George Herbert Potts was born July 31, 1878 in Manchester, England (a less reliable account states he was born in Yorkshire). His parents were Edward Potts and Sarah Ackroyd. George studied Civil Engineering at Cambridge University in England. George was married Dec 26, 1903 in Bolton, Lancashire, England to Mary Yates They had one child, Lucy Yates Potts. George left Mary. He came to the United States by way of Canada.
While working as an engineer on a crane explaining what needed to be done, he fell. He was badly injured and was hospitalized. While in the hospital he met Lydia Stone Hoyt. They were married. Berry Vernon, son of Lucy Yates, records the date of George's marriage to Lydia as May 3, 1909. George and Lydia's daughter in law, Wilda, told me the marriage was not legal and writes that George was not a US citizen ans that it caused Lydia to need to be "repatriated in October 1943 in Toledo, Ohio."
They had four children: Herbert Jay Potts born in Denver, Colorado Aug 19 1910, Ada Margaret Kinsella (Potts) born in Cleveland, OH August 10 1906, Elsa Wallace Florian (Potts) born Sep 6, 1913. and Wallace Potts Hoyt (Hoyt Potts) born in Norwalk, Ohio March 17, 1917.
George died of Tuberculosis July 4, 1942 in Green Springs, Ohio.
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