The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-03-22
Obituary


Broad street. Freehold Monday. March
18th. 1928, aged % years and five
months. His funeral Eas held Thurs
day being conducted By Rev. Julff1s
Woiff. pastor OF the Manalapan Pres
Dyterian church. and Rev George e.
Horn, pastor Of the Freehold Presty-
terrain church. Interment was at Man
alapan. Mr. Baird was born III III ANA Il
apan, October II, 1863, the son 81 f}4e
late David and Mary PnlIen Baird
Besides hls wife who was Sarah Pro-
basco. he is survived by two sisters
Mrs. John Probasco, Of Freehold and
Mrs carrie fanDorn, of Englisht0wn
and four brothers Howard Baird 81
Manaiapan, Charles A. Baird Of Free
hold, ID. David Baird of Florence. N.
j., and John H. Baird, Of Fort Valley.
Ira MT Bard was q member of the
Manalapan church, and at different
times was trustee, elder and treasurer.
He operated the farm adjoining his
fathers at Manalapan. Owing TO iI{z
health, he retired from farming severn
teen years ago, and he and Mrs. Baird
caInesto Freehold, buying the property
on Broad street. Freehold, where they
have since resided.
ADRIAN W. HERBERT.
Abram w. Herbert. IS, one Of Tile
oldest residents of Point Pleasant.
died at the home of his daughter. Mrs.
George Curtis. Oak Hill farm, Middle
town township, of paralysis. For the
past three years Mr.. Herbert had
been making his home with Mr. Curtis.
! bis wife, who was Mrs. Marian Ben
nett, died last September Besides
] Mrs Curtis he is survived by two sons
Abram Of Ruinson and George W.
Herbert OF Point Pleasant Funeral
services were held Tuesday morning at
11.30 at the home of Mrs. Curtis and
o'clock at the First Methodist Epis-
copal church, with Rev l.. S. Moors
officiating. lnterment was In White
Lawn cemetery, Point Pleasant.
MRS. 4. E. ANNIs
The funeral Of Mrs A. e. Annis was
held IN the parlors Of Undertaken CIay
ton at Adelphia at 2 o'clock, on Tues
day conducted by Rev Otis E. Van
Brunt- Burial Was made in Harmony
cemetery. Mrs. Annis was for many
years resident Of Adelphia. She died
on Saturday at Newark, aged so years
JOHN PETIT.
Funeral services for John Petit.
who died Monday at the home Of
nephew. Burtis Petit, was held We'd
nesday morning at II o'clock at the
Laurelton church. Interment was
made IN Lanrelton cemetery Besides
the nephew MIR. Petit il survived by
three brothers and two sisters. Thev
are James Petit Of Laurslton. Charles
and David Petit Of Lakewood. Mrs.
Deborah Chamberlain of Como and
Mrs Rebscca Miller of Lakewood.
Mr.. Petit was II years Of age.
JOHN V. PRESTON.
ldied March 10, 1928 at the Sanitarfun.
iAllenwood. aged about So years. He
is survived by a brother, Charles, also
Of Red Bank. The funeral will be held
Thursday, at his late residence ,ERed
Bank. Interment viii be in Maple
wood cemetery. Freehold He was the
SON of Allison E. Preston and Julia
Demise. both deceased
MRS ELIZABETH I. WRIGHT.
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Wright. wife OF
Warren w. Wright of Trenton. died
/ IN Trenton hospital, Wednesday.
March 18th. 1928 of pneumonia. Mrs.
Wright is q sister of j DEL Test of Free
hold whose wife and son Harvey both
died OF pneumonia about two weeks
ago, and 1t was while visiting her
brother that she was stricken. She was
taken to the hospital in the Freehold
Borough Ambulance. Funeral services
were held from her late home in Trenton
on Saturday, Intermsnt was in
Greenwood cemetery
MRS. BRIDGET HANLEY CANNON
aged 81 years, widow of Christopher
Cannon, died at the home of her
daughter Mrs. Thomas Ryan, lower
Broad2ay, Freehold, on Wednesday,
March 7th, 1928, Funeral services
were held at st Rose of Lima Catholic
church Saturday morning. Interment
was in the Catholic cemetery. Mns.
Cannon was born at Limerick, Ireland,
and came to Freehold November /,
1857, where she has since resided.
OSBORN REID PARKER.
Osborn Reed Parker. eldest son Of
Mrs. James II. Sickles and the late b.
Allen Parker, of Bed Bank, died early
Sunday afternoon at the Monmouth
Memorial hospital, Long Branch,
from q fractured skull he received
shortly after clock Sunday morning
when an automobile he was driving
eoliided with one Of the Red Bank
Long Branch auto buses. The accident
happened on Broad street, Shrews-
bury, a short distance south of A.
Holmes Borden's residence.
MISS MARGARET ANN Log AN.
Idied at her home on West Main
street, Freehold, Sunday. March IL.
l1923, aged 50 years. She was born st
Barrentown, the daughter Of the late
Mrs. Mary Smith, widow of Lorenzo
Smith, whose first husband was Jubal
Logan. When a child she came to
Freehold with her parents and has
always resided in the home on West
Main street. She was well known
laundress having succeeded her mother
Ia the business, which was established
nearly sixty years ago. Shs leaves
two sisters Mrs. Peter Conovsr and
Mrs Frank Little. both Of Freehold,
Funeral services were held from her
late residence Wednesday. Interment
was in Maplewood cemetery. She wan