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Hello Sue,
Thank you for the Ike family information. It is my family! My reference sources on the Ikes have been very limited. The primary one has been: "The House of Swick," compiled by Carl W. Fischer and Harriet Jackson Swick, printed in 1973 by The Interlaken Review, Interlaken, New York. (Interlaken was formerly known as Farmer, or Farmer Village.)
In it, there was only one reference to the Ike family, on page 126. That was for Elmira, my great grandmother. Your dates for her are in agreement with mine. Marvin Wiggins, her husband, was born October 3, 1855, and died September 25, 1944, in Interlaken. I have a record of their descendants. The Swick book only speculated on Elmira's parents.
The part about Charles Ike's train accident was interesting. He was born in 1828 and died in 1901, according to the Swick book, and his wife was born in 1830.
My copy of the Swick book has some notations hand-penciled in the margins. One of these, next to "Eva ________, wife of Herman Wiggins," said Eva was Elmira Ike's sister, which you have now confirmed. Eva was born in 1855 and died in 1935 in the Swick book, which used her gravestone as a reference. Herman Wiggins was born July 17, 1851 and died in 1918, again using gravestone data.
Do you think your source, Cynthia, might have additional information on the Ike family, perhaps going back further? I would like to ask her?
Besides Tenneys, there were Tennys, in the Interlaken area. A Janet Tunison from our area married a George Tenny. Are the Tennys and Tenneys part of the same family?
Thanks again for your help. I live near to the Interlaken vicinity and have ready access to cemteries and Surrogate's offices. Let me know if I can help your research.
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