Daisy Belle Catherine Brown Pier Goldsby Ackley

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Author of "Wagon Wheels A'Rollin' "

Daisy Bell Catherine Brown was only eight years old in 1880, when her physician father, her mother, grandmother, siblings and other relatives decided to join the wagon train in May Day, Kansas, and head for Oregon on the Old Oregon Trail.

Wagon Wheels A'Rollin', which she began writing seventy-two years later when she was eighty years old, is the story of the trip. In her lifetime she married three times: First to David Pier, at the age of sixteen, to whom she bore eight children. When he died, she married Al Goldsby, and after his death, Charles Ackley, whom she also outlived. She died at the age of ninety-three. Daisy saw it all, from a wagon train crossing the plains to astronauts in space. She tells how it was on the American frontier, when men were men and women were glad of it.

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Birth: Mar., 1872 Riley County Kansas, USA

Death: Oct. 26, 1965 Molalla Clackamas County Oregon, USA

Daisy Belle Catherine (Brown) Pier Goldsby Ackley was married 3 times.

• (1) about 1885-to David Clarence Alamando Pier. He died in 1924. They had 6 children: sons-Thomas D. & Clarence Leonidas; 4 daughters-Floy Belle, Ivy A., Laura Alice (Pier) Barnes & Hazel Gladys (Pier) Carnahan.
• (2) about Jun 1925-to Albert Leroy "Al" Goldsby, Sr. He died in 1943. There were no children from this union.
• (3) 5 Aug 1945-to Charles Calvin Ackley. He died in 1959. There were no children from this union.

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Spouses:

• Albert Leroy Goldsby (1863 - 1943)
• Charles Calvin Ackley (1868 - 1959)
• David Clarence Alamando Pier (1866 - 1924)*

Children:

• Laura Alice Pier Dunbar (1893 - 1938)*
• Thomas D Pier (1895 - 1920)*

Note: Age 93 yrs - interment date 10/28/1965

Burial: Odd Fellows Memorial Park and Mausoleum Tumwater Thurston County Washington, USA Plot: Block 61 Lot 44