Sunday, June 30, 1895
Paper: New York Herald
MISS CAROLINE B. STOCKTON
Miss Caroline Bayard Stockton, who died at her home in Princeton, N.J., on Wednesday night, was buried yesterday in the Old Princeton Cemetery. Miss Stockton was the oldest Daughter of the late Richard Stockton, treasurer of the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company and of Caroline Bayard Dodd. She was also a sister of Bayard Stockton, the Prosecuting Attorney of Mercer county; a neice of John P. Stockton, Attorney General of New Jersey, and of General Robert G. Stockton, president of the United Companies of New Jersey. Her grandfather was Commodore Stockton, famous as the chief agent in securing to the Union the annexation of the territory now known as California, and her great great grandfather was the Richard Stockton who, with President John Witherspoon, represented Princeton as the signer of the Declaration of Independence. Miss Stockton was forty-one years old.
Sunday, June 30, 1895
Paper: New York Herald
MISS CAROLINE B. STOCKTON
Miss Caroline Bayard Stockton, who died at her home in Princeton, N.J., on Wednesday night, was buried yesterday in the Old Princeton Cemetery. Miss Stockton was the oldest Daughter of the late Richard Stockton, treasurer of the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company and of Caroline Bayard Dodd. She was also a sister of Bayard Stockton, the Prosecuting Attorney of Mercer county; a neice of John P. Stockton, Attorney General of New Jersey, and of General Robert G. Stockton, president of the United Companies of New Jersey. Her grandfather was Commodore Stockton, famous as the chief agent in securing to the Union the annexation of the territory now known as California, and her great great grandfather was the Richard Stockton who, with President John Witherspoon, represented Princeton as the signer of the Declaration of Independence. Miss Stockton was forty-one years old.
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