1A-C: William C Guthrie

Guthrie Family Group 1A · Branch C · The Next Generation

William C. Guthrie& Lavina Alice Crawford

Perry & Sugar Creek Townships, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

William C. Guthrie was the youngest child of William Guthrie and Jane Steele. Born in Armstrong County in 1850, he grew up in the Guthrie and Knox household and became a farmer. He and Lavina Alice Crawford made their home in Sugar Creek Township, where they raised a large family.

Their descendants worked on farms, in mines, and in the pottery industry, with some establishing homes in Ohio and Indiana. Y-DNA and autosomal DNA participation are documented through their son Daniel Walker Guthrie. Follow the children’s stories, compare the family records, and explore how this line contributes to the wider GFG1A research.

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The Family at a Glance

William C. Guthrie

Parents: William Guthrie & Jane Steele
The youngest of their six children.
Birth: 20 April 1850
Pennsylvania. The family research places his birth in Armstrong County; the township is discussed in the evidence notes.
Occupation: Farm laborer as a young man; later a farmer in Sugar Creek Township.
Family Home: Raised in the Guthrie and Knox household in Perry Township. William and Lavina established their family home on a farm in Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County.
Death: 14 May 1926
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Burial: Crawford Cemetery, Bradys Bend, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

Lavina Alice Crawford

Parents: William Crawford & Jemima Burford.
Birth: 1 September 1856
Pennsylvania, according to her death certificate. Perry Township, Armstrong County, is reported in the family research.
Occupation: Housework, as recorded on her death certificate.
Family Home & Children: Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County. In 1910, she was recorded as the mother of twelve children, ten living. Ten children are identified by name.
Death: 10 February 1934
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Burial: Crawford Cemetery, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, on 12 February 1934. The family account locates the cemetery at Bradys Bend.

Estimated Marriage: About 1874–1875
Twenty-five years married in 1900; thirty-six years married in 1910.

William was an infant when his father, William Guthrie, reportedly drowned in California in 1850. That year’s census index places him with Jane Steele and four older siblings in Perry Township. Jane married George Knox on 24 March 1856. William grew up in the combined Knox and Guthrie family; his 1860 entry identifies Perry Township and the Millers Eddy post office.

By 1870, William was working as a farm laborer in Isaac C. Steel’s household. His brother Hugh Guthrie’s household was enumerated next to it in the family account. After marrying Lavina Alice Crawford, William established a farm household in Sugar Creek Township. The 1880 census lists the couple with their first three children: William, James, and Anna.

In 1900, William and Lavina owned their farm with a mortgage. By 1910, it was recorded as owned free of mortgage, and Sidney, Hugh, John, and Mary remained at home. The 1920 household included sons Daniel and Earl and members of the next generation.

William died in 1926. In 1930, the widowed Lavina was living with James Samuel Guthrie and his wife, Ida Mae Snyder, in Sugar Creek Township. Lavina died there on 10 February 1934 and was buried at Crawford Cemetery two days later.

The children’s stories follow farming and mining in western Pennsylvania, pottery work in Ohio, and a Haidet household that eventually settled in Indiana.

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The table includes ten named children and two unidentified children indicated by Lavina’s 1910 report of twelve births and ten living children. The final two entries do not establish birth order.

