George Wesley
Edmonds was born in Vandenburgh County, Knight
Township, Indiana on August 13, 1890. He entered Carver
Elementary School and Clark High School in Evansville, graduating
in 1910. In the fall of 1910, George entered Indiana University
at Bloomington. He joined nine other students in founding
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
After George returned home for the summer
of 1911, his father became ill with pneumonia and died.
His father had worked in the coal mines of Vandenburgh County
for many years. George, being the eldest son, became head
of the family, thus preventing his return to school. With
the new responsibility of supporting the family, George
took a job with the area coal mines and worked with the
coal mines and the railroad until he died of pneumonia on
June 13, 1962. George married the former Willa Mae Forte
and settled in Stevenson, Indiana. They became the parents
of one son, Noel.
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