1A-C: William C Guthrie
WILLIAM C GUTHRIE
Parents: William Guthrie b.1811-20 IRE – 1850 CA and Jane Steele 1822 PA – 1903PA
Birth / Location: 20 Apr 1850 in Perry Township, Armstrong, PA, USA
Occupation: Farmer
Marriage: Lavina Alice Crawford about 1875 in PA, USA
Death / Location: 14 May 1926 in Sugar Creek, Armstrong, PA, USA
Burial / Location: Crawford Cemetery at Bradys Bend, Armstrong, PA
LAVINIA ALICE CRAWFORD
Parents: William Crawford and Jemima Burford
Birth / Location: 1 Sep 1856 in Perry Township, Armstrong, PA, USA
Children: William Crawford (1876), James Samuel (1877), Anna Eliza (1879), Sidney Easton (1881), Jane May (1883), Jemina Alice (1887), Daniel Walker (1889), Hugh Loraine (1893), John Earl (1896), Mary Caroline (1899), FNU (Bef. 1900), FNU Guthrie (1900-10)
Death / Location: 10 Feb 1934 in Sugar Creek, Armstrong, PA, USA
Burial / Location: Crawford Cemetery at Bradys Bend, Armstrong, PA
NOTES:
What does that “C” stand for? It is definitely found in original documentation. His eldest son is named William Crawford Guthrie, which makes perfect sense as Crawford his his mother’s maiden name. Find-a-Grave simply lists the father’s name as William Crawford Guthrie, too, but is that legitimate or did someone assume the name was the same as his son’s?
William was born on 20 April 1850 in Perry Township. He never knew his own father who had gone to California as contracted construction labor (or possibly due to the Gold Rush) and drowned in a river there. During the 1850 census mother Jane (Steele) Guthrie was listed as the Head of Household with her five children aged 7 down to William’s 2 months. Jane remarried to George Knox six years later on 24 March 1856, and soon afterward there were younger siblings for William. The 1860 census is a combined Knox-Guthrie household at Millers Eddy in Perry Twp., Armstrong, PA. By the 1870 census, William had moved out of the household and was living at Isaac Steel’s farm at Brady’s Bend in Perry Twp., and working there as a farm laborer. The household listed next to Issac Steel’s on that census was William’s brother, Hugh Guthrie.
Before 1876, William married Lavinia Alice Crawford, b. 1 Sep 1856 in Perry Twp, Armstrong, PA to William and Jemima (Burford) Crawford. The couple settled on a farm at Sugar Creek in Armstrong County where they made a start on their very large family. They had 12 children born between 1876 and 1910, two of whom died young. William was a farmer throughout his life. He died on 14 May 1926 at Sugar Creek, and was buried at Crawford Cemetery at Bradys Bend. Lovina’s death followed on 10 Feb 1934.
CHILDREN: 12
Y-DNA Project Participants: Yes
Autosomal DNA Participants: Yes
CHILD 1: WILLIAM CRAWFORD GUTHRIE
1876 PA – 1955 PA
Family Status: (Married) Myrtle Maude Crawford (Children: 4)
Born in Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong, PA on 8 Jan 1876, William Crawford Guthrie was the eldest son in the family. His father was a farmer, and so he likely grew up learning those skills. William was 23 at his marriage to Myrtle Maude Crawford, a daughter of John Crawford, on 21 June 1899. They were only recently married during the 1900 census of Sugar Creek, farming, and were renting their home at the time. By 1910, their children had been born, Faye Elsie (1901), Helen M (1904), Cora B (1906), and William (1907). Their son William died prior to the census. They were still renting, and William was working as a bricklayer and farmhand while they lived in East Franklin, Armstrong, PA. By 1930, their daughters were all out of the house, so it was just William and Myrtle for the next 25 years. William Crawford Guthrie died at 79 years of age on 26 Feb 1955 in East Franklin. Chronic heart disease contributed to his death. Maude lived until 1962. She was 86 at her passing. They were buried at Cowansville Cemetery in East Franklin.
Guthrie Children: 4
1) Faye Elsie Guthrie 1 Aug 1901 PA – 14 Oct 1959 PA m. Oran R Peat (Children: 9)
Daughter Faye Elsie Guthrie was born in Cownansville, Armstrong, PA. Her father worked as a farm laborer. She married at 21 years of age to Oran Richard Peat (or Peate). He was a clay miner, and later worked as a Kill (Kiln?) Fireman in a sewer pipe factory. They were parents to 7 sons and 2 daughters: Richard William (1922), Harland Arthur (1924), Edwin Finley (1925), Chalmer Delbert (1927), Jean M (1930), James Joseph (1932), Robert Ralston (1933), Janet Marlene (1939), and Thomas Lamoine (1942). When she was 58 years old, Faye suffered from a stroke and died on 14 Oct 1959 at Kittanning, Armstrong, PA. Her husband Oran lived until 1986. They are buried at Worthington Presbyterian Cemetery.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
2) Helen Muriel Guthrie 8 Oct 1903 PA – Oct 1985 m. William Harrison Shaffer (Children: 3)
Born in East Franklin, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Helen Muriel Guthrie was a farmer’s daughter. She married William Harrison Shaffer about 1921-22. He was a sewer pipe laborer who later became a farm manager. They lived in West Franklin, Armstrong, PA. By 1950, they had moved to Smith, Washington, PA where William worked as a Shovel Operator for a Coal Mining Company. This couple had 3 children, a boy and 2 girls, but their eldest died of pneumonia at three and a half months of age. The children were William Lloyd (1923), Myrtle Maude (1925), and Margaret ‘Peggy’ Jane (1927). Helen’s husband William died 11 Dec 1975 and she followed ten years later in October 1985. They are buried at Cowansville Cemetery.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
3) Cora Beulah Guthrie 18 Jun 1905 PA – 27 Dec 1939 PA m. William Robert Loughry (Children: 2)
Youngest daughter Cora was born in Cowansville, Armstrong, PA. She married William Robert Loughry about 1930. Born in North Dakota, he was the son of James Alexander and Mary “Nina” Lucinda (Van Voorhis) Loughry. They had settled in Indiana County, PA while William was young. During WWI, he served with the Canadian Engineers. He was a laborer working odd jobs prior to their marriage. They were parents to Margaret Wilson (1930) and William Robinson (1934). Helen died shortly afterward on 27 Dec 1939 when she was only 34 years old. Widower William died just six years later on 22 Jun 1945. The children were only 15 and 9 at the time. They had been living at their aunt’s home since their mother’s death in 1939.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
4) William Paul Guthrie 15 Jun 1907 PA – 18 Jun 1907 PA (Died in Infancy)
Their infant son William Paul Guthrie was just 3 days old when he died of asphyxia.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Died in Infancy / No Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – Died in Infancy / No Descendants
CHILD 2: JAMES SAMUEL GUTHRIE
1877 PA – 1959 PA
Family Status: (Married) Ida Mae Snyder (Children: 3)
James Samuel Guthrie was born 12 Oct 1877 in Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, PA. He was 2 during the 1880 census. He married about 1899 to Ida Mae Snyder, who was slightly older, being born 29 Aug 1873. They remained in Sugarcreek where they rented a farm. James was a laborer finding work where it was available in the coal mines or odd jobs. During the 1940s he was working in the coal mines again, and then by 1950 as a government worker on the State Roads. He and Ida were parents to 3 children. James died from a stroke on 20 Sep 1959, and Ida on 11 Aug 1961. They are buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Frogtown, Armstrong, PA.
