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2. John Denzil
ACKLEY was born on 10 May 1857 in Rose, Wayne , New York.6,7,8 1900 OR census and Ceridwen Attwood has birth year 1858
He Petition for Liquor License in 1894 Eagle Valley precinct, Union County,
Oregon. Petition for Liquor License
To the Honorable County Court of Union county, State of Oregon:
We, the undersigned citizens and voters of Eagle Valley precinct, Union County,
Oregon, most respectfully petition your Honorable Court to grant a license to
Byron Craig to sell spirituous malt and vinous liquors in less quantities than
one gallon, at his place of business, in the town of New Bridge, Union county,
Oregon, for a period of six months and your petitioners will ever pray
signed by J D Ackley amongst others
Notice is hereby given that I, the undersigned, Byron Craig, will aply to the
Honorable County Court of Union county, Oregon, at the August term, 1894, for
a license to sell spiritous malt and vinous liquors in less quantitites than
one gallon at New Bridge, county and state aforesaid, for a period of six months.
BYRON CRAIG,
NEW BRIDGE, Ore., July 5, 1894
Eastern Oregon Republican, Friday
July 27, 1894
He appeared in the census in 1900 in Oregon. He was living in 1900
in Le Grand, Marshall, Iowa.6
He has Death Cert # 3589
He died on 13 Dec 1914 in La Grande, Union , Oregon.8,9,10 He was buried in Grandview Cemetery , Union , Oregon.2 Block 147 Lot 3 Space 2 John
Denzil ACKLEY and Martha Bell "Pat" LANE were married on 5 Jan 1882 in La Grande,
Union , Oregon.8,11,12 Ceridwen
Attwood has day as 4th
Betty Cavner has date as 3 Jan 1880 and his name as Denzil Martha
Bell "Pat" LANE8 (daughter
of William Wallace LANE and Eliza Jane WOMACK) was born on 3 Dec 1863 in La Grande,
Union , Oregon.6,8,10,13,14,15 On 5 Jan 1920 she was Nurse at La Grande, Union , Oregon.14 She was living between 1920 and
1930 in La Grande, Union , Oregon.14,15 She died on 31 Dec 1952 in La
Grande, Union , Oregon.8,10,12,13 Betty Cavner has day as 31st She was buried on 1
Jan 1953 in Grandview Cemetery , Union , Oregon.8,13 She appeared
in the census 1900, 1920 & 1930 in Oregon. Her Obituary appeared
in the8 MARTHA B. ACKLEY
LA GRANDE, Jan.5 (Special)--Mrs. Martha B. Ackley, second white child to be born
in La Grande, died here at the age of 89 years, all of them spent in this city.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Lane came to La Grande in August, 1862, and
took up thier residence in a log cabin in Old Town--then the center of the town.
She was born the following year.
Mrs. Ackley is survived by five of her ten children; 32 grandchildren; 55 great-grandchildren
and three great-great-grandchildren. The children are:Mrs. Lulu Burnett and Oscar
Ackley, of La Grande, Mrs. Carrie Glascow, of Jefferson, Ore., Mrs. Velva Cornforth
of Boise, and Mrs. Lena Faye Ryckman, of Seaside, Cal.
From an un-named newspaper (circa 1935):
Mrs ACKLEY Spends Life in La Grande
Daughter of Missouri Emigrants Visits in Redmond
by Lucy Lenora Andrews
Mrs. Martha Akley, 72, who is visiting her granddaughter Mrs. K. Woll, lives
in La Grande. During her long career as a practical nurse, Mrs. Akley has cared
for at least 300 mothers during childbirth, she says. In the La Grande vicinity
there are at least 200 men, women and children whom she dressed for the first
time in their lives, she says.
Mrs. Akley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Lane, were born in Iowa where they grew
up as schoolmates. After they were married they moved to Jackson county, Missouri.
For some reason which Mrs. Akley does not recall, her father was not drafted
to serve in the Civil War. At the time the Lanes had a number of small children.
Vicious dogs which the Lanes had on their Missouri farm kept soldiers on foraging
trips from taking what provisions the family had.
LANES JOIN TRAIN
At the close of the war the Lanes were among the thousand persons who made ready
to leave in one long wagon train to Oregon. There were 350 or 400 wagons, all
drawn by oxen. Many of the several hundred cows driven along the first part of
the route had to be put into service drawing the wagons, as a number of the oxen
died.
The Lanes had two wagons, and when the train left Kansas City it was one of the
best equipped caravans to make the trip West. Every precaution was taken against
Indians. The train passed by places where smaller groups had been slain, and
many gruesome sights met their eyes. They saw dead bodies and remains of burned
wagons, but because of extreme caution were not attacked by the savages.
Several times the cattle were stampeded by the Indians, but otherwise no delays
occurred.
FEATHER BEDS RIPPED
At Green river the travelers saw what was left of a small train which had been
wiped out by Indians. The savages, not knowing what to do with the settlers'
prized feather beds, had ripped them open, and feathers were still blowing when
the long Missouri train passed by.
The Lanes stopped at Boise, Idaho, where they spent the winter and it was there
Mrs. Akley was born. In the spring of 1865 when Martha Lane was very small, the
Lanes went on to Oregon, settling in the La Grande country where their children
were reared.
La Grande's first house was built in 1861, and the town grew very slowly as settlers
trickled into the wheat country. Martha Lane went to her first school in a little
log school house called Hillside. Her father had La Grande's first blacksmith
shop, building it when the town consisted of but one store and a small hotel.
Martha Lane married John D. Akley, a carpenter, who built the town's first church.
Mr and Mrs. Akley reared 10 children, all of whom were born in La Grande. Mrs.
Akley has 32 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
She tells many interesting anecdotes of the town's early days. She recalls visiting
at the home of Congresman Walter M. Pierce when his children were young.
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Notes: As far as I know, the family always spelled their last name "Ackley."
In spite of this article's claim that Martha was born in Idaho, other sources
say that she was in fact the first woman born in La Grande, her birth date being
December 3, 1864. She died 31 Dec 1952 and is buried in La Grande where she lived
her entire life. John Denzil ACKLEY and Martha Bell "Pat" LANE had
the following children:
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