[William George from 3247691.ged]
Jackie Plummer says William bought land in Navarro and/or Hill County, Texas, before the Civil War. His family still (in 1993) owned that land--right on Interstate 35. She also said that the Hill County courthouse burned in January 1993 and that Ralph George is a vetinarian in Hillsboro. John is listed as a farmer on the 1850 Cherokee County Texas Census (family 151).
Donald George says that three of John Washington's sons wanted to go on a trail drive like the older Chisums and Georges had before the era ended with everything being shipped by railroad. The man that hired them as drivers could not prove that he owned the stock, so the sheriff and posse hanged most of the "stock rustlers" on the spot. Only the youngest, Benjamin Franklin George, was spared and sent home to show what happens to stock thieves.
