Going Going Gone (3)

The Fulper House on Biser Road

First published in 2013, revised and greatly expanded in 2025.

This house is just about gone. It won’t be long. This past March, I wandered through the honeysuckle and multiflora to try to get some decent pictures, but wasn’t very successful. Sleeping Beauty would never be wakened in that place, it so well guarded by weeds and fallen trees. Sadly, what is probably the oldest part of the house has already caved in. If I could have gotten closer, I might have been able to see some of the old woodwork inside, but that just wasn’t possible.

I’ve been told that Mrs. Biser once lived in this house, about the time that Biser Road got its name. This was a big disappointment to former mayor Andrew Leone, whose family had been living on this road for much longer than Mrs. Biser did.

When the Township Historic Sites Survey was made in 1983, Dennis Bertland visited the site and got this picture. How things have changed.

It appears that the smaller section is an 18th-century house. It should be—documents show that its earliest owner (other than the first proprietary owner, Nathan Allen) was Peter Fulper, who was born about 1725. But researching Peter Fulper and his family is a challenge because the family left very few records behind.

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The following is a revision of the article published in 2013. It includes new information about the family of Jeremiah Trout and the subsequent owners.

The Fulpers

Peter Fulper first appears in the Hunterdon County records in 1754 when he purchased a lot of 50 acres from Peter or Philip Kise.¹ This suggests that Fulper was born around 1725. I cannot say much about his origins, although he was probably an immigrant from Germany.²

On October 12, 1768, Philip Young of Amwell wrote his will in which he left to “Peter Fulpher, my wife’s son, the plantation where he lives, of 100 acres, which I bought of Casper Hackenback.” I know nothing of Casper Hackenback, so it is hard to say where this 100 acres was located, except that after Peter Fulper died in 1804, his heirs conveyed their rights in 100 acres to Peter’s son Jacob Fulper. Philip Young’s wife Mary must have been married to a man named Fulper before marrying Philip Young.³

Peter and Mary Fulper had six children: Jacob (m. Catharine Hoppock), Mary (m. John Elgordon), Christiana (m. Samuel Groff), Charity (m. James Atlee), Elizabeth (m. Matthew Thompson) and Sarah (m. Wm Boughner).

By January 1780, Peter Fulper was well-established on his Amwell farm. He was then taxed on 150 acres, 4 horses, 6 cattle, 1 pig. In June of that year, he was taxed on 4 horses, 5 cattle and 5 pigs. His son Jacob was also taxed on 150 acres in January and June. These two farms are most likely the farms that came to be known as ‘the Upper Farm’ and ‘the Lower Farm.’

Fulper added another 100 acres to his farm in 1783 when he bought that amount from Peter Myers, who had purchased it from Abraham Larew in 1774. It bordered land of Williams Barns and Andrew Bearder.⁴ Judging by the bordering owners, it was the northern part of the Fulper farm, the part that came to be known as the Upper Farm.

In 1786, Peter Fulper was again taxed on 150 acres, with 40 acres unimproved, and 4 horses, 4 cows and 6 hogs. Jacob Fulper was taxed on 150 acres, 31 acres unimproved, and livestock of 5 horses, 4 cows, and 1 hog.

By 1790 Jacob Fulper had acquired an additional 42 acres, as he was taxed on 192 acres, 35 unimproved; also 3 horses and 4 cows. Peter Fulper still had his 150 acres, 43 unimproved, and 4 horses and 6 cows.⁵ From studying the tax maps, it appears that the two Fulper farms (Peter’s & Jacob’s) extended on the north almost to the Locktown Flemington Road and on the south to a point just south of Route 523.

That’s about all I know of Peter Fulper. I don’t even know who he married. Her name might have been Mary. There is a death record for a Mrs. Mary Fulper who died on April 29, 1803 in New Jersey, but I have no more details than the name and date.⁶ Peter Fulper of Amwell died intestate in 1804, probably in January. Administration of the estate was granted to his sons Jacob and Peter Fulper.⁷

An inventory of Fulper’s estate was made on Feb. 11, 1804 by John Covenhoven and Peter Rockafellow. The estate was worth $450, and included some cash ($184.26) and clothing, a horse, a cow, corn, buckwheat, flax, hay, a windmill and rent of $53.33 owing from Jacob Fulper, Since Peter Fulper must have been in his 70s when he died, and probably a widower by then, this is not the estate of someone who was impoverished, but then he wasn’t exactly wealthy either.

