Malvina Elizabeth Geer 1
- Born: 28 Jul 1875, Belton, Anderson, SC 2
- Marriage (1): Robert Joseph Alderman Sr. on 21 Dec 1904 in , Clarendon, SC
- Died: 23 Mar 1958, Manning, Clarendon, SC at age 82 3
- Buried: Belton: Belton Baptist Church, Anderson, SC
Other names for Malvina were Mallie Elizabeth Geer and Mary E. Geer.2
FamilySearch ID: LHNW-XX7
Noted events in her life were:
1. Book: Aldermans in America, 1957. 4
In many respects Robert J. Alderman was a reproduction of his father, showing the same business capacity and keen insight into men and affairs. On graduating from Furman University, his father called him to share in the responsibilities of a great and heavy business at Alcolu, S. C., where he had acquired a vast territory of heavily timbered land, enough to supply their great lumber mills for many years. They had their own railroads and equipment for moving the timber and lumber. The town of Alcolu, which David Wells established and named, was exclusively the property of the Alderman Lumber Company. They had their own handsome church building, hotel, school building, and other necessities for a well appointed community town. On the death of his father, Robert and his brother, Paul, assumed charge of the business and continued to operate it with the same vigor as before.
Robert married Mallie E., a native of Anderson County and a daughter of Solomon Geer, a well known scholar and manufacturer of Belton, S. C. Mallie was educated at the Greenville Woman's College. She possessed those rare gifts and graces that well fit one for presiding over such a happy family as theirs. They made their home in Alcolu where they were members of the Baptist Church, but he was buried at Belton, Mallie's native town.
Robert Joseph Alderman born Sep. 30, 1874 died Dec. 21, 1932 married Dec. 21, 1904 Mallie E. Geer born Jul. 28, 1875.
Issue:
Mary E. \emdash Born: Dec. 25, 1905 | Married: Aug. 31, 1929 to Howard D. Dobson
Ben Geer \emdash Born: Jun. 24, 1907 | Married: Dec. 10, 1935 to Mary W. Jones
Jennie T. \emdash Born: Nov. 14, 1908 | Married: X (Single)
Mattison Wells \emdash Born: Dec. 4, 1914 | Married: Sep. 18, 1940 to Betty Marilyn Bury
Robert Joseph \emdash Born: May 17, 1917 | Married: Jan. 11, 1938 to Sallie E. Dubrow.
2. Obituary: Florence Morning News: Obituary of Mrs. Malvinia Alderman on 24 Mar 1958 in Florence, Florence, SC. 5 Mrs. Malvinia Alderman
ALCOLU -- Mrs. Malvania Elizabeth Geer Alderman, 82, died Sunday at Clarendon Memorial Hospital in Manning where she had been a patient since December. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Clarendon Baptist Church conducted by the pastor, the Rev. R. A. McKinney and Dr. Paul O. Balsor of Sumter, a former pastor. Burial will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Belton Cemetery in Belton, directed by Shelley Brunson Funeral Home of Marion. Pallbearers will be eight grandsons, Robert Lewis Alderman, B. G. Alderman Jr., R. J. Alderman Jr., Marion L. Eadon Jr., David Alderman, Herman Alderman, Oscar Strange and Lucius Gulledge. Honorary pallbearers will include the board of deacons of Clarendon Baptist Church. Mrs. Alderman, the youngest of 12 children, was born in 1875 in Anderson County, the daughter of the late Solnman M. Geer and Mary Malvania Holmes Geer. She was a graduate of Greenville Women's College and a teacher in schools in the upper part of the state. She was the last charter member of the Clarendon Baptist Church. Until her health failed, she was a teacher of the lady's bible class, active in the Woman's Missionary Union and a member of the Clarendon County Tuberculosis Assn. She was the widow of the late Robert Joseph Alderman of Alcolu. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mary Dobson of Sumter and Miss Jeanne Alderman of Alcolu; three sons, Ben Geer and Robert Joseph Alderman of Alcolu and Dr. Mattison W. Alderman of Battle Creek, Mich.; two brothers, Major Earnest Geer of Douglasville, Ga. and Bennelle Eugene Geer of Greenville; 17 grandchildren and ten great grandchildren and a large number of nieces and nephews. Friends may memorialize by contributing to the Missionary Funds of the Clarendon Baptist Church.
Malvina married Robert Joseph Alderman Sr. on 21 Dec 1904 in , Clarendon, SC. (Robert Joseph Alderman Sr. was born on 30 Sep 1874 in Wallace, Duplin, NC,2 3 4 died on 21 Dec 1932 in , Anderson, SC 3 4 and was buried in Belton: Belton Baptist Church, Anderson, SC 3.)
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