Guthrie Children: 3
1) James Arthur Guthrie 2 Mar 1900 PA – 23 Sep 1948 PA m. Josephine V Slaugenhaupt (Children: 6)
James was born in Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong, PA. He was 18 just in time for the WWI Draft. His registration card list him as farming for James Guthrie, presumably his father, listing his mother as his nearest relative for contact. During the 1920 census, the 19 year old was working the same jobs as his father, this time in the coal mines as miner. He married about 1927 to Josephine Van Salugenhaupt, a daughter of John and Mary (Summerville) Slaughenhaupt. The couple had 2 sons and 4 daughters. James was at the right age (41) to have to sign up for the WWII draft as well. He died on 23 Sep 1948. Josephine lived until 1994. They are buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Frogtown, Armstrong, PA.
Children: 6
Y-DNA Project Participants: No
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
2) Vernie Jane Guthrie 1901 PA – 1991 PA m. Floyd Craig Wiles (Children: 2)
Daughter Vernie Jane Guthrie was born in 1901. She married Floyd Craig Wiles about 1920. They settled in Bradys Bend. Floyd worked for the Railroad Company as a Brakeman / Switchman. They had a daughter, Grace, born in 1921, and a son, Floyd Herbert born in 1923. At 66 years of age, Floyd suffered a stroke and died on 30 Jan 1966. Vernie was 90 at her death in 1991. They were buried at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Children: 2
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
3) Wesley Sidney Guthrie 10 Dec 1905 PA – 7 Feb 1991 PA m1. Helen Viola Holder (Children: 5), m2. Wilda Maude Bond (Children: 4)
James and Ida’s youngest child was Wesley Sidney Guthrie, born on 10 Dec 1905. He was about 20 years old at his first marriage to Helen Viola Holder, a daughter of Joseph A and Mary E (Lynch) Holder. They had 4 sons and a daughter. Helen died in Kittanning, Armstrong, PA on 13 Apr 1934 of septicemia following a miscarriage. The widower married his younger brother’s widow, Mrs Wilda Maude (Bond) Guthrie, a daughter of William C. and Mary A. (Rodgers) Bond. She had been previously married to Wilbert Hugh Gutherie (1914-1940), the son of Hugh L and Lillie J (Snyder) Guthrie, a grandson of William C and Lavina Alice (Crawford) Guthrie. She had 2 daughters from that marriage, and they added another 2 sons and 2 daughters to the family. Wesley worked as a Limestone Mine Driller. He died in Chicora, Butler, PA on 7 Feb 1991. Wilda lived 7 years after her husband’s death. She was 84 at her passing on 6 March 1998 in Zelienople, Butler, PA. Wesley is buried at Oak Grove Cemetery. Wilda is buried at Crawford Cemetery and shares a stone with her first husband, Wilbert Gutherie.
Children: 9
Y-DNA Project Participants: No
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
CHILD 3: ANNA ELIZA GUTHRIE
1879 PA – 1921 OH
Family Status: (Married) Arthur Samuel Fullerton (Children: 8)
Anna Eliza Guthrie was born on 10 July 1879 in Armstrong County a year before the 1880 census. Her parents were living and farming in Sugar Creek Township. She married at 21 years of age to Arthur Samuel Fullerton on 26 Sep 1900. He was a year older being born on 14 June 1878 in Clearfield County, PA to Harry and Clara Fullerton. by the 1910 census, Arthur and Annie had moved from Pennsylvania to Smith, Mahoning County, Ohio, taking her brother Daniel W Guthrie with them. Their growing family already included 5 children. Arthur had steady work as a Kiln Placer in the Pottery Industry, and they owned their own home with a mortgage. The red haired, grey-eyed Arthur Samuel Fullerton, completed his draft registration card listing wife Annie as his contact. In 1920, Arthur was working as a barber in a Barber Shop. Annie died on 20 March 1921 less than a month after the birth of their daughter Anna. She was buried at Grandview Cemetery in Sebring, Mahoning, OH. Arthur died on 7 Nov 1943 at 64 years of age in Lexington, Stark, OH. His body was returned to Grandview Cemetery for burial.
Fullerton Children: 8
1) Thelma Iora Fullerton 29 Mar 1902 PA – Dec 1994 HI m. Delbert Dewey Craven (Children: 0)
With a household full of siblings, being the eldest at seventeen years old, Thelma was already working in the pottery industry as a liner during the 1900 census. Her mother Anna died of septicemia in March 1921 likely related to childbirth. No doubt Thelma, who was already a productive member of the family, was thrust into a role with even more responsibility. Sometime before 1930, Thelma married Delbert Dewey Craven, a son of Creed and Seba (Wright) Craven, born in West Virginia on 1 Aug 1898. Delbert was a resident of Mahoning County, OH prior to his completion of his WWI Draft Registration Card in 1918 where he listed his mother as his nearest relative. In 1930, Delbert and Thelma where living in Sebring, Mahoning, Ohio where he was an Iron Worker and Thelma continued her work as a Pottery Liner. Her 9 year old sister Anna Kathleen was living with them at the time. This was the infant born just prior to their mother Anna’s death, so it is possible that Thelma raised her. She is still living with them ten years later in 1940, along with another brother, Arthur Junior Fullerton. At that point, they had moved to Beloit, Mahoning, OH where Delbert was working as a Structural Worker in the Steel Industry. Thelma was still working in the Pottery Industry where she was the co-owner of Craven’s China Company. By 1950, Delbert and Thelma were on their own as Kate (Anna Kathleen) had married several years earlier. Delbert was now a superintendent in the same Steel Structural Work industry, but Thelma had stopped her outside work and remained a homemaker. About 1963 Delbert and Thelma retired to Hawaii. He died in Waianae on 8 Feb 1970 at 71, and Thelma in Dec 1994 at 92.
