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Person · 1897-1988

Estelle Van Zandt Ashton was born in 1897. She graduated from the Model School in 1916 (along with her brother Henry Rusling Ashton). She then went on to attend the Normal School where she graduated from the Domestic Science course in 1918. In 1928, she married Wilbur R Craig. She taught in Trenton Public Schools after graduation through the early 1930s when she moved with her husband to New York, where she also was a teacher. She died in Connecticut in 1988.

Person · 1878-1932

Sara Elizabeth Croasdale was born in 1878 in Atlantic City. She graduated from the Normal School in 1899, and went on to teach in Atlantic City Schools for over 25 years. She died in 1932, in Absecon, New Jersey.

Person · 1872-1968

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Ayars Fisher was born in 1872 to Ephraim and Rebecca Fisher in Marlboro, Cumberland County, New Jersey. According to a February 27, 1965 article in The News of Cumberland County, she taught at Harmony School before she entered the New Jersey State Normal School in September 1892. She participated in the Glee Club and played violin and piano in campus musical groups. Her glowing but very brief final evaluation in Grade Books and Reports, volume 1 on page 4, read: “Taught 3 years in ungraded school. Excellent.” She graduated in June 1895, along with her future husband Luther Sheppard Davis. She worked in Belmar Schools, then worked at a church school in Arkansas. She returned to New Jersey at the time of her marriage to Davis on July 16, 1902. They had three children: Paul G. (1904-2002; who was a superintendent of Woodridge Schools), Arthur C.R. (1905-1991), and Ephraim Fisher (1910-1992). She taught music classes in schools and community groups, gave music lessons, conducted church choruses, and was president and founding member of the Cumberland County Parent Teachers Association. She died on March 4, 1968, in Shiloh, Cumberland County, New Jersey.