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Morris Area Genealogy Society - 1 - Vol 26 No 2, June 2013

Morris Area Genealogy Society Newsletter

Vol 26 No 2 June 2013

RECENT PROGRAMS

March: Jody Lutter gave a presentation on

“Using DNA to Trace Your Family Roots”. She explained the 3 types of tests available, the male only Y-DNA,

the Autosomal for male and female and the Mitochondria or MT-DNA which both males and females may use to discover female ancestors. These tests are offered through “23andme”, “Family Finder” at Family Tree DNA and “AncestryDNA”. Using her family she illustrated how to use the information acquired through the use of DNA results. She did stress that it is very important to do the paper-based research, which will help to verify the closer relatives and siblings. Further back the accuracy percentage drops. April: This was MAGS 25th Anniversary and Martha Corson gave a brief history of the Society and asked charter members to stand for recognition.

The slate of officers for next year was nominated and approved. The complete list of officers can be found in the Masthead of this issue of your newsletter. The evening’s speaker was Tom Peters speaking on Dutch Genealogy. He explained that most of the records are held at the provincial level, but that some are held at the town level. In Friesland (north) the patronymic naming system was used with the surname changing with each generation. The

Morris Area Genealogy Society website: www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njmags/

In This Issue MAGS Recent Programs ...................... Collections & Acquisitions ........................... 3 Tribute to Chrys Jochem ............................... 4 Walnut Grove ME Church Records .............. 5 MAGS News .................................................. 7 Other Societies ............................................. 12 Bible Records – Gunderson ......................... 13 Woodland Cemetery Safe Day .................... 14 Query ........................................................... 15 MAGS Upcoming Programs ...................... 16

Morris Area Genealogy Society- 2 - Vol 26 No 2, June 2013

Morris Area Genealogy Society

P.O. Box 105 Convent Station, NJ 07961-0105

Officers

President ........................................................................... Susan Simon Vice President/Program Chair ........................................ Martha Corson Treasurer .............................................................................. Nancy Lack Recording Secretary .................................................... Marianne Totaro Corresponding Secretary .................................................... Mary Keane Trustee (12-14) .................................................................... Roy Lindsey Trustee (13-15) ................................................................. Linda Mathew Trustee (past president) .................................................. Martha Corson President Emeritus ....................................................... Linnea B. Foster

Committee Heads Historian ............................................................................... Roy Lindsey Hospitality ......................................................................... Gini Anderson Indexing ........................................................................ Linnea B. Foster Library Liaison ...................................................................... Claire Kissil Membership ............................................................................ Ruth Willis Name Badges ....................................................................... Susan Kehr Newsletter Editor .................................................... Stephanie Reidinger Publicity ................................................................................... Ed Simon Research Coordinator .................................................. Linnea B. Foster Webmaster ........................................................................... Susan Kehr

Membership Dues for 2013-‐2014 Individual - $15.00 Family - $20.00

International Membership Newsletter by email only Institution (Newsletter only) - $10.00

Meetings Meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of the month September through May at the Morris County Library, 30 East Hanover Ave, Whippany, New Jersey. Refreshments are served at 6:30 pm; meeting begins at 7:00 pm. Usually a brief business meeting is held first, followed by the evening’s special program.

Newsletter The Newsletter is published four times a year: March, June, September and December. Back issues are available at $3.50 each or free if you download them from our MAGSmembers website. Members are welcome to submit ideas or articles for the Newsletter. Deadlines for articles for each issue are as follows: Issue Deadline March ..................................................................................... January 25 June ............................................................................................. April 25 September .................................................................................... July 25 December .............................................................................. October 25 Number on mailing label indicates year to which dues paid. e-mail: mailto:[email protected] ISSN 10594502

Dutch immigrants used it for 2 or 3 generations before adopting permanent surnames. Tom urged researchers to use the WIKIs and research courses about Dutch genealogy on www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/ and also recommended “translate Google.com”. Tom did explain, that when searching Dutch sites, you should drop the prefix (Van, Der, etc.). Additional links are in the April meeting minutes on MAGSmembers.

May: Martha Corson introduced James Lewis, the new director of the North Jersey History and Genealogy Center at the Morristown - Morris Township Library. James spoke briefly, describing his background and reminding the group that he spoke at a MAGS meeting a few years ago on resources at the Newark Public Library.

