Genea Santa Arrived - Ackermann Cemetery Plot

House cleaning can be good. Especially when you find genealogy records. Here is a transcription of a find from yesterday. Thanks Genea Santa for your wonderful gift!!

The cemetery card from Bellevue Cemetery in Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts:

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ACKERMANN, FERDINAND & GUSTAVE         $38.88
Section D Lot # 73 - Deed recorded in 1892

Interred:

1E - John Vogler                  1836-1892
2E - Katherine Vogler           1837-1908
3E - Arthur H. Ackermann    1899-1922
4E - Gustave Ackermann      1861-1929
5E - Johanna Ackermann       1867-1947

8W - Ferdinand N. Ackermann       1856-1943
7W - Lisette Ackermann                  1864-1925
6W - Clara M. Ackermann              1890-1892
5W - Anna Katherine Ackermann    1892-1976

PERPETUAL CARE (1943)

Remarks: Arthur - Am. Legion, 105
                            Reg. Inf. NYNG

 [ plot map drawn]

Anna Ackermann to go next to Clara
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Ferdinand and Gustave Ackermann were brothers born in Gersfeld, Germany. They ran a butcher shop in Adams, Massachusetts. They married two sisters, Lisette and Johanna Gulden in Massachusetts. The sisters were born in Hof, Germany. Lisette and Johanna's mother is Katherine (Wunchel) Gulden Vogler. John Vogler is Katherine's second husband. Arthur was Gustave and Johanna's son. Clara and Anna were Ferdinand and Lisette's daughters.

Please email at aga2428 "at" gmail dot com if you are related to these families. I need more than a little help putting names to faces from a mystery photo album.

Thank you Genea Santa and please come next year!!!

J L Wilde

J. L. Wilde 

B. W. W.

S. Framingham Mass.

Feb. 17. 76

A. C. Partridge,

535 Washington Street,

Boston,

Next door to Boston Theatre.

135 years ago, J. L. Wilde signed the back of this photo and presumably gave it to Miss Alice L. Warner. She was born in 1850 in Vermont and at some point moved to the Boston area. 1876 was two years before she married Frank B. Kennard in South Framingham, Massachusetts. The above gentleman looks to be in his 20s. He is wearing a double breasted suit and tie that appear to fit well. Perhaps, he was the son of Dr. James Wilde who was born in 1852. 

The "B. W. W." may stand for Boston Water Works. A bit of city directory research may clear up a few questions about this gentleman.

Do you have a photograph of an individual who is not a relative? Have you considered posting it on your blog or DeadFred.com or other photo site? Have you ever found an old photo of your relative online? My family does not have a confirmed photo of Frank B. Kennard or any Kennard from Maine for that matter. They may be among the volumous mystery photos.

Jennie Warner, Sister of Alice Kennard

Among my grandmother's photos was a mystery album. I looked through the album and no one looked remotely familiar. Most of the photos were on card stock and measured 2.5" x 4". Those with dates were from the late 1870s. So curiosity got the best of me and I carefully removed every photo. Roughly 70 percent of the photos were taken in Boston and less than 10 percent were marked with a name. Another 20 percent or so of the photos were taken in Burlington, Vermont.

Thinking through all of my lines, I tried to think of someone who would have relatives and friends from these areas. The someone that seemed to click the most was Alice L. Warner. She was born on 13 June 1850 in Jericho, Chittenden, Vermont to Dr. Benjamin Y. Warner and Laura Oakes. When I found the photo of Jennie Warner, I was certain that album belonged to Alice Warner.

Alice married Frank B. Kennard on 20 April 1878 Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Abigail Jennie Warner married Ogden C. Clark on 04 Jul 1881 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts.



Very truly yours.

Jennie Warner.

South Framingham, Mass.

METCALF & WELLDON.

24 TEMPLE PLACE,

Successors To

WHIPPLE

Now, the fun will begin to figure out the rest of folks.