Lyttleton White was my great great uncle and I'm pretty confident that the family never paid for an obit. Hard to believe we'd much for anything that was not related to fishing. Back when Lyttleton died, death was real news--front page stuff and a great source of genealogy info--though, even in this contemporary account, you can't rely on the info. (For example, the Dennis connection does not come through his Lewis mother, but through the White side of family.) Lyttleton was also the source (at least the 19th century conveyor) of the Allen House tale about the death of a British solider on premises during a skirmish. The Register was given to fulsome obituaries. The Standard, in contrast, was very cut-and-dried--or modern. The obituary for Lytttleton's mother is a real treasure telling one about how many structures were in Red Bank when she married, the source of her silver spoons and sugar tongs, and why she never got that War of 1812 pension. If you have a Red Bank relative who died in the 1890's or thereabouts, the Register (available on microfilm at the Red Bank Public Library) may yield incredible pay dirt. David, it's so heartening to be able to read these obituaries. I don't know how long ago you received this one, but if it's been on your back burner for a few years, it was probably me. Nancy White ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 9:34 PM Subject: NJMONMOU-D Digest V02 #404
Nancy, and all, I am in the process of extracting all the obits I can from the Register. I also hope to pull a bunch of marriage and birth records. These projects are to further enhance the ongoing gravemarker project I've been doing for a couple years. I have about 15 years worth of microfilm 1887 - 1902 and hope to expand the project to additional years in the future. --- [email protected] wrote: > Lyttleton White was my great great uncle and I'm pretty confident that the > family never paid for an obit. Hard to believe we'd much for anything that > was not related to fishing. Back when Lyttleton died, death was real > news--front page stuff and a great source of genealogy info--though, even in > this contemporary account, you can't rely on the info. (For example, the > Dennis connection does not come through his Lewis mother, but through the > White side of family.) Lyttleton was also the source (at least the 19th > century conveyor) of the Allen House tale about the death of a British > solider on premises during a skirmish. > > The Register was given to fulsome obituaries. The Standard, in contrast, > was very cut-and-dried--or modern. The obituary for Lytttleton's mother is > a real treasure telling one about how many structures were in Red Bank when > she married, the source of her silver spoons and sugar tongs, and why she > never got that War of 1812 pension. If you have a Red Bank relative who > died in the 1890's or thereabouts, the Register (available on microfilm at > the Red Bank Public Library) may yield incredible pay dirt. > > David, it's so heartening to be able to read these obituaries. I don't know > how long ago you received this one, but if it's been on your back burner for > a few years, it was probably me. > > Nancy White > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 9:34 PM > Subject: NJMONMOU-D Digest V02 #404 > > > > > ==== NJMONMOU Mailing List ==== > Please do not quote the WHOLE message in your reply. We've already seen it! Just a short > reference will do. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > ===== Sincerely, David Podmajersky, Webmaster DistantCousin.com Spread the word. Link to http://DistantCousin.com and http://CousinConnect.com - the web's newest messaging sytem. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com