The speaker for the evening was Catherine Medich of the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton, who discussed New Jersey court records. She announced that all original vital records through the year 1912 have been transferred to the Archives and that the records for later

years will be added on a yearly basis so that the Archives will always have all the births, marriages, and deaths older than 100 years. The Archives also has

death records to 1955, marriage records to 1940, and birth records to 1923. A bride’s index for the years 1901 to 1935 recently has been added to the collection.


An on-line index to Supreme Court records is also available (www.archives.nj.gov). Catherine then described the various state and county level courts, their history, and the types of cases heard in each. She also showed examples of many types of court records and told of useful genealogical information that can be gleaned from them. A handout gives a list of the state and county court records held by the State Archives. Catherine ended her presentation with a question and answer session, which elicited many questions from the group.

Collection Highlights & New Acquisitions in the North Jersey History and Genealogy Center of the Morristown-Morris Township Library

By Carolyn Dorsey

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the subject of Morristown and Morris County History by A. J. H. 1916-1932 HM90 A.J.H.

Scrapbooks can be invaluable sources of historical information for both genealogists and historical researchers. This unbound scrapbook from 1916 to 1936 includes clippings pertaining to New Jersey, Morris County and Morristown history, clipped from the Daily Record, The Jerseyman, The New Jersey Sun, The New York Times, The Newark Evening News, and the Banner. The book was identified with the initials A.J.H., who is believed to be Adelaide Howell, a local historian in Morristown from that era. The newspaper clippings are an excellent source of information on historic buildings and sites, events, and people in the Morris County area.

A History of Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania, 1747-1997, issued by the Brogue Community Lions Club, 1997.

974.841 His

June R. Grove and Richard Konkel, Esq., editors.

Published in commemoration of the 250 year anniversary of Chanceford Township, Pennsylvania, this book provides a detailed glimpse into the history of the founding and development of its churches and schools, civic organizations, and the development of businesses and its residents. At the rear of the book is a section of local genealogies. Includes index of family names.

David G. Martin - New Jersey at Gettysburg Guidebook New Jersey Civil War Heritage Association Sesquicentennial Committee, 2012

H2 Mart New This guidebook is an excellent resource for those wishing to research the New Jersey regiments that participated in the Battle of Gettysburg. New Jersey had 12 infantry regiments, two artillery units and one cavalry regiment participating in Gettysburg battle. Monuments have been erected to all of those units, along with one honoring the 1st New Jersey Brigade. This book describes these monuments, and provides maps, illustrations, photos and narrative that trace each New Jersey unit. It provides descriptive detail of the battlefields and shows images of each New Jersey Commander. Brief histories of each unit are provided. Includes a bibliography and index.


Steven D. Glazer - Discover Your Community's Civil War Heritage N.J. Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee, 2010

H2 Glaz New Discover Your Community's Civil War Heritage provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to research your own ancestor's or town's Civil War history, including the identity and biographies of

local residents who fought in the war, as well as of others from your community who were connected to events of the era. Most of the approaches and resources to be discussed are easily accessible from a home computer or your local library, often at little or no cost. Although specific to New Jersey, the book’s instructions and sources are readily applicable elsewhere.

A Tribute to our Retired Guide and Friend, Chrys Jochem, of the Morristown-Morris Township Library

by Marion Orr Harris

We’ve lost Chrys Jochem to retirement. How does that matter to genealogists? Some of us have memories that reach back through time to the days when Barbara Hoskins, alone on the balcony, managed a bijou of a local history department, almost as an afterthought to the main library. Barbara spent years creating a set of newspaper indexes and other tools of access that we still use today. Her reign was the prelude to the Carrie Foster beneficence, an unexpected golden key to the department’s modern gateway. With Foster fund support, Barbara’s successor, Diane Solomon, expanded our history involvement into a much larger collection, as well as some private publications. At that time MAGS was born, drawing on the interests of quite a few patron researchers who knew one another informally and wanted to share their experience. The department took advantage of larger quarters in the new addition, and brought in more staff, including a full-time archivist to tend the growing special collection. With each new department head, the level of management sophistication grew, as did the increased need for organizational and human relations skill. A number of patrons with special concern took steps at crucial points to ensure that appropriate managerial choices were made. The process reached its peak about 25 years ago, when Chrys Jochem arrived to shepherd the special collections. She had come late to the world of libraries, having lived a full life in upstate New York at a (lucky) law firm. This was not only a dedicated aficionado of rare books and their bindings, but a born organizer of any chaos she found herself in, the mistress of vertical storage. When the contents of the vault had been whipped into shape, it was no surprise that the next empty chair of department headship should be filled by Chrys, who in her spare time finished the Drew University historic preservation certificate program and spent her own vacations at rare book school, to the growing enrichment of her life and ours. There followed a couple of decades of smart public outreach, discriminating expansion of


