I visited with my 4th cousin yesterday. He had a huge picture of all of the workers of the (Owings/Ownings) Illinois Glass Company's Salesman Convention for Oct 7, 8, 9 in 1920. (Illinois Company bought the Cumberland Glass Works and my 3rd great uncle Joseph A. Clark founded it, I believe.. still working on that- if you know more about this, please email me) He actually had 2 versions - 1 with hats and one without ;-) I photographed each section. (some twice for better angles) I just put it online in my yahoo photos. Let me know if you recognize anybody. You never know. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aebatcho/album?.dir=f0d2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aebatcho/my_photos -andrea

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hoffman,Wainwright,Camp,Hand,Elderdge,Mason,Champion,Tomlin,Robinson & a Lot of others Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQB.2ACE/1148.2 Message Board Post: Hi Dolores I believe we have had previous comunication before; now on this Deed 1804; @ the Millville Historical Library; During my time this spring in South Jersey; I happen to be at the Library; & was looking thru Hoffman records & found this Deed which "Minnie Peterson" told me they were not sure how they obtain it! I told here to check with the Society & See if I could buy it outright; She got back to me & said it was not for sale because it had to do with the County History I then asked for a copy which she obtain for me for a price & I now have hanging in my Home!! Yes this a great copy! Well that all happened back in May 2005!! At the time I found the Deed in a sperate file! It had not beem open for a long time!! It was oily & appeared to be made of Sheep skin! Know; On the Deed My 4gggrandfather Jonas Sr. Hoffman or Hopman! B. abt 1724/1730 in Gloucester Co.,N.J & Died 1809/10 @ West Creek,Cumberland Co.,N.J. His son-in-law who signed the deed was Levin Wainwright he married Pamela Hoffman;Jonas's Daughter!! William was one of Jonas Hoffman Oldest son's; William was born in abt 1759; Just before My 3gggrandfather Eli Hoffman Sr. B. 1761 !! I believe you can tract the land thru the deeds! Hoffman bought his Land from Isaac Sharp; & added to it He had Two Mills One Grist & Saw; One was @ the Hiway 347 as it passes by the Original Hoffman Home Note:Hiway 347 was known as "Old Stage Coach Road" in the late 1700's; In sum of the Hoffman land transfers Jonas House was use as a Stage Coach Inn; & refered to as such!! Another note on the Deed & I think Jonas signed his Name as "Jonas Hoffman" Additional Notes to this family; Has a Great History from the foundations of Early America. Just a little input Thanks Ron Hoffman If anyone would like information on this & other So. Jersey families please feel free to Post Me.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wQB.2ACE/1153 Message Board Post: There is a Head Stone with Isaac's name on it located in the Forst Methodist, Church Cemetery on Commerce Street in Bridgeton. I am wondering if that church may have some old baptism records or even some burial records specific to his internmint. Thanks for all the help.

Hi. I found this in 1910: HANBY JOHN 40 CUMBERLAND 1-WD MILLVILLE Census Taken April 20, 1910 John 40 married 1880 Emma 37 John H. Jr 15 Walter T 13 William S. 10 **Harry B.** 8 Theodore 6 Emma 2 Margaret A. 4/12 This is probably the entry and they said Harry was 8 and he was older as he's 22 in 1920. It's so odd that he's a Harry B hth. -andrea On 2 Nov 2005 22:52:55 -0700, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wQB.2ACE/1133.2 > > Message Board Post: > > I did find Harry & Beulah on 1920 census..he was 22 & she 19, there was no children. I would 'asume' they weren't married very long. Can't seem to find them in 1930. OR..Harry & parents 1900& 1910!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wQB.2ACE/1133.2 Message Board Post: I did find Harry & Beulah on 1920 census..he was 22 & she 19, there was no children. I would 'asume' they weren't married very long. Can't seem to find them in 1930. OR..Harry & parents 1900& 1910! 1920 Commercil twp, Cumberland, NJ Sockwell, Belford 43 wd. b. NJ Sigler, Alfred 25 b. PA son n law ___Alfida 19 dau. of head ___Alred jr. 6/12 1910Commercial twp. Sockwell, Belford 39 ___Mary E. 26 married 11 yrs. ___Alberta 10 ___Beulah 8 1900 Port Norris, Cumberland, NJ Sockwell, Belford 23 b. Sept. 1876 NJ ___Mary 16 ___Alverta 3/12 1880 Downe, Cumberland, NJ Sockwell, Frank 26 b. NJ ____Elverda 24 b. NJ ____Belford 4 ____Beulah 1 hope this helps, Bonnie

