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More from the above book: page 1041
concerning land sold by Robert Robison on Feb 11, 1796 "to Nicholas Ickes, a native of Montgomery County. His grandfather, Frederick Ickes, emigrated from Germany about 1748, and purchased 1000 acres of land in Limerick, Montgomery County. After his death, it was divided among four sons, of whom Michael settled upon the tract, and died, leaving a widow and 5 children, of whom Nicholas was the oldest. He was in the Revolution when 16 years old, and, after its close, settled upon the farm, which, after his father's death, he took at the appraisement. He soon married Mary M. Christman about 1785, by whom he had 4 children - Elizabeth, born in 1787; Samuel, 1791; Jonas, February 3, 1793; and Catharine, 1795. Nicholas Ickes, with his family, came to Cumberland County (now Perry) in 1795, and purchased the land of Robert Robison. His wife died soon after his settlement, and about 1797, he married Susannah, by whom he had 13 children. Of the children by the first wife, Elizabeth, the eldest, married Peter Hench, who lived on the Ickes farm, and is the mother of George Hench, now of Carlisle, and Nicholas Hench, of Ickesburg; she later married ______ Furnell;
Samuel settled at Sandy Hill, on the farm now owned by his son Michael; Jonas studied medicine, and practiced in this county many years and is now living in Illinois (NOTE - this is the Dr. Jonas Ickes in the first posting - 1792 and 1793 are both given as his birth years!); Catharine, the youngest, married Paul Schaeffer and emigrated to Ohio.
The children by the 2nd wife mostly settled in the county. Margaret, the eldest, married John Rice, and is now a resident of New Bloomfield; Magdalena married George Rice, a brother of John, and settled in Sandy Hill; Michael and Jacob settled at Saville; Susannah married Samuel Heim and settled at Loysville; George now resides at Newport; Nicholas settled at Ickesburg; Mary married Henry S. Smith and settled at Newport; Sarah became the wife of Johnson Servis and voed to illinois; Elsa E. married David Zimmerman and also emigrated to illinois; Sophia married Levi Weibley and settled in Saville.
NIcholas Ickes, the father, died in 1849l About 1818, soon after the erection of the township of Saville, Mr. Ickes laid out a town-plat into streets and lots and named it Ickesburg."
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