Listed as farmer in the 1850 census, Talladega Co, AL, family #1268
1860 Census Sulpher Springs, Calhoun County, Alabama, p 689
1900 Census Sulpher Springs, Calhoun County, Alabama, p 85B, married to Alice
Source Talladega Co, Alabama, Will Book (B) page 352, William C. Aker appointed guardian of Demaris A., Mary C., Henderson P., Elizabeth O., Treacy C., Susan A., heirs of H.D. Aker deceased, John R Sims and Elizabeth Acker Securities, April 7, 1860
Letter from William C Acker to his wife Tressie Gibson during the Civil War Source: Acker History by Noble Acker
Knoxville, East Tennessee head waters
Camp Mallard January the 1st 1863
Dear Beloved Wife,
I take the present opportunity of dropping you a few lines to let you know that I am in the land of the living and in tolerable good health. I have had a very bad cold and have been very bad off for several days but I am mending very fast. I have been able to tend to my train all the time but the boys have done everything that they could. The wouldn't let me do nothing that they could do for me. I got back from the gap yesterday and I got a letter from you that I was glad to get and to hear from home and to hear that you were all well and doing well. I was glad to hear that my beloved child was getting well of his burn. that gave me great uneasiness. H. P. Acker is well and doing well. T. R. Mallard is well and al the rest of the boys that you know. I am well pleased with your salt trade and sale of your mule and ? of pottery and I want you to hire you a Negro boy or a girl to hep the old man make a crop. I want you to be sure to make arrangements to make corn today for the next year. I don't want to hear of you having to buy corn to use. I want to hear how you come out with your fattening hogs and how much they weighed. I want you to write how much snow you have got this winter.
I have got a good horse bridal and a new saddle to ride and eleven wagons to tend to. It is a light task to what I have had. The say that Gen. Smith is going to Texas and he says that he has to have al of his old drivers and go there we will leave here shortly. I can't tel anything about it. The things go on strange to what you might think. There isn't 2 days but what we get new orders to do something. There is a great excitement up about the war. There is a great split among the Northern States about the slave question. There is a heap of bad weather here of late - rain, sleet, and snow. The ground is frozen and has been 3 days. I want you to write to me as soon as you get this. Direct your letter to this place. Mallard says he is going home in a few days if he can get off. I want you to send me some clothes by him if he goes. I want some bed clothes if you can send them to me. I sent you $100 by Dinahoo to Talladega. It started ten days ago. I am going to my Captain Hood? When I go to the gap for a furlow but I don't know whether I will get off or not. I want to come home for a while. They are furloughing some men.
So farewell for a few days.
Wm. C. Acker to T. J. Acker
In Hall Cemetery WC Acker is buried between his two wives, Tressie on his right side (when looking at stones on the left) and Alice on his left side. All three stones have obelisk on top.
