• General Notes

  One of the true stories about Mose Akin, the Preacher. - While the War was in progress he had a load of whiskey in a covered wagon on his way toward Louisville. He was stopped by soldiers, suspecting whiskey and anxious to get at it, and asked what was in his wagon. With tears in his eyes, he told them that his brother had died with small-pox and none of his neighbors would help him bury him. The soldiers fled in every direction. Mose often preached around Magnolia and Mt. Sherman. Mose never pastored at Mt. Moriah, however he apparently was a friend to Jesse Bryant since they worked together occasionly at revivals.
  
  Moses was born in 1807 on the south side of Big Brush Creek, opposite the residence of Dr. Elijah Graham. His father was from Virginia. Moses began preaching at the age of thirty and taught school several years earlier. He left the ministry for a while to moonshine.
  
  In 1845 Moses conducted a series of meetings at the South Fork and Three Forks of Bacon Creek Baptist Churches, assisted by the Rev. Bill Brown (William Martin Brown ) of Virginia. Moses made preaching excursions to Illinois, Tennessee and Western Kentucky.
  
  He was pastor of a Baptist church at Glasgow, Kentucky, baptizing as many as 500 people. During his seven years in Glasgow, there were rumors about Moses and his sister-in-law, Lydia McCubbins. Because of this, Moses was asked to leave the church.
  
  During the Civil War he was arrested as a Southern sympathizer. After the war he returned to his home near Holly Grove and began farming and making moonshine. Moses is said to have weighed about 325 pounds.
  
  Moses owned two farms. One was near Holly Grove in Green County where his sister-in-law, Lydia McCubbins, lived with her children, Columbus and "Mus." The other home was on the Green River where he lived with his wife, Rebecca and his children, Wesley, Clint, Whitt, Tom, and William, and several daughters. he divided his time between the two farms.
  
  He went to Denison, Texas, where other former residents of Green County had settled. He came back through Missouri where he bought a farm. His son, Columbus Akin, later became a circuit judge and lawyer in Missouri.
  
  After his wife Martha died, he sold his farm and prepared to go to Missouri. His last sermon was about Moses going up on the mount to die. Moses Akin became ill and was taken to the McDougal farm in LaRue County. He died at Holly Grove in 1885. It is believed he was poisoned.
  
  In the 1850 Green county census, family #407, Moses was 43, and Martha was 44. Nine children lived with them - Mary Akin, 21; James Akin, 19; Elizabeth Akin, 16; Dewitt Akin, 15; William Akin, 13; Martha Akin, 11; Sarah Akin, 9; Moses Akin, 7; and Thomas Akin, 4.
  
  Next door to Moses and Martha in 1850 lived Lydia McCubbins, 29, and Columbus McCubbins, 1, and Catherine Raffety, 3.
  
  Martha McCubbins and Lydia McCubbins were the daughters of Nicholas McCubbins and Betsy Bloyd.
  
  In 1860 Moses and Martha were both 53. They were in household #154. Next door to them was W. B. Akin, 23, and Mary Akin, 20, in household #155. Next door to that household was Lydia McCubbins, 39, occupation weaver.
  (Household #156). The following persons lived with Lydia; Columbus McCubbins, 11; Americas McCubbins, 9; Melvina McCubbins, 8; (These were children of Elder Moses Akin and Lydia, even though they never married. The following children were also in Lydia's household but they were the children of Elder Moses Akin and Lydia's sister, Martha (McCubbin): Elizabeth J. Akin, 27, seamstress; Martha E. Akin, 20; Sarah F. Akin, 18; Mose W. Akin, 16; Thomas M. Akin, 14; Alice V. Akin, 9; James Akin, 2; and Martha E. Akin, six months.
  
  In 1870 Moses and Martha were both 62. In their household lived Alice V., age 18, and Thomas M., 23, farmer, with Mary E., 19, and Moses, 1. Alice V. Akin is the daughter of Moses Akin, and she married Aurelius Green Marcum on October 18, 1871. The one-year-old Moses is probably the son of Thomas M. who married Mary E. Marcum on March 13, 1868, in LaRue County. It is believed that Aurelius Green Marcum and Mary E. Marcum were brother and sister, children of Barnett Marcum and Lavenia Walker.
  
  Elizabeth J. Akin, daughter of Moses, married F. M. Arrington in Green County on August 16, 1867. F. M. Arrington was born in Carlton, Georgia, and he was 37. The bride was 34.
  
