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Twin daughters of Frank and Rowena Walker George, Gretchen and Rowena, in 1917.
"Gretchen and Rowena, twins of Frank and Rowena George, were seven month babies and doctors said in those days that seven month babies couldn't live. Also, their mother Rowena lived just four days after their birth. One can only imagine the heartache Frank George went through at that time. But Frank could not give up his twin baby girls without trying everything he could...
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Muriel Colburn and her mother, Alice George Colburn. "Muriel worked in Washington, D.C., and was employed for many years by the Arapahoe County Clerk and Recorder's Office and the Social Security Office in Denver. She retired in 1971." [obituary] SHe passed away at 95, on Dec. 14, 1997.
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Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster George, wife of William Henry "Bill" George and mother of "Nona" George Gates. After Bill died in 1900, Elizabeth sold their home in Breckenridge and bought a farm in Fort Morgan, Colorado. "In 1917 when her twin granddaughters, Gretchen and Rowena, were born, their mother died in childbirth. Elizabeth went to Colorado Springs and helped her son, Frank, with the twins and other children until he remarried. About...
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Elizabeth George at her farm in Ft. Morgan, Colorado. She is sitting with her children standing behind her. Left to right, Edna George (born Aug, 10, 1890), Frank Forester George (born Apr. 9, 1881), Nona (Atha Nonetta George birn, Dec, 16, 1877), and Alice Maud George (born May 10, 1874).
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WIlliam Henry "Bill" George was born April 21, 1850, in Cooper County, Missouri. His family moved to Valley View, Cooke County, Texas, to help his arthritis or rheumatism. While he was living in Valley View, Texas, Bill George met and married Charity Elizabeth "Libbie" Forster. They married on October 23, 1873, in Cooke County, Texas. -- The Gates Genealogy
Bill died in 1900 in Breckenridge, Colorado.
14. Alice George
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Frank George, son of Charity Elizabeth "Libby" (Forster) George, and his second wife, Elizabeth "Bessie" (Menzies) George. They're standing on the front porch of a house. Frank and Elizabeth were married soon after the death of his first wife, Rowena (walker) George, who passed away in 1917.