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.

from New Egypt Press, 10 Mar 1905 On Saturday morning, March 4th, Carrie Logan, wife of Oliver P. Eldridge, passed away. The deceased has been a sufferer from consumption for several years. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Robbins of this place. Besides a husband, she leaves five small children, three girls and two boys. The funeral was held from her husband's residence on Mill Street, Tuesday afternoon, with services at the Presbyterian Church at 1 o'clock and Interment at Jacobstown Cemetery. Mrs. Eldridge was 32 years of age. She is a sister to Charles, William, Theodore, and Samuel Robbins, Mrs. Geo. Potter, Mrs. F.R. Hope, Mrs. J.M. Thomson, and Mrs. J.McKaig of this place, Mrs. George Tripple of Ocean City, Mrs. Ella McKoy of Cream Ridge, and John Robbins of California.

New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905: HOUSE AND FURNITURE DESTROYED BY FIRE Occupied by John Lingerman, who was ill in bed About 1 o'clock Sunday morning the house occupied by John LINGERMAN, near Hornerstown, with all the household goods was burned to the ground. A crackling noise in the kitchen awoke Mrs. LINGERMAN, an arising she found the kitchen all in flames. With rare presence of mind, she awoke her husband who was ill in bed, and managed to get him and the rest of the family out. Four chairs only were saved of the household goods. Everything was burned. Then as the roof fell and the house was turned to ashes the half clad family were forced to walk through the snow across the icy fields, in the dead of night to a near farm house where they found shelter. Mr. LINGERMAN seems to be an unfortunate man. He is the principal of the public school at Mill Stream, and has been a great sufferer from choking spells and other ills for several years. Early in February he was taken seriously...

New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905: Charles OLIPHANT of Hightstown spent Monday with Mrs. Harriet JOBES, his grandmother who is very ill. If she lives until May she will be 90 years old. Mrs. Carrie HARKER is spending a few days in Philadelphia. Harry ATKINSON has bought out the general store of John DUBELL, jr. who has decided to retire. R.W. HARKER and his two daughters Leila and Carrie attended the funeral of Grant DAVIS the Mill St. hotel keeper in Mt. Holly on Monday. Alber HONOR and Mrs. Martha WEST have had a handsome monument erected in the Cemetery here in Remembrance of their mother, Rhoda H. HONOR. Miss Nancy HOLT our school teacher is sick so there has been no school for a week. Geo. DELZELL of New Egypt was a visitor here on Thursday. Chas. HARKER was Mt. Holly visitor on Thurdsay. Miss Bessie DUBELL spent Sunday with friends in Juliustown. The Social held at the M.E. parsonage on Thursday evening was a success.

New Egypt Pres 10 Mar 1905 The report from Ellisdale school for Feb is as follows: Average attendance, 18; percentage of attendance, 87. The names of those who were not absent a day are: Ada Wager, Albert Redfearn, Joseph Sharp, Garwood Jobes, Harvey Sharp, Samuel Sharp, and Harrison Jones.

New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905: Moses Cranmer, overseer of the poor has adopted a new method with the applicants for public funds. He keeps a large pile of wood and w hen an applicant presents himself for help he is given a job cutting wood, which saves the town's money and gives them employment. There are very few who really want work but can get it this way. June Ridgway has sold his barber shop at Forked River and returned here, looking for a new opening. He says it is a poor climate for whiskers up there. A number of New York Evening Journal reporters spent Sunday at Pine Bluff Inn, Point Pleasant. A Box Social was held at the Presbyterian Church at Toms River on Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Applegate of Toms River have just returned from an extended visit in California

