> ---------- > From: Bunny From[SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: {not a subscriber} Geffs > > Posted on: Crawford Co. Il Queries > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Crawford/174 > > Surname: Geffs > ------------------------- > > James & Elizabeth Geffs came over from Ireland about 1793, eventually settling > near Morgantown, WV. They had 2 sons, John and William (d. 1815 WV). John > married Tamar Faucett, Jan 30, 1812 in Morgantown. After James d. 1829, > John moved his family and mother to Clinton Co., OH. I have record of a > lot of kids, Susan (m. Wm Noble), Harrison (m. Susanna Grove), Jacob (m1. > Mary Eliz. Thompson; m2.Mary Ellen Johnson), Phebe (m. Joseph Bennett), > Thomas (m. Mary West), Margaret (Mary Ann)(m. Henry Groves), James (m. > Rebecca _____), Lydia, Robert, Nancy (m. Joshua Haynes), William (d. age > 8). Jacob's 1st wife died in Illinois and Jacob brought their girls, Margaret > Ann "Maggie" and Tamar Jane "Jenny" back on horseback to his brother Thomas > to raise in Ohio. He later remarried , settling in Crawford Co., IL. I'm > descended from Jacob's brother Harrison. Harrison d. 1844 (I don't know > what became of his widow Susannah). Their 4 children, Louisa, Mariah, John > W. and Serefta, were also left in the care of Thomas Geffs. John W. Geffs > was my great-great-grandfather. He died in Junction City, KS, 2-27-1929. > >