Person:Joseph Tunis (1)

BIRTH & DEATH: taken from tombstone in Holmdel Cemetery http://distantcousin.com/Cemetery/NJ/Monmouth/Holmdel/T.html Holmdel Cemetery - Holmdel Road, Holmdel, Monmouth County, NJ Tunis, Joseph L. ~ Mar 28, 1832 - Aug 26, 1897

NAME: father's will, FHL 549688, #15088M, filed August 5, 1890, Howell Township, Monmouth, New Jersey residue after debts, etc, divided 7 equal parts, and four sons, Joseph L. Tunis, Charles W. Tunis, John M. Tunis and George S.W. Tunis

MARR: http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/ Groom's Name: Joseph L. Tunis, Groom's Birth Date: 1834, Groom's Age: 25, Bride's Name: Catharine N. Hendrickson, Bride's Birth Date: 1835, Bride's Age: 24, Marriage Date: 13 Jan 1859, Marriage Place: Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, Bride's Father's Name: Cyrenius Hendrickson, Groom's Marital Status: Single, Bride's Marital Status: Divorced, Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M02523-5 System Origin: New Jersey-EASy, Source Film Number: 584573

MARRIAGE: FHL film 1440655 Bible Records from New Jersey, Monmouth County Historical Association Library, Item 11 The New Testament, Harding: Philadelphia, 1854 Joseph L. Tunis and Kate F.M. Hendrickson were married Jan. 13, 1859.

CENSUS: 1860 New York, New York, 3rd division, 8th Ward p. 254, 30 June 1860 Joseph L. Tunis, 27, male, grocer, personal value 1,000, b. New Jersey Kate Tunis, 24, female, b. New Jersy Hannah Murphy, 20, female, domestic, b. Ireland

CENSUS: 1870 New Jersey, Monmouth, Marlboro, p. 185 Tunis, Joseph L., 38, male, white, farmer, 18,000, 3775, b. New Jersey Tunis, Kate, 34, female, white, keeping house, b. New Jersey Tunis Ida, 7, female, white, at home, b. New Jersey Tunis Mariana, 4, female, white, at home, b. New Jersey Ackin, Holmes, 15, male, white, farm laborer, b. New Jersey

CENSUS: 1875 New Jersey State, Monmouth, Marlboro, 5 Aug 1875 Joseph Tunis, 42, male, native, white, b. New Jersey, farmer Catherine Tunis, 36, female, native, white, b. New Jersey Ida Tunis, 12, female, native, white, b. New Jersey MaryAnna Tunis, 9, female, native, white, b. New Jersey Charles Tunis, 28, male, native, white, b. New Jersey

CENSUS: 1880 New Jersey, Monmouth, Marlboro, p. 184/185, 28 Jun 1880 Tunis, Joseph, white, male, 48, marr., farmer, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Tunis, Kate, white, female, 44, wife, marr., keeping house, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Tunis, Ida, white, female, 17, daughter, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Tunis Mary A., white, female, 13, daughter b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Tunis, Charles white, male, 32, brother, single, farmer, b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Conover, Ely H?, B, female, 74, servant, wd., b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey

CENSUS: 1895 New Jersey State Census, Mounmouth, Marlboro Joseph L. Tunis, white, male, over 60 Cathrin Tunis, white, female, abt 59 Ida Tunis, white, female, abt 32 Mary anna Tunis, white, female, abt 29

DEATH: date calculated from obituary

DEATH: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/s Name: Joseph L Tunis Gender: Male Death Date: 26 Aug 1897 Death Place: Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey Age: 65 Birth Date: 1832 Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Married Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06627-9 System Origin: New Jersey-EASy Source Film Number: 589809 Reference Number: v 53 p 92 Collection: New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988

OBIT: http://mtpl.org/data/rbr/1890-1899/1897/1897.09.01.pdf RED BANK, N. J. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1897 Joseph Tunis, a farmer living near Bradevelt, died last Thursday of a cancer of the stomach. He was 63 years old and had lived in Marlboro township for 33 years. His wife and one daughter survive him. The funeral took place on Saturday and the body was buried at Holmdel.

OBIT:http://173.12.11.248/DATA/1875-99/1897/1897-08-26.pdf The Matawan Journal, MATAWAN, N. J., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 26, 1897, p. 5, col. 2

  Joseph L. Tunis, a most highly respected farmer of Marlboro Township, died at his home at Wickatunk at 2 o'clock this morning, aged 67 years. Mr. Tunis was born at Howell but had lived at Wickatunk for the lst thirty-three years. He had been sick for the past three years, at some times better than others, and his death was caused by cancer of the stomach. He leave a widow and two unmarried daughters. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his late home.

