My husband ran across an article about our Emily GEIGER, that I don't recall seeing before. It comes from an old 2-vol. book called: "The Women of the American Revolution", by Elizabeth F. Ellet, Third Edition. New York: Baker and Scribner. 1849. (yes, that old!). It can be read at http://www.fortklock.com/amwomensmisc.htm . The web site is called "Three Rivers .. Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie .. History From America's Most Famous Valleys." It is absolutely jam-packed with wonderful articles, biographies, books and pictures on an amazing variety of subjects. The home page can be reached by a link at the bottom of the article or at http://www.fortklock.com/index.html. Click on Site Map for the Index. Maybe some of our northern GEIGERS are in there, too. Anne C.
Frank Clark's website at http://sciway3.net/clark/revolutionarywar/geigeroutline.html has the various Emily Geiger documents in more-or-less chronological order. The Ellett and Lossing versions are the ones with elements of history--after that, the stories grow fairly quickly! The 1852 short story by Timothy Shay Arthur was included in his 1862 collection of morally-improving tales for young people. He also wrote etiquette guides for children and temperance tracts. It was this fictional version that was borrowed by SC historian John A. Chapman (verbatim and without attribution) and included in his high school history texts, also in Annals of Newberry--although Emily did not live there. Lossing depended mostly on the Ellett report, but added two details (Emily lived in Fairfield County and married a Threewits) after interviewing William Cayce in Granby. Cayce's wife, Elizabeth Rea (1797-1875) was the granddaughter of John Conrad Geiger. While Elizabeth Rea Cayce was probably too young to have met Emily Geiger in person, her aunt Elizabeth Geiger Bell (1770-1863) recalled having done so in the early 1780's. Mrs. Bell did not report attending a wedding, or mention the name Threewits, according to depositions from her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The early dating of the 1789 wedding invitation may be incorrect. It's written on lined notebook paper (first attested in SC at the Medical College in 1823) with a fountain pen (invented in the 1860's). Fancy weddings involved engraved invitations, then as now. The firm of Louis Timothy et Cie. in Charleston did a big business in them. As far as I know, this may be an accurate late-19th-c. transcription of a tattered late-18th-c. document. If so, it definitely identifies the host. There was only one Jacob Geiger alive in 1789 with the rank of Major, and that was the son of John Conrad, son of Herman. ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. A. Connell" <rconnell@cfl.rr.com> To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 1:23 PM Subject: [GEIGER] Emily GEIGER > My husband ran across an article about our Emily GEIGER, that I don't recall seeing before. It comes from an old 2-vol. book called: "The Women of the American Revolution", by Elizabeth F. Ellet, Third Edition. New York: Baker and Scribner. 1849. (yes, that old!). It can be read at http://www.fortklock.com/amwomensmisc.htm . > > The web site is called "Three Rivers .. Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie .. History From America's Most Famous Valleys." It is absolutely jam-packed with wonderful articles, biographies, books and pictures on an amazing variety of subjects. The home page can be reached by a link at the bottom of the article or at http://www.fortklock.com/index.html. Click on Site Map for the Index. Maybe some of our northern GEIGERS are in there, too. > > Anne C.