Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Seventh Generation1783. Angeline ACKLEY was born about 1824 in Ohio.807 She appeared in the census in 1850 in Illinois. She was living in 1850 in Concord, Bureau , Illinois.807 Angeline
ACKLEY and Abraham SMITH were married on 13 Jul 1841 in Kendall , Illinois.807,1543,1556 marriage license # IL 12
Abraham SMITH1557
(son of Living and Living) was born on 7 Jul 1819 in Morgan , Ohio.807,1557 He
appeared in the census in 1850 in Illinois. About 1850 he was Farmer
at Concord, Bureau , Illinois.807
He was living in 1850 in Concord, Bureau , Illinois.807 Biography of1558
ABRAHAM SMITH, farmer, Sections 5, 8 and 9, P. O. Yates Center, came to Kansas
in July, 1860. He located in Allen County on a farm, where he remained until
1870, when he came to his present location. He has served with credit for himself
and with entire satisfaction to the people as Sheriff of Woodson County two successive
terms. He enlisted in Company G, Ninth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, in September,
1861, and was mustered in January, 1862. Served three years and four months,
and was principally engaged in escorting trains, hunting guerrillas, fighting
bushwhackers, scouting, skirmishing, and doing border service generally. He was
mustered out in January, 1865. He had numerous hairbreadth escapes while in the
army and while Sheriff. The first time Humboldt was sacked by the rebels he was
taken prisoner and held for two days, but escaped by strategy. The second time
he was captured he escaped while under fire of six guns, being chased over two
miles and having thirty shots fired at him. While on advance guard in the Army
in Arkansas in 1864, he and two others were fired at from the brush at close
range, while crossing a creek bridge, there being about 200 shots fired without
effect. While Sheriff, he was in two shooting affairs, but has never yet been
touched by a ball. He was born in Morgan County, Ohio, July 7, 1819, son of Joseph
and Hannah Smith. He lived in his native county ten years, McLean County, Ill.,
three years, Putnam County one year, Kendall County about seventeen years, and
Bureau County ten years, and then came to Kansas in 1860. He was married in Kendall
County, Ill., July 10, 1841, to Angeline Ackley, who is a native of Ohio, and
daughter of Ezra and Elsie Ackley. They have nine children living--Ellen F.,
Phoebe Ann, Laura A. H., Francis M., Mary H., Elizabeth, Chester, Ada E. and
Charles A. While a boy, George L. was killed while in the line of duty during
the war of the rebellion. His oldest boy, Joseph Ezra, died when about six years
old. Mr. Smith is one of the most extensive farmers in Woodson County, having
a farm of 600 acres near Yates Center. He is one of our enterprising and most
reliable business men, and in the discharge of his duties while Sheriff he knew
no fear, and was a terror to evil-doers, making one of the most efficient officers
of the law ever intrusted with that position in the county.
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