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Hunting for a Cemetery

January 10, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, Gordon, Headquarters, Historians 6 Comments Tags: cemeteries

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Three Great Hunterdon Co. Historians Try to Find the Opdycke Cemetery

Over five years ago, I published an article about the Opdycke Cemetery in the Delaware Township Post. It has now been revised as “Opdycke Cemetery Revisited.” More recently, I came across some letters exchanged by Egbert T. Bush and Hiram E. Deats regarding their attempts to find this burying ground and to identify who was buried there. These letters can be found in the Egbert T. Bush Papers at the Hunterdon County Historical Society.

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Opdycke Cemetery Revisited

January 10, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Headquarters, Opdycke, Warford 2 Comments Tags: cemeteries

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I first published an article on this interesting cemetery in April 2009 on the website Delaware Township Post. After five years, I have a learned enough to justify revising and republishing this article.

The cemetery is located on the Lambertville-Headquarters Road, on a farm near the intersection with Sandy Ridge Road. It is a private family cemetery without public access. The origin of the cemetery is nicely described by Egbert T. Bush.

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The “Oregon” School and Other Schools

January 2, 2015 By Marfy Goodspeed in Bray, Delaware Twp, E. T. Bush, Families, Kingwood Twp, Opdycke, Rittenhouse, Williamson 1 Comment Tags: schools

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Ducks’ Flat School, Crossroads School and Their Teachers
Testing a Greeny’s Nerve

by Egbert T. Bush, Stockton. N. J.
published in the Hunterdon Co. Democrat, December 18, 1930

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Detail of the Cornell Map of 1851

This article by Mr. Bush is a perfect complement to a recent blog post, “Amos Romine’s Beloved Farm.” It is one of my favorite Bush articles. Because there is so much to say about the people he mentions, I will refrain from interrupting him and leave my comments for the end.

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