I took this picture in 2005. My ggrandmother was Caroline Teresa Acker Vinson, and "Ellen" Acker was her sister. One of my ggrandmother's sons, Wade, had a daughter named Lena Vinson 1891-1968). She wrote a genealogy of the Vinsons that included the following:

Notes on Elanor "Ninnie" Acker: (original in possession of Paul Goree, Wade Vinson's ggrandson.)


"NINNIE"

This record would not be complete without a chapter on "Ninnie." You see that wasn't her real name. She was Ellen Acker, the "old maid" sister to my Grandmother Vinson. She was my great aunt, and the great-great-great aunt of Theresa and Leslie Brown. She lived in the Peter Acker home in Alabama, which was built long before the Civil War. My father and mother moved from the log cabin where I was born to the Acker House to live with Ninnie. She told my father that she would will all her property to me if we would continue to live with her as long as she lived, but my father was "Texas bound" - nothing would change his course.
My sister Grady (Theresa and Leslie's grandmother) was born in the Acker House and lived there until she was two years old when we moved to Texas. I remember the house very well. On the wall hung a picture of "the Last Supper" - also a picture of two little children carrying a small dead yellow bird in a little wagon to bury it. I always felt sorry for the children, I guess the bird was their pet. The house had two very large rooms on each side of an "entry", which is an open hall, and the kitchen was detached from the house and had a large fireplace. It was built like the old Southern farm houses. The other rooms also had fireplaces. A bell hung on the top of the corn-crib which was used to call the farm hands to dinner. The crib was made of logs. Many tall pine trees grew near the house, and large water oaks in the yard.
Ninnie took great care of me and used most of her time teaching me to count in the Choctaw language, the Negro Spirituals and the meaning of big words. I remember she used to sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"and "Mary & Martha is done gone along to ring them golden bells." I thought those songs were so pretty, and I still think so. All the children in the Vinson families loved Ninnie. She was a great soul.
The Ackers traced their ancestors to Pocahontas.

Photo taken Apr 2012