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[58] Oliver, the youngest of four brothers, was only 11 years old when his father died in 1870 and not yet 14 at the time of his mother's passing.
[60]
In December 1879, five years after Oliver's older brother Daniel married Margaret Jakob, Oliver married Margaret's sister Barbara. According to the marriage certificate, Barbara was living with her sister and brother-in-law at 22 Ten Eyck
Street at the time.
[62]
The 1880 census, enumerated on June 7 of that year, shows Oliver and Barbara with a one-year-old daughter named Barbara. If we take the census at face value, then the daughter was born before Oliver and Barbara were married. Even if she was
born after the marriage, given that the census was enumerated less than six months after the marriage, Barbara the mother had to at least have been pregnant.
[64]
Indicating just how high the infant mortality rate was at the time, Oliver and Barbara lost at least three of their children - Barbara and the two Olivers - at a very early age. And according to the 1900 census, Barbara had four deceased
children, leaving one unaccounted for.
[66]
During the early years of their marriage, Oliver and Barbara lived mostly in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. Their children George and Edith were born in Brooklyn, and then Oliver disappears from the city directories after 1889. It's
likely that it was around that time that, consistent with family tradition, he and his family moved to Massapequa, Long Island, where his father-in-law George Jakob owned a farm. George was a tailor, the same trade practiced by Oliver.
[68] In was in Massapequa that daughter Margaret and son Will were born. Then the family moved back to Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, and Oliver shows up again in the city directories in 1896.
[70] Brooklyn city directories indicate that Oliver became a foreman around 1907, and according to his grandson Bill Sickles, he worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
[72]
The Oliver Sickleses attended the South Bushwick Reformed Church (known as "The White Church"), a Dutch Reformed congregation on Bushwick Avenue, just a few blocks from where they lived at 581 Van Buren Street. About 1915, they moved to
Woodhaven in Queens, buying a three-storey house there. According to granddaughter Evelyn Sickles Davidson, Oliver and Barbara lived on one floor, their daughter Edith and her husband Walter lived on another, and son Will and his wife Emma
lived on still another.
[74]
Home addresses: 53 Devoe, Brooklyn, 1879; 19 Scholes, Brooklyn in 1880; 31 Scholes, Brooklyn in 1881; 202 Stagg, Brooklyn in 1885; 613 Kosciusko, Brooklyn in 1886; 985 Broadway, Brooklyn in 1887; 73 Debevoise, Brooklyn in 1888-89; 1139
Broadway, Brooklyn in 1896; 581 Van Buren Street, Brooklyn in 1899-1905; 97 Stanhope, Brooklyn in 1907-10; 93 Saratoga Avenue, Brooklyn in 1912; 987 Hancock, Brooklyn in 1913; 628 Oceanview Avenue, Woodhaven, Queens in 1918; 86-30 91st,
Woodhaven, Queens in 1933.