Child	Birth	Marriage & Later Life
William Crawford Guthrie	8 January 1876	Married Myrtle Maude Crawford on 21 June 1899; four children. Worked in farming, as a brickyard laborer, and in highway labor. Died 26 February 1955 in East Franklin Township, Armstrong County.
James Samuel Guthrie	12 October 1877	Married Ida Mae Snyder on 5 July 1899; three children. His work included mining, odd jobs, and road work. Died 20 September 1959 in Sugar Creek Township.
Anna Eliza Guthrie	10 July 1879	Married Arthur Samuel Fullerton on 26 September 1900; ten children are identified in the Research Tree. Their family moved to Ohio, where Arthur worked in the pottery industry and later as a barber. Anna died 22 March 1921, according to the photographed Ohio death index.
Sidney Easton Guthrie	1881	Married Margaret Jane Campbell on 17 June 1914; two children. Worked in farming and coal mining, with homes in Pennsylvania and later Ohio. Died 14 August 1968 in East Liverpool, Ohio; his contemporary obituary confirms the date.
Jane May Guthrie“Jennie”	2 November 1883	Married John Calvin Snyder on 8 May 1902; ten children are identified in the family account. Lived in Armstrong and Clarion Counties, Pennsylvania. Died 11 July 1925.
Jemina Alice Guthrie“Mina”	30 March 1887	Married Oliver Brooks Young on 20 June 1906 at East Brady; ten children. Their homes included Sugarcreek, Washington, and Perry Townships. Died 27 November 1968.
Daniel Walker Guthrie	29 January 1889	Married Harriet Irene Blind on 21 August 1915; one son, Dale Walker Guthrie. After their divorce, married Laura Christine McGee, also written Magee; one daughter. Worked in Ohio industry, including pottery. Died 12 March 1971.
Hugh Loraine GutherieGutherie spelling retained	23 November 1893	Married Lillie Jane Snyder on 15 January 1914; nine children. Worked as a farmer, coal miner, and teamster in Armstrong County. Died 24 April 1974.
John Earl GuthrieKnown as Earl	5 July 1896	Married Mary Phoebe Johns about 1916–1917; eight identified children. Worked in quarrying and mining; later lived in Toby Township, Clarion County. His death certificate gives 2 December 1930; his headstone gives 3 December.
Mary Caroline Guthrie	21 September 1899	Married Clarence Henry Haidet about 1922; two children. Lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio before settling in Muncie, Indiana. Died 3 November 1987.
Unidentified ChildAdditional child reported	Not established	One of two additional children indicated by Lavina’s 1910 census entry. Not living by that enumeration; name, sex, birth date, and age at death remain unknown.
Unidentified ChildAdditional child reported	Not established	The second unidentified child indicated by the same 1910 totals. Not living by that enumeration; the record does not establish birth order or whether this child was born before or after 1900.

Family Evidence NotesOpen for birthplaces, the marriage estimate, twelve children, name variants, and conflicting dates.

William’s birth. The census indexes repeatedly place his birth around 1850 in Pennsylvania; the 1900 entry specifies April 1850. The exact date, 20 April, appears in the family research and memorial index. Perry Township is the birthplace reported in the Guthrie Research Tree, while the memorial index says Sugar Creek. His residence in Perry Township as an infant supports the family’s location there, but does not by itself prove the birth township.

Lavina’s birth, parents, and burial. Her Pennsylvania death certificate, file no. 14755, records birth on 1 September 1856 in Pennsylvania, parents William Crawford and Jemima Burford, death in Sugarcreek Township on 10 February 1934, and burial at Crawford Cemetery on 12 February. It does not identify her birth township. Her age of fifty-one in the 1910 census index conflicts with the certificate’s birth date; other census ages are closer to 1856.

The marriage estimate. The 1900 census index reports twenty-five years married, pointing to about 1875. The 1910 entries report thirty-six years, pointing to about 1874. Lavina’s 1930 entry gives eighteen at first marriage, also consistent with about 1874–1875 when compared with her recorded birth date. An original marriage record is needed for the exact date and place.

Twelve children, ten living in 1910. Lavina’s 1910 census index explicitly reports twelve children born and ten living. These totals support two deceased children in addition to the ten named children known to have survived that census. Their identities, sex, birth order, and ages at death remain unknown. The 1900 entry available for William does not show Lavina’s childbearing totals, so it cannot establish that one additional child was born between 1900 and 1910. The unidentified tree entries marked 1900–1900 are not, by themselves, proof of those dates.

The elder William Guthrie’s birthplace. His son William C.’s census entries report his father’s birthplace as Ireland in 1880, 1900, and 1920, but Pennsylvania in 1910. His mother’s birthplace is consistently Pennsylvania in those entries. The repeated Irish reports are useful evidence for the elder William’s origin, while the conflicting answer remains part of the record. None identifies an Irish parish or establishes his birth year.

William’s middle initial and memorial links. The 1880 census index identifies him as William C. Guthrie, and Lavina’s death certificate names her husband as William C. Guthrie. Neither expands the initial. The memorial index’s use of Crawford does not establish that middle name, even though their eldest son was William Crawford Guthrie. The memorial’s additional initials and dates for linked parents also require independent support; linked profiles are not original parentage records.

