Ocean County cluster: research notes

Working notes, 2026-09-06, for the Whiting / Bamber / Bricksburg / Tuckerton / Brooksbrae / Beachwood / Pinewald / Manchester / Colliers Mills / West Creek / Jackson entries. Sources outside the notebook only; nothing here has been merged into entry/. Newspaper OCR is transcription-to-be-checked. Where a claim rests on a secondary web article rather than a primary record, that is said.

Tools that worked this pass: CourtListener (two reported New Jersey opinions on the Sangor case), the New Jersey State Library’s digitized 1873 Minutes of the General Assembly (dspace PDF, OCR searchable), the Tuckerton Historical Society’s Greenwood Cemetery marker index (PDF), Find a Grave individual memorial pages (curl), the Ocean County NJ History blog (Blogger), Chronicling America via ca.py. Web search quota was exhausted mid-task; HathiTrust and the Find a Grave search page are Cloudflare-blocked from scripts.

royal-pine-1930 (Royal Pine Hotel, Pinewald) — Sangor embezzlement case RESOLVED from court record

Two reported opinions of the New Jersey Supreme Court, both by Justice Perskie, supply the record the entry lacks.

State v. Then, 114 N.J.L. 413, 177 A. 87 (Sup. Ct., Feb. 7, 1935) — https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3579499/state-v-then/

  • Certiorari prosecuted by the State “at the instance and with the assistance of the Ocean County Bar Association.”
  • Four indictments against Anthony M. Then (president, Toms River Trust Company) and Benjamin W. Sangor (chairman of the board): one from the December 1931–32 grand jury against Then alone under §15 of the Trust Companies act (1899), and three from the April 1932 term for larceny and embezzlement against both. Only indictment No. 1493 is in the record.
  • Sixth count: on October 10, 1930 they stole securities valued at $81,320.22 belonging to the Toms River Trust Company as administrator pendente lite of the estate of James D. Halton (spelled Holton once in the opinion).
  • Pleas of not guilty Sept. 26, 1932; motion to quash April 17, 1933; trial judge quashed May 8, 1933, relying on an Ocean County Orphans Court order dated Jan. 30, 1931 (filed July 31, 1931). Supreme Court held the quashing “capricious,” set it aside, and remitted to Ocean Quarter Sessions “for prompt trial.”

State v. Then, 118 N.J.L. 31, 190 A. 495 (Sup. Ct., Feb. 11, 1937) — https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/3587615/state-v-then/

