Family Histories of Coleman County, Texas

James Akin
by Lois McCarty

From A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985 
edited by Judia and Ralph Terry, and Vena Bob Gates - used by permission
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      Martha Rosella (Rose) Turner was born March 24, 1875 in Georgia.  She married James Charles Finney Agustus Akin.  They came to Coleman County in 1906 and lived for a time near the Jim Ned Creek in the Silver Valley area.  (See John Turner).  They were parents or nine children:  Bell, Alpha. Lora, Willie, Charley. Norman, Maude, Homer and Coleman.  These children attended school at Mt. View, Silver Valley, and Novice and as they grew up they each lett Coleman County.  Rose and Finney moved to Weatherford from Coleman county and later to Ft. Worth.  They are both buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Ft. Worth.


 
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