His mother died when he was 11 years old. He worked on the farm in Erin until his father married Rachel Allen.
1900 Census says that George was born in Alabama
World War I draft registration card September 12, 1918: tall height, slender build, blue eyes, brown hair, blacksmith, US Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Co, Anniston, Alabama
1920 Census Precinct 4, Calhoun County, Alabama, ED 6, sheet no 19A, lists George as blacksmith for ironworks
Source letter written by George in 1957:
"My father and stepmother, 3 sisters Lois, Edna, Alma and my self George. Left the old home place on November 1th, 1901 to move to Alabama with one 2 horse wagon and a 2 seated hack pulled by 2 horses we came by the way of Dixon, Tenn through Centerville and through Columbia, Tenn, Pulaska, Tenn, Athens, Ala, Huntsville, Ala crossed the Tennessee River at Whitesburg, Ala across Brinley Mountain down through Attalla through Gadsden, Alexandria by Leatherwood Station to Eulaton to Weako on the way. Anniston has grown from a small town to a nice little city, since 1901 to 1957.
It was a sad day for us children to leave the old home place our Mother was buried in a cemetery that was in site of the house and leaving our old Grandmother and Aunt and 2 cousins that us children were raised up with
My Dear Children the sadist time in my life was when your Dear Mother passed away. But I am just waiting the Good Lord to call me Home where I can be with him and your Mother. You Good Children is all I have to live for and May God Bless everyone of you all and Keep you all
Your Loving Father"
He was a farmer, factory foreman and at age 89, received his 50-year Masonic pin.
