OBIT: Wilson L. AKERS, 1895, formerly of Blair County, PA

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WILSON L. AKERS

Formerly a merchant of this city, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. 
C. Teeter, in Braddock, Pa., on Tuesday evening. On October 31, Mr. Akers 
fell and dislocated his shoulder, and we presume that this injury caused his 
death. Mr. Akers was born in Bedford county on December 28, 1814, and was 
taken by his parents to Carrollton, Carroll county, O., when he was quite 
young. His parents died in Ohio when he was but a boy. His mother's maiden 
name was Nancy Hanks, and she was a relative of President Lincoln's 
grandmother. Mr. Akers was married at Carrollton many years ago to Jane 
Atkinson, whose father owned a large woolen mill and published a newspaper 
at that place, Mr. Akers assisting him in these enterprises. During the war 
Mr. Akers was an attendant in a Washington hospital and afterwards he was 
employed as a horticulturist by Daniel J. Morrell in Johnstown. In 1875 Mr. 
Akers came to Altoona and opened a general store, the name of the firm being 
Akers, Piper & Co. Ten years later the departed returned to Johnstown and 
made his home with his son, Alvar, and family, until a short time before the 
great flood, when he went to Braddock, and he had made his home there ever 
since with his son-in-law, Mr. Teeter. Two daughters, survive him, Miss 
Christina Akers of Richland, Ia., and Mrs. Susan Teeters of Braddock. His 
four sons, Alvar, John, Robert and George J., are all dead. The first named 
was drowned in the Johnstown flood, the second died some years ago in 
Chicago, the third was killed in the battle at Antietam and George J., who 
was at one time engaged in the newspaper business in Altoona, died three 
years ago. The old gentleman was a most interesting person, having a kind 
heart, a cheerful disposition and an almost inexhaustible fund of 
information on literary and scientific subjects. He was held in the highest 
esteem by all who knew him. This morning the remains were laid by the side 
of those of his second wife in the Catholic cemetery at Derry.

8 November 1895

Blair County Genealogical Society, Publication No. 133
Civil War Veterans' Obituaries, Articles, Letters and Photographs
edited by June L. Hoffman Weston