09/05/2026
Callie George was daughter of Arthur Forbus George and America Carolina Hightower. She was born in 1886 at Weston tx. She married Milton Anderson Wells. She passed in 1916 and was buried in Beeville Texas. Her father was son of Lucas George and Nancy Forbus.
I find it very very interesting to see faces of those who populated Weston.
Charlotte George Almaguer my cousin
My GG Grandfather was Lucas George & GG Grandmother was Nancy Forbus
My G Grandfather was Cantrell Francis George was the youngest of their children
Arthur was my G Grandfathers brother .
Lucas George was born in Virginia, but was orphaned when both his parents died on their way to Tennessee to settle. He grew up in Wilson County, Tennessee, near Lebanon and there met and married Nancy Forbus. The young couple farmed until 1856 when they decided to move to Texas. They traveled to Texas in a covered wagon with their seven children. Later an eighth child was born in Collin County, Texas.
Other families came to Texas with them, including Frank Dowell and Ed Chambers.
In 1858 Lucas George bought a tract of land from Paschal H. and Martha H. Rice. The land lay northwest of McKinney in what was later called the Vineland Community. They were members of the Vineland Community Church.
According to his great granddaughter,Ruby, he is buried in an unmarked grave.
Information courtesy of Sherry Pollan
Family Members
Spouse
Nancy Forbus George
1822–1867 (m. 1840)
Children
Elizabeth Jane George Carruth
1842–1923
Jeremiah W "Jerry" George
1845–1865
John Holman "Germain" George
1846–1919
Permelia Mary "Medy" George Weaver
1847–1886
Arthur Forbus George
1850–1918
Thomas Alexander "Tom" George
1851–1921
Mary Rachel George Alexander
1855–1906
Cantrell Francis "Cant" George
1861-1910
More on Arthur Forbis
He was an American Revolutionary War Officer[1] and an expert marksman who shot the first British officer at some distance which varies in accounts to be 50 yards to 150 yards at Guilford Courthouse.
As the British approach off to his right, Colonel James Martin notices a Redcoat officer waving on his men with a sword, about 100 yards out. Martin asks Forbis if he has a good enough rifle to shoot the man, and Forbis says yes. Forbis may never have been in a battle before, because he asks Martin if he should shoot the man. Perhaps he is unsure of what is considered honorable on the battlefield. Martin says yes, but “let him come to within 50 yards and then take him down.” Forbis rests his gun on the fence rail and waits. At the appointed distance, he pulls the trigger.
Forbis picked off the British officer who was leading the redcoat advance. There is an account that the British Officer was probably Lt. Archibald McPherson. In the return fire from the British Colonel Forbis was wounded during the struggle at the fenceline and was captured by the British.
The first British/Hessian volley drops Forbis, however, with bullet wounds in his side and one leg. The troops along here are among those who mostly stay to fire a second round. The Hessians fall back about 40 yards then, regroup, and charge again. Now most of the militia take off.
However, four men around Forbis, plus scattered others along the line nearby, fire the third volley Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene had requested. Some stay long enough to swing their weapons around and club at the Hessians while bayonets are thrust through the fence. The remainder take off, except two men who are face down on the ground—alive. They faked being dead to avoid being bayonetted on the ground, as was often done. Perhaps Forbis seemed dead, because he avoided that fate, too. After the battle, Forbis is also overlooked by the British and local Quakers who come to help the wounded.
Somehow Forbis survives, and more than a day later, a lady from his neighborhood searching for her brother finds Arthur. She gets him onto her horse and carries him home.
In the battle’s aftermath many reports mentioned the panic of the North Carolina Militia. Forbis’s composure, described in eyewitness accounts, is an example of many militiamen who remained undaunted.
He was carried to his home and later died.
The following is from p.399 of a history book written in 1889 by a citizen of Greensboro, NC, one Dr. David Schenck:
"Colonel Forbis was carried to his home, and Doctor Caldwell, both a Doctor of medicine and of divinity, with his son, attended him. They insisted on amputating the leg, but the Colonel replied: "I want all my body to be buried together," and refused. He lived three weeks. His remains are buried in the cemetery at Alamance Church, five miles south of Greensboro. The citizens of Guilford County erected a handsome marble monument over his grave, and a granite monument has been erected by the 'Guilford Battle-Ground Company,' who own the battleground, on the battlefield, to his memory. He was not more than thirty-five years old."
Thursday, March 15, 1781 the Battle of Guilford Court House
Context
After a two-month game of cat-and-mouse from South Carolina to Virginia, the British and Continental armies of the South are finally prepared to confront each other in open battle.
Situation
British
The army of Lt. Gen. Lord Charles Cornwallis was camped at Deep River Meeting House 12 miles to the southwest when he learned of the Americans’ position. His army of 1,900–2,200 professional troops left before dawn to confront the Continentals. It pushed through stiff resistance at the Battle of New Garden in the morning before continuing up the Great Salisbury Wagon Road.
Continental/Patriot
Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene’s army had camped on a hill topped by the Guilford County Court House on February 8–9 during the “Race to the Dan” with Cornwallis. He saw it was good ground for a defensive battle, but with a “council of war” of his officers decided they didn’t have enough supplies and Patriot part-time troops (“militia”). After getting more supplies and regular army troops in Virginia, he returned to North Carolina. Again he called in militia, shifting positions east and northeast of this location while they gathered. He camped at Troublesome Iron Works to the north before moving his army here on March 14 to await Cornwallis. By then it was up to 4,250 men, including 1,500–1,600 regular Continental soldiers that faced each other and the fighting commenced on the next day.
Col. Arthur Forbis; b. 1745/46, d. 1781
Col. Arthur Forbis was born in 1745/46. He married Elizabeth Wiley, daughter of William Wiley Sr. and Elizabeth Ferguson
, in 1771. Col. Arthur Forbis died in 1781 in Guilford Co, NC; three weeks after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse.
