George A. Center
OBITUARY
George Center, born in Newdeer, Aberdeeshire, Scotland, October 12, 1847, departed this life December 12, 1890, with pneumnia. Deceased came to American when he was 17; was with Gen. Custer about the time of the Mountain Meadow massacre; was with Gen. Casement the last year of the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad; was with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad four years; thence worked for Gen. J. A. Garfield. He was married in 1879 and then came to Painesville, Ohio, to live, where he worked for the P. P. & F. Railway Company eleven years, to the time of his death. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn the loss of one whose hours from business were passed in the sacred companionship of home. During eleven years but three evenings he was known to go down town; a tender, true trusting, loving, patient husband and father. Being a member of the Church of Christ he spoke many brave words to the Christian soldier, and said using words quoted by him, "I've foudn the pearl of greatest price." and even selected his own funeral text, Job 14:10-15. The Grand Army marched and the band sounded the funeral dirge to his grave. Good-bye, we shall meet again.
W. L. BOWELL
Painesville, O., Dec. 29, 1890
Source: The Telegraph, Painesville, Ohio, 31 December 1890, page 3Microfilmed archives, Morley Library, Painesville, Lake, Ohio
Notes:
- He would have arrived in America around 1864.
- The Mountain Meadows massagre took place in 1857. Perhaps the reference was to the first trial of John D. Lee in 1875.