Not materially wealthy but certainly land wealthy. His heirs had three large properties to dispose of. The first one was the farm of Jacob Fulper who acquired his siblings’ rights to on Feb. 2, 1804.

The other two were located in the vicinity of Sand Brook. The Fulper heirs sold a farm of 100 acres to Israel Poulson for $2830, and one of 50 acres to John Hise for $1,621.⁸

Jacob Fulper & Catharine Hoppock

As mentioned above, on February 20, 1804, Peter Fulper’s heirs conveyed their rights in 100 acres to Jacob “Fulpert” for a mere $20.⁹ The heirs named in the deed were Samuel Groff and Christianna his wife, John Elgorden and Mary his wife, Mathew Thomson and Elizabeth his wife, James Atley? and Charity his wife, all of Amwell, and William Bughner and Sarah his wife of Northumberland County PA, “sons-in-laws,” daughters and heirs of Peter Fulper, late of Amwell dec’d. The property was bordered by William Barns, Jacob Bearder, John Trimmer and John Hoppock, which puts the farm in the neighborhood of Biser Road and Route 579.

Jacob Fulper (1775-1814) married Catharine Hoppock, daughter of Tunis Hoppock and Antje Boss, about 1780. They had five children. Their daughter Elizabeth (1781-1848) married George Buchanan, son of the innkeeper John Buchanan. Son Peter Fulper Jr. (1785-1840) married Jerusha Larew in 1810. After the death of Peter Fulper Jr., Jerusha married his brother William Fulper (1790-1883). Jacob and Catharine’s daughter Sarah (1795-1866) married John Gordon, son of Agesilaus Gordon and Mary Opdycke, who lived north of Sergeantsville. There was also a son Jacob, born in 1787, but he died at the age of 11.¹⁰

During Jacob Fulper’s ownership, the original farm came to be divided between “The Upper Farm,” and “The Lower Farm.” After Jacob died in 1814, his administrators sold the Upper Farm of 119.5 acres to John Hughes and the Lower Farm to son-in-law George Buchanan. The Lower Farm had access to Route 523 near Sand Brook, while the Upper Farm had to rely on a lane that ran over to Route 579, a lane that later came to be known as Biser Road. It is the “Upper Farm” where the old house is located.

Jacob Fulper died intestate in 1814. Administration was granted to Peter Fisher and Henry Trimmer, Trimmer being Fulper’s immediate neighbor on the east. Inventory was taken on Nov. 30, 1814, by Cornelius Lake & Jacob Bearder, Fulper’s immediate neighbor on the north. (I do not have a date for the death of Jacob’s wife Catharine Hoppock Fulper. Jacob’s estate records do not refer to her. The sales of Jacob’s property after his death do not refer to Catharine’s dower right, which makes me suspect she died before Jacob did.)

John Hughes & Margaret Besson

John Hughes was a disappointment. He started off well enough, by marrying into the prominent Besson family. His wife was Margaret Besson (1787-aft 1852), daughter of John Besson and Margaret Opdycke, and granddaughter of John Opdycke Esq. of Headquarters. The couple married in the Kingwood Baptist Church (probably at the Locktown branch of the church) on December 1, 1803.

In 1804, John Hughes was identified in a deed of 1804 as a “gentleman,” resident of Upper Merion, Montgomery Co., PA, owning land in Greenwich, Sussex County. By 1816, the Hughes family must have included some children, but I have no record of them.¹¹

The Hughes Properties

Prior to his purchase of the Fulper farm, in 1810 John Hughes bought from John & Margaret Besson, 46 acres near the Fulper Lower Farm.

In 1815, John & Margaret Hughes sold that farm and some woodlots in Amwell for a total of 68.36 acres. They managed to raise $3,579.34, which they used toward the purchase Jacob Fulper’s Upper Farm on February 20, 1816. The farm was sold at a public sale, at which Hughes was the highest bidder, at $21 per acre for 119.83 acres, for a total of $2,516.43.¹² (On April 1, 1816, the administrators sold the Fulper Lower Farm of 91 acres, at a public sale, to Fulper son-in-law George Buchanan as the highest bidder for $30/acre or $2,730.¹³) John and Margaret Hughes mortgaged the property to Charles Sergeant with John Besson as surety.¹⁴

On May 10, 1825, this notice appeared in the Hunterdon Gazette:

HUNTERDON PLEAS, May Term, 1825. Joseph P. Chamberlin vs. John Hughs.

