Claude Akin WICKHAM ²

  General Notes:

DECATUR CO, KS INDEX TO REGISTER OF BIRTHS, NOV. 1885 - JULY 1911: male, b. July 10, 1886 to Jacob "Douglass" Wickham & Anna Louise Sorick.

1910 KS CENSUS, Decatur Co, Grant Twp: Claude A. Wickham, 23, 1st marriage, married 8/12 yrs, b. KS, father b. IA, mother b. IL; wife "Blanch", 22, 1st marriage, married 8/12 yrs, 0 children, 0 living, b. MO, parents b. MO.

WWI DRAFT REGISTRATION CARDS, 1917-1918: Claude Akin Wickham, 30, Bursh, CO, b. July 10, 1886 in Lyle, KS; lumberyard clerk for Foster Lumber Co, Brush, CO; wife and 2 children, father and mother.

1920 KS Census, Decatur Co, Lincoln Twp, Norcatur town: "Claud" A. Wickham, 33, b. KS, farmer, rental farm, own account; wife Blanche, 32, b. MO; dau. "Hellen" E., 7, b. KS; son "Berle, Jr.", 4(?) 11/12, b. KS; dau "Fairy" F, 2, b. CO.

1921 STANDARD ATLAS OF DECATUR CO, KS:
landowners:
C. A. Wickham sections 14 & 23 in Grant Twp.
C. A. Wickham, farmer, S. 14, T. Grant, P.O. Norcatur. Born in County in 1886.

1930 KS CENSUS, Decatur Co, Grant Twp: Claude A. Wickham, owned home, 43, married age 21, b. KS, farmer; wife Blanch L., 42, married age 20, b. KS; dau. Helen E., 18, b. KS; son Burle V., 15, b. KS; dau. Farie F., 12, b. CO; son Dale D., 9, b. KS; dau. Dana C., 3 5/12, b. KS.

1946 DECATUR CO, AUTOMOBILE & TRUCK LICENCE DIRECTORY: C. A. Wickham of Norcatur owned a 1940 Ford

1948 ATLAS OF DECATUR CO, KS: landowners: Claude Wickham sections 14, 23 & 26 in Grant Twp.

Claude married Blanche Lucille VAN GUNDY, daughter of Frank VAN GUNDY and Mary ENSLEY, about 1909.¹ (Blanche Lucille VAN GUNDY was born on 21 Sep 1877 in MO ⁴ and died on 27 Jan 1965 in Los Angeles, CA ⁴.)