In a message dated 10/29/2005 11:07:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Looking for sister born 1-1-1951 adopted in 1960's Raised in 2 foster homes handeled by CCSSD Of Whiteville N.C. Name at birth Mable F ? unless changed This list if for Cumberland Co, NJ. Is this where you meant to post this message or in NC? Joan

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Karen, The LDS Library only has NJ births, marriages, and deaths from 1848 to 1900. Mary Hill ----- Original Message ----- From: DiGiacomo, Karen (DSCP)<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:27 AM Subject: [NJCUMBER] Microfilm Numbers Can anyone please help me find the microfilm numbers to NJ Death or Birth Records - I would be looking from 1900 on. I went the the LDS site but couldn't find them. Thank you in advance. Karen ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx>

Can anyone please help me find the microfilm numbers to NJ Death or Birth Records - I would be looking from 1900 on. I went the the LDS site but couldn't find them. Thank you in advance. Karen

In a message dated 10/25/2005 10:18:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: http://www.geocities.com/jiggilypuffs/netbgsc Thank you Andrea -- the last 2 pages aren't available? Regards, Joan

Hi. The Assistant Planner of the City of Bridgeton was kind enough to mail me a pamphlet entitled New England Towne Burial Ground 1680 & Swing Cemetery 1819 published courtesy of Fairfield Environmental Commission. I scanned it in at 150 dpi (so that's 200% of usual web resolution) in case you wanted to print it out. It's 11x17, so I broke it up into 4 "pages" and then scanned the map that fell on the fold in separately. http://www.geocities.com/jiggilypuffs/netbgsc/ Feel free to download. It has a list of burials and a map. -andrea

In a message dated 10/25/2005 1:44:22 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Looking for obit, b:1901, Millville,NJ died: last known Bridgeton, 1965 any info appreciated You can send off for a copy of her original SS application which will show her parents' names. Also contact the Millville, Historical society with death date -- they might be able to help. Regards, Joan Name: Beulah SSN: 154-16-4113 Last Residence: New Jersey Born: 12 Aug 1902 Died: Nov 1965 Year issued: New Jersey (Before 1951 ) Millville Historical Society 200 Eat Main St. Millville, NJ 08332 (856) 825-7000 Robert Francis - contact

I have a Copy of a Copy of the Book of Cemeteries Cumberland Country, New Jersey, by Charles E.Sheppard, between 1893-1916 and was transcribed by Louise Plankenton, 1998.. It appears to be a listing of the Old Church and would do look ups for anyone that needs one. The book also has the cemeteries of Old Stone Church, Millville Cemetery, Cedarville Baptist Graveyard, First Presbyterian Church in Cedarville, dividing Creek Baptist Church, and many others. Chuck Henderson Searching: Henderson, Marriott, Hendrickson, Starn, SHellhorn and many others.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wQB.2ACE/1151 Message Board Post: Looking for obit, b:1901, Millville,NJ died: last known Bridgeton, 1965 any info appreciated

