My paternal 5x GGrandmother Sarah Jane was born to Susanna and Jehu Price on September 4, 1762 in Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. She married John Parker in 1782, and had one son. Poor Mr. Parker died in 1788.
In 1790 she married Daniel Ackley with whom she had six children. But was widowed again in 1815 when Daniel drowned. One account is told of Sarah packing up and, with seven children in tow, she "traveled unescorted with her family" to what is now Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Sarah Ackley died in September of 1851 at age 89. In 1940 she was honored with a monument placed near the Ackley Creek near where she had homesteaded. See her plaque below.
-- The Daily Notes newspaper in Canonsburg, PA, on Monday, August 5, 1940, pages 1 and 3.
-- The Daily Notes paper published this on June 21, 1938, page 1.
The 1940 paper above mentioned Lucille Ackley Carroll. If you are my paternal 1st or 2nd cousin and wonder how you relate to her or to Daniel and Sarah (Price) Ackley, this may help.
That same Sam Ackley was buried near Lake Keystone in Pawnee County, Oklahoma.
My paternal ancestors moved from Pennsylvania to Indian Territory in the 1870s and lived--by permission from the Cherokee Nation, in rural Mayes County. A few are buried near where they once lived. The town called Bethel is no more. But its cemetery remains.
When I first searched for the grave of my father's great-grandfather, burial records were scant online. Findagrave had a mere four million memorials. I was new to genealogy. Where to begin?
My Great-Aunt Lois Childers told me her husband Sam's grandpa was buried in the Alberty Cemetery between Pryor and Chouteau. But warned me his tombstone had not been there when they last visited in 1989. The cemetery was knee-high with weeds that hot day they climbed the hill. Sam's first cousin, Adolphus "Bob" Ackley and wife Annie, had asked to see Bob's grandfather's grave.
Bob Ackley filmed their hike into the brush. The Alberty graveyard search begins one minute 55 seconds into this video:
I first visited the Alberty Cemetery in February 2005 after locating a copy of an article from The Daily Times newspaper in Pryor Creek. Writer Kathy Parker detailed the extensive cleanup performed that Spring by Florene Gass, her son Charles Gass, his wife Barbara Gass, and Florene's sister Della Mae Deason.
Just in time for Memorial Day. Stilwell family's search for the past finds forgotten cemetery -- Kathy Parker, May 23, 2004.
It had been years since Florene Gass and Della Mae Deason visited their grandmother's grave.
"I only remember being here one time (as a child)," Florene said.
So finding their way back to what had become a forgotten place proved to be a challenge.
The two women now live in Stilwell and were surprised to find old familiar landmarks such as Cry Baby Bridge were gone.
"We only knew how to get here across the bridge (Cry Baby Bridge)," Florene's sister Della Mae said.
But eventually they found Alberty Cemetery, a place once called Bethel.
When they got there, they could hardly find the grave.
The cemetery had gone back to woods.There were big trees, small trees, briars, brambles, weeds and varmints.Trees had grown up through some graves. A once well-tended graveyard was impassable.
Buck Franklin who leases the land from the Corps of Engineers provided access for the sisters through a gate he had built off Highway 412A near the Chouteau power plant.
"I just thought somebody ought to see what they (Florene and Della Mae) have done in there," Franklin said.
What they've "done in there" is no small feat since there were only three and sometimes four to do the cleaning, all women save one. Making several trips from Stilwell, they brought their own equipment and bought the gas to run it.
Florene said it's what they had to do once they found the place.
"Mom thought a grave ought to look like a grave," she said, "so we pulled all the grass off."
The grave was Florene's grandmother Sarah Jane Shephard, whose headstone bears the years 1866 to 1934. They also have another ancestor buried in the cemetery, Katherine (Bond) Clinton.
Franklin and his father, who leased the land before him, put up the gate because the cemetery was being so badly defaced. Franklin's father also put a fence around the cemetery, which had people buried in it as recently as the 1970s.
Since that time the woods have reclaimed the burial plots.
In fact, about 10 years ago several of the gravestones were removed and thrown off Cry Baby Bridge. GRDA came in with their equipment to salvage the stones.
