Had Family in NJ-PA-NYC Warren Journal-NJ- April 10,1908 Woman Kills Herself Mrs Mary A.Woolever,52 years old,wife of Stewart Woolever,of Hackettstown committed suicide Tuesday by shooting herself in the head with a revolver,Mrs Woolever had been mentaily affected for some time owing to the burning to death of a child a few years ago.She made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide nearly two years ago by taking carbolic acid.Last fall she was committed to the State Hospital at Morris Plains for treatment,returning home about two months ago improved in health.Recently however,her condition had changed for the worst.Although watched she searched their home,and finding a revolver,escaped from the house unnoticed,went in the rear of the barn but a short distance away and killed herself.Several hour's search among neighboring houses where she was thought to have gone were made before the body was found by a daughter.The husband,who is employed on the Lackawana Railroad,arived home just as the body was discovered.Coroner Jesse Smith had the body removed to her home.Mrs Woolever was the mother of seventeen children,nine of whom are living. Husband Was Jacob Stewart Willever-Woolever A/K/A/Stewart Woolever Obit can be found at Warren Co Library N.J. From the Warren Republican , Friday 6/23/1899 Badly Burned Ada Lillian Willever, second daughter of Mr. And Mrs. J. Stewart Willever, aged 12 years and 6 days, was terribly burned last Saturday which resulted in death at her parents home on Plane street Sunday noon. Her clothing caught fire from a bonfire in the Institute grounds, and immediately her whole body was in flames. Some boys who were near by, hearing her her screams, ran to her assistance and smothered the flames. She was taken to her home and a physician called. She was badly burned about the back and shoulders, and lived until the next day at noon.. The girl was to have taken part in the Children's Day exercises in the M.E. church last Sunday afternoon. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon. Obit Hackettstown Library Side NOTE The Institute Grounds are the Grounds of the "CENTENARY COLLEGE" Plane St is Located behind it.So is the House of the Willever's- Woolever's It was a KNOWN FACT that: they had lots of acre's which they were raising their chickens, and had their Cow & horse, and many other farm animals, and they also had huge growing gardens on which they grew all of their "Fruit Tree's My Family-Willever-Woolever Nolan,Vogel,Johnson,Hill,Alexander,Major,Crotsley Lee,Gerard,Handler,Miller,Dalley,Benward,Houston Dalton,Wainwright,Caskey,Taylor, http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/o/o/Stewart-J-Woolever-jr/index.html

Hello Listers: I am researching the STEIN and ZINK surnames. I know that they were in Hoboken In 1906 Quite possibly even earlier. Fredrick STEIN was born in the 1880's in Germany. Albina ZINK was born Abt. 1887 in Vienna Austria. There Children are: Emil STEIN: Married Florence Nightinggale Anna STEIN: Herbert STEIN: Milton STEIN: Fredrick STEIN: Evelyn Martha STEIN: b. july 27,1906 Any assistance with these family's will be greatly appreciated Thanks, Dudley Pritchard New Port Richey, FL

Hi List Here are two great sites in CT on Fitch Solder's Cemetery and Civil War materials. I spent all day last week taking notes for my research.I found a few of my family at this site.You never know what you'll find it's worth the time. #1.www.darien.lib.ct.us/mgs/defalt.htm #2.www.cslnet.ctstateu.edu/civwar.htm Enjoy Victoria

You must write to the Hudson County Passport Office for naturalization petitions. It's in the Hudson County Administration Building. I believe the address is 595 Newark Ave., Jersey City, NJ. I went in person. The staff was very nice, but the office was understaffed and genealogists were a low priority. People on NJHUDSON-L who have dealt with the office by mail have had long waits for the documents they requested and have had to make follow up phone calls. On the positive side, understaffing meant they simply handed me the large ledgers which I requested. I was able to handle the original naturalization petitions of my great-great-grandfather and my great-grandfather.

Hello List: Was there an Orphanage in Jersey City Around 1905.May have been a Catholic Orphange. Thanks, Dudley Pritchard New Port Richey FL.

Here is a great site for information on the Revolutionary War. It has many stories with lots of names of our man that faught in the Washington Campain 1776 hhtp://people.csnet.net/dpost/war.html injoy it is great Victoria

hi list: I just recieved natralization papers i requested from the us dept of justice. they are not very legible. does anyone have the address for clerk of the county court for jersey city nj...us justice dept says i may be able to get a more ledgible copy from them. linda ciparro lciparro@aol.com linda

So that I so not miss anybody I posted to the list. Thanks to all that responded to my inquiry about Catholic Cemeteries in Jersey City. You all have been very helpful. I am grateful to you all Sincerly, Dudley Pritchard