Okay, I'm tryin this again. I was playing around on google for the Old Cohansey Baptist Cemetery and came across this url: http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc05/abstracts/a1008.html "The Old Cohansey Baptist Cemetery, located in Western Cumberland County, New Jersey, provides invaluable information on 18th and 19th century funerary and cultural patterns, as well as insight on local Revolutionary War history. While researching the County Historical Society owned cemetery, it was discovered that there were no known maps of the cemetery. Detailed mapping and an archaeological typology were performed over a period of three years by a multidisciplinary group including a planner, a professor, a historian, and university students." It's a very interesting PDF with pictures. However, since I couldn't read the map in the PDF, I emailed the planner (her email's on the PDF) and asked her if she had a larger one that I could have and she emailed me one I uploaded it to my webspace for this list to use, so please don't link it anywhere. I'm just trying to save myself time and the planner from getting 238284428 emails for it. http://www.geocities.com/jiggilypuffs/oldcohansey/Cohansey_Baptist_names_points.pdf Ms. Mollick (the planner) mentioned that she had spent so much time there that she knew the names, but didn't know anything about them. So if any of your relatives are in there (you can tell by the listing on the right side), please email me for her email address, or email her at her address listed at the end of the PDF (it's the same one that I have). Since she's not in charge of the cemetery or involved in the records, there's no sense in emailing her asking about surnames, it's wasting both of your times. She's just like to know a little about her "adopted" ancestors. Thanks! -andrea

Bob The Cumberland County Historical Society in Greenwich, NJ has a copy of the sexton's book and plot map of the cemetery. I found information during a visit in 2003, on a Civil War veteran who died in 1913. Russ -----Original Message----- From: Robert Shaw [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NJCUMBER] Broad St Presbyterian is cleaned up (Atlantic City Press article) I live in Mercer County , NJ and have relatives buried in Broad Street Cemetery,Bridgeton,NJ. I would like to thank all who volunteered to clean up and right stones toppled by vandals at Broad Street Cemetery Bridgeton, NJ I visited the cemetery in 2000 and located several family members graves located in the SW Section Plot 488-489. I was unable to locate other family graves of Ephraim Shaw & wife Judith located in the NW Section, as I did not have the plot numbers. Could anyone tell me if a list of the plot numbers still exists.? Thanks again to all who gave there time and effort for this project. Bob Shaw Hamilton, NJ ______________________________

Hi! I just contacted the Pastor and he said they have cleanups scheduled throughout the year and this one happened to occur a few days after the vandalism. He also told me that the Lummis Library in Greenwich has a map and plot list, so try to contact them. -andrea On 10/24/05, Robert Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > I live in Mercer County , NJ and have relatives buried in Broad Street > Cemetery,Bridgeton,NJ. > I would like to thank all who volunteered to clean up and right stones > toppled by vandals at Broad Street Cemetery Bridgeton, NJ > I visited the cemetery in 2000 and located several family members graves > located in the SW Section Plot 488-489. I was unable to locate other family > graves of Ephraim Shaw & wife Judith located in the NW Section, as I did not > have the plot numbers. Could anyone tell me if a list of the plot numbers > still exists.? > Thanks again to all who gave there time and effort for this project. > > Bob Shaw > Hamilton, NJ

I live in Mercer County , NJ and have relatives buried in Broad Street Cemetery,Bridgeton,NJ. I would like to thank all who volunteered to clean up and right stones toppled by vandals at Broad Street Cemetery Bridgeton, NJ I visited the cemetery in 2000 and located several family members graves located in the SW Section Plot 488-489. I was unable to locate other family graves of Ephraim Shaw & wife Judith located in the NW Section, as I did not have the plot numbers. Could anyone tell me if a list of the plot numbers still exists.? Thanks again to all who gave there time and effort for this project. Bob Shaw Hamilton, NJ