  • Affirms the conviction of both defendants on the first count (embezzlement under §172 of the Crimes act). Trial lasted three weeks; jury drawn under ch. 287, P.L. 1935 (so the trial was in late 1935 or 1936).
  • Facts the jury could find: Halton died May 7, 1930; the Trust Company was appointed administrator Aug. 21, 1930; on Sept. 10, 1930 Then got the securities out of a Girard Trust Company (Philadelphia) safe-deposit box on an allegedly false board resolution; the bonds next appear in the “B. W. Sangor Bond Account” at J. E. Erounstine & Co., New York, opened Oct. 30, 1930; Sangor borrowed $25,000 against them, most of the rest was sold for his account, about $7,000 par went back to the bank. In exchange the estate supposedly received $75,000 par of Sangor Hotel Corporation bonds, which later sold at public sale for $30. The hotel bonds did not exist until Feb. 6, 1931 (trust indenture recorded Feb. 10, 1931).
  • Expert testimony: the hotel property was worth about $40,000 in October 1930; the receiver sold the hotel property for $36,000. (Compare the entry’s “sold at auction in 1932 for about $21,000,” which comes from Jersey Shore Online/Patch; the two figures may be different sales or one may be wrong. Flag as a contradiction to check in the Ocean County Chancery receivership file.)
  • Then testified inconsistently (1932 Orphans Court hearing before Judge Jayne vs. trial). A receipt dated June 5, 1931 showed Sangor acknowledging $150,000 of Sangor Hotel Corp. bonds received from the Trust Company; the Trust Company had by then been “taken over by the commissioner of banking and insurance.”
  • Sentence: each fined $1,000 and imprisoned for not less than two nor more than three years. Sangor was “a member of the bar.” Judgment affirmed with costs. (A fan-wiki summary of Sangor’s comics career gives the conviction as Nov. 2 after a three-week Ocean County Common Pleas trial and the term as 1–3 years; prefer the opinion’s 2–3 years. The “jailed 1938” in Jersey Shore Online is consistent with imprisonment after the Feb. 1937 affirmance.)
  • Other background (secondary): Don Bennett, “The Depression and Corruption Killed Grandiose Plans for Pinewald,” Berkeley Patch, Feb. 9, 2011 — Sangor bought Pinewald at an Asbury Park auction in the early 1920s; spent $300,000 enlarging Crystal Lake; hotel construction began July 15, 1929, final cost $1.2 million; about 8,000 lots sold for about $11.5 million; the bank’s head owned the title company guaranteeing Sangor’s lots. Chris Lundy, “The History And Mystery Of Crystal Lake And The Royal Pines Hotel,” Jersey Shore Online, Feb. 12, 2026 — later owners: 1935 Dr. Edward Hazard; 1947 Dr. Joseph L. Dennis (Dennis Memorial Hospital); 1950 Dr. Abe Kraig (Pinehaven); 1960s–70s Seabrook Center Inc./Bayview; 1999– Crystal Lake Healthcare. Sangor: born Feb. 5, 1889, Kiev; died Jan. 26, 1953, Miami Beach (Alphabet Tenth Letter blog, Jan. 2015, from census/SSDI); later a comic-book packager (Sangor Studio / ACG).
  • Cross-link: korman-robert-almost-skeletal-man-berkeley-1972 (same Pinewald footprint).

Open: the actual sentencing date and where they served (Trenton State Prison register, 1937); the receivership sale record (Ocean County Chancery, Sangor Hotel Corp., c. 1932–34).

seaview-county-proposed-1873 — a real 1873 new-county bill involving Ocean County found (but named “Delaware,” not “Seaview”)

Source: Minutes of Votes and Proceedings of the Ninety-Seventh General Assembly of the State of New Jersey (1873), NJ State Library digital copy, https://hdl.handle.net/10929/112294 (PDF bitstream d1cc0cf3-2def-4e96-9ef7-26fcd972682a; OCR searched).

  • Monday, Feb. 3, 1873 (p. 148): “Mr. Cox, on leave, introduced … Assembly bill No. 189, entitled An act to create a new county, to be called the county of Delaware, out of parts of Burlington, Ocean, Monmouth and Mercer. Which was read a first time by its title, ordered to have a second reading, and referred to committee on municipal corporations.” Mr. Cox is Townsend Cox, Assemblyman from Burlington County (roster, p. 5).
  • Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1873 (p. 187): Mr. McKinley, from the Committee on Municipal Corporations, reported the bill (with a batch of others).
  • Monday, March 17, 1873 (p. 827): “Was taken up on a second reading and on motion of Mr. Cox, laid over to April 7.” The bill index (p. 1441 region) shows only introduced 148, reported 187, laid over 827 — it never came to a vote.
  • The same session had Assembly bill No. 116 (A. J. Smith, Mercer), “to create a new county to be called Centre county, out of parts of Middlesex, Mercer and Monmouth” — also died.
  • No “Seaview” appears anywhere in the 1873 Assembly minutes OCR. The 1873 Senate Journal is on HathiTrust (uc1.aa0001587534) but blocked to scripts; it should be checked by hand for a Senate bill with a shore-county name. Salter’s History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties (1890) and Centennial History of Ocean County (1878), archive.org full text, contain no “Seaview” or “new county” discussion.
  • Interpretation: the notebook heading “Seaview (County Proposed - 1873)” is either a mis-remembered name for Cox’s “Delaware County” bill (which would have taken western Ocean County — Jackson/Plumsted — into a Bordentown-centered county, not a seaside one) or refers to a separate Senate bill. Next archive: 1873 Senate Journal index under “County”; New Jersey Courier and Ocean Emblem Feb.–Mar. 1873; Monmouth Democrat Feb. 1873.

