“It was Paul Geiger in Stuttgart who wrote me a letter in German saying that he had sold some property there with fruit trees on it and that that money should go to my side of the family.  When I went there, he showed me the property which had fruit trees on it.  He had a sister, Louise , I have their pictures in my album.  He also gave me that pewter plate I have hanging in my living room. . . . I have such good memories of Paul and Louise. (She had been to the US as a governess or something.) I sang for them in German. I can't remember what relation they were to us--[perhaps] a cousin, but I've forgotten.”

-- 16 Mar 2008 email from Margery Mayer Voutsas to her son Lynn Steen

[Note: The letter--which was in English, not German--can be found, along with related correspondence at
http://www.steen-frost.org/Pwd/Docs/Mayer_files/1975_Geiger-Mayer_Ltrs.pdf. Paul and Margery are first cousins since Paul Geiger's grandfather Johann Tobias Geiger of Feuerbach, Germany (near Stuttgart) is also Margery Mayer's grandfather.]