In case, on attachment. Notice is hereby given, that a writ of attachment, issued out of the inferior court of common pleas of the county of Hunterdon, at the suit of Joseph P. Chamberlin, against the goods and chattels, rights and credits, monies and effects, lands and tenements of John Hughs, an absconding debtor, for the sum of three hundred dollars, in a plea of trespass on the case;  returnable on the first Tuesday of May inst. hath been returned, served by the sheriff of the county of Hunterdon, and that unless the said John Hughs do appear, file special bail, and received a declaration at the suit of the plaintiff, and of each and every other applying creditor, on or before the fourth Tuesday of October next, judgment by default will be entered against him, and the property and estate attached disposed of according to the statute such case made and provided. [signed] J. T. Blackwell, Clk, Samuel G. Opdycke, Attorney of plaintiff.

John Hughes was an “absconding debtor.” That was one way to avoid the consequences of debt. He probably took his wife and children with him when he left town. The census for 1850 lists one John Hughes age 70 living in Erie County, Ohio with wife Margaret 62, and Adge S. 44, John 34, and Margaret 23. In 1860, John is no more, but Margaret is there, age 74, living with A. Hughes 55, John Hughes 44, and Margaret Hughes 33.

On April 6, 1825, a notice was published in the Gazette announcing a Sheriff’s sale to be held on June 7^th at the house of Isaac Rea, innkeeper (Buchanan’s Tavern) of

a certain FARM, Situate in the township of Amwell aforesaid, said to contain 120 acres more or less, with the appurtenances, adjoining lands of George Buchannan, Henry Trimmer and others, Seized as the property of John Hughs, one of the defendants in the said execution, and taken in execution at the suit of Charles Sergeant, and to be sold by Gabriel Hoff, Sheriff.”

On June 11, 1825, the Sheriff sold the farm to the highest bidder, George Trout of Amwell, for $420.¹⁵ The property was described as being 119.83 acres bordering John Trimmer, land late John Rake dec’d, Jacob Fulper dec’d (the lower farm), John Hoppock, a woodlot of Jacob Bearder, and a corner lot sold off to Andrew Bearder. It was identified as the farm sold to Hughes by the administrators of Jacob Fulper dec’d.

George Trout & Annie Besson

Annie Besson Trout is a good example of the inter-relationships of Amwell families. She was the sister of Margaret Besson who had married John Hughes and disappeared in 1825. Annie was also the widow of George Trout’s younger brother John, who was killed by lightening in 1808 at the age of 28. George Trout and John Trout were children of George Trout, Sr. and Hannah Lequear.

Annie Besson & John Trout had two children: Jeremiah (future owner of the Fulper farm) and Asher Trout, who married Harriet Buchanan, daughter of the tavern keepers Archibald & Delilah Sutton Buchanan, and niece of the George Buchanan who married Elizabeth Fulper. In addition, Elizabeth’s brother, Peter Fulper Jr. married Jerusha Larew who later sold a lot in Sergeantsville to Jeremiah & Mary Ann Trout.

George Trout and Annie Besson married in 1811. George was a much more successful investor of real estate than his brother-in-law John Hughes. By 1825, he had bought and sold several properties, including a farm of 42 acres on Locktown Flemington Road, at the corner with Stone Signpost Road, which Annie’s parents (John & Margaret Besson) had sold to Annie & George, ‘for natural love & affection.’ It was intended for “the support & livelihood of the said Ann.”¹⁶

George Trout’s purchase of the Hughes property was probably meant as a way to help his family out. Six year after purchasing it, George and Annie sold it to Annie’s son Jeremiah Trout on May 21, 1831. The sale consisted of a tract of 100 acres bordering land of Henry Trimmer, John Rake, land late George Buchanan, John Hoppock, and Jacob Bearder, part of a large tract that George Trout bought at public sale from the absconding debtor John Hughes on June 11, 1825.¹⁷

Jeremiah Trout & Mary Ann Dunn

As son of John Trout and Annie Besson, Jeremiah Trout (1805-1896) was a nephew of John Hughes. In 1828, Jeremiah married Mary Ann Dunn (1808-1900), daughter of Hugh Dunn and Hannah Dilts. They had 7 children, born 1829-1848.

