1880 Deaths

Princeton Press, Sat., Mar. 6, 1880:      March 4th, GERTRUDE LASCET, infant daughter of Rev. Wm. D., and M.L. Bustill Robeson, aged 4 months and 6 days.		Princeton Press, Sat., July 24, 1880:      At Kingston, on Saturday morning last, a colored man named Wm. Rartles, aged 22 years, who was in the employ of Mr. Shepherd, a farmer living near the village, was drowned while bathing in the Canal. He could not swim, and accidentally got in over his depth.
Princeton Press, Sat., July 31, 1880:      Barzillai Dowers, a colored man in the employ of Paul Tulane, Esq., became insured in the Prudential Life Insurance Company of Newark, through its Princeton agent, Mr. John S. Voorhees, on the 12th of April, paying 10 cents per week premium. For this amount, under the Prudential's rules of insurance, in case of death, within one year, of a person 55 years of age, the Company pays $29.75, and in case of death after paying one year's premiums, the company would pay $59.50. Mr. Dowers died on the 18th day of July, and on the 21st inst., Mr. Voorhees paid Mrs. Dowers the amount of the insurance, $29.75, receiving her thanks for the timely aid.		Princeton Press, Sat., Oct. 2, 1880:      Joseph Ridley Onquey, a colored man, well-known in town, was found dead in the woods near his residence on the mountain back of Princeton, on Sunday morning. He had gone thither to chop wood and a limb of a tree fell on him, crushing his head so as to cause death. He had lain there several days and was somewhat decomposed and had been partly eaten. His horse had been tied to a fence near by and was still alive. The case was evidently one of natural death through an accident. Onquey was 65 years of age.

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