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How Locktown Got Its Name

March 6, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Families, Heath, Historians, Lair, Locktown, Rittenhouse, Sutton, Warford, Williamson Tags: alcohol, churches, schools, taverns

Back in February, I published an article on the cemetery connected with the Locktown Baptist church. Previously I have written about the Baptist congregation here as well as the Locktown Christian Church and its Cemetery. It seems appropriate now to include Mr. Bush’s own history of this neighborhood, which was published in the Hunterdon Democrat, on May 22, 1930. Along with the churches, Mr. Bush discusses the school house, the distillery and the Locktown Hotel, which began its life as a humble tavern, and also some of the old families, like the Chamberlins, Heaths, Lairs, Rittenhouses, Smiths and Suttons. Photographs in this article were provided by Paul Kurzenberger.

Johnson, Lair, Snyder

March 5, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Lair, Snyder Tags: queries

Query from Janice Earliene Carr, March 3, 2015:

My husband is descended from the SNYDER FAMILY of Hunterdon, County, N.J., which I will get to later!

My husband James William Carr of Washington, D.C.,
his father is James Entwisle Carr of same; his Mother, Olive Ida SNYDER of Ridgewood, N.J.. (dau. Of Gardiner JOHNSON SNYDER & Elizabeth “Lizzie” Amy LAIR; – dau. Of John LAIR & Mary HANN, which both died young

The Supreme School

February 27, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Families, Historians, Kingwood Twp, Lair, Rockafellar, Rosemont, Williamson, Wolverton Tags: maps, schools

Having published Mr. Bush’s article, “The ‘Oregon’ and Other Schools,” and then a follow-up on Duck’s Flat, I thought I was done with this neighborhood for now. But I recently found another article by Mr. Bush continuing the story of Ducks’ Flat school. This article has allowed me to identify the mystery school I referred to previously, located down the road from the Ducks’ Flat school that Mr. Bush was familiar with. But I’ll wait until Mr. Bush has concluded before explaining.