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From: "tke" <>
Subject: Re: [GEYER-L] Re: GEYER-D Digest V99 #4
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:56:22 -0500

That is very interesting! Did it have anymore information on the
family of Frederick Guyer(Gier, Geyer, Geiger) line? I will look this
family up at my local LDS. Thank you very much! Lianne
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Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 7:01 PM
Subject: [GEYER-L] Re: GEYER-D Digest V99 #4

>We have been very interested in the Gier family as there are many
connections
>with our Markel line. The information we have on Henry Gier and his
wife
>Catherine Stamm was taken from the book "The Family Gier" complied by
Charles
>O. Gier, which we saw several years ago at the Salt Lake LDS Library.
He did
>extensive research on the Guyer/Gier families and lists the
following:
>
>"(Johan) Henry Gier b 17 Aug 1751 in Ephrata, Lancaster Co PA and
died
>1810/20, probably in Westmoreland Co PA. Henry was the son of George
B Gier
>and Anna Marie Margaret Wingertman. He married Catherine Stamm". (He
states he
>believed that she was born to Nicholas and Barbara Stamm on Feb 3,
1758 and
>christened Mar 5, 1758 at the Christ Lutheran Church, Tulpehocken
Twp, Berks
>Co PA. Children born to Henry & Catherine Stamm Gier were:
>Jacob b 19 Oct 1777 - d ca 1778
>John b 3 Oct 1779
>Anna Maria b 4 Sep 1782
>George b 28 Jan 1784 d 30 Jun 1844 bur Hubler Cem Ashland Co OH m
Anna ____
>Jacob b 10 Jan 1787 m Anna Glassbrenner
>Henry b Jun 1787 m Elizabeth Bender d Hillsdale Co MI
>Frederick b 26 Jul 1794 d 9 Apr 1861 Clinton Co MI m Mary Bacon
>Samuel b 28 Aug 1795 d 2 Feb 1872 Delaware Twp Defiance Co OH m
Sarah
> Markel ca 1819
>Joseph b 20 Dec 1799 d 1860 bur Hubler Cem Ashland Co OH m Catherine
>Weaver
>
>Sarah Markel connects with our family as a sister of my 2nd Gr
Grandfather.
>Her parents (Jacob and Margaret Trostel Markel) were living in East
>Huntington Twp, Westmoreland Co PA in the 1810 census. Listed
consecutively
>were Samuel Gires, Widow Gires & Jacob Markle. In the books of
Westmoreland Co
>Church Records by Paul Ruff, which we own, we find several baptisms
of
>children of both Samuel and Sarah Gier, and Joseph and Catherine
Gier. The
>church is Zion Lutheran and Reformed (earlier known as Schwabs or
Swopes) in
>East Huntington Twp. Catharina Geyer was listed for several years in
the
>communion lists.
>
>In 1825 Samuel & Sarah Gier moved to Wayne Co OH, Congress Twp, as
did the
>Markel family and lived across the road. They moved to Defiance Co OH
in 1850
>and are buried in Clinker cemetery there. We have some descendants of
Samuel
>and his siblings.
>
>Jim Markel
>
>

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