Frederick Louis Hirschey, a Freehold carpenter, died at the Long Branch hospital on Tuesday of last week, aged 63 years. He had been sick for some time with a complication of diseases and he went to the hospital to have an operation performed. He died on the day set for performing the operation, but before the operation was performed.

Mr. Hirschey was a native of Switzerland and came to this country when 21 years old. He located near Freehold and had lived in that vicinity ever since. For a short time he followed the wheelwright trade at Millhurst. He enlisted in the civil war with the Fourteenth New Jersey regiment, but served throughout most of the war with Battery L of the Fifth United States artillery. Of late years he had received a pension. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, of the Grand Army Post of Freehold and of the Freehold fire department. A wife and four children, two of whom live at home, survive him.

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, June 19, 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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