Children: 0
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie / No Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Descendants
2) William ‘Lloyd’ Fullerton 28 Sep 1903 PA – 21 Jan 1964 OH m. Eliza Rebecca Amelia Metzgar (Children: 0)
The eldest son of the family, Lloyd worked alongside his father from a young age as the barber’s helper. He was still single in 1930 at 26, and working as a Pool Room Clerk in Sebring, Mahoning, Ohio and living as a lodger along with several others at a home or boarding house with restaurant proprietor Oliver Newton and family. By 1940, he had married Elizabeth Rebecca Amelia Metzgar, born 23 Nov 1900, a daughter of George T and Maggie (Johnston) Metzgar from Columbiana County, OH. She had previously married Clyde Bailey on 12 Apr 1921 in Hancock, WV. Uncertain if the marriage ended with his death or a divorce. She was still Mrs Bailey on 20 Sep 1926 when a guest at a surprise party in East Liverpool, OH. Lloyd and Eliza lived in Sebring, Mahoning, OH. They had no children. She died on 13 Jan 1963, and Lloyd followed in death the next year on 21 Jan 1964. They are buried at Grandview Cemetery in Sebring.
Children: 0
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie / No Known Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: No Known Descendants
3) Harold Lester Fullerton 16 Jun 1905 OH – 28 Dec 1957 OH m. Frances Lillian Faulkner (Children: 13)
Born in Sebring, Mahoning, Ohio, Harold resided within the same vicinity the majority of his life. 1921 was a keystone year as his mother Anna died. The older kids were working and helping with the care of the youngest. Harold shows up on the Canadian Immigration Service Report for Border Crossings from US to Canada on 8 Sep 1925 arriving at Niagara Falls and listing himself as a factory worker. The report is blurred, so his intent there is unclear as to whether he is present for work or simply visiting. He married Frances Lillian Faulkner in Hancock, WV. They settled in Smith Township and started building a large family while Harold worked as a Construction Company laborer. Their 11 children were born between 1932 and 1949. Harold was employed by the Jacobs Trucking Company when he completed his WWII Draft Card in 1940. Harold died on 28 Dec 1957. Frances died on 6 Oct 1973 at 60 years of age. They are buried at Grandview Cemetery in Sebring.
Children: 13
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
4) Vera Lavina Fullerton 28 Aug 1907 PA – 28 Feb 1999 OH m. LeRoy George Hurford (Children: 1)
Being about 14 when her mother Anna died, Vera was still in school, but old enough to help with the younger children. She was 27 in 1934 when she married LeRoy George Hurford aka Nick. They lived in Alliance, Stark County, and had 1 daughter born in 1935. Vera worked as a pottery decorator in 1940 while Nick was a laborer for American Steel Foundries. Vera’s 20 year old brother, Truman Fullerton, lived with them at the time while he worked on a dairy farm as a farmhand. In 1950, Nick was working as a truck driver for a Retail Builder Supply Company and Vera continued her work as a potter for the China company. Nick’s death came on 11 Apr 1974 in Alliance, Stark, Ohio. He was 69. Vera lived another 25 years. She died on 28 Feb 1999. They are buried at the Alliance City Cemetery.
Children: 1
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
5) Earl Lorraine Fullerton 13 Oct 1909 OH – 8 Apr 1919OH (Died Young)
Earl was born in Sebring, Mahoning County, Ohio, the third son of five children in a growing family. He was an otherwise active and healthy boy when he died on 8 April 1919. Newspapers across the state of Ohio carried notice of his death. The Cincinnati Enquirer printed a Special Dispatch to the Enquirer. Alliance, Ohio, April 7–Earl Fullerton, 10 years old, of Sebring, died to-day of injuries received Saturday when wrestling with two playmates. The boy was thrown violently to the ground, his spine was broken and right shoulder fractured. The Lima Gazette and The Lima Republican added further details. “He was thrown violently to the ground and his spine broken. He was paralyzed and later lapsed into unconsciousness from which he never recovered.” The Fulton County Tribune simply reported that he “died of injuries received while wrestling with two playmates.” One hundred years later the story was shared again in The Past in Review. Note that there is a discrepancy with Earl’s DOB. The OH Birth index lists the year as 1908, but his death certificate lists 1909.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie / Died Young / No Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: No Descendants
6) Arthur Junior Fullerton 12 Jun 1917 OH – 3 Aug 1993 HI m. Miyo Ono (Children: 3)
Arthur was born in Sebring, Mahoning, Ohio. He worked as a laborer in the Structural industry and was hired by Pan American Airlines functioning as a storekeeper during the 1950 census. He was stationed in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii where he married Miyo Ono. Born on Maui 28 Nov 1920, she was the daughter of Tokumatsu and Minei (Ji) Ono who were Japanese-born residents. They had married in Honolulu, Oahu in 1914. While still living in Oahu, Tokumatsu Ono, a sailor working for the Honolulu Junk Company, signed his WWI Draft Registration Card, which was required even though Hawaii was a US Territory and he was still a Japanese citizen. Miyo’s father had also been back to Japan for a visit departing Yokohama 13 Jul 1940 and arriving in Honolulu on the 21st. Two years later, on 25 Apr 1942, just a few months after the attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, he completed his WWI Draft Registration, noted to be missing his left eye. Miyo’s father died in 1946. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin on 6 Apr 1948 reported: Fullerton-Ono–March 30, Arthur Junior Fullerton and Miss Miyo Ono. The couple had 3 daughters. Arthur, 76, died on 3 Aug 1993 in Aiea, Honolulu, Hawaii. His widow Miyo lived until 3 March 2007, She was 86.
Children: 3
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
7) Truman LeRoy Fullerton 2 Jun 1919 OH – 7 Jun 2003 OH m. Nellie Margaret Clark (Children: 4)
The youngest Fullerton son was born in Sebring, Mahoning, Ohio, but moved soon afterward to Smith, and again the following year after his mother’s unexpected death to Stark County, Ohio. The 1930 census for this family has not been found. The 1940 census lists them in Rural Stark County in 1935. By 1940 when Truman was 20, he was living with his sister Vera and her husband Leroy Hurford having found employment in Alliance as a farm hand.
On 16 Oct 1940, he completed his WWII Draft Registration Card, and soon afterward he was enlisted as a private. His records indicate his civil life included semiskilled occupations in production of clay products since many of the family were involved in clay mining and pottery production. He was enlisted at Cleveland, Ohio on 29 July 1942, serving in the US, and discharged from the Army on 1 Feb 1946.
Truman married while he was in the service to Nellie Margaret Clark on 8 June 1943 in Kentucky. Nellie was a daughter of Lucian B and Minnie L (Dalton) Clark, born on 4 Jun 1923 in Popular Hill, Kentucky. They lived in Alliance, Stark, Ohio raising their son and 3 daughters. Nellie died on 5 June 2001 at 78 years old. Truman’s death came two years later on 7 June 2003 at Alliance City Hostpial. He was 84 years of age.
