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- Mary Jane Stillwell Ackley - May 14, 1840 - December 8, 1918. Daughter of Barnett and Esther Stillwell. Wife of Andrew Thomas Ackley.
Newspaper Obituary - Wednesday, December 11, 1918 Pulaski Democrat - Pulaski, New York - Another Mother of Albion Passes Away - The death of Mrs. Mary Jane Ackley, widow of Thomas Ackley, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Lester, in Syracuse, Sunday. The remains were brought to Richland, yesterday, where funeral services were held in the Disciple church at three o'clock. Mr. B. G. Seamans, a life-long friend of the family conducted the service having conducted the service for the husband who died about two years ago, at the special wish of the aged couple. Mrs. Ackley was one of the friendly mothers of the Seamans district and the latch-string was always on the outside of her door. She lived to bury two sons, Ernest and Samuel and her husband. Her maiden name was Mary Jane Stillwell. One brother, A. Eugene Stillwell, Washington, survives her. Julian Ackley, her grandson, with whom she made her home when in Seamans district, is son of her son, Ernest. Mrs. Ackley was born in Otsego county about seventy-eight years ago. She was one of a family of eleven children, all of whom have gone except the brother, Eugene, who came from Washington to attend the funeral. Her parents came to the town of Albion when she was a young girl and she had spent her whole life in the neighborhood of the Seamans school house. She was carried to her last resting place by Messrs. Jefferson and Albert Seamans, Samuel Mattison and John Ellis. Burial was made in the Richland cemetery.
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1840 - 1918 (78 years)
d. 3 Jan 1917, Albion, Oswego, New York, United States