening, November 19. Those present were: Ernest Cramer, Martin Tolbert, William Gaskill, Kenneth Erwin, Lloyd Chadwick, Veldren Lewis, Howard Conover, Arthur Birdsall, Robert Griffin, William Aghjan, Marvin Cramer. An enjoyable evening was spent by all followed by refreshments.

From the New Jersey Courier 18 Nov 1875: On Thursday night, Captains John Hall and Daniel Cole, of Lower Bank, started from Egg Harbor City for home. Owing to the intense darkness, the horse missed the road and overturned the vehicle into the creek at Gloucester Landing. The horse, a valuable one, was drowned, the wagon demolished, and the two men badly hurt.

Thomas and Molly O'Connor of Queens, 1940s

Tom O'Connor of Queens, somewhere in the Pacific during WWII

New Jersey Mirror 15 Nov 1871 Married--At his residence in Timbuctoo, on the 9th instant(November, 1871), by Rev. William Williams, after a long and tedious courtship, KING DAVID PARKER, of Timbuctoo, and CLARISSA COLE, formerly of Philadelphia.

New Jersey Courier 15 Nov 1918 Collector and Mrs. Ernet L. Worth announce the marriage of their daughter, Gertrude Edith, to Charles P. Lippincott of Philadelphia. The bride is one of the popular young ladies of Bayville and Camden, a graduate of Toms River high school and Trenton normal, and has been teaching the past three years in the Cramer school, Camden. Mr. Lippincott is assistant cashier in the Fourth Street National bank of Philadelphia, and comes from a well known Camden family. The Ladies Aid Society will meet at the home of Miss Carrie Bonnell on Wednesday evening, Nov 20, at 8 o'clock. Coastguard James Brower is spending a few days at his home here. Mrs. A.B. VanWickle, Mrs. Annie Hess, Miss Mae Kelly and Fred Tappen of Asbury Park visited Devine Butler and wife on Sunday. Miss Ida Ward of Toms River spent Sunday with her brother, Geo. Ward and wife.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 15 NOV 1918 Miss Jennie May of Jersey City returned home Sunday evening after spending a few days with Mrs. Ivins Clayton and family. Miss Lida Brower of Bayville spent the week end with Miss Rita Clayton. Rev. J.W. Stokes, wife and and Mrs. Wm. Bryant and wife of Cedar Grove spent Wednesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Ivins Clayton and family

New Jersey Courier 15 Nov 1918 Roscoe Conkling was in town Tuesday. J. Fields of New York was a Monday visitor. Mrs. Kate Falkinburgh and son Alton are visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. Bailey, at Barnegat City. Mrs. Tillie Steer of Philadelphia spent the week end with Mrs. Sallie Exel. Miss Martha Throckmorton has been spending a few days with Mrs. Harry Van Note. Mrs. Forrest Carter has been entertaining her mother. Mrs. A.J. Bugbee spent a few days with her mother in Camden this week. The First National Bank has erected a new flag pole alongside the bank, with all of the colors flying. Barnegat had a great celebration on Tuesday over the great victory. They had a parade by school children. Red Cross and all the prominent citizens of the town turned out in the grand march. After marching all through the town they stopped in front of the bank where a few addressess were made by Prof. W. Brown of the high school, Mrs. Sarah Hernburgh, J. Horace Sprague and Henry A. Tolbert, which...

New Jersey Courier 14 Nov 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Voorhees of Lakewood were granted the adoption of Gloria May Wallace, whose name was changed to Gloria May Voorhees. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Wallace, gave their consent to the adoption.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 14 NOV 1930 OYSTER SUPPER Lanoka Harbor M.E. Church, Tuesday, Nov 18, beginning at 5:30. Tickets 50c EGG MARKET MOVED The Toms River Egg Market moved its headquarters on November 1 from Newark to 503 Rahway Ave, Elizabeth, NJ TUNE IN On the Philco Hour next Sunday night, November 16 and hear Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in a wonderful Philco Symphonic concert; then hear a Philco radio, the world's largest selling and most complete radio line at the Traco Music Store For $1.00 We will insure you against personal injury, property damage and fire. Joseph Bottler, agent, Main and Washington Streets, Phone 415, Toms River. NOTICE Dr. Lela Garrison of Brooklyn, NY will have visiting days in Toms River during the winter months. For appointment call Mrs. Schenck, Milady's Beauty Shoppe.

