1850 Census: Mercer Co., MO 269-01 Akers, Lydia 47 F KY 269-02 Akers, Benjamin 20 M IN 269-03 Akers, Thomas 14 M IN 269-04 Akers, Booly 12 F IN 269-05 Akers, Abraham 9 M IN 269-06 Akers, Lydia 6 F IN 271-01 Akers, William 28 M KY 271-02 Akers, Susan 26 F NC 271-03 Akers, Manervy 3 F MO 271-04 Akers, Benjamin 11/12 M MO 271-05 Akers, Spencer 24 M IN 271-06 Akers, Elizabeth 21 F IN 271-07 Akers, Wesley 10/12 M MO The Akers name does not appear in the 1860 or 1870 Census. Salem Cemetery Mary Ann, dau of S. C. & E. J. Akers died Jan. 18, 1849 aged 1y 17d No other listing for burials of the Akers family in Mercer Co. according to cemetery book. Rhoda Collins, my grgreatgrandmother, was born the daughter of John Collins in Christian Co., KY. He was from Spartansburg Co., South Carolina. Rhoda married Elijah G. Wiggins. John, Rhoda and Elijah are buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Lindley Twp. in Mercer Co., MO. Sandra Akers Dole wrote: > > Surnames: AKERS COLLINS > Submitter: Sandra Akers Dole (tdole@softcom.net) > Date: 27 May 2001 > > Bedy AKERS married Lydia Ann COLLINS in Kentucky, > lived in Indiana, and traveled to Carroll County, Chariton County, and Mercer County, MO. I have information he died in Mercer County, MO.in 1846 or 1847. One of his grandchildren, Marion Wesley AKERS, was born in Mercer County in 1849. Is there a record that will prove the date and town/county of Bedy's death. I would hope it would give his birth and parent info also. > > ==== MOMERCER Mailing List ==== > List mail archives can be accessed at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > or at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl

Hi Lawrence and Sandra: I noticed you both had Collins connections in Kentucky and Missouri, so I thought I should check to see if anyone recognizes my Isaac Milton Collins (1840-1929). Isaac usually went by the name Milton Collins. He was born in Livingston Co. in 1840 (part of which later became Grundy Co.), but according to his Civil War pension application his parents died while he was an infant. Presumably they died in the Livingston/Grundy Co. areas in the early 1840s. In later federal censuses Isaac's parents are listed as being born in Kentucky. Sometimes in the census only his mother's birthplace is listed (with a line drawn through the father's birthplace) and I wonder if maybe his mother was a Collins from Kentucky who never married, but I just have no idea. Your posts were the first mention I had seen of Collins deaths in the area from the 1840s, and since you both had Collinses back in Kentucky who came to Missouri around that time, I thought I should write. If anyone else on the list recognizes him, please contact me-- he is one of my 'brick walls'. After his parents died, Isaac was 'bound out' to Joseph Rooks, and he refers to Joseph as his grandfather. I have not been able to establish a biological relationship between Joseph Rooks and Isaac, and I don't think there was one. Isaac 'Milton' Collins married Mary Anna Kelly (1845-1926) in 1862, and joined the Union Army twice (medically discharged both times). They raised a large family, of which I have some pictures. If anyone can help please contact me, Robert Lawrence May wrote: > > Rhoda Collins, my grgreatgrandmother, was born the daughter of John > Collins in Christian Co., KY. He was from Spartansburg Co., South > Carolina. Rhoda married Elijah G. Wiggins. John, Rhoda and Elijah are > buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Lindley Twp. in Mercer Co., MO. > > Sandra Akers Dole wrote: > > > > Surnames: AKERS COLLINS > > Submitter: Sandra Akers Dole (tdole@softcom.net) > > Date: 27 May 2001 > > > > Bedy AKERS married Lydia Ann COLLINS in Kentucky, > > lived in Indiana, and traveled to Carroll County, Chariton County, and Mercer County, MO. I have information he died in Mercer County, MO.in 1846 or 1847. One of his grandchildren, Marion Wesley AKERS, was born in Mercer County in 1849. Is there a record that will prove the date and town/county of Bedy's death. I would hope it would give his birth and parent info also. > > > > ==== MOMERCER Mailing List ==== > > List mail archives can be accessed at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > > or at: > > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > > ==== MOMERCER Mailing List ==== > List mail archives can be accessed at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > or at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com