LaFayette Jones Akers was born in Denton County Texas to George Benjamin Akers and Mary Jane Henning on 29 January1860. He was first listed in the 1860 census. He was educated in the common schools of Grayson County, Texas. He married Emma Kizirah Jolley in Callisburg, Cook County, Texas on 20 Sept. 1883. They moved to Pickens Cty. (now Carter County) Chickasaw Nation, Indinan Territory and established a general store at Woodford, Indian Territory. Many of the Akers and Jolley families hail from the tiny (now ghost) town of Woodford, Oklahoma. LaFayette Jones Akers is listed in the 1905 Bradstreet business listings as a general store in Woodford, I.T. In 1906 LaFayette was a delegate from District 102 to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. He was a member of Glenn Lodge A.F.&A.M.
In 1915 they moved from Woodford to New Mexico, and from there to Plainview, Texas, and from there to Breckinridge, Texas. From there they moved to Lubbock, Texas where LaFayette died on 25 March 1928 and is buried in Lubbock.
Today little is left of Woodford, Oklahoma, other than a few isolated frame houses and stores, surrounded by oil fields and the mountains of Southern Oklahoma.
In 1915 they moved from Woodford to New Mexico, and from there to Plainview, Texas, and from there to Breckinridge, Texas. From there they moved to Lubbock, Texas where LaFayette died on 25 March 1928 and is buried in Lubbock.
Today little is left of Woodford, Oklahoma, other than a few isolated frame houses and stores, surrounded by oil fields and the mountains of Southern Oklahoma.
LaFayette Jones Akers was born in Denton County Texas to George Benjamin Akers and Mary Jane Henning on 29 January1860. He was first listed in the 1860 census. He was educated in the common schools of Grayson County, Texas. He married Emma Kizirah Jolley in Callisburg, Cook County, Texas on 20 Sept. 1883. They moved to Pickens Cty. (now Carter County) Chickasaw Nation, Indinan Territory and established a general store at Woodford, Indian Territory. Many of the Akers and Jolley families hail from the tiny (now ghost) town of Woodford, Oklahoma. LaFayette Jones Akers is listed in the 1905 Bradstreet business listings as a general store in Woodford, I.T. In 1906 LaFayette was a delegate from District 102 to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. He was a member of Glenn Lodge A.F.&A.M.
In 1915 they moved from Woodford to New Mexico, and from there to Plainview, Texas, and from there to Breckinridge, Texas. From there they moved to Lubbock, Texas where LaFayette died on 25 March 1928 and is buried in Lubbock.
Today little is left of Woodford, Oklahoma, other than a few isolated frame houses and stores, surrounded by oil fields and the mountains of Southern Oklahoma.
In 1915 they moved from Woodford to New Mexico, and from there to Plainview, Texas, and from there to Breckinridge, Texas. From there they moved to Lubbock, Texas where LaFayette died on 25 March 1928 and is buried in Lubbock.
Today little is left of Woodford, Oklahoma, other than a few isolated frame houses and stores, surrounded by oil fields and the mountains of Southern Oklahoma.
