The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., July 8, 1965, page 3
DEATH SUMMONS ELSIE ACKLEY, LOCAL PIONEER
Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie Ann Ackley, 88, resident
of the White Salmon area for 63 years will be held at 11 a.m. Friday,
July 9, at Gardner's Chapel. The Rev. Alfred Waln will officiate. Burial
will be in Goodwill cemetery.
Elsie Ann Hall, daughter of George and Anna Hall, was
born Jan. 12, 1877 on a farm near Iowa City, Iowa. In that community she
spent her childhood and met her future husband, Charles Newton Ackley.
After their marriage on Nov. 16, 1896, they remained
in Iowa and Missouri for two years before starting west in a covered wagon
which burned on the road. The continued the trip by train to Olympia in the
new State of Washington where they joined Mr. Ackley's father and two brothers
who had preceded them west.
In 1902 they staked out a homestead and built a log cabin
home in the Mt. Brook area. Later they lived in the Bristol community, south
of the present Law's Corner, for many years.
Widowed in 1950, Mrs. Ackley continued to live in her
home near the Allen Bennetts until stricken by paralysis on her birthday
in 1954. she died Tuesday, July 6 at Skyline Hospital, White Salmon, where
she has been a resident patient for the past ten years.
Her children were: (living) claude C. Ackley of Bingen
and Beryl, Mrs. Allen Bennett of White Salmon; (deceased) Charles O. Ackley
and May, Mrs. George Downs.
Also surviving are: brother, Warren Hall of Fort Madison,
Iowa, and a sister, Olive Michael of Iowa City; 16 grandchildren and 51
great-grandchildren. Mrs. Ackley was a long-time member of Eastern Star.
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