Akes Family Bible
Scope and Contents
The first page of records states, “Peter Akes his Bible May 2nd 1830.” The family Bible contains names and dates of births, marriages, and deaths of the Akes family. Several handwritings indicate different people recorded the dates in the Bible over time. The Bible is missing the front and back cover as well as many of the Bible pages. All of the family record pages between the Old and New Testaments remained intact.
Dates
- Creation: 1771 - 1935
Creator
- Akes, Peter, 1771-1835 (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Peter Akes was born October 24, 1771 in Germany. He married Pricilla who was born October 5, 1776. Together they had several children. Pricilla died in 1810 and Peter married Susannah Harris on July 16, 1811. They had several children together. The family lived in Kentucky in the early 1800s. Peter died in 1835 in Macoupin County, Illinois.
Full Extent
1 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Topical
- Title
- Akes Family Bible
- Subtitle
- A finding aid from the Midwest Genealogy Center
- Author
- Jolene Clark
- Date
- 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Midwest Genealogy Center Repository