Nicholas Amos George, I

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"Nicholas Amos II was a trustee at St. Cecelia's Church in Sheldon, New York from 1848 to 1872. " http://trees.ancestrylibrary.com/tree/2073151/person/-1412399854/me...|pgNum

"The Patriarch of six generations of GEORGE families that have lived in and around St. Paul for more than a century, was Nicholas A. GEORGE II (Sep 5/1887), who came to America in 1837 from his native village of Fouches in the European Kingdom of Belgium.

Nicholas GEORGE initially settled southeast of Buffalo, New York, in a farming community of other immigrants from Belgium and from Luxembourg. In 1839, he married Catherine Goffine (Jan 8. 1915-Jun 21/1906), who had arrived from Bellgium in 1835.

For the first three decades of their marriage, the couple farmed in the Sheldon Township of Wyoming County, New York; where they raised a family of five sons and four daughters. As the children matured and married, they migrated westward with their new spouses. The oldest of the nine children, Catherine (1841-1913), went to Wisconsin with her husband, William BRILL in 1861. The next five to leave, all moved to Osage Mission where the Jesuit missionaries shared their Belgiam heritage, and spoke the regional dialect of their German Language.

The five who staked out farms along the Crawford-Neosho County line during the three year period ended in 1870, were sons, Nicholas Jr. (1843-1897), John Nicholas (1847-1924), twins Michael L. (1848-1912), and Peter (1848-1929) and daughter Luch(1844-1919) who married J. E. PERL.

In 1871, with most of their children by then settled in Kansas, the parents followed them to the frontier state and at the age of 62, Nicholas A. GEORGE II homesteaded a 160 acre tract of Mission Township in Neosho County. The couple was accompanied from New York by their three youngest children, Leopold (1850-1950), Clara (GEORGE) METZGER SMITH (1853-1930), and Mary (GEORGE) END (1855-1937), all of whom remained in Kansas. Nicholas and Catherine are buried in St. Francis Cemetery." http://trees.ancestrylibrary.com/tree/2073151/person/-1412399854/me...|pgNum

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