  Americus V. McCubbin (or Akin) married Louisa Ford in LaRue County on December 30, 1869.
  
  It is believed that Susannah married John Hasher, but no record has been found of the marrieage and nothing more is known of this couple. John Hasher and Susannah Hasher are mentioned in the estate settlement of James Akin.
  
  In Green County a will was recorded in 1831 of William E. Akin. Mentioned in the will were Jane Akin, his wife, and his son Joseph Akin. Also mentioned is a uncle named Thomas Akin. The parents of William E. Akin are not known, but it is believed that William E. Akin would have been a grandson of James Akin and Mary Murphy.
  
  1870 census, Green County, KY, Lower Brush Creek, 18 July, page 24
  173-167
  Akin, Moses 62, M W Minister of the Gospel, b.KY
  Martha 62 F W b. NC
  Alice V 18 F W b.KY
  Thos. M. 23 M W
  Mary E. 19 F W
  Moses 1 M W [probably grandson]
  1880 census, Green County, KY, Dist. R, 16&17 June
  225-225
  Akin, Moses W M 73 b. KY Fa. b.PA Mo.b.VA
  Patsy W F 74 wife [Martha] b.NC parents b.NC
  Bell, Elizabeth W F 47 dau b.KY [ apparently Elizabeth had also married a Bell ]
  
  
  
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  Rev. Moses Akin was born on the south side of Big Brush Creek in Green County on 15 Jan. 1807. According to an article by E. W. Creal in 1925, Rev. Akin preached in LaRue County on several occasions. In 1845, he conducted a series of meetings at South Fork and Three Springs with Rev. W. M. Brown. Rev. Akin also preached revivals for Rev. J. P. Bryant. Rev. Akin was a colorful character till his death on 29 Nov. 1885. For more information on Rev. Akin, see the Article in the Oct 1, 1925 edition of the Hodgenville Herald News.
  
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  The Louisville Daily Journal
  Wednesday, November 12, 1862
  
  Mr. Aikin.
  
  We yesterday saw the Rev. Moses Aikin, who has just been discharged from Camp Chase, where he was for some months in confinement. He was arrested on charge of having acted as a Chaplain in the rebel army, but he denies earnestly that he ever did so, and nothing has been proved against him. We have reason to believe that certain public statements as to Mr. A., made after his arrest, were founded upon misinformation. He seems to us to be a kind-hearted, frank man, and he avows his determination to devote the rest of his life, if permitted, to the quiet discharge of his duties as a citizen and a Christian.
  
  Mr. Aiken states, that at Camp Chase he was treated with much kindness by the military officers and by the Governor.
  
  The Louisville Daily Journal
  Thursday, May 1, 1862
  
  The Rev. Moses Akin, chaplain of a rebel regiment, was recently captured and brought to this city, where he has been examined and held to bail in the amount of ten thousand dollars, which he doesn't seem to have a very fair chance of obtaining. This reverend rebel, like the shell of a clam or oyster, is a pretty "hard case." He was formerly a preacher near Greensburg in this State, where, about two years ago, he seduced a young woman, and was suspended by his church. He seemed deeply penitent, and, after a little time, was restored to the ministry. Very soon however he seduced another woman, and despairing of a second restoration, he concluded, instead of going into a second repentence, to go off and take holy service in the rebel Confederacy.
  
  We understand that two or three very respectable gentlemen are trying to get him off from his imprisonment. One of them, who knows him personally, pleads to a city functionary in his behalf that "he is as good a man above the waistband as any in the world." But there's no doubt that in Akin there is as much rebellion against the laws above the waistband as below.
  
  Louisville Daily Journal
  Wednesday, May 7, 1862
  
  To the Editors of the Louisville Journal
  
  Louisville Military Prison
  May 3, 1862
  
  Gentlemen: I saw in the Louisville Journal a few days ago, some charges which are calculated to do me great injustice. It is there stated that I had, within two years seduced two young ladies, and, despairing of being restored to the church, had gone preaching to the Southern Army as Chaplain.
  Now, my dear sirs, I pronounced these charges false, every word false. You will, therefore, please publish this in the same paper you published the other, and oblige yours
  
  Moses Akin.
  
