Third Generation
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1.   John Kaigler married Ann Caroline Leitner daughter of Johnathon George Leitner and had one child of record and perhaps more:
     
1.   George Kaigler (1772 - 6/10/1831)
     
Ann Caroline Leitner Kaigler apparently died prior to 1792 the year in which John Kaigler married Margaret (1775 -     ).  They had seven children:
     
  2. Andrew Kaigler (1790 - 1819)      
     
  3. John James Kaigler (5/23/1798 - 1861)
     
  4. Ann Elizabeth "Nancy" Kaigler (1800 -      )
     
  5. Reuben Kaigler (3/24/1804 - 12/30/1886)
   
6. Thomas Kaigler (1807 - 1823)
     
  7. William C. Kaigler (1812 - 2/1882)  
  8. Joseph Kaigler (1814 - 1823)
     
  A land grant in SC dated 1795 and another dated 1797 was issued to John Kaigler.  The 1790 census of the North part of Orangeburg District shows the John Kaigler household as including 2 males over 16 and 8 slaves.  An account of a visit by the Rev. John P. Franklow to the John Kaigler household in 1813 is included in the South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 1954.  John Kaigler is also included in the membership of the German Lutheran Church of Salem on Sandy Run in 1788.

A special thanks to J W Richards who offered documentation that claeared up my confusion concerning John Kaigler!

Janie Revill, Some South Carolina Genealogical Records (Greenville: Southern Historical Press, 1986) 291 contains Kaigler records relating to the above from Richland County Court and Equity Rolls (They were Lexington County records recorded for some reason in Richland Co.).  -- 1819 entry for Andrew Kaigler (dec'd) (Richland roll 145) indicates he was the son of John and Margaret Kaigler and brother of James. Andrew left a wife, Mary, and baby daughter, Ann.  -- Circa 1816 entry for John Kaigler (dec'd) (Richland roll 44 or 45) lists Margaret as his wife and mother of the children. Children listed as Andrew, appointed guardian of minors, John James abt 16, Ann abt 14, Reuben abt 10, Thomas abt 7, William abt 2. Back of card stated Michael Kaigler, brother, died August last (see following entry). -- Concerning John's brother, Michael: 1815 entry (listed under Ann Kaigler abt 19) (Richland Equity roll 45) lists the father as Michael Kaigler (dec'd) and establishes David (son) and Elizabeth (wife) as guardians. Entry doesn't state the following were Michael's children, but I think it is implied. Children: Ann abt 19, Harriet abt 17, Lavinia abt 15, David of age, Drusilla abt 12, Henry abt 10.

L.H. Buff, “Abstractions of Lexington County Equity Court Records”, Lexington Genealogical Exchange, 4.3 (Winter 1984): 110. Item13 provides a family group record for family of John Kaigler as well as his death date.

 In Columbia District in Equity, James Kaigler vs Adm. of John Kaigler. Filed Feb 15 1815. Joseph Kaigler, James Kaigler, Ann Kaigler, Reuben Kaigler, Thomas Kaigler, and William Kaigler against Margaret Kaigler and Andrew Kaigler, Adm. of John Kaigler, deceased. John Kaigler died Sep 6, 1814, leaving the following:

a. 200 acres part of 400 acres originally granted to Joseph Pavay Sep 7, 1736, on the south side of the Conagree and Santee River

b. 100 acres part of 260 acres granted to Michael Kaigler on Sandy Run waters of Conagree River.

c. 160 acres of the waters of Sandy Run granted to John Kaigler Jan 5, 1795, all in Lexington District.

He left the following Slaves: Peter, Joe, Bob, Nat, Sam, Jonas, Thomas, Hagar, Rachel, Tom, Nelly and Lydia.

To equalize value, appraisers were named for the estate of John Kaigler, deceased, as follows: Josias Taylor, John Craps, David Kaigler, Henry Lee, and Samuel Jumper. The appraisers divided the Negroes as follows: to Mrs. Elizabeth Kaigler, the widow, Joe, Tanner and Nat.

to Joseph Kaigler, Peterto

Ann Kaigler, Sarah

to James Kaigler, Hagar and Tom

to Andrew Kaigler, Bob

to Reuben Kaigler, Rachel and Lydia

to Thomas, Jenny and child

to William, Sam

It was stated that Mrs. Margaret (above called Elizabeth) Kaigler was to get 1/3 of the estate and each child 1/7 of the residue.
2.   Mary Ann Kaigler and Godfrey Kersh had two children:
   
  1.   Margaret Kersh (1782 - 1850) buried in Burnt Mill, South Carolina.
     
  2.   Godfrey Kersh (2/14/1780 - 1/10/1827) buried in Gates Cemetery, Lexington, South Carolina. He married Nancy Ann Stivender.
     
