
<i>The Carter County Herald</i>

November 12, 1931

<p>George M. Masters of Upper Tygart, Kentucky, passed peacefully away to his reward at his home Friday November 6, 1931,
 at the age of 79 years, 2 months and 5 days. 
 <p>He was born in Ohio but moved to this county with his mother in early life,
  where he has lived since, with two other brothers, Isaiah and Thomas, 65 years ago. A citizen of this county he has 
	been both in spirit and in words because his life was lived among us and we knew of which we speak. 
	<p>He was the father of twelve children, ten of whom are yet living. He had 39 grandchildren, and 26 
	great-grandchildren. 
	<p>Some men live 
	 and die and are yet good men, but this man planned to do something always and not only did he plan but he did them. 
	 He was always helpful to the community in which he lived and left the proof of this work in his community by the 
	 improvements he made while living. It was he and his brother Thomas J. Masters, that started the move that caused the
	  building of the Flat Fork Christian Church. They owned a saw mill and sawed the lumber, Edward Evans, A. J. Locher 
		and Shelton Hamm furnished the timber. This timber being sawed and furnished, William Kidwell and others hauling 
		the logs to the mill. M. J. Orcutt and others did the carpenter work, but back of all this movement for a better 
		community and a better environment for the children coming up. He was going about doing good. He had been a member 
		of the Church of Christ since early in life, and not in name only, but in work and sincerity as well. In a 
		conversation with Mr. E. A. Evans (son of Edward Huston Evans, mentioned below), one who attended the funeral in a 
		country village, where there was more people present than this and not more kind expressions made, as well as good 
		things said about a man, which all goes to show just how he was appreciated and loved by his neighbors. 
		<p>The funeral was in charge of Mr. Kell, undertaker, with Rev. W. L. Huffman preaching, assisted by Rev. H. M. Reeder 
		 of Hillsboro, Ky., with burial in the family cemetery by the side of his good wife who had gone on before him.'
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