Thanks Carol for your help. Can anyone put an age to this Thomas GEORGE (SR)??? Thanks, Hal McCawley Carol Benjamin wrote: > Since several people have been interested, I am posting to the list the > pages I scanned about George family. > > Carol > > History Of Summers County West Virginia > James H. Miller; 1908 > pages 516-518 > > GEORGE > > Thomas George was one of the early settlers in the Meadows of Greenbrier > County, near the Summers line; was of Scotch-Irish descent and an > orphan, having been raised by his uncle, Thomas Moore. He came > originally from the county of Rappahannock, in Virginia, in the Valley > of Virginia. He had one. brother and several sisters. The sisters all > married and settled in the West. The brother of Thomas was older, and by > the old laws, under the English customs, the older son inherited the > estate. This brother is understood to have settled in Missouri. Thomas > married Catharine McCoy, and raised twelve children, all of whom lived > to maturity and to old age, three boys and nine girls. Sallie married > John Gwinn, who settled in the Little Meadows. Jane married Enos > Huffman, and lived on Muddy Creek. Betsy married Jacob Surbaugh, and > lived in the Grassy Meadows. Mary married a Shaver, and lived in > Nicholas County. Cynthia married a Frazier, and moved to Ironton, Ohio. > Elize married a McCrary. and settled in Lewis County. Catharine married > Daniel Sumner, and also resides in Lewis County. Malinda married a > Boggess, and lived in Fayette County. Margaret married Harry P. Miller, > a son of John Miller, who moved to Gentry County, Missouri. The boys > were William, who settled on Muddy Creek, and whose wife was Ruth > Conner. The other sons were John and Thomas Lewis, who had one son, John > Frazier George, who resided for a number of years at the old place near > McIlhenny Chapel, in the Grassy Meadows; thence removed to Hinton, and > later to Orange County, Virginia, in which county he now resides. The > girls were Emily, who married James H. Bledsoe, the mother of Randolph > and James Owen Bledsoe, now citizens of Hinton, and Champion Bledsoe, of > the Meadows, and Miss Sallie. Another daughter, Virginia. married James > W. Alderson, who now lives at Foss, in this county, and the other > daughter, Miss Alice, married John L. Duncan, who lives at Oak Hill, in > Fayette County. John George was the father of eleven children - eight > girls and three boys. Martha married a Curry; Elizabeth married Peter > Maddy; Sarah married Marion Gwinn; Marv married a McClung; Cynthia > married Pharas Harrah, and Virginia, who married Hill Nickell, now lives > in Colorado. > The sons were John A. George, who married Elizabeth Benson Miller, > daughter of Captain A. A. Miller, and who owns the A. A. Miller > plantation. He was married in 1868. He was a brave soldier in the > Confederate Army through the Civil War, was a member of Edgar's > Battalion, is a Presbyterian and a Democrat. William V. George, another > son of John. died in Texas. Thomas A. George married Miss Mary Hinchman, > a granddaughter of the English settler, William Hinchman, of near > Lowell. He settled on and became the owner of the Robert Miller farm of > several hundred acres on Lick Creek near Green Sulphur Springs at the > close of the war, and lives there to this day. His children are James H. > George, cashier of the Bank of Wyoming, who was sheriff of Summers > County for four years, from January 1, 1897, to December 31, 1900; and > John L. George, who resides with his father on Lick Creek; Miss Minnie, > who married Dr. Edgar E. Noel, and Miss Nina, who married Sam McClung; > and Ella. > Thomas A. George entered the Confederate Army in 1863, and on the 7th > day of October, 1863, was captured by the Federal soldiers under Blazer > while returning and near his home on a furlough. He was carried to > Fayetteville and placed in jail; from thence taken to Charleston; thence > to Wheeling; thence to Camp Chase, where he remained for three months; > thence to Rock Island, Illinois, where he was detained eighteen months, > and released in July, 1865. He was married to Miss Mary Symms Hinchman > August 31, 1865. He is one of the leading citizens of Summers County, > engaged in farming and stock dealing. > Dr. P. A. George, of Ronceverte; Arthur George. of Hinton; Miss Norma, > of Colorado, are children of John A. George. The Georges are among the > most substantial citizens and the oldest settlers of this region, and > their descendants are scattered over many States. > Another son of Thomas A. George was Rev. Wm. George, an accomplished > Presbyterian minister, who went West, and in early manhood died from > pneumonia. He was a graduate of Hampton Sydney College, with bright > prospects for the future. Margaret Miller, daughter of Robert Miller, > the senior, married Alex. McClung, who settled in Missouri. > He is one of the main supports of the Presbyterian Church, and a > Democrat in politics. John George, the father of Thomas A., was killed > by a horse kicking him, in the barn on the George place on Lick Creek > while on a visit to that place. > These Georges are descendants on their mother's side of Robert Miller, a > half brother of John Miller, Sr., who settled on Lick Creek where T. A. > George now resides. He was the owner of three slaves before the war, and > built a large hewed two-story log house on the site where the modern > frame residence now stands. The wife of Robert Miller was born in > Philadelphia, Penn. They left at their death eight children, four boys, > William, who died at an old age in the Meadows at the foot of Sewell > Mountain. Before removing to the Meadows he owned the Goddard and Dean > farms on top of the mountain near Elton, and formerly known as the > Sampson-Zickafoose place. The other sons were John and Alexander, who > never married, and lived and died on the old farm where Thomas A. George > now lives. They were large land owners and enterprising men, and > operated an ancient mercantile establishment on the site of the present > Gwinn, Flint & Co. establishment. They at times owned large tracts of > wild lands on Keeney's Knob, Chestnut Mountain. War Ridge, and in > Fayette County, and were wealthy men in their day. They were both > buried in the Miller graveyard on the old John Miller, Sr., farm. Of the > other son. whose name was Robert, we have no history, as he emigrated > West and was lost sight of. He was understood to have settled in > Missouri. The four girls of Robert Miller were Polly, Betsy, Jean and > Margaret. Jean married John Alexander, of Monroe County; Mary married > Thomas Ferry and settled in Missouri. Betsy married Grigsby Lewis, of > the Meadows, and Margaret married John George. There was another > daughter of John George, Sr., Louisa, who married James Houston Miller, > who removed to Texas, and she died there. > > ==== WVGREENB Mailing List ==== > Visit the Greenbrier County, USGenWeb > Home Page! <http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvgreenb/>