Ocean County , NJ History

 New Jersey Courier 22 Dec 1922

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.

Ocean Emblem 20 Dec 1854

New Jersey Courier 30 Jan 1879

Ellisdale This place is located in North Hanover Township, Burlington County, along appropriately enough, Ellisdale Road. Maps indicate that there is a cemetery there, although I have not been out that way myself yet. E.M. Woodward's 1883 history says that at that time there were about thirty dwellings in Ellisdale, as well as an M.E. church, two stores, and a post office. While I have been told that at some point this place was also known as Shelltown, it is not to be confused with the place called Shelltown in Plumsted Township, Ocean County. Ellisdale was known as Shelltown until about 1875. According to another visitor here, Ellisdale is actually is a crossroads town, just a few houses. The town also straddles the county line (which goes up the Ellisdale-Arneytown road) between Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co. and North Hanover, Burlington, co. The church is in Burlington, but the old store building, which was still a store in the early 60's and is now a home,

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 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.