Anna Petrine Ackland

ACKLAND At her home in Manchester, September 10,1897, of consumption, Mrs. Anna Petrine Ackland, aged 28 years and 5 days. The deceased was born in the town of Manchester, September 5, 1869, and was the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O.J. Jordahl of that town. She spent the greater part of her maiden life at home and soon became known among st relatives and friends with whom she associated as a woman possessed of great qualities. June 26, 1895 she was united in marriage to Charles U. Ackland of the same town in the Central Lutheran church. The union proved to be a very happy one, and a little boy, who, together with her husband, parents, three sisters and three brothers, besides a host of sympathing relatives and friends arrive to mourn her early and untimely death. She was a kind and loving mother, a true christian church member and a honest and beloved neighbor and her loss is keenly felt throughout the entire community. She had been ailing more or less for about a year, and since last June when the disease changed to consumption, she has been confined to her bed until death cut short the thread of life and her soul was removed to that everlasting happiness in heaven where sin and sorrow and sickness are unknown. The funeral services were held from the Central Lutheran church Monday, conducted by Rev. Strand. Who only a little over two years ago tied the holy knit of Matrimony. Albert Lea Freeborn County Times Sept. 17, 1897