Though born in Amboy, Lee County in Western Illinois he spent most of his childhood in and around Chicago Heights. In 1871 during the Great Chicago Fire George and a brother were caught in the city where they worked selling newspapers. They spent the night on the beach of Lake Michigan. Later as a young man he had relocated to Woodbury Co., Iowa where he met and married Josephine Bell Embree in 1882.

By the early 1890s the Somes family along with Josephine's family the Embrees, and an older sisters family, the Hughes, they moved to Pueblo, Colorado.

In Pueblo George worked at Union Station as a laborer amd teamster in the train depot.

After the death of Josephine he married Mrs Sophronia (Ford) Sleade, widow of Charles Sleade in 1909.

By 1910 he and Sophronia were living in town with her children. His minor children had moved in with older siblings around Pueblo.

Things did not go well and the couple was divorced on 3 July 1911 Pueblo Co., Colorado Doc # 12309. George had by then returned to the Chicago area and failed to show up in court for the hearing. Sophronia was granted her divorce on grounds he had abandoned her.

George married for the third and final time to Mrs Hilda (Johnson) Tyner, former wife of Thomas Tyner. They were joined in marriage on 22 June 1912. This was but weeks before his oldest daughter Ethel married George Mitchell at his home on 17 July 1912.

To the union of George and Hilda was born a daughter, Kathryn Mathilda Somes on 2 November 1918. She died on 3 February 1920 in Bloom Twp.

By 1925 the couple had relocated from Chicago Heights to Aurora in Kane Co. where they both worked at Mooseheart as house parents.

George passed away on 14 October 1925 at his apartment on Lake St. in Aurora from a cerebral hemorrhage.

He was buried at Homewood Cemetery near Chicago Heights in a family plot owned by Ansel & Marie Cottrell. Marie was his step-daughter.

Biography based upon family tales, historical data, and yes, some conjecture.