Meryl Simpkins 'coaxed' into taking an underage girl to Green Bank in 1922 (according to him)
New Jersey Courier 22 Dec 1922
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Johnson-Cranmer wedding, 1866
from the New Jersey Courier, 16 Aug 1866 MARRIAGE- On the 1st inst., at the residence of the bride's father near Greenbank, by Rev. G.W. Dobbins, Mr. Edwin B. Johnson to Miss Amanda H. Cranmer, both of the above place.
A.E. Koster
Information about this family was taken from their headstones in the Green Bank Cemetery and the Pleasant Mills Cemetery, and the 1885 Census. Augustus Ernst Koster was born in Hanover, Germany on 17 June 1840. All that is known of his family in Germany is that he had a brother named Charles, according to the Batsto Citizen's Gazzette vol XXIII #1. He came to America at the age of 14, supposedly after his mother had arranged to have him released from military training in Germany. He originally went to New York City, and in 1869 moved to Hermann, a town which no longer exists in Washington Township, supposedly to make glass. His father in law, John H. Rapp, is the investor who purchased the land and opened that glass works, so it is probable that he had some role in Augustus' choice to move to Washington Township. The town is supposed to have had between 40 and 70 homes at that time, plus one hotel. An 1876 Burlington County directory lists August Koster of Green Bank as a hot
Cranmer-Johnson wedding, 1866
CRANMER-JOHNSON from the New Jersey Courier, 16 Aug 1866 MARRIAGE- On the 1st inst., at the residence of the bride's father near Greenbank, by Rev. G.W. Dobbins, Mr. Edwin B. Johnson to Miss Amanda H. Cranmer, both of the above place.
Weeks-Prickitt wedding, 1869
New Jersey Courier 6 Jan 1869 Asa S. Weeks of Green Bank married Dorothy A. Prickitt of Medford.
Fire at Green Bank, 1875
New Jersey Courier 28 Oct 1875 Dear Sir--A terrible case of burning occurred about a mile from this village last Saturday night, by which one life was lost and another person was severely burned. The circumstances as near as can be learned, are as follows: Hannah Cranmer, a middle aged lady, living alone with her grandson, Conrad Predmore, aged about twelve years, was awakened at about half past twelve last Saturday night, by a sense of suffocation, and upon springing out of bed, found the floor so hot as to burn her feet. She awakened the child, who slept with her, and they hastened to escape by the door, but upon opening it, the flames and smoke rolled in upon them, cutting off their egress by the stair-way. There was no way of escape now ut the window, and no time to throw a bed out, for the floor was trembling beneath them. She told the child to jump out first, and she would follow. He did not want to jump out of the window, saying,"I am afraid to do it, Grandma; it will kil