Fourth Generation

27. Jeremiah Willis ACKLEY Jr⁵² appeared in the census 1920 & 1930 in Ohio. He was born on 24 Dec 1908 in Granville, Licking , Ohio.^6,33,34,43 He died on 4 Aug 1969.^6,43 His Obituary appeared in the Columbus Dispatch on 6 Aug 1969 in Columbus, Franklin , Ohio ACKLEY Jeremiah W. (Jere) Ackley aged 60, Monday, Licking County Memorial Hosptal, Newark, Ohio. Resided at 1 Newark-Granville Rd., Gran- ville, Ohio. Survived by wife, Anna Louise Ackley, Granville, Oho; sister, Mrs. Helen Barre, Granville, Miss Una Ackley, Miss Louise Ackley, Columbus, Mrs. Grace Atkinson, New York City, Mrs. Dorothy Ditch- field, Atlantic City, Mrs. Grriden Abney, Athens, Geor- gia, 1 nece (sic-niece?), 1 great-nephew; 3 great-nieces. Funeral service will be Thursday, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Granville, Ohio, 2 p.m. Burial Maple Grove Cemetery, Granville. Rev. John W. Baker officiating. Friends may call Tuesday 7-9 p.m., Wednesday 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. MORROW-CROUSE FU- NERAL HOME, Granville, Ohio. Contributions may be made to the St. Luke's Episco- pal Church Memorial Fund. 5-6
He was buried on 7 Aug 1969 in Maple Grove Cemetery, Granville, Licking , Ohio.⁶ lot 39 He appeared in the following News Article from the Newark Advocate on 18 Aug 1969 in Newark, Licking , Ohio OLD NAMES DISAPPEAR

By Minnie Hite Moody

The names of Granville's earliest settlers as represented By persons living the village today, are dose to being extinct. The death of Jeremiah Willis Ackley.Monday.Aug.4,is a current reminder of this. Jere's father, Jeremiah Willis Ackley Sr.. who died June ; 21,1941,was at the time of his death Granville's oldest native born son. Jere Ackley Sr. was a great-grandson of Araunan Clark, one of the signers (April. 1804) of the subscription for making a purchase of Newlands in the State of Ohio Resettlement. Araunan, with Samuel Everett Jr.. and Noah Griffith. Traveling unencumbered, arrived on the site of Granville Sunday, November 17,1805 having come all the way from Granville,Mass., in 22 days. Two parties of the Granville Colony had preceded them, arriving Nov. 2 and 12. making the trip in 44 and 49 days. But these larger parties had with them wagons and baggage, wives and children. Araunah Clark had left his wife and baby at home. The Baby was Marietta, born July20. 1805.She was two years old when her parents brought her to Granville in 1807.A touching story of her wish for silk for her wedding gown often is told,and in his book ."Granville The Story of an Ohio Village," the late Dr. William T. Utter tells it with special grace. “When in 1824 nineteen-year-old Marietta Clark was preparing for her wedding with George Knight Ackley she was desperate for a piece of silk for her wedding gown. An indulgent brother undertook a trip to Chillicothe to buy the cloth. He had gone only a few miles when he encountered a peddler who was carrying a supply of silk through the country and the material for the gown was bought of him." Araunan Clark died Aug. 1, 1816.aged 57. His wife, Mindwell Everett Clark, died July 23, 1869,in her 99th year. They are buried in the Old Colony Burying Ground on South Main Street. Their daughter Marietta, who married George Ackley on the 8th of December,1824 survived her husband (who died in 1846) by more than 50 years. Her brother Willis Clark, who came to Granville with the Clark family in 1807 moved in adult life to Illinois, but a good guess is he is responsible for the middle name, Willis. Of Jeremiah W. Ackley. senior and junior. . Jere Ackley Sr., son of Anson Clark Ackley and Susan Moore Ackley, was born in Granville July 22,1857 His drug store (now occupied by Rolan Thompson's Studio) doubled as interurban station when I was a Child, but my most delightful memory of it is of its soda fountain, a miracle of marble and colored glass, where for the sum of five cents a strawberry soda could be purchased, a frizzing marvel complete with a wonderful paper straw. One sat at the fountain on a high stool with a shaped wire back, and I must not been very big in those days, for my feet did not reach the stool's crossbars. Other times in this column I have told of when this Jere Ackley was a gay young blade around town, often signing the register of the Hotel Granville. and becoming domesticated in 1888 when he married Miss Alice Phelps of Defiance. Great-uncle Charles Simpson. his wife Minnie, their daughter Helen (later Mrs. Blanche Yingling)and Helen's elegant old-lady grandmother Mrs. Smith (who wore a black taffeta dress and lace cap) lived across College Street from the Ackleys for a number of years, and it was while I was at their house one day with Grandma that we were invited over to the Ackley's to see a new baby, whether Jere Junior or his sister Geraldine, I cannot now say. for I was not much of a girl, and whichever baby it was, it was the first infant I ever saw. A real baby in a real cradle. I was profoundly impressed. Jere Ackley Jr. read the service at St. Luke's Episcopal Church the Sunday before he was stricken with the illness which was to prove fatal. Records of St. Luke's Parish carries the name of George Knight Ackley as one of the signers of a petition to form an Episcopal church, the date, April 14, 1827. Ackley names have appeared on the parish rolls ever since. I think I never have seen Jere Ackley playing golf on the Granville inn Golf Course that my mind hasn't turned to his Clark and Everett ancestors and their companions in pioneer days. Spencer Wright. who built the house where I live, Major Grove Case, whose farm is now the golf course and whose home is its clubhouse, and the Winchells. who owned the farmstead which included Mt. Parnassus and its fields to the south. The Winchells lived on the site of the house where Jere lived the last several years of his life, and he rests now in that part of Maple Grove Cemetery which was Winchell land. Of course all this is history going back 150 years, before these farmlands came into the possession of Dr. Edwin Sinnett and his wife Sarah, who was Spencer Wright's granddaughter, and later on into possession of Mrs. Sinnett's daughter. Mrs. Charles B. White, the golf course acreage progressing to the ownership of the late J. S. Jones. Granville has a complicated heritage, but the pieces of the pattern all fit into it. neatly. His Social Security Number was 280-30-4298 OH.⁴³

Jeremiah Willis ACKLEY Jr and Anna Louise COZAD were married.^6,53 Anna Louise COZAD was born on 19 Apr 1915 in McArthur, Vinton, Ohio.^6,43 She died on 12 May 1991.^6,43 She was buried on 14 May 1991 in Maple Grove Cemetery, Granville, Licking , Ohio.^6,44 lot 39 Her Social Security Number was 299-26-0407 OH.⁴³