Ocean County , NJ History

Trenton Times 6 Jul 1939

Trenton Times 29 May 1932

Trenton Times 28 May 1933

Ocean Emblem 13 Feb 1856

Trenton Times 17 Apr 1932

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

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.

New Jersey Courier 25 Oct 1900 Zebulon Collins, a well known woodsman, died suddenly of heart failure at Bamber on Tuesday. There was no physician attending. He will be buried on Saturday at Whitings. Collins was one of the men who found Jim Wainwright's body, where it had been hidden in Cedar Creek after the murder in 1885. Zeb's quaint humor on the witness stand also softened the grim features of that tragic trial. (I have located some of Zebulon's census entries--it appears he was born about 1801, and was married to a woman named Rebecca (b. about 1803). In 1860 the family was living in Dover Township (what is now Toms River township); living with them were daughter Nancy Collins, b. abt 1855; Zebulon Collins, Jr, b. about 1842; Joseph Collins, b. about 1837; and Rachael Collins, born about 1844. In 1870, the family was still in Dover Township. Zebulon, Jr. is the only child still at home, employed somewhere as a laborer (Zebulon, Sr. was a farmer). His sister, 44 y

New Jersey Courier 23 Oct 1908 One of the good results of the warden new warden law was seen at Bamber last week, when deputy warden Alfred Larrabee called out a lot of citizens to help put out a fire that had started nearby. It was a hard fight and they succeeded after somewhat of territory had been burned, but no valuable timber destroyed.

New Jersey Courier 25 Apr 1912 Margaret, the little daughter of John Septor, [ of Whitings ], was taken Sunday afternoon with an attack of appendicitis. Dr. Pittis was quickly summoned and the child is said to be improved as of this writing. Joe Hilliard [of Whitings] took a load of "May Pinkers" to Bamber one day last week. Arbutus was gathered by the arm full and all had a good time.

New Jersey Courier 9 Mar 1911 Miss Matilda Collins of Bamber, Ocean County, died of paralysis at the home of her niece, Mrs. Charles Asselin of Red Bank, yesterday. Miss Collins was in her 85th year. The body will be removed to Barnegat where the funeral will be held.

Press of Atlantic City 5 Mar 1990 "It's going to take more than vandals and the state bureaucracy to force Jane Gardner and Earl Hawk to move from the concrete block building that has been their home in the Pinelands for 25 years. The couple and a neighbor are the three remaining residents of Caruso Village, once a cluster of 10 homes, a hunting cabin and garage complex located in the Pinelands near the Bamber Lake section. The state Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife, which had purchased the area from the Caruso family, ordered most of the remaining village residents to move at the end of October. But like their neighbor, the couple holds a long-term lease on their tin-roofed home, and the feisty pair have refused to move. They are not bothered that vandals recently set fire to two of the abandoned homes nearby. They also don't worry that anyone will harass them in their lonely enclave. Four people, including two juveniles, have been arrested and charged with setting

New Jersey Courier 5 Jan 1911 Mr. and Mrs. William Saulsman have gone back to New York after a week here [ Forked River ] (Josephine Craft's daughter, married a Saulsman. We know that in 1911 Willis Saulsman was still traveling back and forth from Cedar Crest to NY, and Lulu was living with her mother although already married. There is an H. William Saulsman living in NY (although he was born in NJ) in 1910. He worked as a chauffeur for a private family. He was lodged in the home of William Chandler, who also worked as a chauffeur for a private family. They lived next door to real estate manager Charles Smith. There is a Willis Saulsman, who I think may be the same person, in NY in 1920, working as a chauffeur for a private family. (A Willis Saulsman frequently made trips between NY and Cedar Crest). In 1920, he lodged in the home of another chauffeur, Robert Van Zandt on West 95th street.)

New Jersey Courier 2 Jan 1912 A wedding record recorded by Betty Grant of the Ocean County Historical Society mentions that Belford Russel Lawrence of Cedar Crest, age 23, married Ida Winton of Barnegat, NJ. (Belford was born in Port Norris, NJ and worked as a sawyer in 1912. His parents were Charles Lawrence and Margaret Randolph. Ida's parents were James Winton and Sarah Applegate.)

Press of Atlantic City 8 Dec 1992 Committeeman Louis Amato Jr. says the Cedar Run Group Home does not have proper security, is financially inefficient and should not be located in a residential area. Local officials, dissatisfied with a state plan for a citizens advisory panel to discuss public concerns over a Bamber Lake reform school, insist the facility should be closed. "I'm still dead-set against the facility out there. I'm still set on having it closed," Committeeman Louis Amato Jr. said. Amato claims the Cedar Run Group Home, in the pinelands near Carriage Road, does not have proper security, is financially inefficient for the state to operate and should not be located in the residential area. The committee members are also concerned the state might look to expand services at the facility as it is forced to find places to house juveniles who might be apprehended during crackdowns on carjacking. Amato, who is police commissioner here, and other members of the

Press of Atlantic City, Dec 6 1990 HERBERT E. BAYARD, 68, of the Bamber Lake section of Lacey Township, died Wednesday at Community Medical Center in Toms River. Mr. Bayard was a self-employed carpenter in the Ocean County area for 37 years until his retirement in 1988. He was a member of the Lanoka Harbor Methodist Church and a past member of the Bamber Lake Fire Company. Born in Belford, he resided in Forked River before moving to Bamber Lake in 1972. Surviving are his wife, the former Alice Peake of Bamber Lake ; three sons, Lawrence, of Antioch, Calif., Gary, of Bayville, and Harry of Bamber Lake ; two daughters, Kerry Perkins of Cedar Run and Karen Duffy of Bamber Lake ; one brother, John Bayard of East Keansburg; three sisters, Alta Brown of Brick Town, Florence Wolchak of Middletown, and Dorothy Maggs of Wall Township; 12 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

"NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND IN THE TOWNSHIP OF LACEY, N.J. FOR UNPAID TAXES FOR THE YEAR 1920". BAKER, Frederick A. 5 lots, Cedar Crest Cedar Crest Orchard and Produce Co., 6807 acres, dwellings, barns and mills at Cedar Crest. (Cedar Crest Co. seems to have been the biggest employer in this town, and with what appears to be their failure, a lot of residents probably moved on, explaining the discrepancy in population from 1920 to 1930.) COHEN, Joseph H., 20 acres, Cedar Crest DALE, John, 2 acres and bungalow, Cedar Crest LEHTONEN, Lydia, 3 acres, Cedar Crest ( A Lydia LEHTONEN lived on W. 79th Street, Manhattan, in 1920, working as a private nurse in the home of Carl Mead. She was a Finnish immigrant, having come from that country in 1911. It seems unlikely she would have owned speculative land in Ocean County, but I suppose not impossible. In 1910, a 35 year old Lydia LEHTONEN shows up on W 48th St in Manhattan, also a Finnish immigrant. She worked as a servant in the ho