One year after Jeremiah Trout bought the Fulper Upper Farm, in 1832, a new road was proposed. It was meant to “run the most Eligible route until it intersects the road leading from George Trout’s saw Mill to Sergeantsville near Albertus Myers south east corner and there to End.”¹⁸

George Trout’s saw mill was located on the 46 acres conveyed to him and wife Annie Besson by her parents, John & Margaret Besson, in 1816. I am pretty sure that “the road leading from George Trout’s saw Mill to Sergeantsville near Albertus Myers south east corner” was Ferry Road near the beginning of Biser Road. It is frustrating that the description did not state where the road was to end.

“The most eligible route” had to have passed directly in front of Jeremiah Trout’s house.

Dennis Bertland noted in the historic sites survey that the house was owned by “J. Trout” in 1851, 1860 and 1873. His sources were the Cornell Map of Hunterdon County of 1851, the map of Philadelphia and Environs of 1860, and the Atlas of Hunterdon County by Beers & Comstock in 1873. That would be Jeremiah Trout.

Note, June 30, 2013: Marilyn Cummings has taken a close look at my photos, and her conclusion is that this was probably not the house that Peter and then Jacob Fulper lived in. She dates it to early 19th century, which would make it the home of John and Margaret Hughes, and the larger section would have been built later, probably by Jeremiah Trout. The original Fulper house probably collapsed just as this one is doing now.

Jeremiah Trout was a fairly successful farmer. In 1850 his property was worth $2400, and by 1860 it was worth $5000. By 1870, he and his wife were still living at the farm, but all of their children had left except daughter Margaret who was 21 at the time.

On April 1, 1868, Jeremiah and Mary Ann Trout sold their farm of 70 acres, along with three woodlots, to Theodore Horne for $5,200.¹⁹ On March 31, 1869, they purchased from Jerusha Fulper a small lot in Sergeantsville, near the corner store on the northwest corner of the village.

The Beers Atlas of 1873 for Delaware Township shows “J. Trout” as owner of the Fulper farm on Biser Road, even though the Trouts had moved away by then.

The Atlas map of Delaware Township has a detailed map of Sergeantsville, which shows “J. Trout” at the lot just north of the corner store.

By 1869 when they sold the farm, Jeremiah was 63 and Mary Ann was 60. The Beers map also shows that the Trouts had no immediate neighbors; the whole stretch of Biser Road was empty of property owners, until one gets to the east and west ends of the road. A small lot in Sergeantsville was a good place to retire to, especially because their son Jeremiah H. Trout (Jr.) was proprietor of the Sergeantsville Hotel (now the Township Hall) from 1867 to 1872.

Jeremiah Trout died in 1896 and was buried in the Sand Brook Cemetery. His wife Mary died on April 15, 1900 and was buried next to him. (There is a Trout cemetery in Raritan Township, where Jeremiah’s father John Trout is buried. Jeremiah & Mary Ann were probably buried in Sand Brook, because of their attendance at the church next door.)

The Owners After the Trouts:

In my original description of this property (in 2013), I pretty much gave up after Jeremiah Trout’s purchase, being unable to describe who bought it next. My research skills have improved since that time.

Theodore M. Horne & Mary C. Moore

On April 1, 1868, Jeremiah & Mary Ann Trout sold their farm of 70 acres, along with 3 small woodlots, to Theodore M. Horne for $5,200.²⁰ The 70 acres were identified as “the Upper Farm,” and were bordered by Henry Crumm (formerly Henry Trimmer), Hezekiah Hoff, Henry J. Hoppock, Jacob Bearder, the Brook [i.e., Plum Brook].

Theodore M. Horne (1841-1930) was the son of Isaac Horne Jr, chairmaker, and Sarah Dunn. This made Theodore Horn the nephew of Sarah’s sister Mary Ann Dunn, wife of Jeremiah Trout.²¹

About 1860, Theodore Horne married Mary Catharine Moore (1842-1919), daughter of Wm H. Moore & Martha Wolverton of Sergeantsville. They had 8 children, including daughter Sarah, who married Hiram Deats Hoppock, and son Rev. Henry T. Horne.

According to Egbert T. Bush (‘Summit School Known for Years as Hardscrabble’), Theodore Horne was a schoolteacher at the Summit School. But all the census records in which he appears (1870-1900) identified him as a farmer.

