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18 February 1892
Again we have to record on our church book the demise of another beloved and devoted member. Mrs. America Akin, wife our well-known Christian worker, Deacon J.C. Akin, departed this life on the early morning of February 6, 1892, in her 69th year. Sister Akin was universaly esteemed for her amiable disposition and many noble Christian virtues. The condolence of our entire people is sincerely felt and expressed for Bro. Akin and the family, who have sustained a loss which cannot be supplied in this life.
Sister Akin leaves surviving her, one son, Mr. Wm. Lane, of this town, and one daughter, Mrs. Sarah Cartwright, of Texas, and four grand children, whose rearing was devolved upon her and her devoted husband, by the death of their father and mother during their early childhood. Willie Lane, Thos. Lane, Mrs. Annie Hutton and Miss Dazie Lane are her four grand children, who are left to mourn her death, and who can never cease to cherish the memory of her motherly care and tender devotion. Sister Akin was the youngest sister of Mrs. Poly Ann Barksdale, now one of our aged church members, well known and highly esteemed by the citizens of Shelbyville.
Appropriate funeral services from the Baptist Church, conducted by Bro. G.C. Sandusky, assisted by Rev. W.C. Clark, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, were held at the Baptist Church at 2:30 o'clock p.m. Feb 7, 1892, in the presence of a large concourse of citizens.
Sister M. Caroline Smith, wife of our beloved brother Eld. D.W. Smith, departed this life Jan 11, 1892. Sister Smith was born July 16, 1835, and professed faith in Christ and was baptized by old Father Daniel Smith, in November, 1856, into the fellowship of Union Church, Macon County, Tenn., in which church she lived until, as we trust and feel assured, she has gone to her reward, having passed through the fires of affliction for the past fifteen years, until death relieved her from her sufferings. We extend our sympathy to our dearly beloved pastor, her husband, and her family, consisting of four sons and two daughters, who are left to mourn her loss. But we sorrow not as those who have no hope, believing that our loss is her eternal gain.
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