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Chapter UT.
EVENING OF LIFE.
FTER the period of his struggles, first at Body-
lair and then at Invermarkie, there followed
eventually, when these had been surmounted,
an evening of comparative calm, and it may be
said that, apart from the solitude and silence of his blind-
ness, John Geddes enjoyed a serene old age. His domicile
during this quiet time, apart from a journey to Edinburgh
for an operation, and apart from an occasional turn to
Aberdeen, was entirely at Invermarkie. Of this second
rural home, the name was one that had old associations
that might have stirred his spirit at an earlier age, asso-
ciations that Bodylair could never claim. An old laird-
ship, constituting a " Davoch," bore this name of Inver-

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Memorials of John Geddes
DescriptionBeing record of life in an upland glen, 1797-1881. With portraits and a genealogical table. Banff : Privately printed at the Banffshire Journal Office, 1899. Signed: W.D.G.
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DescriptionA selection of almost 400 printed items relating to the history of Scottish families, mostly dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes memoirs, genealogies and clan histories, with a few produced by emigrant families. The earliest family history goes back to AD 916.