George J. Mitchell, Esq.
Samuel Mitchell, the grandfather of the above, was a native of England. Came to the American colonies just prior to the Revolutionary War, and located in Pennsylvania. He and four of his brothers were drafted into the army. Here they became separated, and all trace has been lost of all except Samuel, the ancestor of the Shelby County Mitchells. He served through the war, and was at Yorktown at the surrender of Cornwallis. After the close of the war he settled in Montgomery County, Pa., where he married Melenda. Cecil. They raised a family of eleven children. William, the eldest son, was born in Virginia in 1782, married Catharine Stalford, came to Ohio in 1808, and located in Miami County, where he raised a family of eight children. He served as a soldier in the war of 1812. He died in 1869, on the farm on which he first settled, at the age of eighty-seven years. His wife died in 1867.
George J. Mitchell, the subject of this sketch, was born in Miami County in 1816. He lived with his parents until twenty-three years of age, when he married Amanda F. Robinson in 1839. By this union they had three children, viz., Samantha J., William M., and Aden W. They moved to Salem Township in 1849, and located where Tileton is now situated. Here Esq. Mitchell and his estimable wife for fourteen years labored together, and had made for themselves a comfortable home, when she was called away by the hand of death in 1863. In 1870 he married Elizabeth Maxon, and the following year sold his farm, and bought property in Port Jefferson, where he now lives a retired life, having acquired a competence for his remaining days. He has filled the office of justice of the peace eighteen years, besides other offices of the township. The Maxons came from Virginia to Ohio in 1831, and located in Clarke County. Then came to Jackson Township, Shelby County, in 1839, where Mrs. Mitchell lived until the time of her marriage in 1870.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883