• Age: 89
• Interview Date: 12/19/2007
• Interviewer: Robert Warren, Illinois State Museum
• Interview Length: 111 minutes Sit-Down Interview
• County: Tazewell
• Ray was born and raised on his family’s small Centennial Farm near Morton. He participated in the farm’s beef, dairy, and grain operations during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Ackerman Farmhouse, 1913 Wedding of John and Louisa Ackerman, 1913 Ray Ackerman, high school graduate, 1935