Thank you for responding; yes, I am very interested in knowing more about my grandmother's family.
Grandma's maiden name was Bertha Rudolph Geddie, born 4/24/1885 in Leon County, Florida on Jackson Bluff Road. She died April 29, 1973 in Tallahassee, FLA. Grandma was married twice: first at age 14 or 15 to a man named Fairbanks who died only a year later and left her with an infant son. Second to my Grandfather, William Thomas Richardson. My father's name was Frederick Pierce Richardson. Grandma worked for Florida State University, and they lived down the street from the university on West Jefferson Street in Tallahassee.
She had a brother named Daniel Byron Geddie, born 11/15/1875 in Leon County, FLA and died 3/12/1924 in Miami, FLA. His wife was named Emma Harriett (don't know her maiden name); they had no children as far as I know. He was in the grocery business in Miami. Is buried in Tallahassee.
Their father was William C. Geddie, born 11/1/1846, died 7/18/1936. Her mother was Mary Jane Hale, born 4/24/1852 and died 1/1/1929. They were married in 1874.
Her father's parents were Daniel and Sarah Ann Geddie. These are about all the names and dates that I have.
I have a few very old letters, handwritten and addressed to Mr. Daniel Geddie from two men with whom he must have had business dealings or maybe it was a relative. There are five letters but they are so hard to read; I think that the only information I can glean from them is that each letter is addressed to Daniel Geddie, between 1842 and 1848 and they are all addressed to him in Tallahassee.
I do have a couple of letters, typewritten from a lawyer named H.C. Geddie in Canton, Texas, dated July 1944 to a relative of mine named Laura Richardson. The letters discuss Geddie geneaology. If you are interested, please give me your mailing address and I will xerox a copy of this for you. Evidently Laura was trying to get info from some people named Geddie.
I have seen the Geddie McPhail web site and downloaded almost 100 pages of info from it, but the names and dates that I have don't quite match up with the names and dates in the web site. There are many Daniel Geddies, but none I found whose dates matched my relatives.
I would be delighted to have any information that you might give me. I appreciate your resonding to my message. My e-mail address is
bettyb@sonnet.com.
Thank you, Jane Bennett