John Whitley (Jhonny Keyz) headstone in Pleasant Mills Cemetery
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Eleanor Gordian
Grave marker in the Barnegat Hill cemetery. There is a death record in Mendocino, CA from 1 Jun 1984 for an Eleanor Gordian, the only one I could find; it gives her birth date as 1922 as well, in New Jersey. This could be the same woman. If so, it gives her father's name as 'Miles' and mother's name as 'Smith'. The 1940 census for Vineland, Cumberland Co, NJ has an Elaine Miles, 18 years old. She was the daughter of John Miles and Elizabeth Irish (since the lived in the home of Elizabeth's father, I'm assuming she had the same last name as her father). So this contradicts the death record regarding the mother's last name, leaving nothing but a lot of loose ends and no definitive information on Eleanor.
Essie Calhoun
Essie is buried in the Barnegat Hill Cemetery. Thus far, all I know of her comes from her obituary in the 23 Apr 1994 Atlantic City Press : ESSIE MAE (TALBERT) CALHOUN , 84, of Barnegat in Barnegat Township, died Thursday at Barnegat Nursing Center in Barnegat. Mrs. Calhoun was a member of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Barnegat. Born in McCormick, S.C., she lived in Philadelphia and New Gretna before moving to Barnegat in 1952. She is survived by two sons, Stephen of Barnegat, and Marvin D. of Washington, D.C.; two daughters, Yvonne Calhoun Poston of Barnegat, and Lorraine J. of Trenton; a sister, Margaret Johnson of Duquesne, Pa.; 10 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.