Ocean County , NJ History

from the Bergen Record 27 Apr 1986 WALTER E. HESTERBERG, 82, of Whiting died Friday. Before retiring in 1966, he was a foreman for the Crucible Steel Mill of Harrison, where he worked for 35 years. Surviving are his wife, Paula Lobbe Hesterberg; and a daughter, Florence Mann of Oakland. Services will be Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Oakland Memorial Home, with burial in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus. Visiting is tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.

From the New Jersey Courier 27 Apr 1905 Allan Cross, a well known citizen of Waretown, died on Friday last, at the age of 77. He had for many years lived on the Samuel Birdsall farm, and was loved by all the community.

from the New Jersey Courier 23 Apr 1929 Capt. Nelson Grant, 80 years of age, a life long resident of Lacey Township, honored and respected by all who knew him, killed himself on Thursday morning, August 22, by sending a load of shot through his breast. He lived not far from the Central Railroad station at Lanoka Harbor. At 6:15 that morning he went over to the station with a single barreled shot gun. It is assumed that he sat down with the gun between his knees, butt on the ground and leaned over so that the muzzle was against his chest. Then with a bit of shingle lathe he pushed the trigger, launching himself into eternity. His death was probably instantaneous, as he was found sitting up, the gun between his knees. Capt.Nelson Grant was an oldtime waterman. In his early days he went to sea. Later he spent a long time in the Life-Saving service, till laid off from disability acquired in the service. After that he was an oyster planter and bayman. For a long time before the small Boar...

from the New Egypt Press, 10 Mar 1905 The body of Milton Carr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Carr, was brought here on Monday last for burial. He died in the Trenton Hospital with pneumonia. Milton was 16 years of age. He will be greatly missed by his young associates as well as the family.

from the New Jersey Mirror 7 Apr 1819 On Friday morning, April 2, 1819, a man by the name of Uriah Hilliard, in the 50th year of his age was found dead at Eayrestown, about 3 miles from Mount Holly. A Coroner's Inquest was held upon the body, by which Inquisition it was found that "he came to his death by the visitation of God."

New Jersey Courier 6 Apr 1905

from the New Jersey Courier 6 Apr 1905

New Jersey Courier 6 Apr 1905

New Jersey Courier 6 Apr 1905

From the New Jersey Courier of 6 Apr 1905: "Thomas Singleton will start his ice route, and asks the continuance of the patronage of his old customers, besides being pleased to serve new patrons."

From the New Jersey Courier 6 Apr 1905

From the New Jersey Courier 6 Apr 1905

From the New Jersey Courier 6 Apr 1900

From the New Jersey Courier 6 Apr 1905

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From the New Jersey Courier 5 Apr 1900

Ad from the New Jersey Courier 5 Apr 1900

DEATHS Woodward-March 28, 1900, near New Egypt, Robert E. Woodward Estlow-at Manahawkin, March 28, Mrs. Hezekiah Estlow. Manion--at Lakehurst, April 1, 1900, John Manion, aged 67 years. Cowan--at Lakehurst, April 3, 1900, Samuel D. Cowan, aged 65 years.

From the New Jersey Courier 5 Apr 1900

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New Jersey Courier 5 Apr 1900 "Chambers-Inman---at Cookstown, March 22, 1900, by Franklin B. Haines, Esq, John Chambers of Sykesville, and Nellie Inman of Ocean County"

From the New Jersey Courier 5 Apr 1900

From the New Jersey Courier 5 Apr 1900 "Ho! For Electric Lights" As announced last week work is being pushed on the electric light plant. The building, brick for which is now on the ground, will be about 34 x 70 feet, with concrete foundations for the machinery. It will be divided into two rooms, one for the dynamo, and one for the boiler..."

From the New Jersey Courier , 5 April 1900

Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 2 1983 Officials yesterday identified the dismembered body of one of the two teenage girls found Tuesday in a shallow grave at a Staten Island home, and they said they would seek a murder indictment against the son of the woman who lived there. Monmouth County Prosecutor Alexander Lehrer identified the girl as Maria Ciallella, of Brick Township, Ocean County , who was 17 when she disappeared on Halloween night in 1981. Lehrer said he would seek a murder indictment in the case against Richard Biegenwald, who also is being held in the August slaying of Anna Olesiewicz, 18, of Camden. Lehrer said at a news conference here yesterday that Miss Ciallella had been shot twice in the head before being dismembered and buried in three green plastic trash bags in the yard of the home belonging to Biegenwald's mother, Sally Biegenwald. "There is no motive in this senseless killing, in my opinion," Lehrer said at the news conference, "other than the o...

from the New Egypt Press 1 Apr 1910 George F. Harbert, steward of the Burlington County Almshouse, at New Lisbon, died Monday night after a stroke of apoplexy. He was a United States revenue gauger in the seventies, sheriff of the county for one term beginning in 1888 and had been steward since the retirement of Theodore B. Gaskill, several years ago.