Ocean County , NJ History

 Many years ago, the website I used to host this information on before moving to blogger helped out another researcher locating a family member they had been looking for.  They sent me this story about that process: OUR STORY FINDING JOHN (JACK) MASKELL JR'S FAMILY   BY BEN & SUSAN LANE January 20, 2003   Our story starts out with Ben working for the Army Awards Branch and back in September 2002 he brought home a mailing tube that the U.S.Postal Service had forwarded to his office. They had found it in an old mailbag in the Atlanta,Georgia postal facility. It was dated 1945 and addressed to Mrs. Edith W. Maskell. The documents in the tube had the name of her son,  a young Army soldier who was killed in action at Kaledorn,Germany during World War II and buried in the American Cemetery at Henri Chapelle,Belgium, at the age of 19.   My search began with Ancestry.com trying to locate the family on the 1930 census and death index for mother and father. ...

MASKELL, JOHN from the Asbury Park Evening Press 17 Nov 1947 BARNEGAT: - Burial services for Pfc. John Maskell, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John Maskell, sr., formerly of High Point, were held Friday afternoon from the Bugbee Funeral Home. Barnegat Light post V.F.W. provided a military escort and the Rev. Sanford Haney, pastor of the Kynett Methodist church, Beach Haven, officiated. Interment was in Cedar Run cemetery. Private Maskell, whose parents now live in Trenton, was among the 6200 dead who arrived in New York aboard the U.S.S. Joseph V. Connolly Oct 26. He was killed in action in Germany March 12, 1945. He was a member of the 78th Division of the First Army. Before his induction into the army Feb 18, 1944, Private Maskell attended Barnegat schools.