Theodore’s wife Mary lived a long life, dying at the age of 77 in 1919. But Theodore outlasted her, living to the age of 88. Here is his obituary, published in the Hunterdon County Democrat on March 27, 1930.

Theodore M. Horne of the Boro [?] died Saturday, March 22, 1930, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jeremiah Case, from the infirmities of old age. He was 89 years old. He was formerly a resident of Sergeantsville. He is survived by three sons and a daughter (with whom he lived), Rev. Henry T. Horne, of Sergeantsville; Howard Horne, of Elizabeth, Herbert Horne, of Plainfield, and Mrs. Jeremiah Case.

Absentee Owners

Theodore & Mary Horne did not sell their farm on Biser Road until 1885. The purchasers were Robert H. Moore and William S. Large, residents of Flemington, who bought it and the woodlots for $4,350.²² Also included in the purchase was a lot of 7 acres Theodore Horne had purchased from his father.

These owners bought and sold several lots in the area of the Fulper farm, apparently seeking to profit from the investments. In this case, they did not succeed. In 1891 they offered to sell the farm at auction and published a notice in the Hunterdon Republican on November 4, 1891. As is so often the case, newspaper notices provide vastly more information than deeds do.

Sale of Real Estate, to be held on 21 Nov. 1891. William S. Large and Robert H. Moore will sell at Public Auction on the premises in Delaware Tp., on the public road from Flemington to Locktown, adjoining lands of Henry Crum and others, the following:

No. 1, is an 83-acre Farm, with Frame Dwelling, Barn, Wagon & Crib Houses, Pens, Hennery, &c. There is a Peach Orchard of over 7,000 trees and also, cherry and apple trees. The farm is 4 miles west of Flemington, on a high elevation with a public road running directly by the buildings, giving access to every field.

No. 2 is a peach orchard on 18 acres of land lying near No. 1.

Auctioneer, William S. Riley.

Unfortunately for Moore & Large, no one took them up on the offer. It was not until Dec. 10, 1894 that they succeeded in selling the farm. The purchaser was Lemuel Hoffman of Delaware Township, who paid $2,712.14 for the five lots.²³ This was a loss of $1,638.

Lemuel & Sarah Hoffman

Lemuel Hoffman (1832-1909) was the son of John Hoffman or Huffman. (Clerks were not careful about how they spelled the name.) I cannot say who his mother was, because there were too many John Hoffman/Huffmans in Hunterdon County at the time.

About 1860, Lemuel Hoffman married Sarah Ellen Moore (1838-1909), daughter of Wm S. Moore & Susan A. Burroughs of East Amwell. The couple had six children, including George Best Hoffman (m. Ida M. Kugler) and Joseph Best Hoffman (m. Floriane N. Conners). I do not know why both Joseph and George had the middle name ‘Best.’ No obvious family connection between the Hoffman and Best families.

The Hoffmans remained on the old Fulper farm for fourteen years. In the 1900 census for Delaware Township (#88-95), Lemual ‘Huffman’ was 68 years old, a farmer who owned his farm, living with wife of 40 years Ellen age 61 and their son William, age 25, single, also a farmer.

By 1908, Lemuel and Sarah were getting old; Lemuel was 76 and Sarah was 69. It was time to sell the farm, which they did that year. One year later, they both died. On January 19^th Sarah Ellen Moore Huffman died at the age of 70. On November 4^th, her husband Lemuel died age 77. Both of them had obituaries published in the Lambertville Beacon. The one for Lemuel (published Nov. 11, 1909), stated that he died “at his home near Headquarters.”

This home near Headquarters was a farm of 141 acres that Lemuel had purchased in 1907 from Sheriff Elisha W. Opdycke in 1907.²⁴ It had belonged to Albertus K. Wagner and wife Rhoda Moore, and was sold by their children, Frank P. Wagner and Emma E. Wagner after they had defaulted on a mortgage. But soon after Lemuel’s death, the Wagner heirs repurchased the farm.²⁵

Lemuel Hoffman died without a will. Administration of his estate was granted to Charles W. Green and Joseph G. Moore. The administrators had seven other properties to sell besides the Biser Road farm and the Headquarters farm, which they did from 1909 to 1911, but I feel confident that Lemuel and Sarah resided on the Biser Road farm.

The Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society

In 1900, an organization known as the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society was purchasing farms in Hunterdon County and other rural locations with the intention of selling them to Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, who were living in crowded cities along the east coast, but particularly in lower Manhattan.

According to ‘Jewish Virtual Library,’ the Society’s ‘Industrial Removal Office,’ relocated thousands of immigrant workers from the cities to farms, starting in 1907.²⁶

One of the Society’s earliest purchases in Hunterdon County was the farm of Lemuel & Sarah Hoffman. On March 10, 1908, Lemuel & Sarah conveyed their farm of 70 acres, along with woodlots and the 7-acre lot, to the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society for $2,400.²⁷ The description of the property was little changed from 1868, even though property owners had changed.

The Society held on to the property for almost ten years. Then, in 1917, it conveyed the farm to one Nicholas Beiser, a Hungarian immigrant.

Nicholas & Anna Beiser

Nicholas Beiser was born in Naay Jecsa, Hungary on March 1, 1874. I do not know who his parents were. He married his wife Anna about 1900. They emigrated to America in 1911, arriving in New York on August 31. Soon afterwards, Nicholas was naturalized.

The deed from the Jewish Agricultural & Industrial Society to Nicholas Beiser was recorded in 1917.²⁸

The next year, Beiser was drafted to fight in WWI. His registration, dated Sept. 12, gave his age as 43, born March 1, 1874, address Flemington. He was not living in Flemington, the address referred to postal rural route 2, run out of the Flemington Post Office. Beiser was described as married to wife Anna, and being of medium build, medium height, with dark hair, gray eyes, and a broken finger.

The 1920 Delaware Twp. census reported Nicolas Beiser 45 had immigrated in 1911 from Hungary where his parents were born. His native tongue was German, but he spoke English and was naturalized. His wife Anna 42 was also born in Hungary; she was also an English speaker and was naturalized. Nicolas was a farmer, living on a farm on “the road west from Buchanan Hill” which he owned, with a mortgage.

The 1940 census tells us that the nephew of Nicolas & Anna Beiser, one Gus Richards, age 35, born Chicago, had come to live with them along with wife Irene 30 and their 3 children. By this time Nicholas was 67, still a farmer, and Anna was 63.

As described in a previous article (“Hoppock Farm Once Contained Over 600 Acres”), the Leone family had hoped that Biser Road would be named after them, given their long ownership of a farm just west of the Beiser farm. But the Leone family had moved away by the 1940s, and the Beisers were still in residence when the road was named.

Nicolas Beiser died Dec. 16, 1946. Here is his obituary, published in the Courier News on Dec. 20, 1946:

“Nicholas Beiser. Flemington—Funeral services for Nicholas Beiser, 72 years old, husband of Anna Baunan Beiser of Capner St., who died Tuesday in Trenton, were held last evening at the Holcombe Funeral Hom. The Ref. [Rev.?] Cornelius J. Kane, pastor of the St. Magdalene’s (RC) Church, officiated. Interment will be today in the New Catholic Cemetery. Mr. Beiser was born in Hungary, Mar. 1, 1874, and was a United States citizen. He had resided in Flemington several years. He leaves his widow and one daughter, Mrs. Mary Papp of Ringoes.”

Anna Beiser died two years later on Dec. 29, 1946. Her obituary was also published in the Courier News, on Dec. 31, 1946, and shows the difficulty of living alone in old age:

Mrs. Anna Beiser Dies in Sleep

Flemington—Mrs. Anna Beiser, who lived alone in her home in Court St., was found dead there last night by Special Borough Officer David Thatcher. She was about 70, the widow of Nicholas Beiser.

Officer Thatcher was sent to the home because Mrs. Beiser had not been seen for several days. County Physician Dr. William McCorkle, who was called in, said Mrs. Beiser died in her sleep Wednesday night (Dec. 29, 1948).

The body was taken to the Holcombe Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

I have not researched the later deeds of Nicholas & Anna Beiser. They would probably tell us when they sold the farm and to whom. Most likely to one Sophie Schlosser, single. In 1983, when the historic sites survey was made, the property was owned by Robert Benjivenga, who lived in South Plainfield.

This has been a history of a property on Biser Road, and only incidentally a genealogy of its owners from 1832 to the 1940s. There are still many questions to answer about both place and people.

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