Charles Reed, for the past eighteen years manager of Dodd's express at Long Branch, died of Bright's disease on Monday of last week. He was 48 years old. A wife and a son survive him. He was a member of a New York Masonic lodge.

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, June 12, 1901

Some additional excellent resources for your research are:

• New Jersey Census, 1772-1890 - Ancestry.com

• Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760 - Ancestry.com

• Interment.net - NJ ~ New Jersey Cemetery Transcriptions on the net.

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