New York Times, March 21, 1853: The Sussex (N.J.) Register notices the decease of a venerable citizen of that County in the person of BENJAMIN HALSEY, Esq. He was a native of Morris County, born in April, 1764. For some ten years, he had a place in the local magistracy; and for the last thirty years he was a ruling editor in the First Presbyterian Church at Newton. He lived to see a fifth generation. New York Times, February 23, 1906: WILLIAM MCDANOLDS, a former judge of the Sussex, N.J., Common Pleas Court, died at the home of his nephew WILLIAM H. DALRYMPLE, in Branchville Borough, N.J., yesterday of pneumonia. He was eighty-four years old. Judge McDanolds was born in Frankford Township. He was for many years vice president of the Sussex National Bank of Newton and was an active Republican. New York Times, October 26, 1907: WHITAKER. On Oct. 25, entered into rest, in the 82d year of her age, MARY A., widow of JOHN A. WHITAKER. (He giveth his beloved sleep.) Funeral services from her late residence, Sussex, N.J., 28th inst., at 2:30 P.M. New York Times, December 28, 1908: BENJAMIN W. DECKER, who served two terms as Mayor of Sussex, N.J., died of pneumonia yesterday at his home. He was 70 years old. He was president of the firm Decker & Simmons, dealers in coal, lumber and feed at Sussex, and was a large real estate dealer. He leaves a widow and daughter. New York Times, April 12, 1909: JOCKEY HAYWARD DEAD. WILLIAM HAYWARD, a famous jockey who rode in England and America for a period covering thirty years, died on Saturday, at his home in Sussex, N.J., where he had been in retirement for several years. Hayward for about twenty-six years was actively employed as a jockey for the leading turfmen of the East, and rode successfully the best horses raced by the late August Belmont, D.D. Withers, A.J. Cassatt, Milton H. Sanford, John Hunter, and other noted turfmen. His last great triumph was on Morello in the Futurity of 1892. New York Times, April 15, 1909: HORACE E. RUDE, President of the Hamburg National Bank in Sussex, N.J., is dead at his home in that town, aged 70 years. He has been ill since Saturday with heart disease. He held at various times the office of Township Assessor, Freeholder, and School Commissioner. A dozen years ago he was Assemblyman from Sussex. He is survived by a brother. New York Times, July 1, 1909: SAMUEL MCGEE, 63 years old, one of the largest milk dealers in New Jersey, died at his home at Sussex, N.J., yesterday of paralysis. He was working about his dairy when stricken. New York Times, December 23, 1910. $4,000 FOUND IN OLD WASH BOILER Found By a Women While Cleaning House Where Ancestors Once Lived Sussex, N.J., Dec. 22. Nobody in this section of the state has found house cleaning more profitable that Miss IDA SIMONSON, who netted $4,000 yesterday afternoon in a brief hours work. She was cleaning a closet in the old DEKAY house in Vernon when under an old wash boiler she brought to light the treasure. There was $500 in gold and the balance in old bills of large denominations. Miss Simonson is said to be entitled to the money not only because she found it, but because she is a descendant of the one who probably put it there. The Simonsons are an old Sussex family, and some of them occupied the house at times in the past. Just who left the money hidden away, however, is not clear. Miss Simonson is disinclined to talk about the affair. New York Times, February 14, 1912: Mrs. SAMUEL S. VANDRUSS, whose husband was at one time Mayor of Sussex, N.J., died at her home in that town of heart disease. She was 59 years old and was prominently identified with the Child Welfare Society of New Jersey. New York Times, February 1, 1914: A. WATSON SLECKBOWER, 70 years old, attorney for the Borough of Sussex, N.J., and for forty years a prominent attorney, is dead in Sussex. New York Times, August 14, 1914: MAY REWED FOURTH TIME Children Are Trying to Get Their Parents Together Again Sussex, N.J., Aug. 13. The children of Mrs. LAURA HEWITT JOHNSON of this place are trying to induce their mother, who has been married four times, to consent to try wedded life