source material both printed and filmed, welcome contributions to the vault shelves, and more recently, transition into the world of digitization. Under Chrys’ baton, we have developed an orchestra of access, with internal marvels like the online index to the Curtis photographic collection, as well as multiple subscriptions to the many databases so crucial to personal genealogy research. Scattered along this path of progress, there were the crises. When the vault was located –absent architectural advice from staff – under the basement water pipes, they burst, of course, and Chrys led the disaster recovery team. When our library fulfilled its multiple destinies in the big bang events, Chrys was there to organize the new universes. In summary, we have the North Jersey History Center of today as a tribute to Chrys Jochem. A quarter century ago, our municipal local history department was perhaps the Number Four place in the state for genealogical research, outclassed only by the State Archives (which didn’t even have a climate-controlled vault), Rutgers Special Collections, and the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark. Today, with public money so tight and access problematic, we are probably Number Two. But ironically, our patrons are making increasingly narrow and shallow use of this resource. Genealogists, toward whom the collection has always been slanted, stay home these days and tool around on the internet. Our homegrown group of dedicated researchers are rooted at their own computers, while the library continues to offer its superb technical and advisory help, too often unused. We’ll go on supporting the History Center, building on Chrys’ legacy and hoping to raise the standards of genealogical research in New Jersey. Will you remember this story? As we move into the next local history interregnum, will you contribute your support?

Walnut Grove Methodist Episcopal Church Records

The church was also known as the Mt. Freedom M.E. Church, and is

located on West Hanover Avenue. Hanover Avenue runs from Mt. Freedom to Morris Plains and Morristown. The church was built between 1845 and 1847 and the land for the cemetery was donated in 1873 by Philip Till and his wife.

Church Directory on March 1, 1900 50th Anniversary includes the following and their residences:

Mary E. Bryant Pool's Corner Nancy Meeker Millbrook Road Brainard Pool Tavern Hill John and May Jesse Pruden Millbrook Aaron Towlen Dover Road

Marriages Aaron Towlen and Abbie Burnett December 25, 1871 John B. Pool and Annie Van G'arson May 30, 1894 Frank Pool and Emma Bryant February 18, 1894


Burials Jesse Towlen d. June 29, 1874

Baptisms (may have occurred at Millbrook) Isabella Pruden August 18, 1867 age 23 Mary Meeker August 28, 1872 (Rev. William Tretheway) Joseph Meeker June 30, 1872 (Millbrook) Rev. William Tretheway Ann L. and John W. Orr March 5, 1882 children of A.G. and Mary (Meeker) Orr: John born 7/2/1878 Ann born 9/11/1881 Mary E. Bryant bapt. July 25, 1886 at Mt. Freedom Rev. Henry P. Hayter

Membership List 1872-1891 Rev. Isaiah Wilson

Elisha Meeker - mar. - removed to Grace M.E. Church 3/17/1892 Nancy Meeker - Joseph S. - joined church May 1872 a probationer Mary A. (dau. of Elisha) joined May 1872 removed in a letter 6/16/1874 Jesse S. Towlen d. in peace 6/29/1874 Abbie Towlen removed by certificate November 25, 1872

Rev. D. Halleron Josephine Towland (was single) joined December 21, 1873 removed with certificate March 23, 1881 Mary E. Bryant (was married) joined under Rev. Henry J. Hayter Abby L. Towlen (was married) removed to Mendham December 20, 1890 Aaron Towlen (married)- received October 1886 by certificate of Presbyterian Church John and May Poole (married) joined church July 4, 1897 Rev. Andrew Henry Jesse and Ella Pruden joined church April 2, 1898

