Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas Mrs. Granville P. Aikman Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

MRS. GRANVILLE P. AIKMAN

(Transcribed by Peggy Luce)

In the death of Mrs. Granville P. Aikman, El Dorado lost one of its most charming and womanly women. For fifty-seven years she had been a resident of this town, spreading a sweetness of nature and spirit in the lives of her own family and of countless neighbors and friends. She possessed a rare graciousness. The threads of her life went back into the deep historic fabric of American history, and she was bound by blood and breeding with the finest traditions of this country. She never grew modern in the accepted sense of modernity. Always about her was that auro of the old-fashioned gentlewoman, motherly, kindly, highly intelligent, serene and at peace with the madly whirling world whatever its manifestations. She was the perfect counterpart of lavender and old lace – a gentle queen who ruled mightily with love and understanding. El Dorado will always remember her gratefully and affectionately, for she contributed much that was unique and wholly desirable to the distinctive character of this community.