Person:Asher Tunis (1)

BIRTH: calculated from death date on cemetery records

NAME: father's will, FHL film 548105 Moses Tunis, Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey Signed 19th day of October 1850 two other sons Asher Tunis and Henry Tunis have given them as much before as to make them equal

MARR: BYU film 851752 Registers of Marriages Vol 2 p. 7 Asher Tunis, Eliza Ann Lewis April 23, 1828, by Rev. Henry L. Rice

CENSUS: 1830, New Jersey, Monmouth, Freehold Tunis, Asher, 1 male 5-10, 1 male 20-40, (Asher, abt 27), 1 female 20-30 (Eliza Ann, abt 26)

CENSUS 1840 New Jersey, Monmouth, Freehold Township p. 248 Asher Tunis 1 male 5-10, 1 male 30-40, (Asher abt 37), 1 female 10-15, 1 female 30-40, occupation, agri

CENSUS: 1850 New Jersey, Monmouth, Manalapan, p. 263 [father Moses living next door] Asher Tunis, 47, male, farmer, 5,000, b. New Jersey Elizabeth A. Tunis, 47, female, b. New Jersey Gilbert W. Reed, 25, male, farmer, b. New Jersey Mary E. Reed, 18, female, b. New Jersey Edward T. Reed, 6 months, male, b. New Jersey

LAND: FLH film 595135 Liber X5, p. 356 This indenture made this the second day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight between Asher Tunis and Eliza Ann, his wife of the township of Manalapan and county of Monmouth and state of New Jersey party of the first part and Gilbert W. Mount of the county of Middlesex and state afforesaid party of the second oart. Sold for $340. Lot of woodland being and lying in the township of Manalapan and county of Monmouth on the east side of the road leading from Englishtown to John B. Stout's saw mill. Beginning in the middle of the afforesaid road leading from Englishtown to the saw mill at the northwest corner of Letty Gaston's formally now Jacob Suydam's lot, etc. [too hard to read]

CHURCH: History of Old Tennent p. 176 from list of Elders, Asher Tunis 1851 (approx time of entry into office)

CENSUS 1855, New Jersey State: film 802945 BYU New Jersey, Monmouth, Manalapan Asher Tunis, 2 white males, 1 white female, 1 colored female, 1 white foreign male, no children between ages 5 & 16.

CENSUS: 1860 New Jersey, Monmouth, Manalapan, p.34, 5 July 1860, P.O. Englishtown [living next door to dau. Mary E.] Asher Tunis, 56, male, farmer, 7,000, 1,500, b. Monmouth, New Jersey Elizer A. Tunis, 56, female, b. Monmouth, New Jersey John Vandike, 78, male, b. Middlesex, New Jersey

DEATH: https://beta.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/ Name Asher Tunis Gender Male Death Date 08 Jun 1861 Death Place Manalapan Twp., Monmouth, New Jersey Age 58 Birth Date 1803 Marital Status Married Indexing Project (Batch) Number B07194-4 System Origin New Jersey-EASy Source Film Number 584573 Reference Number v X p 440

DEATH: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com Old Tennant Cemetery Last Name First Name Plot Section/Blcok Misc. Burial Date Tunis Asher {Mrs.} Jun 10, 1872 Tunis Asher 58 yr 3 mon 5 da DDJun 8, 1861

WILL: FHL 548110 Asher Tunis of Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey, filed June 26th, 1861 1st: debts and funeral expenses to paid 2nd: dispose of 3 acre meadow lot 3rd: moveable property, except furniture in and about house to be sold 4th: sister, Sarah Vandeveer, fifty dollars 5th: namesake, Asher Tunis, fifty dollars 6th: Monmouth County Bible Society, thirty dollars 7th: beloved wife, Eliza Ann, all the residue of estate, and after her decease, to daughter Mary Elizabeth, her heirs and assigns Last: appoint, wife Eliza Ann, son-in-law, Gilbert W. Reid, and trusty and true beloved friend, James Applegate, executors Signed: eight day of August, 1859. Filed: June 26th, 1861

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