Names across the records. Useful indexed forms include Gathrie in 1850, Wm Gustine in 1870, and Guthary in 1900. Lavina appears as Alice A. in the 1920 index and as Lavina, Lavinia, or Lovina elsewhere. Mina’s documented name is Jemina Alice Guthrie. Sidney Easton Young’s amended birth record explicitly corrects his mother’s maiden name to Jemina Alice Guthrie; the indexed Jemima spelling should not replace it. Hugh Loraine’s Gutherie spelling is retained from his family account and reported records. The 1880 index calls James James E.; his death certificate gives James Samuel.

William and his father. The elder William’s death in California is reported in 1850, but his departure date has not been established. It remains uncertain whether father and infant son met before he left.

Sidney and Margaret’s corrected dates. The Oil City Derrick obituary published on 15 August 1968 reports Sidney’s death the preceding Wednesday, establishing 14 August 1968 and resolving the older 1969 heading. Margaret Jane Campbell’s original Pennsylvania death certificate, no. 79052, records birth on 20 May 1895 in Clarion County. The indexed 1893 year is a transcription error.

Children’s death records. The certificates for William Crawford, James Samuel, John Earl, and Mary C. Haidet identify their parents as William Guthrie and Lavina or Lovina Crawford. William Crawford’s certificate confirms 8 January 1876–26 February 1955; James Samuel’s confirms 12 October 1877–20 September 1959; Mary’s confirms 21 September 1899–3 November 1987. John Earl’s original certificate, no. 114279, gives 5 July 1896–2 December 1930. His headstone agrees on the birth date but records death on 3 December 1930; the certificate date is used here.

Grandchildren and incomplete lists. Jennie’s family has ten identified children, supported by the Research Tree, memorial links, and the reproduced account of her death. John Earl and Mary Phoebe have eight identified children. Dale Walker Guthrie belongs to Daniel and Harriet’s family and is excluded from Earl and Mary’s count. The memorial’s linked child list also omits Earl and is not a complete list of William and Lavina’s children.

James Samuel’s marriage. Armstrong County marriage record no. 5558, page 303, records the ceremony on 5 July 1899. The application and license are dated 3 July; the return was filed on 1 August. Those are separate events.

Anna Eliza’s children and death. The Research Tree identifies ten children, including Bessie Gladys Fullerton, 1901–1901, and an infant son, 1911–1911, omitted from the shorter family list. Vera’s 1907 birth certificate and Anna’s 1910 census totals support an earlier child’s death, but do not independently establish Bessie’s name or dates; the two infants’ individual details currently come from the tree. The photographed Ohio state death index records Anne E. Fullerton in Mahoning County on 22 March 1921, agreeing with the memorial index. The older 20 March date remains a point to compare with her original death certificate.

Dale’s parents and the DNA connection. Pennsylvania birth certificate no. 39938 names Dale’s parents as D. W. Guthrie and Harriet Blind. His handwritten middle name is Walker; Walter is an indexing error. The shared 1920 household does not make him Earl and Mary’s son. The documented DNA participants descend through Dale Walker Guthrie and Lucy Josephine Cistolo, then Daniel and Harriet, and William C. and Lavina. Kit 563776 contributes Y37 and Family Finder results; kit B75156 contributes autosomal results. These are two participants.

Reading the evidence. Census indexes are transcriptions and may contain errors in names, ages, or household groupings. Original certificates provide direct evidence of the recorded death and burial, while their birth and parental information depends on the informant. See Explore the Records for further source comparisons and research questions.

Sources: Ancestry census indexes for 1850–1880 and 1900–1930; Pennsylvania death certificates for Lavina Alice Guthrie (1934), William Crawford Guthrie (1955), James Samuel Guthrie (1959), and John Earl Guthrie (1930); Mary C. Haidet’s Indiana death certificate (1987); Armstrong County marriage record no. 5558, page 303; the photographed Ohio state death index for Anne E. Fullerton (1921); Margaret Jane Guthrie’s Pennsylvania death certificate no. 79052; Sidney Easton Young’s amended birth record; Dale Walker Guthrie’s Pennsylvania birth certificate no. 39938; the Oil City Derrick, 15 August 1968, page 14; the Find a Grave index; project DNA records; and family research gathered in the Guthrie Research Tree.

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Descendant Families · William Crawford’s Family

William Crawford Guthrie & Myrtle Maude Crawford

William Crawford Guthrie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 8 January 1876
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Work & Home: Farmer, brickyard laborer and later road laborer. His family lived in Sugar Creek and East Franklin townships, Armstrong County.
Death: 26 February 1955
East Franklin Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; aged 79.
Burial: Cowansville Cemetery, East Franklin Township.

