Individual Details

Birth

General Archives of Greece
List of Jurors - 1849
FEK: Official Government Newspaper of Greece
2 November 1894
Line 112 - Sklavochori
Georgios Zarafonitis, age 50, of Sklavochori, farmer

FHL: Film #1038847-6-28
Digital image in possession of Carol Petranek

Military

Lakonia Pages, Tribute to the 150 Years from the Twenty (1821 Revolution) Book, author: Kostas M. Pitsiou, published in Athens in 1971 by Kariatydes.
Page 126, Line 261: Zarafonitis, D. Georgios of Sklavochori, Lakedaimonos

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Georgios Dimitrios Zarafonitis, Aristeia

 Soldier of sacred struggle was George Zarafonitis, who, immediately after the start of the revolution took up arms, and after he entered became the head of relatives who fought all the battles in Morea. During the invasion of Ibrahim Pasha, the house of Zarafonitis was burned by the Arabs to the ground, like many of his fellow countrymen.
 Zarafonitis sent an application to the state to recognize his services on 19 May 1846. The application was together with a certificate from the chieftains G. Sklavochoriti, P. Matalo, etc.
 In this certificate, the chieftains of Lacedaimon referred among others  “... Mr. Georgios Dimitrios Zarafonitis, citizen of  Sklavochori of the municipality Amykles of this province (Lacedaemon) from the beginning of the Holy Fight, in charge of his relatives, put himself under the direction of the chief Panagiotis Giatrakos, and he was with us in different battles like the siege of Tripolis, the battle of Fragoviso,  Kerasis, Ververa,Valtezi, Doliana, even in the siege of the fortress Nafplion, Corinth, Patras and when Dramali Pascha came in Argos, Vervenakia and after his disaster in Messinian forts against Arabs in Coroni, Methoni, and Neokastro, also in Kalamata in Verga of Almyro and in the horrible battle of Polyaravo*. This Greek during all the time of the revolution served military and did his duty with passion  and extreme obedience to his superior officers. from his certificate I can assume that he was a very good soldier. ...”
Source: Antonakos, Sarantos P., Amykles, page 250; 1982; Athens. Repository: Central Library of Sparta Greece; digitized July 2017 by Carol Kostakos Petranek

[He was applying for an aristeia to the Ministry of Defense]