Source: The supplied Ancestry indexes for the United States federal censuses, 1850–1880 and 1900–1930. Index spellings are retained where they help locate the entries. Original schedules remain important for checking handwriting, relationships, and columns omitted from an index.

Mary Ann’s birth range. Her ages of eighteen in 1870, twenty-seven in 1880, forty-seven in 1900, and fifty-six in 1910 give a broad range of about 1851–1854 when birthdays within each census year are allowed. They do not support a single exact birthday. Her reported 1918 death also requires a death record; Samuel’s widowed status establishes that she had died by 1920.

The marriage estimate. The 1870 household and the later thirty- and forty-year marriage durations support about 1870. They do not establish an exact wedding date or township. John Williams’s hotel occupation and the reported 27 August 1870 enumeration date come from the family account and should be checked against the full schedule.

The original Michigan death certificate for Samuel S. Gutherie records his death in Canton Township, Wayne County, on 29 November 1930, at 6:40 a.m. He was eighty-two years, one month, and fourteen days old. His birth is recorded as 15 October 1848 in Pennsylvania; his occupation was the oil business.

The certificate identifies him as the widower of Mary A. Gutherie, and names his parents as William Gutherie and Jane Stelle. His grandson, Samuel F. Gutherie, was the informant. It reports four years of residence in Canton Township. The principal cause of death appears to read croupous pneumonia, with the historical term senility entered as a contributory condition.

The burial or removal field gives Petrolia, Pennsylvania, on 2 December 1930. It does not name a cemetery. Bear Creek Cemetery is identified separately by the family account and memorial index.

Conflicting death month. The supplied Find a Grave index gives 29 October 1930. The original certificate supports 29 November. The memorial’s linked children also omit Samuel Addison, so that list should not be treated as a complete account of the family.

Source: Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867–1950; Samuel S. Gutherie, state office no. 82 10711, register no. 9; corresponding index file no. 010711. The certificate establishes Pennsylvania as his birthplace, while the more specific location near Millers Eddy comes from family research. Additional initials assigned to his parents in the memorial index are not established by this certificate.

Samuel’s records preserve several answers for his father William’s birthplace. These are reports made many years after William’s birth, and their agreement or disagreement needs to be considered alongside the earlier family evidence.

Samuel’s brother Hugh’s 1931 death certificate reports Ireland. The census respondents have not been identified in the supplied indexes; the Scotland entry in 1920 should not be dismissed on an assumption about who answered.

Ireland remains a research lead, but the conflicting reports must remain visible. These records do not establish a particular Irish or Scottish locality, nor do they establish William’s birth year. His census-based birth range belongs to the separate comparison of his own household evidence on the William Guthrie & Jane Steele Family Hub.

The Boyd County, Kentucky, marriage affidavit and certificate record S. A. Gutherie or Guthrie and Bettie G. Cabell, married at Ashland on 23 December 1915. Both were recorded as forty, widowed, and marrying for the second time. The officiant was W. C. Condit of the Presbyterian Church.

The groom was an oil worker, born in and residing in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. The record names his parents as a form of Sam Gutherie and Mary Williams. The father’s middle initial differs between the index and the handwriting. A search result naming Samuel and Mary as parents is therefore a reference to their son’s marriage, not evidence that they married in 1915.

Bettie’s parents are named as Dr. John Hunter and Rebecca Dixon, and her birthplace as Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Her stated age of forty conflicts with the reported age of seventy-five at her 1941 death. The certificate does not establish the maternal relationships of all the children in the Cabell family outline.

Source: Kentucky, U.S., Marriage Records, 1783–1965, film 002116499, image 727 of 1111; Boyd County affidavit and marriage certificate, 23 December 1915.

The estate appointment. Family research reports the appointment of Donald O. Blagg as administrator of S. A. Guthrie’s estate in Kanawha County, West Virginia, on 20 April 1917. That would place Samuel Addison’s death before the appointment; it is not his exact death date. Probate jurisdiction alone does not establish where he died. The original estate file and a death or burial record remain to be located and compared.

Delbert and Victoria’s family. Ethel Clift Phillips’s The Ancestors and Decendants of Charles Cary Clift (1982), printed pages 206–208, entries 357–361, covers the couple and their descendants. Page 206 includes their fiftieth-anniversary photograph. This compiled history contributes family relationships and memories, while its dates still require comparison with original records.

Alvin’s two households. The Clift history records two marriages and four children: two sons by Lillian, followed by a son and daughter of the second marriage. This supports three potential paternal branches through Alvin, subject to documenting the later generations.

