History of Davis co., Iowa - 1882
AKERS, B. C., Esq., Justice of the peace, Troy; was born November 17, 1812, in Barron county, Ky.; at the age of nine years, he moved with his parents to Tennessee, where he was reared and educated; waking three miles to attend a very indifferent subscription school. In his youth he followed flatboating on the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi rivers; and was in New Orleans in 1833, during the cholera epidemic. He was married August 27, 1835, to Miss Martha Etheridge, a native of Tennessee, and they have had five children: Amanda J., deceased March, 1880, wife of John H. Miller; Martha M., wife of S. B. Siddons; James C., Sarah E., wife of John E. Conner; and Mary E., deceased, when three years old. In 1840, Mr. A. came to Iowa, and lived in Van Buren county twenty-two years, enduring all the privations of a pioneer life. He came to this county and located in Troy, in 1862, since which time he has been one of the county's best citizens. He has been justice of the peace or constable for a great many years, and has been many years a member of the Baptist Church. His son, J. C., served three years during the war in company H, Nineteenth Iowa Infantry.
AKERS, B. C., Esq., Justice of the peace, Troy; was born November 17, 1812, in Barron county, Ky.; at the age of nine years, he moved with his parents to Tennessee, where he was reared and educated; waking three miles to attend a very indifferent subscription school. In his youth he followed flatboating on the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi rivers; and was in New Orleans in 1833, during the cholera epidemic. He was married August 27, 1835, to Miss Martha Etheridge, a native of Tennessee, and they have had five children: Amanda J., deceased March, 1880, wife of John H. Miller; Martha M., wife of S. B. Siddons; James C., Sarah E., wife of John E. Conner; and Mary E., deceased, when three years old. In 1840, Mr. A. came to Iowa, and lived in Van Buren county twenty-two years, enduring all the privations of a pioneer life. He came to this county and located in Troy, in 1862, since which time he has been one of the county's best citizens. He has been justice of the peace or constable for a great many years, and has been many years a member of the Baptist Church. His son, J. C., served three years during the war in company H, Nineteenth Iowa Infantry.
History of Davis co., Iowa - 1882
AKERS, B. C., Esq., Justice of the peace, Troy; was born November 17, 1812, in Barron county, Ky.; at the age of nine years, he moved with his parents to Tennessee, where he was reared and educated; waking three miles to attend a very indifferent subscription school. In his youth he followed flatboating on the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi rivers; and was in New Orleans in 1833, during the cholera epidemic. He was married August 27, 1835, to Miss Martha Etheridge, a native of Tennessee, and they have had five children: Amanda J., deceased March, 1880, wife of John H. Miller; Martha M., wife of S. B. Siddons; James C., Sarah E., wife of John E. Conner; and Mary E., deceased, when three years old. In 1840, Mr. A. came to Iowa, and lived in Van Buren county twenty-two years, enduring all the privations of a pioneer life. He came to this county and located in Troy, in 1862, since which time he has been one of the county's best citizens. He has been justice of the peace or constable for a great many years, and has been many years a member of the Baptist Church. His son, J. C., served three years during the war in company H, Nineteenth Iowa Infantry.
AKERS, B. C., Esq., Justice of the peace, Troy; was born November 17, 1812, in Barron county, Ky.; at the age of nine years, he moved with his parents to Tennessee, where he was reared and educated; waking three miles to attend a very indifferent subscription school. In his youth he followed flatboating on the Cumberland, Ohio and Mississippi rivers; and was in New Orleans in 1833, during the cholera epidemic. He was married August 27, 1835, to Miss Martha Etheridge, a native of Tennessee, and they have had five children: Amanda J., deceased March, 1880, wife of John H. Miller; Martha M., wife of S. B. Siddons; James C., Sarah E., wife of John E. Conner; and Mary E., deceased, when three years old. In 1840, Mr. A. came to Iowa, and lived in Van Buren county twenty-two years, enduring all the privations of a pioneer life. He came to this county and located in Troy, in 1862, since which time he has been one of the county's best citizens. He has been justice of the peace or constable for a great many years, and has been many years a member of the Baptist Church. His son, J. C., served three years during the war in company H, Nineteenth Iowa Infantry.
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