Children: 4
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
8) Anna Kathleen Fullerton 26 Feb 1921 OH – 10 Oct 1998 OH m. Laurence C Hoover (Children: 2)
Kate was born a mere 22 days before her mother Anna died of septicemia. The infant appears to have been raised primarily by her eldest sister, Thelma Iora (Fullerton) Craven who turned 18 nine days after her mother passed away. The family lived in Mahoning County, either in Smith or Sebring Townships during the 1920s and early 1930s. By 1935 they had moved to Beloit. Kate’s brother-in-law, Delbert Craven worked as a Structural Worker, while sister Thelma was involved in the Craven Art Pottery Company. Their brother Arthur was living with them, too during the 1940 census. Kate married Laurence Charles Hoover on 24 Jan 1942, a son of John Hoover of Portage County. Laurence had been working for Chapman Bros. when he signed his WWII Draft Registration Card on 16 Oct 1940, the census does not identify his specific occupation. In 1940 he was working as a machine operator at a Storm Window plant, while Kate was a tinter in the pottery business. They had a daughter born in 1943 and a son in 1952. Laurence died when he was 64 in Alliance, Stark, Ohio on 5 Nov 1982. Kate’s death came a few years later on 10 Oct 1998 at 77 years old. They are buried at Alliance City Cemetery.
Children: 2
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
CHILD 4: SIDNEY EASTON GUTHRIE
1881 PA – 1969 OH
Family Status: (Married) Margaret Jane Campbell (Children: 2)
Due to the destruction of the 1890 US Census, the first appearance in those records for Sidney Easton Guthrie is in 1900 Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong, PA. He is already 18 years of age, still single, and working as a Farm Laborer, most likely for his parents as he is still residing with them and his many siblings. Ten years go by, and nothing much has changed for Sidney. He is still single, still at home with his parents, and now a full fledged farmer on the Home Farm. On 17 June 1914, at 34, Sidney finally got around to marriage. His bride was 21 year old Margaret Jane Campbell, a daughter of Joseph C and Ella (McClure) Campbell. Margaret, called Maggie, was born in Clarion, PA on 20 May 1893. Sidney and Margaret moved to Sligo, Clarion, PA, presumably closer to her parents, where he worked as a coal miner for the Keystone Mining Company. They had a daughter, Audrey McClure (1915), and a son Sidney Easton (1917). Maggie died on 6 Sep 1944 at 51 years of age. Sydney’s death came 22 years later on 14 Aug 1968. He had moved to Ohio to make his home with his son in East Liverpool, Columbiana County.
Guthrie Children: 2
1) Audrey McClure Guthrie 25 Jun 1915 PA – 22 Mar 1942 PA m. George Maxwell Craig (Children: 2)
Sidney and Margaret’s daughter Audrey McClure Guthrie was born in Rimersburg, Clarion, Pennsylvania. She married George ‘Maxwell’ Craig about 1933. He was the son of Leslie David & Bessie Lee (Wyman) Craig from Sligo, Clarion, PA. Max worked as a grocery store clerk in 1940. They had 2 children, Carl M (1935) and Audrey L (1939). At the age of 26, on 22 March 1942, Audrey died of pneumonia after being ill for 5 days. She was buried at Sligo Cemetery. Max remarried in August of that year to Phyllis Bonnie Logue, but they divorced about 1950. Max died on 23 Aug 2001 in Butler, Butler County, PA. He is buried at Gruenwald Cemetery in Herman, Butler, PA.
Children: 2
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
2) Sidney Easton Guthrie Jr 14 Dec 1917 PA – 2 Jun 1988 PA m. Clara Ruth River (Children: 2)
Born in Rimersburg, Clarion, Pennsylvania, Sidney Easton Guthrie lived about half his life in that location. He was born on 14 Dec 1917 about the time his father would have had to register for the WWI draft. The 1940 census listed him as a single man living in his parents’ home on Chestnut Street in Rimersburg and employed as a miner. Later that year, Sidney joined the US military on 1 Oct 1940 serving for a period of nearly five years. He was discharged 9 Sep 1945. His obituary states that he was a member of the Eight Air Force Historical Society and a veteran of the U.S Air Force during WWII. He married Clara Ruth River. They settled in Industry, Beaver County, PA. They had a son Howard and Daughter Linda. He died at 70 years of age on 2 Jun 1988, survived by his wife and children. Clara died in 1998.
Y-DNA Project Participants: No
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
CHILD 5: JANE “JENNIE” MAY GUTHRIE
1883 PA – 1925 PA
Family Status: (Married) John Calvin Snyder (Children: 9)
Jennie May was born on 2 November 1883 in Sugarcreek Township, Armstrong, PA. The 1900 census finds her living in her parents’ home with her siblings, 16 years old, and still attending school. Her father was a farmer. On 8 May 1902, Jennie and John Calvin Snyder were married in Armstrong County. He was a son of Samuel Porter and Mary J (Myers) Snyder. They would have ten children born between 1902 and 1922. They were living in Bradys Bend, Armstrong, PA in 1910 and Sugarcreek in 1920 while John worked as a coal miner.
The Clarion Democrat published the following on Tuesday, 23 Jul 1940:
Mrs John Snyder, a most highly esteemed christian lady of Madison township, aged 41 years, 8 months, and 9 days, died in the hospital at Kittening, following an operation for cancer, on Saturday, July 11, 1925. She was a daughter of Mr and Mrs Wm. Guthrie and was born in Armstrong County. She was married to Mr. Snyder and they made their home in Madison township. She is survived by her husband who left the hospital, where he had been treated for blood poisoning, the same day his wife was admitted as a patient. Ten children also survive all of whom are at home, except one son, who lives in Pittsburgh. Her parents also survive, with six brothers and two sisters, one one grandchild. She was a true christian woman and a member of Sandy Hollow M.E. Church. Her funeral was conducted by Rev. S.H. Bartlett, of Rimersburgh, on July 14th and the internment took place in Crawford cemetery.
John Snyder did not remarry and altered his occupation to farming. He lived another 30 years. John’s death came on 9 Oct 1955 at 77 years of age. His remains were interred at Rimersburg Cemetery in Clarion County, PA.
