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1 CONC George was the son of a minister, born on a Tennessee plantation in 184
1 CONC 2.  He served in the Civil WAr and when it ended he resumed his educati
1 CONC on for three years at the University of Kentucky, at Lexington.  His fir
1 CONC st Pastorate was the Christian Church at Mulkeytown, Illinois, where he m
1 CONC et and married Alyce on Christmas Eve, 1872.  Their first two children we
1 CONC re born there, then they moved to Kansas, birth place of the rest.  They w
1 CONC ere living in Oklahoma when they decided to move to Alberta, where at t
1 CONC he beginning ot the 20th Century, the Canadian Goverment was anxious to ha
1 CONC ve the wetern provices populated and land was available at a very low pric
1 CONC e.  Being a church minister for thirty years, George had not been ab
1 CONC le to save money to ensure independence in their older ages.  In 1930 t
1 CONC he parents, Maude and a sister, and two young grandchildren whose mother h
1 CONC ad died, came to Edmonton by train.  Then they travelled 120 miles ea
1 CONC st by sleigh with horses and mules to the site which became Innisfree vill
1 CONC age.  Other sisters and brother of Maude came shortly, so there were six f
1 CONC amiles homsteaded there.