George was active in St Paul's Church of Yellow Creek, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He served as Deacon, Elder, and Treasurer.

George Boyd Key was one of the first directors of the Hopewell Township School System:
"The present school system was adopted, at the first election held for that purpose.
First directors were: John Piper, William Piper, James Lane, George B. Kay, George Rhodes, and Jacob Fluke"
History of Bedford & Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania

The Mansion Tract of said deceased containing 262½ acres, about 160 acres cleared and under fence, and in a high state of cultivation. The improvements are one new log frame house, bank barn, and the necessary outbuildings. This farm is one of the best in Hopewell Township, being good limestone land and having three good springs and orchard thereon, 165 acres cleared.

ONE other tract containing 145 acres, and 132 perches, about 64 acres cleared and under fence. The improvements are two Log Houses, two Stables and out buildings. There is a good spring on the premises, and also an orchard thereon. This is good land, and in good state of cultivation.

These lands are all in a good section of country, within a short distance of the Rail Road and at the door of a ready market at the time.
Steve Kay

George moved to Kansas in 1865 (?) and later relocated to Kansas City, Missouri.
Key and Allied Families, Mrs. Julian C. Lane, 1931, Page 76

FIRE-- A fire occurred on Christmas morning, about 12 ½ o'clock, at the residence of Geo B. Kay, dec'd., in Hopewell Tp., in this County. The family had retired, as usual, about ten o'clock on the night of the fire, and when discovered the kitchen was in flames.—

The family had scarcely time to make their escape. The floor fell in less than five minutes after the fire was discovered. All the household furniture, and all their clothing consumed. The family, consisting of twelve persons, and a neighbor's son, some of them young children and females, escaped with only their night clothes. They had to walk barefooted a quarter of a mile to the next neighbor's house. The loss is supposed to be about $4,000.
Bedford Inquirer, 01-Jan-1858, Page 3, Column 2