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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Frederick Ephraim Acre: Birth: 17 SEP 1889 in Shoals, Martin Co., IN. Death: 24 DEC 1958

  2. Harry Miles Acre: Birth: 13 MAY 1891 in Shoals, Martin Co., IN. Death: 23 MAY 1975 in Baptist Hospital, Oklahoma City, OK

  3. Mabel Elizabeth Acre: Birth: 7 DEC 1894 in Shoals, Martin Co., IN. Death: 1 MAY 1977 in Indianaplis, Marion Co., IN

  4. Robert Ragle Acre: Birth: 9 AUG 1895 in Shoals, Martin Co., IN. Death: 26 MAR 1975 in Owensboro, Daviess Co., KY

  5. Gertrude Acre: Birth: 20 JAN 1898 in Shoals, Martin Co., IN. Death: 14 APR 1898 in Shoals, Martin Co., IN

  6. Ruby Florine Acre: Birth: 4 SEP 1899 in Shoals, Martin Co., IN. Death: 3 AUG 1978 in Mother Frances Hospital, Tyler, Smith Co., TX

  7. Person Not Viewable

  8. Margaret Paulyne Acre: Birth: 19 MAY 1907 in Indiana. Death: 28 APR 1984 in her residence, Bullard, Smith Co., TX


Sources
1. Title:   Will of Ephraim Acre
2. Title:   Descendants of Leonard and Sarah Acre 1799 - 1999
Author:   Cynthia Acre Ziegler
Publication:   1999, Thornton, CO
3. Title:   Personal knowledge of H. Edgar Hill
4. Title:   Indiana Marriages, 1800-1941, Ancestry.com

Notes
a. Note:   Robert and his brother John went out to Oklahoma before the Cherokee strip rush and staked out land. They participated in the Cherokee strip rush and lived with the Indians. John stayed in Oklahoma and lived ear the Arpaho Indian reservation. Robert lived in the Oklahoma panhandle near Enid, Oklahoma with his daughter Ruby. Robert moved back to Indiana near current Fort Harrision where he lived prior to going to Oklahoma. Ruby stayed in Oklahoma were she died. He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana, Section: 224, Lot: 445. Robert Hamilton Acre was a state representative from Marion County, Indiana.
  Robert Hamilton Acre
  Robert Hamilton Acre was the son of Ephraim and Margaret Elizabeth (Hamilton) Acre. He was a native of Martin Co., Indiana. Ephraim�s brother, Joseph, married Margaret�s sister, Caroline Cornelius Hamilton.
  Robert and his brother John Thomas Acre went out to Oklahoma before the Cherokee Strip rush from Hennessey and lived with the Indians. He staked a homestead claim on a farm a mile north of Lahoma. John stayed in Oklahoma and lived near the Arapaho Indian reservation. A short time later, however, he returned to Indiana and engaged in business there. He also took an active part in political affairs for many years, having been selected twice to serve in the Indiana State legislature.
  Robert returned in 1929 to live in the Oklahoma panhandle near Enid, Oklahoma with his daughter Ruby. He was engaged in real estate and oil and gas lease brokerage business. In this capacity he contacted and knew hundreds of farmers throughout northwest Oklahoma. Robert moved back to Indiana near current Fort Harrison where he lived prior to going to Oklahom
  Ruby stayed in Oklahoma and eventually moved to Tyler, Smith Co. Texas, where she worked for her sister, Margaret Paulyne Acre who owned a dress shop. Neither Ruby nor Paulyne ever married.
  Robert and Margaret�s other children were Gertrude (died young), Jesse Cecil (lived in Dallas, Texas at the time of his father�s death in 1947), Frederick Ephraim (apparently never married), Harry Miles (was married twice and had two daughters by his first marriage), Mabel Elizabeth (married Thomas Hindman and had one son), and Robert Ragel Acre (a doctor in Evansville, Indiana and Karen�s grandfather.) Robert Hamilton is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana, Section: 224, Lot: 445. Robert Hamilton Acre was a state representative from Marion County, Indiana.
  Mr. Acre was a member of the Methodist church.


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