Ann Handley 17??-1825? (1st wife) (m) Reuben George 1776-1837 David Thompson 1771-1847 (m) Mary Swope 1775-1844 | | * Joshua George      (m) 1801-1836 Catherine Thompson Gough 1801-1862 1st husb: C. William Gough | * Enoch "Jack" George b. 7 Jul 1827 Okeana OH Butler County OH d. 2 Jul 1907 Okeana OH Butler County OH	Elizabeth Huff 1774-1854 (m) Alexander DeArmond 1769-1833 William Jenkins 1762-1833 (m) Suzannah Walker 1764-1852 | | Thomas DeArmond      (m #1) 1793-1879 Rebecca Jenkins 1793-1834 | (m) Margaret Ellen DeArmond b. Mar 1831-2 OH d. 25 Jun 1888 OH
m. 7 Aug 1851 ButCo OH

Click to enlarge Fred, Cary?, Weller?, Ida?, Eva, Opha? GEORGE	Margaret Ellen DeArmond George and son, C. Fred George (ca 1871)
Timeline: "Jack" and Margaret GEORGE: 1827 (Jul 7): Enoch Jackson born to Joshua and Catherine George 1831-2 (Mar -?-): Margaret Ellen born to Thomas and Rebecca DeArmond 1834 (Oct 6): Margaret Ellen's mother (Rebecca) died 1834 or 6 (Feb 1): Jack's father (Joshua) died, typhoid 1851 (Aug 7): Jack and Margaret married 1852 (Sep 25): Jeanette born 1855 (Jan 5): Weller born 1855: Jeanette burned to death (aged 4) 1857 (Jun 9): Ida born 1859 (Nov 7): Cary born 1860 or 1864: Opha born 1861 (Dec 22): Benton born 1866 (Sep 29):Frank born 1871 (Feb 6): Fred born 1874 (Feb 4): Eva born 1888 (Jun 25): Margaret George died (56 or 57) 1907 (Jul 2): Jack George died (almost 80)

Children of Enoch Jackson and Margaret Ellen DeArmond GEORGE: Jeanette, Wellar, Ida, Cary, Opha, Bent, Frank, Fred, and Eva GEORGE
1. Electa Jeanette George     b 1852 OH     d 25 Sep 1856 OH (4)	Jeanette No picture available for E. Jeanette, who burned to death when she was 4 years old. Her little rocking chair was passed down to one of her brother, C. Fred's granddaughters.
2. Oscar "Wellar" George     b 5 Jan 1855 OH     d 16 Jan 1942 IN (87) New London Cemetery	O. Wellar As an adult, Wellar lived in Richmond, Indiana, and sold insurance. He never married and had no children.
3. Mary "Ida" George     b 9 Jun 1857 OH     d 10 Feb 1942 OH (84) New London Cemetery     never married; no children	"The Aunties": Ida and Opha Neither Ida nor Opha George ever married, but they continued living at and caring for their father's house, the homestead farm where their great-grandparents had settled around 1812, on Dwyer Road, Okeana Ohio. The sisters' younger brother, Frank, an MD, died in October 1921 in Butler Co OH, aged 55. Then their younger brother C. Bent, died 22 January, 1936 in IN, aged 75. Their older brother Wellar died 16 January, 1942 in Indiana, aged 87. Ida died the next month on 10 February, 1942 in Butler Co OH, aged 84. Opha died in September 1943 in Butler Co OH.
4. Alfred "Cary" George     b 7 Nov 1859 OH     d 9 Feb 1950 IN (91) New London Cemetery     lived in Lebanon IN	Cary After growing up near Okeana in Butler County Ohio, A. Cary George married Emma Jane Fry or Fye, and had 5 children, Homer, Clayton, Russell, Pearl, and Howard. Cary and Emma were farmers and lived in Lebanon, Indiana. Emma died in 1948 and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Lebanon, Boon Co, IN with her husband. Son Clayton was buried at Grove Lawn Cemetery, Pendleton, Madison Co, IN
5. Alice Ophelia "Opha" George     b 1860 (1864?) OH     d Sep 1943 OH (83)     cared for father's house     never married; no children	This picture of Opha George as a youth is from the estate of a niece, Frances George Ertel, identified but not dated. Opha lived on the home farm on Dwyer Road, near Okeana, with her older sister Ida (see above), and next to brother CF and Maybelle George. Methodists, after church Opha and Ida entertained their next door nieces with games, music, and taffy pulls on Sunday afternoons.
6. Clement Benton George     b 22 Dec 1861 OH     d 22 Jan 1936 IN (75)     Bent lived in Richmond, IN     ran a meat market and farmed     married; 6 children	C. Bent (no picture of him yet available)
7. Frank Jackson George     b 29 Sep 1866 near Okeana, OH     d Oct 1921 OH (55)     lived in Okeana area     was a medical doctor     married; 1 child	Frank Jackson George grew up near Okeana, Ohio and became a medical doctor. Frank married Abigail Jenkins and stayed in the Okeana, OH area in Butler County. They had one child, Frank "Shumard" George. After Abigail died, Shumard was raised by his aunts, Ida and Opha. (more...)
8. Charles "Fred" George     b 6 Feb 1871 OH     d 29 Jul 1959 OH (88)     lived on Dwyer Road, Okeana     was a dairy farmer until June, 1946     retired to Spring St, Oxford     married; 5 children	C. Fred Charles Fred George, born near Okeana, Ohio on 6 February 1871, was a son of Enoch Jackson "Jack" and Margaret (DeArmond) George. Fred was 17 when his mother died in 1888, and 36 when his father died in 1907. (continued...)
9. Evelyn Alberta George Clawson     b 4 Feb 1875 OH     d 29 Jun 1974 OH (99)     lived in OH, TX, MI, IN, OH     married; 1 foster daughter	Born February 4, 1875, Eva (Evelyn) was the baby of the Enoch "Jack"son George family. Her mother Margaret Ellen DeArmond George died June 25, 1888 when Eva was 13. Eva's older sisters, 31 year old Ida and 28(?) year old Opha, raised their youngest siblings, 17 year old C. Fred and Eva. (More on the Clawson, (Curtis) DeArmond, Odenbaugh, Parkhurst, and Trew families)

