The Reverend George Bozell was the son of Ezekiel and Lucy Robertson Bozell. George was born in Ohio on June 17, 1821, and moved to Indiana as a small child with his parents. The Reverend George is the ninth of ten children all who grew up to years of maturity, and who was reared attending the subscription schools in the log schoolhouse of the period. He remained at home until after the age of 22 when he married a girl from Johnson County, Indiana, on January 12, 1843. Mary Ann Bishop was the daughter of Lewis Bishop who was one of the early pioneers and founders of Edinburg, Indiana, and Mary Adams Bishop. Lewis and Mary Adams Bishop died in 1828 within a month after an epidemic of Typhoid Fever leaving all nine children orphaned. Mary Ann Bishop was raised in Shelby County, Indiana, by her older sister and husband, Elizabeth and James Whited.

George rented a farm in Bartholomew County where he worked earning thirty-seven cents daily until 1850, when he and two of his brothers, Isaac and Zechariah (Rias), moved to central Indiana, locating in Tipton County, in the virgin forest-land. His original log house was exchanged for eighty acres and he later built another hewed log house, and improved that tract.

In 1843 he was converted into a professing and zealous Christian and in 1855 was called to preach the gospel. The Miami Christian Conference ordained him, and his first permanent charge as a minister was at Tetersburg, Indiana, in Tipton County. He later was confined to Tipton, Howard, Hamilton and Delaware Counties. He preached more funeral sermons and married more couples than any other man in the county. He was one of the oldest in the living ministry. He was one of the early ministers at the Old Union Church in Bartholomew County, Indiana, prior to his move to Tipton County, Indiana in 1850. Old Union was the Bozell family church where many family members rest today in the cemetery across the road from the church. He has baptized hundreds of people and has been remarkable and very successful in advancing the cause of Christianity. The Reverend George Bozell was responsible for organizing the New Hope Christian Church, southeast of Tipton, Indiana.

The Reverend George Bozell passed away on June 9, 1906, at the age of 85, in Tipton County, Indiana, and he is laid to rest in the family cemetery, (Sumner Cemetery) next to both his wives and other family members . A large stone marks their grave. Martha Eiler Bozell passed away on February 2, 1922.

He is the father of the following eleven children by his first marriage: Thomas J., Susie E., Lewis J., (Trustee of Cicero Township), Stephen A. Douglas, Lucy A., and the others are all deceased. Mrs. Bozell, (Mary Ann Bishop), the mother of these children, died December 22, 1865. On May 10, 1866, the Reverend George Bozell married Martha Eiler, and by this union are nine children. John L., Melissa J., Enos A., Alace, George, Walter, Laura M. and Mattie, and an infant deceased.