According to the 1880 US Census for Flagg, Ogle, Illinois, forty-five-year-old Joel Ackerson was born about 1835 in New Jersey. In 1880, Joel resided in the Norman Lockwood household, of the Flagg area, as a farm laborer.
According to the 1880 US Census for Flagg, Ogle, Illinois, Unknown Ackerson was the father of Dora Ackerson. He was probably born in New York. It is not known whether William Ackerson was the father of Dora and Emma, or whether he was a sibling of William that was not living in the Garrott Ackerson household.
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