1815 - "Jack"'s grandfather, Reuben George Sr., had built the house around 1815 (see "The first three hewed log houses" in the Butler County OH Cyclopeadia) 1836 - McBride's 1836 Butler Co OH township plot map, section 17 see section 17: Reuben and Joshua George, also in section 8: Reuben George's Mill, 8-113, and further north in section 5?154. [Reuben Sr 1776 VA-1837 OH; Reuben Jr. 1803 WV-1869 KS; Joshua 1801 WV-1836 OH] 1837 - After Reuben Sr.'s death in 1837, his youngest daughter, Mary George (1830-1931) inherited the house at age 6. Squire DeArmond (1805-1888) bought the house, became Mary's guardian, and held court in the front room. Sarah (Youmans) DeArmond was his wife. The DeArmond's had married 2 November 1826, and apparently had no children until Hannah was born 6 February 1830. Mary was born 27 November 1830 to Reuben and Esther George. Around the 1960s, the houses belonged to a Holton family and a Wurzelbacher family. 1978 - Miriam George Van Mason wrote her sister Alice George Davis this history: "I, too, wondered why our road could not be named George. There are questions I should have asked. Could it be that our road was built before Colerain Pike? If that was the case it may have been a reason why travelers stayed over night with Catherine Thompson George on their way from Cincinnati to Brookville. With the Morgan Township map showing the Dwyer farm not too far from Scipio our road would have led to that area. "I have wondered if the original George land did not include that Handley land up the hill back of Clyde Russell's place. Gillie's [Handley] farm was not very large, and as you recall, it was located between the George and DeArmond acres. It extended to the east-west road leading west to the Macedonia Church as did that of Grandpa's [Enoch Jackson George] land. Not only did Archie Handley , but also his sister Barbara Yauger have their homes up that George hill, but a bit west of their land was a polt owned by Bill Nugent." His wife was a sister of Grandma Handley [xxx] .

Fred and Maybelle George lived in this house which had been Squire and Sarah DeArmond's house before them. (See how Mary George DeArmond had inherited this house from Reuben George Sr "Jack"'s parents, Catherine and Joshua George, lived in the house, farming with their sons. After Joshua died in 1836, Catherine (1801-1862) and sons not only farmed, but also provided overnight shelter to travelers along the Cincinnati-Brookville Road. E. Jack and Margaret George's house - where their daughters Ida and Opha George continued living, west of Okeana, OH, until Opha's death in September 1943.

The Cyclopeadia also says Reuben George Sr. (1776-1827) was one of several owners and operators of distilleries "On Howard's Creek" Howard's Creek crosses George Road southwest of Dwyer Road. * Google map of Howards Creek, south of Okeana and Alert, OH

Bent and Ora lived in Centerville IN, and had six children. Bent had prostate trouble and died Jan 22, 1936, during a blizzard. Ora lived until 1953.

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Farming Life in 1933
(A letter from Clement Benton [CB] to C. Fred George)