Homer L Akin was enumerated as head of the household at 317 Burney, Madill, Marshall County, Oklahoma for the April 2, United States Census, 1930. He was noted as born 1887 in Georgia and married. He was first married at the age of thirty-three. He was a renter and a driller (oil company) as seen in an image of the original census. Also included in the household is wife Ethel Akin.[2]
As listed in the Find A Grave Index,[3] Homer Lee Akins, Sr. is buried at Highland Cemetery in Durant, Bryan County, Oklahoma, USA, Plot: Section 3, Lot 0582.[4]
Sources
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3GS-8KJ : accessed 16 January 2017), Homer L Aikin in household of Joseph Aikin, Justice Precinct 3 (all west of M.K.&T. Ry.), Fannin, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 68, sheet 24B, family 446, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,633.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCWZ-5TL : accessed 16 January 2017), Homer L Akin, Madill, Marshall, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 5, sheet 1B, line 82, family 19, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1915; FHL microfilm 2,341,649.
↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2R-NYMZ : 13 December 2015), Homer Lee Akins, 1948; Burial, Durant, Bryan, Oklahoma, United States of America, Highland Cemetery; citing record ID 76809955.
"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZXQ-19L : 12 December 2014), Homer Lee Akins, 1917-1918; citing Denton County, Texas, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,953,186.
"United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XPBR-6PB : 19 April 2016), Homer Lee Akins, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBKD-G23 : accessed 13 August 2018), Homer L Akins, Ward 1, Ada, Ada City, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 62-1, sheet 64A, line 10, family 3, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3326.???
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBKD-G23 : accessed 13 August 2018), Homer L Akins, Ward 1, Ada, Ada City, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 62-1, sheet 64A, line 10, family 3, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3326.???