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Sunday, May 3, 2020

ENTRIKIN, Isabelle (Gloucester, NJ)

ISABELLE WEBB ENTRIKIN

UPDATE - Isabelle has been claimed by her great-nephew and is going home!

IDENTIFICATION ON PHOTO: "Isabelle W. Entrekin, ca. 1945"
PHOTO TAKEN: Luedecke Studio, unknown location, circa 1945
PURCHASED: 2020 January, Traditions Antique Mall, Wildwood FL

This is Isabelle Webb Entrikin (photo says Entrekin, but documentary evidence shows various spellings as Entrikin, Entrekin and Entriken). She was born 7 Jan 1906 in Camden NJ to parents William Sargent Entrikin and Elizabeth Chew Sickler. Baptismal record has spelling as Entrikin.

1920 Federal Census > NJ > Camden > Gloucester
ENTRIKEN, William S., head, 43, born in PA of PA parents, asst superintendant at shipyard
ENTRIKEN, Elizabeth S., wife, 43, born in NJ of NJ parents
ENTRIKEN, Isabella, dau, 14, born in NJ
ENTRIKEN, Elizabeth F., dau, 8, born in NJ
ENTRIKEN, Sarah, dau, 6, born in NJ
ENTRIKEN, Helen, dau, 6, born in NJ
ENTRIKEN, John S., son, 20, born in NJ, ship fitter at shipyard
ENTRIKEN, Gertrude, dau-in-law, 25, born in NJ
ENTRIKEN, Ethelyn G., granddaughter, 2mo, born in NJ

On the 1940 Census, Isabelle at age 34 is living alone in Upper Darby Pennsylvania and employed as a librarian. She married late in life (at age 71 to H. Robert Lee) and had no children.

She died 28 Sep 2007, in Beach Haven NJ, at age 101. This very thorough obituary appeared in the Asbury Park Press, 03 Oct 2007. It contains so much information on Isabelle that there is no need to do much of the standard research on her.

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