George Frederick Murray was born in Mount Thom on March 22, 1909 to the late Kenneth and Margaret (Ross) Murray.  He attended school at Lower Mount Thom until he was sixteen years old.

He then hauled lumber from across the river to West River Station with bobsleds and horses. In the spring he worked at home on the farm.

In 1926, at the age of seventeen he travelled west by train to Moss Bank, Saskatchewan to work on the harvest excursion and stayed until the middle of October. At that time a return ticket from West River Station to Winnipeg was twenty-six dollars. He returned home in the fall and worked in the woods and at a sawmill in the winter.

In 1928 he travelled back west to Craik, Saskatchewan to work on the last harvest excursion. At that time his sister, Isabel travelled with him to teach school in Estevan.

The summers of 1936 and 1937 he worked on the highway and spent the winters in the woods and worked in the sawmills.

In 1939 George bought the farm from Willa Falt. On December 13, 1939 George married Isabel Elizabeth Tattrie and they resided on the farm in a house which was built in the 1800's.

George farmed with a team of horses, Duke and Jerry and later bought a tractor. He purchased some jersey cows from his brother Preston and operated a dairy farm until retirement in 1977.

He was an adherent of St. Lukes Presbyterian Church, Salt Springs.

On January 6, 1943 George and Isabel were blessed with their first child which was a son, George Allan. December 20,1947 a daughter Freda Isabel was born and on November 22,1948 a son Kenneth Franklin was born.

George took great pride in his jersey cattle. All three children were involved in 4~H.

In 1977, George retired from farming. A farm auction was held and George, Isabel and Kenneth moved to Sherwood Park where they lived for five years.

In 1982, George, Isabel and Kenneth moved back to Nova Scotia and built a house just down the road from the old farm where he lived until his passing on November 30, 1995 at the age of 86 years.

George was survived by his wife the former Isabel Tattrie, his two sons Allan and Carol Murray and family of Sherwood Park, Alberta, and Kenneth Murray of Salt Springs, Nova Scotia and his only daughter Freda and John Rekimowich and family of Lloydminster, Alberta, and seven grandchildren; and his brother Preston and two sisters Isabel and Janet, as well as, a niece and a nephew. (His brother Preston and his sister Isabel have since passed away.)

The Tattrie family settled in River John in the 1700's and it is assumed that this is the family from which Isabel descends.

In The History of the County of Pictou written by Rev. George Patterson, D.D. on pages 126 to 128 the story of how the Tattries were living in an area that had been annexed by France and how the privileges of the Protestants were taken away.

One George Tattrie was among a group of fifty young men who armed with stones prepared to resist an order to hand over Protestant chapels to the Roman Catholics. He was shot in the leg. The efforts of the protestants ended in failure.

When George's leg was healed he joined a group who emmigrated to Nova Scotia. They first came to Lunenburg and in 1771 eleven of the group came to Pictou County.

One hundred years later on the 1871 Pictou County Census there were five Tattrie families all living at River John. They all gave their origin as Swiss. The religion of all was Presbyterian.

         
1-- George Frederick MURRAY (1909-1995)          
        sp-Isabel Elizabeth TATTRIE             
        2-- George Allan MURRAY               
                sp-Carol Gladys CHAPMAN 
                3-- Crystal Marie MURRAY 
                        sp-Doug SEVIGNY 
                        4-- Jonah Allan SEVIGNY 
                3-- Robert Allan MURRAY 
                        sp-Tara Jane DOHERTY 
                        4-- Hunter Cole MURRAY 
                3-- Roxanne Carolyn MURRAY 
                        sp-Wade CLOSSON 
        2-- Freda Isabel MURRAY 
                sp-John Ronald REKIMOWICH 
                3-- John George REKIMOWICH 
                        sp-Cindy PASSMORE 
                3-- Joanne Elizabeth REKIMOWICH         
                3-- Jane Angela REKIMOWICH 
                3-- Tanis Jill REKIMOWICH 
        2-- Kenneth Franklin MURRAY

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