--- Susan Valenta <unclegerbil@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > Hi Carolyn, I have looked at the microfilms of the > vital record back that > far and for the state they only go back to 1848. I > do know there are church > records before that. I have no idea about the > county records. Hope this > helps, Susan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Carolyn_Greene@hgsi.com> > To: <NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 8:56 AM > Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] vital records cost > > > > What about New Jersey vital records before 1848? > Would I just rely on > > church records or would the County clerk have any > records? > > Thanks, > > > > Carolyn > > > > > > > > > > > > "Don & Gert > > Gray" To: > NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com > > <graytdon@ct. cc: > > net> Subject: > [NJHUDSON-L] vital > records > > cost > > 09/19/00 > > 08:38 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > Briefly, the fee for birth, marriage or death > records has been raised to > > $10.00recently.Requests for records from May 1848 > to1878,send to the New > > Jersey Archives,P.O.Box 307,225 West State St., > Trenton, NJ. > > 08625-0307 > > After May,1878,send to:State Registrar-Search Unit > ,NJ State Dept. of > > Health, PO Box 370, Trenton,NJ > > 08625 - 0370 > > the following is a web site which may be helpful. > > > http://www.state.nj.us/statelibrary/faqgene.html > > Good luck, Gert > > > > > > ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== > > Use NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com to write to the > NJHUDSON list. > > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from > the NJHUDSON list, use > > NJHUDSON-L-request@rootsweb.com. > > > > ______________________________ > > > ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== > If you are unsubscribed from the NJHUDSON list > unintentionally, simply > resubscribe. A full mailbox, computer error, or > spam may cause you to be > unsubscribe the records at the Hudson county court house (jersey city) for birth and death go back to 1874 only. Mrs. Dee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

My gggrandfather, Richard R. Rappleyea (1814-1884), was one of the originators of the Fireman's Exempt Association of Jersey City. He was a carpenter by profession but belonged to the volunteer fire department and was foreman of the Hercules Engine. I found this out from his obit. Would you be able to get info about him? Mary Hobein Woodridge IL >From: Peregrine37@aol.com >To: NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] Firemen in New Jersey >Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 16:31:09 EDT > >Al, Please add me to the group asking for info about firefighters in >Hudson >County. Two of my G.uncles [ Otto and Fred Werlitz } were firemen in West >New York in the early part of the century. One of them was an Exempt [I >assume that meant volunteer]. > Thank You, > > Norah > > > >==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== > Your donations to RootsWeb makes NJHUDSON possible. > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Hi Carolyn, I have looked at the microfilms of the vital record back that far and for the state they only go back to 1848. I do know there are church records before that. I have no idea about the county records. Hope this helps, Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: <Carolyn_Greene@hgsi.com> To: <NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 8:56 AM Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON-L] vital records cost > What about New Jersey vital records before 1848? Would I just rely on > church records or would the County clerk have any records? > Thanks, > > Carolyn > > > > > > "Don & Gert > Gray" To: NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com > <graytdon@ct. cc: > net> Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] vital records > cost > 09/19/00 > 08:38 PM > > > > > > Briefly, the fee for birth, marriage or death records has been raised to > $10.00recently.Requests for records from May 1848 to1878,send to the New > Jersey Archives,P.O.Box 307,225 West State St., Trenton, NJ. > 08625-0307 > After May,1878,send to:State Registrar-Search Unit ,NJ State Dept. of > Health, PO Box 370, Trenton,NJ > 08625 - 0370 > the following is a web site which may be helpful. > http://www.state.nj.us/statelibrary/faqgene.html > Good luck, Gert > > > ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== > Use NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com to write to the NJHUDSON list. > If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the NJHUDSON list, use > NJHUDSON-L-request@rootsweb.com. > > ______________________________

Ann Victoria, Thank you for giving us that information about fireman. I live in a town of around 50.000 people, and our Fireman are volunteers. They all have full time jobs, most have young families, and they are so dedicated. Every time the siren goes off, I find myself saying a prayer for any victims of fire & our wonderful volunteer fireman. Theresa

<< Fireman's Exempt Association of Jersey City >> I questioned, can't recall where I got the email address, what this meant, Exempt Fireman. I received the following email: Any firefighter that has been active (answers 60% of yearly calls and drills) for seven years becomes a member of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. The main benefit is the death benefit, at this time (1999) it is nearly $7000 ($14,000 for line of duty deaths). The association is funded by a percentage of all homeowner insurance policies written in NJ. In addition, it funds the Relief Association, which gives firefighters that are desolate money (once or monthly) to live on. It also funds the NJ State Firemen's Home in Boonton, a nursing home that is available to any firefighter. At this time (1999) a full care only costs $700/month, much cheaper than a regular nursing home. Any other questions I'd be glad to answer, hope this helps. Ed email address: FIREMANEDV@aol.com Hope this helps someone. Ann Victoria

