Information for William Alexander George
16 January 1840 - 11 September 1912
From The Caldwell Tribune
13 September 1912
Contributed by Dennis McIndoo


NOTE - Burial was in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery.


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NOTED ORCHARDIST PASSES AWAY      Tuesday evening at 11 o'clock at his ranch near this city, W.A. George, one of the best known and respected men of this community, died in his 73rd year of his age.     Mr. George has been failing for some time and a couple months ago suffered from a stroke of paralysis from which he never recovered.      The funeral services were in charge of the Masonic Lodge, of which Mr. George has been a member for about 43 years. Rev. W.J. Boone assisted, the interment being made in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery.     Mr. George is survived by his wife, Harriet M. George, two sons and two daughters.  The children were Mrs. Eva Bryan, Owyhee; Wm. P. George, Radersburg, Montana; Mrs. Lena M. Hesse, Boise; Mrs. Eda K. Hoff, deceased; Bert M. George, Couer d'Alene.     Mr. George was born in [Knox co.] Illinois, January 16, 1840.  He came to Idaho in 1893, filed on a homestead the next year and moved out in 1895.  He early recognized the wonderful possibilities of the country in fruit and planted what has become one of the very finest orchards in this part of the northwest

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