{"id":1400,"date":"2016-10-03T05:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T05:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=1400"},"modified":"2020-07-02T06:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:10:36","slug":"tanners-corner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgan-family\/tanners-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanner\u2019s Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Memories \u2013 Tanner\u2019s Corner<\/h2>\n
\"1876<\/a>

1876 Map of the Township of East Brunswick, New Jersey Showing the Location of the Triangular Plot Known as Tanner\u2019s Corner in Washington, NJ (Now South River, NJ). Image Courtesy of Rutgers University Special Collections.
http:\/\/mapmaker.rutgers.edu\/EAST_BRUNSWICK\/East_Brunswck_1876.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n

According to Brian Armstrong of the South River Historical and Preservation Society and Museum, Mrs. Ann Morgan (2nd<\/sup> wife and widow of Major General James Morgan, Jr.) lived the latter part of her life with her daughter Eveline [referred to in some references as \u201cEmmeline\u201d] and son-in-law Frederick Hardenbergh in a large house on a triangular property now known as Tanner\u2019s Corners in present day South River (New Jersey, of course).<\/p>\n

Major General James Morgan\u2026 Shortly before his death in 1822, he bought a large plot of land along Old Bridge Turnpike to add to his sizable real estate holdings in New Jersey\u2026 During the 1830s and 1840, Eveline [James and Ann\u2019s daughter] and Frederick Hardenbergh apparently moved to the triangular piece of land and the area became known as Hardenburg Corners (not sure why the spelling changed)\u2026 Sometime during this time period, Ann Morgan moved from her house in South Amboy to live in the house with her daughter and her growing family.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>One of James and Ann\u2019s other daughters, Almira, had married Frederick Tanner and had three children but sadly lost their first born child, Albert, before the other two were born. He was two years old.<\/p>\n

Anna (born 1848) and Charles (born 1846)\u2026\u00a0 During the 1840s, Tanner began to purchase pieces of the Hardenburg Corners plantation from Almira\u2019s mother [i.e., Ann Morgan] and sibbings\u2026\u00a0 After her husband\u2019s death [Jan 31, 1850], Almira moved to Hardenburg Corners to live with her mother, Ann Morgan, and her sister Eveline\u2019s children. The Hardenburg Corners name continued to be used as late as 1876. Sometime in the 1880s, the shift to the name Tanner\u2019s Corner occurred since Almira was the sole head of the household after the death of her mother in 1869<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Emmeline (Eveline) died young on October 12, 1845 at age 34 years, 9 months and 14 days leaving behind young children.\u00a0 She is buried in the Morgan Family Cemetery in Morgan, NJ between her mother, Ann, and her brother, Charles and his wife Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

In 1880, Almira was living in the house alone with two servants when her son, Charles Anson Tanner died of tuberculosis\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Headstones<\/a><\/p>\n

Both Frederick Tanner (father) and Charles Tanner (son) are buried next to each other in the row closest to the bay in the Morgan Family Cemetery under two very prominent headstones which are still in first class shape. South of Frederick and between Frederick and the section containing James Morgan, Jr. and Sr. is an iron gated grave site with a solitary and nearly indecipherable headstone (see photo, above).\u00a0 Anyone who grew up in Morgan and traversed through the Morgan Family Cemetery would remember this ironwork rectangle.\u00a0 It is the only spot in the cemetery which has a fenced area and it has a feeling of great sadness.\u00a0 Long ago, rumor had it that a child was buried there.\u00a0 Unlike many of the other Morgan Family myths, this one does turn out to be true.\u00a0 It is the gravesite of Albert Orville Tanner, the first child of Frederick and Almira Tanner, and at the time of Albert\u2019s death, their only child.\u00a0 Thanks to Mr. Edward J. Raser, an independent historian who specializes in gravestone inscriptions (his business card reads, \u201cCentral New Jersey Burial Grounds Historian\u201d) and the author of numerous books including, \u201cMonmouth County Cemetery Guide\u201d (1955), \u201cNew Jersey Graveyard and Gravestone Inscriptions Locator: Monmouth County\u201d (2002 & 2007), and soon a similar one on Middlesex County, for providing the following information from a 1940 gravestone inscription list from the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ahherald.com\/newsbrief\/monmouth-news\/9230-monroe-historian-garners-2010-jane-g-clayton-award<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Headstone<\/a>

Headstone for Albert Orville Tanner<\/p><\/div>\n

Albert Orville
\nOnly son of
\nF. C. and Almira Tanner
\nBorn May 4, 1842 [or Mar 4, 1842]
\nDied Feb 15, 1844<\/p>\n

Almira\u2019s daughter Anna Morgan Tanner Clark (James, Jr. and Ann Morgan\u2019s granddaughter) eventually became the sole heir to the property.\u00a0 However, just like the extensive Morgan Family plantation in present day Morgan, over time the Tanner\u2019s Corner property went through a number of hands eventually leaving the Morgan Family and descendants all together.<\/p>\n

\u2026 in 1891, Anna Morgan Tanner Clark [daughter of Almira], wife of prominent doctor, Staats V[an] D[eursen] Clark, became the sole heir to the Tanner trust after her mother\u2019s death.\u00a0 Mrs. Clark owned and managed the property for the next 24 years. In 1915, Ann Clark sold the 160 acre farm and the \u201cClark homestead\u201d to Michael Jelin, a prominent New Brunswick real estate developer.\u00a0 Jelin developed the land on either side of Tanners Corners on the South River side with single family homes\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Florek Shoes ran a business in part of the house during this time period [1925]\u2026 subdivided the triangle plot selling the lower portion which became a service station\u2026 The Tanner house was torn down sometime between 1935 and 1948\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>In 1960, the Kolakowski family opened the Crestwood Bar and Restaurant in a brick building that is a modern homage to the old Tanner house but facing Old Bridge Turnpike rather than facing Main Street like the old house.<\/em><\/p>\n

Emeline is also buried in the Morgan Family Cemetery right next to her mom, Ann.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t clear where Almira (Frederick Tanner\u2019s wife & Ann Morgan\u2019s daughter) is buried since her name does not appear on the same headstone as her husband\u2019s or any other one in the cemetery.<\/p>\n

As of the time of this writing, the triangular location previously containing the house Ann Morgan lived in at Tanner\u2019s Corner contains an automobile repair garage and the Crestwood Bar & Food Store.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll note that the image at the top of this page shows a place named the \u201cBorough of Washington\u201d situated where present day South River, NJ is located.\u00a0 It appears to have been renamed from Washington to South River in the latter part of the 1800s.\u00a0 This would explain why Washington Road through Sayreville is named as such.<\/p>\n

Thanks \u2013 again and as always – to Joyce Elyea for providing the information about Tanner\u2019s Corner from Brian Armstrong of the South River [New Jersey] Historical and Preservation Society, and Edward J. Raser.<\/p>\n

Originally posted on October 2, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Memories \u2013 Tanner\u2019s Corner According to Brian Armstrong of the South River Historical and Preservation Society and Museum, Mrs. Ann Morgan (2nd wife and widow of Major General James Morgan, Jr.) lived the latter part of her life with her daughter Eveline [referred to in some references as \u201cEmmeline\u201d] and son-in-law Frederick Hardenbergh in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1400","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1400\/revisions\/1409"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}