Deason and Gass started with their grandmother's grave but the whole cemetery was such a mess, cleaning one grave was "like spitting in the ocean." So, along with Florene's son Charles and his wife Barbara, they have been cleaning and clearing the cemetery. A map at Pryor's library calls the place Bethel Cemetery. Bethel Church once stood nearby along with a community including New Canaan School according to Franklin. The map suggests the area was at one time known as the McNair School District before World War II.
The road is now cleared to the cemetery, and I called the MidAmerica Industrial Plant to set up a time for someone to let me through the locked gate. Once through, it was about a mile into the woods.
The cemetery is T-shaped, divided into an older part running north and south and a newer part running east and west.
Buried in the older part are 19 people who were born before 1850. Over half the people buried in the old section died before 1890. It seems there are more children and infants than adults in the cemetery. One plot holds an entire family which died within a week of each other in 1932."
Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA)'s right-of-way crew, Bruce Willis, Jerry Harris, Nathan Willis and Todd Hayes, mowed the approach to the cemetery and Steve Stough of the excavating crew graded the road.
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If you had family who once lived near Bethel in Mayes County, you may be interested in what occurred there during World War II.
In 1941 DuPont Company began building a munitions plant near the Alberty Cemetery in Bethel. TNT and Tetryl (a detonator) were produced at this powder plant. It created thousands of jobs for workers during this Depression era. Much-needed jobs. Read this from the Oklahoma Historical Society. The numbers are amazing: https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=OK069
Today that area is the property of MidAmerica Industrial Park. Those interested in visiting the Alberty Cemetery should first contact MidAmerica to request permission. https://maip.com/
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:
My paternal 1st cousin 3x removed, Ben Ackley, gave a lady a ride. But what a harrowing time it became for this young couple after a child was killed:
-- From The Daily Ardmoreite newspaper, Ardmore, Oklahoma, published May 21, 1922, p. 1.
Ackley, a World War I veteran, was a barber in the nearby community of Keystone where many of my dad's family lived. Young Ben would later marry in November of that year.
The other headlines? Terrorists, lynchings, posses chasing prisoners. Good grief! When next you hear "Let's bring back the good old days," DO suggest to said feeb that they read an online newspaper archive.
This from the May 21, 1922 edition of TheAbilene Reporter, Abilene, Texas, p. 5.
-- The Morning Tulsa Daily World, May 24, 1922, at p. 8.
Both morning and evening papers carried this story. Do you recall a time when your town had twice-daily paper delivery?
Below is the article from page 13 of The Morning Tulsa Daily World, May 27, 1922. And yes, I enjoy the articles surrounding the cause célèbre, too.
Finally, the case was DISMISSED. The May 28, 1922 edition of The Tulsa Daily World, p. 3 has:
Poor little Thelma had lost her life. Rest in peace, dear.
Thanks to old newspapers I finally found a death date for my distant cousin. Plus his photo in a database of seaman records! I already knew of a death date. But i HAD NO PROOF until now. Proof of sorts, that is, as newspapers are considered secondary sources--not primary.
But let's not quibble. With this data I can now search for a death certificate on FamilySearch.org which has uploaded Los Angeles County death certificates (albeit WITHOUT an index). He was only 48 when he died, and I want to know why. And where is he interred?
Source: The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, CA, USA: The Los Angeles Times, 1881-1894, Historical Newspapers, Birth, Marriage, & Death Announcements, 1851-2003 via Ancestry.com. NOTE: Alas, no date is given on the clipping nor page number.
When a toddler, his name appeared in a Nebraska census as "Owen G. Ackley." But later his signatures and records reflected "Glenn Witham Ackley." Did he dislike Owen and went with Glenn, do you know? I like to note both legal and "go by" names in my gedcom. For now I'll stick with Glenn. And his middle name of Witham? That was his mother's maiden name. Mary taught school in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory for many years, BTW. Here's Glenn with his parents, Mary and "F.M. Ackley," near the bottom of this 1890 Territorial Census page:
Also, how neat is this: Ancestry has Merchant Marine files online. Chock full of details. From this I learned Glenn was 5'6 1/2" tall, with brown hair and eyes, dark complexion, and with a scar on his thumb--to boot. He was living at 519 Beacon Street in Los Angeles, which Google now tells me is in San Pedro. (Not to worry. YOUR data will all be online too someday, but we'll be long dead. Oh, wait. ? )
Other cousins had "West Virginia" as Glenn's birthplace. But with no proof attached. However in this Application For Original License to become "Third Mate of Ocean Steam Vessels of any gross tons" dated 16 Dec 1918, I learned Glenn was born in Mason County, West Virginia on 16 August 1882.
