George Powell Kelly, the second of five children and the oldest son of William Boss Kelly and Anna Lodoiska Powell Kelly, was born, probably in Towanda, Pennsylvania, on November 1, 1872. He had an older sister, Anna Rose (1871-1954) and younger siblings Helen Josepha (1874-1948), Ralph (1877-1949) and Frank (1881-1936). George probably grew up in Towanda where his father was a local dentist. Nothing of his short life is known now. However, tragedy struck on October 19, 1905. George had been living at the Stimson Hotel in Athens since sometime before the 1900 census. Athens is about thirteen miles north and slightly west of Towanda just south of the Pennsylvania/New York border on the Susquehanna River. Thirty-two-year-old George had been working as a printer there and, according to his obituary, had "for several years been in the employ of the Athens Gazette." His October 26, 1905 obituary, however, tells us he "met instant death . . . by falling from the second story balcony" of the hotel. According to the obituary, George "sat on the railing talking with some friends, when in some unknown manner he lost his balance and fell backwards to the street below, a distance of thirty feet." The fall resulted in "his head striking a stone step, crushing his skull in a frightful manner." We can only imagine how his friends and others there at the time might have reacted. His body was subsequently returned to Towanda, and funeral services were held at the 206 Poplar Street home of his parents. George was the second Kelly family burial in the Oak Hill Cemetery, the first being William Boss Kelly's brother Oliver Perry Kelly who died about three and one half years before his nephew George. Nothing in the way of photographs, letters, etc. remain to testify to George's time in this world. However, a book entitled Three Men in a Boat in the possession of Bruce Kelly, presumably George's, is signed "George P. Kelly, December 25, 1899," presumably in his own hand. This is all we have to remember him by.