Myrtle Maude Crawford

Parents: John Crawford; her mother’s name has not been established in the records presented here.
Birth: 4 March 1876
Pennsylvania.
Family: Mother of three daughters and one son. Their son, William Paul, died in infancy.
Death: 27 December 1962
Cowansville, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; aged 86.
Burial: Cowansville Cemetery, East Franklin Township.

Married 21 June 1899
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania · Both were 23 and residents of Sugar Creek Township.

A Family of Farmers and Laborers

William grew up in William and Lavina’s farming household. When he married Myrtle, his marriage application described him as a farmer. The 1900 census found the newly married couple renting a farm in Sugar Creek Township.

By 1910 they were living in East Franklin Township with their three daughters. William worked as a laborer in a brickyard. He was recorded as a tenant farmer in 1920, a farm helper in 1930 and a farm laborer in 1940. The 1950 census listed state-road labor as his occupation, although he had not worked during the preceding week.

William died in East Franklin Township on 26 February 1955. His death certificate names William Guthrie and Lavina Crawford as his parents and records burial at Cowansville on 1 March. Myrtle survived him until 27 December 1962. Their family continued through their three daughters.

Their Four Children

Faye Elsie Guthrie & Oran Richard Peat

1 August 1901 – 14 October 1959

Born in Cowansville, Faye married Oran Richard Peat, also found as Peate, about 1922. Oran worked in clay mining and later in a sewer-pipe factory. They raised nine children: seven sons and two daughters, born between 1922 and 1942.

Faye’s death certificate records her as Elsie Fay Peat. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital in Kittanning on 14 October 1959, aged 58. Her home was in West Franklin Township. She was buried on 17 October at the Presbyterian cemetery in Worthington. Oran lived until 1986 and is also reported buried there.

Helen Muriel Guthrie & William Harrison Shaffer

8 October 1903 – October 1985

Helen was born in East Franklin Township and married William Harrison Shaffer about 1921–1922. William worked in the sewer-pipe industry and later managed a farm. They lived in West Franklin Township before moving to Smith Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, where he worked as a shovel operator for a coal-mining company by 1950.

They had one son and two daughters. Their son, William Lloyd Shaffer, born in 1923, died of pneumonia at approximately three and a half months. Their daughters were born in 1925 and 1927.

William Harrison Shaffer died on 11 December 1975. Helen died in October 1985. Both are reported buried at Cowansville Cemetery.

Cora Beulah Guthrie & William Robert Loughry

18 June 1905 – 27 December 1939

Cora was born in Cowansville and married William Robert Loughry about 1930. William was born in North Dakota, a son of James Alexander Loughry and Mary “Nina” Lucinda Van Voorhis. His family later settled in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Family research identifies him as a First World War veteran of the Canadian Engineers; he subsequently worked as a laborer.

Cora and William had two children, born in 1930 and 1934. Cora died at Indiana Memorial Hospital in White Township, Indiana County, on 27 December 1939, aged 34. Her death certificate records apoplexy and burial at Oakland Cemetery on 30 December.

Family research records that the children lived with an aunt after their mother’s death. Their father died on 22 June 1945, leaving both children without a surviving parent.

William Paul Guthrie

June 1907 – 18 June 1907

William and Myrtle’s only son died in infancy. His death certificate gives his age as three days and records asphyxia as the cause of death. Burial followed on 19 June in Perry Township.

The certificate contains conflicting birth-date information, discussed below. William Paul left no descendants.

DNA Participation Chart

No project participation is currently documented through William Crawford and Myrtle’s children. Their only son died in infancy; their daughters’ descendants may participate through autosomal DNA.

Child’s Line	Guthrie Y-DNA	Autosomal DNA
Faye Elsie Guthrie Peat	Not transmitted through a daughter	No participant reported
Helen Muriel Guthrie Shaffer	Not transmitted through a daughter	No participant reported
Cora Beulah Guthrie Loughry	Not transmitted through a daughter	No participant reported
William Paul Guthrie	No descendants	No descendants

A daughter does not inherit her father’s Y chromosome. Descendants of these daughters can still contribute autosomal results and documented family connections. Project participants are identified by kit number only.

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Family Evidence & Record DifferencesOpen for dates, name spellings and the infant’s birth record question.