New Jersey Courier 14 Nov 1930 Among the cases before the grand jury on Wednesday it is assumed was the famous primary election of last June in the Borough of Harvey Cedars. In this borough, with a census population of 47, there were about 200 votes polled. A number of Harvey Cedars residents were at the courthouse

New Jersey Courier 14 Nov 1930 Buy your own bathroom and plumbing fixtures on easy terms, I will install them for you at a surprisingly low figure for the winter months. Why not let me figure with you. Just drop a card to H.I. Wright, Box 61, Holly Park, Bayville, NJ

NEW JERSEY COURIER 14 NOV 1930 Judge Gallagher signed orders of adoption of two small children Wednesday, Nov 12. Capt. and Mrs. William Thomas of Parkertown adopted as their own child Harry Brown, a lad of five years, who takes the name of William Harry Thomas. Capt. Thomas, a party boat man, big and sturdy, and his fine looking young wife seemed delighted and so did the bright eyed little lad.

NEW JERSEY COURIER 14 Nov 1930 Engineers who planned and are building the ship to shore radio plant at Good Luck meadows assert that a story in the Courier last week is all wrong. They say that their plant will not interfere with radio or telephone service, and that the disturbance recently occurring in Seaside Heights from time to time is probably caused by radio on freighters still using the old dot and dash system, and plying up and down the coast. They say that the sending and receiving stations at Lawrenceville do not interfere with either phone or radio reception anywhere around.

from the Asbury Park Press 13 Nov 1997 Chasey-- Gloria R., on Nov 11 1997, age 65. Funeral service on Saturday Nov 15 at 10 a.m. at the Francioni Taylor and Lopez Funeral Home, 1200 10th and Atkins Avenue, Neptune. Entombment, Monmouth Memorial Park, Tinton Falls.

from the Asbury Park Press 13 Nov 1997 Charnecki--- Mary A. (nee Konanez) of Linden, wife of the late William Charnecki; devoted mother of Mrs. John (and Eleanor) Falcichio of Neptune; sister of the late Peter and John Konanez; Ann Grafenberg and Julia Ciaffone; grandmother of Jonathan. Interment Rosedale Cemetery.

from the Asbury Park Press 13 Nov 1997 DEMAREST-- Wilma, age 76, on Nov 11, 1997 of Lakewood. Beloved wife of Theodore Demarest, loving mother of Barbara Ann Demarest, Carol Demarest Pippin, James David Demarest, Sister of Olliver Jefferson Morgan, Robert Morgan, Charlotta Logston, Marion Hotchkiss. No visitiation. Memorial services will be held Sunday, Nov 23 at 1:30 pm at the Church in Brielle, NJ. Cremation will be private. Memorial donations can be made to: The Church in Brielle Memorial Fund, PO Box 25, Brielle, NJ 08730.

New Jersey Mirror 13 Nov 1867 Pursuant to an order of the Orphans' Court of the county of Burlington, made on the Nineteenth of September last past, the subscribers will sell at public vendue, on SATURDAY, the Fourteenth of December next, between the hours of 12 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the hotel of William Davis, in Mount Holly, in said county of Burlington, a certain tract of WOOD-LAND, whereof Martha Harker, late of said county, died seized, situate near Timbuctoo, in the township of Westampton, in the county aforesaid, on the south side of the Mount Holly and Rancocas turnpike, adjoining lands of Joseph S. Hulme, William Hultz and others, containing About 4 1/2 Acres of Land, with a good growth of young pine, suitable for cord wood. The premises will be shown before the day of sale by Joseph S. Hulme, living near. Sale to commence at 2 o'clock, P. M. Conditions at sale. WM. M. RISDON, WILLIAM BLACK, AARON S. WHITE, Commissioners. November 12, 1867

Asbury Park Press 10 Nov 2006 STAFFORD TOWNSHIP — Two sisters died minutes apart Thursday after they were shot in the driveway of their home by their mother's ex-boyfriend, who then turned the gun on himself. On most Thursday mornings, 15-year-old Jessica Veitch would be in school. But with school out for the New Jersey Education Association's convention, the Southern Regional High School sophomore was able to spend the morning with her 21-year-old sister, Melissa. The young women were shot before they were able to make it to the front steps of their Mercer Avenue home after returning at about 11:30 a.m. from a trip to a convenience store. Neighbors who heard the shots and screams called 911. "I was in the service, so I knew it wasn't firecrackers," said Thomas Niemiec, 61, who lives a few houses away from the Veitches. Police arrived to find both girls on the ground next to the car, which had its passenger-side window shattered. They were transported to Souther...

