Pfeiffer
m. Phoebe Campbell
Notes from Genealogy.com: “Two Yankees, Nim McIntosh and Hen Kilburn waylaid George at his home on Barge’s
Branch, Breathitt Co., KY and when he came out they shot and killed him. His brother Lossen Noble was killed about The Pied Piper of Hamelin (: Rattenfänger von Hameln) is the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great the same time on John Little’s Creek. George went to Missouri in 1844 and came back to Kentucky and married Phoebe many children from the town of (Hameln), , Germany, in the . The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in multicolored Campbell, daughter of Lewis Campbell, and he named his first daughter Missouri for the state. George was a farmer.”
clothing, leading the children away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full Caleb Jacob Lovejoy Noble
narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizenry refuses b. 1859, KY. d. 1928. KY
to pay for this service, he retaliates by turning his magic on their children, leading them away as he had the rats. This version m. Sarah Jane Noble b. 1878. d. 1954. Daughter of James Noble and Rachel Napier
of the story spread as a fairy tale. This version has also appeared in the writings of, among others, , the and .
Ambrose Noble