Revised List of Church Members January 8, 1895 Mary E. Bryant Andrew and Mary Orr (He a blacksmith at Mt. Freedom) Nancy Meeker Brainard Poole Aaron Towlen (on top of hill toward Dover)

Baptism Bapt. March 5, 1882 at Mt. Freedom, New Jersey John Walter Orr b. July 2, 1878 Rev. F. A. Trippett Annie L. Orr b. Sept. 11, 1881

Church officers and offices held. Dates Appointed Brainard D. Pool, Steward January 19, 1873 Mt. Freedom Elisha Meeker, Trustee January 1873 Mt. Freedom


Trustees from April 1891 - March 1892 Andrew G. Orr - president Aaron Towlen April 1892 A.G. Orr - appointed December 1891 for 3 years

Burials in Walnut Grove Cemetery John M. Briant March 15, 1841 September 26, 1909 Mary E. Pruden April 13, 1861 July 26, 1915 Isaac N. Pruden October 15, 1885 Sarah J. Towlen April 7, 1902 Joannah March 20, 1865 January 25, 1883 Ella June 6, 1869 October 3, 1871 Bella July 25, 1878 April 27, 1879 Lauraetta September 10, 1882 April 11, 1885

Barnard Towlan d. February 6, 1878 92 years old Sarah Smith (wife of Bernard Towland) d. August 8, 1860 84 years

Aaron B. Towlen September 19, 1846 September 28, 1921

John Horace Towlen 1875 1902

Kattie (wife of George A. Bryant) 1880 1919

Joseph H. Barton May 13, 1859 November 6, 1908 Lydia Jane Pruden July 26, 1867 March 13, 1958 Marjorie May 8,1904 May 9,1904 Elwood D. December 24, 1941

MAGS Special Interest Groups: SIGs

Title Date Time Contact Beginners & Beyond 3rd Monday of the

month 1:00 – 3:00 Linnea Foster

Brick Walls 2nd Friday of the

month 10:00 – 12:00 Susan Simon

Computer

Genealogy & Family History Writing

3rd Friday of the month

9:30 – 11:30

Ruth Daniels

DNA 2nd Thursday of the month

7:00 – 8:45 Jim Short

German & East Europe Genealogy

3rd Tuesday of the month

10:00 – 12:00 Lou Andrews

Italian & Western Europe Genealogy

2nd Tuesday of the month

9:30 – 11:30 Susan Kehr


MAGS NEWS

We always announce our new slate of officers in June. They were elected in April and will start their terms in June. These dedicated people have all written up a paragraph or so about themselves, for those of you who do not yet know them. Please meet your Board.

Susan Simon, our new president,

I joined MAGS upon my retirement from teaching in 2005. I was the Recording Secretary for the two years from 2009 to 2011. I became the leader of the Brick Walls SIG in 2011 and continue to be the moderator. I recently was inducted into the Lineage Society of "First Families of Ohio", by having proved ten ancestors were living within the current boundaries of the State of Ohio before 1820. One ancestor was a surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve (Northeast Ohio).

Martha Corson, Vice President/Program Chair

I have been a MAGS member since 2002 and have served as Publicity chair, vice-president/Program chair, president, and now vice-president again. One of the things I especially appreciate in MAGS (beyond associating with wonderful friends!) is participating in the Beginners & Beyond and the Computer Genealogy and Family History Writing Special Interest Groups, both great learning experiences. Last year, I got to take part in the FamilySearch.org 1940 U.S. Census Indexing Project; and I still do FamilySearch indexing. My main research areas are

Philadelphia and York County, PA, and eastern Massachusetts. (Obviously, once my ancestors arrived in America, they didn’t move around much!) I teach a family history class in the local LDS (Mormon) congregation.

As for thrilling genealogy experiences, one has been uploading photos of my ancestors onto the FamilySearch Family Tree and adding stories. Walking on ancestral ground is kind of a sacred experience. When my siblings and I went to an ancestral town to bury our parents’ ashes, we fanned out over the graveyard with a list of names to look for. Then, we went to the church where our grandfather ministered and where he married a daughter of the congregation, and ended up in the one-room schoolhouse where my grandmother taught!