  Mary Ann Kaigler later married William Geiger, Sr. (1754 - 1829) and had two children:
   
  3.   Elizabeth Ann Geiger (9/18/1794 - 5/5/1865)
     
  4.   William Geiger, Jr. (1796 -     )
     
  From about 1793 to maturity the Kersh children lived with William Geiger at 'Chalk Hill" plantation. Chalk Hill Plantation is remembered by the name of a voting precinct in the modern county. The house stood by "Dry Creek".
   
3.   Andrew Kaigler, Jr. married Catherine Saylor a.1776 and had seven children:
   
  1.   John D. Kaigler (1777 - 12/12/1843) Orangeburg, SC
     
  2.   Esias Kaigler (1787 -      )
     
3.   David Kaigler (1790 - 7/1830)
4.   Mary (Polly) Kaigler (1786 - 1850)
5.   Elizabeth Kaigler (      -     )
6.   William W. Kaigler (1785 - 1/16/1838) died in Wilkinsom, Mississippi
7.   Margaret (Peggy) Kaigler (      -     )
     
  Andrew Kaigler moved from SC where he had land grants #20 and #21 to Williamson County Tennessee and later to Wilkinson County Mississippi.  In 1815, John Ogden deeded land in Wilkinson County Mississippi to Andrew and to William Kaigler of Tennessee.   The 1822 State Census in Mississippi shows Andrew being over 70 years old.   His will proved Wilkinson County Mississippi, 1825.
4.   Elizabeth Kaigler married John George Murph (c 1750 - 1/17/1781) and had the two children:
   
  1.   Samuel Murph (1775 -      )
2.  
Elizabeth Murph (7/11/1778 - 9/10/1855)
     
  George Murph was possibly the son of Hans Jacob Murph who immigrated to Orangeburgh County from Switzerland. If so, he had brothers named Hans Jacob, and Hans Rudolf Murph.
 
George was killed, or wounded and died from his wounds 1/17/1781 received in the Battle of Cowpens, DAR #'s 50513, 50514, and 50515, on service of John George Murph.
   
5.   George Kaigler
     
6.   William Kaigler
     
7.   Frederick Kaigler
     
8.   Thomas Kaigler
     
9.   Michael Kaigler married Elizabeth Saylor (1769 - 7/3/1844), daughter of Esias and Elizabeth Saylor, in 1787 and had nine children:
     
  1.   David Kaigler (11/19/1788 - 12/19/1858)
      
  2.   Margaret Kaigler (1789 - 3/9/1854)
      
  3.   Harriet Kaigler (4/4/1798 - 1/27/1886)
      
  4.   Lavinia Kaigler (1800 -    )
      
  5.   Drusilla Kaigler (1802-    )
      
  6.   Henry Kaigler (6/25/1804 - 11/25/1884)
      
  7.   Ann Kaigler (1794 - 1832)
      
  8.   Sarah Kaigler (1794 - 1936)
      
  9.   Elizabeth Kaigler
   
  A guardian was appointed in 1815 in Lexington County SC for Michael's children.  In 1788, Michael is included in the list of members of the German Lutheran Church of Salem, on Sandy Run.  The list also shows Mikel Kegler with what appears to be his father and brother (both listed as Andreas Kogler), Jacob Saylor, apparently his father-in-law, and John Lowerman.  Courthouse records of Enfield, SC show the Michael Kaigler children under-age at the time of his death were: Ann, Harriet, Lavinia, Drusilla and Henry.  Michael's lands are listed in the estate settlement.  The minors asked for a right division of the property.   Suit against David Kaigler, the eldest son, and others who administered Michael's estate was filed 1/26/1815.  Signing the suit were: John Crapps, David Kaigler, and Elizabeth, Michael's widow, who made her mark.  The 1790 Census of the north part of Orangeburgh District, SC, p. 95, includes the Michael Kaigler household with one male under 16, two females, seven slaves and one other free person.
   
 
A Brief History of the Kaigler-Davis Cemetary

 

The purpose of these notes is to just pick up the thread that leads to the founding of the Kaigler-Davis Cemetery. Swiss & German settlers began to settle in Saxe-Gotha in 1735.

Conrad Kunzler (Kinsler), (the Great-Great-Grandfather of John Kinsler Davis and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Kaigler), left Switzerland in August 1736 and landed in Charleston, February 1737. He was granted 50 acres in Saxe-Gotha Township. Andrew Kaigler, (Sarah’s Great-Great-Grandfather on her father’s side), was born around 1730 in Germany and migrated to South Carolina as a young man. He married Caty Capplepower and lived most of his life in Saxe-Gotha. His home was a two-story hewn timber house later removed when I-26 was built near the J. S. Bellinger home. He migrated to Tennessee Territory with younger members of his family after the Revolutionary War and died there sometime after 1809.