chattin-murders-1917-brooksbrae — grave, liquor conviction, and inquest status

Hannah’s grave. Tuckerton Historical Society, Greenwood Cemetery marker index (visible markers as of Dec. 31, 1999), PDF greenwood_21-40.pdf (Britton–DellaBadia), http://www.tuckertonhistoricalsociety.org/uploads/6/8/7/1/6871754/greenwood_21-40.pdf. The Chattin family plot is Block D-6-4:

  • Chattin, — , “Our Babies” (no names or dates), Blk D-6-4
  • Chattin, Harriett L., “Mother,” 10/6/1843–5/1/1924, Blk D-6-4
  • Chattin, Harry H., 2/26/1888–12/14/1948, Blk D-6-4
  • Chattin, Henry H., 3/25/1868–6/1/1878, Blk D-6-4
  • Chattin, Mary A., 2/3/1875–5/28/1877, Blk D-6-4
  • Chattin, Samuel S., 1908–1930, Blk D-6-4 (a second Samuel — probably Samuel and Eva’s son, b. 1908)
  • Chattin, Samuel S., 1876–1944, “Erected by wife,” Blk D-6-4
  • Chattin, Thomas E., Sr., 1882–1947, Blk D-6-4
  • Chattin, William Wood, Vet 1861–1865, 10/13/1833–2/25/1895, Blk D-6-4
  • (RCJ section: Malcolm R. 1901–1971, Ophelia H. 1879–1949, Walter R. Sr. 1873–1950) No marker for Hannah (1905–1917). She is almost certainly in Block D-6-4 unmarked, or under the nameless “Our Babies” stone. The plot map is at greenwood_plot_map.pdf on the same site. The Greenwood Cemetery Association (greenwoodcemeterytuckertonnj.org) would hold the interment book for Oct. 1917.

The 1914 liquor case. Blog transcriptions of the Courier give two versions: New Jersey Courier, Oct. 12, 1917: “Plazziano in 1914 was indicted, convicted and fined $200 for selling liquor without a license at his shack in Pasadena.” New Jersey Courier, Oct. 17 [sic; blog dating], 1917 / New Jersey Mirror (Mount Holly), Oct. 17, 1917: “Plazziano was indicted three years ago for selling liquor without a license in the building in which the tragedy occurred.” So: Ocean County Quarter Sessions, 1914, indictment and conviction, fine $200. The record would be in the Ocean County Clerk’s criminal dockets 1914. Sources: https://oceancountynjhistory.blogspot.com/2014/09/charred-bodies-man-and-child-tell.html ; https://oceancountynjhistory.blogspot.com/2014/10/horrible-crime-at-pasadena-1917.html ; https://oceancountynjhistory.blogspot.com/2015/10/tragedy-at-pasadena-1917.html ; https://oceancountynjhistory.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-murder-at-pasadena-1917.html (page images only; labels include “Holloway”).

Inquest. The Courier says Prosecutor Plumer, Sheriff Brown and Coroner Brouwer were at the fire “yesterday afternoon before it had burned itself out” and that “the Coroner gave permits for burial” — no inquest is reported. The Mirror version says the bodies “were so badly charred when recovered that it was impossible to determine the cause of death.” That supports the entry’s line that the murder-suicide is the sheriff’s theory, not a finding.