Glenn applied a second time a few years later. That 1923 doc is attached in this same image gallery below. See eight pages here:
Source: U.S., Merchant Marine Applications for License of Officers, 1914-1949 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Records of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Merchant Marine Applications for Licenses of Officers. NAI: 7591749 Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard. National Archives at Riverside, California.
While in the Port of San Francisco, he received his Citizen Seaman's Identification Card of December 1918. He had served on board the S.S. Maine ("Remember The Maine". No, not that one) and hoped to serve on the S.S. China. Glenn is 36, and apparently grew a half inch from when he met with the Merchant Marines. Hey, I love a document with a photo. Yea, Glenn. Happy to see your face!
Source: From: U.S., Applications for Seaman's Protection Certificates, 1916-1940 via Ancestry, Washington, D.C.; The National Archives and Records Administration; Application for Seaman´s Protection Certificates; NAI: 2788575; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation; Record Group Number: 41; Box Number: 001 - Sa
Last is Glenn's draft card of September 11, 1918. He's staying at the Ocean View Hotel in San Pedro, California, working for S.W. Ship Building Co. as a "Ship-fitter." His sister Edna is his contact person: Mrs. E. L. Blincoe 532 West 51st St., Los Angeles. Go ahead. Google that address. The building is no longer there, but I like seeing places that once were.
NOTE TO CURIOUS COUSINS: Glenn Ackley and I both descend from Samuel Ackley and his wife, Sarah Rush. His father, Francis, and my 2xGGrandmother Lucy were siblings. Both children of Sam and Sarah.
My paternal third great-uncle, Abraham Lincoln Ackley, was mentioned in a San Francisco newspaper one summer in 1891. I was happy to find this article on GenealogyBank this morning.
Abe and his brothers, along with their dad, Sam Ackley, operated ferries that carried people, animals, and supplies across both the Cimarron and Arkansas Rivers in what is today eastern Oklahoma.
As an added bonus, you get to read Women & Cigars next to a charming illustration of that medical giant, Dr. Sweany:
ONE SMALL QUIBBLE: Tulsa was then (and is now) in Creek Nation. The "mouth of the Cimarron" River may have been near Keystone, which was in Pawnee Nation, Oklahoma Territory. (My Ackleys lived in O.T. until Oklahoma became a state in 1907). So I will forgive a reporter from a Fort Smith, Arkansas paper who may have considered anything west of the Arkansas River part of that wild and woolly frontier, "Cherokee Nation." This murder may very well have occurred in Osage Nation, as I find a "Salt Creek" listed near Grainola, Oklahoma.
Source: The Morning Call (newspaper), San Francisco, Calif., Friday, June 26, 1891, Vol. 70, page 8
Google told me of the recent death of a third cousin. One whose grandparents I had been researching. A fascinating cousin from my home state. But first, some background. If ancestral lines bore you to tears, then please DO skip to the bottom of this page.
This same cousin's third great-grandparents, Samuel Ackley and Sarah Rush Ackley, are also my third Greats. Some readers will recall seeing Sarah pictured here with her teenage daughter, our 2xGreat-Grandma, Lucy Ackley Childers (1864-1888). Lucy's dad Sam is pictured below. The Ackleys first entered Indian Territory from Kansas in March of 1878, and settled in Chouteau for a short while.
Sarah and Sam Ackley had eight children. Are you my paternal cousin? Our ancestor Lucy was their second to last child. Her brother Francis was Sarah and Sam's second son. Francis allegedly hated his name and went by "Marian." (I know of a famous Marion who loathed HIS name. He chose to go by "John Wayne").
My 2xG-Uncle Marian was born 1855 and died in Myton, Utah in 1929. Like his dad, he frequently moved around. And I mean OFTEN.
At age 30 Marian graduated from Starling College in Ohio in 1885, as evidenced by this card from a database on Familysearch.org called the U.S. Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968. That college later became Ohio State University.