If I had known, I would have gone down to volunteer. -andrea NJ Vandalized Cemetery gets TLC from Volunteers Leaving no stone overturned....Volunteers repair, maintain graves at vandalized Bridgeton cemetery (10/17/05) BRIDGETON-Hannah R. Hood's headstone is visible again. Working with a metal tripod and a block and tackle, volunteers from the First Presbyterian Church were grunting and sweating Sunday as they righted several headstones, including Hood's, that had been toppled by vandals at the city's historic Broad Street cemetery. Hood's stone was particularly problematic, since it had snapped at its base. With some quick thinking, and in this case more muscle than block and tackle, Hood's stone was propped up in front of the base and partially buried. "That's not going anywhere," said Bill Horn, one of the volunteers. "That's in there tight." That wasn't the case for all the stones, some of which just can't be restored to their former glory. "With the older ones especially, they can't take being pushed over and they snap," said Bruce Hankins, one of the organizers of the cleanup. "The best we can do is prop them up." Many of the headstones are very old. While Hood's stone dated to 1945, other graves in the cemetery date to the late 1700s and several stones date to the 1800s. In the past week, righting stones at the cemetery has become a full-time job after it was discovered that as many as 100 had been vandalized and pushed over. Throughout the week, county prisoners, as well as local Boy Scout troops, have worked to right stones. On Sunday, the church held a volunteer day for cleanup, one of two or three held each year. "It's really just all volunteers from the church," Hankins said. "Of course this time we got some publicity because of the vandalism and some people showed up today who aren't with the church. They just showed up to help and it was great. We appreciated it." For the First Presbyterian Church, the old cemetery can be a mixed labor of love. There is no question that the cemetery ranks as one of Bridgeton's most cherished historic gems. It boasts, among other things, the graves of 195 Civil War veterans, several Revolutionary War veterans, including the grave of a Hessian soldier, and family plots for most, if not all, of the prominent family names in the history of Bridgeton. On the other hand, the cemetery also presents a lot of work. Parts are overgrown and some of the oldest headstones are half-buried under vines and shrubs. On Sunday, volunteers cleared brush with chainsaws and carted off several truckloads of clippings and debris while other teams worked the block and tackle. Luckily, the recent vandalism didn't result in many stones breaking, but broken stones, as well as pieces of monuments and memorials, are strewn throughout the site. "The church doesn't always have the resources to maintain this the way we would like," Hankins said. "In modern cemeteries, you pay into a trust fund that supports maintenance costs in perpetuity. But they never really thought of that in the 1700s. So we try and do the best we can." One of the best-preserved areas of the cemetery is a special section where 69 Civil War veterans are buried. Most are from volunteer units from Cumberland County that fought at battles such Fredericksburg. The circle of graves is near a monument to local Gen. Alexander Robeson, who died in that battle, although his body was not recovered. "This was done in the style of Civil War cemeteries starting in the late 1800s," said Horn. "It's done in circle with areas for paths. The idea was that that there would be less reason to walk on the graves." Although he is not a member of the church, Horn has helped maintain the graves of the Civil War veterans for nearly 30 years. "What's fascinating is that there are four graves for veterans of what was called 'colored troops' in the circle," he said. "It was unusual at the time for black and white soldiers to be buried together. That's another interesting point about this place." But there is little that isn't interesting about a cemetery that often has graves from the 20th century nestled against 19th century memorials. The oldest parts of the cemetery are also a testament to the harshness of life - there are dozens of markers for children and infants. Despite its history, however, threats to the cemetery are constant. The area is a known spot for the homeless, who often litter the ground with bottles. And signs of vandalism dating back for decades are apparent. The only line of defense at the moment is the volunteers, who give up a couple of Sundays each year to clear up what nature has covered and right what vandals have wronged. "It's a very satisfying feeling to be out here," said Annie Frazier, a member of the church who was clipping away vines that had covered several headstones. "You know you're doing something good. It's a beautiful morning and this is such an interesting place to be. And I like clearing off the headstones. I want to know who they were." Article from Press of Atlantic City-10/17/2005

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wQB.2ACE/907.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I would be happy to. Use my email [email protected] to contact me.