Extract from the 1900 Census:
Name: George Pettis
Age at last birthday: 9
Date of birth: Sep 1891
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: white
Sex: male
Relationship to head-of-house: son
Home in 1900: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Marital status: single
Able to read, write and speak English: yes
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: Wisconsin
Occupation: attending school
Siblings living at home: Edith M (age 10), Carl V (6), Floyd C (4), Earl (7), Marie G (2), and Harlow (8/12)
Census place: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Roll: T623 1788; Page: 12B; Enumeration District: 33
Date: 13 Jun 1900

Extract from the 1910 Census:
Name: George M Pettis
Age in 1910: 18
Estimated birth year: 1892
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: white
Sex: male
Relationship to head of family: son
Home in 1910: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Marital status: single
Able to speak English: yes
Able to read and write: yes
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: Wisconsin
Occupation: worker
Industry: home farm
Salary or wage worker: wages
Siblings living at home: Edith M (age 20), Carl V (16), Floyd C (14), Marie G (12), Harlow R (10), Earl C (8), Doris P (6), Olive M (3), and Juel Dean (7/12)
Census place: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Series: T624; Roll: 1710; Page: 253B; Enumeration District: 59; Part: 1; Line: 19
Date: 15 Apr 1910

Extract from World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918:
Name: George Pettis
City: Fairchild
County: Eau Claire
State: Wisconsin
Birthplace: Fairchild, Wisconsin
Birth date: 22 Sep 1892 [sic]
Race: Caucasian
Roll: 1674599
Draft board: 0
Address: Fairchild, Wisconsin
Occupation: farmer
Employer: self-employed
Dependents: no
Married: no
Military service: no
Age: 25
Height: tall
Build: medium
Eyes: gray
Hair: brown
Disability: one finger off left hand
Date: 5 Jun 1917

Extract from the 1920 Census:
Name: George M Pettis
Age: 28
Estimated birth year: 1892
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Race: white
Sex: male
Relationship to head of house: head
Home in 1920: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Address: farm
Marital status: married
Able to speak English: yes
Able to read and write: yes
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's birthplace: Wisconsin
Home owned or rented: rented
Occupation: farmer
Type of industry: general farm
Salary or wage worker: working on own account
Census place: Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Roll: T625_1984; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 135; Image: 452
Date: 5 Jan 1920

Article from the "Sheboygan Press" of Sheboygan, Wisconsin dated 4 Dec 1929:
Fairchild Man
Accidentally Shot
Fairchild, Wis. - (UP) - George Pettis, 38, died here yesterday the victim of a hunting accident.
Pettis, according to four companions, fell and knocked over a gun which was leaning against a tree. The double-barrelled shotgun discharged both barrels into Pettis' abdomen.

Article from the "Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune" of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin dated 4 Dec 1929:
Fairchild, Wis. - (AP) - Slipping as he was endeavoring to dig a fox out of its hole, George Pettis, 38, was killed Tuesday.

Article from the "Leader" of Eau Claire, Wisconsin dated 4 Dec 1929:
Fairchild Man
Accidentally
Killed on Hunt
Augusta, Wis., Dec 3. - (Special) - George Pettis, 38, oldest son of Charles Pettis, Fairchild, died here this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, about half an hour after he had been accidentally shot while fox hunting near this city.
Pettis, accompanied by his brothers, Floyd and Jewel [sic], his cousins, Harry and Joe, and Albert Fentek, was hunting about four miles west of here in the bluffs between Price and Osso.
Floyd and Jewel and Harry Pettis had holed a fox on the side of a hill and were trying to dig it out when George Pettis, coming to join them, slipped and fell against a double-barrel shot gun belonging to one of them, that was leaning against a tree. Both barrels of the gun were discharged into his abdomen low on the left side.
He was taken at once to Dr. Prill's office here and an ambulance was summoned from Eau Claire, but he died of internal hemorrhage before the ambulance arrived.
Pettis was married and is survived by his widow and four children.

He married Marie Katherine Whitcomb 17 Oct 1918 in Saint Mary's Church in Altoona, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.