History of Fentress County, Tennessee, Albert R. Hogue. Originally 
published Nashville, Tenn, 1916. Reprinted by  Baltimore Regional 
Publishing Company, 1975, p. 101 [Wayne county]

GEORGE W. CONATSER. 1840.
	Parents:  Philip and Peggy (Cooper) Conatser.  Conatser's were of 
German descent, and the Cooper's Scotch-Irish.
	His grandfather, John Palser Conatser, came to Watauga with Maj. 
Anderson, a great-grandfather of Judge C. E. Snodgrass, when Bean's 
cabin was the only house in the great Mississippi Valley.  He moved from 
Watauga to Wayne County, Kentucky, and Philip Conatser moved from there, 
here, soon after Fentress County was organized.  John Palser worked for 
General Greene about the time of the Revolution.  He was a soldier at 
the battle of King's Mountain. The powder horn he used at this battle 
was presented to William McKinley while he was president of the United 
States, by G. W. Conatser.  McKinley wrote him a nice letter, 
expresssing his appreciation of the gift, and  claimed he prized it more 
than anything else he had received, on account of its association with 
the great and decisive battle.
	G. W. Conatser, or Uncle Hickory, as he is familiarly called, has 
served as Justice of the Peace, Sheriff eight years and as Deputy U. S. 
Marshal four years.  In politics he is a republican.  He is one of the 
best known men in the county, and knows everybody.  He is a plain, old-
fashioned citizen, and popular, and wields a wide influence among his 
friends.  He owns a large farm in the Poplar Cove and lives upon it.  A 
coal mine has been operated upon it for some years to supply local 
trade.
	He was with Sherman in his march to the sea.  Served in Company D, 
Second East Tennessee Infantry, joining in 1861, and was discharged 
November 6, 1865, at Knoxville.
	
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