Miss Alice Gunning of Belmar died on Tuesday night of last week from a broken neck. She was eighteen years old. Last August she fell off the sluiceway of Wreck pond. The water was only eighteen inches deep and her neck was broken. She was taken home and it was found that while her neck was broken the spinal cord was not severed

She lived nearly two months with her neck broken and for a time there was hope of her recovery.

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, Oct 30, 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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