McConnellsburg, PA: The Fulton County News, issue of Thursday, 7 December 1899, p. 1, col. 2
DEATH OF MRS. AKERS.
Many were the eyes that were moistened with tears when the sad intelligence flashed abroad that Mrs. Jennie May Akers, wife of Postmaster James S. Akers, of Akersville, had passed over the cold, icy billows of death, and gone to join her mother and a host of her loved ones who had passed from life to eternity before her.
Mrs. Akers was a consistent member of the Christian church for eight years; her daily walk through health, and the patience with which she bore the pain through her long and continued illness, were marks of her christian life which seemed devoted to her God and her family.
The deceased has not been a woman of good health for years; but, until the latter part of the summer, she was able to, at least, superintend her work. When her suffering became intolerable, she was taken to the Methodist hospital in Philadelphia, where she was treated for about a month and a half, but all that medical skill could do was only temporary, and she came back to her home where all was done that loving hearts and willing hands could do.
Tuesday morning about one o'clock her spirit flew away to the God who gave it, and on the following day, the body, in a beautiful black casket, was borne from the house to the church by six young men, followed by a host of relatives and friends. After an impressive funeral sermon founded on these words--"Blessed are they which die in the Lord"--her remains were interred in the Akersville Cemetery.
The deceased was twenty-nine years, five months, and twenty-eight days of age, and leaves to mourn her loss a devoted husband, two children, Maude, aged ten years, and Carl, aged eight years, a father, one sister, one brother, and a great number of relatives and friends who have the sympathy of all who knew her.
A FRIEND.
DEATH OF MRS. AKERS.
Many were the eyes that were moistened with tears when the sad intelligence flashed abroad that Mrs. Jennie May Akers, wife of Postmaster James S. Akers, of Akersville, had passed over the cold, icy billows of death, and gone to join her mother and a host of her loved ones who had passed from life to eternity before her.
Mrs. Akers was a consistent member of the Christian church for eight years; her daily walk through health, and the patience with which she bore the pain through her long and continued illness, were marks of her christian life which seemed devoted to her God and her family.
The deceased has not been a woman of good health for years; but, until the latter part of the summer, she was able to, at least, superintend her work. When her suffering became intolerable, she was taken to the Methodist hospital in Philadelphia, where she was treated for about a month and a half, but all that medical skill could do was only temporary, and she came back to her home where all was done that loving hearts and willing hands could do.
Tuesday morning about one o'clock her spirit flew away to the God who gave it, and on the following day, the body, in a beautiful black casket, was borne from the house to the church by six young men, followed by a host of relatives and friends. After an impressive funeral sermon founded on these words--"Blessed are they which die in the Lord"--her remains were interred in the Akersville Cemetery.
The deceased was twenty-nine years, five months, and twenty-eight days of age, and leaves to mourn her loss a devoted husband, two children, Maude, aged ten years, and Carl, aged eight years, a father, one sister, one brother, and a great number of relatives and friends who have the sympathy of all who knew her.
A FRIEND.
McConnellsburg, PA: The Fulton County News, issue of Thursday, 7 December 1899, p. 1, col. 2
DEATH OF MRS. AKERS.
Many were the eyes that were moistened with tears when the sad intelligence flashed abroad that Mrs. Jennie May Akers, wife of Postmaster James S. Akers, of Akersville, had passed over the cold, icy billows of death, and gone to join her mother and a host of her loved ones who had passed from life to eternity before her.
Mrs. Akers was a consistent member of the Christian church for eight years; her daily walk through health, and the patience with which she bore the pain through her long and continued illness, were marks of her christian life which seemed devoted to her God and her family.
The deceased has not been a woman of good health for years; but, until the latter part of the summer, she was able to, at least, superintend her work. When her suffering became intolerable, she was taken to the Methodist hospital in Philadelphia, where she was treated for about a month and a half, but all that medical skill could do was only temporary, and she came back to her home where all was done that loving hearts and willing hands could do.
Tuesday morning about one o'clock her spirit flew away to the God who gave it, and on the following day, the body, in a beautiful black casket, was borne from the house to the church by six young men, followed by a host of relatives and friends. After an impressive funeral sermon founded on these words--"Blessed are they which die in the Lord"--her remains were interred in the Akersville Cemetery.
The deceased was twenty-nine years, five months, and twenty-eight days of age, and leaves to mourn her loss a devoted husband, two children, Maude, aged ten years, and Carl, aged eight years, a father, one sister, one brother, and a great number of relatives and friends who have the sympathy of all who knew her.
A FRIEND.
DEATH OF MRS. AKERS.
Many were the eyes that were moistened with tears when the sad intelligence flashed abroad that Mrs. Jennie May Akers, wife of Postmaster James S. Akers, of Akersville, had passed over the cold, icy billows of death, and gone to join her mother and a host of her loved ones who had passed from life to eternity before her.
Mrs. Akers was a consistent member of the Christian church for eight years; her daily walk through health, and the patience with which she bore the pain through her long and continued illness, were marks of her christian life which seemed devoted to her God and her family.
The deceased has not been a woman of good health for years; but, until the latter part of the summer, she was able to, at least, superintend her work. When her suffering became intolerable, she was taken to the Methodist hospital in Philadelphia, where she was treated for about a month and a half, but all that medical skill could do was only temporary, and she came back to her home where all was done that loving hearts and willing hands could do.
Tuesday morning about one o'clock her spirit flew away to the God who gave it, and on the following day, the body, in a beautiful black casket, was borne from the house to the church by six young men, followed by a host of relatives and friends. After an impressive funeral sermon founded on these words--"Blessed are they which die in the Lord"--her remains were interred in the Akersville Cemetery.
The deceased was twenty-nine years, five months, and twenty-eight days of age, and leaves to mourn her loss a devoted husband, two children, Maude, aged ten years, and Carl, aged eight years, a father, one sister, one brother, and a great number of relatives and friends who have the sympathy of all who knew her.
A FRIEND.
Inscription
Akersville Cemetery, Brush Creek Twp. Fulton Co. PA
Transcribed and photographed 24 December 2003 by Michael S. Caldwell
AKERS
JENNIE M. / WIFE OF JAMES S. AKERS / BORN MAY 31, 1869 / DIED NOV. 28, 1899
JAMES S. AKERS / BORN JULY 23, 1861 / DIED JULY 5, 1926
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