When Charles Harold Aikens was born on 22 January 1891, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, his father, Samuel Charles Aikens, was 34 and his mother, Ella Myra Loring, was 30. He married Blanch Nancy Holbrook on 26 January 1926, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in District 531, DeKalb, Georgia, United States in 1950 and DeKalb, Georgia, United States in 1983. He died on 31 January 1983, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States.
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English: variant of Atkin , with genitival or excrescent -s (compare Atkins ).
Dutch and East Frisian: patronymic from the personal name Aike, a diminutive of Aai/Aie, a variant or a short form of the personal names Aaielt, Age, Ad(d)e or Adriaan. In North America, this surname may also be an altered form of the variant Eikens .
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