Can anyone help with this request? > I am trying to discover the truth about the parentage of my ancestress, Anna > Maria Geiger. She was born about 1750-5 and was married to William Stafford > in 1773 at the old Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Effingham Co., GA. They had > three known children: Mary, Abraham and Dinah. Mary (my line) married > Simeon Travis of Warren Co., GA, son of William Travis and Abigail Denmark. > > Sometime in the late 1700s, William Stafford died and a Mary Stafford, > widow, transferred personal property to her mother, Ann Mary Magdeline > Geiger, in Effingham Co., GA. Later, Anna Maria (or Ann Mary or Mary Ann) > was married to Jacob Hoffman/Huffman and removed to Bulloch Co., GA. > Huffman died by 1812/3 and Simeon Travis was administrator of his estate. > > My question. Was this Anna Maria (AKA Mary, Ann Mary) Geiger Stafford > Huffman the daughter of Ulrich Geiger? Since he did have a daughter named > Mary Huffman, but per many sources his wife was named Apolonia. I know that > the deed which sold Ulrich's land was dated after the death of Jacob Huffman > so, as his widow she could have transacted business without her husband > signature. > > You see, so many things point to my Mary Huffman being Ulrich's daughter, > but the problem of Ann Mary Magdeline and Apologia makes me have some > doubts. > > John H. Smallwood, Jr. > Dallas, TX 75287 jhs1964@gte.net