Person:Thomas Tunis (1)

NAME: father's will, FHL film 548105 Moses Tunis, Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey Signed 19th day of October 1850 son Thomas Tunis one hundred fifty dollars with what he has had heretofore

BIRTH: taken from cemetery records

MARR.: County of Monmouth Archives and Records Center Mr. Challis Filed Dec 12, 1831, recorded in Book C of marriages page 43 in the Clerks Office of the County of Monmouth as Freehold Mr. Thomas Tunis, Miss Susan Snodan, March 26th, 1831, Upper Freehold

http://www.worldvitalrecords.com A Church Book: Giving an Account of ye First Settlement: Progress of the Baptists at Croswicks [sic] or Upper Freehold: Typescript, Baptist Church, Unknown (1911) Jan 5th, 1839, Br. Esbon R. Cole resigned his office as Clerk whereupon motion Br. Thos. T. Tunis was chosen to fill that office. [notes from church quarterly meeting for business.]

CENSUS YEAR: 1840 STATE: NJ COUNTY: Monmouth DISTRICT: Upper Freehold Twp MICROFILM#: M704-255 ENUMERATOR: George F. Foot Thomas Tunis, 1 male 5-10, 1 male 30-40 [Thomas, age 33], 1 female 20-30, 1 female 60-70

PROPERTY: FHL film 595092 Records of deeds, 1665-1899 Monmouth County (New Jersey). Register of Deeds, Liber X4, p. 73 Thomas Tunis and wife to George Holmes, 25th day of April 1845, between Thomas T. Tunis and Susan R. Tunis his wife of the township of Upper Freehold county of Monmouth state of New Jersey and George T. Holmes of the same place. Land bounded by James Wilboune? formaly Thomas Silles deceased, Gilbert Hendrickson, (Sugar Loaf Farm), late Joseph Hendrickson, and others. Land was conveyed to Thomas T. Tunis by Horance R. Hotchkiss of New Haven, Connecticut, on October 28, 1841. Same land conveyed to James Ivins 25 Mar 1836, under the hand and seal of Charles Wycoff.

CENSUS 1850 New Jersey, Monmouth, Millstone Thomas T. Tunis, 41, male, merchant, b. New Jersey [b. abt 1809] Sarah R. Tunis, 39, female, b. New Jersey [b. abt. 1811] Charles S. Tunis, 15, male, b. New Jersey [b. abt 1835] Edward Tunis, 6, male, b. New Jersey [b. abt 1844]

CENSUS 1855, New Jersey State: film 802945 BYU New Jersey, Monmouth, Upper Freedhold, Millstone, Manalaphan, 1st election district Thomas Tunis, 2 white males, 1 white female, 1 white foreign male, 1 male child between 3 & 16.

CENSUS 1860 New Jersey, Monmouth, Upper Freehold Thomas T. Tunis, 50 male, farmer, 8000, 1500, b. Monmouth County [b. abt 1810] Susan R. Tunis, 48, female, b. Oshen County [b. abt 1812] Edward T. Tunis, 16, male, b. Monmouth County [b. abt 1844] Abey Mcglow, 11, female, black, b. Monmouth County

CENSUS: 1880 Michigan, Livingston, Brighton, Dist. 181 Tunis, Thomas, white, male, 63, mar., b. New Jersey, father & mother b. New Jersey Tunis, Cynenah L.,white, female, 44, wife, mar., dress maker, b. Connecticut, father & mother b. New York Case, Fred S., white, male, 14, son, single, scholar, b. Michigan, father & mother b. New York

DEATH: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/ Name: Thomas Tunis Gender: Male Death Date: 19 Mar 1895 Death Place: W. Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey Age: 89 Birth Date: 1806 Birthplace: Us Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Widowed Father's Birthplace: Us Mother's Birthplace: Us Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B06622-0 System Origin: New Jersey-EASy Source Film Number: 589803 Reference Number: pg8, cn149 Collection: New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988

OBIT.: http://brightonlibrary.info/ Brighton District Library Obituary Index Tunis Thomas T.; mother, Taylor, Christianna; father, Tunis, Moses; spouse, Snowden, Susan R.; death, 3/19/1896; newspaper date, 4/9/1896; newspaper, Brighton Argus (checked Red Bank Register Mar 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22 1896 no Obit., April 13, 20, 27, May 4 1898)

OBITUARY: http://distantcousin.com/obits/nj/1800/1896/apr/08.html New Jersey April 8, 1896 Thomas T. Tunis. Thomas T. Tunis, an old resident of Monmouth county, died at Imlaystown, in Upper Freehold township, on Thursday, March 19th, aged 89 years. He was born at Middletown and moved to Englishtown when a boy, where he taught school, farmed and conducted a store by turns. He was appointed an assistant assessor of internal revenue during the war. He came of a family noted for its longevity. One of his sisters died at the age of 105 years and several brothers and sisters were over 90 years of age when they died. He leaves a son, Charles S. Tunis of Imlaystown.

