1888 Deaths

Princeton Press, Sat., May 5, 1888:     Mrs. Thomas Reed, known to many by her maiden name of Eliza Jennings, a faithful colored woman, who has been in ill health for years, sat down on the steps of Mr. Skirm's store on Wednesday evening. It was discovered that she was ill, and she was placed in a hack for conveyance to her home, but died before reaching it. County Physician Lalor came up on Thursday and gave a certificate of burial, stating the cause of death as being heart disease.		Princeton Press, Sat., June 2, 1888:     Sylvia Dubois is at last really dead. So, at least, the Hopewell Herald announces. She died last Sunday morning at her residence on Sourland Mountain, not of old age but of erysipelatous inflammation; aged 122. She leaves two daughters, respectively 94 and 73 years old. Her burial was from the African church, on the mountain; Rev. W. H. Pitman conducting the exercises. [Ms. Dubois had been reported dead in the great blizzard of 1888, a story which was later retracted.]
Princeton Press, Sat., July 28, 1888:     Samuel Lambert, a colored man of excellent character, was so badly injured internally on Saturday last that he died on Sunday evening, after terrible sufferings. He was driving one of Clayton's empty stone wagons to the crusher, at a good swinging pace. Opposite the Murphy farm his feet slipped over the swiveltree and he fell in front of the wheels, which passed over him, inflicted the injuries causing his death. The team went on to the crusher without a driver, and turned in as usual. Lambert was at once cared for, and received medical attention, but in vain.		Princeton Press, Sat., Sept. 22, 1888: CUDJOE--At Princeton, Sept. 17, 1888, MRS. GEORGE CUDJOE, aged 83 years.

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