Akers, Sylvia Emeline (1910-1910)

AKERS, HARRIS, HARNED, KING, VANCE

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 9/6/2008 at 22:21:06

Audubon County Journal (IA)
May 5 1910
Sylvia, the infant daughter of Lin-
coln and Mary Akers was born April
20, 1910 and died April 28, 1910, aged
8 days. The funeral services were
held at the home April 30, conduc-
ted by Rev. Harned, pastor of the M.
E. Church at Exira, and the remains
were laid to rest in the beautiful
Oakfield Cemetery. The sorrowing
relatives must be comforted by the
Saviour who said "Suffer little child-
ren to come unto me and forbid them
not, for of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven."
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
He gazed at the flower with tearful eyes
He kissed their drooping leaves;
It was for the Lord of Paradise,
He bound them in his sheaves.
And the Mother gave in tears and pain
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she should find them all again
In the fields of light above.
Oh not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The reaper came that day;
'Twas an Angel visited the given earth
And took the flowers away.

Photo of gravestone:
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/VG/00/00/14/51/01/0000145101/

Note:
Generation No. 1
1. Sylvia Emeline Akers, born April 20, 1910 in Exira, Audubon County, Iowa; died April 28, 1910 in Exira, Audubon County, Iowa. She was the daughter of 2. Lincoln Akers and 3. Mary Berella Harris.
Generation No. 2
2. Lincoln Akers, born April 28, 1867 in Johnson County, Iowa; died September 25, 1958 in Oakfield, Audubon County, Iowa at his home. He was the son of 4. Ralph Akers, Sr. and 5. Thressa Emeline King. He married 3. Mary Berella Harris July 28, 1894 in Audubon, Audubon County, Iowa.
3. Mary Berella Harris, born September 23, 1875 near Lewis, Cass County, Iowa; died November 26, 1972 in Crestwood Nursing Home, Anita, Cass County, Iowa. She was the daughter of 6. Byron Jackson Harris and 7. Martha Vance.