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Son of Ransom Wallace Akin I and Martha Jacobs. He was four months old when his mother died in June 1833 in New Albany, Floyd Co., IN. His father remarried in 1834 to Sarah Rawlings Sedgwick. In 1838 the family moved to Carlisle, Sullivan Co., IN. He married Louisa Elizabeth "Lib" O'Haver on July 8, 1854 in Sullivan Co., IN. They resided in Carlisle for several years and then moved to Indianapolis sometime before 1880 as they are recorded on the 1880 census there. After this they moved to Lancaster, SC. by 1885 where he was employed by the government Railway Mail Service. Following his death, "Lib" returned to Carlisle, IN. They did not have any children. Fondly known as "Uncle Frank" and "Aunt Lib" to family. By Laura J. Stewart

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The Lenoir Topic - Lenoir, North Carolina - Wednesday, December 25, 1889 - Page 3

Obituary - Mr Frank M Akin, died at Lancaster, SC. on Dec 19th of consumption. He was a mail route agent on the C & L R R. He was well known in Lenoir, being the first R R mail agent who ever made a trip to this town. He was in the last stages of consumption for four or five years.

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U.S., Register of Civil, Military, and Naval Service, 1863-1959
The Railway Mail Service
Name: F. M. Akin
Birth Place: Indiana
Residence Date: 1 Jul 1885
Station or Residence Place: Lancaster C. H., South Carolina, USA
Year: 1885
Title: Official Register of the United States, Containing a List of Officers and Employees in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service
Volume: Volume 2
Appointed in NC.
Where employed: Newton, NC to Lancaster C.H., SC

Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941
Name: Frances M. Akin
Spouse Name: Louisa E. O'Haver
Marriage Date: 8 Jul 1854

Home in 1850: Thorn, Perry, Ohio, USA
Israel Sperry 37 grain merchant
Belinda C Sperry 30
Wilmor Sperry 6
Elizabeth B Sperry 4
Caroline Sperry 19
F M Akin 17 IN clerk (working for business associate of his father who was in the mercantile business)

Home in 1860: Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana
F M Akin 28
Elizabeth Akin 30
John S Akin 22

Home in 1870: Carlisle, Sullivan, Indiana
Francis M Akin 37
Louisa E Akin 38
James K O Haver 74
Catharine V D Whittesey 76
Edward Willmore 23

Home in 1880: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
Francis Akin 47 IN grain dealer
Louise E. Akin 44

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