Generation 4 · born in Greece
Effie Nicholakis
Efthimia G. Lambros-Nicholakis
Cambridge, Ohio
- Born
- 16 Nov 1898, Zoupena, Greece
- Died
- Sep 1975, Cambridge, OH
Twin sister of Panos (opens in a new tab). Effie arrived on the SS Themistocles on 23 August 1920, aged 21, bound for her brother Harry (opens in a new tab) at 190 Main Street, Oneonta. A year later she married Jim Nicholakis and settled in Cambridge, Ohio, where they had two children.
Her home became a landing place for relatives: her nephew George Laskaris (opens in a new tab) in 1942, and later her sister Stamata (opens in a new tab)’s orphaned grandchildren Matoula (opens in a new tab) and Michael (opens in a new tab). She died of cancer, as her mother had.
Marriage
Jim Nicholakis (1885–1971)
- Also known as Dimitris G. Nicholakis
- Married c. 1921
- Son of Georgios Nicholakis
- Born 15 Jul 1885, Zoupena, Greece
- Died Aug 1971, Cambridge, OH
Jim came to America in 1891, according to the historian Peter Dickson. The Nicholakis family was small, probably Cretan in origin, and in America lived only in Cambridge, Ohio. “Uncle Jim” was the main donor behind the church built in Zoupena’s main square in the early 1960s.