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David E. George - RJNorton - 02-14-2026 03:00 PM Many thanks to Steve for sending the following: "I have some articles to post to the Forum in a new post. The first one is from the 26 Feb. 1903 edition of the Enid Wave newspaper which reprints a letter sent to the mayor on the 18th of Feb. The letter was sent by an N. H. George asking for information to locate David E. George, not knowing David had died. N. H. doesn't say if he is a relative of David. But I think this could be a possible lead on the identity of David E. George. Using the address from the letter I was able to identify N. H. as Nelson Harley George a nightime railroad yardmaster in Arkansas City, Kansas. Here's his Find A Grave page: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73029463/nelson_harley-george I checked and David wasn't a brother of Nelson, so if they were familiarly related I can't figure out how, even after looking at online trees of Nelson's family. Nelson paid for one of those biographies of himself printed in 1918, I've attached images of that in case some future person comes along this Forum thread and want to do a little research into Nelson's family tree to find a connection if they can. Coincidentally, Nelson's widow would die in Enid herself in 1945 while visiting their daughter." RE: David E. George - Gene C - 02-14-2026 03:55 PM I wonder if any one ever claimed David's old trunk mentioned in the first article. Perhaps it is now in a forgotten corner of what is now Garfield Furniture Store. https://journalrecord.com/2015/07/17/mf-tw-garfield-furniture-store-real-estate/ RE: David E. George - Steve - Yesterday 06:10 AM Gene, the bigger question might be... did the mayor (or anybody) ever bother to write back to Nelson to let him know that David died? RE: David E. George - Steve - Yesterday 10:21 AM Here's a good 1924 Harper's Magazine article on David E. George and the Booth mummy: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Harper_s_Magazine/lmMQAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22David+E.+George%22&pg=PA702&printsec=frontcover RE: David E. George - Steve - Yesterday 12:23 PM And here's the 1926 account (well brief mention) by a man named Henry Strong who says he knew John St. Helen when St. Helen was in Glen Rose Texas: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011909937&seq=14 Interestingly Strong said he ran into St. Helen again, just over a year later, in Trickham, Coleman County Texas at the John Chisum store there. But the brief mention of it by Strong doesn't clarify if St. Helen was living in the Trickham area or riding the trail and stopping for supplies/booze. If Strong was telling the truth about meeting St. Helen then this Trickham encounter would likely have happened just after St. Helen left Granbury.