Edward Askins

1879-1956

Born 1879

Died 1956

Father: William M. Askins

Children include Carl

Edward Askins, Ed to everyone, was born on 11 August 1879, one of the children of William M. Askins and Litha Jane. His father, an Ohio-born farmer raised in Illinois, had brought the family to Chautauqua County, Kansas by 1880 and to Kingman County by 1884. Ed was a twin. In June 1880 the census found him at nine months old, written Edda, beside his twin sister Ida in his parents' house in Jefferson Township, Chautauqua County. Ida Mae married a Corbin and died in 1913. The family settled at last in Cowley County.

He married Sara Ella Miller, a daughter of the Civil War veteran George W. Miller of New Salem. Their children were Gladys Lillian, born 2 November 1904 at Winfield, Walter, Carl Edmond, born 26 April 1916, and Hazel Christine, born 1921. Ed farmed. In 1930 the family was in Beaver Township, Cowley County, Ed and Ella with Gladys, Walter, Carl and Hazel at home. Gladys married Glenn Morgan at the Hackney Baptist Church in 1932 and Carl married Iris Coombs there in 1937.

Ed died on 20 October 1956, aged 77, and is buried in the Graham section of Union-Graham Cemetery at Winfield, Block 2, Lot 45. Ella outlived him by fourteen years. His daughter Gladys lived to 105.

Parents

William M. Askins 1846-1915

Children

Carl Edmond Askins 1916-2011

Sources

Find a Grave, memorial 15302390, Edward "Ed" Askins; photograph added by MayNile, 4 July 2013.

Miles Funeral Service, Winfield, obituary, February 2011, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 65552494; Cowley CourierTraveler, service report, February 2011.

Find a Grave, memorial 15302390 and 15302401, Union-Graham Cemetery, Winfield; photograph by Judy Mayfield, 11 August 2006.

United States census, 1880, Jefferson Township, Chautauqua County, Kansas; Kansas state census, 1885, Kingman County; FamilySearch index.

Find a Grave memorial 15302390 and gravestone; 1930 census (FamilySearch index); obituaries of Gladys L. Morgan (2010) and Carl E. Askins (2011); Find a Grave memorial 31101680 (his father). 1880 census, Jefferson Township, Chautauqua County, ED 71, sheet 351B (FamilySearch ark 1:1:MFP2-L25).

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