Name. The Courier’s Oct. 12 story calls her “Hannah,” the Oct. 17 pieces call her “Harriet”; the Courier says the mother let her go to help Plazziano paper his room. The tragedy was on a Thursday — Oct. 11, 1917 if the Courier’s “yesterday” is Thursday; the Mirror (Oct. 17) says “Thursday” of the prior week, i.e., Oct. 11, 1917. (The entry says only “October 1917”; Oct. 11 can be stated.)

Cross-links: Coroner Brouwer/Brower is the same Toms River physician-coroner as “Dr. Brower of Toms River” in towns-anna-1836-poison-liquor. Sheriff Alfred Brown also appears in the Whiting 1936 hijack era? (No — 1917 only.)

korman-robert-almost-skeletal-man-berkeley-1972 — identification confirmed by burial record

Find a Grave memorial 54118521, “Robert Augustus Korman,” born 7 Jan 1894, Poland, died Mar 1972, New Jersey; buried Barnegat Memorial Cemetery, Barnegat, Ocean County. Memorial text quotes the SSDI: last residence ZIP 10034 (Inwood, Manhattan); SSN issued New Jersey 1952–53. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54118521/robert-augustus-korman

  • Age 78 in Dec. 1972 matches the clipping. The March 1972 death month matches “last seen March 28” (SSDI death month is from the death certificate, so the medical examiner’s estimate of 7–8 months was confirmed and the death was recorded as March 1972).
  • The entry’s “Union Township” is correct, not an OCR error: Barnegat Township was named Union Township until a 1977 referendum; East Bay Avenue is Barnegat’s main street. So Korman lived on East Bay Avenue, Union (now Barnegat) Township, and was last seen at Korman’s Bar and Grill, Bay Avenue, Bayville (Berkeley Township) — presumably a relative’s bar.
  • Open: the sister Lorraine Collins of New York and cousin Frances Kopcho; the 1955 suicide attempt; a Barnegat Memorial Cemetery record for the December 1972 burial. Ocean County medical examiner Walter E. Corrigan and County Detective Emmet Gaunt appear in other 1970s entries? (Check bigfoot era Berkeley items.)

cosa-nostra-farm-1967 — Cook Road farm; Celsos; who was charged

Secondary sources only (the historichorrors.com page was unreachable; NYT not searchable without quota):

  • Ryan Dickinson, “Mafia Burial Ground on Cook Road in Jackson Township,” Shore News Network, Feb. 25, 2024: Joseph Celso, 41, “a convicted bootlegger,” and wife Rose held as material witnesses, $100,000 bond each; Rose at Passaic County Jail “officially for her protection.” Sonnessa was found “in a makeshift underground tunnel, part of an illicit still operation dismantled years prior,” with a plastic bag over his head, neck and ankles bound with wire; Later “in a rusted oil drum filled with hydrochloric acid,” missing since April of the previous year. Joseph Vecchio (Sonnessa’s business partner) had been indicted May 1960.
    • Contradiction with entry: the entry gives Joseph Celso as 49 and Rose as 46 (from the 1967 AP story); Shore News gives 41. Prefer the contemporary AP figure; note the discrepancy.
  • “The Farmers of South Jersey,” A Sicilian Message (Substack): “Earlier in 1967, bodies were found at a farm in Jackson Township, Ocean County owned by Joseph Celso, an associate of Joseph Zicarelli.” That piece is about the FBI’s November 1967 dig at a Rosenhayn (Deerfield Twp., Cumberland Co.) farm — a second 1967 New Jersey farm excavation, useful context.
  • Life, Aug. 9, 1968 (“The Mob” series; Rep. Cornelius Gallagher and Joe Zicarelli) exists (eBay/AbeBooks listings). Not read. The Life article concerns Zicarelli’s Hudson County influence and the Gallagher wiretaps; whether it mentions the Jackson still needs the text (Google Books has full Life runs: search “Zicarelli” within the Aug. 9, 1968 issue).
  • CourtListener has no opinion mentioning Celso/Sonnessa/Later. No one appears to have been charged with either killing; the Celsos were witnesses, not defendants, in every account found.
  • Open: what happened to the Celsos (a federal contempt/material-witness docket, D.N.J. or S.D.N.Y. 1967); NYT March 1967 coverage (the AP story dateline gives the month); Kenneth Later’s disappearance year (1962 if Sonnessa was 1961 and Later “the following spring”; the entry’s OCR gap). Chronicling America has no post-1963 NJ/NY dailies, so this is a NYT/ProQuest or Asbury Park Press (newspapers.com) job.

