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From: "SML" <>
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] Hoagland - Cray - Durling
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:41:35 -0500
In-Reply-To: <007501c60313$283e95d0$0200a8c0@PAMELYN>


The Sourland Mountain area was full of Cray, Bush, Hoagland, Durling,
Wyckoff, and Skillman families and they all intermarried. The mid-1800s
and
early 1900s must have been rough for these families who were poor,
uneducated, mostly illiterate, and it was hard to eke out a living to
support the numerous children who came along.



I am related to the Sourland Mountain areaWyckoff line of whom you
speak....they were woodsman and farmers and there was plenty of work.
Many of them owned farmland that was listed in Federal Census forms as
worth thousands back then (my dad still lives in the area and I wish the
land was still in the family...beautiful land!) Also...from my research
using the US Federal Census...they could all read and write and they all
sent their children and the children of their laborers to school.

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