Snyder Children: 10
1) Harry Joseph Snyder 29 Oct 1802PA – 24 Jun 1988PA m. Flossie L Gallagher (Children: 3)
Harry was born in Armstrong County, PA where he lived until adulthood. He was already working as a coal miner by 17 years of age. At the time of his mother’s death in 1925, he had been living in Pittsburgh, but returned afterward. He married Flossie L Gallagher about 1934, They lived in Madison Twp, Clarion, PA and raised 3 sons.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants – No
2) Lincoln William Snyder 11 Aug 1904PA – 19 Apr 1946PA m. Nellie Marie Noonan (Children: 3)
Lincoln was working as a coal miner at 15 years of age. By 1930 he was a mule driver for the coal mine, married to Nellie Marie Noonan, and owned his home. The couple had 3 children, a boy and two girls. Lincoln died on 19 Apr 1946, but Nellie lived until she was 84 dying on 9 Jun 1991. They are buried at Rimersburg Cemetery in Clarion, PA.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants – No
3) Elsie Lavine Snyder 2 Feb 1907PA – May 1984 PA m. Albert Conrap Sepp (Children: 3)
Born in Armstrong County, PA, Elsie Lavine Snyder married when she was 20 years old to Albert Conrap Sepp on 19 Feb 1927 in Wellsburg, Brooke, WV. Making their home in Swissvale, Allegheny, PA, they had 3 sons born bet. 1928 – 1941. Albert was a bench hand at the Water Works in 1930, a Boiler Maker at the Steel Mill in 1940. By 1950, the family had moved to Rimersburgh, Clarion, PA where Albert worked loading coal for the Coal Mines. He died 25 July 1965 in Vanport, Beaver, PA. Elsie died in May 1084 and is buried at Sylvania Hills Memorial Park in Rochester, Beaver, PA.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants – No
4) Chester Samuel Snyder 24 Oct 1908 PA – 1980OH m. Nellie Viola Chandler (Children: 4)
This child’s original birth certificate incorrectly listed him as “Un-named Female Snyder”. A correction was submitted identifying him as Chester Samuel Snyder and male. He was born in Kaylor, Bradys Bend Township, Armstrong County, PA on 24 Oct 1908. His mother’s death came when he was about 14-15 years old. By the 1930 census, Chester was 21, still single, and working as an unpaid farmhand on the home farm. He married Nellie Viola Chandler, a daughter of William Nelson and Annette Viola (Luther) Chandler, about 1934. They settled in Madison, Clarion, PA. He had no occupation listed during the 1940 census, was listed as currently unemployed, but seeking work. Nellie was listed as a housewife. During the next census in 1950, Chester was working for the Keystone Company mining coal. The couple had 2 sons and 2 daughters born bet. 1935 – 1938. Chester died on 23 Oct 1980 in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio. Nellie died on 21 May 2000 in Campbell, Mahoning, Ohio. They are both buried at the Rimersburg Cemetery in Clarion, PA.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants – No
5) Clarence Sylvester Snyder 4 Apr 1910PA – 31 May 1973OH m. Helen Kathryn Mahood (Children: 7)
Clarence was born in Kaylor, Bradys Bend Township, Armstrong, PA. During the five-year period after his mother’s death, his father John quit mining and took up farming in Madison, Clarion, PA. Clarence was 19 during the 1930 census and was basically an unpaid worker on the family farm, which no doubt helped his widowed father to keep the family fed and the youngest children in school. Clarence started working for the Keystone Mining Company as a miner. He married about 1833 to Helen Kathryn Mahood, and they became parents to 2 sons and 5 daughters. Their first, Calvin James Snyder, was born prematurely and lived for 4 days. During the 1940 census, they were living in Madison, but moved by 1950 to Clintonville in Venango, PA. That census is a bit iffy on his employment status. The code for Out of Work is crossed out and replaced by “WN”, but the rest of the page lists “WK” for people working. It lists no hours worked the previous week, that he was not seeking work, and no occupation or employer was on the page. No other records found to reveal why. Clarence died on 31 May 1973 in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio. Helen lived another 15 years. She died on 2 Dec 1987 in Leesburg, Mercer County, PA. Both are buried at Rimersburg Cemetery.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants – No
6) Hugh Loraine Snyder 10 Jan 1911 PA – 22 Oct 1985 PA m. Anna Elizabeth Flick (Children: 4)
Hugh was born in Armstrong County, PA. The family was living in Sugarcreek Township during the 1920 census when he was 8 years old. His father was then working as a coal miner. Hugh’s mother died when he was about 13 or 14 years old, and the family moved to Madison, Clarion County, PA and took up farming. by the next census, Hugh was done with school. He was 18 years old and working in the coal mines. A couple of years later he married Anna Elizabeth Flick. They had 2 sons and 2 daughters. They were living in Kittanning when Anna died on 19 May 1984. Hugh followed the next year on 22 Oct 1985 in New Kensington, Westmoreland, PA. They are buried at Rimersburg Cemetery.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants – No
7) Mildred Jane Snyder 25 Apr 1916 PA – 1 Mar 2004 PA m1. Walter James Henry (Children: 7), m2. George D Buzzard (Children: None, Stepchildren: 3)
Mildred’s obituary published in the Leader Times (Kittanning, PA) on Monday, 15 Mar 2004 tells us that she was born on 25 Apr 1916 in Cowansville. She attended the Sandy Hollow School and the Monarch School. She was employed in the decorating department at Owen Illinois Glass Plant, Clarion, from 1950 to 1958. Enjoyed crafts, quilting, bowling, and playing dominoes. Mildred’s first husband was Walter James Henry, They married 6 July 1936 and had 3 sons and 4 daughters. Walter died in 1993 and Mildred remarried 28 Dec 1982 to George Donald “Bud” Buzard, a widower previously married to Rena Silvia Switzer, with whom he had a son and two daughters. Bud died 19 April 1993 at 78 and is buried at Rimersburg Cemetery with his first wife.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants – No
8) Vernie Grace Snyder 8 aug 1918 PA – 30 May 2002 PA m1. William Franklin Henry (Children: 2), m2. Russell Elwood Switzer (Children: 1)
Born in Cowansville, Armstrong, PA on 8 August 1918, Vernie was first married at about 17 years old to William Franklin Henry. They had a son, Leroy, and daughter Margaret. William Franklin Henry was the twin brother of Walter James Henry, her sister Mildred’s husband. William was a miner who was killed by a rock fall on 28 May 1939 while employed by the Keystone Mining Company. The 1940 census shows Vernie, widowed, living as the Head of Household in a rented home in Madison, Clarion, PA with her son Leroy, 4. Not employed or seeking work, she is designated as having other income. Uncertain if there was a settlement with Keystone. Oddly, her daughter Margaret is not living with her, but is instead in the home of Alvin Edgar Guntrum, 40, an unmarried Works Project laborer, Margaret Henry, 2, is listed as his daughter. During the early 1940s, Vernie married Russell Elwood Switzer. His family owned a junk business and he worked for them as a driver. They had a daughter born about 1945. The 1850 census shows Russell and Vernie living with Margaret, 12, who is back with her mother and listed as Russell’s stepdaughter, and their own daughter who is 5, but not Vernie’s son Leroy Henry. Is Vernie’s son actually the Leroy J Henry living in her sister’s household in 1950? He is labelled as a son rather than a nephew. Russell Switzer died in 1993, and Vernie on 30 May 2002 in Sligo, Clarion, PA. She was buried with her second husband at Rimersburg Cemetery.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants – No
