He married Mary Phillips Smith and fathered Marcus Dorr Holbrook (b. 04/26/40), Joshua Weistling (b. 09/06/42), Caroline E. "Carrie/Callie" (b. 12/13/44 - married a Sharp), Anna Marie (b. 11/02/46 - married Benjamin P. Boas), and Charles Christian (b. 07/13/49). There is a Jed in there who, according to his age in the 1870 census, was born ca. 1850. The family surname is spelled "Geeter" on the 1860 census, suggesting its pronunciation. In 1860, he was a printer living with his family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 3" tall with dark hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of forty-two in Lancaster October 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Sometime around May 1862, he was detached to duty as a printer at Columbia, Tennessee, returning to the regiment sometime around August 1862. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, re-mustered there February 12, and promoted to corporal ca. March 1864. He contracted "gravel" (bladder stones) while at Green River, Kentucky, and hospitalized, then detailed to hospital duty June 10, 1864. He honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, at which time he purchased his Springfield rifle and accouterments for $6.00. His son Joshua served in the same regiment but in Co. A.
Described as an "intemperate" man who "spent most of his earnings for liquor," his health was further degraded by the bladder problems he had contracted during the war and that remained with him the rest of his life, leading to an incontinence problem.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of forty-two in Lancaster October 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Sometime around May 1862, he was detached to duty as a printer at Columbia, Tennessee, returning to the regiment sometime around August 1862. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, re-mustered there February 12, and promoted to corporal ca. March 1864. He contracted "gravel" (bladder stones) while at Green River, Kentucky, and hospitalized, then detailed to hospital duty June 10, 1864. He honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, at which time he purchased his Springfield rifle and accouterments for $6.00. His son Joshua served in the same regiment but in Co. A.
Described as an "intemperate" man who "spent most of his earnings for liquor," his health was further degraded by the bladder problems he had contracted during the war and that remained with him the rest of his life, leading to an incontinence problem.
He married Mary Phillips Smith and fathered Marcus Dorr Holbrook (b. 04/26/40), Joshua Weistling (b. 09/06/42), Caroline E. "Carrie/Callie" (b. 12/13/44 - married a Sharp), Anna Marie (b. 11/02/46 - married Benjamin P. Boas), and Charles Christian (b. 07/13/49). There is a Jed in there who, according to his age in the 1870 census, was born ca. 1850. The family surname is spelled "Geeter" on the 1860 census, suggesting its pronunciation. In 1860, he was a printer living with his family in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and stood 5' 3" tall with dark hair and gray eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of forty-two in Lancaster October 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Sometime around May 1862, he was detached to duty as a printer at Columbia, Tennessee, returning to the regiment sometime around August 1862. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, re-mustered there February 12, and promoted to corporal ca. March 1864. He contracted "gravel" (bladder stones) while at Green River, Kentucky, and hospitalized, then detailed to hospital duty June 10, 1864. He honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, at which time he purchased his Springfield rifle and accouterments for $6.00. His son Joshua served in the same regiment but in Co. A.
Described as an "intemperate" man who "spent most of his earnings for liquor," his health was further degraded by the bladder problems he had contracted during the war and that remained with him the rest of his life, leading to an incontinence problem.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of forty-two in Lancaster October 4, 1861, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with Co. I, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry. Sometime around May 1862, he was detached to duty as a printer at Columbia, Tennessee, returning to the regiment sometime around August 1862. He re-enlisted as a Veteran Volunteer February 9, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, re-mustered there February 12, and promoted to corporal ca. March 1864. He contracted "gravel" (bladder stones) while at Green River, Kentucky, and hospitalized, then detailed to hospital duty June 10, 1864. He honorably discharged with his company July 12, 1865, at which time he purchased his Springfield rifle and accouterments for $6.00. His son Joshua served in the same regiment but in Co. A.
Described as an "intemperate" man who "spent most of his earnings for liquor," his health was further degraded by the bladder problems he had contracted during the war and that remained with him the rest of his life, leading to an incontinence problem.
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