Oh, Anne, I have a headache from trying to place all the Geigers with the proper parents..... My Allen Bethel Geiger (1802 - 1873) had 15 children. By lst wife Abigail Riggs.... 1. Elizabeth b. 11 April 1827 d. Nov 20, 1911 md. James Richard Eubank 2. Aaron A. b. 28 May 1828 d. 16 June 1896 md. Millie Sapp d/o James Sapp 3. Margaret Elizabeth b. 20 May 1829 d. 14 Sept 1874 d. Daniel Hogan at Ft. McCoy, Marion Co, FL..bur. Ft. McCoy Baptist Cemetery, FL 4. Abraham Bailey b. May 1830 md. 1) M. Eugenia Bell Geiger d/o John Geiger (2) Julia Ann Wingate Richardson 5. Louranah b. 30 Aug 1831 d. 8 April 1886 md. David C. Ogilvie 6. Eli William b. 29 Jan 1834 d. 5 Oct 1890 md. Francis Drew (IGI says Francis Mahala Williams d/o Candacy Drew) By 2nd wife Mary Ann Buford or Beaufort... 7. Cynthia b. 24 Dec 1842 md. (l)Jonathan Blitch , (2) Wiley Lee Jones 8. Martha b. 1845 md. Rev. William Williams 9. John A. b. 10 Oct 1847 d. 18 June 1890 md. Jeaneatte Mason 10.Joseph Henry b. 6 Oct 1849 d. 14 Sept 1905 md. Sarah Burney 11. Jane b. 1852 md. Francis Marion Starrett 12. Iraneous b. Dec 1854 d. 1932 md. Mary Elizabeth Lord 13. Matilda N. b. 1856 md. Owen Christopher Wingate 14. Isaiah b. 1858 m. Frances J. Jameson 15. Simon Peter b. 23 July 1860 d. 11 July 1883 (tombstone said died unmarried of brain fever).... In the Chubb book, you quoted..."Aaron told Abraham that Joshua was working in Jacksonville in 1849"...........Allen Bethel Geiger had sons Aaron A. Geiger and Abraham Bailey.....do you suppose these are the ones mentioned in the conversation?....and they were referring to a cousin....Joshua? Oh, dear, it's so late and now I really do have a headache.......Night, night. Mary