9) Arthur Melvin Snyder 31 Dec 1921 PA – 13 Apr 1949 PA m. Lois Elinor Barr (Children: 4)
Named “Arthur Melvin” by his parent, he preferred “Jack”. He was born on 31 December 1921 in Madison Township, Clarion, PA. After his mother’s death, his father farmed, and the older children worked or helped with the care of the younger children, Arthur and his youngest siblings were able to continue in school. There is a Melvin Snyder, 17, documented as attending the Pennsylvania Industrial School in Smithfield, Huntingdon, PA, which was actually a reform school. He married Lois Elinor Barr about 1942, the same year he completed his WWII Draft Registration Card. He listed his employer as Hugh Snyder. Jack and Lois had 3 sons and 1 daughter born between 1943 and 1946. At about 5:10PM on 11 April 1949 in Toby Township, Clarion, Pennsylvania on Route 68, Jack’s car collided with a truck causing internal injuries that sent him into shock. He died about 7Am on April 13th at Butler County Memorial Hospital. He was buried on 17 Apr 1949 at Rimersburg Cemetery in Clarion County, PA. The 1950 census lists widow Lois Snyder as the head of her household where she keeps house for her children and a lodger, Chester Corman, then separated from his wife and currently out of work although his usual occupation was a coal miner. Chester had married Margaret Elizabeth Croyle about 1940 and they had a daughter, Caroline Beverly Corman born the following year. Their marriage apparently did not survive the death of their daughter in 1941. She died of measles at 1 year of age on 24 April 1941. Margaret moved back in with her parents and Chester boarded with the Snyder family. Either Chester did not seek a divorce, or Margaret would not grant one. Chester and Lois became close and developed a romantic relationship. They had two children born in the early 1950s. Chester finally received a divorce on 20 Sep 1989 and he married Lois twenty days later on 10 Oct 1989 in Colonial Heights, Virginia. Chester developed pulmonary and renal failure and died a few months later on 25 March 1990 at 70 years of age. Lois continued to live in Virginia. She died in Hopewell, Virginia on 20 April 2002 and is buried with Chester at Bermuda Memorial Park in Enon, Chesterfield, Virginia.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants – No
10) Arnold George Snyder 31 Dec 1922 PA – 1944 GER (Unmarried)
The youngest member of the family attended school in Madison, Clarion, Pennsylvania. He worked on the farm with his father in Rimersburg. When WWII Draft Registration was required, Arnold was 20 years old. On 10 Dec 1942, he entered active service in the US Army at Pittsburgh, Allegheny, PA. PFC Arnold G. Snyder served in Company C, 99th Division, 393rd Infantry. He was deployed to the European Arena and engaged in military duty there until he was Killed in Action on 17 Dec 1944. His body was returned to Rimersburg Cemetery for burial and a Military Headstone planted. His father filed the WWII Compensation Application to be used in case of death in service. He was awarded full compensation of $500 on 14 Aug 1960.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie / No Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants – No Descendants
CHILD 6: JEMINA “MINA” ALICE GUTHRIE
1887 PA – 1968 PA
Family Status: (Married) Oliver Brooks Young (Children: 10)
Jemina Alice Guthrie was born on 30 March 1887 in Sugarcreek Township, Armstrong, Pennsylvania. At 19, she married Oliver Brooks Young on 20 Jun 1906 in East Brady, Clarion, PA. He was a son of Isaiah and Lydia (McCoy) Young. Isaiah was a farmer. He and “Mina” lived in Sugarcreek, Washington, and Perry Townships. He listed his occupation as a Teamster during the WWI Draft. They had a large family: Sidney Easton (1907), Myrtle Lovina (1909), Hazel Marie (1910) William Isaac (1913), Walter Earl (1915), Gladys Catherine (1916), Leslie Clarence (1921), Delbert Lorraine (1923), Annabelle Emma (1925), and Hartzelle Derwood (1930). Oliver died on 22 Nov 1956 and Mina on 27 Nov 1968. They are buried at Crawford Cemetery in Brady’s Bend.
Young Children: 10
1) Sidney Easton Young 31 July 1907 PA – 19 Oct 1992 PA m. Margaret Hannah Umbaugh (Children: 1 )
Sidney and Margaret married on 10 Jan 1939 in East Kittanning, Armstrong, PA. He worked as a laborer on the State Road, a farm hand, and later a Grader Operator in the Strip Mining industry. The couple adopted Sidney’s nephew, the son of his sister Annabelle after her death. Margaret died in 1986, and Sidney in 1992. They are buried at Lawn Haven Burial Estates in Worthington, Armstrong, PA.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
2) Myrtle Lavina Young 19 Feb 1909 PA – 15 July 1929 PA (Unmarried / Children: 0)
Born in Armstrong County, Myrtle Lovina Young was living at home with her parents, Ollie and Mina, when she was hit by a moving vehicle on the State Hwy in E Franklin Township. She suffered a concussion and died at 2:45PM on 15 July 1929. Myrtle was buried on the 17 July 1929 at Crawford Cemetery in Cowansville, PA.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie / No Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Descendants
3) Hazel Marie Young 19 Dec 1910 PA – 2 Apr 1989 PA m. Carl Edward Heilman (Children: 1)
Hazel was born in Kaylor, Armstrong County, PA on 19 Dec 1910. Her parents lived in Washington township during the 1920s and 1930s where she was listed with the family. Hazel married Carl Edward Heilman on 29 April 1935. He was a steel worker, and a son of Herman P and Celia L (Boards) Hellman. On 16 Oct 1940 they lived in Tarentum, Fawn Twp, Allegheny, PA. Carl was employed by the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp,. and 33 years of age when he completed his WWII Draft Registration Card. Hazel and Carl had no children of their own, but raised one of their nephew’s after Annabelle Young Musloe’s death. Carl died on 2 July 1988 and Hazel the following year on 2 Apr 1989 in Natrona Heights, Allegheny, PA. They are both buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland, PA.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
4) William Isaac Young 10 Jul 1913 PA – Nov 1978 PA (Unmarried? / Children: 1)
William was born in Adrian, Pennsylvania., Ollie and Mina’s fourth child and second son. He worked in the lumber industry in PA, KY, and OH. He had a daughter born about 1945 in KY. He died in November of 1978 and is buried in Crawford Cemetery.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
5) Walter Earl Young 29 Jun 1915 PA – Jan 1980 PA (Marital Status / Children: Unknown)
Walter was born in Washington, Armstrong, PA on 29 June 1915, He was 25 years old when he completed his WWII Draft Registration card identifying his father as the person who will always know his address, both of them residing at R.D. #2 in East Brady Township, Armstrong, PA. Walter was working for Eljer Pottery in Ford. City at the time. His DOB is connected with the SSDI record for a death date of Jan 1980. His SSN was issued in Ohio, last residence in Kittanning, and last benefit paid to a relative in East Brady. An obituary is indexed for Walter E Young, Kittanning, PA published by the Butler Eagle 17 Jan 1980 p6 (Butler Area Public Library Film # 483). Historical obituaries for Butler County, PA do not appear to be available online.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
