9th Generation in America
George Tucker Sartwelle was born on March 3, 1885 in Ft. Worth, Texas and married Mary Josephine Jourdan on August 28, 1918 in Del Rio, Texas. He died on August 4, 1948. and is buried in the Masonic Cemetery, Del Rio. George and Mary had three children:
Son George Tucker, Jr. died May 9, 1945 aboard USS England which was
sunk by a Japanese Kamakazi at Okinawa during World War II.
In 1981, daughters, Mary Margaret and Preshy, spent an entire summer in
Massachusetts and New Hampshire researching the genealogy of the
Sartwelle family. They published their research in the book, The
Sartwelles in America 1635 - 1981. Much of what you see on this website
is based on their findings.