Carl and Violet’s marriage. The original register of St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Butler, page 237, entry 187, records Carl S. Gutherie and Violet Watterson on 12 February 1927. Its Ancestry index agrees. Source: Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S., Church and Town Records, 1669–2013. With Violet’s reported July 1986 death, this places the marriage at about fifty-nine years.

Mary Elizabeth’s changing households. The supplied indexes trace Mary from Delbert and Victoria’s home in 1920 to the Kingsley household in Detroit in 1930, her brother Alvin’s Butler household in 1940, and Niles, Ohio, in 1950. The 1940 entry identifies her as divorced; the 1950 entry, indexed as Mary E. Lanlis, identifies her as separated. Lanlis is a search variant to consider alongside Laulis. Separation at a census does not establish the date of a later divorce.

The Ohio, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1774–1993 index, film 002424601, records Mary E. Gutherie’s marriage to Wilfred E. Kingsley on 11 October 1929 in Wood County. It names her parents as Delbert Gutherie and Victoria Clift. Her stated age of twenty-one differs from the reported 23 April 1909 birth date.

Obituaries and family connections. The 2016 obituary for Wilfred Ernest Kingsley Jr. connects him to the Kingsley family. The 2023 obituary for Melvin C. Gutherie Jr. gives his birth as 10 June 1932, rather than the 1933 year in the earlier outline, and confirms that his siblings Rosemary and Thomas predeceased him.

Other date questions. Goldie Magnolia Holmes’s reported birth date of 10 May 1925 is incompatible with her stated marriage age and her children’s birth years. The reported divorce filing date of 31 February 1936 is invalid. Neither has been silently reassigned to another event. Peter Cohlhepp’s 29 versus 30 October 1958 death date, and Ethel McMichael’s 1894 versus 1895 birth year, are compared in Anna’s family notes.

• Guthrie Research Tree. Samuel Steele Gutherie’s profile provides the starting point for the family’s collected records and citations. Follow the linked relatives to investigate the next generations. Access to some records may require an Ancestry account or subscription.
• Clift family history. Phillips, Ethel Clift. The Ancestors and Decendants of Charles Cary Clift. St. Louis, Missouri: Concordia Theological Seminary Offset Press, 1982. Consult printed pages 206–208, entries 357–361. Digital repository: Internet Archive.
• Riverside Cemetery, Plymouth, Michigan. Garry Packard’s Gutherie entries in the cemetery transcription record Melvin Charles’s burial on 15 February 1973 and Vera’s on 14 March 1975. These are burial dates, distinct from the reported death dates of 12 February and 10 March.
• William Guthrie & Jane Steele Family Hub. Return to the parents’ family for William’s origin question, Jane’s later Knox household, and Samuel’s siblings.

Search the variants. Relevant names appear as Gutherie, Guthrie, Gathrie, Gathra, and Guthrye. Also consider Steele/Stelle, Cohlhepp/Cohlhapp, and the differing forms of Llewelyn, Llewellyn, and Lewellyn. Compare dates, relatives, and places before treating a spelling difference as a different person.

• Samuel and Mary Ann’s marriage. A church register, family Bible, or contemporary notice could establish the exact date and place behind the estimate of about 1870.
• Mary Ann Williams’s birth and death records. These could narrow the census-based 1851–1854 birth range, confirm her parents and birthplace, and verify the reported 1918 death and Bear Creek burial.
• Earlier evidence for William Guthrie. Records of William himself, his marriage, migration, and household are needed to assess his birth range and the conflicting Ireland, Scotland, and United States reports. A named locality requires documentary support.
• John W.’s cemetery evidence. A clear photograph or cemetery register could strengthen the reading of his infant marker. His middle initial should remain W. unless a record supplies the full name.
• Samuel Addison’s estate and burial. Obtain the Kanawha County administration papers associated with the reported 20 April 1917 appointment, along with a death notice, death record, or cemetery entry. Tillie Ackman Gutherie’s precise 1906 death date also remains to be confirmed.
• Original records behind conflicting family dates. Priorities include Delbert, Victoria, and Lillian’s death certificates; Alvin’s full May 1972 obituary; Goldie Holmes’s birth, marriage, and divorce records; and Peter Cohlhepp and Ethel McMichael’s birth and death evidence.
• Records for Warren and Herbert Cohlhepp. Warren’s death certificate and Scout memorial photograph, Herbert’s 1937 marriage and Army records, and cemetery documentation would add direct evidence to their family accounts.
• Connections to the next generations. Marriage, birth, death, and obituary records can establish the father-to-son branches through Alvin and Samuel Addison’s sons. Family photographs, letters, and Bible pages are equally welcome.

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