You replied via the contact feature to my email and I did receive that message.And, I believe that reply was to an old post of yours regarding the demise of Elsie/Elsa/Elsey Kishpaugh Ike in a powder plant explosion which is not the case. The explosion I had heard about from my mother and grandmother (Elsie Ike Davenport b 1891), who had first hand knowledge of this (terrible stories actually)was in 1940. While researching this I found an earlier, less serious, explosion had occured in 1917. Here is a link to comprehensive information/history of Hercules powder which includes a memorial list of all persons who were killed in both explosions which includes no women, much less any of our relatives.
My post (above) contains an error. It is in the WHITHAM biography, not WHITNEY where the Kishpaugh name is misquoted as Kaussbh. This biography can be found at the Morris NJ Genealogical site which is here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~njmorris/lewisbios/whithamrichardw....This man was legendary and spawned MANY family tales. He owned the first automobile in Dover and was killed in the first car accident. His wife Laura C Ike Whitham died just before my birth and I am her namesake (saved me from bein named Elsie, her middle name was Capitiola, my mother saved me from that and I got Laura Ann instead. I was born in 1945, so, we are contemporary cousins of some kind. Laura and Richard Whitham had one daughter.....another Elsie, my second cousin, who was born the same year as my grandmother, Elsie Ike Davenport. They were close while growing up. Elsie Whitham married late (to Oren Northey)and had no children. She was like a second grandmother to me and died young, in 1963-1964 when I was a college freshman.
Here is a link to a fairly comprehensive Ike/Eike/Eich geneaology at rootsweb:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=:310516...It gives Issac's place of burial as Presbyterian Cemetery, Succassuna, Morris, New Jersey.The index person on this page is my father, Howard S Davenport Jr, 1921-1987. I do, however, know there are Kishpaughs buried at Locust Hill, when I was last in Dover, spring of 1983, I transcribed tombstones that my aunt, Irene Davenport Ely, told me were relatives. I still have that transcription and was planning on emailing you when I manage to dig it out, I do know where it is.
I DO think I have perhaps solved at least part of the problem of my grandfather's (Howard Searing Davenport Sr) parentage. He appears in census data first in 1900 as an 8 yo stepchild in the household of James and Mary Dugan in Morris County, with elder siblings Stella and Jennie. He is still living in this household at the time of the 1910 census. Using the presumed maiden name of Searing I find a Mary Searing,DOB 1864, the same as Mary Dugan, father is Lewis Searing. A search of the 1880 census yields a Stiles Davenport born @ 1856 with a wife, Mary b 1864 (he is 24, she is 17).Stiles appears for the first time in the 1870 census as a single 15 yo living as a boarder, so, so far, I have no parents for him. In the 1880 census, Stiles and Mary have a son, 8 months, who does not appear as a child/stepchild in the Dugan household. He may have left home as the eldest Dugan stepchild, Jennie, is 18 in the 1900 census. Mary and James Dugan appear again in 1910 with one stepchild, Howard (my presumed grandfather)still in the household, and continue through the 1930 census. I did find, in the 1880 death index, a Charles Davenport, dead of "brain fever" @ July 1979 at age 3y. The dates are discrepant,Mary and Stiles' child would have been born in 1879, but I've found that these records, including the census, often have inaccuracies as they were transcribed verbally and literacy then was not what it was now.
So, that is where I'm at now. I've sent off for my grandfather's SS-5 and hoping he used his biological father's name and not his stepfather's.
Anyway, there's an update. I hope it is helpful to you and others who frequent this board.
Expect an email from "cousin Laura". If it takes more than I'm hoping to find the Locust Hill tombstone inscription, I'll email just to give you my direct contact information.