Helena (Ligon) Geer (1792 - 1853)

Born 5 Oct 1792 in Halifax, Halifax, Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Wife of Hugh McWhorter — married 25 Jan 1810 in Watkinsville, Clarke, Georgia, USA

Wife of David Geer — married 5 Apr 1833 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia

Descendants

Died 24 Sep 1853 at age 60 in Greene, Georgia, United States

Biography

Helena Ligon was born in Halifax County, Virginia in 1792 to Joseph Ligon and Mary Church

Helena married Hugh McWhorter in 1810 in Watkinsville, Clarke, Georgia.

Hugh died in 1825.

She married a second time to David Geer. They married in 1833 in Oglethorpe , Georgia.

In 1850 Helena and David were living in Greene County, Georgia with two of her sons from the previous marriage.^[1]

She died 24 Sept 1853 in Greene County, Georgia and was buried in the McWhorter Cemetery in Maxeys, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Find A Grave Website

Sources

• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. BrowseID : 267.

1. ↑ 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Year: 1850; Census Place: District 143, Greene, Georgia; Roll: M432_71; Page: 72B; Image: 150

See also: Obituary of Mrs. Helena (Lygon) McWhorter Geer from: The Christian Index, Penfield, Greene Co., GA, Thursday, October 20, 1853, p. 167, col. 4:

OBITUARY The dead are very where! Where'er is love, or tenderness, or faith; Where'er is power, pomp, pleasure, pride; where'er Life is or was, is death.

Died in Greene Co., GA., Sept. 24th, after a short illness, Mrs. Helena Geer, wife of David Geer, In the 62d year of her age. Mrs. Geer was baptized in 1826, by the venerable Jack Lumpkin, at Antioch, though for many of the last years of her life her membership was in the church at Baird's. She died as she had lived, maintaining an unwavering trust in Christ. As a christian, a child-like trust in God seemed to be her most prominent characteristic. A few weeks before her last illness in a confidential conversation with the writer, she referred to a time many years ago; when in the deepest affliction, and all refuge seeming to fail her, the promise was forthly suggested to her mind, as if spoken by an audible voice: "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." since that time she had been able to rest with calm reliance upon God's faithfulness to his promise. In her last hours, both by words and by signs when speech failed her, she was able with confidence to declare that all was well - that Christ was with her in her passage through the dark valley of the shadow of death.

"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth; yea wait the spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them." P.H.M.