Nancy Lack, Treasurer

I joined MAGS a couple of years ago. I have always been interested in learning more about my family but never knew how to go about it. I saw a blurb in a local newspaper and came to a meeting. I quickly joined MAGS and continued to come to monthly meetings and the Beginners Special Interest Group and I was hooked. Somehow, the nominating committee spotted me sitting quietly by myself and


asked if I would be interested in being Treasurer. I have been Treasurer for a number of other organizations (including currently for the Florham Park Historical Society) so .. I said yes.

Marianne Totaro: Recording Secretary

My name is Marianne Totaro, resident of Denville, NJ, and member since mid-2010. My interest in MAGS began several years earlier upon seeing the press releases for monthly meetings at the Morristown Library. Taking advantage of an early retirement in 2010

allowed for attendance to one of their monthly meetings where I immediately joined. The topic that evening was “Family Detective, Using Crime-Solving Methods to Research Your Family Tree.” It was perfect for my re-entry back to an interest begun in the 1970’s during my teens when research was more limited to visiting distant and dusty repositories, libraries and cemeteries. But, I needed help on where and how to begin especially with the array of online tools, databases and resulting information and materials available today. Fortunately MAGS offers a variety of SIGs that meet throughout the month, and

the right one for me appeared to be “Beginners and Beyond”. This SIG and its participants enabled me to grasp overall research concepts, take advantage of tips for finding hidden clues in census reports and passenger lists, and for locating and using the best websites and tools out there. As I’ve advanced in my research knowledge and techniques, I’ve moved onto other SIGs as my lack of expertise required. One of the exciting aspects of genealogy is finding long lost relatives or those you never knew you had. While on Ancestry a few years ago I noticed another user had been editing some of the inaccurate transcriptions of family member names in census reports. That user’s email address also included a family surname so I reached out and found a second cousin, once removed, who had relocated to California back in the 1960s. The respective branches of our Rosso family lines had lost touch. After corresponding and sharing our scant family information and lore, my cousin Paul Rosso came to visit in NJ this year. We further combined our research and I was able to organize a small reunion of some East Coast Rosso descendents. We’ve inherited a whole new set of cousins and interested a younger generation in family history.

Mary Keane: Corresponding Secretary

I joined MAGS in 2007. Is it 6 years already? I still feel like a beginner and continue to learn a lot from the Beginners & Beyond and Computer Genealogy SIGs. My family comes from Jersey City and before that Ireland. I’ve learned a lot of wonderful details about the Jersey City folks, especially from the Jersey Journal, but have not had much luck getting to the other side of the Atlantic.

My first trip to Trenton was memorable. Lyn Foster suggested that I look at the card file of wills. I found listings for my great-grandfather, John and his father, James, but the bonus was that James’ will was contested by his 5


sons and the librarian found 100 pages of testimony from the court case in the basement. My cousins were delighted when I shared it with them.

Roy Lindsey: Trustee (2012-2014)

I joined the MAGS in July 2007, Washington County Genealogy Society and Genealogical Society of Southwestern Pennsylvania in 2010. I am researching the family records for Lindsey who arrived near Philadelphia around 1750. From there the Lindsey’s moved into Cumberland County then into Washington County around 1783. Five generations lived in Washington County. With continued encouragement, expert guidance and support from MAGS, I am working on my third book of Lindsey genealogy. The family is delighted.

Linda Mathew: Trustee (2013-2015)

I became interested in genealogy when I was a teenager and talked to some of my older relatives and visited a few cemeteries. After that, I packed away my family papers, went to college, got married, and raised two children, but finally dragged my old genealogy box out of the attic about 25 years ago and have been researching ever since. My mother’s family all settled in Rhode Island and Massachusetts in the 1600s and stayed there. Both of my paternal grandparents, however, were born in Yorkshire, England, and came from a long line of weavers. I have been able to do far more research on my mother’s family—proximity is always an advantage--but I have twice visited the two small towns near Huddersfield, England,

where my grandparents were born. Most of my research has been done in Rhode Island, where I was born and my mother still lives. A special project of mine has been tracing the descendants of Elkanah Johnson (1673-1748), an ancestor of my great grandmother. Elkanah lived in Rhode Island, but many of his descendants moved to Vermont, Upstate New York, and Pennsylvania and from there moved across the upper Midwest. This has enabled me to tackle research challenges other than those posed by my Rhode Island farmers. I have long been a member of the Rhode Island Genealogical Society. I write articles for its journal, Rhode Island Roots, and co-edit a yearly publication of abstracts of town records. I joined MAGS about six years ago and wonder why I didn’t do it sooner. I have come to know many wonderful people who share my interests and have learned so much from the experiences of the other members.