  
  The Rev. Moses Akin is in trouble, and, rebel though he is, we should be sorry to be too hard upon him. He says we have done him injustice, but we guess we haven't. We don't know exactly what he means to deny. Perhaps it is that he seduced "two young ladies." Well, if they were old, that makes the case no better for him; it only discredits his taste without relieving his morals. Possibly he means that his interesting pair of feats were not performed "within the last two years." Ah, well, the precise time isn't a matter of much consequence; the feats were performed, and he was suspended from the ministry for the first of them.
  
  Our Godless man of God needn't take this thing quite so much to heart. His sin with the young, middle-aged, or old women wasn't half so bad as his crime in enlisting as a chaplain into the rebel Confederacy to preach and pray rebellion, exhorting men and boys to strike against their country's life and beseeching Heaven to give strength to the blow. He had better reconcile himself to his lot and thank God he doesn't serve that it is no worse.
  
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  From the GREEN COUNTY REVIEW, January 1979:
  
  Rev. Moses Akin, 1807-1885
  
  Noted Evangelist of his day
  
  The old saying that where there is much smoke there is some fire, is true in many ways.
  
  The vivid memory of Moses Akin, the evangelist, in the minds of such a large number of people, forty years after his death, and the continued quoting from his store of natural wit, is proof conclusion that he towered above most men of his time whose names are never heard or known of half of forty years after death.
  
  His father came from Virginia and settled in Green County in the days when historic old Greensburg seemed destined to be the state capital, losing the honor by only three votes in the legislature when Frankfort was designated.
  
  Green County in those days received the cream of Virginia emigration because of its being an old settlement with chances of a great future and also on account of the great number of fine springs which was a great inducement in those days.
  
  Moses Akin's father was said to be one of the most brilliant men of his day and although not a professional man his brilliant mind was often the subject of conversation and when he spoke those about him gave rapt attention as there was something out of the ordinary in his logical discussion of ordinary matters, although he was uneducated.
  
  Moses Akin, the subject of this sketch, was born to the right of Allendale, on the south side of Big Brush Creek, in Green County, Kentucky.
  
  The place of his birth was opposite the residence where Dr. Elijah Graham was born and lived many years.
  
  He was born in 1807 and died in the winter of 1885. He was buried near his farm where Big Brush Creek empties into Green River, not far from Gresham Church, near Eve.
  
  His opportunity for an education was very meager but his efforts show what progress a man can make by himself if he has the desire to inform himself.
  
  He was a school teach at an early age, and read law but never practiced.
  
  His education was acquired almost altogether by self study, with a little assistance from the log school houses of his day.
  
  He had a powerful memory and was a great historian. He admired Napolean above all warriors and was well read in Roman and Grecian history, astronomy, botany and other subjects. He could quote Shakespeare at great length and the Bible by chapters.
  
  When he read he retained and his reading covered a wide field.
  
  Rev. Moses was a fine student of human nature and his discourses were filled with material that held the mind spellbound.
  
  He was not so much given to ullustration or story telling, but his telling blows were more of a direct statement of fact style.
  
  He said in his series of meetings that it was his plan to begin with a moderate sermon delivered in a moderate manner and increase the weight and intensity with each sermon until the close of the meeting, leaving the people most interested and most unwilling to quit when the series of sermons closed. His crowds grew larger and larger, with his sermons and his fame spread wider as the days passed.
  
  He did not begin preaching until about the age of thirty and had taught school several years before he began.
  
  He has often been called the moonshine preacher because he engaged for a while in the moonshine game, but this connection of business did not exist as preacher and moonshiner as we shall presently see.
  
  He preached a while and then was out of the church many years, and while out engaged in a common custom of the world about him at that time, moonshining.
  
  Later he reformed his daily walks and re-entered the mininstry but no account was ever given of his engaging in both at the same time in this section of the state, at least.
  
  In this connection it is well to remember that the custom of any one time largely makes the standard of right and wrong, and not far behind Moses Akin's day, ministers, deacons, and strict church members had their own stills and made their own family whiskey with as little thought of wrong attached as do those who now make grape juice or pickles.
  
  He was out of the ministry for twenty years and during this time his misconduct, if any there was, was widely circulated because he had been in the ministry.
  
  In 1845 he conducted a series of meetings at South Fork and also at Three Forks of Bacon Creek (Hammonville), assisted by Rev. Billie Brown of Virginia.
  
