Ocean County , NJ History

 New Jersey Mirror 13 Feb 1862 Perry Simmons, the colored man, whose attempted arrest as a fugitive  slave , on two occasions, created considerable excitement in our neighborhood, died in Timbuctoo, a week or two ago. Perry had not been well since the last attempt to capture him, in consequence of taking a severe cold on that freezing night. It will be recollected that he was forced to fly suddenly from his bedroom to the garret, where he was obliged to remain till morning, suffering severely from the cold. Perry is at last beyond the reach of his Southern master.

New Jersey Courier 15 Jul 1921

from the New Jersey Mirror 13 Feb 1862: Perry Simmons, the colored man, whose attempted arrest as a fugitive slave, on two occasions, created considerable excitement in our neighborhood, died in Timbuctoo, a week or two ago. Perry had not been well since the last attempt to capture him, in consequence of taking a severe cold on that freezing night. It will be recollected that he was forced to fly suddenly from his bedroom to the garret, where he was obliged to remain till morning, suffering severely from the cold. Perry is at last beyond the reach of his Southern master.

New Jersey Mirror 13 Feb 1862 Perry Simmons, the colored man, whose attempted arrest as a fugitive slave, on two occasions, created considerable excitement in our neighborhood, died in Timbuctoo, a week or two ago. Perry had not been well since the last attempt to capture him, in consequence of taking a severe cold on that freezing night. It will be recollected that he was forced to fly suddenly from his bedroom to the garret, where he was obliged to remain till morning, suffering severely from the cold. Perry is at last beyond the reach of his Southern master.

The following article appeared in the New Jersey Courier on 14 Nov 1930: SIMMONS, KLAN FOUNDER, AND BELL, KLAN OFFICIAL, SAID TO BE NEW ORGANIZERS There is a story about the counties of Monmouth and Ocean, based on an account printed recently in the Asbury Park Press, that an effort is being made to create a new organization with the same aims and purposes of the Ku Klux Klan, but with different methods. The Press recently told of a meeting in that county addressed by William Joseph Simmons, founder of the Klan, and afterward deposed as its head, and by Arthur H. Bell, the Grand Dragon of New Jersey in the days when the Klan was in prosperity in the state. It was said that both these men talked on the new organization, the White Band. Residents of Lakewood Road, between Toms River and Lakewood, near where the cross road turns off to the Klan hall on Whitesville road, say that numerous cars traversed that road on Sunday afternoon, and from that it is assumed that Simmons and Be