His son John Kaigler married Caroline Leitner and their son George Kaigler I (1772-1831) married Elizabeth Geiger (1776-1856) daughter of John Geiger and Ann Murph. George and Elizabeth built a two-story dwelling house at the present site of the cemetery around 1800. Mrs. Kaigler had a beautiful flower garden at this home know as “The Old Place”. The old 85 feet deep circular brick lined well and the cemetery are all that remain of their plantation settlement. The wooden dairy from "Pineland Park" was later moved in 1964 to stand beside the well behind the cemetery. Their children were John, George, Caroline (Mrs. J. Archie Wolf), Marie (Mrs. Benjamin Plant), Harriet (Mrs. Jacob Haugobook), and Henrietta (Mrs. Jacob Diedrick Hane). Henrietta and her family lived here with her parents at “The Old Place”. They lost an infant son, Nicolas, December 28, 1830, age 3 weeks and the little fellow was buried in the landscaped flower garden in front of the house. This was the beginning of the cemetery. Family legend says that Henrietta died of fright when her husband dropped a dead snake in her lap as a joke on October 12, 1831. She was buried beside her son, Nicolas. George Kaigler I and wife, Elizabeth Geiger Kaigler, were also buried in the garden

Their son, George Kaigler II, (1803-1887) married Catherine Kinsler (1815-1905) and in 1842 moved away from “The Old Place” to a newly built home one mile away, known as "Pineland Park". Here were born their children: Sarah Elizabeth (Mrs. John Kinsler Davis), John William Kaigler, George Edward Ellison Kaigler, and Henry Asbury Gamewell Kaigler. All three of the little boys died young and were buried in the garden. Sarah Elizabeth was their only surviving child. After graduating from the Columbia Female College in 1861, she married her third cousin, John Kinsler Davis in 1862 while he was on leave from the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

No one was living at “The Old Place” when Sherman's Army marched up the State Road on February 16, 1865 and burned the house to the ground among many acts of vandalism committed in Sandy Run the day before they burned Columbia.


  After the Confederate War, John Kinsler Davis returned and lived with his in-laws, George and Catherine Kaigler. The Davis' reared a large family: Catherine Kinsler Davis (Mrs. T. M. Nelson), Thomas Root Davis, Ellen Kinsler Davis (Mrs. J.B.W. Beckham), George Kaigler Davis, John Kinsler Davis, William Kinsler Davis, Edward Holmes Davis, Carolus Frost Davis, and Caroline Elizabeth Davis (Mrs. J. S. Bellinger).

Mrs. John Kinsler Davis (Ne' Sallie Kaigler) loved the hallowed spot dearly and has passed this legacy of love and respect down to her many descendents. She had erected the horizontal tombs and wrote the inscription and erected the wrought iron fence around the Cemetery. She buried her father, Col. George Kaigler in 1887 and her aged mother in 1905 in their ancestral garden spot.

The Davis name became associated with the old Kaigler Cemetery when Sallie Kaigler Davis' many descendents were buried there. Sallie Kaigler Davis was buried in 1912 and her husband John Kinsler Davis in 1908. She directed “that my family graveyard be ever kept sacred and inviolate” and “to keep the same in proper condition. ”

“The Old Place” sat on a parcel of land approximately sixty acres in size. This particular tract was one of the tracts that Sallie bequeathed to the late William Kinsler Davis’ (1872-1916) only child, Mary Holmes Davis (Mrs. Cecil Powers) (1915-1999). In September of 1949 Mary Holmes Davis Powers instructed for approximately three acres to be delineated from the sixty-acre tract and given to the Kaigler-Davis Cemetery Association. On September 22, 1950, her first cousins, George Kaigler Nelson, William Kinsler Beckham, George Kinsler Bellinger Sr., George Bellinger Davis Sr. and Meynelle Davis had the Kaigler-Davis Cemetery Association certified incorporated by the South Carolina’s Secretary of State. It appears that Mary Holmes’ plat of the cemetery was never recorded at the courthouse. In 1952, Mary Holmes sold this sixty-acre tract to her “Aunt Hun” (Caroline Elizabeth Davis Bellinger) a.k.a. Carrie (1879-1968). In 1966, Carrie E. Bellinger fulfilled her niece’s wish and deeded a 2.73-acre parcel to The Kaigler-Davis Cemetery Association, Inc.

 We thank Mary Holmes Davis Powers, who delineated the land for the cemetery from the surrounding land. It would be impossible to name all the ones who have contributed time, resources, and love to this beloved spot in carrying out Sallie’s wish. We thank them all. May the ones who follow in their footsteps always cherish and love this garden of memorie

Contributed Ancestry.com by H. Jefferson
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