Concerning my GG Grandfather, Dr. Rufus Wilie Peacock, who practiced in Jersey City at 234 8th St. after graduating from NYU Medical College in 1875, the official "Report of Death" is listed as 7 Jul 1899. No one has been able to find an obit. Since then I've found a conflicting death date. The records of Arlington Cem., Kearney, NJ have his death as 7 Feb. 1899. This date has been further confirmed by a brief obit. in the Journal of the American Medical Ass'n (JAMA) Vol. 32, pg. 385, which also lists his death as 7 Feb. 1899. Not sure why the difference, but if 7 Feb. is correct, then maybe that date could be checked for an obit. If anyone has access to obits for 1899, a lookup for Dr. Rufus Wilie Peacock died 7 Feb. would be appreciated. Also, does anyone know if the structure at 234 8th St. would be still standing. Thanks, Ray _______________________________ Ray and Joyce Horton and family "Horton Family" <sunray@erie.net> 2720 Ellsworth Ave. Erie, PA 16508 814-454-7191 (work) 814-864-2958 (home)

There's a Hoboken Fire Dept. museum in Hoboken (naturally). I don't remember the exact location. It has old records, pictures, etc. Very interesting. Not always open.

I have two ancestors who were firemen in JC. Sam Cook was one and I remember visiting him at a fire house on or near Ege Ave.in the 1930s. He worked at the Medical Center in the 50s.Are there any records anywhere? Also George Fick my great grandfather was the fire chief sometime around 1900. He retired shortly after that and went to Sag Harbor, L.I. Gert

go to: http://home.att.net/~Murg-JC/cemeteries.htm and click on Cemeteries in Hudson County - it gives brief history of each cemetery. good luck DudleyPritchard@cs.com wrote: > Hello List: Does anybody know The names of any Catholic cemeteeries in Jersey > City > That would have been around between 1900 and 1920. Are there any in the area > of Dwight St. > > Thanks, > Dudley > > ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== > Your donations to RootsWeb makes NJHUDSON possible. > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html

Hello List: Does anybody know The names of any Catholic cemeteeries in Jersey City That would have been around between 1900 and 1920. Are there any in the area of Dwight St. Thanks, Dudley

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Firemen in New Jersey Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:53:01 -0400 From: ALFRED FURMAN <alfjf@earthlink.net> To: Thomas Novak <Thomas.Novak1@prodigy.net> References: <012801c02245$1ccc1b00$b1482982@sc505069.ess.harris.com> Hi Tom, The only experience I have had is with J.C.-no good! I called them and talked to the guy in charge of compiling the Dept History for info about my GGF James MEEHAN (1843-1899)the 1st Fire Commissioner for a Paid Dept in Jersey City-1871. He was useless-he doesn't know where anything is???? I know Bayonne has a Firefighter's Museum. You might try calling the Dept's that you are interested in and ask them if they have something similar? Usually when people don't want to be bothered they say all the records were burned up in a fire! You might have a better chance at the J.C.Library-Newspaper archives-NJ History Room.They might tell what papers and how far back they go;but to get copies and lookups you have to go there. That's about all I know. Regards,AL Thomas Novak wrote: > > Al: Since you are a fireman from the JC area, I have this question. I have > a fireman from Hudson county in my wife's family (name of Lawrence CASEY, > born 1884), and I wanted to know what records the fire departments keep. > Would it be worth my while to write to the fire department for articles or > pictures for the 1920s? > > Thanks! > > Tom Novak > -----Original Message----- > From: ALFRED FURMAN <alfjf@earthlink.net> > To: NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com <NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:34 AM > Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] [Fwd: Births-Hudson Co.] > > >-------- Original Message -------- > >Subject: Births-Hudson Co. > >Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:20:48 -0400 > >From: ALFRED FURMAN <alfjf@earthlink.net> > >To: P Ackourey <packourey@epix.net> > > > >Hi Bernadette, > > Just maybe a clue? Have you checked the birth records for Jersey City? > > Having lived in both J.C.(up to 1951)& Bayonne(to 1977) I know for a fact > that many > > people from Bayonne were born in Jersey City Hospitals (The Margaret Hague > & the Medical > >Center) Bayonne Hospital has a very small maternity ward even today & my 3 > sisters were > >born at the Margaret Hague. > > Regards,AL > > Retired Fire > Captain-Bayonne,NJ-1994 > > (Now Toms River,N.J.) > >Sorry-but your address is refusing mail???? > > > >______________________________

What about New Jersey vital records before 1848? Would I just rely on church records or would the County clerk have any records? Thanks, Carolyn "Don & Gert Gray" To: NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com <graytdon@ct. cc: net> Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] vital records cost 09/19/00 08:38 PM Briefly, the fee for birth, marriage or death records has been raised to $10.00recently.Requests for records from May 1848 to1878,send to the New Jersey Archives,P.O.Box 307,225 West State St., Trenton, NJ. 08625-0307 After May,1878,send to:State Registrar-Search Unit ,NJ State Dept. of Health, PO Box 370, Trenton,NJ 08625 - 0370 the following is a web site which may be helpful. http://www.state.nj.us/statelibrary/faqgene.html Good luck, Gert ==== NJHUDSON Mailing List ==== Use NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com to write to the NJHUDSON list. If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from the NJHUDSON list, use NJHUDSON-L-request@rootsweb.com.