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Four bootleggers caught, 1921

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New Jersey Courier 15 Apr 1921

West Creek church fund, 1866

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Miriam Shinn obituary, 1856

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Ocean Emblem 30 Jan 1856

News From West Creek, 1920

TUCKERTON BEACON 4 Mar 1920 C. D. Kelly made a business trip to Atlantic City on Saturday. Rev. Woolston Johnson is attending the M.E. Conference at Atlantic City this week. Several members of the M.E. Church were in attendance during the meetings --among them Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Sprague and A.H. Jones. Misses Grace and Sara Ruter, who are employed in the Quaker City, spent the week end at home. Ms. A. H. Jones has returned home after a fortnight's visit with her sister, Mrs. Ada Cranmer in Philadelphia. Mrs. O.P. Smith, of Camp Dix, was a week end visitor at R.F. Rutter's. Eugene Kelley is on the sick list; we hope to hear of his early improvement. Among the recent Philadelphia visitors were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holloway, George g. Kelley and daughters, Misses Ruth and Eva and Mrs. James E. Kelly. Fireman George Cox of the Pennsy System at Camden was home on the sick list last week. Mrs. Laura Cranmer was called to Pleasantville this week by the illness of her daughter, M...

Adams family of Washington Township

The following Adams family info comes to me from a visitor to my site, ,Jmjcmink. He tells me that he has ancestors from Washington Township and provided this little family info to me: Franklin Adams was the husband of Mary Ann Mathis; he is buried in the Miller Cemetery at New Gretna. Franklin and Mary Ann had a number of children. They were: Willard Adams, who married Laura Falkinburgh Blanchard Adams Calvin Adams Alfred Adams Charlotte Adams Elizabeth Adams, who married Charles Deacon Eugene Adams Mary Adams, who married John Gray Alvah Adams Walter Adams an unnamed child, who apparently died in infancy Unfortunately, I was not provided with any dates for these individuals. Further information regarding this same family comes to us from another visitor, WendyL5971@aol.com. Additional information can be found at Wendy's Home Page. Descendants of Franklin Adams Generation No. 1 1. FRANKLIN ADAMS was born 1821, and died September 2, 1885. Franklin is buried in...