Misc. Notes
Birth Record doesn’t give first name, only male, Dec. 10, 1903, Redstone Twp., parents Duncan & Nora Acklin of Redstone Twp.
Marriage Record, Fayette Co., PA 102-461:
Acklin, Ockle, painter, 24
b. Grindstone, resident Brownsville
father: Duncan Acklin, painter, b. Fayette Co., PA, resident Brownsville
mother: Nora (Kelley) Acklin, housewife, says b. Hungary, but incorrect (see below), resident Brownsville
married May 2, 1929, South Brownsville
Julia Kovach, housemaid, 21
b. Shadie Grove, resident Brownsville
father: Andy Kovach, miner, b. Hungary, resident Brownsville
mother: Anna (Kovach) Kovach, deceased, b. Hungary
1930 Census, Jefferson Twp., Fayette Co., PA, Apr. 12, 1930, p. 14B
47Acklin, Ockle, head, 26, married at age 25, b. PA, parents b. PA, coal miner
Julia, wife, 18, married at age 17, b. PA, parents b. PA
Betty Jane, dau., 2/12, b. PA, parents b. PA
Okey went to a card game in Brownsville and never came home. The FBI was contacted, but he didn’t turn up. He was supposedly seen in California, which matches the SSDI records.
409,131The Daily Courier (Connellsville, PA), March 29, 1952:
“Although he classed his wife, Julia Acklin of Jefferson township, as ‘the best woman in the world,’ Ockie Acklin of Indio, Cal., deserter her. This was the testimony offered in the suit in which Mrs. Acklin was granted a decree by Judge H. Vance Cottom. The expression was contained in a letter written to the husband’s mother. ‘And I still have it, hid under the carpet,’ testified the wife. The Acklins were married May 2, 1929, in Brownsville. When he left, Mrs. Acklin said, he remarked ‘Maybe I’ll come back in 10 years to see the kids.’”
9Death notice, The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA), Saturday, March 23, 1968, p. B8:
Ackin — In Sacramento, March 19, 1968, Ockle Acklin. A native of Pennsylvania, aged 64 years. Funeral services, 9 a.m. Monday aat the Jefford Funeral Home in Orangevale.