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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.
Charles Foulon, 74, of 1453 Ormond Avenue, who operated the Foulon bakery in the 500 block of Federal Street for many years, died in West Jersey Hospital in January 1950. The business had been established by his father.
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.
Roy A. Smith, 51, a pensioned city fireman living at 607 Carman Street, died after a lengthy illness from heart condition. He was brother to former County Detective Howard M. Smith and former City Detective Walter Smith.
A June 1932 funeral notice and paid death notice for Mrs. Catherine C. Obenhaus, widow of Frank Obenhaus, of 932 North Fourth Street.
Camden Courier-Post reports of June 1932: Miss Eleanor M. Hillman, 20, and her mother, Mrs. Mary Hillman, 46, of 810 Howard Street were killed at Lansdale, Pa., when an electric train on the Philadelphia and Western Railroad struck the automobile they were riding in; a double funeral was planned, with burial in Harleigh Cemetery.
Camden prepared to pay its last respects to Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, whose funeral cortege would leave Schroeder's, 538 Broadway, for Harleigh Cemetery. Several thousand persons viewed the body, and the entire police department marched past it.
The Camden Morning Post reported that the funeral cortege of Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr would leave Schroeder's Chapel, Broadway and Royden street, for Harleigh Cemetery, after thousands filed past his bier and the entire police department marched past the body.
Funeral arrangements for Camden Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died in Cooper Hospital following a heart attack: his body would lie in state at the Schroeder Chapel, Broadway and Royden streets, with burial in Harleigh cemetery. The article lists the active and honorary pallbearers.
Enos B. Dellmuth, 43, civic leader, former Ninth ward councilman and foreman of the June term Camden county grand jury, died at his home at 426 Chambers street after a stroke suffered at the jury's last session. Camden Courier-Post, September 10, 1928.
Camden patrolman John V. Wilkie, the "notebook cop," found a cave behind Harleigh Cemetery and arrested two men found intoxicated inside; each got 20 days in the county jail.
Mayor Van Hart's June 1922 proclamation for a safe and sane Fourth of July, with Camden news of the ferryboat Millville, a Masonic funeral for William P. Weiser, and a divorce advised for Mrs. Margaret Jenkins of 1418 Louis 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.
Six former members of the Camden police force served as pallbearers at the funeral of former Sergeant of Police John Reader, with services at his son's home at 1135 Haddon Avenue.
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.
The funeral of Dr. Paul N. Litchfield, Assemblyman from Camden County, was held from his late home at 1100 Kaighn Avenue, with Speaker Charles A. Wolverton heading a large delegation of legislators; interment was made at Harleigh.
With the body mounted on the auto supply wagon, the funeral of Fireman Harry C. Anderson, who died in Cooper Hospital from injuries received in being thrown from the auto truck in responding to an alarm of fire, took place from his home at 1147 Federal street, Camden.
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.
The Bridgeton Evening News describes the funeral of Camden Policeman Isaac "Ike" Toy, held from his home at 604 South Third Street and attended by Mayor Charles H. Ellis, Chief of Police Elisha A. Gravenor and fifty officers, with interment in Harleigh Cemetery. During the procession Policeman Alonzo Dyer collapsed at Broadway and Berkley Street.
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.
While mystery apparently as absolute as ever still obscures the motive and the criminal in the case of John Houseman Coffin and W. Price Jennings, the unfortunate Camden lads whose trip to the country at Haddon Heights last Wednesday resulted so tragically, it is surmised from hints dropped now and again the matter may soon be cleared.
The funeral of Mrs. Susan Moffett, wife of City Hall janitor Charles C. Moffett, was held from her son Henry Moffett's residence at 602 Broadway, with city officials serving as pall bearers and interment in Harleigh Cemetery.