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Guy, You know that the beautiful house at Hillside is still there down Bill's Lane. I was there a few years ago before the school district cleared much of the area. At that point the farm was pretty overgrown but you could easily see how magnificent the place must have been. From the porch...

Guy, That's right. Joseph Evans was from Marlton (Evesham) and resided at the Hillside Farm adjacent to Cherokee High School and the Marlton Bypass (I don't think its called the bypass anymore). He traces his lineage back to William and Elizabeth Evans who came from Wales and were the first...

I was taught (english) by and later taught with a Ms. Evans (Joseph's great grand daughter). I asked her alot of questions and went through many of the company records which included the company history that seems to have been used in Heart of the Pines. Some other family members had recorded...

Those bog to the south were correctly identified as the West Jersey Bogs. I am 99% sure that they are still in operation. Much of the northern area serves as reservoir so it could easily be mistaken for abandoned. This same operation owns considerable blueberry fields to the south which can...

Very interseting article. You mentioned Wharton leased some of the ground to a cranberry operation. Do you happen to know who leased it and where exactly the bogs were? I have an old cranberry picking ticket that says something like Harrisville Cranberry Meadow - 2 BUSHELS - Joseph Wharton...

Wills at Friendship Hi, I'm new to the group but was reading some of the old posts about a possible connection between Charles Wills (grave at Eagle) and the Wills family at Friendship. As mentioned in previous posts, Joshua Wills and his brother-in-law Joseph Evans began growing cranberries...