{"id":1259,"date":"2016-02-13T18:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T00:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:08","slug":"robert-j-akin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/robert-j-akin\/","title":{"rendered":"AKIN, Robert J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Robert J. AKIN<\/strong>, of the Eleventh District, was born in Decatur County, March 9, 1828. <strong>Wm. V. AKIN<\/strong>, his father, was a native of South Carolina, came to Maury County, Tenn., about 1801, was married first to <strong>Miss Edna<\/strong>, about 1810.<\/p>\n<p>Our subject is the eighth of eleven children; received his education in the country schools, by careful and constant reading of books and papers of the day, has a well stored mind. His principal occupation since boyhood has been farming, but from 1856 to 1860 was engaged in boating staves to New Orleans; is a blacksmith by trade. He was married March 28, 1860, to <strong>Susan T. HANCOCK<\/strong>, of Decatur County. When war was declared <strong>Mr. AKIN<\/strong> enlisted in the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry, under command of Col. Cox; served gallantly in the battles of Chickamauga and Morristown, Philadelphia Tennessee and Brentwood. In the winter <strong>Mr. AKIN<\/strong> on account of sickness was on furlough; at the termination of the war he returned to the farm upon which he has since and is now living. Ho is a devoted member of the Methodist Church, a Mason and sincere Democrat, a man well known and respected. &#8212; Transcribed by David Donahue<\/p>\n<p><i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present ; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Henderson, Chester, Mcnairy, Decatur, and Hardin Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C: Southern Historical Press, 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert J. AKIN, of the Eleventh District, was born in Decatur County, March 9, 1828. Wm. V. AKIN, his father, was a native of South Carolina, came to Maury County, Tenn., about 1801, was married first to Miss Edna, about 1810. Our subject is the eighth of eleven children; received his education in the country &#8230; <a title=\"AKIN, Robert J.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/robert-j-akin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AKIN, Robert J.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1333,286],"tags":[4346],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decatur","category-maury","tag-akin-robert-j"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}