OBIT:http://173.12.11.248/DATA/1875-99/1897/1897-09-02.pdf The Matawan Journal, MATAWAN, N. J., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 2, 1897, p. 5, col. 2

  Joseph L. Tunis, son of Henry and Elizabeth Tunis, was born near Freehold, March 21, 1832. His father, a son of Moses Tunis, was a well-known farmer of that section and a prominent layman in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
  The deceased passed his earlier years under the parental roof, and after attendance at the schools of the neighborhood left home at the age of fourteen years to fill a position with Osborn Curits & Co., general merchants, at Manasquan; later on he entered business, forming a partnership with a cousin, at Lower Squankum; soon after this partnership was dissolved, and he accepted a position with Combs & Butcher at Blue Ball; from there he went with William Middlesworth at Ardens. From the latter place he went to New York, engaging temporarily in the commissino business and leaving that for a position as a salesman with the large wholesale house of Zabriskie & VanRiper, 519 Greenwhich street, where he continued for seven years, acquiring a valuable experience and an extensive acquaintance with the trade.
  At the end of this period he formed a copartnership with a friend, James H. Hopper and opened a grocery store at King and MacDougal streets. At the expiration of the first year he purchased Mr. Hopper's interest and continued the business thereafter alone with marked success. In the spring of 1865 he returned to Monmouth County and purchased and settled upon the farm known at the Cyrenue VanMater place, about three miles out of town on th road leading to Freehold. This property he immediately began to improve, practically rebuilding the dwelling and farm buildings and liberally fertilizing the land.
  Here he showed the influence of early training in his habits of industry, his close attention to business and upright methods and rapidly developed into one of the leading farmers of his section.
  In connection with his farming operations he also accepted agencies for the sale of agricultural implements and for many years transacted an exceptionally large amount of business in this line. Gradually relinquishing these agencies he gave, later, his attention more exclusivly to the cultivation and disposal of his on crops, and so continued until his final illness and death which ocurred on Thursday morning of last week, August 26. His health began to fail some two or three years ago, and he then passed through a trying and prolonged illness, but rallying he again renewed his entire supervision of the labors of his farm and so continued with occasional interruptions until his final illness set in some four weeks since. His case involving peculiar symptoms and refusing to yield to treatment, a consultation of physicians was held on the 21st ultimo and the ? news was gently broken to his family that his malady was that dread and fatal disease, internal cancer. To their unspeakable surprise and sorrow it was learned that death was but a question of days and on the morning of the fifth day thereafter the end came. The sufferings of the patient were at times excutiating, but were borne with Christian fortitude in so far a human weakness could endure.
  Always in sympathy with religious interests he became almost twenty-eight years ago a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in this place, with which he has since been identified and held official relations. He leaves a wife and two grown-up daughters to mourn an irreparable loss and a fine property to be cared for by those who survive him. Speaking of him as a farmer it may be remarked that his specialties were found in the line of fruit raising and improved machinery and that as a producer as well as salesman and purchaser he had few superiors.
  He was married January 18, 1850, to Kate VanMater, daughter of the late Cyrenus Hendrickson, a leading farmer of Holmdel and at one time County Collector. The children born by this marriage were Ida (dying in infancy), Ida H. and Mary P. who live to share with a faithful wife and mother the additional responsibilities devolving upon them through this afflictive dispensation.
  A peculiarly painful feature of the situation for the time being, however, is that the older daughter is too critically ill herself to be made aware of her father's death - her physicians strictly prohibiting the communication of the intelligence, for the present effects of which they refure to become responsible. The situation is thus made one of extreme difficulty and evokes increased and continuing sympathy for the other members of the family upon which falls this double burden.
  The funeral took place at the late residence of the deceased on Saturday at 2 p.m. - an appropriate and eloquent sermon being preached by Reb. J. Hoffmann Batten, founded on 1 Corinthians, xv, 51-55 and appropriate hymns were beautifully sung. The attendance was large and the interment took place at that lovely haven of the dead, Holmdel Cemetery. The bearers were William Hormer, Hendrick Smock, John D. Hance, Samuel Snyder, William I. Conover and Asher H. Holmes.
  The surviving brothers of Mr. Tunis are John M. and Charles W. Tunis of Howell, and Dr. George S. Tunis of Manasquan, Mrs. Tunis Denise of Freehold is his one surviving sister. 

WILL: FHL 550475 Joseph L.Tunis, 16242M, filed 16 Sept 1897 Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey 1st: debts and funeral expenses to be paid 2nd: beloved wife, Kate Tunis, the use, net income and profits of estate, real and personal and $500 to daughter Ida H. Tunis, paid at death of wife, rest and residue in equal shares to daughters Ida H. Tunis and Maurie(?) P. Tunis. Lastly: executors, Kate Tunis and Alfred Walling Jr. of Keyport, New Jersey Signed 3 May 1897

NEWS: http://mtpl.org/data/rbr/1890-1899/1898/1898.04.06.pdf Red Bank Register, RED BANK, N. J,, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6,1898 John Grant of Colt's Neck will farm the Joseph L. Tunis place at Morganvine the coming year.

BIRTH & DEATH: taken from tombstone in Holmdel Cemetery

CENSUS: 1895 New Jersey State Census, Mounmouth, Marlboro Joseph L. Tunis, white, male, over 60 Cathrin Tunis, white, female, abt 59 Ida Tunis, white, female, abt 32 Mary anna Tunis, white, female, abt 29

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