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35. Samuel
ACKLEY appeared in the census 1850 & 1860 in Pennsylvania.
He was born on 20 Apr 1827 in Lindley's Mill, Washington , Pennsylvania.1,4,14,20,22,92,93 Another source, Audrey Moran
has 8 Apr 1827 Washington, PA as birth
LDS also lists birth place as Morris Township, Greene Co., PA
LDS also lists father as John as well as Jehu In 1850 he was Plasterer at Rich
Hill, Greene , Pennsylvania.20
also listed as plasterer in Lodi , Athens , Ohio in 1850 OH census He was living
in 1850 in Rich Hill, Greene , Pennsylvania.20
living with Uncle Joshua Ackley
also listed with Step Mother Susan Ackley in 1850 Lodi, Athens Co., OH census
He was living in 1860 in Morris Township, Greene , Pennsylvania.22 On 21 Jul 1860 he was Plasterer at Morris Township,
Greene , Pennsylvania.22
He appeared in the census in 1870 in Kansas. He was living in 1870
in Ozark, Anderson , Kansas.93
On 21 Jul 1870 he was Farmer at Ozark, Anderson , Kansas.93 He appeared in the census in 1900 in Oklahoma.
He was living in 1900 in Jordan Valley, Pawnee , Oklahoma.4,92 He died
on 9 Jan 1908 in Keystone, Pawnee , Oklahoma.1,4 Keystone, OK, about 15 miles west
of Tulsa, was established as a town in 1912 but when the area became a state
park and the Keystone dam was constructed, Keystone was submerged. Lee Lawrence
Ackley, Samuel's grandson, sold 18 acres of land to the government for the park.
Many of Samuel's descendants are buried in the Sinneft Memorial Cemetery. Samuel's
son, Sherman Ackley, donated 18 acres
of land for the establishment of the cemetery. Many of the surnames of those
buried there are traceable back to PA and NJ, indicating group migration in those
early days.
He purchased land on 8 Oct 1908 in Pawnee , Oklahoma94 Document #: 10565
Misc. Doc. Nr: 13567
Comments: HEIRS OR DEVISEES He was buried in Sinnett Memorial Cemetery, Tulsa
, Oklahoma.4,95 PLACES LIVED: Greene & Washington Counties in PA;
Athens County, OH; Richland County, WI; Marshall County, WV; Montgomery &
Anderson Counties in KS; and in 1878 arrived in Chouteau, Cherokee Nation, I.T.
He later moved to his final home in Keystone, Creek Nation, I.T. His sister Lucy
wrote: "Samuel never stopped long enough for his horses to cool off!"
NOTE: He was a farmer, a plasterer, had a saw mill, and long before Oklahoma's
statehood, the Osage Indian Tribe gave him permission on July 18, 1891 to operate
a ferry on the Cimarron and Arkansas Rivers
He was living prior to 1900 in Ohio. moved from PA to OH than Homesteaded
In Indian Territory during the OK land run, traded with the Indians and ran a
ferry across the Cimaron River
SAMUEL'S TRAVELS
When Samuel was about one year old the family moved from Lindley's Mill
in Washington Co., PA where Samuel was born, to near Day's Store ( now
called Ninevah) Greene County, PA. Samuel's mother, Elizabeth (Eaton/Ator)
Ackley, died there 18 March 1836 when Samuel was nine years old.
Jehu then moved to Shade (known as Jerseyville at the time), Lodi Township,
Athens Co,OH.
Jehu married Susannah Day in Athens County in 1836. In September 1850
Samuel was living with his uncle Joshua Ackley in Burdette, Greene County, PA
and in December that same year he returned to Athens County. In April 1852 he
married Sarah Rush in Greene County, PA.
Interestingly, just five months later his uncle, Joshua, married Sarah's sister,
Jemima Rush.Later Samuel's brother, George Washington Ackley, married Sarah
And Jemima's first cousin, once removed, Elizabeth Rush. Sarah and Samuel's first
son, Michael Rush Ackley, was born in 1853 in Greene County.
