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George Worley Walters was born in Somerset County PA Feb. 14, 1866. While I never met him, he died 27 days before I was born, he was someone I think I would have enjoyed knowing.
He was in Johnstown PA during the flood, May 31 1889. He told his grandsons this story. "We used axes to chop holes in the floors of the house to keep it from moving off its base. I chopped a holr in one of the floors and a body of a dead woman floated through."
He also told his grandsons stories about going west to work for the lumber mills. He told that he rode the logs down the river and while they were "rolling" the logs down the river the spray from the logs would freeze on their pants legs and on their faces.
He married Florence Virgin from England and together they had 10 children. They moved from PA sometime after 1895 and lived in Norton VA in later years. He was living in Richlands Va at the time of his death.

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