ZULKER FAMILY HISTORY
TO: Family
RE: I am trying to find out as much information as possible about some of our long-gone relatives. Please review the info and correct, add, or delete pertinent info. When you send it (or call me), I will then revise this report and send it to all interested.
Thanks, Bill Zulker - 108 Country Lane, Richland, PA 17087 or 484-919-9280
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BECKMAN - Who is this?
BENNETT, Abigail, b.-April 16, 1843; d 1917
Married Thomas Boogar, December 31, 1860
BEETLE, Joshua Marshall
b.- January 29, 1809- d. March 1, 1878
Daughter Elizabeth Beetle Plumb-1834
BOOGAR, Abigail Bennett - see Abigail Bennett
BOOGAR, Thomas - b. August 15, 1838; d 1919
Married Abigail Bennett on December 31, 1860 by Rev. M. H. Shimp
Children: Clara Boogar
Lida Boogar Reeve
Dorothy Boogar Eldridge
Elizabeth Cordelia Carr Ott
BOOGAR, Clara Emma - b. July 7, 1865; d . June 4, 1944; Buried - Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, NJ
Daughter of Thomas and Abigail Boogar
Sister of Elizabeth Cordelia Boogar Carr Ott
Lived with sister Elizabeth and Walter H. Ott in Pleasantville, NJ at time of her death.
Q? - When did she start living with sister?________________
Q? - Was she from Haddonfield? _____________________________
Q? - Was she ever employed? __________________________________
BOOGAR, Dorothy G. - b. August 18, 1871; d 1918
Married _____________Eldridge
See Eldridge
BOOGAR, Elizabeth Cordelia, - b. February 10, 1878; d- July 11, 1964
Family Bible lists her as Lizzie C.Boogar
Buried - Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, NJ
Daughter of _____________Boogar, sisters -
Clara,_______,_________,________
Lived in Haddonfield, NJ, Atlantic City, Pleasantville, NJ
Married Guy Leathem Carr - November 29, 1899
Children - Virginia Idell Carr Zulker; b. June 14, 1903 - Haddonfield, NJ, d
Josephine ______Carr Berry _______Colkitt, b.- April 29, 1908, Atlantic City, NJ
Second marriage to Walter Hazeltine Ott - _________
Had a millinery shop in Pleasantville, NJ and maybe one in Atlantic City (?)
BOOGAR, Lida M. - b. November 15, 1861; - d. 1918
Married Leonard Reeve, April 17, 1886, by Mr. Rev. Noah Edwards
Children: Forrest Reeve
Malvern Reeve
BOOGAR, Lizzie, C. - b. February 10, 1878 - d.
CARR, Beatrice Josephine - Berry, Sanquist, Colkitt, b. ;
Daughter of Guy Leathem and Elizabeth Cordelia Boogar
Born in Atlantic City, NJ
Moved to Pleasantville, NJ
Married Eugene Berry on November 26, 1925, d. Oct 29, 1969
Daughter Doris _____
Married Herbert C. Sanquist, d. July 8, 1971
Married Edgar Colkitt, d April 20, 1994
d. November 1, 2001
buried - Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, NJ
CARR, Guy Leathem - b._________; d - May 7, 1912; buried _________________
Married Elizabeth Cordelia Boogar -
Two children - Virginia Idell Carr Zulker;
Beatrice Josephine Carr, Berry, Sanquist, Colkitt
Lived in Haddonfield, NJ
and Pleasantville, NJ (?)
Reportedly was a glassblower and maybe a pharmacist
CARR, Virginia Idell, b. June 14, 1903, Haddonfield, NJ, d -Wayne, PA., December 13, 1984
Buried - Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, NJ.
Daughter of Guy Leathem and Elizabeth Cordelia Boogar Carr
Family Bible records that she was initially named Beateras Virginia but name was changed and she was christened Virginia Idell
Moved to Pleasantville, NJ in _________
Married to William J. Zulker on________ at
Six children (see WJZ)
CURCIO, Elizabeth Josephine Zulker
See Zulker
DOUGHTY, Alfred -
Married Etta ___________________
ELDRIDGE, Albert B.
