Father: Thomas Paine Aiken
Mother: Mary Laura Blundell
Married: Frances Brugger, 1858
Buried: Greenwood Cemetery, Platteville, WI - William Aiken (1830-1918) - Find a Grave Memorial
Children: John William Aiken, Mary, Carrie (William Waters), Orrin, Leslie, and Frances (died as teenager)
Siblings:
Locations:
Born in Bond, IL
1833 - Savannah, IL
1836 - Platteville, WI
Notes:
Went to California on a wagon train in search of gold in 1850. It took 7 months to get there. While there he fell terribly sick one winter but went on to do 7 years there panning for gold
Converted to Christianity in 1873 (Free Methodist Church)
Had many stories of escaping hostile native Americans on his journeys
Returned from California via the Isthmus of Panama and New York