Benjamin Harland "Bennie" WICKHAM ^{2 3}

  General Notes:

PHOTO: submitted by Marty Greenlief

COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM, Steamboat Rock High School, Monday Evening, June 8, 1908: eight graduates including Bennie H. Wickham.
(Copy of commencement program submitted by Marty Greenlief.)

1915 IA STATE CENSUS, Hardin Co, Clay Twp, Steamboat Rock P. O.: Winfield S. Wickham, 64, bridge builder, 6th grade education, b. IA, father b. NY, mother b. OH; Mary E., 64, 6th grade education, b. OH, father b. VT., mother b. NY, in IA 58 yrs, Methodist; Benjamin H., 23, single, farmer, 6th grade education, b. IA, father b. IA, mother b. OH.

WWI DRAFT REGISTRATION CARDS, 1917-1918: Ben Harland Wickham, Eldora, Hardin Co, IA; 25; b. Aug 6, 1891 at Steamboat Rock, IA, self-employed farmer, farming in Eldora Twp; married, supports wife; medium height, slender, brown eyes, red hair.

1920 IA CENSUS, Hardin Co, Eldora Twp: Ben H. Wickham, rent, 29, b. IA, farmer; wife Lillian, 22, b. IA.

1925 IA STATE CENSUS, Hardin Co, Jackson Twp: B. H. Wickham, 33, 12th grade education, b. IA; father: W. W. Wickham was b. IA, 73; mother Mary Hartwell who was b. OH and married IA; engaged in agriculture, no religion; Lillian, 26, 10th grade education, b. IA; father: Henry Fink who was b. Germany, 74; mother: Mimmie Gumann who was b. Germany and married IA, no religion.

1930 IA CENSUS, Hardin Co, Hardin Twp: Ben H. Wickham, 38, married age 26, b. IA, farmer; wife Lillian W., 32, married age 19, b. IA; son Gayle H., 5, b. IA; dau. Gweneth, 1/12, b. IA.

SSDI: Ben Wickham; b. Aug. 6, 1891; d. Feb. 1982, b. IA; last residence: Henagar, DeKalb Co, AL

OBIT: Ben H. Wickham - Word has been received here of the death Feb. 1 of Ben H. Wickham, a former Iowa Falls resident. Services and burial were at Henagar, Ala. Ben Harland Wickham was born Aug. 6, 1891 at Steamboat Rock, the son of Winfield Scott and Mary Wickham. He and Lillian Fink were married Feb. 21, 1917, and farmed in this area for many years. Later they operated the Siloam Grocery in Iowa Falls. They moved to California in 1865 and had lived at Henagar for the last four years.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Wickham is survived by a son, Gayle of Henagar, a daughter, Jolaine Butterwick of Costa Mesa, Calif; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren and was proceeded in death by two brothers and three sisters. (submitted by Marty Greenlief.)

Benjamin married Lillian W. FINK on 21 Feb 1917 in Des Moines, Polk Co, IA.^{1 2} (Lillian W. FINK was born on 26 Mar 1898 in IA ⁴ and died in Oct 1985 in Henagar, Dekalb Co, AL ⁴.)