Oliver Ellsworth Aikens ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth, Aug 1867, , Moultrie County, Illinois, USA. ¹

• Census, 1900, Misson Township, Neosho County, Kansas, USA. ¹ Oliver E. Aikens, farmer, 32, born Aug 1867, was married for 5 years to wife Kezia E., 40, Sept 1859. She had birthed 7 children by 1900, 4 still alive then. Living with her: Frank, 4, Jan 1896; Clarence E., 4 months, Jan 1900; and Anna Fay Beecher, wife's daughter, 12, Feb 1888. Oliver was born in Illinois, his father in Ohio, and mother in Tennessee. Kezia and her mother were born in Indiana, her father in New York. Frank and Clarence were born in Kansas. Anna Fay, Kezia's daughter by her first marriage to a Beecher, was born in Kansas and her father in Ohio.

Oliver married Keiza Elizabeth Harter, daughter of Unknown and Lucinda Kesler, on 26 Feb 1895 in St. Paul, Neosho County, Kansas, USA. (Keiza Elizabeth Harter was born on 16 Sep 1858 in , , Indiana, USA, died on 11 Jun 1915 in South Mound, Neosho County, Kansas, USA and was buried in South Mound: South Mound Cemetery, Neosho County, Kansas, USA.)

Oliver next married Anna Fay Beecher, daughter of Rufus Beecher and Keiza Elizabeth Harter, on 8 Mar 1916 in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas, USA. (Anna Fay Beecher was born on 21 Feb 1888 in Misson Township, Neosho County, Kansas, USA ¹ and died on 23 May 1973 in Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas, USA.)