| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Seventh Generation2384. Melissa E ACKLEY1091 was born on 4 Aug 1833 in Gowanda, Cattauraugus , New York.5,226,374,1085,2042 She appeared in the census in 1850 in New York. She died on 26 Jun 1912 in Gowanda, Cattauraugus , New York.1085,2042 She was buried in Broadway Cemetery, Gowanda, Cattauraugus , New York.1085 Melissa E ACKLEY and Anson Emera ALVERSON were married
on 26 Apr 1852 in Gowanda, Cattauraugus , New York.5,226,1082,1091,2042,2043 Elizabeth
Arkanoff has place as Persia, Gowanda, New York Anson
Emera ALVERSON2044
(son of Emery ALVERSON and Mary Ann STRONG) was born on 17 Sep 1832 in Gerry,
Chautauqua, New York.1085,2042 He died on 23 May 1919 in
Gowanda, Cattauraugus , New York.1085,2042 He was buried in Broadway
Cemetery, Gowanda, Cattauraugus , New York.1085,2045 Biography of2046 Anson E. ALVERSON, son of Emory and Mary A. (STRONG)
ALVERSON, was born in Gerry, N. Y., Sept. 17, 1832. His grandfather, James R.
ALVERSON, a soldier in the War of 1812 and a native of Connecticut, came to Gerry
from Vermont at a very early day. He held town offices and raised a large family.
Emory ALVERSON, born in Brattleboro, Vt., in 1806, married Mary Ann, daughter
of Gilbert STRONG, about 1830. In 1836 he removed to Gowanda and purchased a
manufactory for making pails and tubs. In 1850 he exchanged this for the old
Point Peter farm. In 1856 he joined his son Anson E. in Lawrence, Kan., and died
in Clay county, Kan., in 1881. Mrs. ALVERSON died in 1857. Anson E. ALVERSON
finished his education in the academy at Ellington, N. Y. April 26, 1852, he
married Melissa, daughter of Ira W. and Mary (SEABROOK) ACKLEY, and settled on
the homestead, when he went to Lawrence, Kan., and joined the Emigrant Aid Society
from Massachusetts, being one of the 107 founders of that settlement. In the
summer of 1859 he and his father made an overland trip to Denver, Col., with
four ox-teams. Mr. ALVERSON is a natural mechanic and assisted his father-in-law
as a millwright. In 1860 he returned to this county and settled in Cattaraugus
village. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 64th N. Y. Vols., and was discharged
Feb. 23, 1863, for disability. He served as private, corporal, and sergeant.
In Oct., 1863, he went to the oil regions of Rouseville, PA., where he was a
laborer, a well-driller, and an oil producer until 1875. He then removed to Cattaraugus.
In 1888 he visited Virginia, Chicago, Duluth, and Washington territory, where
he remained four years. He is now a farmer just outside the corporation of Gowanda.
Mr. ALVERSON served as highway commissioner of New Albion in 1883 and built the
first iron bridge in that town. Children: Rollin A., born in 1853, died in Lawrence
in Aug., 1855; Mary U., born in 1856, married Thomas BABB, of Cattaraugus, and
resides in Chicago; Corlin E., born in 1860; George S., born in 1864; Nathan
A., born in Dec., 1869; and Chanley W., born in 1875.
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