* Louise "Alice" GEORGE FITCH (1855 MO-1941)
* Charles Thomas GEORGE (1858 KS-1938 or '31 MT)
* William Hadley GEORGE (1861 MO-1945)
* Enoch Ezra GEORGE (1863 MO-1868)
* James Newton GEORGE (1865 MO-1941)
* Margaret Ellen GEORGE MATTHEWS LEONARD (1867 MO-1946)
* Walter "Reece" GEORGE (1870 MO-1932)
* Wesley Reuben GEORGE (1870 MO-1870)
* Nancy "Pearl" GEORGE (1874 MO-1964)

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On October 6, 1975, Will George's daughter Beryl George Finch wrote:
"All I can remember my Dad saying was his father (Reuben Andrew George) did not talk about his people and Uncle Charles Thomas was much the same. A very quiet man with a deep sense of humor. When he did talk it was worth listening to."

But when Ollie Belle first married, she married a Mr. Boatwright of Maryville, MO. They had one daughter, Bertie, before Mr. Boatwright died of TB. Perhaps Bertie died young of TB, too.

Of her father and mother, Beryl Finch, wrote in a letter August 31, 1975:
"He had loved her and her only until he was 34 years of age. She married Boatwright of Maryville, MO, and they had one child - a girl named Bertie. After Boatwright died of T.B. my father married Ollie Belle in Hopkins, MO, Nodaway Co on Dec. 24, 1896"

Beryl continued in her letter of August 31, 1975:
"I was born in 1898 and she died 1901 - a very brief span of years. She contracted T.B. from 1st husband it seemed. My father never married again. He was mother and father both to me and a very wonderful father at that - real Christian and lived the life as a pioneer he ministered to people for their bodies and soul. Also if in need would empty his purse and never tell anyone."

On October 6, 1976, Beryl wrote:
"I believe Ollie Belle Boatwright George was born in 1867 - July 27. She died of T.B. at 34 yrs in 1901. Buried in December 1901 - temps 40 below and my father took her from Knowlton to Miles City a distance of 56 miles. He went in a sled - horse drawn - and alone as all Knowlton relatives were ill with Grippe as they called it then."

Beryl continued,
"They moved to Montana because of my mother's tuberculosis and also three of her brothers were already in Montana and liked the country. Her brother Wayland Wood was a very close friend of my Dad and always continued so. His and my mother's father Wm. H. Wood married grandmother Mary Jane's sister but she died at birth of 1st child. So he married again and had 4 children."

Ollie Belle died the day after Christmas, 1901, after 5 years of marriage with Will and when their daughter Beryl was 3 and a half. The following April, Will's dad, Reuben A. George died from a runaway horse and wagon accident. Beryl said her grandmother, Mary Jane George came to live with Will for many years. In a letter written August 31, 1975, Beryl remembered her grandmother "mentioning brother Hadley and sister Kiziah. She also mentioned the Reeces, cousins, I believe. Her sister Sarah was my Grandfather Wood's (mother's side) first wife. No children as both babe and mother died at childbirth."

"He (Will) had studied in Valparaiso Ind and it must have been medical as he was expert in setting bones, in antiseptic hygiene, and nursing as gentle as a woman (more than most) at any sickness, fever or stomach ills or pneumonia and would go on call nite or day even if tired enuf to drop after building fence alone or thru darkest cold nite. When he died (84 years) one of the old timers left remarked "If ever anyone was a real Christian, Will George was one."
(letter from Beryl Finch, August 31, 1975)

On August 31, 1975, Beryl wrote that there was a "descent of hereditary deafness in my mother's family (Wood) for many generations ... carried through mostly on the males - not many of the women afflicted."

The same letter continues,
"..my grandfather Reuben A. George was very closed mouthed and left very little information anywhere concerning his relatives and where. We did learn he had several red-headed sisters. No red heads in his children's families but in children's, children's, children - 4th generation red heads everywhere!"

"Not all from Sunset Memorial are at Custer County Cemetary. When I was a teen [about 1970-71], my family got together and moved my great-relatives from Sunset out to the Knowlton Cemetary.

A little history of the Knowlton Cemetary. My great grandfather, Will George, and my grandmother, Helen Beryl George, homesteaded in Knowlton. He donated the land for the cemetary and for George Park nearby. The cemetary is filled with our family's ancestors."

* source: http://milescity.com/forums/posts/view/89302/#89387
* Also see: George's, Finch 's, and Wood's buried in Custer County cemeteries