Herman Geiger, also spelled Gyger, was born or christened on Dec. 18, 1707, the son of Hans Jacob Gyger, born in 1679 at the village of Wydnau, Parish of Diapololsau, Switzerland, and Margareta Fearin Gyger, born there in 1684. Herman married Elizabeth Habluzel on Feb. 26, 1734, and died in 1751. In Sept. 1736, Herman Geiger and his father, Hans Jacob Geiger, a former Cantonal Governor in Switzerland, departed with their families for Carolina. They arrived in Charleston, S.C., on Feb. 1, 1737, and settled in the Congarees. Herman became an Indian Trader and at times assisted the Governor of the Colony in meetings with the Indians. Some of his descendants served in the Cherokee War in 1759, and some have served in every war since. His son John Geiger, buried in this cemetery, and his grandson Maj. Jacob Geiger served in the Revolutionary war, and his niece Emily Geiger carried a message from one American force to another. Herman Geiger and Elizabeth Habluzel Geiger's children and grandchildren included John Conrad Geiger and Barbara Murph's children Jacob, Ann, and Elizabeth; Jacob Geiger and Ann's son John Herman Geiger, who married Lavinia Kaigler, and their children Elizabeth and John R.; Elizabeth Geiger, who married first Kalman and second Horlbeck, and her children John and Henry Horlbeck; Margaret Geiger, who married Baughman, and her children Elizabeth and Mary; and John Geiger, who married Ann Murph, and their children Herman, Abraham, William, Elizabeth, Ann, and Nancy.