Jesse Aikin (1921

AIKEN, BRADY

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 3/29/2006 at 18:05:16

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
May 4, 1921

Death of Jesse Aikin

The Hawarden Independent gives a lengthy sketch of Jesse Aikin, who died on April 22 at the age of 91 years. He was a pioneer of South Dakota in 1862, then went to war and in 1866 came to Madison county, where he spent two years, then removed to a homestead in Union county, South Dakota, where he lived continuously for 53 years. He was a brother of Joshua Aikin of Winterset, of Wilson Aikin of Mountain View, Mo., a half brother of Lewis and Theodore Aikin, Miss Sara E. Aikin and Mrs. Emma Brady, all of Madison County.
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Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Iowa
May 15, 1921
Page 12

Pioneer of the Silvery Sioux.

A newspaper item records the passing into the unseen land of Jesse Aiken, who homesteaded in the Sioux valley a mile and a half northwest of Hawarden almost a half century ago, one of the earliest Dakota settlers, and who resided on the place he took from the government continuously to the day of his death.

As a bearding youth I lived several months with Mr. and Mr. Aiken, one of the most affectionate couples I have every knows. Mr. Aiken was the soul of hone and honesty, and sometimes he suffered a bit from trusting others, but these incidents never kept him from generous deeds. In the days I was in his home he always conducted family worship twice each day, but was not a regular attendant at church. He was active in territorial affairs. [author's name not printed.]