  He preached at Union Band, Mt. Tabor, Mt. Sherman, Rolling Fork Church of Nelson County, Glasgow, Old Brush Creek and many other places, making trips over western Kentucky, into Illinois, Tennessee, and covered a wide territory for his day, considering the mode of travel.
  
  He was pastor of the Baptist Church at Glasgow, and in one of his first revivals there he baptised 500 people at the conclusion of one of his
  meetings. When we consider the sparse population of those days the baptising of 500 persons shows the distance at which his influence ranged on those occasions.
  
  The Glasgow Church then employed him for several years in one contract and gave him a seven thousand dollar farm for his services, which was a thousand dollars a year, a large sum for that time.
  
  It was during the seven years at Glasgow that his downfall began and rumors whether true or false, became numerous about Mose and his sister-in-law, Miss Lydia McCubbin, his wife being before marriage, Rebecca McCubbin.
  
  He was turned out of the church at Glasgow after a wrangle that shook the community.
  
  Duiring the Civil War he was a soughern sympathizer and was arrested and sent to Camp Chase, Ohio for several months. The authorities were only trying two or three men a day at that rate the number imprisoned would never get out until the war was over. Tom Marshall, T. A. Fisher, and other men of note were there confined with Mose.
  
  Marshall asked Mose if the scripture doesn't say where two or three assembled and ask in His name, the same shall be granted, and suggested that the three, Akin, Marshall, and Fisher, unite in a series of prayer for deliverance. The idea was quickly seized by Mose and he bagan a series of night meetings and prayer by the prison fence, preaching to the crowds that assembled on the outside of the fence which gathered to hear this remarkable man with so much magnetism and magic as to cause many to call him the most wonderful magnetic speaker ever heard.
  
  The crowds on the outside grew nightly to monstrous size and Mose had every man among the hundreds on the inside helping him in the services in song and prayer and as a large part of the nightly theme was for early trial and deliverance from prison, he had the hearty help in services of men who never attended church in their lives. Mose made a great camp meeting out of the thousands on the outside.
  
  Soon the prison authorities began to try about 40 men per day and Mose said the great release of men wa a direct answer to his prayers.
  
  As soon as out of prison at Camp Chase he returned to his home, near Holly Grove, began farming and making "moonshine" whiskey. He operated a still a long time near Wild-cat in Green County.
  
  On one occasion the revenue officers pursued him, as he was a man weighing 325 pounds he did not make much speed. The revenue officer followed his tracks up the hollow and soon overtook him. Mose lay on the ground flat on his back and appeared to be completely exhausted. He told the officer he could not walk another step, and after trying to help Mose up for some time without success, he went for a team to haul Mose in. When he returned to the spot Mose had fled with his 325 pounds and could not be found.
  
  While the war was in progress he had a load of whiskey on his way toward Louisville in a covered wagon. The soldiers suspecting whiskey and anxious to get at it hailed him and asked what was in his wagon. With tears he told them that his brother had died with small-pox and none of his neighbors would help him bury him. The soldiers fled in every direction.
  
  At another time, near the Alex LaRue place where J. F. Price now lives on the old pike, north of Buffalo, one of his horses balked in the wagon which was loaded with whiskey. One John Scott came along and Mose traded the balkey horse to him. Scott knew the importance of Mose delivering his load and charged him a large price "to boot" in the swap of horses. Mose paid and moved on, not seeing Scott for quite a time afterwards.
  
  Several years afterward when Mose re-entered preaching, he was holding services at Mt. Sherman and Scott came in during services. Mose said in the middle of his sermon "Her comes John Scott, the man who made me pay too much boot in a horse trade."
  
  He was in Federal prison in Louisville awaiting trial on a charge of moonshining and when brought to trial he was sarcastic, as well as in a
  frame of mind to care little what they thought of him or what he had to say.
  
  They asked him as the first question "Where do you live?"
  
  He said: "I live in Green County 10 miles from Green River, 10 miles from Greensburg, 6 miles from Rooster Bristle, 4 miles from Hardscratch, two miles from Pick's Point and 200 yards from Clinch E. Snobo's where there is a stick whitled to a keen point with a cuckle burr on the end."
  
  Most all of his statements were correct as to the exact place of his residence except the sharp stick and cuckle burr.
  
  He journeyed to Illinois during these days and sold medicine and preached. His medicine consisted of pure whiskey with a few roots in it to give it a pretended medical value.
  
