Mrs. Amy Aiken passed away Saturday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. D. Harkreader, on Madison street, following an illness of several months. After an illness of several weeks in a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., she was brought to her home here last Thursday.
The deceased was born in Logan County, Kentucky, on November 5, 1870. At the age of nineteen years she was married to Edward Erwin Traughber of Adairville, descendant of a titled English family, who died in 1895. Three children resulted from the union, all of whom survive: Mrs. H. D. Harkreader of Palatka, Jesse D. Traughber and Fred S. Traughber of Richmond, Va. In 1897 Mrs. Aiken married John Milton Aiken of Springfield, Tenn., a member of the Tennessee branch of the well-known Aiken family of South Carolina, who died two years later. They had one son, Joseph H. Aiken, now residing at Utica, N.Y. For the past four years she had spent the winters here with her daughter, Mrs. Harkreader, and had won a large circle of friends. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the First Baptist Church, conducted by the pastor, Dr. W. C. Norman, assisted by Rev. F. B. Wakefield, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Interment was in Oak Hill East Cemetery.
The following friends served as pallbearers: A. Bec. Baker, B. C. Pearce, A. B. Codrington, Ralph Sharp, Chawning Cawthorn and J. E. Preston. (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 4 Nov 1932.)
The deceased was born in Logan County, Kentucky, on November 5, 1870. At the age of nineteen years she was married to Edward Erwin Traughber of Adairville, descendant of a titled English family, who died in 1895. Three children resulted from the union, all of whom survive: Mrs. H. D. Harkreader of Palatka, Jesse D. Traughber and Fred S. Traughber of Richmond, Va. In 1897 Mrs. Aiken married John Milton Aiken of Springfield, Tenn., a member of the Tennessee branch of the well-known Aiken family of South Carolina, who died two years later. They had one son, Joseph H. Aiken, now residing at Utica, N.Y. For the past four years she had spent the winters here with her daughter, Mrs. Harkreader, and had won a large circle of friends. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the First Baptist Church, conducted by the pastor, Dr. W. C. Norman, assisted by Rev. F. B. Wakefield, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Interment was in Oak Hill East Cemetery.
The following friends served as pallbearers: A. Bec. Baker, B. C. Pearce, A. B. Codrington, Ralph Sharp, Chawning Cawthorn and J. E. Preston. (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 4 Nov 1932.)
Mrs. Amy Aiken passed away Saturday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. D. Harkreader, on Madison street, following an illness of several months. After an illness of several weeks in a hospital in Nashville, Tenn., she was brought to her home here last Thursday.
The deceased was born in Logan County, Kentucky, on November 5, 1870. At the age of nineteen years she was married to Edward Erwin Traughber of Adairville, descendant of a titled English family, who died in 1895. Three children resulted from the union, all of whom survive: Mrs. H. D. Harkreader of Palatka, Jesse D. Traughber and Fred S. Traughber of Richmond, Va. In 1897 Mrs. Aiken married John Milton Aiken of Springfield, Tenn., a member of the Tennessee branch of the well-known Aiken family of South Carolina, who died two years later. They had one son, Joseph H. Aiken, now residing at Utica, N.Y. For the past four years she had spent the winters here with her daughter, Mrs. Harkreader, and had won a large circle of friends. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the First Baptist Church, conducted by the pastor, Dr. W. C. Norman, assisted by Rev. F. B. Wakefield, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Interment was in Oak Hill East Cemetery.
The following friends served as pallbearers: A. Bec. Baker, B. C. Pearce, A. B. Codrington, Ralph Sharp, Chawning Cawthorn and J. E. Preston. (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 4 Nov 1932.)
The deceased was born in Logan County, Kentucky, on November 5, 1870. At the age of nineteen years she was married to Edward Erwin Traughber of Adairville, descendant of a titled English family, who died in 1895. Three children resulted from the union, all of whom survive: Mrs. H. D. Harkreader of Palatka, Jesse D. Traughber and Fred S. Traughber of Richmond, Va. In 1897 Mrs. Aiken married John Milton Aiken of Springfield, Tenn., a member of the Tennessee branch of the well-known Aiken family of South Carolina, who died two years later. They had one son, Joseph H. Aiken, now residing at Utica, N.Y. For the past four years she had spent the winters here with her daughter, Mrs. Harkreader, and had won a large circle of friends. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the First Baptist Church, conducted by the pastor, Dr. W. C. Norman, assisted by Rev. F. B. Wakefield, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Interment was in Oak Hill East Cemetery.
The following friends served as pallbearers: A. Bec. Baker, B. C. Pearce, A. B. Codrington, Ralph Sharp, Chawning Cawthorn and J. E. Preston. (Times-Herald Obituary dtd Friday, 4 Nov 1932.)
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