Hi, This is interesting. I'd like to know more about this so that I can include some of it in the article. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Richard A. Connell <rconn@magicnet.net> To: GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 1998 4:29 PM Subject: [GEIGER-L] JOSHUA GEIGER of Bryan Co., GA >Grace, all I have on Joshua Geiger is from Chubb Geiger's book and he >doesn't seem too sure of his facts about Abraham ("born prob. about 1758")! > He names 12 ch. as "reported to be his": "Cornelius; Ephraim; Nathan; >Jeremiah and David (born March 15, 1795 and died May 5, 1870; Samuel (born >June 1, 1796 and died Sept. 11, 1861); Abraham (born Oct. 3, 1801 and died >Nov. 10, 1877); Elizabeth (born July 31, 1803 and died June 6, 1878); then >John, James, Jessie, and Joshua. These I am sure, were enough to keep him >at home behind a plow. ... You take the tales you hear, the logical child >in the logical place and records you can come across and try to decide >whose child is whose." This is exactly as he typed it. It's very >confusing and for a long time, I thought Jeremiah and David were twins, >until I studied his sentence more closely! Elsewhere he says, "James >Geiger listed in 1850 Nassau Co., FL, was born about 1808; and Joshua >Geiger was born about 1810. Aaron told Abraham that Joshua was working in >Jacksonville in 1849." Problem: there is no Aaron in his book and does he >mean Abe, Sr. or Jr.? > >We are planning a research trip up into GA in Aug., ending up in Augusta >for a conference. On the way back, we're going to stop over in >Jacksonville so that I can visit the library again and take a look at the >hardback edition of Chubb's book. I copied off the manuscript before >learning that they had a hardback and I'm wondering if it is just the same. > Also want to visit Allen Bethel Geiger's grave, etc. > >Anne Connell, Winter Park, FL >