Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: John A. GEORGE

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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JOHN A. GEORGE - is living on the farm where he was born in Blue Sulphur 
district, Greenbrier County, and has 440 acres of land, 150 cleared, the 
rest finely timbered with oak, poplar and chestnut. He keeps in stock
30 head of cattle and 100 sheep. He was born September 9, 1842, a son of 
John and Margaret (MILLER) GEORGE, and a grandson of one of the pioneers
who redeemed Greenbrier from the wilderness, and disputed with the savages 
for its possession. John GEORGE was born in this district, April 19, 1803, and 
died May 27, 1865, killed by a vicious horse. Margaret, mother of John A. GEORGE, 
was born in Summers County, (now) West Virginia, March 28, 1811, and she died 
May 6, 1862. John A. GEORGE served in the war between the States, in Company H, 
26th Virginia  Battalion, Eckles brigade, Confederate service. He was in the battles of 
Fayetteville, New Market, Cold Harbor, Snickers Gap, Kernstown, Winchester 
and Cedar Greek, besides minor engagements. He served from 1862 until the 
end of the war. In Summers County, West Virginia, May 26, 1868, John A. GEORGE 
and Elizabeth R. MILLER were united in marriage, and to them have been born eight
children: Norma C., April 4, 1869; Maude V., January 10, 1871; Powhatan A., 
December14, 1872; Bertha M., December 27, 1874; Clarence T., January 8, 1877; 
Arthur H., December 18, 1878; John G., August 31, 1881; Homer Houston, 
March 29, 1883. The wife of Mr. GEORGE was born in Green Sulphur district, 
Summers County, January 2, 1850, a daughter of A. Alexander and Eliza (HINCHMAN) 
MILLER. Her father was born in Summers County, January 7, 1818, and is still a 
resident in that county: her mother, born in Monroe County, May 28, 1821,died 
November 9, 1866. John A. GEORGE may be addressed at Salem, Greenbrier County,
West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.