Akers
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Generation No. 1
1. SIMON1 AKERS died 1747. He married MARY SMITH 05 December 1680 in Rockingham County, Virginia.
Children of SIMON AKERS and MARY SMITH are:
2. i. WILLIAM2 AKERS.
ii. THOMAS AKERS.
iii. URIAH AKERS.
iv. RUTH AKERS.
Generation No. 2
2. WILLIAM2 AKERS (SIMON1) He married ELIZABETH UNKNOWN.
Notes for WILLIAM AKERS:
Taken From Ancestors and Descendants of the Hall - Poff Family of Montgomery County, Virginia; by Judith Scott Self c. 1978
"Little is known about the personal life of William Akers, I. Our only knowledge is that gleaned from public records. According to Stoner in The Seed Bed of the Republic, a compilation of the documnets and oral history of the Botetourt and Rockbridge County area, William was a farmer. He served as executor of his father's will in 1748. He married Elizabeth ______ of Bedford County. From the same source we learn that William was the son of Simon Akers and Mary, his wife; he had at least two brothers and one sister. He and one brother, Thomas, inherited some of his father's land and sold that lying near the present Roanoke County line in 1773; further, according to Stoner, William I also had a son named William, who settled in Montgomery County."
Child of WILLIAM AKERS and ELIZABETH UNKNOWN is:
3. i. WILLIAM3 AKERS II.
Generation No. 3
3. WILLIAM3 AKERS II (WILLIAM2, SIMON1) He married LYDIA ELKINS.
Notes for WILLIAM AKERS II:
Taken From Ancestors and Descendants of the Hall - Poff Family of Montgomery County, Virginia; by Judith Scott Self c. 1978
"According to county legend, William Akers is the hero of the 'Ben and Jo Tale'. This tale, according to The Montgomery Messenger has been 'told and retold many times and is familiar to thousands.' Dr. Goodridge Wilson widened it's audience by recounting it in his 'Southwest Corner' in The Roanoke Times some years ago. According to county legend, a big white 'spook' would often rise out of the Little River crying 'Ben, Jo'. This spook or spook tale was apparently very popular in William's time. Apparently people believed it. According to legend, William made a silver bullet ( for silver bullets were the only kind that would kill spooks!) and killed the white spook, thus silencing the Ben and Jo cry forever. Apparently people were grateful enough to William to perpetuate this popular legend. "
Notes for LYDIA ELKINS:
Taken From Ancestors and Descendants of the Hall - Poff Family of Montgomery County, Virginia; by Judith Scott Self c. 1978
"A poem entitled "Hill Granny" by Ruby Altizer Roberts has been read all over the nation after being published in anthologies. "Hi;; Granny" is Lydia Elkins Akers, wife of William Akers, and great grandmother of Ruby Altizer Roberts. It tells of Lydia's death, at a very advanced age, in the swollen waters of the Little River; Mrs. Robert's father was a small boy when this occured and remembered the details vividly, according to Mrs. Roberts..."
Hill Granny
by: Ruby Altizer Roberts
Always she seemed the earth's true sanctioned daughter
Holding a warm sweet kinship with the soil,
And being mountain-bred she hated water
So oft it's greedy hands had robbed her toil.
She loved to go on horseback to the mill
That lay across the river. Storm nor tears
Could not dispose the current of her will,
And though her sight grew dim, she scoffed at years.
Braving the shoals one bleak November day
Deceitful waters drew her strangely close;
Her faithful mount, foam-flecked and wet with spray
Returned without her, silent and morose.
The neighbors searched beneath the yellow light
Of lanterns. Dawn's bright fingers touched the blue,
And weeks went by. Oft we'd awake at night-
The river would have none of her, we knew.
At last spring came and April lit the dank
Low places where the dogwood starred it's token,
And Shep, our collie, searching brush and bank
Retrived a shoe, pitifully crushed and broken.