Dr. Ackley practiced medicine in several states and Indian Territory. I think he resembles the actor Rod Steiger:
Dr. Fran, I mean, Marian Ackley was living near his parents in what is today Chouteau, Oklahoma. He was mentioned in The Indian Chieftain newspaper published in nearby Vinita, Cherokee Nation. See page 3 of the March 31, 1887 edition. The second article is from December 4, 1890. I was happy to find these!
The M, K & T house was where the employees of the Missouri, Kansas, Texas railroad were housed. It was famously known then as "The Katy railroad." Why, Dr. Ackley's younger brother Henry met his bride outside Chouteau while working on the railroad, I was pleased to learn.The Katy also enabled my family from upstate Missouri to travel through Indian Territory to northern Texas with much greater ease. A trip that would have normally taken weeks.
Marian's death certificate from Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964, database with images, via FamilySearch.org. Don't cringe! Death, marriage and birth certificates are primary sources for family historians.
MARY, MARY & MARY: Dr. Ackleymarried Mary Witham in 1880. They divorced in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory after about 12 years. His second wife was Mary Jane Speed. His third wife was Mary Slater. Marian Ackley had three children with the first two wives. Got that? It was exhausting researching his Marys and children, let me tell you.
It was with the first Mary that Dr. Ackley had daughter Edna Rowena Ackley (1885-1930). Edna's mum Mary is listed here in the 1907 Guthrie City Directory as "widowed." She wasn't a widow, but women frequently used that title rather than label themselves as "divorced." I googled this address but found only a Zillow listing for a home built in 1940.
A distant cousin writes that Edna Rowena once sang opera to audiences, flew airplanes, and lived in Greenwich Village. I hope to find articles confirming I'm indeed related to a high-flying diva who lived a century ago. (UPDATE: Hey, Dawn! -- Edna sounds fascinating! As more newspapers are archived/digitized, let's hope we find mention of our fun-girl Edna in a NYC paper or an early Studio-54-type mention on a society page).
In 1903, 18 year old Edna Rowena married recently-widowed 52 year old Edward Lee Blincoe in Oklahoma Territory.Their only son Edward Jr. was born in nearby Guthrie in 1907.
Edna's husband Edward, Sr. died in 1919, and later, Edna at age 45. (Only one month before her brother Glenn passed. See my later post about Glenn). Edna is buried in Glendale, California near her son "ByronHaven Blincoe."
I'm grateful to Edna's descendant (and my 4th cousin) who left two comments on her memorial page that speak volumes:
Edward Blincoe, Jr. is mentioned in a Who's WHO of California book with his hobbies as "swimming, sailing, research in astrology." His death certificate indicates he was a minister and philosopher. He ran for California State Senate in 1966.
In 1933 Edward married Margaret Shawn of Philadelphia. Their daughter Barbara Rowena was born in Hollywood in 1936. She later changed her name to Spira DeWilde. It is SPIRA who recently died, and whose first husband identified her as "the original hippie."
I find this family fascinating. Please see her obituary with photos of Spira and her art:
My paternal third great-grand uncle, John Ackley, is my hero du jour. Meet Dr. Daddy Hague:
--FROM THE ATHENS MESSENGER AND HERALD newspaper, Athens, Ohio, 8 AUG 1895, p. 5.
TRANSCRIPTION READS:
JOHN ACKLEY DEAD
Everybody was startled and surprised when it was announced Saturday morning that John Ackley died Friday of apoplexy at his home a short distance south of Mechanicsburg. He had been apparently in his usual health until within a few hours of his death. Mr. Ackley was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania May 31, 1825. His mother died when he was but 11 years old and he lived with his father until he was twenty years old, working on a farm and attending common school in the winter. In 1846 he entered the Ohio University and took an irregular course, studying and teaching till 1849 when he was elected Surveyor of Athens County and continued in office six years.
However, on account of his superior knowledge of the plat of the county, he has been engaged in surveying in this county ever since quitting the Surveyor's office. In his later years he amused himself by sending contributions to his party paper, calling attention to the eccentricities of the Republican leaders and displaying no mean ability as a humorous writer. These letters always appeared over the signature of Daddy Hague, MD. Mr. Ackley was a good citizen, and a public servant whose advice and knowledge of the surveys of the county will be greatly missed.