OBIT:http://173.12.11.248/DATA/1875-99/1896/1896-03-28.pdf The Matawan Journal, MATAWAN, N. J., SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1896, p. 1, col. 5

  Thomas T. Tunis died near Imlaystown, in Upper Freehold township, on Thursday, the 10th inst., in the 90th year of his age. Mr. Tunis was of Middltown parentage and Holland extraction, although the family had been in this country long prior to the Revolution. His father was Moses Tunis, afterwards settled at Englishtown, and his mother Christiana Taylor, and a sister of the mother of Thomas and the late Wilson G. Hunt of New York. The deceased was alternately teacher, merchant and farmer, and during the war period and until the office was abolished filled the office of Assossor of Internal Revenue for the 1st Assembly District of this county, making an excellent record as a public officer. He was a man of exceptional intelligence and was highly esteemed, but had of late years lived a very retired life, spending much of his time with the family of his son, Charles H. Tunis, or at the farm of the later in Upper Freehold. He married early in life Susan S. Snowden, of that township, deceased some years since. The immediate cause of death was gripp and pneumonia.
  The funeral was held on Saturday and the remains are interred in the cemetery attached to the "Yellow Meeting House," near his late residence.

OBIT: The Freehold Transciprt http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.michigan.counties.livingston/55/mb.ashx

Subject: Thomas T. Tunis Author: FulisaShepherd Date: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 Classification: Obituary Surnames: Tunis, Taylor, Hunt, Snowden

Thomas T. Tunis dead. Near Imlaystown on Thursday, March 19th, 1896, occurred the death after a brief illness, of Thomas Taylor Tunis, born at Middletown, in this county.February 17, 1807. His father. Moses Tunis married Christianna Taylor of a well known family in Middletown and New York where her brothers, Thomas Taylor for whom the subject of this sketch was named,and Edward Taylor were among the leading merchants of the day. Another sister was the mother of Thomas and Wilson G. Hunt, of New York. The Tunises seem to have come originally from Holland, but had settled in Middletown long before the Revolution at which time the father of Thomas was a lad although old enough to pass through and give account of some thrilling experiences. About the time of the close of the second war with Great Britain Moses Tunis exchanged his farm at Middletown for one near Englishtown to which place he removed and brought with a large family of which Thomas was the youngest boy. On attaining his Majority the latter who had contrived to obtain a pretty fair education for those times, engaged in teaching school. Later on he married Susan R. Snowden of Upper Freehold and removed to New York where he resided for some time, but returning he settled In Upper Freehold, resuming his business of teaching and after a few years opened a country store at which business he continued until 1851,when he bought a property near Imlaystown and settled down to farming. He was at one time assistant Internal revenue collector. His death was primarily due to a severe attack of influenza or grip terminating in pneumonia, and his advanced years told against him. The funeral was held at the Yellow Meeting house, the principle place of worship for the Upper Freehold Bapist church for nearly a hundred years, and his remains lie in the cemetery almost under the shadow of that venerable structure. For many years a member, clerk and trustee of the church and during his life held many minor positions of honor and trust besides those referred to. On the occasion of the death of a sister of Mr. Tunis some years since we refered to the remarkable record of this family for longevity. There were nine children born to Moses and Christianna Tunis. The united ages, with one still living at Brighton, Michigan at the age of 92, foot up 752 years an average of 84 years. Leaving out two who died considerably younger, the other seven have to their credit upwards of 92 years each, while one of them lived to see her 105th and another her 99 year, and still another surviving perhaps to round out the century. Mr. Tunis was a former resident of Brighton and highly respected. Freehold Transcript.(Please note I have no further info.)

BURIAL:http://www.interment.net/data/us/nj/monmouth/oldyellow/yellowmeet.htm Old Yellow Meeting House Cemetery, Monmouth County, New Jersey Upper Freehold Baptist ChurchYellow Meeting House Rd Red Valley N.J.

Friends of Old Yellow Meeting HouseBox 1717, Imlaystown, NJ 08526

Tunis, Thomas T., b. 2-17-1807 Middletown, d. 1898, s/o Christinia Taylor Tunis and Moses Tunis

possible: CENSUS YEAR: 1840 STATE: NJ COUNTY: Monmouth DISTRICT: Upper Freehold Twp MICROFILM#: M704-255 ENUMERATOR: George F. Foot Thomas Tunis, 1 male 5-10, 1 male 30-40 [Thomas, age 33], 1 female 20-30, 1 female 60-70

[possible] CENSUS 1850 New Jersey, Monmouth, Millstone Thomas T. Tunis, 41, male, merchant, b. New Jersey [b. abt 1809] Sarah R. Tunis, 39, female, b. New Jersey [b. abt. 1811] Charles S. Tunis, 15, male, b. New Jersey [b. abt 1835] Edward Tunis, 6, male, b. New Jersey [b. abt 1844]

[possible] CENSUS 1860 New Jersey, Monmouth, Upper Freehold Thomas T. Tunis, 50 male, farmer, 8000, 1500, b. Monmouth County [b. abt 1810] Susan R. Tunis, 48, female, b. Oshen County [b. abt 1812] Edward T. Tunis, 16, male, b. Monmouth County [b. abt 1844] Abey Mcglow, 11, female, black, b. Monmouth County

OBIT.: http://brightonlibrary.info/ Brighton District Library Obituary Index Tunis Thomas T.; mother, Taylor, Christianna; father, Tunis, Moses; spouse, Snowden, Susan R.; death, 3/19/1896; newspaper date, 4/9/1896; newspaper, Brighton Argus (checked Red Bank Register Mar 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22, no Obit.)