Collingswood, NJ, formerly of Philadelphia, PA
Married Dorothy G. Boogar at Camden, NJ, November 29, 1899 by Rev. John Hundley
ELDIDGE, Dorothy G. Boogar - d -1918
Married Albert G. Eldridge, November 29, 1899
GAUNT, Becky Zulker
See Zulker, Jack (John)
GAUNT, Jack,
Married Becky Zulker, sister to William J. Zulker
He reportedly was a woodsman, lumberman
Had sons Rueben and George
GLICK, Edna Ott
Daughter of Walter H. Ott
Married Walton Glick
See Ott
GLICK, Walton
Married Edna Ott -______________
Walton owned Glick Moving Company, Pleasantville, NJ
Lived in Pleasantville, NJ
OTT, Edna -
Daughter of Walter Hazeltine Ott
Married Walton Glick
See Glick
OTT, Elizabeth Boogar Carr Ott
See Boogar,
OTT, Harry
Brother to Walter H. Ott
He had a barber shop in Pleasantville, NJ on Park Avenue West, near Asbury Methodist Church on Shore Road. Reportedly, Harry also had a Post Office in the shop.
OTT, Walter Hazeltine - b-____________, d-August 16, 1952
Buried - Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, NJ
Lived in Philadelphia, PA - Kensington area, called Fishtown
First wife - ______________- may have been in a mental institution
d._____________
Daughter Edna Ott married Walton Glick -
W.H.OTT moved to Pleasantville, NJ and was a men’s barber
He was very active in the Wesley Methodist Church, Pleasantville, NJ, served as a lay-minister,
Served as Treasurer of the South Seaville Methodist Camp Ground and
Became a Christian minister in____ and founded the Linwood Community Church in Linwood, NJ. In _______
Second wife - Elizabeth Cordelia Carr, m - May 31, 1917 - Rev. Wm. Lac????
PLUM, Joseph
Married Mary Jane -
Son Joshua Plum- b. 1832
PLUMB, Joshua
December 4, 1832-1888
Married Elizabeth Beetle Plumb (b.1834) January 22, 1857
Children: Rachel Anne Plumb 1857-
Mary Jane Plumb (Mother of William John Zulker born 1898) 1859-
Ella Plumb 1861-
Clara Plumb 1865-
Jerusha Plumb 1867-
RAUGHT, Edith (Edie)
(Norma lives with her)
102 Strawberry Lane
Smethport, PA 16749
814-778-5564 -
REEVE, Leonard
Married Lida M. Boogar
Sons Thomas Forrest and Malvern who died in 1913
REEVE, Lida Boogar, b. ____________d. 1918
Married Leonard Reeve
Sons Thomas Forrest and Malvern
REEVE, Thomas Forest - b. August 17, _________;d, 1959
His mother was Lida Boogar
Brother was Malvern Reeve b___________- d. 1913
First wife Ann _______
Second Marriage to ___________-
STOCKTON, Dorothy
Lived in Mays Landing, NJ
ZULKER,
Son John and wife Emma
ZULKER, Becky
Sister to WJZ
Married Jack Gaunt
See Gaunt
ZULKER, John
Brothers: William J. Zulker
Robert Zulker
Married Emma Beesley
Children: Norma Zulker
Edith Zulker Raught
ZULKER, Robert
Brother to William J. Zulker
Brother to John Zulker
Married or Common Law Wife Mamie _____, had five daughters (?)
Reportedly “adopted” WJZ after his mother died and when his stepmother didn’t want to care for him.
