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George B. Johnson served as a Camden policeman for more than twenty years, patrolling the North and South Rosedale sections without making a single arrest. Appointed in 1899, promoted to sergeant in 1914 and pensioned in 1920, he made his home at 220 North 37th Street from 1900 until at least 1940.
Edward S. Hyde rose through the Camden Police Department from patrolman to acting chief, served as a Camden County Freeholder, and died in 1930.
2nd Street extends north-south between Front Street and 3rd Street, running parallel to the Delaware River until Mechanic Street. In the early 1970s, several buildings were cleared on the east side of North 2nd Street below Mickle Street to make way for the Royal Court townhomes and Mickle Tower senior citizens apartment building.
The March 2006 Camden Courier-Post obituary of Leonard Edward Oshushek (1918–2006), a retired acting Chief of the Camden Fire Department after 32 years of service, who died at age 87 in Franklinville.
Obituary of George W. Meriwether of Camden, a Camden firefighter, who died June 3, 1992 at age 66; interment at Harleigh Cemetery.
A January 1957 death notice for Mrs. Anna E. Elbertson of 917 North 4th Street, a native of Blackwood and a member of the North Baptist Church.
Obituary of George B. Johnson, 80, who retired as a patrolman in the Camden Police Department in 1920 after 21 years of service. Funeral services were held at the home of his daughter on North Thirty-ninth Street, with burial at Harleigh Cemetery.
A June 1932 funeral notice and paid death notice for Mrs. Catherine C. Obenhaus, widow of Frank Obenhaus, of 932 North Fourth Street.
The funeral of John G. Schramm, a pioneer resident of Cramer Hill who operated a hotel at 27th Street and Cleveland Avenue, was held December 1, 1920 from his home at 912 North 31st Street.
Surviving members of Company G, Twelfth Regiment — Arthur C. Stanley among them — served as pall-bearers at the Camden funeral of Dr. Henry F. Chew, the regiment's Civil War lieutenant colonel.
A death notice for Mrs. Frances M. Johnson, wife of Camden policeman George Johnson of 220 North Thirty-seventh Street, who died after a long illness. She was a member of the Frances Willard Women's Christian Temperance Union and was interred at Harleigh Cemetery.
Repeated gunshots broke the quiet of Harleigh Cemetery as hunters dodged among the tombstones. Captain Stanley rounded up two Italians who had shot two robins and a rabbit.