This conflicts with some of what you sent me... >From: "Beverly Burton" <bzb@houston.rr.com> >To: "Gerald Gieger" <giegerg@hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: Dikes >Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 09:17:24 -0600 > >Martha was a Coates, as named in the will of her father, Sion L. Coates. >She apparently had children with a first husband in SC, but I haven't been >able to discover his name. Ellenader Jane " Janey", who married Zachariah >Gieger, would have been the daughter of Martha's first husband as she was >born c. 1825 SC and Martha didn't marry Benjamin Dykes until the early >1830s. > > >Beverly > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Gieger" <giegerg@hotmail.com> >To: <rjohn@bayou.com> >Cc: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com>; <R.Gary.Leonard@mci.com>; ><ninalee@tecinfo.com>; <pwdarmo@yahoo.com>; <bzb@houston.rr.com>; ><MS_Red_Clay@hotmail.com>; <GgrRobert2@aol.com> >Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 8:58 PM >Subject: Re: Dikes > > >>Grandfather Jessie was born in Bulloch County GA in 1793. His parents were >>Abraham and Mercy(Martin) Gieger of Bryan County, GA. He is the elder of >>about 15 siblings which have been identified; Tobitha was the daughter of >>James Martin of Bryan County, GA who was the brother of his mother >>Mercy(James was Jessie's maternal uncle). Both were children of German >>Baptist Minister John A. Martin of Bryan County(Bryan, Bulloch, and >>Effingham Counties were being formed during that timeframe so you have to >>look in the records of all three to find things.) which makes Jessie and >>Tobitha first-cousins. Jessie had no sister named Martha - at least none >>that we have identified. >> >>Zachariah was born in Bulloch County GA in 1814 and they migrated to MS >>Territory in 1814-15, before statehood. It is believed that they came in >>the company of Richard Welch who received a Passport to cross Indian Lands >>from the Governor of GA, about 1809. Richard was the father of Bryant >>Welch who married Tobitha's sister Sabra(Sarah/Sally) Martin. Richard, >>Bryant, and Sabra are also buried in Southern MS and the Welch's of >>Covington County descend from these Welch's. Two of Zachariah's children >>are married to their Welch cousins. >> >>Jessie's grandfather Abraham was born in SC about 1761. As a child, he >>migrated to GA with his father Hans Ulrich Gyger in 1767, where they >>settled on the southwest side of the Great Ogeechee River, part of which >>is presently located on the Ft. Stewart Military Reservation. Their land >>grant began at the Flat Ford and went up stream, encompassing 300 >>acres(which later turned out to be about 380 acres). I have much data to >>support this information, some of which I have already posted to Rootsweb, >>and more will be posted in coming months, since I have just now gotten my >>PC fixed and am back on line... >> >> >>>From: "Richard Johnston" <rjohn@bayou.com> >>>To: "Gerald Gieger" <giegerg@hotmail.com> >>>Subject: Re: Dikes >>>Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:07:16 -0600 >>> >>>Hello, >>> >>>Thank you for such a prompt reply. Maybe if we just kicked the info >>>about we could make some sense of it. >>> >>>Benjamin Dikes(Dykes), I believe was in SC in 1840s. I know that >>>Geigers, Jessie was in Covington county, Ms in 1840. Now I think I >>>remember that the Geigers came from SC also. Now I know some say GA but >>>I think that was in route to Ms. Benjamin was married to another lady. >>>I will have to look this up. They had several children and Benjamin F >>>Jr was my GGrandfather. My Grandmother being his daughter Frances >>>Melvina Dykes. His wife must have died and he married Martha(don't know >>>if this occured after arriving in Ms or was in SC before they left. >>> >>>I have thought, that Benjamin died prior to 1860 in Jasper County(fairly >>>near Covington County). Maybe Martha and Eleanor then joined her >>>Brother???Jessie and Tabathia Geiger and and died there. Do you have in >>>info on Jessie's siblings. Maybe way back in the Carolinas. I suspect >>>that since Martha was probably 45-50 years old when she married that >>>Martha was not her mom except from a previous marriage. Benjamin could >>>have adopted her and she took the Dikes name. However when they >>>probably came to Covington County Eleanor may have been single. Now she >>>could have been just a baby girl that Martha took as her own and she >>>married Zacharias Geiger. Now if she was blood kin to Martha and Martha >>>was Jessie's sister, not likely she would have married Jessie's son. >>>Now if she was not Jessie's sister and just a cousin, that happened a >>>lot. >>> >>>Tell me what you know about Jessie, (Father, Mother siblings etc). >>> >>>This info is always a little theoretical because of the unknons. >>> >>>Thank you, Maybe we will both benefit. >>> >>>Richard Johnston >>> >>> >> >> >