Lived at West Broad Street in either Northfield, or Pleasantville,NJ
ZULKER, Virginia Idell Carr
See Virginia Idell Carr
See William J. Zulker
ZULKER, William, b._________; d._________; buried _____________
Married ___________________
When she died, William married ___________________
Lived in Berlin, NJ
ZULKER, William J. - b.__1898_________; d. June 27,1960 in Montrose, PA, buried - Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, NJ
Son of Mary Jane Plumb (1859 - )
Married Virginia Idell Carr -
Six children - Elizabeth Josephine Zulker Curcio, b.(where) _______- April 9, 1921
Walter Leathem Zulker, b.- (where) __________January 19, 1924
Robert Guy Zulker, b. - (where) _____________January 19, 1924; d. July 3, 1924,buried at Atlantic City Cemetery, Pleasantville, NJ
William Allen Zulker, b. - December 20, 1926, 105 Linden Avenue, Pleasantville, NJ
Charles Bates Zulker, b. - December 20, 1926, 105 Linden Aenue, Pleasantville, NJ
Virginia Idell Zulker, b. - January 16, 1933, Cape May Court House, NJ
Born in Berlin, NJ, moved to Pleasantville, NJ sometime after his parent’s death to live with brother Robert, worked first as butcher, then with the New Jersey Central Railroad and then with the Gulf Oil Corporation, retiring in 1958 after 35 years. He also worked a second job as sexton at various Methodist churches (Cape May Court House, NJ. Lakewood Methodist Church, Pearson Memorial Church in White Horse, Trenton, NJ as well as at the Central Baptist Church, Trenton, NJ), and a third job as superintendent at an apartment/office building on Second and Lexington in Lakewood, NJ.
My first recollection of my father dates to about 1932 or 33 when I was six or seven. We lived in Cape May Court House, NJ, just a small unsophisticated town. Our home was in “the Joseph’s House“ - which we called it. Apparently Dad rented it from a Mr. Joseph. It was on Mechanic Street just a bit West from the Main Street, which was Route #9.. The American Store - a corner grocery store - was on the corner. Dad worked at the Gulf Oil Company office about a half-mile West, and he walked to and from the office where he was a clerk. Visiting with him there, I remember seeing him take a long measuring pole marked with numbers, insert it into one of the large gasoline tanks elevated horizontally on a platform, and record the contents daily. Obviously he was a bookkeeper.
At the end of the day, we would go out front of our house and watch for him to come walking home. Then we would run up the street to greet him. On one day, he came home to find me selling lollipops, just waiting for someone to buy them. When he asked me the price, I told him they were a penny a piece. He asked me how much I paid for them. The reply was a penny a piece. He said that I would not make any money that way. His suggestion was for me to go to the American store and buy three chocolate bars of different kinds, which could be purchased for a nickel a piece or three for ten cents. If I bought three for a dime and sold them for a nickel a piece, I could make five cents for every three I sold. I tried it and it worked. In fact, I continued this enterprise until I was thirteen or fourteen, even when we moved to Lakewood. I had regulars routes and would knock on people’s doors and go to places like gasoline stations or anywhere I might make a sale. I became known as “the candy boy.”
My next recollection of Dad was when he drove us to the opening of “The Ocean Drive,” a new highway leading from Cape May to Atlantic City across several bridges that connected the shore-barrier islands areas without going inland. Up to that time it was necessary to travel from Route #9 to each island separately by a mainland-to-island bridge. This would be the case when traveling from North Wildwood to Stone Harbor, or from Avalon to Sea Isle City, and Strathmere to Ocean City. The new Ocean Drive connected these places with five bridges.
Dad knew that it was an historical occasion and wanted to be a part of it. I don’t remember which bridge we crossed, but I do remember waiting in line for the ribbon to be cut. I guess that some of his interest in such things was passed on to me. It was in 1976 that s 75th Birthday celebration was held on the Bejamin Franklin Bridge connecting Philadlephia and Camden when I, along with Jim Mellon, Jessie and Chris, wlaked the span. Midway at the top of the bridge, a formal celebration took place. That year also was my 75th birthday.
When I was six or seven, Dad was transferred again by the Gulf Oil Company to Lakewood, NJ. We lived in a rented house on County Line Road three doors from the New Jersey Railroad that ran from New York to Lakewood to Camden. The house I remember was two stories with a detached garage and back yard. Dad’s office was a short walk from home and we would often meet him coming home after a day’s work. He had a Whippet car and used it to go to the Methodist Church in town where he had a second job as the sexton - called janitor in those days.
Dad was meticulous in making sure that the church was always spotlessly clean and warm in the winter. The whole family pitched in to help. Many were the Saturday nights, after supper, when the final cleaning took place. One of my jobs was to sweep the back stairway to the Sunday School class rooms on the second floor. I remember that Dad would check my work after I thought I was finished only to hear him instruct me to go back and clean the corners of the steps. He would say, “This is the house of the Lord, and we must keep it clean.”