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Note: 1900 U.S. Census, Sugar Loaf, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Fred Shelly,m,w,m, 21, Head, Pennsylvania,August 1878,Married 0 Years, Farmer Florence Shelly,f,w,m 18, Wife, Pennsylvania, January 1882, 0children/0alive
1910 U.S. Census, Union, Union County, New Jersey Arthur F Shelly,m,w,m, 30, Head, Pennsylvania, Married 10 years, Sewing Machines Florence M Shelly,f,w,m, 28, Wife, Pennsylvania, 2children/2alive Ruth Shelly, f,w,s, 8, Daughter, Pennsylvania Arthur C Shelly,m,w,s, 6, Son, New Jersey Samuel Grover,m,w,m, 31,Cousin, Pennsylvania, Married 4 years,Machinist Railroad Shops Cathrine Grover,f,w,m, 28, Cousin, Pennsylvania, 1 child/1alive John S Grover,m,w,s, 3, Cousin, Pennsylvania
1920 U,S. Census, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey Arthur F Shelley,m,w,m, 42,Head, Pennsylvania, Hammer Man ? Florence Shelley,f,w,m, 39, Wife, Pennsylvania Arthur C Shelley,m,w,s, 16, Son, New Jersey, Laborer Singer Mfg Ruth Shelley,f,w,s, 18, Daughter, Pennsylvania, Time Keeper Lynn R Shelley,m,w,s, 2, Son, Pennsylvania
1930 U.S. Census, Bernardsville, Somerset County, New Jersey Fredrick A Shelley,m,w,m, 50,Head, Pennsylvania, Radio, Foreman Private Estate Florence M Shelley,f,w,m, 48, Wife, Pennsylvania Lynn Shelley,m,w,s, 12, Son, Pennsylvania Lillian Kinnaird,f,w,s, 28, Servant, Rhode Island, Chambermaid Private Place Joseph Lambour,m,w,m, 60, Servant, Pennsylvania, Chauffeur Private Pla
Article Courtesy of Bernardsville Public Library
31 South Finley Ave. The building was constructed in 1868, executed in brick with a Victorian Gothic influence as evidenced in the front entrance with it double doors and the porch with it highly decorated eaves. The entire remarkable ensemble is in a state of preservation entire front facade of the building is unaltered. The bracketed comice is somewhat Italianate in feeling. The front porch, with its balustrade and woodwork is somewhat Gothic in feeling and blends well with the front doorway. The wisteria growing along the porch is very appropriate to a building of this type. The building is 5 bays long, yet only 2 bays deep. The floor plan is a two room center hall type with fireplaces in the gable walls. The lights are 4 over 4 casements with a heavy center munion and louvered shutters. The building has a flat room and is attached to another building, which pre dates the Gothic structure and is probably from the 18th century. The older building appears to have been a one and half story, two or three room cottage.The walls in this older portion have brick nogging. Brick is laid in an American or common bond and there are stone lintils over all the openings in the 1868 structure. The woodwork on this portion is quite well done ands immeasurably to this, once of the most attractive buildings in the center of Basking Ridge. It present appearance is largely due to it ownership by the local architectural firm ofHalsey and Ryder. This building is truly representative of the Hight form that vernacular architecture took in the mid 19th century in a relatively rural community like Basking Ridge. Brick buildings like this, especially in Victorian Gothic or Gothic revival style, are very rare in Somerset County.
August 20, 1959
MRS SHELLEY IS DEAD Mrs. Florence May Shelley, 79 of 31 South Finley Avenue died Monday morning in the Foothills Acres Nursing Home in Neshanic after a long illness. The widow of Arthur F. Shelley, past master of Congdon Lodge AF&M of Bernardsville. She is survived by two sons, Arthur C. of Encinco, Calif and Lyn R. of Brooklyn and one daughter, Mrs Ruth S. Dryuff of Brooklyn and Basking Ridge. Services will be held at the Garrabrant Funeral home on Friday at 230pm, Reverand Edward Maxwell, pastor of the St. Bernard Church in Bernardsville will officiate. Burial will be St. Bernard cemetery Bernardsville.
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