Individual Details
Peter Akers II
(1 Sep 1790 - 26 Feb 1886)
Events
| Birth | 1 Sep 1790 | Campbell County, Virginia |  | ||
| Marriage | 12 Mar 1818 | Flemingburg, Fleming County, Kentucky - Eliza S. Faris | |||
| Marriage | 12 May 1825 | Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky - Elizabeth Reid | |||
| Occupation | Abt 1840 | Lebanon, Saint Clair County, Illinois |  | | |
| Marriage | 12 May 1846 | Lebanon, Saint Clair County, Illinois - Mary Ann Goheen | | | |
| Census | 1850 | Morgan County, Illinois | | | |
| Census | 1860 | Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota | | | |
| Census | 1870 | Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois | | | |
| Burial | Diamond Grove, Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois | | |||
| Death | 26 Feb 1886 | Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois | | | |
| Residence | |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Ann Goheen (1807 - 1896) |
| Child | Peter Davis Akers (1847 - 1856) |
| Spouse | Eliza S. Faris (1802 - 1821) |
| Child | John Bryan Akers (1816 - 1816) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Reid (1804 - 1846) |
| Child | Joshua Soule Akers Rev (1837 - 1913) |
| Child | Robert Newton Akers (1842 - 1881) |
| Father | John Akers Akers III (1763 - 1803) |
| Mother | Agnes Byran ( - ) |
Notes
Occupation
Peter Akers was an honored Methodist minister and one of the founders and the first president of McKendree College. Cr. Peter Akers also helped to establish Illinois Female Academy, later one of his sons followed to Jacksonville, Illinois.Marriage
married by Rev Thornton PeeblesCensus
Peter Aken age 60 Methodist Minister, born Virginia, real estate $2500Ann age 43 born Pennsylvania
Sarah age 14 born Illinois [daughter of Eliz Reid]
Joshua age 13 born Illinois [son of Eliz Reid]
Nancy age 11 born Illinois [daughter of Eliz Reid]
Cynthia age 9 born Illinois [ daughter of Eliz Reid, buried in St Cair County]
Robert age 7 born Illinois [son of Eliz Reid]
Ann age 5 born Illinois [daughter of Ann]
Peter age 3 born Illinois [son of Ann, buried in St Clair County]
Census
Peter Akers age 68, born Virginia, clergyman ME,Ann age 59, born Pennylvania
Robert age 17, born Illinois
Census
Peter Akers age 79, minister of gosple, born VirginiaAnnie age 62 born Illinois
Death
Peter Akers began his career as a lawyer, but from her deathbed, his first wife pled with him to spend the remainder of his life serving God. He honored her wish and sacrificed his legal career and eventually became a Circuit Rider Preacher throughout the Midwest. Beginning in Kentucky he traveled north to Morgan County, Illinois and began what was known as Ebenezer Church, which served the Ebenezer community from 1835-1994 when the church burnt. Dr. Akers was instrumental in the faith of many Believers.Residence
Peter Akers (1790-1886), was born and raised in Virginia, spent his early adulthood in Kentucky, and lived the remainder of his long life in Illinois, with eight years around the Civil War spent in Minnesota. He had three wives (outliving the first two) and fourteen children. In his younger days he was a school teacher, a lawyer, a newspaper publisher, and a free thinker. It was after his conversion to Christianity that he made his mark as an educator and, even more so, as a Methodist circuit rider.He served three terms (1833-35, 1845-46, 1852-57) as president of McKendree University, the oldest university in Illinois. He cofounded MacMurray College in 1846. And he served on the faculty of Hamline University, the oldest university in Minnesota, from 1857 to 1865. All three institutions thrive to this day.
Endnotes
1. , (: , ), James William Shearer, "The Shearer-Akers Family combined with the Bryan Line through the seventh generation,(The Somerset Messender, Somerville, NJ, 1915) pp 33-45.
2. , "E-mail," e-mail message from () to , Goheen Family History. Hereinafter cited as "e-mail".
3. , (: , ), Rev James William Shearer, The Shearer-Akers Family combined with The Bryan Line through the Seventh Generation, (The Somerset Messenger, Somerville, NJ, 1915) page 19.
4. Illinois, Index: St Clair, Illinois, Peter Akers and Ann Goheen; Illinois State Public Record Offices, Ancestry.com.
5. 1850 U.S. Census, Morgan County, Illinois, poulation schedule, not stated, page 241 printed, family 989, line 29, Peter Aken; NARA microfilm publication M432, 122.
6. 1860 US Census, Goodhue County, Minnesota, population schedule, Red Wing PO, family 47, line 38, page 454, Peter Akers, NARA micropublication M653, roll 570.
7. 1870 US Census, Morgan County, Illinois, population schedule, Jacksonville PO, page 514, family 94, line 14, Peter Akers, NARA micropublication M593, roll 263.
8. , "E-mail," e-mail message from () to , Goheen Family History. Hereinafter cited as "e-mail".
9. Find A Grave, Findagrave.com, database and digital images (http//:www.findagrave.com : viewed 7 March 2015), Memorial# 110385213.
10. Find A Grave, Findagrave.com, database and digital images (http//:www.findagrave.com : viewed 7 March 2015), Memorial# 110385213.