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Dear Mary K.
I have received so much help from so many people that it has been difficult for me to
thank you all. You helped me establish a firm connection between the Morrical family (in
Indiana) and the George Geller family in Minnesota. I used this information and it is now
recorded in my daughter's family tree.
I received your report long ago, but just now ran across it while searching for a
"Geller" look-up which I have lost. Your research gave me the Morrical family
from before Martha Jane's birth to her marriage with George W. Geller in 1877 and
later to the birth of their children, some in Indiana others in Minnesota. I have found
Martha's death in 1924 in Washington State as well as George's death in Minnesota
in 1924 (After Martha Jane's death he returned to Minnesota where he died in the care
of his other daughter Edna Quine).
Now I am trying to get a handle on George W. Geller's birth place in Ohio. I have his
birth date as 29 Nov 1848 in Ohio, but I have not yet located his parentage. One lead is
the family of Joshua Wilson Geller and his wife Catherine in Fayette Co. Ohio. They had
three children, names and sex are unknown. The 1860 U.S. Census lists them as G.W. Geller
b abt 1848, R.S. Geller b abt 1850 and A.P. Geller b abt 1854. I have been advised that
Joshua was a shoemaker.
Someone (I wish I knew who) on the net informed me that a George Geller and a
"Scoot" Geller lived at a hotel (the Census address was a hotel) and these two
worked as Mill workers. (I believe that this was the 1870 U.S. Census, but I dont know
what city or town). These names check out with the initials given in the Census record.
But of course that is stretching things considerably. Much more firm proof is needed. That
is the information I was seeking when I for the second time came across the Geller family
info that you supplied, referred to above.
George named one of his children Riley "Scott", and my guess is that
"Scoot" is a dialect version of Scott (he was evdently called Scott also). I
hope to eventually get confirmation of that guess, but even if it turns out to be correct,
I can only trace Joshua back one generation to his father, Jacob geller b. abt 1799 in
Pennsylvania.
If the e-mail address on the Ancestry board is correct, I trust that you get my thanks. If
not, I will enter this message as a reply to your board message to me.
Again, Thank you.
Larry Anderson
Rönninge, SWEDEN