Garland
W.
Akers
Born in Wayne, West Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of James Blane Akers
and Julia Belle (Crabtree) Akers
Brother of
Leonard Akers and Dorothy Mae (Akers) Smith
Husband of
Blanche (Robertson) Akers
— married
14 May 1941 in Louisa, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Doris Jean (Akers) Jervis and Audrey Faye (Akers) Workman
Died
at age 56
in Wayne, West Virginia, United States
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Biography
Garland was in the US Army and made several trips to Veterans Hospital in Spring Valley, Huntington West Virginia in his later years. He lived on Robertson Branch of Paddle Creek, Fort Gay West Virginia. He lived with Blanche, her mother Fannie and Junior his son in a plank house with roll on tar paper brick siding. Original Homestead of Frelin and Fannie that is no longer there. It burnt down in 1986. Garland was born in 1921. He passed away in 1978. Son of James Akers and Julia "Crabtree" Akers.
Sources
- Big Sandy News Louisa Lawrence County Kentucky 22 February 1978.
- Kentucky marriages
- Mormon Genealogy
- 1940 census, Butler District, Wayne, West Virginia in household of James and Julia Acres.
- 1930 census, Wayne County, West Virginia
- WW2 enlistment
- *Robertson/Damron Cemetery on Paddle Creek, Fort Gay, West Virginia
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Garland by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Garland:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Garland by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Garland:
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~7.03%
~25.00%
Robert Stein 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A742854 [compare], yourDNAportal ROB73981b69, Ancestry member bobstein3
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~3.52%
Janet (Wood) Grasso :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member JANETWOOD4u2
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Danette (Emberlin) Fuhrer :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Danette110
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