again with WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, who has been three of her husbands. The pair first met here in 1887, and were married on Dec. 31 of that year. Later, after moving to Paterson, they disagreed, and Mrs. Johnson obtained a divorce. In 1896 Mrs. Johnson married again, but her husband died shortly thereafter. In 1898, she accidentally met her first husband, Johnson, in Newark, where was conducting a store, and after a short courtship they were married again. They moved back to Paterson and lived there for five years. Then Mrs. Johnson left her husband again and he obtained a divorce. Some years later there was another accidental meeting at Dubois, Penn., which resulted in the third marriage of the two. They settled in Walden, N.Y., and lived happily till last April, when Mrs. Johnson left her husband and came back here. There has as yet been no divorce in connection with this parting. About two weeks ago Johnson came back to Sussex and started in business here, and his children are now trying mediation with good hope of success. New York Times, May 17, 1915: ESTATE PAYS DESERTED WIFE Sussex, N.J., May 16.In return for the release of her dower rights in real estate in Florida, N.Y., Mrs. IDA MAY LANGE of Wantage Township has received $1,700 from the estate of her late husband, Charles D. Morse, of Florida, who deserted her thirty-three years ago. Morse died on Jan. 6, leaving an estate of $5,000, which included a house and lot, to his stepdaughter, MISS GETRUDE MORSE. The wifes signature was necessary to give clear title, and this was refused until a cash stipulation was named. New York Times, May 20, 1916: Mrs. DEBORAH VEALEY, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. ABNER TOLAND, died on Thursday night at the home of her daughter in Sussex, N.J., in her eighty-second year. New York Times, June 21, 1916: HENRY D. STRUBLE, a resident of Sussex, N.J., for many years, died at his home there, in his seventy-second year. New York Times, June 28, 1916: Mrs. RICHARD W. PELLETT, one of the oldest residents of Sussex, N.J., died at her home there on Monday night, in her eighty-sixth year. New York Times, August 1, 1916: WILLIAM B. EDSALL, proprietor of the Harrison House in Sussex, N.J., died on Sunday at his home there, in his fifty-seventh year, leaving his wife and two brothers. New York Times, August 1, 1916: Mrs. ANNA L. WINTERS, a lifelong resident of Sussex, N.J., died at her home there on Sunday, in her forty-sixth year. New York Times, January 29, 1918: CAPTAIN THEODORE F. NORTHRUP Sussex, N.J., January 28.CAPTAIN THEODORE F. NORTHRUP, formerly a manufacturer of clothing in New York City, who was a veteran of the civil war, during which he received a wound which required dressing for thirty-three years, died yesterday at his home here in his seventy-fifty year. He was said to have been instrumental in the rounding up of Mosbys guerilla band in the closing days of the civil war. He was a Director of the Farmers National Bank. New York Times, November 11, 1922: STEAM SHOVEL RIPS AUTO Tears off Top of Car, Stunning Owner, Who is Badly Hurt When Machine Hits Tree THEODORE KIMBALL, proprietor of the Gobel Inn, Sussex, N.J, is dying and his wife is suffering from fractures and injuries as a result of one of the strangest automobile accidents that have come to the attention of the authorities. Kimball and his wife were driving along the Sussex-Unionville Road yesterday morning, when a steam shovel scoop, operated in connection with a road-repairing job, descended on the automobile, tearing away the top and stunning Kimball. Kimball lost control of the car and it swerved down a hill, continuing for a distance of about 2,500 feet, when it struck an apple tree. The machine overturned, pinning Kimball and his wife beneath. It was with difficulty that workers extricated the couple. Kimball was unconscious when he was taken to Linn Hospital at Sussex, and little hope for his recovery was entertained. Mrs. Kimball fractured both arms. She was badly cut about the face. Carol Ann Hilton http://www.geocities.com/carolann_hilton/Rorick.html