Penn Yan, May 8 - Oscar H. Ackerson, 86, Penn Yan, died at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial hospital Saturday after several months illness. Mr. Ackerson was born in Hall, May 17, 1863, a son of John and Nancy Earley Ackerson. In 1839 [sic], he married Miss Sadie Hoose at Bellona. Mrs. Ackerson died in 1931. He was well known throughout this area where for the pest years he had been a painter and paper hanger. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Clarke Finger, RD 3 and Mrs. Howard Monroe, Ithaca a son, Charles, RD 5 two grandsons and one great granddaughter. Geneva Daily Times May 9, 1950
Found him on the 1900 Penn Yan, Yates, New York census (dist 142 img 9) age 37, butcher. Found him on the 1910 Benton, Yates, New York census (dist 173 img 5) age 46, butcher. He is living next to his daughter and son-in-law
Clark and Matilda Finger Found him on the 1940 Jerusalem, Yates, New York census (dist 62-12 img 11) as
Ausker Ackerson age 76, widower, living in the household of his son
Charles.