The search was ended. Soon kind friendly hands
Lifted her earth into its natural home,
And we knew rest, free of fear's clutching hands,
Knowing she slept in her beloved loam.
Children of WILLIAM AKERS and LYDIA ELKINS are:
4. i. SAMUEL4 AKERS, b. Abt. 1780.
ii. LUCY AKERS, m. OBEDIAH WHITE, 28 April 1806.
iii. PATTY AKERS, m. HENRY REEL, 27 April 1790.
5. iv. JAMES AKERS.
v. JOHN AKERS, m. SARAH BROWN, 08 August 1793.
vi. WILLIAM AKERS, m. NANCY WHITE, 24 December 1807.
vii. SUSANNAH AKERS, m. WORLEY KEYS, 03 September 1804.
viii. NANCY AKERS, m. JOSEPH VAUGHN.
ix. ELIZA AKERS, m. JESSE ALTIZER.
x. UNKNOWN AKERS, m. UNKNOWN DUCAN.
Generation No. 4
4. SAMUEL4 AKERS (WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, SIMON1) was born Abt. 1780. He married SARAH HIGHLY 02 August 1802 in Franklin County, Virginia, daughter of JAMES HIGHLY and UNKNOWN.
Children of SAMUEL AKERS and SARAH HIGHLY are:
6. i. WILLIAM H.5 AKERS, b. 20 June 1817, Franklin County, Virginia; d. 17 May 1890.
ii. NANCY AKERS, b. 03 October 1825.
iii. ELIZABETH AKERS, b. 05 March 1832.
iv. POLLY AKERS, b. 15 October 1834.
5. JAMES4 AKERS (WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, SIMON1) He married LUCY WEBSTER 02 January 1792, daughter of LUKE WEBSTER and SARAH.
Children of JAMES AKERS and LUCY WEBSTER are:
i. MARY5 AKERS, m. JOHN REEL.
ii. JAMES AKERS, m. SUSANNAH SMITH.
Generation No. 5
6. WILLIAM H.5 AKERS (SAMUEL4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, SIMON1) was born 20 June 1817 in Franklin County, Virginia, and died 17 May 1890. He married ELIZABETH AKERS 26 January 1846, daughter of DANIEL AKERS and REBEKAH WEBSTER. She was born 09 June 1825 in Franklin County, Virginia.
Notes for WILLIAM H. AKERS:
William H. Akers was a confederate soldier and served as an officer in Colonel Mosby's Virginia Calvary.
Children of WILLIAM AKERS and ELIZABETH AKERS are:
i. SAMUEL O.6 AKERS, b. 1848.
ii. WILLIAM A. J. AKERS, b. 1850.
iii. MARY ANN AKERS, b. 1852.
7. iv. SARAH MARTHA ELIZABETH AKERS, b. 1854; d. 17 August 1921.
v. TABITHA SUSAN AKERS, b. 1856.
vi. NANCY ELLEN AKERS, b. 1859.
vii. JOHN C. B. AKERS, b. 1861.
viii. JAMES H. AKERS, b. 1862.
ix. CHARLIE FILLMORE AKERS, b. 17 February 1866.
x. ARMILLA LEE AKERS, b. 1869.
Generation No. 6
7. SARAH MARTHA ELIZABETH6 AKERS (WILLIAM H.5, SAMUEL4, WILLIAM3, WILLIAM2, SIMON1) was born 1854, and died 17 August 1921. She married GEORGE M. DALLAS HALL, son of ANDREW HALL and CYNTHIA WINFREE. He was born 1847, and died 27 January 1930.
Children of SARAH AKERS and GEORGE HALL are:
8. i. ALONZO AARON7 HALL, b. 09 October 1875; d. 30 March 1943.
ii. CORA E. HALL, b. 28 April 1874.
iii. PEARL A. HALL, b. 30 September 1877.
iv. OSIE M. HALL, b. 19 May 1879.
v. ROXIE F.HALL, b. 11 April 1882.
vi. KENT F. HALL, b. 13 December 1883.