Frances Abate obituary, 1999
from Asbury Park Press 15 May 1999
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William Jeffrey
The following information comes to us from a copy of the New Jersey Courier from Oct 20th, 1910: 1.Stephen Gulick was the father of Abigail Gulick, born abt 1823. 2. Abigail Gulick married William Jeffrey and had five children before she died. She died at the family home on Lein Street in Toms River , 18 Oct 1910. 3. The children of William and Abigail Jeffrey were as follows: Deborah Jeffrey, died Oct 18, 1870. Howard Jeffrey, who lived in Lanoka Harbor. Mary J. Mott, of Toms River. Edward Jeffrey, who drowned at sea. William Jeffrey, jr., deceased several years already by 1910.
Leonia Van Arsdale obituary, 1918
from the New Jersey Courier 20 Sep 1918 Word comes to his family in Lanoka of the death in San Francisco on Aug 10 of Leonia Hortance, wife of William P. VanArsdale. Mrs. Van Arsdale was the daughter of the late Hubert LeHousse, a native of Belgium, her mother, Mrs. Leonie LeHousse being still living. She was the mother of Ines, Mabel and the late Leon VanArsdale. Funeral services were held at Notre Dame des Victories Church, where requieum high mass was celebrated; burial at the Holy Cross cemetery. William VanArsdale was the son of a well known Lanoka family, and as he grew up went first to New York, where he was employed for several years, and then in November 1881 to San Francisco, CA where he went into business for himself. The big San Francisco earthquake in 1906 destroyed both his home and his business place on Market street. He had for years been collecting rare manuscripts and rare books, and they wre also all destroyed by the fire that followed the earthquake, along with al...
Nelson Grant obituary, 1929
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...
