This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Akin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2dB.2ACI/2581 Message Board Post: John Akin, a Westmoreland county farmer, seventy-one years of age, Sunday afternoon shot and killed his wife, aged seventy-three, and then blew the top of his own head off with the same weapon, an old Springfield rifle. After shooting his wife he called to a neighbor who was passing by, "I've shot the old woman, you'll find her in the house." He then retired some distance from the house, placed the muzzle of the gun under his chin, pulled the trigger and commenced the ascent of the golden stair. Somerset Herald July 16, 1879 Page 3