Funeral of Gilbert E. Wallace of Forked River, 1917
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Victor Ritzendollar obituary, 1918
from the New Jersey Courier 20 Sep 1918 Victor Ritzendollar, of the Hedger House, near Chatsworth, died at his home on Thursday morning of last week after being ill for some time with cirrhosis of the liver. He was about 73 years of age. Mr. Ritzendollar was born in the Alsace- Lorraine section of France and he came to this country when about ten years of age. He soon settled in the Chatsworth section and had since lived there. His death will be mourned by a circle of friends that extended throughout Burlington county and in adjoining sections of Ocean and Atlantic Counties. He owned considerable land in the pines and was interested in cranberry growing. A widow and several children, some the issue of previous unions, survive him.
Giovanni Cayaldi and the murder if Iron Cranmer
New Jersey Courier 21 Jul 1916 Five men serving time for murder were paroled from state prisonlast week, among them Givoanni (John) Cayaldi, an Italian cranberry picker who shot and killed iron Cranmer at West Creek on the night of October 7, 1905. Cayaldi pleaded to second degree murder, with constent of the court and on December 19, of that same yer, was sentenced to twenty years in state prison, of which term he has served about ten years and six months. Cayaldi was a young Italian at the time of the killing, 24 years old. He with other Italians were picking cranberries at the Stafford Forge bog. Saturday nights they would take their violins and accordions and go to the hotel in West Creek village, and make music for the hangers on there. This night about midnight when the hotel closed, Cayaldi, with Charlie Baker, the boss Italian and interpreter for John W. Holman, who at that time was running Stafford Forge bogs, started up the road, with Iron Cranmer, his sons, Will and B...
Budd's bogs near Bozarthtown, 1875
New Jersey Courier 2 Sep 1875 Theodore and Alfred Budd, it is said, will have one of the largest crops they have ever grown on their bog near Bozarthtown