Joan: I thought we had discussed the fact that Daniel & Anna's daughter, Brooky was married to Thomas Scott Morgan, son of Achilles Morgan, of Morgantown, WV. I have been in touch with several of his descendants and have gather quite a lot of information. Daniel and Anna married in Monongalia and I believe a couple of their children were born there. they were in Monroe Co. just after the turn of the century...1800. The rest of their children were born there. Daniel didn't take his family west to Vermilion Co. until after 1832. I don't have a John Kiger/Kyger who married Sarah Parrish that I know of right now. If they belong to my side of the Kyger family, then I'm not sure where he fits in. Its hard to believe that there is no family history written by any member of the family that we can find. I'm still sending out queries for more members of the family. I have a representative for most of the 13 children born to Daniel and Anna. At last count, I think I have over 3100 just of my Daniel. Daniel didn't marry until he reached the age of 34. That had made it difficult to trace his wherabouts. Our family genealogist seems to agree with me that he was a surveyor. We are still checking that lead to see if he was the one mentioned several times. He certainly lived in the areas mentioned as having been surveyed by a Daniel Kyger/Kiger. Regarding the name Leota...maybe its a name that was passed down through the Kyger family. I just don't know. I'll have to check into it and see if anyone knows anything about it. Sorry I don't have anything more to offer on the subject. Kay ******************** >Kay, I would guess then that the list Maggie found at the FTM website was >listing birthdates then and not marriage dates--perhaps that is true for all >the entries she listed. > >The name Leota (which I find unusual unless it is a surname from somewhere way >back--it sounds Italian but COULD be Swiss or French) appears in the Greene >County, PA Kiger family when Sarah Leota Kiger was born 21 March 1875 to >Benjamin F. Kiger and his wife Casandra A. Thomas. Also Charles Evan Kiger >and his second wife Catherine C. Connor had a daughter Bertha Leone Kiger born >in 1882--very similar and perhaps a misspelling of Leota--she died young and >all I have to go by is her tombstone. Charles Evan Kiger and Benjamin F. >Kiger are first cousins--grandsons of Charles Kiger the progenitor of the >Greene County Kiger family. Notice also that one of these Kigers above >intermarried with a Connor. I believe that George Kiger (born about 1803), >son of Fielding Kiger (born about 1787) of Monongalia County, VA (WV) also >married a Connor. The Greene County Kigers tell me that the descendants of >Fielding Kiger have long been a part of their family reunions--but the >relationship has been forgotten. Add to that the fact that Fielding Kiger's >wife Polly Madeira (born in Berks County, PA) had a sister Elizabeth who >married Capt. Zackquill Morgan of Morgantown, WV. > >Kay, didn't one or more of YOUR Kygers marry into the Morgantown Morgans? > >I don't have too much trouble now separating the two Daniel Kygers. One >Daniel (originally born Benjamin) was born in 1772 and married Anne Teagarden >in Hampshire County, now WV and moved to Butler County, Ohio. We have their >descendants and also his ancestors going back to John Georg Geiger and Maria >Catharina Henckel. The other Daniel (yours) was born in 1762 and married in >Monongalia County, now WV to Anna Henthorne I think in the 1790s if memory >serves me right. They moved to Monroe County, Ohio and later to Vermilion >County, IL. Also, in this cast of characters we have John Kiger/Kyger who >married Sarah Parrish in KY in the 1790s. I toss them into the same pot since >they also have a connection to the Henthornes. There are many coincidences >within these various Kiger and Kyger families which indicate to me they are >related in some way. I think we need to get all of the cards on the table >where these Kiger/Kyger families are concerned. I think we will find John >Georg Geiger and his brother Valentine at the root of all of the above--one or >the other of them--but thinking and proving are two different things! > >Joan > >