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1910 Albert L Ivins (age 41) was a boarder in Red Bank, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [1]

1930 Albert L Ivins (age 61) and Evelina Ivins (age 58) lived at Red Bank, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [2]

1954 On June 23, Albert L Ivins died and was buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Little Silver, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [3] "The tombstone of Red Bank businessman Albert Ivins (1868-1954) and his wife Evelina (1871-1951) in the Embury United Methodist Church Evergreen Cemetery lists Mr. Ivins's champion trapshooting scores." [4] An obituary reported [5]:

Albert L. Ivins, former Red Bank assessor and Democratic member of the Monmouth County tax board and the only New Jersey man to ever win the Grand American trapshooting handicap, died early yesterday morning at his home, 108 South St., afte a long illness. He was 85.

Mr. Ivins, "Uncle Al" as he was known familiarly to his friends throughout the county, was born in Little Silver, son of the late Charles E. and Elizabeth Carpenter Ivins. A resident here 60 years, he formerly operated the A.L. Ivins real estate and insurance agency, now the Redden agency. His wife, Mrs. Evelina Forman VanMater Ivins, died Jan. 3, 1951.

Dean of Monmouth County trapshooters, Mr. Ivins first gained trapshooting fame when he won the Hollywood Futurity July 6, 1895, at Hollywood, N.J. He tied for first place in the futurity and made a perfect score in the deciding live bird shoot. On Sept. 5 of the same year, he won the Phil Daly trophy event with a 25-straight performance.

... Surviving are a nephew, Albert L. Ivins, 45 Peters Pl., Red Bank, and three nieces, Mrs. Lydia Hughes, Cincinnati, Ohio; Mrs. Nancy Famulary, Rahway; and Mrs. Lilli Wade, Newark.

The funeral will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Worden Funeral Home, with Rev. James W. Marshall, pastor of Embury Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.


Footnotes:

[1] United States Federal Census, 1910, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[2] United States Federal Census, 1930, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].

[3] Find A Grave Memorial 9380862, [FindAGrave].

[4] Karen L. Schnitzspahn, Images of America, Little Silver (Dover, N.H.:Arcadia 1996), 126.

[5] Newspaper, Red Bank Register, June 24, 1954.