Seventh Generation

2158. John Tour ACKLEY⁵⁰¹ was born on 3 Jul 1825 in Sugar Loaf, Orange, New York.^{480,501,573,978} He appeared in the following News Article from the New York Times on 25 Jun 1858 in New York City, New York MARRIED

ACKLEY_WESTERVELT- On Wednesday, June 23, by the Rev. Abram D. Gilliette, John T Ackley to Sarah J., eldest daughter of Cornrlius Westervelt Jr He was living in 1860 in Orange , New York.⁴⁷⁹ census spells last name Ackey On 13 Jun 1870 he was a farmer at Goshen, Orange , New York.⁴⁸⁰ He was living between 1870 and 1880 in Goshen, Orange , New York.^480,573 Between 1888 and 1890 he was Agent, 514 W. 48th N. Y. at Brooklyn, Kings , New York.⁹⁶⁴ He lived at 369 Greene avenue in Brooklyn, Kings , New York between 1888 and 1890.⁹⁶⁴ He died on 1 Apr 1898 in Brooklyn, Kings , New York.⁸³⁶ His Obituary appeared in the Middletown Daily Argus on 2 Apr 1898 in Middletown, Orange , New York John T Ackley, seventy-three years old, of No. 369 Greene avenue, Brooklyn, was taken suddenly ill while walking in Lexington avenue, that city, yesterday morning, and died a few minutes later in a house to which he had been removed.
Mr. Ackley was born in Orange county in 1825. After being graduated at the Chester Academy, he went to New York and entered a commercial house. When gold was discovered in California, Mr Ackley started at once for San Francisco, where he arrived in August 1849. He engaged in the hardware business for many years. About the time of the war he retired from business and came back to the east. After living for nineteen years in Goshen, he removed to Brooklyn, where he had lived for fourteen years. A widow and five children survive him.
The funeral will be held at the house on Monday morning at 10 o'clock. His Funeral Notice appeared Middletown Daily Argus on 4 Apr 1898 in Middletown, Orange , New York The funeral of John T Ackley was held at 10 o'clock, this morning, in New York City. The deceased had numerous relatives in this village He appeared in the census 1860, 1870 & 1880 in New York. . Having received the ordinary opportunities of a district school education, at the age of sixteen he went into the busy world to carve out a fortune for himself. For one year he was clerk in the store of William N. White, of Newburg, and for two years following he was a clerk in his father's store at Chester. He then spent one year as a student at the Farmers' Hall Academy at Goshen, and in 1845 went to New York, where he remained for four years as book-keeper for the firm of Furman & Davis.
In 1849 he went to San Francisco, Cal., where he carried on, on his own account, successfully the hardware and tin business for six years. Returning to New York, he remained there in business until 1865, when he came to Goshen, purchased a farm of 241 acres of land, upon which he has resided ever since.
Mr. Ackley's life has been, thus far, one of activity, industry, and self-reliance, for which he has been rewarded with a fair competence.

John Tour ACKLEY and Sarah Jane WESTERVELT were married on 23 Jun 1858.^{480,573,978,1867,1870} Sarah Jane WESTERVELT (daughter of Living) was born in Jan 1842 in New York.^{480,551,573,574,962} She was living between 1900 and 1910 in Brooklyn, Kings , New York.^551,574 She died on 24 Jun 1918 in Kings , New York.⁹⁶² She appeared in the census 1870, 1880 & 1900, 1910 in New York. She has Death Cert # 13916⁹⁶² John Tour ACKLEY and Sarah Jane WESTERVELT had the following children:

+3630	i.	Minnie Augusta ACKLEY1871 appeared in the census 1870 & 1880 in New York. She was born on 11 May 1859 in New York City, New York.480,501,573,978,1867,1872 Glora B. Jamison has middle initial as A She died on 16 Nov 1936 in Port Washington, Nassau, New York.1867,1872
+3631	ii.	Edward H ACKLEY was born on 31 Jul 1861 in New York City, New York.480,501,551,573,978,1386,1693,1873 In 1888/89 he was Salesman at Brooklyn, Kings , New York.964 He lived at 369 Greene avenue in Brooklyn, Kings , New York in 1888/89.964 On 22 Jan 1920 he was Jewlery Manufacturing at Newark, Essex, New Jersey.1873 He appeared in the census in 1920 in New Jersey. He was living in 1920 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey.1873 He appeared in the census in 1930 in Florida. He was living in 1930 in Winter Haven, Polk , Florida.1693 He appeared in the census 1870, 1880 & 1900 in New York.
+3632	iii.	Jeanne M "Jennie" ACKLEY1874 was born on 9 Apr 1873 in Goshen, Orange , New York.501,573,978,1875 She appeared in the census in 1880 in New York. She appeared in the following News Article from the Brooklyn Eagle on 16 Jan 1893 in Brooklyn, Kings , New York MARRIED Hill-Ackley- On January 14, 1893, by the Rev. Charles W. Homer, Jeanne M. Ackley and Francis C Hill She died of cancer on 20 Mar 1912 in Brooklyn, Kings , New York.1875 She was buried on 22 Mar 1912 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.1875
3633	iv.	Edith ACKLEY appeared in the census 1880 & 1900 in New York. She was born in Mar 1875 in New York.501,551,573,978
+3634	v.	John Westervelt ACKLEY appeared in the census 1880 & 1900 in New York.978 He appeared in the census 1920 & 1930 in New Jersey. He was born on 9 Jun 1877 in Goshen, Orange , New York.4,501,551,573,1182,1523,1671,1873,1876,1877 He was passenger on 28 Oct 1903 on the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada1673 He was passenger on 10 May 1913 on the Cherbourg, Manche, France1673 He registered for the draft in 1917/18 in Union , New Jersey1182 states he works in NY City He was living between 1919 and 1930 in Rahway, Union , New Jersey.1671,1873,1876 He was passenger on 19 Nov 1919 on the Le Havre, Seine-Inferior, France1673 On 2 Jan 1920 he was Commercial Metals at Rahway, Union , New Jersey.1873 On 25 Apr 1930 he was Manufacture Steel Drums at Rahway, Union , New Jersey.1876 He died on 8 May 1964 in Rahway, Union , New Jersey.1523,1878 His Death Notice appeared in the The New York Times on 11 May 1964 in New York City, New York ACKLEY-John Westervelt, of Rahway, N J, on May 8, beloved husband of Mary Louise McFarland, devoted father of Mary Louise Yeckley, Jean Vail, Alexander McF. Ackley and John W Ackley Jr., also surviving are nine grandchildren. Services at his home, 322 W Emerson Ave., 3 PM on Monday. Please omit flowers. His Social Security Number was 085-01-5506 NY.1523