Ingham County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Acker, Wesley (headstone) 
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Cemetery:           Maple Grove Cemetery
Name:               Wesley (headstone) Acker

Date Of Photograph: September 14, 2009
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Monument and headstones located in Section E - Lot 393

ACKER MONUMENT

Inscription on front of monument:

HARVEY ACKER
1829 - 1924

ADALINE 1830 - 1872
CHLOE A. 1839 - 1922
HIS WIVES

WESLEY 1862 - 1864
MAUDE
1877 - 1878
MERTIE -1880-

HARVEY ACKER
CO D
1 MICH LA

WESLEY
SON OF
H. & A. ACKER
DIED
FEB 24, 1864
AGED 1 YR 10 M'S & 20 D'S

PHILIP BORTLES
CO B
14TH MICH INF

Note:  Harvey Acker was born November 28, 1829 Sullivan, Madison Co., NY and 
died November 8, 1924 Mason, Ingham Co., MI.  He married Adaline Fellows in 
1852 and they were the parents of 8 children; Wesley (1862-1864), George died 
in 1917, William, Henry, Lewis J., John Frances Belle (Acker) Bortle and Emma 
(Acker) Fitzgerald.

After the death of his first wife, he married Chloe Hilton in 1874.  They were 
the parents of two children who both died in infancy;  Maude (1877-1878) and 
Mertie 1880

See Find A Grave - Maple Grove Cemetery, Mason, MI for more information on the 
Acker family with full obituary on Harvey Acker with lots of detailed 
information.

Philip Bortles was born 1807 in Herkimer Co. NY and died December 13, 1877 
Mason, Ingham Co., MI.  Civil War records shows he resided in Washtenaw Co and 
enlisted January 15, 1862 in Ypsilanti, MI on the Union side for Michigan.  He 
enlisted in Company B 14th Infantry Regiment Michigan on 13 Feb 1862.  He was 
discharged from Company B 14th Infantry Regiment Michigan on 11 Jul 1862 at 
Big Springs, MS.

Family tree records shows he was married to Nancy MacComber and they were the 
parents of several children.  He married Eliza Huffman January 21, 1855 in 
Wayne Co., MI.  One of his children, Thomas Manley Bortle is also buried in 
Maple Grove Cemetery.

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