Excerpt from The Shearer-Akers Family, Combined With the Bryan Line Through the Seventh Generation I hereby acknowledge assistance given in many ways by my brother, Rev. J. B. Shearer, D.D., during my visit last sum mer and in his ready response to inquiries by letter since; by Mrs. Ann Maria Turner, nee Shearer, for help in her branch of the Shearer family; by Mr. George William Akers in his untiring zeal and perseverance in securing facts in the genealogy of the descend ants of his grandfather, Rev. Peter Akers, D.D.; by Misses Eliza Ellen and Mortie Moon Akers for help in their branches of the fam ily; and by Rev. Edwin Akers in sending many letters of Dr. Akers, which furnished many dates and facts of importance, and also a scrapbook from which many facts embodied in the sketch of the life of Dr. Akers were obtained; and I hereby express my regrets for omissions in his own and his father's families because of failure to get the facts from him after several attempts by Special letters. I sent him also a full list of the descendants of Dr. Akers as soon as the names were tabulated, with the promise that he would correct and return it, but I have been unable, after several attempts, to get a corrected list. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.