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Personal data Geike Janssen Dike Johnson Bonk 

• Alternative names: Geike Bonk, Guy Janssen Bonk, Deke Dike Johnson
• He was born on May 11, 1840 in Simonswolde, Aurich, Niedersachsen, Germany.Sources 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15
• Resident:
• in the year 1866: Holland, Grundy County, Iowa.
• in the year 1870: Shiloh, Grundy, Iowa, United States.Source 10
• in the year 1880: Boone, Hamilton, Iowa, United States.Source 14
• in the year 1882: Emery, Hanson, South Dakota, United States.
• June 1890: Hanson, South Dakota, United States.Source 4
• on September 20, 1900: Hanson, South Dakota.Source 3
• January 1910: Hanson, South Dakota.Source 2
• (Departure) April 1857 in Emden, Germany.Source 16
• (Arrival) July 1857 in Near Peoria, IL: Left Germany.
• He died on February 4, 1910 in Emery, Hanson, South Dakota, United States, he was 69 years old.Source 8
• A child of Jan Bonk and Etje "Harriet" de VüST

Household of Geike Janssen Dike Johnson Bonk

(1) He is married to Trientje Katharina Bleeker.

They got married on August 2, 1861 at Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA, he was 21 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth (Leici) M. Bonk  1861-1913 
2. Harriet "Etta" Bonk  1866-1895 
3. Marlina "Lina" Bonk  1868-????
4. John Bonk  1869-1946 
5. Katrina "Katie" Bonk  1871-1947 
6. Jane "Jennie" Bonk  1873-1948 
7. Grace Bonk  1875-1972 

(2) He is married to Finnnigien "Fannie" Luttje.

They got married on February 22, 1878 at Grundy County, Iowa, he was 37 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Grestzy Bonk  1877-????
2. Geeske "Essie" Bonk  1879-1944 
3. Anna Bonk  1881-1918 
4. Tillie Bonk  1883-1979 
5. Everett Bonk  1885-1972 
6. Johanna Bonk  1888-1969 
7. Sarah Bonk  1890-1976 
8. Jacob Bonk  1892-1893
9. Jacob Geihe Bonk  1894-????
10. Gottlieb George Bonk  1896-1978
11. Geike Johnson "Guy" Bonk  1900-1961 
12. Fannie Bonk  1904-1985

Notes about Geike Janssen Dike Johnson Bonk

Geihe Johnson Bonk was born in Simonville, Germany. At the age of sixteen he decided to come to America. He found passage on a sailship which took about three months during which time they encountered very bad weather that forced the ship into a very dangerous area of ice bergs. Rations became very low and they were forced to only one meal per day for the rest of the journey.
After arriving at New York City he travelled on to Rockford, Illinois where he had an uncle and where he stayed until in 1860 at the age of 20 he married Catherine Bleeker.
The following year, in 1861, he enlisted in the Northern Army of the Civil War. He was assigned to the 34th Infantry, Company F. He participated in many battles such as Shilo, the siege od Corinth, battle at Murfeesbourgh, battles at Jonesburg and Atlanta. His last battle was at Bentonville April 19, 1865. Two weeks later he was mustered out at Grand Detour, Illinois.
He went to work at the John Deere Plow Factory for a time. I have found no date as to when he took his wife and family west and settled on a farm in Grundy County, Iowa. In 1876 his wife Catherine died and left him with seven children living and one dead. We have the names of only six as follows: Elizabeth married a Mr. Brinkema; Jenny married a Mr. Hassebrook; Etta married a Mr. Hassebrook; Grace married a Mr. Wassel; John; Catherine married John Letcher a brother to Fannie Luttje.
In 1978 Geike married Fannie Luttje a sister to George, John, Joseph, and Eveline. Children of Evert and Geeske Luttje. Geihe and Fannie stayed on the farm until 1880 when they moved to Webster, Iowa. They stayed there until the fall of that year and then moved to Lennox, South Dakota. In the fall of 1882 they moved and took up a homestead near Emery, South Dakota. They stayed on the homestead for eleven years, then moved again to another farm at the edge of town where they lived until he passed away with a stroke in 1910.Fannie bore Geike eleven children. In essence Geike fathered nineteen children.
It should be noted that Fannie was married before her brother George, therefore her last name was never changed to Letcher.
In bits of information from relatives it indicated that after Geike Johnson died sometime later Fannie was married and divorced. I was never able to verify this information.

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