New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905: Mr. and Mrs. Hugh MOORE have returned from an extended visit among relatives in Philadelphia. Dr. Geo. W. BELL was in town on Saturday. Mrs. George TRIPPLE of Ocean City has been visiting relatives here during the past week. Joseph FOSTER has been ill for some time past. He is slowly improving. Edward CRANMER was in Trenton on Monday. The Misses Rena, Jennie and Rae MOORE, of Philadelphia, visited their parents Mr. and Mrs. G. Frank MOORE over Sunday. Charles P. GRAVATT purchased 3 fine cows at the Danley Sale one day last week. Mrs. Mary HARTSHORN returned home from Bordentown on Sunday. Hannah BUNTING has been visiting friends and relatives in town during the past week. Mrs. John MILLER is recovering from a rather prolonged illness. Walter BELL was in Trenton on Monday. Jacob MCKAIG was in Trenton on Saturday. Many will be interested to know that Z.H. BUNTING of Bordentown will move his family to Trenton shortly where he will engage in the co...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 9 MAR 1911 C. Leland Haslett is spending some days at his home here from Boston Mrs. W.F.Simmons entertained the Toms River orchestra on Friday evening. Freeholder W.s. Jackson has been quite sick in Philadelphia at Jefferson hospital. Miss Beatrice Bunnell spent the weekend home from Trenton where she attends school. Mrs. J.C.P. MacWalter returned last week after spending the winter in New York and vicinity. George McKaig of Island Heights brought F.G. Stanwood and S.E. Leming to town in his car Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. Leon Chamberlain on Monday entertained the former's brother, Jesse Chamberlain of Providence, RI. Miss Alfred Smythe returned to Long Branch last week after spending several months with Mrs. George Wissmach. The young folks gave Rowland Buckwalter, Jr a surprise party on Thursday evening last and had a jolly time, too. C.A. Morris Monday went to Trenton to attend the funeral of a cousin; Tuesday and Wednesday he inspected the New Egypt sch...

New Jersey Mirror Mar 9, 1934 died -ATKINSON - May 5, in Whitesbog, Mrs. Louisa Gray Atkinson, aged 63

New Jersey Mirror 9 Mar 1939 John Dudley, colored, 18, of 140 Edgecomb avenue, New York, was arrested at the home of his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Meyers, in Palmyra, early on Saturday, charged with murder of Raphael Solomon, an investigator for the New York Department of Welfare, who was shot on February 15 and died in a Harlem Hospital on February 21. Dudley, who was arrested by Palmyra police and state troopers at about one o'clock on Saturday morning, was returned to New York, after a hearing before Mayor John F. Ward, of Palmyra. Two other colored youths, Robert Robinson and James Parker, under arrest in New York, implicated Dudley in the crime. Solomon was shot in the neck after he was held up and his wallet, containing $65, was stolen. He is under indictment there for a series of robberies of rent collectors, police said, and Solomon was mistaken for a collector. Dudley admitted taking part in Solomon's holdup at his hearing in Palmyra, but denied committing the actual mu...

New Jersey Mirror 8 Mar 1940 Miss Vivian Murphy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Murphy, of Whitesbog, became the bride of Morris Fort, of Pemberton, in a quiet ceremony performed in the Pemberton Methodist parsonage on Sunday afternoon, March 3, 1940. The Rev. W. Neal Raver officiated. Miss Marion Rogers, of Wrightstown, and Elmer Haines, were the only attendants. Mr. Fort and his bride are on a motor trip along the Virginia Skyline Drive and upon their return will reside at Whitesbog.

New Jersey Mirror 5 Mar 1911 Mrs. Emma Hopkins has been granted a divorce from her husband, Charles F. Hopkins, son of Caleb Hopkins, a hotel keeper at Cassville

TUCKERTON BEACON 4 Mar 1920 Henry JOHNSON and wife came home Saturday after spending two years in Kansas City. Stockton CRANMER has gone back to New Lisbon after spending some time with his family. Mrs. Geneva HAINES, of Pemberton, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.C. CRANE. Mrs. Abbie SHAFTO has returned after a month's visit in Brooklyn. George FREDERSON is visiting his son, George, for awhile. W.C. MALSBURY is spending some time in New York. Miss Geneva VAN VORST died at the home of her aunt, Mrs. S.B. CONKLING. Miss VAN VORST was 35 years old. Death came after a short illness of pneumonia. With her mother she conducted a Millinery Parlor between Manahawken and Cedar Run. When her mother died several months ago, it left her alone in the world and, with her grandfather, she has been living on in the homestead. She will be greatly missed. Mrs. Exel HOLMES entertained her father, of New York, over Sunday. Mrs. Fannie INMAN spent Sunday in Parkertown with her parents....

