NOTE: The Headstone shows surname "ACKERS," but the US Military burial/interment records indicate the correct spelling of AKERS. SOURCE: U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962,Ancestry.com. Also have loaded a photograph of this form (see at right).
William E. Akers was b. 1828, in New York, to Richard Akers (b. 1778 NJ; d. 1866 OH) and Hannah Keeler (b. 1784 NJ; d. 1884 MI), the youngest of five children.
WILLIAM E. AKERS SIBLINGS:
Mary Jane Akers (1812 – 1891)
Peter Gerton Akers (1820 – 1888)
John G Akers (1821 – )
Aaron K Akers (1824 – 1911)
William E. married Ervilla Johnson on 04 Oct 1856 in Branch, MI (SOURCE: Michigan Marriages, 1851-75, ancestry.com). They had three children:
Joseph R. Akers (1857 – 1891) m.
Virelletta Jenness Akers (1861 – ), unmarried
William A. Akers (1865 – )
He served in the United States Civil War in Co. D., 15th Michigan Infantry. He died of disease (abcess of liver) in a General Hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas and is buried there at the Little Rock National Cemetery.
Biography provided 06.18.2012 by Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre; comments and edits welcome.
William E. Akers was b. 1828, in New York, to Richard Akers (b. 1778 NJ; d. 1866 OH) and Hannah Keeler (b. 1784 NJ; d. 1884 MI), the youngest of five children.
WILLIAM E. AKERS SIBLINGS:
Mary Jane Akers (1812 – 1891)
Peter Gerton Akers (1820 – 1888)
John G Akers (1821 – )
Aaron K Akers (1824 – 1911)
William E. married Ervilla Johnson on 04 Oct 1856 in Branch, MI (SOURCE: Michigan Marriages, 1851-75, ancestry.com). They had three children:
Joseph R. Akers (1857 – 1891) m.
Virelletta Jenness Akers (1861 – ), unmarried
William A. Akers (1865 – )
He served in the United States Civil War in Co. D., 15th Michigan Infantry. He died of disease (abcess of liver) in a General Hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas and is buried there at the Little Rock National Cemetery.
Biography provided 06.18.2012 by Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre; comments and edits welcome.
NOTE: The Headstone shows surname "ACKERS," but the US Military burial/interment records indicate the correct spelling of AKERS. SOURCE: U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962,Ancestry.com. Also have loaded a photograph of this form (see at right).
William E. Akers was b. 1828, in New York, to Richard Akers (b. 1778 NJ; d. 1866 OH) and Hannah Keeler (b. 1784 NJ; d. 1884 MI), the youngest of five children.
WILLIAM E. AKERS SIBLINGS:
Mary Jane Akers (1812 – 1891)
Peter Gerton Akers (1820 – 1888)
John G Akers (1821 – )
Aaron K Akers (1824 – 1911)
William E. married Ervilla Johnson on 04 Oct 1856 in Branch, MI (SOURCE: Michigan Marriages, 1851-75, ancestry.com). They had three children:
Joseph R. Akers (1857 – 1891) m.
Virelletta Jenness Akers (1861 – ), unmarried
William A. Akers (1865 – )
He served in the United States Civil War in Co. D., 15th Michigan Infantry. He died of disease (abcess of liver) in a General Hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas and is buried there at the Little Rock National Cemetery.
Biography provided 06.18.2012 by Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre; comments and edits welcome.
William E. Akers was b. 1828, in New York, to Richard Akers (b. 1778 NJ; d. 1866 OH) and Hannah Keeler (b. 1784 NJ; d. 1884 MI), the youngest of five children.
WILLIAM E. AKERS SIBLINGS:
Mary Jane Akers (1812 – 1891)
Peter Gerton Akers (1820 – 1888)
John G Akers (1821 – )
Aaron K Akers (1824 – 1911)
William E. married Ervilla Johnson on 04 Oct 1856 in Branch, MI (SOURCE: Michigan Marriages, 1851-75, ancestry.com). They had three children:
Joseph R. Akers (1857 – 1891) m.
Virelletta Jenness Akers (1861 – ), unmarried
William A. Akers (1865 – )
He served in the United States Civil War in Co. D., 15th Michigan Infantry. He died of disease (abcess of liver) in a General Hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas and is buried there at the Little Rock National Cemetery.
Biography provided 06.18.2012 by Debra Hart Blackgrave Tyre; comments and edits welcome.
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