Samuel and Sarah then moved to Athens Co., OH - probably in with Samuel's stepmother,
Susannah. Their second son, Francis Marion Ackley, was born there in 1854. They
then moved to Richland County WI where their third son, John Ackley, was born
in 1855; John died there in 1856. Samuel sold his interest in his father's farm
in Athens, OH in 1856 while living in Wisconsin.
They then moved to Washington County, PA where their fourth son, Henry
Wilson Ackley,was born in 1858. Their movements in that area, as noted by
Mathias Rush, have not been verified but their fifth son, Sherman, was born in
Greene County, PA in 1860. They moved to Cameron, WV (it was still Virginia at
the time) in 1862 where,as stated by Mathias, Samuel and Michael Rush owned a
sawmill. Their first daughter, Lucy Anna Ackley, was born there in 1864. That
part of Virginia became West Virginia in 1863.
They returned to Greene County, PA in 1864-5 then in 1868 they moved to
Kansas. Their second daughter, Lenora Jeanne "Nora" Ackley, was born
in
Montgomery Go., KS in 1871.
The family moved to Chouteau, Indian Territory arriving there March 10
1878. Given the peripatetic nature of Samuel it is difficult to believe he stayed
in Montgomery County, KS seven years; there were probably some short
moves towards and in Indian Territory. The odds are very good that Michael stayed
in Kansas since he was 25 years old at the time. Francis Marion probably stayed
in Athens County, OH or at least returned there earlier since he married in Athens
County in 1880.
Samuel moved from Chouteau to Dewey and then to Wagoner, I.T.. By 1883 his son,
Henry Wilson Ackley, had moved to Pryor Creek, I.T., about 40 miles from Tulsa.
Sherman claimed land in 1893 as probably did Abraham Lincoln Ackley, in the area
that was to become Keystone, OK in 1912.
Samuel was granted a license by the Osage Agency of the United StatesIndian Service
on July 18 1891 to operate a ferry at the mouth of the Cimarron
River. Samuel was 64 years old at the time . His son Sherman, states that he
operated a ferry both across the mouth of the Cimarron where it meets the
Arkansas River and across the Arkansas.
Samuel ACKLEY and Sarah RUSH were married on 21 Apr 1852 in Morris Township,
Greene , Pennsylvania.4,14,22,92,93 LDS has
date as 2 Apr
another source has marriage as 8 Feb 1852 Sarah RUSH4 (daughter of Michael RUSH and Anna
BABBITT) was born on 30 May 1824 in Greene , Pennsylvania.4,22,38,92,93 1900 census has birth as May 1824
Gordon Fralick has birth as 20 Apr 1827 She appeared in the census in 1860
in Pennsylvania. She appeared in the census in 1870 in Kansas.
She appeared in the census in 1900 in Oklahoma. She died on 6 Feb
1902 in Keystone, Pawnee , Oklahoma.4,38 Gordon Fralick has date as 8
Jan 1903 She was buried in Sinnett Memorial Cemetery, Tulsa , Oklahoma.4,38
Sarah Is the sister of Joshua's 2nd wife Jemima and 1st cousin once removed
of Elizabeth Rush, George Washington Ackley's wife.
FROM MATHIAS RUSH
Father's eighth child, Sarah, was born May 30,1824. She grew up a rugged,
healthy girl. She had not an active, nervous temperament. She had not a good
chance of schooling, but learned to read and write tolerably
well. She was somewhat fleshy and not as tall as Jemima and Anna. She was
married in thefall of 1852 to Samuel Ackley, a son of Jehu Ackley, who moved
from this neighborhood in 1835. Samuel is a plasterer by trade, and is
somewhat crippled in one knee by a white swelling when a boy. Soon after
their marriage they moved to Athens County, Ohio, lived there two or three
years; then moved to Richland County, Wis., a year or two; then up to the big
woods in Washington County for one season; then came back here in the summer
of '56 and lived on father's farm a few years; then on Isreal Wood's farm two
years; then in partnership with Michael Rush in a stationary saw mill near
Cameron, W. Va., about 18 months; then back to father's farm three years; then
in 1868 moved to Kansas, then moved to Indian Territory, near to what is now
Oklahoma, where they yet live.
Samuel ACKLEY and Sarah RUSH had the following children:
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