He was a member of the State Board of Equalization for the ninth senatorial district, composed of Athens, Hocking And Fairfield Counties for the last decennial period.
The funeral services occurred Monday afternoon and the remains were interred in the Haning Cemetery.
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FYI to my relatives: John Ackley was an older brother to Samuel Ackley-- both sons of Jehu Ackley (b.1798 New Jersey) and Elizabeth (Ator) Ackley (born in the Netherlands). Yes, that's right. My father's third great-grandmother was allegedly born in Holland, according to our cousin, Adolphus W. Ackley, Jr.
Those of us who descend from Eva (Baker) and Sam Childers might recall John Ackley's little brother, Sam Ackley (1827-1908). THAT same Sam homesteaded in Oklahoma Territory after the 1893 Cherokee Strip land run, made his final home in Keystone, Oklahoma, and was the grandfather to Sam Childers (1881-1962).
BTW, I'm STILL looking for old letters to the editor signed by Daddy Hague. Will update should I find some in newspaper archives. What a guy!
I have little proof that my ancestor, Richard "Dick" Childers, once existed. No birth or death records are known. The cemetery where he was buried has been repeatedly vandalized, and his tombstone long gone. There is no one alive today who knows his parents' history. When I was five years old I saw his son, the only person I've met who actually knew Dick Childers. But his son, Henry Sam, was orphaned at age nine when his father died in February 1891. I am told Henry Sam was asked many times about his parents over the years. He remembered little. No known letter about Dick's family tree exists by anyone who talked with him. There are a few recorded memories from family who talked with those who once knew him.
My Great Aunt Lois, our Childers' family historian, once showed me a copy of a marriage record for Lucy Ackley and Richard Childers. A marriage performed by Robert McGill Loughridge on June 18, 1879 in Creek Nation, Indian Territory at the Tallahassee Mission, several miles from what is now Muskogee, Oklahoma. Sometimes called "Tullahassee," this mission served as a Creek Nation boarding school. Dr. Loughridge was both school superintendent and a popular ordained minister who performed many marriages.
The mission building later burned. Here is a photograph:
Lucy and Richard do not appear in the Federal Census for 1880 because they were not living in the USA, but instead living in what was then called Indian Territory. Neither do their names appear on any of the 30+ tribal censuses or rolls.
Their first-known child, Henry Samuel Childers, was born May 19, 1881 near Fort Gibson, Creek Nation--now in Muskogee County, Oklahoma.
Daughter Sara Anna was born July 2, 1883 near Fort Gibson, Sara lived but two years, dying in nearby Catoosa, Cherokee Nation, on July 19th. Her mother died nearly five years later in Catoosa, in February 1888. I've spent many hours reading archived newspapers for a mention of their passing. Death notices were not a paper's regular feature as is found today. Nor do I know in whose home they were living shortly before their deaths. One might assume it was Lucy and Richard's home. However, I was told by my Great-Aunt Lois Childers that the young couple had separated a short time before Lucy became ill. Perhaps she was living with a brother's family?
I next find a "Dick Childers" in an 1890 census for Cherokee Nation residents. He is not listed with tribal members, but is shown with other white people who are "living under permit" in the Cooweescoowee District. His home is near his wife's brother's family, Henry Wilson Ackley, in what I believe to be present-day Mayes County, specifically the Hogan Township.
Assuming this is my ancestor, the second person in Childers' household would have been his young son, Henry Sam. The 1890 Cherokee Nation shows cousin Henry and his brother-in-law Dick as:
1. H.W. ACKLEY, age 31, five (5) in household, arrived in I.T. in 1878, --census page 119
2. Dick CHILDERS, age 33, two (2) in household, arrived in I.T. in 1874, --census page 120
I was thrilled to find this record in both a book and on microfilm in the Bartlesville (Oklahoma) Library. This was a memorable day for me as it was also the occasion of Robert Plant's appearing in Tulsa that evening at the legendary Cains Ballroom. March 11, 2005. Perhaps you heard me hollering for joy? Please see several pictures from the book here, and yes, that is my thumb:
Some family researchers have guessed Richard Childers' birth date to be a few years later. I'm going with 1857 based on the Bartlesville Library find. I can be persuaded otherwise if any Kind Reader cares to share a birth record. A census record?
