Margareta Feerin

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ID: I109
Last: Feerin
First: Margareta
Middle:
Birth: 1664 at Switzerland 1
Death: AFT 1736 at South Carolina
Burial:
Sex: F
Notes: Source: Clowney/Cato family research.
 
Mother: UNKNOWN
Father: UNKNOWN
 
Marriage 1   Hans Jacob Geiger b: Jul 1679 d: AFT 1736
Wedding: UNKNOWN
 
Children:
1 Herman Geiger b: 18 Dec 1707 Diepoldsau, Rheinthal, Switzerland
 
Sources:
1 Title: The State newspaper (daily)
Publication: The State-Record Co., P.O. Box 1333, Columbia, SC 29202 (publ. at: 1401 Shop Rd., Columbia, SC, 29201)
Page: p. 12-A
Text:
A granite marker... at the Geiger (formerly Tyler Field) Cemetery.
This historic spot is near the line between Calhoun and Lexington counties, on the Calhoun side, a quarter of a mile west of U.S. Highway 176 on a county road half-way between Geiger's store and the county line.
The marker will bear this record taken from the Zurich Switzerland, State Archives:
"Under the Village of Wydnau Family No. 15, is entered: The following moved to Carolina in Sept. 1736.
Hans Jacob Gyger former Cantonal Governor, born July 1679, "Whom one could not sufficiently honor"
Margareta Feerin, his wife, born 1664...
 


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