Keiza Elizabeth Harter ¹

   Another name for Keiza was Libby Harter.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Alt. Birth, Sep 1859, , , Indiana, 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.

Keiza married Rufus Beecher, son of Henry Beecher and Catharine Shirk. (Rufus Beecher was born about 1857 in Richland Township, Miami County, Indiana, USA,^{2 3} died in 1889 in Misson Township, Neosho County, Kansas, USA and was buried in Misson Township: Hope Cemetery, Neosho County, Kansas, USA.) The cause of his death was Injuries after being thrown from a horse he was breaking in.

Keiza next married Oliver Ellsworth Aikens on 26 Feb 1895 in St. Paul, Neosho County, Kansas, USA. (Oliver Ellsworth Aikens was born on 18 Oct 1865 in , Moultrie County, Illinois, USA and died on 23 May 1941 in Erie, Neosho County, Kansas, USA.)