Victor Ritzendollar obituary
New Jersey Courier 20 Sep 1918
Victor Ritzendollar, of the Hedger House, near Chatsworth, died at his home on Thursday morning of last week after being ill for some time with cirrhosis of the liver. He was about 73 years of age. Mr. Ritzendollar was born in the Alsace- Lorraine section of France and he came to this country when about ten years of age. He soon settled in the Chatsworth section and had since lived there. His death will be mourned by a circle of friends that extended throughout Burlington county and in adjoining sections of Ocean and Atlantic Counites. He owned considerable land in the pines and was interested in cranberry growing. A widow and several children, some the issue of previous unions, survive him." In 1900, he shows up in the census in Woodland township, a widower with two children: John (an adopted son, b. May 1888) and Jennie, b. 1889. Victor was born Feb 1847 in France, and immigrated in 1860. His occupation was farmer. In 1900, he had a live-in housekeeper named Lizzie Bower, age 19. There was also a boarder, German-born Edward Ring, b. May 1847.
By 1910, Victor was re-married to a woman named Lydia--she was 29, he was 63. Lydia had given birth three times, with only two surviving children. She was born in New Jersey, but her parents were from Germany. John and Jennie were gone, but Annie (9) and Lydia (7) lived there now. A 56 year old man named George Scull lived there, working as a cook, as well as farm hand William Britton,12 and Elias Cranmer, 55, who worked in the saw mill.
In 1920, after Victor's death, "Lidie" Ritzendollar and family appear on the 1920 census on Johnson Place Road in Woodland Township. Daughter Elizabeth E., now 16 still lived with her mother, as did Elias Cranmer. There was a 70 year old laborer, the widower Laurence Slattery, living with them at that time.
Victor Ritzendollar, of the Hedger House, near Chatsworth, died at his home on Thursday morning of last week after being ill for some time with cirrhosis of the liver. He was about 73 years of age. Mr. Ritzendollar was born in the Alsace- Lorraine section of France and he came to this country when about ten years of age. He soon settled in the Chatsworth section and had since lived there. His death will be mourned by a circle of friends that extended throughout Burlington county and in adjoining sections of Ocean and Atlantic Counites. He owned considerable land in the pines and was interested in cranberry growing. A widow and several children, some the issue of previous unions, survive him." In 1900, he shows up in the census in Woodland township, a widower with two children: John (an adopted son, b. May 1888) and Jennie, b. 1889. Victor was born Feb 1847 in France, and immigrated in 1860. His occupation was farmer. In 1900, he had a live-in housekeeper named Lizzie Bower, age 19. There was also a boarder, German-born Edward Ring, b. May 1847.
By 1910, Victor was re-married to a woman named Lydia--she was 29, he was 63. Lydia had given birth three times, with only two surviving children. She was born in New Jersey, but her parents were from Germany. John and Jennie were gone, but Annie (9) and Lydia (7) lived there now. A 56 year old man named George Scull lived there, working as a cook, as well as farm hand William Britton,12 and Elias Cranmer, 55, who worked in the saw mill.
In 1920, after Victor's death, "Lidie" Ritzendollar and family appear on the 1920 census on Johnson Place Road in Woodland Township. Daughter Elizabeth E., now 16 still lived with her mother, as did Elias Cranmer. There was a 70 year old laborer, the widower Laurence Slattery, living with them at that time.
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