Ocean County , NJ History

New Jersey Courier 25 Apr 1912

Lakewood Citizen, Friday December 1,1922: "At 10 o'clock on Sunday evening, Mrs Florence White Pettit Roberts, wife of Thomas Roberts. died at her East Fourth Street home from the effects of cancer. Mrs Roberts had been in ill health for a long while and had been suffering particularly during the few weeks past. Mrs Roberts was in her 48th year and besides being survived by an aged mother now living in Whitesville, she leaves a husband and seven children. They are Raymond, Carl, Hazel, George, Mavis and Olive Pettit and Mary Roberts. The following brothers also survive: George, Warren, Charles, Joseph and Mack White of Whitesville and a half brother, Henry Cooper of Englishtown. The funeral services were held at 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon at the Episcopal church. The service was conducted by the Rev Mr Hugh D Jones with undertaker CHT Clayton, of Adelphia, in charge of the interment which took place in Woodlawn Cemetery".

New Jersey Courier 21 May 1915

Lakewood Citizen 1 Dec 1922 At 10 o'clock on Sunday evening, Mrs Florence White Pettit Roberts, wife of Thomas Roberts. died at her East Fourth Street home from the effects of cancer. Mrs Roberts had been in ill health for a long while and had been suffering particularly during the few weeks past. Mrs Roberts was in her 48th year and besides being survived by an aged mother now living in Whitesville, she leaves a husband and seven children. They are Raymond, Carl, Hazel, George, Mavis and Olive Pettit and Mary Roberts. The following brothers also survive: George, Warren, Charles, Joseph and Mack White of Whitesville and a half brother, Henry Cooper of Englishtown. The funeral services were held at 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon at the Episcopal church. The service was conducted by the Rev Mr Hugh D Jones with undertaker CHT Clayton, of Adelphia, in charge of the interment which took place in Woodlawn Cemetery

New Jersey Mirror 13 Nov 1851: It will be recollected by many of our readers, that about four years ago, a wealthy farmer named Ezra Roberts, living a short distance below Moorestown, was murdered and robbed near Camden. No clue could, at that time, be obtained of the perpetrator of the deed, but circumstances have recently transpired leading to the suspicion of a person confined in the State Prison. The person suspected of the murder of Mr. Roberts, is Job Cowperthwaite, Jr., who was tried and convicted at the last term of our Court, for shooting a Mrs. Vansciver at Moorestown. The report, it is said, originated from a declaration of the wife of Cowperthwaite, previous to her death, which occurred a short time since, and who had hitherto concealed it because Cowperthwaite threatened her life, if she disclosed the horrid deed. We know not what reliance is to be placed in this statement, but we understood at the time of Cowperthwaite's trial, that circumstances had come to light r