Linnea B. Foster: President Emeritus

In 1988 I was part of a small group that, with the support of the Morristown-Morris Township Library, founded our Society, and was elected the first president. Currently I'm the coordinator of the Indexing, Research, and Beginners and Beyond groups. Being involved with MAGS has helped me to continue learning about family research, but one of the special benefits is having friends whose eyes don't glaze over when genealogy is part of a conversation!


Morris Area Genealogy Society in the News

An article was published in Northjersey.com:community by Lisa Kintish who is a staff writer for Parsippany Life. She had attended one of our General Meetings and asked for local participants, Lois Pelaia, Linnea Foster, Susan Kehr, Marianne Totaro and Martha Corson that were willing to be interviewed, about our society. She spoke with Lois Pelaia and Lois showed her the beautiful quilt she had quilted with all the pictures she had placed on it from her great-grandparents to her grand children.

She also spoke with Linnea Foster who mentioned “that the group has changed as genealogy has changed”, such as using the internet today. It was all paper and archives when Linnea started out.

Lisa also spoke to Susan Kehr. Susan mentioned how the Special Interest Groups had help her track down her family’s history along with the supporting documentation that is needed. Susan also mentioned her involvement with Indexing for MAGS and for familysearch.org.

Martha Corson was also interviewed and mentioned that she remembers her father playing the trumpet at the funeral service of the last surviving Civil War veteran in her hometown. She feels that genealogy makes us aware of our family history and also it’s hardships.

The link to the article is on our website and click on the news article about MAGS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MAGSmembers/links

Membership

The new membership year begins on June 1st and it is time to renew. Dues are $15.00 for individuals and $20.00 for families. Renewal envelopes will be mailed in May. Any member wishing to renew can mail in their dues or bring the renewal envelope to a regular meeting. Don’t forget that you will have an emailed version of the Newsletter sent to you even if you have a printed copy mailed to you, if you have an email address. If you want to save our society some money and if you really don’t need a paper copy then you can leave the box empty. You will actually get the email version sooner than the printed copy.


Other Society Meetings

Family History Interest Group May 28, Time: 7:00 pm, Speaker: Russ Worthington: “Change brings opportunity: recent enhancements at Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org”, Location: Bernards Twp. Library, Basking Ridge

www.libraryinsight.net/eventdetails.asp?jx=tsp&lmx=300706

Genealogical Society of Bergen County June 24, Time: 7:00 pm, Speaker: Claire Keenan Agthe: “Copyright for Genealogists”, Location: Ridgewood Public Library

www.njgsbc.org/

Hudson County Genealogical & Historical Society June 8, Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, Speaker: Alan Delozier “History of the Archdiocese of Newark”, Location: TBA

www.hudsoncountynjgenealogy.org/events.html

Monmouth County Genealogy Society July 14, Time: 1:30 pm, Speaker: Larry Fermi “ WPA, CCC and NYA records”, Location: Eatontown Community/Senior Center

www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njmcgs/events.htm

Orange County Genealogical Society June 1, Time 9:00 am, Speaker: Joseph Lieby, Palantines, Location: 101 Main St., Goshen, NY

www.ocgsny.org/calendar/calendar.htm

BIBLE RECORDS GUNDERSON FAMILY BIBLE

Bible now in the possession of Mrs. Willard Hadden of Dover, N. J. Published by Jasper Harding at Philadelphia 1862

Marriages Morgan F. Gunderson, born in Denmark, & Jane Platt, born in Westtown, Orange Co. N.Y. was united in wedlock by The Rev. Ralph Bull in Westtown July 11th 1848

Mary E. Gunderson, born in San Francisco, Cal. & Frank V. Steffani, born in New York, was united in wedlock by Rev. Nevin Woodside, in Brooklyn, Sept. 18th 1872

Daniel I. Hartwell, born in Westtown, Orange Co. N. Y. and Nellie J. Gunderson, born in Brooklyn, was united in wedlock by Rev. Nevin Woodside in Brooklyn, Feb. 15th 1879