The marriage date. Armstrong County marriage record no. 5536 distinguishes the application and license of 17 June 1899 from the ceremony on 21 June 1899. The return was filed on 1 August. It identifies William’s parents as William and Lavina Guthrie and Myrtle’s father as John Crawford; her mother’s name is not supplied.

Guthrie and Gutherie. William’s marriage signature appears as W. C. Gutherie, and his infant son’s death certificate uses Gutherie. Other records use Guthrie. These spellings refer to the same family. William Crawford’s full name does not establish that his father’s middle initial C. also stood for Crawford.

Dates and names of the daughters. Faye’s death certificate uses the name order Elsie Fay. Helen’s 1903 birth is recorded in the family research and is consistent with her census ages. Cora’s original death certificate explicitly gives 18 June 1905 as her birth date and 27 December 1939 as her death date.

William Paul’s birth date. His death certificate gives 18 June 1907 in both the birth and death fields, but also records an age of three days. The physician attended him from 15 to 18 June. The family account’s 15 June birth date fits the recorded age, but the certificate is internally inconsistent. June 1907 is used here until a separate birth record resolves the day.

Myrtle’s dates. Her birth on 4 March 1876 and death on 27 December 1962 are recorded in the Guthrie Research Tree. Her own birth and death records would provide further confirmation.

Explore the RecordsOpen for the principal sources behind this family account.

Armstrong County marriage record no. 5536: William C. Guthrie and Myrtle Crawford, application, license and marriage return, 1899.
United States censuses, 1880–1950: William’s childhood household and the couple’s homes and occupations in Sugar Creek and East Franklin townships.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 11403: William Crawford Guthrie, 26 February 1955.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 90523: Elsie Fay Peat, 14 October 1959.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 108632: Cora Guthrie Loughry, 27 December 1939.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 63681: William Paul Gutherie, 18 June 1907.
Guthrie Research Tree and family research: Myrtle’s dates, the daughters’ marriages and later households, burial information and descendant family counts.

Most Wanted DocumentsOpen to see which records could answer the remaining questions.

William Paul’s birth registration or a contemporary baptismal entry establishing his exact birth date.
Myrtle Maude Crawford’s birth and death records, especially evidence identifying her mother.
Marriage records for Faye and Oran, Helen and William Shaffer, and Cora and William Loughry.
William Robert Loughry’s Canadian military service record.
Family photographs, obituaries and documents that add to the three daughters’ stories.

Descendant Families · James Samuel’s Family

James Samuel Guthrie & Ida Mae Snyder

James Samuel Guthrie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 12 October 1877
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, according to the family research.
Work & Home: Farmer, coal miner and laborer; later employed on the state roads. His family remained in Sugar Creek Township.
Death: 20 September 1959
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; aged 81.
Burial: St. Paul’s Reformed Cemetery, Sugar Creek Township, as recorded in his death certificate. See the cemetery comparison below.

Ida Mae Snyder

Parents: Samuel Snyder & Jane, whose maiden surname is not given in Ida’s marriage record.
Birth: 29 August 1873
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, according to the Guthrie Research Tree.
Family: Mother of two sons and one daughter: James Arthur, Vernie Jane and Wesley Sidney.
Death: 11 August 1961
Aged 87. Her dates are recorded in the Guthrie Research Tree and memorial index.
Burial: The memorial index places her at Saint Paul’s Cemetery, Rural Valley. Its identification requires comparison with the family records.

Married 5 July 1899
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania · James was 21 and Ida was 25; both lived in Sugar Creek Township.

A Working Life in Sugar Creek

James grew up in William and Lavina’s farming household. His marriage record described him as a farmer, and the 1900 census found James and Ida renting a farm with their infant son, James Arthur. Their household appeared between those of James’s father and his older brother William in the enumeration.

By 1910 the family included all three children. James was still farming, but the 1920 census recorded him as a coal miner. In 1930 he worked at odd jobs, and his widowed mother, Lavina Alice, lived with James and Ida.

The household changed again after their son Wesley lost his first wife. In 1940 Wesley and four boys were living with James and Ida, while James continued working in the coal mines. By 1950 James and Ida were members of Wesley and Wilda’s blended household. At 72, James was employed as a laborer on the state roads.

