William Calhoun Aiken (1856 - 1916)

William Calhoun Aiken

Born 9 Jul 1856 in Pickens County, South Carolina, USA

Ancestors

Son of Archibul Aiken and Martha (Byars) Aiken

Brother of James Aiken [half], Elizabeth Aiken [half], Thomas Aiken [half], Pinkney Augustus Aiken [half], Catherine Aiken [half], John A. Aiken, Lewis Aiken, William Archibald Aiken, Waddy Thompson Aiken, Hannah (Aiken) Cantrell, Tyre Aiken, Enoch Aiken, Myles Clayton Aiken, Augustus Aiken, Frances Aiken and Martha L. Aiken

Husband of Hester Ann (Powell) Whitmire — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Descendants

Father of Anna Bell Aiken, Eddie Coleman Aiken, Guss Merrimon Aiken and Raymond Pierce Aiken

Died 11 Dec 1916 at age 60 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, USA

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Biography

William Aiken lived in Appalachia, in North Carolina.

William was born in 1856. He was the son of Archibul Aiken and Martha Byars. He passed away in 1916. ^[1]

William Calhoun “Will” Aiken is buried at Old Toxaway Baptist Church Cemetery in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County, North Carolina, USA.^[2]

Sources

↑ First-hand information as remembered by Glenn Cantrell, Sunday, January 11, 2015.
↑ Find A Grave website

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:

Casey Aiken : Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-BY4583, FTDNA kit #68005

It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:

~1.56% ~6.25% Jessica (Chappell) Bush : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A441608 [compare], Ancestry member Jessica_Bush
~0.78% Sid Minor : AncestryDNA, Ancestry member sid181
~0.78% Linda Deering : AncestryDNA, GEDmatch QY8707978 [compare], Ancestry member mesagirl51

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