Territory newspapers are slowly going online. I was happy to find this clipping of the February 2, 1891 death of Dick's brother-in-law, Henry Wilson Ackley. Family historian Lois Childers told me the two men had died within days of each other in the same locale.
Source: The Indian Chieftain newspaper located in Vinita, Indian Territory, published February 5, 1891.
I am told Dick and his young son, Henry Sam, had lived near Dick's own family at that time. Were they his parents or siblings, I don't know. Lois Childers told me her father-in-law (Henry Sam Childers) couldn't recall their names, as he was a young boy when he last saw them.
I have scoured the Cherokee and Creek Nation censuses, and have become quite familiar with the ancestry of several Childers' families. Those who are tribal members have well documented family trees going back to the early 1800s, long before President Andy Jackson sent them packing. Some of these Childers fought for the Confederacy under Stand Watie, a Cherokee general. A colorful family, some later became lawmen, judges, ran ferries on the Arkansas River, owned thousands of cattle in what is now Tulsa County, and sent their children to be educated in Pennsylvania.
One family in particular descends from a Scotsman, William Childers, a trusted employee of famed Cherokee leader Major Ridge. This William married Maria Shoe Boots, a Cherokee daughter of a former enslaved woman. After the Civil War when Indian Territory was in tumult, several of their sons asked to leave the Cherokee tribe and join Creek Nation. These Childers were accepted, and their descendants are Creek Nation members still today.
If my Childers connect with any of the many other Childers living in Indian Territory 125 years ago, I've not yet found Dick's family. Nor any connection.
Adding to the challenge are the varying birthplaces listed on the censuses for Dick's son, Henry Sam. U.S. federal censuses for decades have asked the birth location of each citizen's parents--father first, then a mother's birth state. Sounds great, huh? It isn't. Very often someone other than the person who knew correct information might answer the door to speak with the census taker. Men were often out working and their wives or mother-in-laws answered census questions. Or worse, the neighbors sometimes gave answers about a family living nearby who were unavailable to the census person.
Here is what census records show for the birth locations of the parents of Henry Sam Childers:
1900 Federal Census: Teenager Sam is living with his Ackley grandparents in Pawnee, Oklahoma Territory. His parents' birthplaces are listed as North Carolina and West Virginia. Mom Lucy WAS born in Marshall County, West Virginia. Bingo! (Lucy's info is correct).
1910 Federal Census: Sam is living in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, with his young wife, Evie, and two young children. His parents' birthplace are shown as: West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
1920 Federal Census: Sam and Evie are in Tulsa County, with Virginia and Kansas as his parents' birth states.
1930 Federal Census: Still in Tulsa County, Sam's parents are shown as having been born in West Virginia and Kansas. (really!)
1940 Federal Census: Sam is in Weslaco, Texas, but that census broke rank and didn't ask about parents that year.
NOTE: West Virginia seceded from Virginia in 1863. If his parents HAD been born there, surely he would recall it as "Virginia"--not West Virginia. We know his mom Lucy was born in 1864 in the state whose college football team soundly beat the Oklahoma Sooners at the Fiesta Bowl on January 2, 2008. What's that? The score was 48 to 28, thanks for asking!
From 1940 to 1946 over ten million American men were called to register for military service in the second World War. As of September 2014, there is only one set of these draft cards made available to the public (due to privacy concerns). It is a WONDERFUL collection for family history buffs to view because of what each card details:
Name of registrant
Age
Birth date
Birthplace
Residence
Employer information
Name and address of person who would always know the registrant's whereabouts
Physical description (race, height, weight, eye and hair colors, complexion)
The handwritten signature of the registrant.
This indexed collection is called Fourth Registration, often referred to as the "old man's registration," and was conducted on 27 April 1942 with men born on or between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897 - men who were between 45 and 64 years old.
Cards from Samuel & Sarah (Rush) Ackley's Oklahoma born grandchildren include, Henry's two sons, Adolphus and Jess. Lucy's son, Henry Childers. Abe's son, Benjamine Franklin, and Sherman's son, Reed Ackley.
