Debbie, can't remember if I thanked you for your Truex info or not. If I didn't thanks..... I didn't have all of it. Yvonne Deb61298@aol.com wrote: > Yvonne - Here is some information on Corles and his wife: This information is > in a book by Barbara Carver Smith. There is a copy of it in the Ocean County > Bishop Library in Toms River. We are part of the unconnected line of > Truex/Truax that she was researching. - Debbie > > S2. CORLIS STEPHEN TRUEX (David #1; Unknown), was born at Squan Village, > Monmouth County ca. 1809, and died 16 July 1864 at Wall Township at the age > of 55 of consumption (d.c.), buried in Allenwood cemetery, Allenwood, > Monmouth County. His death certificate gives his parents as DAVID and SARAH > TRUAX. > > Corlis married 19 March 1835 at Howell Township by Zebulon Clayton, JP, > (Monmouth County Marriage Book C, page 161), CHRISTIAN JOHNSON, born either > 1803 (57 at death) or ca. 1807, died 6 November 1860 at Squan Village, > Monmouth County (d.c.). The name of her parents is not given in her death > record. The marriage record gives Corlis as "Charles L." in error. On 17 > July 1846 Samuel Brand and Corlius Treuax, both of Howell Township made > leased to Corlius Trueax a parcel of land in Howell Township (same > quitclaimed to Samuel Brand by Edward Shearman) for the term of six months > from this date doth erect or cause to erect a dwelling for himself and family > and occupies the same himself…….(Monmouth County Surrogates Office, > Miscellaneous Book C, p 317). > > The 1850 Federal Census of Howell Township enumerates Corlies Truax, age 40; > Christian, 43; Hannah, 12; John 10; Henry, 7; Lydia, 2. > > Children (TRUEX): > · Hannah, born ca. 1836 (19 at marriage), married 10 January 1855 at Wall > Township, Peter Brown, son William and Jirma Brown (m.c.) > · John, born ca. 1840, married Pheby Ann Mc Ninney > · Henry, born 14 December 1843, married Martha M. Harvey > · Lydia Ann, born ca. 1846 (18 at marriage), married 25 April 1865 at Toms > River to John J. Johnson, son of Joseph and Leticia Johnson. > > * The headstone is missing at Allenwood Cemetery. No records can be found to > show where the burial site is.