  He owned two farms, one near Holly Grove on which lived his sister-in-law. He lived with his wife on his other farm near Green River, often dividing his time between the two farms.
  
  His children by his wife were Wesley, Clint, Whit, Tom and William and several daughters.
  
  His sister-in-law, Lydia McCubbin, had two children which bore the name Columbus Akin and "Mus" Akin.
  
  Mose was apparently much attached to the children Columbus Akin and "Mus." Columbus Akin went west, studied law and became a distinguished Circuit Judge in Missouri. Mus Akin still lives in Green County.
  
  We must remember that the first 38 years of the life of Rev. Moses Akin was one of teaching school, successful revivals and far reaching influence for good.
  
  Now after nearly twenty years of waywardness and backsliding in the ways of the world, a burning desire to reform and preach again possessed him.
  
  Let us give him due credit for the effort to regain his station in life for we have every evidence of thorough repentence and honesty of purpose just as
  if he had reformed his life and gone out preaching for the first time.
  
  Although outlawed by his church authorities he came back into the game to preach on his own responsibility regardless fo proper credentials from the governing authority of the Baptist Association.
  
  In May 1870 he made himself an appointment to Old Brush Creek Church to preach. The deacons locked him out of the church. Columbus Akin, wanted to knock the door down and go in, but Mose forbade and said:
  
  "I wanted to get hold of that old Bible once more inside the old church and read a chapter, but I will read it without the book." He then proceeded to quote the 13th chapter of John quoting from memory as fully as if he had read it from the book. He took his text from it and preached from the steps to a large crowd.
  
  He said, "I am 63 and my gray hairs admonish me that I won't be here long. I am going to begin here and preach through Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas and Texas."
  
  Again in 1874, one who heard his sermon from the steps of Old Brush Creek Church, heard him at South Fork.
  
  On Sunday, July 20, 1874, he preached a Magnolia, in the woods, the Cumberland Presbyterians had begun a meeting of their own and would not let him have the church.
  
  Geo. bayne took him home with him and he preached forty-two sermons at South Fork, LaRue County.
  
  In 1871 a committee was appointed at Pleasant Valley Church to investigate and reinstate him to the ministry if they saw fit.
  
  Toll Miller, of the Rolling Fork Section was the only member of the committee present at the time and place designated and the committee never made any report, or even attended to the investigation.
  
  During the time he was out of the ministry he ran for the Legislature in Green County on the Democrat ticket against a Whig candidate and by a series of joint debates he soon ran his opponent off the track, and the party authorities met at Greensburg and put out a new man against him who defeated him by 120 votes in a hard fought series of joint debates.
  
  Opponent No. 2, spoke of unpleasnat things in Mose's career and when Mose spoke he said: "I have run one man off the track and now they have met and sent a polecat down here to stink me out of the race."
  
  At his first appearance at South Fork in 1874, he took as his text, "Faith, Hope and Charity, and the greatest of these is Charity." He preached one and a half hours.
  
  On Sunday following he preached in the big sink hole just south of the church at South Fork, he standing in the bottom and the sides all around lined with people who could in this way see and hear plainly. He took as his text Titus-3rd-5th.
  
  Rev. J. P. Bryant did the baptising at the conclusion of the meeting as Mose had no authority from his church to baptize.
  
  He then held a meeting at Oak Hill, LaRue County, where Rev. Bryant was pastor for many years, and 100 were baptised at the end of the meeting.
  
  Shortly afterward, the Baptist Association was being held at Boiling Springs, in Hart County, and at the same time Mose was holding a meeting at Hammnville, six miles away. He had a larger crowd to hear him than they had at the association and the ministers, delegates and others sent to the association nearly broke it up by stealing sway to hear Mose at Hammonville, six miles away.
  
  On the last night of his meeting nearly all the people in that section north of Green River out to hear him, he took as his text, "Come Ye Combers of the Ground."
  
  Shortly afterward he left for Texas, and preached there two years.
  
  He got off the train at Denizen, Texas, where a Green County colony from Kentucky had settled. They flocked about Mose, knowing something of him from hearsay of kinsfolk back home, and gave him royal treatment.
  
  He began a meeting at Denizen and when he preached two weeks he was given $200 and offered another $100 to remain a week longer; Wm. Scott of Green County, Kentucky, led the work for Mose among the Kentucky Texans.
  