James died following a cerebral hemorrhage on 20 September 1959. His daughter, Mrs. Vernie Wiles, supplied the information for his death certificate. Ida survived him until 11 August 1961.

Their Three Children

James Arthur Guthrie & Josephine V. Slaugenhaupt

2 March 1900 – 23 September 1948

James Arthur was born in Sugar Creek Township. When he registered for the First World War draft at 18, he was farming for his father and named his mother as his contact. By 1920 he was working as a coal miner.

About 1927 he married Josephine V. Slaugenhaupt, identified in the family account as a daughter of John Slaugenhaupt and Mary Summerville. They had six children: two sons and four daughters.

James later worked in the limestone mines. His death certificate describes his occupation as a shooter and records that he died in an accidental mine blast at Kaylor, in Bradys Bend Township, on 23 September 1948. The employer was Pittsburgh Limestone Corporation. He was 48.

Josephine was the informant for his death certificate. Burial followed on 26 September; the certificate names St. Paul’s, while the older family account names Oak Grove. Josephine lived until 1994.

Vernie Jane Guthrie & Floyd Craig Wiles

1901 – 1991

Vernie married Floyd Craig Wiles about 1920. They settled in Bradys Bend, Pennsylvania, where Floyd worked for the railroad as a brakeman and switchman.

The couple had two children: a daughter born in 1921 and a son born in 1923. Vernie later served as the informant for her father’s 1959 death certificate, which identifies her by her married name, Wiles.

Floyd died following a stroke on 30 January 1966, aged 66. Vernie survived him until 1991. Both are reported buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in the family account.

Wesley Sidney Guthrie, Helen Viola Holder & Wilda Maude Bond

10 December 1905 – 7 February 1991

Wesley married Helen Viola Holder about 1925. Helen was a daughter of Joseph A. Holder and Mary E. Lynch. They had five children: four sons and one daughter.

Helen died in Kittanning on 13 April 1934. The family account reports septicemia following a miscarriage. By the 1940 census, the widowed Wesley and four boys were living with his parents, James and Ida.

Wesley subsequently married Wilda Maude Bond, a daughter of William C. Bond and Mary A. Rodgers. Wilda was the widow of Wilbert Hugh Gutherie (1914–1940), a son of Hugh Loraine Gutherie and Lillie Jane Snyder. Wesley and Wilbert were first cousins, both grandsons of William C. Guthrie and Lavina Alice Crawford.

Wilda brought two daughters from her first marriage into the household. She and Wesley had four more children: two sons and two daughters. Wesley therefore had nine biological children and two stepdaughters. The 1950 census records Wesley and Wilda’s blended household with his parents living among them.

Wesley worked as a driller in the limestone mines. He died in Chicora, Butler County, Pennsylvania, on 7 February 1991 and is reported buried at Oak Grove Cemetery. Wilda died in Zelienople, Butler County, on 6 March 1998. She shares a marker at Crawford Cemetery with her first husband, Wilbert.

DNA Participation Chart

No project participation is currently documented through James Samuel and Ida’s three children. The two sons’ lines offer potential routes for Guthrie Y-DNA participation; descendants of all three children may participate through autosomal DNA.

Child’s Line	Guthrie Y-DNA	Autosomal DNA
James Arthur Guthrie	Candidate male line; no participant reported	No participant reported
Vernie Jane Guthrie Wiles	Not transmitted through a daughter	No participant reported
Wesley Sidney Guthrie	Candidate male line; no participant reported	No participant reported

A Guthrie Y-DNA candidate must descend from this family through an unbroken father-to-son line. A candidate line does not indicate that a tester has been identified. Project participants are represented by kit number only.

Learn about joining the Guthrie DNA Project.

Family Evidence & Record DifferencesOpen for the marriage date, cemetery question and family relationships.

The marriage date and Ida’s parents. Armstrong County marriage record no. 5558, page 303, separates the application and license of 3 July 1899 from the ceremony on 5 July 1899. The return was filed on 1 August. It names the couple’s parents as William and Lavina Guthrie, and Samuel and Jane Snyder. Jane’s maiden surname is not provided.

Birth dates and places. James’s death certificate gives 12 October 1877 and Pennsylvania; the more precise Sugar Creek Township birthplace comes from the family research. Census ages that suggest 1878 are compatible with an October 1877 birth when the census preceded his birthday. Ida’s dates come from the Guthrie Research Tree and memorial index; her own birth and death records would provide further confirmation.