bender-craig-1940 — burial and father still open

  • Find a Grave’s search page is Cloudflare-blocked; no memorial for Craig Bender (d. 1940) surfaced through any indexed route. Elizabeth Public Library’s Genealogy Vertical File index lists four “Bender” folders (no first names visible in the OCR). The 1940 census (taken April 1940) for Elizabeth or Linden, Union County, would list Alfred W. (or William) Bender with a 3-year-old Craig; that resolves the Linden/Elizabeth and William/Alfred conflict. Burial would most likely be Evergreen Cemetery (Hillside) or Rosedale/Rosehill (Linden) — check their interment indexes for Dec. 1940.
  • Chronicling America (1940 titles are Evening Star, Washington Daily News etc.) was searched for the July and December stories; nothing beyond what the connections file already cites.

wainright-james-1884-bamber — nothing new this pass

Chronicling America searches for Rockwell’s release/pardon (1889–92) returned nothing relevant. Baeli’s “about six years” (release c. 1891) remains the only source. Next: Trenton State Prison registers (NJ State Archives), and New Jersey Courier 1891 for his return to Bamber/Toms River. The 1886 stenographer’s-bill opinion is already in the connections file.

Whiting entries (1892, 1897, 1904, 1905, 1917, 1936, 1942)

  • 1904 unidentified Black man: Chronicling America searches (several phrasings, 1904) return nothing; the Ocean County NJ History blog’s “1904” and “Whitings” labels have no such post (posts: Edward Lewis found dead 1904; Whitings railroad wreck 1909; Mildred Aker d. Whitings July 1892). The story is almost certainly a New Jersey Courier item; the blog owner transcribes from the Courier microfilm at the Ocean County Library (Toms River) — that is the next archive, along with the 1904 Manchester Township overseer of the poor accounts (pauper burial).
  • Elmer Brown 1892: no hit in Chronicling America (NJ titles for 1892 are Bridgeton, Mount Holly, Monmouth Inquirer; none carried it in the indexed pages). Pennsylvania Railroad employee-relief records (Hagley) or the Camden Daily Courier/Philadelphia Inquirer would carry a PRR brakeman’s death.
  • 1897 station fire, 1905 fish, 1917 baggagemaster, 1936 Barnes hijack, 1942 Ackerley/Prauzettel: Chronicling America queries queued; results (if any) appended below.
  • 1942 cross-link already noted: County Detective Charles Feeney (also Bender 1940).

hutchinson-a-arthur-1872 / knopp-solomon-1872

Chronicling America for 1872: “Solomon Knopp” hits are all unrelated (Baltimore German paper, etc.); “Bricksburg” queries return only West-Jersey Pioneer pages without the story. The New York Herald (sn83030313) is in Chronicling America for 1872 and would have carried a Philadelphia man’s body found near Bricksburg in April 1872 — a targeted date-range search (April 5–30, 1872) is queued below. The illustrated clipping is most likely Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper or The Days’ Doings (both April–May 1872); neither is on Chronicling America. Whether Knopp is a separate missing man remains open; no independent trace of a Solomon Knopp of Cassville was found.

