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Surnames: Akens, Finton, Elder, Shoemaker, Wysong, Copenhaver
Classification: Query
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I have "some" information on these lines. My family married into Finton and
Akens. I found a first marriage for Minerva with a Capger (might be misspelled). I
don't know where I got that name, Capger. A Mrs. Charles Wysong is listed as a
survivor in Martha's obit, but I could not reconcile her with the children I knew
about. I think this clears up that mystery. Louis Akens lived in Etna Green near where I
grew up. This is Martha Gertrude's obit.
Mrs. Gertrude Akens, 82, whose hip was broken in fall, dies Tuesday.
Mrs. Gertrude Martha Akens, 82, died at 10:00 o'clock Tuesday morning at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Maude Copenhaver, 519 North Eighth street, Goshen, where she had been
taken Saturday from the McDonald Hospital. Mrs. Akins sustained a broken hip seven weeks
ago when she fell in her home in Warsaw. The deceased was born February 6, 1861, at
Wooster, Kosciusko county, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Finton. In 1893 she was
married to David Lewis Akens, who died in 1921. For the past six years she had made her
home in Warsaw moving here from Etna Green. She was a member of the Methodist Church of
Etna Green. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Charles Wysong and Mrs Maude Copenhaver,
of Goshen, and Mrs. Roxy Shoemaker, of Pierceton; three sons, Thomas Akens and David
Akens, of Warsaw, Woodson "Woodie", of Etna Green; 30 grandchildren and 22
great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at
the Etna Green Methodist Church with R!
ev. Robert Yunker officiating. Relatives will meet at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon
at the Culp Funeral Home in Goshen. Interment will be made in the Hillcrest Cemetery in
Etna Green. Friends will be received at the Culp funeral home until 1 o'clock
Thursday afternoon. Times Union 3 November 1943 p6