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Revision as of 15:09, 26 November 2010
Colbert George, son of Goodwin George [12] and S. Izetta (Isettia) Davis [13].
Colbert would appear to have served as a young man in the Spanish-American War, judging from a picture of him in uniform in Manila.
The 1880 census lists as a son of Goodwin and Izetta a month-old infant whom I take to be him as well. There, he is listed as born in Iowa.
We have in our possession a pin with two crossed swords and the initials NMMI. The New Mexico Military Institute reports that it has no record of either a C. or a G. George in its alumni database, which goes back to 1893.
He does not appear with his mother and sister in their 1900 census entries. He may at this point be in the Philipines, where we have a postcard photograph of him in uniform, but undated.
The 1910 federal census places him in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas.
The "Roster of Men and Women who served in The World War from Colorado 1917-1918" lists a Sergeant 1st Class Colbert George from Denver, with the branch given as "A.S.", Aero Squadron.
Two copies of the postcard picturing Colbert with his sister Charlotte are in our possession. He is a sergeant in that picture. One is labeled "Colbert George | 1st Aero Squadron | Signal Corps | U.S.A." (Is it his writing?) The other has a letter, trimmed at the edges, from Charlotte to Belle, in which she says that the picture was taken "last June" and that Bert is "almost forty". She says it was taken in Columbus. Columbus, New Mexico was, I think, a site for the First Aero Squadron.
The 1930 Federal Census shows him living in New York State, Hempstead, Nassau County, with his wife, Lillian. He is listed as having no profession. This census lists him as 49.
Colbert is pictured to the left of another man in a photo labeled "Old Solders Home VA".
Name: Colbert George
Service Info.: MASTERSGT US ARMY
Death Date: 18 Jan 1933
Cemetery: Cypress Hills National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 625 Jamaica Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11208
Buried At: Section 9 Site 13598
