Robert Akin
Robert J. Akin was born March 9, 1828, in Decatur Co (then Perry) to William V. and Edna Akin. His father, William, had been born in South Carolina and came to Maury County Tennessee in 1801, where he married in 1816. Robert was the 8th of 11 children. He engaged in farming, boating staves to New Orleans, and blacksmithing. March 28, 1860, he married Susan T. Hancock of Decatur County. Robert enlisted in the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry under Col. Cox at the time of the Civil War. He was a member of the Methodist church, a Mason, and a Democrat.
The Goodspeed Publishing Co., Nashville TN, 1886-1887
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