The cemetery question. James’s death certificate records burial on 22 September 1959 at St. Paul’s Reformed Cemetery, Sugar Creek Township. The Find a Grave indexes for James and Ida instead identify Saint Paul’s at Rural Valley, while the older family account names Oak Grove at Frogtown. These names and locations have not been established as equivalent. James Arthur’s death certificate also names St. Paul’s, in contrast with Oak Grove in the family account. Cemetery registers and headstone photographs are needed to resolve the differences.

Names in the records. Guthrie and Gutherie both occur in this family’s research. James Samuel’s death certificate uses Guthrie. His daughter is correctly identified there as Mrs. Vernie Wiles. James Arthur’s certificate uses Slaugenhaupt for Josephine; Slaughenhaupt and other variants appear in the compiled account.

Wesley, Wilbert and Wilda. Wesley was the son of James Samuel and Ida. Wilbert Hugh Gutherie was the son of Hugh Loraine Gutherie and Lillie Jane Snyder, as confirmed by Wilbert’s death record. Their fathers were brothers, making Wesley and Wilbert first cousins. Wilda’s two daughters by Wilbert were Wesley’s stepdaughters. Wesley’s five children by Helen and four by Wilda total nine biological children.

Draft registrations. James Samuel’s First and Second World War draft registrations and James Arthur’s First World War registration document registration, not military service.

Explore the RecordsOpen for the principal sources behind this family account.

Armstrong County marriage record no. 5558, page 303: James Guthrie and Ida Snyder, application, license and marriage return, July–August 1899.
United States censuses, 1880–1950: James’s childhood household, the couple’s three children, changing occupations and the later multigenerational household.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 81690: James Samuel Guthrie, 20 September 1959; parents, wife, birth date, informant and burial details.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 77165: James Arthur Guthrie, 23 September 1948; parents, wife, occupation and fatal limestone-mine accident.
Pennsylvania death record, 1940: Wilbert Hugh Gutherie; his parentage establishes his relationship to Wesley.
First and Second World War draft records: James Samuel’s registrations and James Arthur’s First World War registration.
Find a Grave memorial indexes: James Samuel and Ida Mae; dates and cemetery identifications, subject to the comparison above.
Guthrie Research Tree and compiled family research: the children’s marriages, descendant family counts, later residences, deaths and burial reports.

Most Wanted DocumentsOpen to see which records could answer the remaining questions.

Cemetery registers, lot records and headstone photographs for James Samuel, Ida Mae and James Arthur, to resolve the St. Paul’s and Oak Grove identifications.
Ida Mae Snyder’s birth and death records, and evidence establishing her mother Jane’s maiden surname.
Marriage records for James Arthur and Josephine, Vernie and Floyd, and Wesley’s marriages to Helen and Wilda.
Helen Viola Holder Guthrie’s death certificate or contemporary obituary.
A contemporary report of the 1948 Kaylor mine accident, along with family photographs and documents that add to these children’s stories.

Descendant Families · Anna Eliza’s Family

Anna Eliza Guthrie & Arthur Samuel Fullerton

Anna Eliza Guthrie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 10 July 1879
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Family & Home: Grew up in Sugar Creek Township. Her married family lived in Pennsylvania and later in Mahoning County, Ohio. The Guthrie Research Tree identifies ten children.
Death: 22 March 1921
Mahoning County, Ohio, as recorded in the Ohio death index; aged 41.
Burial: Grandview Cemetery, Sebring, Mahoning County, Ohio.

Arthur Samuel Fullerton

Parents: Harry Fullerton & Clara, whose maiden surname has not been established in the records presented here.
Birth: 14 June 1877 or 1878
Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The birth year differs between the draft index and family research.
Work: Potter and kiln placer; later a barber. Pottery work also became part of several children’s livelihoods.
Death: 7 November 1943
Lexington, Stark County, Ohio.
Burial: Grandview Cemetery, Sebring, Mahoning County, Ohio.

Married 26 September 1900
Recorded in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania · Anna was 21.

Pottery Work, Family Ties and New Homes

Anna was an infant in her parents’ Sugar Creek Township household in 1880. Twenty years later she was still living with her family, shortly before her marriage to Arthur. Their children were born in both Pennsylvania and Ohio. Vera’s 1907 birth certificate places the family in Wickboro, Armstrong County, and identifies Arthur as a potter.

