Abraham Geiger^{[1, 2]}

1829 - 1921  (92 years)

• Name	Abraham Geiger
  Born	1829	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158463722
  Residence	1855	Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Eby ID Number	00038-3046
  Died	22 Dec 1921	Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Buried	Babylon Line Cemetery, Hay Township, Huron Co., Ontario   [3]
  Person ID	I12106	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2024

  
  

  Father	David Geiger,   b. 17 Mar 1796, , Germany ,   d. 9 Apr 1869, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Barbara Steinacker,   b. 17 Sep 1798, , Germany ,   d. 17 Oct 1846, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F3372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Doering,   b. 1834, , Hessen, Germany ,   d. 29 Oct 1875, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 41 years)
  Married	9 Oct 1855	Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Children	1. Emma Geiger,   b. Abt 1860,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	13 May 2024
  Family ID	F3375	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Christina Schwontz,   b. 1835, , Baden, Germany ,   d. 26 Mar 1917, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 82 years)
  Last Modified	13 May 2024
  Family ID	F3376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Abraham Geiger, "resides in Hay Township, Huron County, where he is engaged in farming. He was first married to Elizabeth Doering and after her decease to Christina Martin, a widow. He had a family of twelve children, eleven of whom were of his first wife and one of second wife. None of them are residents of this county." Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 673. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 11 Nov 1875. Died 29 Oct 1875 In Hay, the wife of Abraham Geiger died at about 41 years of age from dorpsy. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158463722. [S3202] News - ON, Waterloo, New Hamburg - Hamburger Beobachter, 12 Oct 1855. Married: by Pastor Friedrich PH., Feysel, in Petersburg - On 90 Oct Abraham Geiger, of Wilmot township, Waterloo County and Elisabeth Doering of Hessen Darmstadt

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1829 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1855 - Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 22 Dec 1921 - Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth