Ruth Ann Ackert
1856-1953
Born: Red Hook, Dutchess, New York, United States
Died: Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, United States
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1856-1953
Born: Red Hook, Dutchess, New York, United States
Died: Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, United States
<span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana">CHARLES AND HIS BROTHER JOHN WERE SPECIALIZE PAINTERS AND TOGETHER THEY REFINISHED ART WORK AND STATUES IN CHURCHES. THEY ALSO DID ART POSTERS.THEY WERE ROOMING AT THE WIDOW RUTH ANN (ACKERT) SMITH'S HOUSE IN STAATSBURG, NEW YORK. CHARLES WAS ALSO THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH.<br>CHARLES HAD ALSO BEEN TRAINED AS A HATTER AND SO WHEN HE AND WIDOW SMITH FELL IN LOVE, THEY MOVED TO WISCONSIN WHERE THE LEADING HAT FACTORIES WERE AND HE COULD WORK. UNFORTUNATELY HE FELL ILL AND UNABLE TO WORK FORABOUT A YEAR. IN WISCONSIN FOR ABOUT EIGHT OR NINE YEARS, HE RETURNED TO RED HOOK, NEW YORK WITH THE FAMILY AND WORKED AS A PORTRAIT PAINTER. LATER HE AND WIFE AND THE TWO YOUNGEST, HARRY AND ESTHER MOVED TO POUGHKEEPSIE AND OPENED A HOTEL. ABOUT 1915 OR 1916 HE SOLD THE HOTEL AND HE AND SON HARRY WENT WEST TO BUCKLEY, WASHINGTON. HE DIED THERE IN 1942. </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: verdana">Source<div style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px">Name:Public Member TreesRepository:Ancestry.com</div><div style="overflow: hidden; height: 216px">Name:Public Member TreesAuthor:Ancestry.comPublisher:Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Call Number: Notes: REFN: Repository:Ancestry.com360 West 4800 North, Provo, UT 84604 </div>Citation<p>Detail: Date: Notes:Information extracted from various family tree data submitted to Ancestry and The Generations Network</p></span>
<p>RUTH ANN ACKERT WAS A STRONG WILL WOMAN AND KEPT HER INCOME UP FROM ASMALL PENSION BY WORKING AS A DRESS MAKER FOR INDIVIDUAL TOWN WOMEN INTHE STAATSBURG, NEW YORK AREA AND ALSO HAD A ROOMING HOUSE. SHE SO HIGHLY PRIZED THE PENSION THAT SHE WOULD NOT JEOPARDIZE IT BY MARRING CHARLES RICHMOND. (SEE NOTES ON CHARLES RICHMOND) SHE DID HAVE TWO CHILDREN BY HIM. LEONARD ISAAC RICHMOND AND ESTHER SYLVIA RICHMOND. THEY LIVED IN WISCONSIN FOR A TIME, WHERE HARRY ISAAC RICHMOND AND ESTHER SYLVIA RICHMOND WERE BORN. A LITTLE TOWN OF LYNN NEXT TO AN INDIAN RESERVATION. THE TOWN WAS BURNED AND ALL RECORDS LOST. THEY MOVED BACKTO POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK AND BOUGHT AND RAN A HOTEL IN THE HEART OF TOWN FOR MANY YEARS. WORKERS FROM EUROPE THAT WERE BROUGHT OVER TO BUILD THE HUGE IRON TRESTLE RAILROAD BRIDGE ACROSS THE HUDSON RIVER STAYED AT THEIR HOTEL.<br>CHARLES AND SON LEONARD MADE THEIR WAY ACROSS THE U.S. TO MONTANA AND ONTO WASHINGTON, WHERE BOTH EVENTUALY DIED.<br>RUTH ANN STAYED IN POUGHKEEPSIE WITH DAUGHTER ESTHER UNTIL HER DEATH.</p>Source <div style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px">Name:Public Member TreesRepository:Ancestry.com</div>Citation Detail: Date: Notes:Information extracted from various family tree data submitted to Ancestry and The Generations Network