Esther Doyle Read, Copyright 2003

New 22 August 2005

READ FAMILY CONNECTIONS

FAMILY ALBUM OF JACOB L. COURSEN and HANNAH READ

The following three photographs are of the three inscribed sides of the monument of Jacob L. Coursen and his wife Hannah Read in Marksboro Presbyterian Church Cemtery in the village of Marksboro, Frelinghuysen Township, Warren County, New Jersey. The panels to the right and left of this panel are inscribed. The panel on the rear of the monument is not inscribed. The monument is tilting to the left. The photograph is oriented to the west. It is part of the collection of Esther Doyle Read and was taken 14 April 2005, in the late afternoon. Click on the images to enlarge them.

Hannah Read was Jacob Coursen's second wife. His first wife was Elizabeth Moot. They married on 20 October 1810 and had at least two children—Nancy (who died as an infant) and Elsey Maria Coursen Van Camp (born 1818)—before Elizabeth Moot Coursen died. Jacob married Hannah Read on 13 March 1831, a little over a month before their first child, Andrew Jackson Coursen, was born. The couple had four more children during their marriage: Isaac Marshall Coursen (1834); Nancy Coursen Sharp (1837); Emily Elizabeth Coursen Burtt (1841); and Jacob Harvey Coursen (1846).

This panel is on the right (or south) side of the monument (photograph is oriented to the north). This side of the monument is for Jacob L. Coursen, who died 13 March 1848 of consumption (tuberculosis). Jacob was born 1778 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and was the son of Isaac Coursen and Ann Case. His death left Hannah a widow with five children under the age of 17; the youngest child, J. Harvey Coursen was about 2 years of age when his father died.

JACOB COURSEN
DIED
MARCH 13, 1848
AGED 70 YEARS

This panel is on the left (or north) side of the monument (photograph is oriented to the south. This side of the monument is for Hannah Coursen. She was the youngest daughter of John Read and Elizabeth Ogden (later Elizabeth Wintersteen after John's death).Hannah was a widow for 43 years. She remained in Warren County, as did her daughter Emily Brutt and her son J. Harvey Coursen. Her other three children left New Jersey; A.J. Coursen settled in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; Nancy Sharp settled in Illinois and Isaac Marshall Coursen settled in Delaware.

HANNAH
WIFE OF
JACOB COURSEN
DIED DEC. 31, 1891
AGED 85 YEARS

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