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Mary Shoffner-Smith added this on 11 Mar 2014 Heritage of Tippah County Mississippi Edited Reprint 1999 "James Akins...was taken from his bed one Sunday morning during the Civil War. He was sick with a sore throat. About one week later his family received word from some town south of their home that he had died, leaving behind his wife and children. They owned their own home place and a lot full of mules. Later, the Northern soldiers came one Sunday morning and took all the mules except one and it was crippled. Sarah Ellen stayed on, reared the children, and died in the summer of 1900 with cancer." recorded by Eudora Booker Patrick The Akins homeplace was 1 mile north of Academy Baptist Church in Orizaba County, Directions to old Akins Homeplace: Take 15 to New Albany Left on 30 to Keownville Right on 152 Right on 238 Right at the dead end The first house on the right is the house Nancy Catherine and Elbert Floyd built in the 1940s. The old Akins homeplace was right behind it on the hill. There is a drive with a gate that leads onto the Atkins'. There was also a travel trailer set up on the hill to the left with a flag flying high. The 1870 census listed that he and Sara were both from Georgia. At the time of their deaths, they were living in Union Co, Mississippi Birth: in Georgia Death: BEF 1870 in Does not appear in 1870 census with Sarah Marriage 1 Sarah Ellen Rutherford b: 1833 in Georgia Children Has No Children Doc Akins Has No Children Susan (Lucinda) Akins b: 1854 in Union County MS Has Children William Riley Akins b: 31 MAR 1858 in Union County, MS Has No Children Georgeanna M. Akins b: 1860 in Union County MS Has Children Liberty Hill Akins b: JUN 1863 in Union County Mississippi Has Children Nancy Catherine Akins b: 18 SEP 1868 in Union County MS Has No Children John Akins b: ABT 1872 in Union County Mississippi
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Mary Shoffner-Smith added this on 11 Mar 2014 Heritage of Tippah County Mississippi Edited Reprint 1999 "James Akins...was taken from his bed one Sunday morning during the Civil War. He was sick with a sore throat. About one week later his family received word from some town south of their home that he had died, leaving behind his wife and children. They owned their own home place and a lot full of mules. Later, the Northern soldiers came one Sunday morning and took all the mules except one and it was crippled. Sarah Ellen stayed on, reared the children, and died in the summer of 1900 with cancer." recorded by Eudora Booker Patrick The Akins homeplace was 1 mile north of Academy Baptist Church in Orizaba County, Directions to old Akins Homeplace: Take 15 to New Albany Left on 30 to Keownville Right on 152 Right on 238 Right at the dead end The first house on the right is the house Nancy Catherine and Elbert Floyd built in the 1940s. The old Akins homeplace was right behind it on the hill. There is a drive with a gate that leads onto the Atkins'. There was also a travel trailer set up on the hill to the left with a flag flying high. The 1870 census listed that he and Sara were both from Georgia. At the time of their deaths, they were living in Union Co, Mississippi Birth: in Georgia Death: BEF 1870 in Does not appear in 1870 census with Sarah Marriage 1 Sarah Ellen Rutherford b: 1833 in Georgia Children Has No Children Doc Akins Has No Children Susan (Lucinda) Akins b: 1854 in Union County MS Has Children William Riley Akins b: 31 MAR 1858 in Union County, MS Has No Children Georgeanna M. Akins b: 1860 in Union County MS Has Children Liberty Hill Akins b: JUN 1863 in Union County Mississippi Has Children Nancy Catherine Akins b: 18 SEP 1868 in Union County MS Has No Children John Akins b: ABT 1872 in Union County Mississippi
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Mary Shoffner-Smith added this on 11 Mar 2014 Heritage of Tippah County Mississippi Edited Reprint 1999 "James Akins...was taken from his bed one Sunday morning during the Civil War. He was sick with a sore throat. About one week later his family received word from some town south of their home that he had died, leaving behind his wife and children. They owned their own home place and a lot full of mules. Later, the Northern soldiers came one Sunday morning and took all the mules except one and it was crippled. Sarah Ellen stayed on, reared the children, and died in the summer of 1900 with cancer." recorded by Eudora Booker Patrick The Akins homeplace was 1 mile north of Academy Baptist Church in Orizaba County, Directions to old Akins Homeplace: Take 15 to New Albany Left on 30 to Keownville Right on 152 Right on 238 Right at the dead end The first house on the right is the house Nancy Catherine and Elbert Floyd built in the 1940s. The old Akins homeplace was right behind it on the hill. There is a drive with a gate that leads onto the Atkins'. There was also a travel trailer set up on the hill to the left with a flag flying high. The 1870 census listed that he and Sara were both from Georgia. At the time of their deaths, they were living in Union Co, Mississippi Birth: in Georgia Death: BEF 1870 in Does not appear in 1870 census with Sarah Marriage 1 Sarah Ellen Rutherford b: 1833 in Georgia Children Has No Children Doc Akins Has No Children Susan (Lucinda) Akins b: 1854 in Union County MS Has Children William Riley Akins b: 31 MAR 1858 in Union County, MS Has No Children Georgeanna M. Akins b: 1860 in Union County MS Has Children Liberty Hill Akins b: JUN 1863 in Union County Mississippi Has Children Nancy Catherine Akins b: 18 SEP 1868 in Union County MS Has No Children John Akins b: ABT 1872 in Union County Mississippi
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Mary Shoffner-Smith added this on 11 Mar 2014 Heritage of Tippah County Mississippi Edited Reprint 1999 "James Akins...was taken from his bed one Sunday morning during the Civil War. He was sick with a sore throat. About one week later his family received word from some town south of their home that he had died, leaving behind his wife and children. They owned their own home place and a lot full of mules. Later, the Northern soldiers came one Sunday morning and took all the mules except one and it was crippled. Sarah Ellen stayed on, reared the children, and died in the summer of 1900 with cancer." recorded by Eudora Booker Patrick The Akins homeplace was 1 mile north of Academy Baptist Church in Orizaba County, Directions to old Akins Homeplace: Take 15 to New Albany Left on 30 to Keownville Right on 152 Right on 238 Right at the dead end The first house on the right is the house Nancy Catherine and Elbert Floyd built in the 1940s. The old Akins homeplace was right behind it on the hill. There is a drive with a gate that leads onto the Atkins'. There was also a travel trailer set up on the hill to the left with a flag flying high. The 1870 census listed that he and Sara were both from Georgia. At the time of their deaths, they were living in Union Co, Mississippi Birth: in Georgia Death: BEF 1870 in Does not appear in 1870 census with Sarah Marriage 1 Sarah Ellen Rutherford b: 1833 in Georgia Children Has No Children Doc Akins Has No Children Susan (Lucinda) Akins b: 1854 in Union County MS Has Children William Riley Akins b: 31 MAR 1858 in Union County, MS Has No Children Georgeanna M. Akins b: 1860 in Union County MS Has Children Liberty Hill Akins b: JUN 1863 in Union County Mississippi Has Children Nancy Catherine Akins b: 18 SEP 1868 in Union County MS Has No Children John Akins b: ABT 1872 in Union County Mississippi
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