Abe Ackley's 650 Pound Hog

When he wasn't running a ferry at the Cimarron River, Abe Ackley was tending to his "fine lot of hogs."

Ackley's home was located upwind on property outside of Keystone, Oklahoma Territory. That same land is now part of Keystone Lake. See his big-pig story in the column on the right:


As an added bonus to locating an article about an ancestor, is finding it next to a piece on famous outlaws, The Dalton Gang and Bill Doolan. The snit between the two newspapers is a hoot, too. 

FYI, Abraham Lincoln Ackley (1862-1943) was my paternal 3x great-uncle. Abe appears elsewhere on this site at: 

       https://treepig.posthaven.com/1890-murder-in-indian-territory