Tuckerton Beacon 4 Mar 1920 Capt. Jesse R. Cavileer, of Egg Harbor, formerly of Lower Bank, has announced the engagement of his daughter, Jessie and Mr. Harry C. Pittinger, of Camden

Tuckerton Beacon 4 Mar 1920: Improvements amounting to $18,000 are being made to the Margaretta cottage by contractors GRANT and CRANMER. This work is being done for Wilmer HOOPER, of Philadelphia. The two Dredger cottages at Beach Haven Terrace are to be moved to Beach Haven and will be placed on Belvoir Avenue. Harry T. WILLITS will erect a new store on Beach avenue near the Post Office and expects to be open for business this coming season.

TUCKERTON BEACON 4 Mar 1920 C. D. Kelly made a business trip to Atlantic City on Saturday. Rev. Woolston Johnson is attending the M.E. Conference at Atlantic City this week. Several members of the M.E. Church were in attendance during the meetings --among them Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Sprague and A.H. Jones. Misses Grace and Sara Ruter, who are employed in the Quaker City, spent the week end at home. Ms. A. H. Jones has returned home after a fortnight's visit with her sister, Mrs. Ada Cranmer in Philadelphia. Mrs. O.P. Smith, of Camp Dix, was a week end visitor at R.F. Rutter's. Eugene Kelley is on the sick list; we hope to hear of his early improvement. Among the recent Philadelphia visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holloway, George g. Kelley and daughters, Misses Ruth and Eva and Mrs. James E. Kelly. Fireman George Cox of the Pennsy System at Camden was home on the sick list last week. Mrs. Laura Cranmer was called to Pleasantville this week by the illness of her daughter, M...

from the New Egypt Press 4 March 1910 Irving Carter, Jr., aged eight months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Carter of near Archertown, died on Friday of last week after suffering with pneumonia for the past few days. Funeral services were held on Sunday the 27th ult. Interment at Jacobstown.

TUCKERTON BEACON 4 Mar 1920 Timothy Parker, of Atlantic City, was a recent visitor at the home of Susanna Parker. Lester Mott and Fred Cummings, of Brigantine C.G.S., recently spent their liberty days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Cummings. Mrs. Newall Seaman, of Tuckerton, was in town Monday calling on relatives. John Cranmer and son, Melford, have returned after visiting relatives in Trenton, Collingswood, Fieldsboro, and White Hills. Mason Price, Edw. Cranmer, and John Cranmer were over Sunday visitors at Cedar Run.

from the New Jersey Mirror Mar 4 1908 Angered at his wife because she refused to leave her parents and go home with him to Atco, this State, Jacob Kobler shot and instantly killed her on Thursday afternoon at her parents' home, on Kensington avenue(number not stated), Philadelphia, and during the struggle which followed, shot and wounded Rudolph A. Ferber and Elizabeth Ferber, his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and then made a bluff at committing suicide by shooting himself in the head. He then jumped out of a second-story window and tried to make his escape across the fields to a small creek into which he plunged. The icy water soon chilled his heated blood and he crawled back and surrendered to his pursuers.

from the Trenton Evening Times, 2 Mar 1909 FISH. - In this city, on the 28th ult., Anna L., wife of Thomas Fish, in the 68th year of her age. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral from her husband's residence, No. 20 Emory Avenue, Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment at Mt. Holly, N.J., at convenience of the family. (another article with the same information says burial will be at Mt. Holly Cemetery.)