6) Gladys Catherine Young 3 Feb 1916 PA – 28 Jul 1956 PA m1 James Hollobaugh (Children: 2), m2.John Calvin Hiles (Children: 3)
Gladys was born in Washington Township, Armstrong, PA. She had 2 sons with James Hollobaugh prior to her marriage with John Calvin Hiles about 1935-6. They lived in Bradys Bend Township. During the 1940 census, the couple was living with John’s widowed father, William H Hiles, a coal miner. John was working as a laborer at the Limestone Corporation. Gladys’s Hollobaugh boys were listed, ages 8 and 6, along with the newest member of the family, another son, aged 2. All three boys were listed as grandsons and under the Hiles surname. The 1950 census clears up the relationships as the Hollobaugh boys are listed both with their birth surnames and as stepsons. The family has grown to include another Hiles son and daughter. They are now living in their own house on a 3-acre plot, next to the household of Charles H Holes and family. John is still employed by the same Limestone mining corporation as a stone driller. Gladys died of metastatic uterine cancer on 28 July 1956. She was only 40 years old. Just three years later, at 49 John Hiles died of sudden cardiac arrest. Their youngest was only about 15. Both are buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Frogtown, Armstrong, PA.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
7) Leslie C. Young 11 Oct 1921 PA – 6 Jan 2002 m. Rose Marie Wiles (Children: 2)
Ollie and Mina’s sixth child Leslie was born on 11 Oct 1921, but was his middle name Clarence or Charles? Most documents simply list him as Leslie C Young. His WWII Draft Card is written as “Leslie Clarence Young” and he signed it “Leslie C Young”. The card itself appears to be filled out by the registrar and simply signed by the actual registrant. The only place the name “Leslie Charles” is found is a family website. Clarification? Leslie lived with his parents in 1940 when he was 18 and working as a laborer at a sawmill. In 1942, when he filled out his draft card, he was working for the National Electrics Products Corp. in Ambridge, Beaver, PA. He was still single in 1950, but had found work at the Strip Mining Corp. as a Digger Operator. On 6 May 1950, Leslie married Rose Marie Wiles, a daughter of Ross Albert and Catherine Mae (Foreigner) Wiles. She worked for the Russell Bennett Studio for 13 and as an activity director for the Chicora Medical center for 22 years. A member of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicora, she enjoyed baking, playing cards and bingo, and traveling. Leslie died on 6 Jan 2002 and Rose on 7 May 2009. They are buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Frogtown, Armstrong, PA.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
8) Delbert Lorraine Young 26 May 1923 PA – 25 Dec 1996 PA m. Eleanor M. Crawford (Children: 3)
Delbert was born in Cowansville, Armstrong, PA on 26 May 1923. When he was 17, he was working as a farm hand. On 30 Jun 1942, he completed his WWII Draft Registration listing his residence in Perry Township, and his mother Mina Young as his primary contact. He was working at that time in Kaylor, PA for the Western Allegheny Railroad. Delbert enlisted as a Private in the US Army at Pittsburg, PA on 20 Jan 1943. During his service he was assigned both domestically and to foreign service. He rose to the rank of Sergeant and was honorably discharged from active duty at Fort Knox, Kentucky on 12 Jan 1946. He married Eleanor M Crawford, a daughter of Addie N and Edna M Crawford about 1946 or 1947. They had a daughter and two sons born bet. 1948 and 1954. During the 1950 census he is listed as an operator in the coal strip mining business. Their home is listed next to that of his parents on the census. Delbert died on Christmas Day, 25 Dec 1996 in Worthington, Armstrong, PA, and his widow Eleanor on 9 Jan 2020. They are buried at the Lawn Haven Burial Estates in Worthington.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
9) Annabelle Emma Young 6 Jan 1925 PA – 5 Dec 1946 m. Paul Musloe (Children: 2)
The youngest daughter of Ollie and Mina Young was born on 6 Jan 1925 in Washington township, Armstrong, PA. She was 18 at her marriage to Paul Musloe, born 16 Mar 1921 in Conway to Nefro and Anna (Sawcerisnak) Musloe. This was in 1943 in Hancock, West Virginia. Just a year before he had been living in Ambridge, Beaver, PA when he completed his WWII Draft Registration Card listing his mother as his contact person. The card indicates he has no middle name or initial. He had found work as a bricklayer’s helper while Annabelle was a restaurant waitress. Annabelle became pregnant, had a miscarriage and became septic. She died on 5 Dec 1946 at 440AM at only 21 years 10 months and 29 days of age. Burial was at Crawford Cemetery. Paul remarried. In 1956 while working as a truck driver, he had a legal entanglement where he failed to report his landlady’s death for five days, and was afterward accused of manslaughter. Charges were later dropped. The couple had 2 young sons who were adopted by Annabelle’s siblings.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
10) Hartzell Derwood Young 12 Apr 1930 PA – 3 Dec 2009 PA m. Barbara A Wetzel (Children: 1)
Born in Washington Township, Armstrong, PA, Hartzell Derwood Young was the last of the family. He was married on 29 Oct 1958 to Barbara A Wetzel. Hartzell served in the US Army in an armored division during the Korean War and discharged at the rank of Sergeant First Class. He was a member of the American Legion Post 488 in Bradys Bend. He was a long-term trucker working jobs for the Michigan Limestone Mine in Bradys Bend, a self-employed truck driver, a logger for Blakely Logging in Petrolia, and a coal miner for the Tesone Coal Co. and Rosebud Mining. He was the last of his siblings in death passing on 3 Dec 2009. His wife also predeceased him on 6 Mar 1997. Hartzell was survived by his daughter and two grandsons.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
CHILD 7: DANIEL WALKER GUTHRIE
1889 PA – 1971 OH
Family Status: (Married 1st) Harried Irene Blind (Divorced / Children: 1)
Family Status: (Married 2nd ?) Laura Christine Magee (children: 1)
Daniel Walker Guthrie was born on 29 January 1889 in Cowansville, Sugarcreek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. During the 1900 census, he was 11 years old and attending school. His family were farmers and he had a lot of siblings most of whom were older than him. By the time the 1910 census taker came knocking, Daniel was off the farm and living in Smith, Mahoning, Ohio with the Fullerton family, his sister Anna, brother-in-law Arthur, and their family. He found work at the pottery working the kiln. His first marriage was to Harriet Irene Blind on 21 August 1915 in Hancock, West Virginia. She was a daughter of James and Anna (Harmon) Blind. They had a son born in 1916. On June 4 1917, Daniel filled out his WWI Draft Registration Card. at that time he was working for the Iron & Steel Company in Ohio. He enlisted 28 May 1918 in the US Army as a Private in Company ‘G’ Sixth Infantry and deployed to France. He departed Brest, France on 13 July 1919 arriving in Hoboken, New Jersey on 22 July 1919. Upon his return Harriet divorced him. Daniel was the first of six husbands. She died 7 Sep 1991 at age 93 in Columbiana, Ohio, and is buried at Zion Hill Church of the Brethren Cemetery.
