Henry Geiger, son of Hans Jacob Geiger (1679-1752) and 1737 immigrant to Saxegotha SC is more-or-less invisible. His older brother Herman (1707-1751) engaged in a large number of legal transactions (basically, Herman got all the good press), left many, many descendants with the Geiger surname--which was the only name that counted in most genealogies produced in the early 20th century. Henry was there too, but with unknown wife, unknown kids, and practically no legal records. The single exception was when he sold the land he'd inherited from his father (the original 350-acre grant to Hans Jacob Geiger) to Henry Hartley in 1762, since Hartley filed a Memorial that he'd purchased it from Harry Geiger. By a curious quirk-of-fate, a descendant of Henry Weber (older brother of THAT Jacob Weber) recently mentioned to me in passing that he'd seen an Implied Marriages reference that the widow of Heinrich Weber had second-married one Harry Geiger by 1751, and would I like to see the hard-copy of that reference? Well...yes, I would! The reference was to SC Deed Book I-I, pp. 204-5. Unfortunately, those pages were no longer legible when Langley transcribed the deed abstracts, but there used to be information that was legible to somebody-or-other. The other deeds that were transcribed-and-abstracted were generally very specific that "Anna X, wife of Hans Y, was widow of Jacob Z". Sounds like a reasonable source, even if I can't read the original document. Anna Urner was born 6 Nov 1718 in Unter-Rifferschweil, Zürich. She married Heinrich Weber, born 6 Oct 1715 in the same parish. They left Switzerland in August 1739, along with Heinrich's younger brother Jacob, born 30 Dec 1725. Older-brother Heinrich got a 150-acre land grant for the three of them, dated 5 Jun 1742. That doesn't mean that they took a very slow ship, since that's the same date on which all the Saxegotha Geiger land-grants were issued, although they'd arrived in Feb 1737. There was just a lot of red tape, and it took the German-speakers a while to learn how to jump through the bureaucratic hoops. Anyway, the Weber family settled in adjacent to some of the Geigers. They all signed a petition in 1740 encouraging the emigration of even more Swiss settlers to Saxegotha SC, which would be distributed around Switzerland and southern Germany by neighbor Jacob Riemensperger (they didn't know then that he was a crook, but they it discovered it not long afterward! s, and expressed themselves in strongly-worded letters to the SC Council). That 1740 Riemensperger brochure--which you can read at www.rootsweb.com/~scogsgs/remsb.htm --was the last time that Heinrich Weber showed up in SC records, other than as an adjacent landowner. Brother Jacob Weber wrote that he had experienced a severe depression following the early death of his brother (Jacob used 18th-c. terms for that), and later had some larger problems (in modern medical terms, "psychotic break" comes to mind). It's best to remember that the common illness of depression is diagnosable and treatable now, but it wasn't then, and that "depressive psychosis" is far more uncommon now than it was then. But poor brother Jacob had a really-big problem that led to a couple of murders and to his being hanged for them in 1761. So what was Anna Urner Weber doing after the death of Heinrich Weber in maybe ~1745, while her young brother-in-law Jacob was going quietly off-the-rails on his rather-distant land-grant? She married neighbor Heinrich/Henry/Harry Geiger. Not just a neighbor, but a "good match", since their properties merged nicely together. For all I know, she probably even liked him, but this was not a prerequisite for a successful marriage in mid-18th-c. frontier SC. They had two (known) surviving children. Daughter Elizabeth did not marry, but resided with her brother. Son William (1754-1829) lived at Chalk Hill on Dry Creek, married Mary Ann Kaigler, widow of Conrad Kersh. Yes, I know that Percy Geiger and others say that her first husband was named Godfrey Kersh (as was their son, born in 1780), but there wasn't an adult Godfrey Kersh there at the time. The Kersh who died in action in 1782 was Conrad, son of Andreas, and the British recorded giving widow-Mary his back-pay. Yes, he was a Loyalist (served in the same company with neighbors Andreas Kaigler and Jacob Geiger). Young Godfrey Kersh (b. 1780) sold property that had been granted to Andreas Kersh, and there's really no way to work in an extra generation involving an otherwise-unattested person named Godfrey. In the early 19th century, people worked at forgetting their Loyalist/Tory ancestors (even though there was nothing wrong with that at the time), to the point of cre! ating whole new genealogies. Just as Americans in ~1917 worked at forgetting their German ancestry, changed their names, etc. In the 21st century, names of mothers have gotten more interesting, and are considered worth researching. Henry Geiger and Anna Urner Weber Geiger left a whole passel of descendants whose surnames are currently Muller, Senn, Baker, Assman, and who-knows-what-else! For that reason, I thought that my List-friends would like to know that there really IS some evidence about who Henry/Harry Geiger married by ~1750. Harriet Imrey himrey@ntelos.net