tuckerton-railroad-company-1880

Wikipedia’s Tuckerton Railroad article (citing Brinckmann) has no 1879–80 foreclosure. Poor’s Manual for 1880/1881 would record the master’s sale of Feb. 11, 1880 at the West Jersey Hotel, Camden, and who bought (the road stayed under Pharo-family control until the Pennsylvania took the Barnegat City branch after 1893). The “R. L.” solicitor is plausibly a Camden Chancery solicitor; the master would be a Chancery master. Next: Poor’s Manual of Railroads 1880 (archive.org), and the Camden Democrat/West Jersey Press Jan.–Feb. 1880 legal notices.

towns-anna-1836-poison-liquor

No trace anywhere indexed. Chronicling America has no NJ shore dailies for 1920–33; Monmouth Inquirer (to 1933) and Lambertville Record searches returned nothing. Trooper Stephen A. Hickman’s enlistment date (NJSP Museum, West Trenton, holds trooper rosters from 1921) would bound the year. Next archives: Tuckerton Beacon (Tuckerton Historical Society and Ocean County Library have microfilm), Asbury Park Press (newspapers.com), New Jersey Courier (Ocean County Library). Cross-link: Dr. Brower/Brouwer of Toms River = Coroner Brouwer in the 1917 Chattin case.

penley-william-k-missing-1958-found-1959, slocum-joseph-1959, bigfoot

Nothing indexed online for Penley or Casella; no Find a Grave memorial for Joseph Slocum d. 1959 surfaced (only a Josephine Slocum d. 1959). All three are Asbury Park Press / Ocean County Citizen stories (newspapers.com) — outside what this pass could reach. For Penley, the “institutional or residential home” near Toms River in 1958 is likely the Ocean County Welfare Home or a boarding home; the Trenton-area hunter suggests a deer-season (Dec. 1959) find in Manchester Township.

Chronicling America results appended

Run 2026-09-06/07 from a private scratch copy of ca.py with 60-second retry on 503. loc.gov was throttled most of the session; each query below was retried until it returned a count.

  • Craig Bender, 1940. New hit: Worcester Democrat and the Ledger-Enterprise (Pocomoke City, Md.), July 26, 1940, p. 3, wire photo caption “Have You Seen Him? Craig Bender — Planes, marines and CCC workers joined in the search for Craig Bender, 3, of Beachwood, N. J., missing for several days from his home. It is not believed the boy was kidnaped since his parents are not wealthy.” (https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn89060127/1940-07-26/ed-1/?sp=3). Re-read of Evening Star, Dec. 22, 1940, p. 2: the father, “Alfred W. Bender of Elizabeth,” was “notified of the discovery while hunting nearby” — i.e., the father was himself deer hunting in the area on Dec. 21, 1940, and Detective Feeney quoted him. Also: “Hundreds of volunteer searchers and police, assisted by a Navy blimp, pressed a two-week search.” Worth adding to the entry.
  • Whiting 1904 (unidentified Black man): six phrasings, 1904 only — zero relevant hits (all “Whiting” hits are Whiting, Ind., a Whiting’s store in Arkansas, Sgt. Whiting of Bangor, etc.).
  • Elmer Brown 1892: three phrasings — nothing; the New Haven, Springfield and Pittsburgh hits are unrelated Browns.
  • Whitings station fire 1897; fish train 1905; baggagemaster 1917; Barnes hijack 1936; Ackerley/Prauzettel 1942: nothing (0 relevant; the 1897 “Whitings” hits are Whiting, Ind.).
  • Bricksburg / Hutchinson / Knopp 1872: “Bricksburg Hutchinson” 1872 → one New-York Tribune page (Sept. 7, 1872) that is a list of New York political committees, not the case. “Solomon Knopp” 1871–73 → nine hits, all German-language Baltimore or unrelated. Not found on Chronicling America.
  • Seaview county 1873: nine hits; the only New Jersey one is West-Jersey Pioneer, Mar. 14, 1873, p. 1, which is the serialized story “John Warren’s Ideal” by Emma May Buckingham (“While at Seaview, last summer…”) — confirming the earlier note that Chronicling America’s 1873 “Seaview” is fiction. The New York Herald hits are a police-museum inventory (the 1862 Seaview House murder rope, Monmouth) and Narragansett hotels.
  • Tuckerton Railroad 1879–80: no legal-notice hit. But Poor’s Manual of Railroads 1880 (archive.org poorsmanualofr1880newyuoft, pp. 254–55) gives the company’s condition on the eve of the sale: Whiting’s Station to Tuckerton 29 miles, branch Tuckerton to Edge Cove 2 miles (this is the “easterly spur to Long Beach on Little Egg Harbor Bay” of the notice); chartered March 22, 1866, opened Nov. 20, 1871; 2 locomotives, 28 cars; 1878 earnings $22,571.82 against expenses $20,693.57; at Dec. 31, 1879 capital stock $207,923.58, first-mortgage 7% 30-year bonds $400,000 due April 1, 1901, second-mortgage $8,000, floating debt $136,242.47; president Archelaus R. Pharo (Newark), superintendent J. J. Pharo, treasurer K. Ashurst (Philadelphia), freight and passenger agent H. N. Gilson. So the Feb. 11, 1880 master’s sale was a first-mortgage foreclosure of the $400,000 bonds; the “December 8” date in the crop is probably the date of the Chancery decree. The Camden West Jersey Press / Camden Democrat Dec. 1879–Feb. 1880 would carry the notice with the master’s and solicitor’s names (“R. L.” is not yet identified).
  • Anna Towns / Trooper Hickman / Rulon, 1920–33: no relevant hit (the one “Hickman” is Major Frederick Hickman at Pleasantville Kiwanis, 1926).
  • Plazziano 1914–17: only the Mount Holly News, Oct. 16, 1917, p. 2 reprint already cited.
  • Rockwell pardon/release 1886–92: nothing relevant.
  • Sonnessa / Kenneth Later 1961–63: nothing (Chronicling America’s 1960s coverage is thin; the Evening Star did not carry the disappearances).

