This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GIEGER, Martin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/424.492.492 Message Board Post: All of the caucasian Gieger family in So.MS descend from Jessie & Tobitha (Martin) Gieger who migrated from Bulloch County GA in 1815, settling in Covington County. They had four sons and four daughters, three of which married sons of Shadrach Nelson West of Wayne County. Jessie & Tobitha are buried south of Collins off Hwy 49 on a tributary of the Okatoma Creek. You can see their grave covers at: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ms/msphotos/covington/gieger2/gieger2.htm> All Blacks are presumed to descend from Susan Gieger, a slave, who at age 10 yrs, was brought from GA by Jessie, and emancipated in 1865.