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New Jersey Obituaries - 1899 - William H. Guernsey
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William H. Guernsey Dies At Centerville
He was One of the Most Pronounced Prohibitionists of Monmouth, and For Years He Kept Up the Agitation at Belford.
William H. Guernsey of Centerville, in Raritan township, died last Saturday of intermittent fever, aged fifty years. He had been sick about three weeks. He was the son of John C. Guernsey, who formerly lived at Red Bank and who is now living in New York state. About twenty years ago William H. Guernsey moved to what is now Belford to become teacher of the public school there. He taught school a few years and afterward became a carpenter and builder. He lived at Belford until about two years ago when he traded his house and lot at that place for a farm at Centerville owned by Melvin Yard, and moved to the latter place.
Mr. Guernsey was a member of the New Monmouth Baptist church and of the Belford American Mechanics' lodge. During the later years of his life he was a radical prohibitionist. He organized a prohibition league at Belford and for several years the prohibition vote at that place was larger than the combined prohibition vote in all the rest of Middletown township. When Mr. Guernsey moved from Belford the interest in prohibition at that place died out and the league disbanded.
Mr. Guernsey married Mary Emma Compton, daughter of the late Isaac Compton of Belford. She and five children survive him. The children are Mrs. Joseph Heyer of Belford, Mary Emma, Lilian, Urasmus and Edward Guernsey, He leaves also two brothers. They are Elmer and Urasmus Guernsey of New York. The funeral was held yesterday at eleven o'clock at the house. Rev. William V. Wilson and Rev. M. M. Finch had charge of the service.
Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, August 16, 1899
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