Summary of what changed for the entries

Entry Status after this pass
royal-pine-1930 Sangor embezzlement case fully documented from State v. Then (1935, 1937): $81,320.22 Halton-estate securities, conviction, $1,000 fine and 2–3 years each; receiver sold hotel for $36,000 (vs. entry’s $21,000 — flag).
seaview-county-proposed-1873 Real 1873 bill found: Assembly No. 189, “county of Delaware” out of Burlington, Ocean, Monmouth, Mercer, introduced Feb. 3 by Townsend Cox (Burlington), laid over Mar. 17, died. “Seaview” not found; Senate Journal unchecked.
chattin-murders-1917-brooksbrae Family plot Greenwood Blk D-6-4 identified; no marker for Hannah (an unnamed “Our Babies” stone is in the plot); 1914 conviction was a $200 fine; no inquest — coroner issued burial permits; date of deaths Thursday Oct. 11, 1917.
korman-robert-...-1972 Robert Augustus Korman, b. Jan. 7, 1894 Poland, d. March 1972, buried Barnegat Memorial Cemetery (Find a Grave 54118521); “Union Township” = Barnegat’s pre-1977 name.
bender-craig-1940 Father was hunting nearby when the skeleton was found; July 26 wire-photo caption; burial still unlocated.
cosa-nostra-farm-1967 Secondary sources only; Celsos held as material witnesses, never charged in any account found; entry’s ages (49/46) conflict with Shore News (41).
tuckerton-railroad-company-1880 Poor’s 1880 financials explain the foreclosure; branch = Edge Cove.
Whiting 1892/1904/1897/1905/1917/1936/1942, Hutchinson/Knopp 1872, Wainwright release, Towns, Penley, Slocum, Bigfoot No new primary source reachable; next archives named above (New Jersey Courier microfilm at Ocean County Library; Asbury Park Press on newspapers.com; NJSP Museum trooper rosters; Trenton State Prison registers; Frank Leslie’s / Days’ Doings April–May 1872).