George Washington Conatser was the son of Phillip and Margaret (Cooper) Conatser. Husband of Margaret Pernell BRANNON. Father of: Laura B CONATSER; Ida jane CONATSER; Wade H CONATSER; Nancy Ermine CONATSER; William K CONATSER; Benjamine Roscoe CONATSER; Ellen May CONATSER

He married 2) Sarah Ann Brown. Father of George Stanley CONATSER, Lola Forrest CONATSER, Clay m CONATSER, Maggie Ellen CONATSER and Mable CONATSER.

History of Fentress County, Tennessee, Albert R. Hogue. Originally published Nashville, Tenn, 1916. Reprinted by Baltimore Regional Publishing Company, 1975, p. 101 [Wayne county]

GEORGE W. CONATSER. 1840.
Parents: Philip and Peggy (Cooper) Conatser. Conatser's were of German descent, and the Cooper's Scotch-Irish.
His grandfather, John Palser Conatser, came to Watauga with Maj. Anderson, a great-grandfather of Judge C. E. Snodgrass, when Bean's cabin was the only house in the great Mississippi Valley. He moved
from Watauga to Wayne County, Kentucky, and Philip Conatser moved from there, here, soon after Fentress County was organized. John Palser worked for General Greene about the time of the Revolution. He was a soldier at the battle of King's Mountain. The powder horn he used at this battle was presented to William McKinley while he was president of the United States, by G. W. Conatser. McKinley wrote him a nice letter, expresssing his appreciation of the gift, and claimed he prized it more than anything else he had received, on account of its association with the great and decisive battle.
G. W. Conatser, or Uncle Hickory, as he is familiarly called, has served as Justice of the Peace, Sheriff eight years and as Deputy U. S. Marshal four years. In politics he is a republican. He is one of the best known men in the county, and knows everybody. He is a plain, old-fashioned citizen, and popular, and wields a wide influence among his friends. He owns a large farm in the Poplar Cove and lives upon it. A coal mine has been operated upon it for some years to supply local trade.
He was with Sherman in his march to the sea. Served in Company D, Second East Tennessee Infantry, joining in 1861, and was discharged November 6, 1865, at Knoxville.