Ocean County , NJ History

Emmelville According to Joe, a visitor to this site, Emmelville is a small town right next to Weymouth, NJ. Another visitor has it on an Atlantic County map, a few miles south of Weymouth. It is situated on the land between Weymouth Road and the Great Egg Harbor River. According to the map, the only things located there now are a Girl Scout Camp to the north and Lake Lenape Park to the south. Joe has provided me with this genealogical outline of the original settlers of Emmelville.: Philip Emmel was born in New Jersey in 1786. He died 10 Mar 1865. He married a woman named Sylvia Ireland on 2 Oct 1811 in Gloucester County. She was born in 1787 and died 7 May 1866. According to Philip's census entry, recorded 5 Sep 1850 in Atlantic County, his occupation was that of a farmer. He had real estate valued at $4000. Ten years prior, in 1840, he was probably living in Upper Alloway Creek in Salem County, New Jersey. There are a few other Emmel families living ...

NEW JERSEY COURIER 12 DEC 1878: J.R. Schenck, Esq., editor of the Democrat, received the sad intelligence one day last week of the death of the wife of his brother, Dr. Wm. H. Schenck, of Flemington, which occurred very suddenly and unexpectedly from heart disease.