James Ackley (1828 - 1889)

Born 3 Nov 1828 in Cambridge, Washington, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Chloe (Jennison) Ackley — married 24 Nov 1850 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 12 May 1889 at age 60 in Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

James Ackley served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 08 Feb 1864
Mustered out: 30 Jul 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): USS Pensacola; 57th Regiment of Mass Volunteers Infantry

James was born in 1826. baptized 12 Feb.^[1]
James joined the Navy in 1848, and served on the Savannah and Ohio. When he married Chloe Jennison in 1850^[2], his occupation was shoemaker.
In the Civil War he served on the USS Pensacola, as an ordinary seaman. He was discharged 5 Aug 1863, but re-enlisted in Co. C of the 57th Regiment of the Mass Volunteers Infantry under Capt. Albert M. Cook on 8 Feb 1864. He was wounded by a piece of shell in the head in the Battle of the Wilderness on or about 5 May 1864, and then afterward, he was hit in the right foot by a ball in the Battle of Spotsylvania on or about 8 May 1864. He was discharged 30 Jul 1865, greatly disabled, and only worked as a day laborer after the war. He died of pneumonia.
James and Chloe had a small one-story house and about a quarter acre of land in Worcester, Massachusetts.

James Ackley headstone

He passed away in 1889.^[3][4] He left his widow, Chloe.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Records of The First United Presbyterian Congregation in Cambridge in the village of Cambridge, Washington County, NY, transcribed by The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Edited by Royden Woodward Vosburgh. New York City, March 1917. Pg 36. In files of Pilla Leitner
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW1L-YYL : 10 March 2021), James Aekley and Chloe Jennison, 24 Nov 1850; citing Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,432,876.
3. ↑ "United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V6H3-4ZF : 3 March 2021), James Ackley.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHFK-KP6 : 10 November 2020), James Ackley, 12 May 1889; citing Death, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009441.
5. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N431-VXK : 2 March 2021), James Ackley in entry for Chloe Ackley, 28 Jun 1911; citing Leicester,,Massachusetts, 71, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,394,589.

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZCM-K3M : 18 February 2021), Jas Ackley, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDQ8-CXJ : 2 January 2021), James Ackley, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHF9-XKM : 19 February 2021), James Ackley, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district ED 814, sheet 340D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,563.
• "Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Massachusetts" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com//title/922/civil-war-service-records-cmsr-union-massachusetts: accessed March 31, 2021).
• Nara Catalog Id: 300398; Nara Catalog Title: Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Volunteer Organizations During the American Civil War, compiled 1890 - 1912, documenting the period 1861 - 1866, Massachusetts, 57th Regmt, Ackley, James (32)