Archive for the 'Ware' Category

Published by cj on 04 Oct 2008

Road near Ware home

Turnersville, NJ

“Turnersvill [sic] NJ. Near Ware Home” is what is written on the back of this photo. I came into possession of this photo after my Uncle Milt passed away and it has always held a bit of a mystery for me. I wonder what road this is. I wonder when it was taken and where the Ware home is in relation to it. I wonder which Ware home.

My Wares lived in Gloucester Twp, Camden County & Washington Twp, Gloucester County, near Turnersville, NJ. They were farmers and the addresses on the census records were not very clear. I’m not even sure if they lived in the same place or moved around:

year wares place
1900 Mary V. Ware(1821-1907) & some of her adult children Gloucester Twp
1910 Albert Ware (son of Mary V) & siblings Road to Sicklerville, Gloucester Twp
1920 Albert Ware (son of Mary V) & siblings Hickstown Road, Gloucester Twp
1930 Emma L Ware (daughter of Mary V) & sister Sicklerville Road, unincorporated place Erial, Gloucester Twp
1900 John H. Ware (son of Mary V) Washington Twp
1910 John H. Ware (son of Mary V) Mt. Ephraim Pike, Washington Twp
1920 John H. Ware (son of Mary V) Turnersville Turnpike, Washington Twp

Road names change, and sometimes have unofficial names. I love that “Road to Sicklerville”. I may never know where this picture was taken, but I have an idea of the region. This is a google map of the area:


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Things have changed a bit since early last century in that area. Maybe the Ware home is underneath the Atlantic City Expressway now. :) I don’t know that my “Road near Ware Home” is even remotely recognizable to anyone, but on the off chance, leave a comment below.

Ware

Published by cj on 21 Dec 2005

WWI Draft Cards

I found a whole bunch of new information from the WWI Draft Cards on ancestry.com.

One of my favorite things I found was my Great Uncle Milt’s middle name. I’ve known for some time his middle initial was R, but wondered what it stood for. With a first name like Milford, and a brother named Orville Wilson, I was pretty sure the R did not stand for Robert. I now know it stands for Russell. And a Great-Great Uncle’s 2 middle initials stand for Jones Tilden. (Samuel J.T. Ware)

I plan also to add the transcriptions of the WWI Draft Cards to my sources pages. Now available here.

CTGC, Ware, Garrison

Published by cj on 02 Oct 2003

New ancestors!

Thanks to the databases that the Gloucester County Historical Society is putting online, I was able to obtain a death date for Mary V. WARE, wife of Uriah and mother of George W. WARE. I sent away for her death certificate, and it confirmed that her last name was indeed COLEMAN, as my grandfather had indicated in the brief notes that have passed to me. Mary’s parents were Jacob and Rebecca COLEMAN. My grandfather’s notes also indicate that one of the Colemans lived 1799-1899, and I am surmising that it was Rebecca, who I found in the 1880 census, although the dates don’t match up perfectly. Lots more to investigate here.

Coleman, Ware