Amelia Kleinlogel was born about 1856 in Ohio to Talla Kleinlogel who had been born in France. She was the second oldest of five children which included Charles, Theodore, Louisa and Albert. Her father had died sometime between 1864 and 1870, which may have been why the family moved from Ohio to Michigan.
In 1870, the Kleinlogels were living in Solon, Kent County, Michigan, in the same household with several other people, among them 23-year-old Henry Geiges, an immigrant from Germany. Geiges was a sawyer in a local sawmill, as was Amelia’s older brother Charles.
Henry Geiges had been born 1849 in Schleswig-Holstein. He and Amelia were married on August 17, 1875, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their first child, Lillian, was born about 1880 in Michigan. Daughter Minnie was born February 1, 1884, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Amelia eventually contracted tuberculosis, which was rife at that time. Around 1896, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona, for her health. However, on December 28, 1898, she died at the family home at 235 East Taylor Street. With Woodmen’s Circle paying for the interment, she was originally buried in Rosedale Cemetery. Sometime later, possibly in the 1920s or 1930s, her remains were moved to Greenwood Cemetery.
Henry and their two daughters moved soon afterward to Los Angeles, where Lillian eventually married Guy Hidden Lawrence. Henry Geiges died August 2, 1905, in Los Angeles, only a few months after his daughter’s wedding.
Daughter Minnie married Robinson P. Kane, a Seventh Day Adventist, in Los Angeles on June 30, 1908. Unfortunately, he died just a few years later, in 1911.
Lillian later returned to Phoenix with her husband. In 1929, they built a house at 6234 North Central which is on the National Register of Historic Places today.
- by Donna L. Carr
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