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From: Lisa <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Newspaper Clippings
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 15:45:35 -0500


PLEASE NOTE - The following newspaper clippings are from a collection found
after my great Aunt passed away. She unfortunately made no note of what paper
they came from or the date. I felt they may still provide important clues for
somebody and other listers agreed so I have been posting them regardless.



Wood Cutter Instantly Killed

John A. JACQUISH, eighty-two years old, whose home was near Fairmount, was instantly killed sometime on Tuesday, while he was at work. He had felled a number of trees in a wood tract near his home a few days before to be converted into posts and rails. Several of these trees had lodged together and he had made the remark before going to work that it would be a hard job to get them out of the tangle. Just how he met his death is not known, but the supposition is that one of the heavy branches of a tree came loose unexpectedly to Mr. JACQUISH and flew back and struck him in the head, because when his body was found he laid in a pool of blood with his skull crushed.

Mrs. JACQUISH last heard him chopping away in the woods at about ten o'clock in the morning and she thought nothing strange of it when he did not come home to dinner, because it was often not unusual for him to go to the store or to some neighbor's house nearby to take a bite at the noon hour.

When he did not return late in the afternoon she sent out a little school girl to see what had become of him. The youngster soon discovered his lifeless body. Word was sent to Coroner J. Charles ALPAUGH, of New Germantown, who viewed the body and granted a burial permit for accidental death. Mr. JACQUISH had been a lifelong resident of the Fairmount-Pottersville section and was well liked by all who knew him. Besides his widow he leaves the following children: Isaiah JACQUISH, of Pottersville; William JACQUISH, of Hamden; Mrs. Thomas L. WELCH, of Whitehouse Station; Mrs. James H. MAC DONALD, of East Whitehouse; Mrs. Anna CONOVER, of Fairmount; Mrs. Albert MOORE, of Far Hills; Mrs. Charles APGAR, of Mountainville, and Mrs. John ALPAUGH, of Lebanon.

Funeral services Friday afternoon at two o'clock at the late residence. Rev. Harry J. IOBST, pastor of the M. E. Church at Fairmount, officiated, and the burial was in the M. E. cemetery at Fairmount by Undertaker ALPAUGH, of New Germantown.



None of the beneficiaries named in the will of Lizzie APGAR, of Clinton township, is still living. She died at the Orbes Nursing Home, Clinton, Feb. 8, 1954.



Mrs. Charles P. FARLEY Dies In Oldwick Home

Village Mourns The Death of Its Postmaster

Mrs. Myrta DUFFORD FARLEY, 66 years old, wife of Charles P. FARLEY, and postmaster for the past 15 years, died suddenly about 7:30 a.m. Friday morning, (August 24, 1945) at her Oldwick home from a heart attack.

Mrs. FARLEY's death came as a shock to residents of Oldwick to whom she was so familiar not only through her service at the post office but because of her unwavering support in her husband's store. Her gentleness and compassionate, faithful service will be missed by all.

Before coming to Oldwick, Mrs. FARLEY resided with her family at Mountainville where they conducted a general merchandising business. Mrs. FARELY was the former Miss Myrta DUFFORD of Middle Valley. The couple was married 46 years in June. An accomplished woman, Mrs. FARLEY stood at her husband's side sharing his burdens and care and accentuating his success. A beautiful Christian and devoted wife and mother, she was a member of the Cokesbury Methodist Church; of Hobart Lodge, OES, No. 63, High Bridge; a member of the Women's Club of Oldwick Methodist Church and a former member of the Oldwick Methodist Sunday School.

Mrs. FARLEY is survived by her husband, Charles P. FARLEY, of Oldwick; two daughters, Mrs. Beldon FARLEY, High Bridge, Mrs. Lester HOFFMAN, Califon; two sons, Joseph C. FARLEY, Mountainville, Pfc. Walter C. FARLEY, stationed with the U.S. Army in the Mariana Islands; a sister, Mrs. Elmer RAMSEY, High Bridge; two brothers, Christopher DUFFORD, Glen Ridge; Edwin DUFFORD, Short Hills, and six grandchildren, Jay FARLEY, radioman third class, U.S. Navy, in the Pacific; Marc FARLEY, High Bridge; Kenneth HOFFMAN, Seaman second class, U.S. Navy, of Sampson, N.Y., now on leave at his Califon home; Caleb and David FARLEY, Mountainville; Judith C. FARLEY, of East Orange.

Funeral services were held Monday, August 27, at 2 o'clock at the family's former home in Mountainville, now occupied by their son, Joseph C. FARLEY. Interment was made in the Cokesbury Methodist Cemetery under the direction of Daniel J. Coughlin and Son of Califon and Oldwick. The Rev. George C. HARRISON, pastor of the Cokesbury Methodist Church, officiated.


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