Phillip DeGeer [37018] ¹⁰¹⁰⁹

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Birth Notes:

son of John DeGeer and Elizabeth Winterstein

  Death Notes:

He had no children

  Noted events in his life were:

• MilService. ¹⁰¹¹⁰ Philip DeGeer was a buglar in the Fourth Michigan Volunteer
Infantry regiment in the civil war. He was wounded in the wrist
in the battle of Spotsylvania Court House in northern Virginia
(May 8 - 21, 1864) and while being taken to the hospital in an
ambulance composed the 'Drummer Boy at Vicksburg

• Memo, 1868, Lexington, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA. ¹⁰¹¹¹ In 1868 the Council voted to expend seventy-five dollars as
part payment for brass horns to be used by a band which had
recently organized with Philip De Geer as director, the horns
to be and remain the property of the village. The band became a
famous one. The following list contains as many names of
members of that first band as could be ascertained: Philip De
Geer, Leader; Rens De Geer, Horn" ... and others

• No Name, 14 Jul 1870, Lexington, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA. ¹⁰¹¹² Phillip DeGeer appeared on the census of 14 Jul 1870 in the
household of David Maybee and Mary Mowland Lexington, Sanilac
County, Michigan

• No Name, 15 Apr 1887, Minnesota, USA. ¹⁰¹¹⁰ Phillip DeGeer died 15 Apr 1887 Minnesota

Phillip married Margaret Maybee [37030] [MRIN: 551605310], daughter of David Maybee [37041] and Mary Mowland [37033], on 7 Mar 1870 in Fremont, Sanilac County, Michigan, USA ⁴⁵¹⁵.^,10109 (Margaret Maybee [37030] was born about 1837 in Michigan, USA ^10112,10113.)

  Marriage Notes:

Maggie Mabee, age 28, born in MI, married Philip Degeer, age
28, born in Canada, on Mar 7, 1870 in Sanilac County