Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

616 qIOGkAPHY AND REiIfINISCGNCES
to this marriage three chiltlren were born, of m2ioln Henry I3.
and Edirarcl E., both of this tomnslrip, aye living. TIenrv B. Ackley
received a practical education in the district scllools knd on 11;s
father's farin. On January 1: IS74 he nrarrietl Miss Clrarlotte,
daughter of John and Elizabeth I,oper, of 0 llio mcl Intlil~nn, i2espectively.
To this marriage one son was horn, Jal~uitr~r S, '81, Charles
E., who cliecl October 25, '85. After his marriag6 he eng,age.etl in
farming, nncl coiltlilluecl so engaged until "is, when ire rented 11is
far111 and attended the Nortl~ern Incliana Normal Scllool, nncl ~vl~en,
after completing a course of stutly, he passed one sunnrler in Kansas ;
then purclrasetl IIuinphlae~~ Avery's business at Castleton, and lras
carried on a general trade clo~vn to the present tiine. I11 ljolitics he is
decicleclly Rept~hlican. I-re has served as tomnsllip clerli and tlirectou
of the castleton schools. In re1ig;ous life be is a ~lleirhe~ of the
Methodist Protestant church, ant1 in society affairs, W. C. T. of the
Good Templars of Castleton.
Ihcmph~ey cmtl S. 0. ilvely, two old settlers of- Stark county, are
the sons of Colonel &liles Avery, mlro ~vas the son of Cyrns, son of
Solomon, son of I-Iuinphrey, son of EIumphrey, son of Samuel, son of
James, son of James; who mas the son of Christopher Arery, ~vl~o
came from England in the seventeeth century and settled at Glo~lcester,
Mass. He was s select~nt~n there i~etween 1646 ancl 1664. In
1665 he inovecl to New Lonclon, Conn. ; bought the lmne lot of Eobert
Burrows; mas macle freeman in 1669; diecl and was buried March 12,
1679. His only child, Jaines, born in 1620, in Englnntl, was lnarried
in England, November 10, 7 643, to Joanna Grumedade, imtl to thein .
nine children were born, their second clrild being James Ave1.y ~vhose
father settled at New Lonclon prior to tlre settlelllent of Christopher
there ; was cllosen selectman in l(i60, an cl held the office Went y-three
years. ISe was an ensign, lieutenant: :~nd captain of the only';zrmed
company in the town ; se~retl in and comm;l.ntiocl a troop of I'equots
during King Pllilip's war ; was at the fo~~t fight in 1675, and stomlet1
the fort at the head of his co~~mlnncl; for twelve !rcalbs he was tltlputp
to the gland court; was in the co~~nl~ission u.f tl~c peace f~onl 16;s
to 165 and was assistant ,judgeof t11ecount\~ co~u~t. Ileillo~ed to
Pequonoc, next to New Lontlo~i, and t lrence t; G~oton, nrl~ei.c ire cliecl
at am olcl age.
E1li~clr',~tk (Sinitlb) ilve,:~, tlaugl~ ter oE Jon;~tl~:~n Siui tll \vI 10 1110ved
from Connecticut to I'lymoutl I, Luzerne county: Pa ., opposite the Sll:tjvnee
flats. A company, wit11 his brotlrer, were c;~jtured by the Indians
near the Nanticolte (lam. l I is brotlrel*, ireing Jalue, urns lii llecl and
scnlpecl before his eyes, ivllile he was bound out to a squaw, to fill the
place of a lost son. IIe IVU fillally laanso~ned by a British officer, ancl
settled on 560 acres two miles south of the confluence of the Tunkhannock
and Susqnehanna on the east bank of the latter. Here his eight
c hilclren were bo~n, nainely : William, born March 19. 1788 ; Elizabeth,
Febri~ary 17, 1790; Susannn, Septelrlber 22, 1791; Zura, December
15, 1795 ; Ziba, January I'l,l'iQS ; Polly, Wovenlber 24,1799 ; Whitney,
July 14, lr304, ancl Asher M., October 28, 1SO7. Whitney and ~lsller
were pioneers of this county, as noticed in the chapter on Toulon.