George Burton, born in Ohio in 1860, lived as a young man in Indiana. He married Alice Smith in Rockford in 1885. The family came to Carrington in 1897 where Mr. Burton worked at the carpenter trade for twenty years.
They had three children: Roy, Bertha (Mrs. EX Shaeffer), and Mrs. Charles Carlson.
Mrs. Burton died in 1901 and is buried at Logansport, Indiana.
A few years later Mr. Burton married Elizabeth Wyard, the daughter of James Wyard. She was born in 1863 in London, England and came to the United States in 1881 with her family. They settled in Philadelphia, later moving to Cincinnati and coming to Carrington in 1883.
Elizabeth Burton was a piano teacher. She served as organist at the Congregational Church for many years. There were no children by his second marriage.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 104B