Son of John Henry Ankrom and Hannah Francis Ankrom.

Husband of Elizabeth Walmer Ankrom, married on Oct. 25, 1855 in Jefferson county, Iowa.

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Note: a digitized version of the following biography can be found online. It evidently was scanned by OCR software which made several interpretations of the words somewhat scrambled. Below is the text as found on an Ancestry family tree, which appears to use the original text:

From Biographical and Genealogical History of Appanoose and Monroe Counties, Iowa, by Lewis S. Thompson, 1903

On a modest homestead of eighty acres, two miles from Moulton, may be found that always pleasing spectacle of a man and a woman who have lived together in conjugal union for a long period of time. Mr. and Mrs. Ankrom, the couple alluded to, were married forty-seven years ago, and during all that time have had nothing approaching a disagreement. All except seven of these years of connubial bliss have been passed on the the farm near Moulton, and there this worthy but unassuming couple expect to remain until the lengthening shadows are followed by that final accounting from which no man can escape. Their story is soon told, as it is of the uneventful kind that usually enters into the lives of farmers and does not admit of gaudy coloring or dramatic touch in narration.

Eli Ankrom was born in Virginia, February 27, 1832 (sic. a/k/a Feb. 21, 1831 in some sources), and was consequently two years old when the long journey to Iowa was undertaken by his parents (in 1834). He assisted his father on the farm until 1855, when he decided to marry and set up a household of his own. The lady whom he selected as his wife was Elizabeth Walmer, whose birth occurred in Montgomery County, Ohio, April 21, 1837, and who was brought to Van Buren County, Iowa in 1851 by her parents. Shortly after his marriage Mr. Ankrom took his bride to a place nine miles northeast of Fairfield, where he was engaged in farming during the following six years. Subsequently one year was spent in Davis County, and then Mr. and Mrs. Ankrom located on the farm in Appanoose County near Moulton, which was destined to prove their permanent abiding place. This estimable couple are without children of their own but have an adopted son in the person of John H. Ankrom, upon whom they have centered all their affections and hopes, and who gives promise of realizing their brightest expectations. Mr. and Mrs. Ankrom are devoted members of the Christian Church, and by practice as well as precept show the sincerity of their religious convictions. In fact, they are one of those couples who "grow old gracefully", whom young people like to surround on account of their fatherly and motherly kindnesses and who secure general esteem by gentleness of manners and goodness of heart.