  He soon came back to Kentucky for a short rest and soon left for Tennessee where he held great meetings at places where he had preached as a young man in other days.
  
  In shipping liquor to Illinois he used a scheme to get it consigned that few would have thought of. He used a hollow elder, fastened up at the lower end, that just fit tight in the bung hole of the barrel down inside. He filled this elder with apple vinegar and labeled the barrel of whiskey "vinegar." When it was sampled, the vinegar poured out of the elder and it passed examination as vinegar.
  
  On one occasion he gathered several of his friends together and waited upon a family in the community that was the subject of much unpleasant talk and tied and whipped Him.
  
  They were indicted at Greensburg on a felony charge and he narrowley escaped the penitentiary.
  
  During his preaching in Kentucky, Rev. Nat Terry of Hart County got him to fill an appointment for him at Elizabethtown. Mose was then holding a meeting at Younger's Creek in Hardin County and consented to substitute for Terry's appointment.
  
  He rode horseback to Elizabethtown and having never preached there he was unacquainted with the town's churches.
  
  He was late and knew the crowd would be impatient.
  
  As he rode around he saw a large crowd in waiting about a church and so hitched his horse and strode rapidly inside, the crowd quickly followed him supposing that he was their new circuit rider and their Methodist Pastor. Mose did not know he was in the wrong church.
  
  He began at once after a very short apology for being late.
  
  Just at this time in came the new Methodist pastor and seeing a man preaching he dropped down in the back seat to prevent undue notice and disturbance.
  
  Mose gave the Methodist congregation one of the greatest sermons of their lives and no one knew the difference until the new pastor congratulated him and inquired the name and the whole mistake was discovered. Eight dollars had been taken by Mose when the hats were passed.
  
  In his last days he had sold his property after the death of his wife and was preparing to move to Missouri.
  
  His last sermon was concerning Moses going upon the Mount to die and compared himself with the other Moses, finishing a busy life. His farewell address was powerful and touching and his audience was greatly affected by his pathetic eloquence on the occasion.
  
  He went from there to Rolling Fork church where he took sick and was hauled to the the McDougall farm, LaRue County, on his way to his Green County home.
  
  He died at his Holly Grove farm in the spring of 1885. He had sold but had not given possession.
  
  His last illness was somewhat clouded in mystery and he believed he had been posioned.
  
  He left no will and had intended going to Missouri to live with, or near Columbus Akin, whom he had placed on the Missouri land, bought with the Texas money earned in preaching.
  
  Thus ended one of the most remarkable men of day, one of the most talented and gifted orators in central or southern Kentucky.
  
  Savoyard, the Washington writer for many papers, until his recent death, was born and reared in Metcalf County, a short distance from the boyhood scenes of Mose.
  
  The tribute paid to the memory of Mose by Savoyard is a great compliment. In the passing of this great and unique character, with his checkered career, but with thousands of people turned to face declaration of better intentions by his preaching who will dare say that his work was in vain or that his life as a whole was not a great and valuable influence in leading others toward the right course.
  
  Such is not for us to say nor for you to say. Only the Judge of Judges can judge that.
  
  With this information given in print to the people of this section about this remarkable man we feel that we have put in history facts which would soon otherwise disappear from among us.
  
  Perhaps his good works set in motion will live longer than others whose life was more narrowly limited to smaller fields of activity.
  
  (This above article is from the October 1, 1925 edition of the Hodgenville Herald News).
  
  Notes for LYDIA MCCUBBIN:
  
  Lydia was a sister to Moses Akin's wife Martha. Moses Akin and Lydia Mccubbin were never married, but they were the parents of 3 children.
  
  In the 1870 Green County census, family 272 is Lyddy McCubbin, age 49, Keeps House. She has three children, Christopher C., 20; Americus V., 19; and Louisa, 16 years of age. All of their last names are given as McCubbin, NOT Akin. Living next door to them is Moses Whitfield Akin, 1/2 brother to these children and the child of Lyddy's sister.
  
  In 1900 Lydia is 79 years of age and living with her son, Americus V. Akin in household #315. This census lists her as the mother of 1 child, 1 living. This would give the indication that Americus was her only child.
  
  
  
  In the 1870 census, Moses and Martha were both 62. Living with them were Alice V. 18, Thomas M. 23, farmer, with wife Mary E. (Marcum) 18, and their son, Moses 1.

Details of Elder's family with Lydia McCubbin