Susan Ackerly of Ocean Grove made her will last January. Half of her silverware she left to Isabel Condell and the other half to Mrs. Eliza Bushner. A lot of household goods which are held in storage in Brooklyn are to be equally divided between the same persons. Mrs. Bushner also gets $1,000 in cash and $3 per week for all the time that she has been caring for Mrs. Ackerly. Isabel Condell gets a pair of diamond earrings and Libbie Condell gets an unset diamond. Mrs. Berrett of Philadephia, a former nurse, gets $500; and the same sum is given to Amelia A. Wilkes, and to Mrs. Chambers, owner of a cottage on Pilgrim Pathway at Ocean Grove. The rest of the estate goes to Isabel Condell. The executor of the will is J. Wesley Cross of Asbury Park.

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, May 1, 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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