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Ophelia A. <I>Cogswell</I> Ackley

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Ophelia A. Cogswell Ackley

Birth
Auburn Four Corners, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
9 Apr 1931 (aged 79–80)
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Spring Hill, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot #3, Section 3
Memorial ID
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Ophelia A. was the daughter of Charles W. & Amy (Bennett) Cogswell and the wife of Rev. Stanley F. Ackley.

See bio of her husband for previous census years.

1930 Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, PA: West North St.
ACKLEY, Rev. Alfred H., Head, 43, M22, PA-PA-PA Clergyman, Presbyterian Church.
ACKLEY, Helen, wife, 43, M22, b. MD-MD-MD
ACKLEY, Henry, son, 18, S b. PA-PA-MD
ACKLEY, William, son, 9 b. PA-PA-MD
ACKLEY, Ophelia, Mother, 78, Wd., M19, PA-PA-PA
(Also 3 Lodgers living with Alfred).

Ophelia died at the home of her son, Rev. Alfred Henry Ackley, in Wilkes-Barre, PA. According to her obit published in "Inhabitants of the Spring Hill Cemetery", she was 80 years of age..."mother of Rev. Alfred Henry Ackley, pastor of Memorial Presbyterian church and widow of Rev. Stanley Frank Ackley, late pastor of Elmhurst Presbyterian church...worked with her husband at his various charges".

Named in obit: her son, Rev. Alfred Henry Ackley, with whom she lived, a son, B. D. Ackley of Buffalo and grandchildren: Gertrude Ackley & Mrs. Genevieve Sells of Philadelphia, Richard Henry Ackley & William Edward Ackley of Wilkes-Barre, Ruth & Stanley Ackley of Ohio; 3 great grand-children in Philadelphia [not named] and a brother, Morris Cogswell of Wyalusing. Funeral held at the home of Rev. A. H. Ackley, 21 West North Street with services in charge of Rev. Ebenezer Flack, pastor of Kingston Presbyterian church with interment in Spring Hill cemetery, Bradford County.

Not mentioned as predeceasing her in the obit, her son Rev. George Kilmer Ackley who was enumerated in the 1920 Akron, Summit Co., Ohio census. He was deceased before 1928 when his wife Mrs. Ella B. Ackley was listed as widow of George K. in the Akron, Ohio City Directory.

Sources: "Inhabitants of the Spring Hill Cemetery by Hedy Chaffee, pub. Tuscarora Twp. Historical Society, Sept. 2003 (used by permission); Federal census, Ancestry.com.

Ophelia A. was the daughter of Charles W. & Amy (Bennett) Cogswell and the wife of Rev. Stanley F. Ackley.

See bio of her husband for previous census years.

1930 Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne, PA: West North St.
ACKLEY, Rev. Alfred H., Head, 43, M22, PA-PA-PA Clergyman, Presbyterian Church.
ACKLEY, Helen, wife, 43, M22, b. MD-MD-MD
ACKLEY, Henry, son, 18, S b. PA-PA-MD
ACKLEY, William, son, 9 b. PA-PA-MD
ACKLEY, Ophelia, Mother, 78, Wd., M19, PA-PA-PA
(Also 3 Lodgers living with Alfred).

Ophelia died at the home of her son, Rev. Alfred Henry Ackley, in Wilkes-Barre, PA. According to her obit published in "Inhabitants of the Spring Hill Cemetery", she was 80 years of age..."mother of Rev. Alfred Henry Ackley, pastor of Memorial Presbyterian church and widow of Rev. Stanley Frank Ackley, late pastor of Elmhurst Presbyterian church...worked with her husband at his various charges".

Named in obit: her son, Rev. Alfred Henry Ackley, with whom she lived, a son, B. D. Ackley of Buffalo and grandchildren: Gertrude Ackley & Mrs. Genevieve Sells of Philadelphia, Richard Henry Ackley & William Edward Ackley of Wilkes-Barre, Ruth & Stanley Ackley of Ohio; 3 great grand-children in Philadelphia [not named] and a brother, Morris Cogswell of Wyalusing. Funeral held at the home of Rev. A. H. Ackley, 21 West North Street with services in charge of Rev. Ebenezer Flack, pastor of Kingston Presbyterian church with interment in Spring Hill cemetery, Bradford County.

Not mentioned as predeceasing her in the obit, her son Rev. George Kilmer Ackley who was enumerated in the 1920 Akron, Summit Co., Ohio census. He was deceased before 1928 when his wife Mrs. Ella B. Ackley was listed as widow of George K. in the Akron, Ohio City Directory.

Sources: "Inhabitants of the Spring Hill Cemetery by Hedy Chaffee, pub. Tuscarora Twp. Historical Society, Sept. 2003 (used by permission); Federal census, Ancestry.com.



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