Polk County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ake, Kate Patton 1900
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Cedartown Standard, May 31, 1900
An honored and useful life came to an end Monday afternoon, when the spirit of 
Mrs. M. V. B. Ake was released from its tenement of clay and returned to the 
God who gave it. She had been in failing health for some time, suffering from 
the dread disease of cancer, and her death was not unexpected. It was not the 
less a grief and shock to the many friends of this noble Christian woman and 
her family. Mrs. Kate Patton Ake was born in Williamsburg, Pa., March 13th, 
1845 and was the youngest daughter of John K. Neff. At the age of seventeen she 
joined the Presbyterian church, of which she has ever since been a devoted 
member, and which sustains a heavy loss in her death. On Oct. 5th, 1863, she 
was united in marriage to Mr. M.V.B. Ake, who was then a resident of 
Washington, D.C., and the first seven years of their married life were spent in 
that city during which time two children were born to them&mdashEdwin Lincoln 
and Clarence Neff, both of whom have preceded her to the better world. In the 
spring of 1871 the family moved to the Etna Iron Works, in this county, to join 
Mr. Ake who had come south the fall before to engage in the iron business. Two 
years later Mr. Ake purchased the plantation known at that time as the Battle 
place, and moved his family there in the fall of 1872, where Mrs. Ake spent the 
last twenty-eight years of her life. Here she found no church of her choice, 
but it was not long (1873) when she with others organized the little 
Presbyterian Church to which her after life was devoted. She served as organist 
25 years, and also as Sabbath School teacher, having had in her class some 
young boys who have become prominent in life, among the number being Rev. 
Joseph H. Lumpkin, now the honored Secretary of Education of the Southern 
Presbyterian church. She was secretary and treasurer of the Ladies Aid society 
for a number of years. She loved her church, and always had a kind word for 
those with whom she was associated not only those of her own church, for she 
had many dear friends in Cedartown and community, and among the last words she 
said to her husband were, "You must tell all my friends how much I appreciated 
their kindness shown to me in my long sickness." She leaves a devoted husband 
to morn her loss, and a sister and brother. The former, Mrs. E. H. VanDevander, 
of Williamsburg, Pa., is now here, and the latter, Mr. W. T. Neff, lives at New 
Haven, Pa. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the 
Presbyterian Church by her pastor, Rev. C. N. Martindale, in the presence of a 
large concourse of sympathizing friends. The bereaved ones have the sympathy of 
the entire community in their great affliction. 

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