This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JOY.2ACEB/917.2 Message Board Post: Nancy, O.K., maybe just these notes on David G. - they are so interesting! Most info comes from chatting on Geiger List. =================== Notes: Nancy Geiger Ford, desc. of David Geiger through Winfield Wickliffe Geiger: "David G. Geiger, b. 15 March 1795, married Lucy Bennett 2 June 1814. He married Martha Slater 10 April 1834. He died 5 May 1870." Faye Walenceus, descendant of David Geiger: "The marriage license says David Geiger and Miss Martha Slater. The copy that I have is not very clear, but that part can be read. She apparently was the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Slater." 1830 Bryan County, Georgia, census, pg. 88, line 9: "Geiger, David 30-40, plus 2 males under 5; 1 male 5-10; 1 male 10-15; 1 male15-20; 1 female under 5; 1 female 5-10; 1 female 30-40." [first wife, Lucy Bennett]. On line 18, "Mrs. Mary Geiger" is believed to be in error for David Geiger's mother, Mercy Geiger - (her sister, Mrs. Mary Geiger had removed to Florida by then). Line 14 is Emanuel Martin with wife Mary Geiger. Line 17 is his mother, Mrs. Mary Martin. On 7 Aug 1832, David as administrator of the estate of Abraham Geiger, Sr., auctioned all of Abraham's Bryan County property, containing one thousand acres in four tracts, to Jesse Dukes for $144.50, as declared in a deed dated the 18th of September, 1832. In a second deed, dated 13 [sic-18th?] Sep 1832, Jesse (X) Dukes sold the land back to David Geiger for $144.50. 1840 Georgia, Bryan County (M704, Roll 37, Page 108) is legible, but poorly recorded and hard to interpret. It possibly shows family 66 as: "David Gigger with males: 1 under 5, 2 10-15, 1 15-20 and 1 40-50; and females: 1 under 5, 1 5-10, 2 10-15, 1 20-30, and 1 60-70. Next page: slaves 1; total 12. This would be David with second wife, Martha Slater. "Mrs. Mary or Mercy Geiger" household is not recorded. Mercy may now be in David's household as the female 60-70. On the 1850 Georgia census for Bryan County, 19th District, taken 24 August, David and second wife, Martha Slater, appear on page 223/443 [Image 6], line14, as family 37: "Geiger, David 55 M W $900 b. Ga; Geiger, Martha 37 F W b. Ga; plus children (all Geiger, all hers, b. Ga): John 14 M W; Winfield 12 M W; Sarah 10 F W; James 8 M W; Harriett 6 F W; and Leestin [?] 4 M W". "Leestin" would be David Leaston. The 1860 Georgia census for Bryan County, Ways Station, taken 10 July 1860, shows on page 15, line 31, family 167: "Geiger, David, 65 M, farmer, RE $2,000/PE $7,019 [?], b. GA; Geiger, Martha, 46 F, b. GA; Geiger, James H., 18 M, b. GA; Geiger, Harriett, 16 F, b. GA.; Geiger, David D., 14 M, b. GA." The Civil War decimated this family. In 1863, David G. lost two sons, when Joshua David and Cornelius died in the war. In 1863 or 1864, a third son James H., age 21, died at Chickamauga. Then in 1865, son John Harmon, age 30, died in a northern prison camp, leaving a widow and two children. Within the year, son David Leaston, age 19, returned from the war and married his brother's widow the next spring. Not sure where I got this: "In his will, Vinie's father said: 'I appoint and constitute my beloved son, Winfield W. Geiger and my beloved son-in-law, Charles W. Clanton, Executors of this my last Will and Testament. This 9th day of January A.D. 1869.' " ===================