Citations

Mr. Richard Henkels		Mr. Walter Gregory
Author and former resident of Somers Point		Return Richard Somers Committee
His stories include our favorites: "Somers Point Fact, Fiction and Fable," "The Pirates," and "The Bottle Fishermen."		Meeting the 8th Grade Venture students to discuss effort to return the remains of Richard Somers from Tripoli, Lybia.

 

Mrs. Sally Hastings and Mrs. Peggy Eckbold, Somers Point Historical Society, 745 Shore Road, Somers Point, NJ	Mrs. Ruth Gold, Atlantic County Historical Society, 907 Shore Road, Somers Point, NJ

 

Somers Family Memorial and Grave sites located on the grounds of old New York Avenue School (Somers Point School Administrative offices), New York Avenue and First Street, Somers Point, New Jersey.

 

The Somers Family Cemetery is located along the Mays Landing Road near the golf course. There are several old markers there that include sea captains from the 1800s.