Anne Eliza (Webber) Aikins (1923)

AIKINS, KETMAN, LEMON, WEBBER, WILSON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 7/5/2006 at 21:51:01

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, September 6, 1923

ANNE ELIZA WEBBER AIKINS

Anne Eliza Webber was born in Delphi, Carroll County, Ind., Sept. 11, 1845 and died at the home of her grandson, George Lemen at Council Bluffs, Iowa, Aug. 28, 1923. She was united in marriage to Henry D. Aikins, Sept. 9, 1868 and came, as a bride to Pella, Iowa, where they made their home until the fall of 1896, when the family moved to Winterset.

To this union were born one son, Charles Aikins of Winterset, three daughters; Ida Lemen of Santa Monica, Calif.; Eleanor Ketman of Des Moines, and Margarette Wilson of Pasadena, Calif.

Since the death of her husband in 1918 she has made her home chiefly with her daughter, Mrs. I J. Ketman of Des Moines. She has been a member of the Baptist churches at Delphi, Ind.; Pella and Winterset since her early girlhood. Four children, 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren survive her.

Her husband and three grandchildren preceded her to that city not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Funeral services were held at the Baptist church in Winterset, Sept. 2, conducted by Stanley A. Gillet. Burial in Winterset cemetery.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, August 30, 1923
Page 1, Column 2

Death of Mrs. H. D. Aikins

Mrs. H. D. Aikins died about five o'clock Tuesday, August 28th, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. R. Lemon, in Council Bluffs. Mrs. Aikins had a stroke of paralysis on her left side Tuesday morning, and she never recovered. Winterset people were shocked to hear of her death, because she had been here during chautauqua, and left soon afterward for Council Bluffs and was in fairly good health.

Mrs. Aikins was born in Delphi, Ind., in 1845, and when a small girl moved to Pella. There she was married to Mr. Aikins and they came to Winterset in 1896, where the latter became engaged in the shoe business. Mr. Aikins died in 1914 and in 1917 his widow moved to Des Moines with her daughter, Mrs. Isaac Ketman. She is survived by four children: C. W. Aikins of Winterset, Mrs. I. J. Ketman of Des Moines, Mrs. Arthur Wilson of Pasadena, Calif., and Mrs. Lemon of Council Bluffs.

The body will shipped here Saturday night and the funeral will be at the Baptist church Sunday afternoon, with burial in the family lot in the Winterset cemetery.

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