From New Jersey Courier 9 Nov 1870 On the first instant we paid our esteemed friend, A. Jameson, Esq., of Bricksburg, a visit. We found him full of business, and received from him the same honest cordial greeting , as of olden time. Our friend at the present time is the president and general manager of a new enterprise which he has inaugurated at Bricksburg, a few miles to the north of us. When we knew A. Jameson long years ago, we always found him the same truthful, temperate, upright and industrious man as now. Scrupulously prompt in his business he, as a matter of course, succeeded. With an energy that brooked no denial, he has worked his way up, until he has become a self made man, and the architect of his own fortune. We rejoice at his prosperity. After a cordial interchange of friendly greeting, we placed ourselves under his guidance, and we proceeded to visit his water power, formerly known as Bergen Iron Works. A large massive well built raceway has been constructed underg...

from the Asbury Park Press 8 Nov 1985 Irving Goldstein, 74, of Amberly Drive, Manalapan Township, died Wednesday at Freehold Area Hospital, Freehold Township. Mr. Goldstein was born in New York and lived there before moving to Manalapan more than nine years ago. His wife, the former Gertrude Abrams, died in 1983. Surviving are two daughters, Janet Halpern, East Brunswick Township, and Sheila Jacobs, Valley Streams, NY; a brother, Sam, and sister, Doris Pinsky, both Brooklyn; and five grandchildren. Rezem Funeral Home, East Brunswick, is in charge of arrangements.

from the Asbury Park Press, 8 Nov 1985 Rose A. Coughlin, 73, of Hightstown, died yesterday at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Mrs. Coughlin was born in Brooklyn and lived in Malone, NY, before moving to Highlands 30 years ago. She was a secretary and treasurer for W.C. Galligan Sugarwares, New York, retiring 11 years ago. Mrs. Coughlin was a communicant of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church, Highlands,and a member of it's Rosary Altar Society. Her husband, Charles, died in January. Surviving are several nieces and nephews. John P. Condon Funeral Home, Leonardo, Middletown Township, is in charge of arrangements.

from the Asbury Park Press 8 Nov 1985 Charles Galante, 72, of Toms River, died yesterday at Community Memorial Hospital, Toms River. He was born in Jersey City and lived in Passaic and Howell Township before moving to Toms River in 1973. He was a butcher for the Allen Packing Co., Elizabeth, for 30 years, retiring in 1974. Surviving are his wife, the former Josephine Scalice; three daughters, Beatrice Schaadt, Marie Artese, and Alice Murtagh, and eight grandchildren. C.H.T. Clayton and Son Funeral Home, Adelphia section of Howell, is in charge of arrangements.

New Jersey Mirror 17 Nov 1886 Died-At Timbuctoo, November 5, 1886, Abigail Ann, wife of Theophilus Pinion, aged 36 years

New Jersey Mirror 4 Nov 1818 Sale of 30 acres of woodland near Ong's Hat, adjoining lands of William Hilyard and others. The land is covered with pine, chestnut, and white oak. Also a house and lot with a blacksmith shop in the Village of Frogtown. The lot contains 5 acres and an apple orchard in its prime. For terms apply to John L. Stratton of Mount Holly.

New Jersey Mirror Nov 3 1937: Failing in one attempt, J. George Lowery, 58, of Manahawkin, committed suicide early yesterday the same way his brother ended his life two years ago. Lowery, a laborer, who lived alone on Stafford avenue, Manahawkin, stabbed himself twice over the heart with a butcher knife. Then he tied a rope around a second-floor bannister, the other end around his neck, and jumped. Lowery's brother, John, hanged himself in his Manahawkin home in 1935.

New Jersey Courier 3 Nov 1910 Mrs. Julia Bunnell and Miss Lou Frazee were delegates last Friday to the County Sunday school convention in Lakehurst.

The following is reprinted from the Bass River Gazzette, Issue No.2, Oct 1998, with the author's permission: "Herrintown was used locally to refer to New Gretna. When used by a Clamtown (Tuckerton) resident it was a derogatory term, but New Gretna residents used the term proudly as "herrin" was important to the local economy for many years."

New Jersey Courier 31 Oct 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur SKILLMAN and son Billy were Friday and Saturday visitors in Philadelphia and Hopewell, NJ. Mr. and Mrs. ECKMAN of Toms River spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Wilber SKILLMAN. Mr. Charles ROGERS, Mr. Henry SCHULTZ, Edward LARRABEE, and Oscar DOWNS attended the meeting of the Cranberry Growers Association in Phila. last Monday. Mrs. Charles SUMMERS of Hope Chapel spent Saturday with her mother, Mrs. Adeline HARTMAN. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie O'CONNOR of New York City were Sunday visitors at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bart DONAHUE. Miss Grace GROPP has resumed duties at the Air Station after a month at her home in Egg Harbor. Miss GOPP and George PETERSON attended the Navy Princeton game at Princeton Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Paul MACK and son Jack left Lakehurst Monday for Westmont, NJ, where they will make their home. Dr. PITTIS has purchased the MACK bungalow on Pine Street. Mr. Andrew FRISK of Elizabethpor...