Daniel returned to the family farm in Pennsylvania bringing his son with him. Both of his parents were still living and his younger brother Earl who had married and started a family were all listed there for the 1920 census. Daniel was hired at the Lime Quarry laborer. Before 1924, Daniel married Laura ‘Christine’ McGee, a daughter of John Calvin and Laura May (McCoy) McGee. She raised Daniel’s son and they had a daughter born in 1924. They were living in Goshen, Mahoning, Ohio during the 1930 census when Daniel began working as a Kiln Drawer at the Pottery. In 1942, at 53 years of age, Daniel was still young enough for the ‘Old Man’s Draft’ for WWII. They had located in Sebring and Daniel was then employed but the Saxon China Company. Daniel was 82 at his death in Alliance, Stark, Ohio on 12 March 1971. He is buried at Highland Memorial Park in Knox, Columbiana, Ohio. Christine lived until 29 July 1975, and is also buried at the same location.
Y-DNA Project Participants: YES
Autosomal DNA Participants: YES
CHILD 8: HUGH LORAINE GUTHERIE
1893 PA – 1974 PA
Family Status: (Married) Lillie Jane Snyder (Children: 9)
Documents for this person’s surname are spelled many ways, but his draft card, death certificate and his own signature include the ‘E’, so it is spelled that way here. Hugh Loraine Gutherie was born on 23 Nov 1893 in Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong, PA. He helped out on the home farm as a laborer. Hugh was 20 at the time of his marriage to Lillie Jane Snyder, a daughter of Samuel Peter and Mary Jane Snyder, on 15 Jan 1914. He filled out his WWI Draft registration card listing that he was a laborer on the farm of W. C. Gutherie (his father) and that he had a wife and 2 dependent children. Four sons and five daughters were born 1914 to 1936. One daughter died as a toddler and another in her infancy. During the 1920 census, Hugh had taken a job as a coal miner. They remained in Sugarcreek Township, but rented a home. By 1930, he was working as a teamster at a mill, a role he was still performing in 1940. By then they owned a home in Sugarcreek. He was in the right age range to be required to completed a WWII Draft Card. He was residing in Cowansville, 48 years old, self employed, and listed Lily Gutherie, his wife as his contact person. He was working as a coal miner during the 1950 census. Hugh died on 24 April 1974 in Cowansville. His wife died in 1993 at Bradys Bend. They are born buried at the Crawford Cemetery at Bradys Bend.
Gutherie Children: 9
Y-DNA Project Participants: No
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
CHILD 9: JOHN ‘EARL’ GUTHRIE
1896 PA – 1930 PA
Family Status: (Married) Mary P Johns Bestwick (Children: 9)
John ‘Earl’ Guthrie was born in Cowansville, Sugarcreek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania on 5 July 1896. He married about 1916-17 Mary Phoebe Johns, the daughter of William Anthony and Frances Montana Johns. They had just started their life together when it came time for the WWI Draft. Earl signed his card when he was 21 and working for Abe Myers in Adrian, PA. He was a Limestone Quarry laborer in 1820. Earl, Mary, and their 3 sons were living on the Guthrie home farm with his parents and older brother Daniel that year. By 1930 the family had 7 children and they had moved to Toby, Clarion, PA where Earl found employment as a Coal Miner. Earl died of influenza on 2 Dec 1930. He was 34 years, 3 months, and 28 days old. That left Mary as a widow with nine children. She remarried to Norman Bestwick in 1931 or 1932. They had 3 children. Norman was a ‘coal teacher’ at the coal mine. They lived in Worth, Mercer, PA during the 1950 census. He died in 1982 and Mary in 1985. John Earl Guthrie is buried at the John Cemetery at French’s Corners in Armstrong County. Mary is buried near her second husband Norman Bestwick at Crestview Memorial Park in Grove City, Mercer, Pennsylvania.
Guthrie Children: 9
Y-DNA Project Participants: No
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
CHILD 10: MARY CAROLINE GUTHRIE
1899 PA – 1987
Family Status: (Married) Clarence H Haidet (Children: 2)
Mary Caroline Guthrie was born on 21 Sep 1899 in Cowansville, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, the youngest of the surviving Guthrie children. She married about 1922 to Clarence Henry Haidet, a son of Louis and Charlotte Julian Haidet, farmers from Ohio. They had a son and daughter. They were living on Commercial Street in Swissvale, Allegheny, PA in 1930 where they rented a home and Clarence was working as a machine hand for the Switch Works. The census records indicate he was a veteran of WWI. By 1935 they had moved to Alliance, Stark, Ohio, the county of Clarence’s birth, but had finally settled in Muncie, Delaware, Indiana by 1940. Clarence worked as a hammerman and by 1940 was the Forging Hammer Operator at a foundry / manufacturing company. Clarence developed colon cancer and died on 23 Jun 1974 in Muncie. Mary was 88 at her death on 3 Nov 1987 of congestive heart failure. They are buried at Gardens of Memory Cemetery.
Haidet Children: 2
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No
CHILD 11: (FNU) GUTHRIE
Bef. 1900 PA – Bef. 1900 PA
Family Status: Died in Infancy or Early Childhood
Census records indicate that Lavina had a child born before 1900 that was not listed on the 1900 census. COD unknown.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Died in Infancy or Early Childhood
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – Died in Infancy or Early Childhood
CHILD 12: (FNU) GUTHRIE
Bet. 1900-10 PA – Bet. 1900-10 PA
Family Status: Died in Infancy or Early Childhood
Census records indicate that Lavina had a child born between 1900 and 1910 that was not listed on the 1910 census. COD unknown.
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Died in Infancy or Early Childhood
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – Died in Infancy or Early Childhood
READING and RESOURCES
MORE ON: Craven Art Pottery Company, East Liverpool, Ohio
Periodical: Pottery, Glass & Brass Salesman. (1917). United States: O’Gorman Publishing Company.
Craven Art Pottery Company, East Liverpool– Established 1905. Matt glaze jardinieres and vases. The lack of capital resulted in the closing of this small plant.
Article on William P. Jervis (company history): The Evening Review – 3 Mar 1939, Page 6
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