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From: "Rita Chesterton" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] BETHLEHEM BAPTIST
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:25:37 -0400
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Thanks for the directions, Wendy. I grew up in Easton (Wilson Borough) and
left when I was about 20. My Dad worked for Easton Laundries the whole time
I was a kid and his route was around the Washington and Broadway area.

As for the Vliet's, I believe Russell Vliet still lives (although quite old)
on one of the original Vliet farmsteads just east of Person Rd near West
Portal. I met Harold Vliet (now deceased) many years ago...he lived across
from Russell. I've also been to the gravesite of Capt. Daniel Vliet which
is in the middle of a field on the old Vliet property now owned by a Mrs.
Hajdu on Person Rd. (next door to Russell). I was never quite sure where
the Creveling estate was located, although I believe it was on the same side
of the road and closer to West Portal, right?

My gt-grandmother was Sarah Jane Vliet who lived on Tunnel Avenue, near the
double-bore tunnel. We believe that's where she met her Irish-born husband
Dennis Malley who was a Section Foreman with the railroad, and probably
working on the tunnel around 1875. Sarah was the daughter of Jacob B. Vliet
& Barbary Opdycke. I've learned a bit about Barbary's parentage, but Jacob
Vliet is still a mystery to some extent. In any case, Jacob died in 1979
and wife Barbary died in 1884. As I said before, Barbary's death
certificate does state that Asbury was her burial place, so I can only
assume Jacob is there too. The Methodist Church in Asbury claims to have
misplaced or lost most all of their cemetery records. The Presbyterian
Church across the street has been sold for other usage; the cemetery records
are kept in Philadelphia but only go back to about 1887 (darn!). As for
Sarah Jane, she was buried at St. Anne's Catholic Cemetery in
Hampton...without a stone....but my mother remembers the general resting
area. Dennis Malley disappeared into thin air.


-Rita PS: where is the Creveling burial ground? can it be accessed by
the public?


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Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 7:25 PM
Subject: [NJHUNTER] BETHLEHEM BAPTIST


> Rita, It sounds as though you may be heading to the Bethlehem Baptist
> cemetery. The exit is a little on the unusual side. If you're coming from
the west on
> I-78, take exit 11 ramp to the end, then go straight (east) across the
> intersection at the light. Keep right at the fork (otherwise you're back
on 78 :),
> and you will see the cemetery walls, and the church on your left. If
you're
> coming from the east, take the exit, head to your left over the overpass,
and
> make a left at the light.
>
> Do you have any contact with Vliets in the area? I know they intermarried
> with my Creveling line, and lived on a nearby farm in West Portal. The
Crevelings
> had their own family cemetery, and used the Bloomsbury Presbyterian
Church,
> the Greenwich Presbyterian Church (west of Bloomsbury), the Asbury
Churches,
> and also Mansfield Woodhouse Presbyterian Church, in Washington. I would
imagine
> that it is quite possible that the Vliet family also had a family plot on
> their farm, as they were in the area for quite some time.
>
> Might be worth your time to post to the NJWarren List. Since the area in
> question falls right on the border of Hunterdon. There are a lot of Vliets
through
> out Warren Co., and if they are anything like others in the area, they
even
> bounced back and forth across the Delaware.
>
> Good Luck, Wendy (grew up 2 miles from Pattenburg)
>
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