The following biography was edited and may have been augmented by PRS staff.

George Yunt was born on 27 December 1757 in Pennsylvania.

According to George Yunt's pension records, he enlisted on 13 August 1776 in Pennsylvania for the term of three years in the regiment commanded by Colonel Eneas MacKay, known initially as MacKay's Battalion. This unit was organized to help garrison the growing number of forts being built on the western frontier in Pennsylvania with the purpose of protecting the families living in the area, of which most of these men were members. Redesignated the 8th Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress ordered the regiment to join Wahinton's Army wherever they could be found.

Bound Brook, New Jersey, is where the 8th Pennsylvania first tasted battle on 13 April 1777. At the Bound Brook battle, George said the British took him prisoner for a short time. The regiment participated in numerous other battles and skirmishes in 1777, including Brandywine and Paoli, both of which George names in his pension as a participant. Not mentioned in his pension but present on muster rolls taken there, George wintered in Valley Forge with his regiment and the Continental Army during the horrible winter of 1777–1778. Yet his stay in eastern Pennsylvania was coming to an end. At Fort Pitt in October 1779, George was discharged "from raid service by Brigadie-General Dan Broadhead" and left the Continental Army for good.

Likely, traveling down the Ohio River, George arrived in present-day Kentucky, where we find him marrying Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Underwood on 24 February 1781 at Squire Boone's Station (Painted Stone)." They were the parents of several children, including:

• Jonathan was born on 12 June 1785 and married Mary Elizabeth Redmon.
• Elizabeth was born on 11 May 1789 and married Jacob Cline.
• John was born about 1790 and married Catherine [surname unknown].
• Rachel was born on 13 October 1795 and married Aaron Cline.
• George was born on 14 January 1802 and married Sarah Bright.
• Jacob was born on 4 January 1804 and married Elisabeth Henderson.

Of course, George was present at Painted Stone on the fateful day of 13 September 1781, when many settlers decided to leave the station without the promised security of a militia escort. We know George was present due to a story shared in 1846 with noted historian Lyman Draper where Judge Moses Boone, son of Squire Boone, describes how his younger brother, Isaiah Boone's life, was saved by George at Long Run Creek. On that fateful day, as the survivors of the ambush ran for their lives for the relative safety of the station in the Beargrass Creek area, a then nine-year-old Isaiah fell in the knee-deep creek, drenching himself and the flintlock rifle that he was carrying. Upon scrambling out of the creek and seeing pursuing enemy warriors on the creek bank,  Isaiah pointed the wet rifle at the Native American Warrior, causing him to duck behind the bank. When it was clear the gun was useless, George advised little Isaiah to drop the rifle as it only slowed him down, and he shot the pursuing Warrior when the opportunity afforded itself. 

Surviving the ambush and still able to serve in the frontier militia, Polly Yunt said that George later went on a campaign in the autumn of 1782 with General Ben Logan and Colonel Hugh McGary, then again in 1784, 1785, and 1786 against the Native American Nations north of the Ohio River. George overcame this turbulent time on the Kentucky frontier, raising a family and farming. 

The Patriot died on 9 May 1824 at Brashers Creek, Shelby County, Kentucky. His widow died on 8 February 1840.