David P. Brown of Worcester and Emma T. Gunderson, born in Brooklyn, was united in wedlock by Rev. Nevin Woodside, Sept. 17th, 1879 Births Anna Maria Gunderson, born in Middletown, Orange Co. N.Y. – June 12, 1849

Mary Elizabeth Gunderson, born in San Francisco, Cal. – May 5, 1851

Adelaide Cecelia Gunderson, born in Middletown, Orange, Co. N. Y. - July 6, 1853

Emma Theodora Gunderson, born in Middletown, Orange Co. N. Y. - Oct. 28, 1856

Nellie Jane Gunderson, born in Brooklyn, April 3rd, 1859

William Frederick Gunderson, born in Brooklyn, Sept. 26, 1863

Grace May Steffany born in Brooklyn, July 28, 1873

George F. Steffany born in New York, Sept. 2, 1876

Mary E. Steffany born in Brooklyn, Oct. 22, 1878

Irving F. Hartwell born in Brooklyn, June 27, 1880

William Herbert Hartwell born in Morris, Ill, Dec. 30, 1881

Deaths Adelaide Cecelia Gunderson died Jany 10th 1857 in Middletown

Mary E. Steffany died Jany 17, 1879

Irving F. Hartwell died July 29, 1880

William Frederick Gunderson died in Brooklyn June 30, 1882

William Herbert Hartwell died in Brooklyn June 26, 1882

Morgan F. Gunderson died Aug. 8, 1871 in New York

Jane Gunderson died Dec. 4, 1910 in Brooklyn

William F. Gunderson died June 30, 1882 in Brooklyn

Nellie J. Gunderson Trathan died Nov. 3, 1911 in Brooklyn

Kenneth R. Thompson died April 7, 1909 in Brooklyn

Anna M. Tribken died Dec. 17, 1929 in Brooklyn

John P. Tribken died Sept. 1908

Florence A. Beebe died June 6, 1939


John Frederick, Tribken died Sept. 19-—

George F. Steffany died Nov. 4, 1950

keyed by Evelyn Huey

Woodland Cemetery, Newark, NJ – from Mary Lish and John Sass

With regret, after 15 years, we are forced to cancel this year’s Safe Day due to the condition of the cemetery. John and I walked the entire cemetery on Sunday. The grass has not been cut since Safe Day last year, June 2, 2012. To make matters even more difficult, Hurricane Sandy brought down multiple trees and tree limbs all over the cemetery. Some of the trees have been cut down, but the wood has not been removed. We do not feel it is safe to walk in

the cemetery – you cannot even tell where some of the roads are since everything is so overgrown. It is a terribly frustrating and disappointing situation. We had made progress for several years, but it appears to be going in the wrong direction. We will continue to keep you apprised of any new developments, and if anything changes, we will be in touch to bring you up to date. [Photos taken Sunday, May 5th.]

MAGS “Members–Only” Yahoo! Group Site

To Join MAGS “Members–Only” Yahoo! Group Site Go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MAGSmembers/ If you are already a member of another Yahoo Group, you can just click on “Join the Group”. Fill out requested information, then click on “Join” Otherwise, you will need to join Yahoo! first, then join our Group. Most people are approved within 24 hours

Details can be found on our website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njmags/


QUERIES

Members may submit one query for publication in each issue of the Newsletter. Queries will be limited as space allows. Please be sure to include dates and places in your request. Make sure it is typed or printed legibly. Please spell out all words. We will abbreviate as necessary. Don’t forget to include your name, address and zip code and/or e-mail address.

Answers to queries should be sent directly to the submitter, whose name and address is shown at the end of the query. The deadline for queries for the next issue is July 31, 2013. Unfortunately, we have no queries for this issue.

Morris Area Genealogy Society This publication is the sole property of the Morris Area Genealogy Society and may not

be reproduced without the approval of the Morris Area Genealogy Society.


Morris Area Genealogy Society P.O. Box 105 Convent Station, NJ 07961-0105

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

June 4, 2013

Mike Schwartz:

Finding Relatives in Surprising

Ways

Enjoy your

Summer

September 3, 2013

September Surprise

Meetings are held at the Morris County Library, 30 East Hanover Ave., Whippany, NJ Refreshments at 6:30 pm – Meeting at 7:00 pm

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