GEDDIE PHOTO ALBUM
GEDDIE PHOTO ALBUM
Geddie Immigrants Arrive
At Castle Garden, New York City
| Before Ellis
Island opened to American immigrants, the registration center for new
arrivers was at the tip end of Battery Park, New York City, and was known
as Castle Garden. Here in the late 19th century at least 4 presumably
Scottish Geddie family members stepped off their ships and were
registered. These Geddie's alter the tradition that all pre-20th century
Geddie immigrants arrived in the U.S. through North Carolina, which adds a
Northern context to our family history and is to date unexplored. These
are the known Castle Garden Geddie records:
GEDDIE DAVID
24 M 10 Apr 1880 |
1895 MAP OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY NC
INDICATES GENERAL AREA OF EARLY GEDDIE FARMLANDS
Members of both Godwin and Autry families (villages on map) are related to Geddie's by marriage
(Appx. Scale:1"=7 mi.)
John Geddie Family Cemetery
[Wade-Stedman Rd. near junction Maxwell Rd. - Stedman, North Carolina]
Family Headstones are located a few feet within grove at center of photo.
Some Strickland family members also rest here.
As many of these headstones are now illegible, corrected information is much appreciated.
John Geddie Family Cemetery
Some Headstones are within Wire Fencing - Not Maintained
Headstone of Daniel Geddie
1816-1883
Headstone of Ella Rich and John McPhail Geddie
Ella 1859-1915
John 1852-1916
Headstone of Franklin P. Geddie
1854-1868
Headstone of John Geddie, Jr.
1814-1885
Within this cemetery also rest these Geddie family members:
JOHN GEDDIE, SR.
1782-March 14, 1841
ANN MCKEITHAN GEDDIE, Wife of John Geddie, Sr.
1788-February 1867
JANE GAINEY GEDDIE, Wife of John Geddie, Jr.
March 23, 1814-January 29, 1885
ELIZABETH MCPHAIL GEDDIE, Wife of Daniel Geddie
October 12, 1826-May 14, 1893
MARY JANE GEDDIE, Daughter of John Jr. and Jane Geddie
1841-May 10, 1846
JOHN S. GEDDIE, Son of John Jr. and Jane Geddie
1848-February 8, 1848
JULIA ANN GEDDIE, Daughter of John Jr. and Jane Geddie
1854-February 4, 1857
MARY MARTIN GEDDIE STRICKLAND, Wife of E. L. Strickland
February 7, 1857-September 7, 1882
IDA E. GEDDIE, Daughter of John McPhail and Ella Rich Geddie
June 25, 1885-September 9, 1886
Unknown Geddie Headstones in the John Geddie Cemetery
Unmarked Wooden Geddie Headstones
Old Bluff Presbyterian Church - Wade, North Carolina
Spiritual Center for Many NC Geddie's
Formed in 1750's - Building reconstructed in 1858 after fire
Entrance to Old Bluff Church
Eastover-Stedman State Roads named for Tom and Bud Geddie
Cumberland County NC
