The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-05-05
The DEATH OF
JAMES N. ACKER.
A PUBLIC LOSS, A So
CIAL SORROW.

The sudden, unexpected death
of s.Polk" Acker, as he was famil-
iarly called, on last Friday night
was the occasion of as deep sorrow
as the death of any man who has
ever lived in our midst. He was
in accustomed good health, was Oc-
cupied during the day in his usual
work, and in his every day pleas
ant social intercourse with friends
whom he met, and all he met were
friends. At about 10 O'Clock he
complained of some distress in his
chest, and in moment he died.
The ''touch etherial."
1t is not for US to know why the
summons comes so quick. 1t is not
for us to know why good and use
full men are called from among us.
This, though. we do know; that a
man like J. n. Acker has left I'm
imprint in the world in which he
lived that will be an incentive to
those who continue, and be a con-
ISOLATION to those who must SO deeply
mourn his death.
James Nelson Acker was born
November 22d, 1851, in Saltlick
township (now Coal township,
Perry county, Ohio. While still in
his infancy he moved with his par
ents to Nelsonville, Athens county,
where they resided until about 1858,
when they moved on Snow Fork,
Ward township, An which locality
they resided until April 1864, when
they located in Logan where he re-
sided until his death.
At the age of IS he began to
learn the shoemaker trade with
Joseph Keinle, with whom he re-
manned until 1875. In the spring
of 1876 he was elected Coroner of
Hooking county. He resigned the
Office Of Coroner to accept the Office
of Sheriff which he filled the accus-
toned two terms, ending 1881. In
1882 he was made probate clerk by
his father, the then probate judge,
in which capacity he served until
the expiration of his fathers term
of Office. He also served in the
same capacity for three years under
Judge Weitzell, at the expiration
of which he took up Pension and
Insurance, which he worked up
until almost the hour of his death.
He was married to Miss Effie
Tennyhill May 81, 1876. To this
union were born one daughter and
two sons: Mrs. Joseph Quinn of
Nelsonville, and John and Donald,
who with their mother are left to
mourn their irreparable loss.
His record as public officer is
clean, honorable alike to himself
and to the people he represented.
He did his duty impartially, he
did his duty well. The records of
our court house hold this testimony
to his name and fair fame.
In the social world, a man among
the people, ''Polk' Acker was one
of the most esteemed. He made
no pretense. He had no hypocrit-
ical can't, he had no forked tongue.
He pursued his business in quiet
way. He had intercourse with
friends in open hearted confidence.
He didn't whisper, nor insinuate.
What he thought he said out like
a man. He was not tale bearer,
had no scandle on a tattling tongue.
He was a man who went along in
the even quiet Of his work, doing
honestly, fairly, honorably by all
with whom he had either business
or social relations and leaves a
record, and a memory that this
world is better that he has lived
in it.
The funeral on last Monday from
the residence was one of the most
largely attended, ever before in
our city. Judge Wright adjourned
court out of respect to the memory
of a once faithful official. The
county officers and bar attended
the funeral.
The religious services were con-
Quoted by Rev. T. B. White of the
NJ. E. Church and Father Williams,
the minister and Sunday School
teacher of the deceased when a boy
and the minister who received him
in the church,
The floral tributes were beauti-
full, abundant and appropriate in
of love and hope and
faith.
The family have the hearty sym
pathy of the entire community in
this time of sorrow.
His remains were inferred in Oak
Grove cemetery, the pail bearers
his associates of the Sunday school
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