Part 1 1805 - 1831 Youth

Part 2 1831 - 1847 Army

Part 3 1847 Courtship & Marriage

Part 4 1847 - 1852 Marriage, Baptism and the End of a Career

Part 5 1853 - 1855 Isle of Malta mission

Part 6 1855 - Going to Zion

Part 7 1855 - 1857 Hard times

Part 8 1857 - 1860 (?) Johnson's army and back to Rush Valley

Part 9 1866 - 1867 Patriarchal blessings, Mission call and departure

Part 10 1867 Journey to the British mission

Part 11 1867 - Mission

Part 12 1868 - Mission

Part 13 1868 - Return Home

Part 14 1868 - 1888 Bishop, Storekeeper, and Iindians - oh my

Part 15 As seen by others

Part 16 1880 -1888 The culmination of a lifetime

Part 17 1888 -1891 Patriarch and Death

Part 18 Miscellaneous

On the third of January, 1831, he went to Bristol and signed as a Recruit in the 76th Regiment, after the military surgeon declared him perfect of eyes and ear, sound of lung, healthy in appearance and possessing strength sufficient to enable him fit for His Majesty's Service. His rank was Private and his Bounty three pounds.

The emblem of the 76th.

[Editor's note - although the normal paractice was that officers commissions were sold to sons of properous families, that didn't apply to George. His family apparently did not have sufficient funds to procure even a commission as a lieutenant for George, thus he entered the army as a lowly private.]

He belonged to no religious sect but when he joined His Majesty's Army he also attended his church. Attendance at the church of England being one of the military requirements of their personnel. He did not have much interest in it, however.

Years went by, young George gained promotions to the rank of color sergeant in the service.

His first promotion came through a rescue. Some drunken soldiers got into a row boat. They could not row or guide the boat and were fast drifting out to sea. George volunteered to save them. He plunged into the breakers and headed out to where the boat was being tossed about. Upon reaching the boat the soldiers would not let him climb in. They proceeded to grab the oars and hit George with them trying to make him let go. He finally succeeded in talking them to stop the hitting and put the oars into the boat. Then he climbed in. Picked up the oars and rowed them safely back to shore.

[Editor's note - Color Sergeant was the sergeant responsible for the "colors". A dangerous but important position in battle.]

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