In a message dated 98-07-28 11:15:55 EDT, you write: > --Christopher Kiger, emigrated from Germany in 1750. > ---His son, Anthony Kiger, born 9 Mar 1754 on the Schuylkill River, 5 miles > from Reading, PA Anthony to Virginia some years later. > ---Anthony's second wife was Rachel Proctor, b. 29 Aug 1769 in Shenandoah Co. > , > VA. She was 15 years younger than Anthony. > ---Anthony was a soldier in Revolutionary War. At the close of the war, he > sold his Lancaster, PA land (pd. in Continental currency) > ---Anthony died 3 Apr 1824. (Thrown from a horse.) Buried Pleasant Hill > Cemetery, near Rushville. Dottie, oh how VERY interesting--I had not seen this before! Only parts of the information are correct however. This is most definitely referring to Anthony Geiger/Kiger, son of Christopher Geiger who was BORN in PENNSYLVANIA and NOT in Germany in 1720. He was the son of Valentine Geiger, of Ittlingen, Germany, and Johanna Frederica Henckel. Christopher and his first wife Mary Barbara Geiger (his first cousin) were the parents of Anthony whose actual birthdate was 26 April, 1754 and his birthplace Douglassville, Berks County, PA--which is indeed near Reading. We had known that Anthony moved to Virginia and that his first wife was Christina Derst. In 1805 this Anthony was living in Rockingham County, VA and that is ALL we knew of him. If the information is correct that this Anthony Kiger died in Indiana in 1824 then there must have been yet another Anthony Kiger living in Rockingham County, VA since we know from the marriage record of Elizabeth Kiger of that county in 1812--that her father Anthony was deceased, and that a Benjamin Kiger was her guardian. Now, here is a question for cousin Richard--is it possible that a guardian (Benjamin Kiger) would have been appointed for Elizabeth Kiger, if she remained at home in VA, as a minor, while her father Anthony, STILL LIVING, moved to Indiana? This would be the only way the 2 Anthonys could be one and the same. Joan