By 1910 Arthur and Anna were living in Smith Township, Mahoning County, Ohio. Arthur worked as a kiln placer in the pottery industry, and they owned their home with a mortgage. Five children were living with them; Anna reported that she had borne six children, with five surviving. Her brother Daniel Walker Guthrie also lived in the household.

The family continued to grow during the following decade. By 1920 Arthur was working as a barber. Thelma had entered the pottery industry, while Lloyd helped his father. Their household had already experienced the deaths of two infants and their young son Earl.

Anna died on 22 March 1921, less than a month after the birth of Anna Kathleen. The family account reports septicemia, possibly related to childbirth; her original death certificate is needed to confirm the details. Later censuses show several younger children living with married siblings. Arthur survived Anna until 7 November 1943. Both were buried at Grandview Cemetery in Sebring.

Their Ten Children

The Guthrie Research Tree identifies ten children, including two infants absent from the shorter published family list. Their entries are retained below, with the supporting evidence and remaining questions discussed in the accordion.

Bessie Gladys Fullerton

1901 – 1901

The Guthrie Research Tree identifies Bessie Gladys as Anna and Arthur’s first child and records that she died in infancy. A birth, death or burial record is still needed to establish her exact dates and place of burial.

Thelma Iora Fullerton & Delbert Dewey Craven

29 March 1902 – December 1994

Born in Pennsylvania, Thelma was Anna and Arthur’s eldest surviving child. At 17, she was already working as a pottery liner in the 1920 census. Her mother died the following March, shortly before Thelma’s nineteenth birthday.

Before 1930 Thelma married Delbert Dewey Craven, born in West Virginia on 1 August 1898, a son of Creed Craven and Seba Wright. In 1930 they lived in Sebring, where Delbert was an iron worker and Thelma continued in pottery work. Her nine-year-old sister, Anna Kathleen, lived with them.

By 1940 they had moved to Beloit. Delbert worked in structural steel, and Thelma was associated with the pottery industry as a co-owner of Craven’s China Company. Anna Kathleen remained in their household, along with their brother Arthur Junior. These census entries show that Thelma and Delbert provided a home for younger family members, although they do not establish a formal guardianship.

In 1950 Delbert was a superintendent in structural steel work, and Thelma was no longer recorded in outside employment. They are reported to have had no children. About 1963 they retired to Hawaii. Delbert died in Waianae on 8 February 1970, and Thelma died in December 1994.

William “Lloyd” Fullerton & Eliza Rebecca Amelia Metzgar

28 September 1903 – 21 January 1964

Lloyd, the family’s eldest son, was born in Pennsylvania. He worked as a barber’s helper alongside his father. In 1930 he was single, employed as a pool-room clerk and living as a lodger in Sebring.

By 1940 he had married Eliza, also recorded as Elizabeth, Rebecca Amelia Metzgar. Born on 23 November 1900, she was a daughter of George T. Metzgar and Maggie Johnston of Columbiana County, Ohio. She had previously married Clyde Bailey on 12 April 1921 in Hancock County, West Virginia, and was still identified as Mrs. Bailey in a September 1926 social notice. How that marriage ended has not been established.

Lloyd and Eliza made their home in Sebring and are reported to have had no children. Eliza died on 13 January 1963. Lloyd died the following year, on 21 January 1964. Both were buried at Grandview Cemetery in Sebring.

Harold Lester Fullerton & Frances Lillian Faulkner

16 June 1905 – 28 December 1957

Harold was born in Sebring and spent much of his life in the surrounding area. A Canadian border-crossing record places him at Niagara Falls on 8 September 1925 and describes him as a factory worker. The purpose of the trip is unclear in the available account.

He married Frances Lillian Faulkner in Hancock County, West Virginia. They settled in Smith Township and raised a large family. Harold worked as a construction laborer and named Jacobs Trucking Company as his employer on his 1940 draft registration.

Harold died on 28 December 1957. Frances died on 6 October 1973, aged 60. Both were buried at Grandview Cemetery in Sebring.

Vera Lavina Fullerton & LeRoy George “Nick” Hurford

28 August 1907 – 28 February 1999

Vera’s original birth certificate records her birth in Wickboro, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, to Arthur Fullerton and Annie Guthrie. It identifies her as her mother’s fifth child, with four children living. Vera was 13 when Anna died.

In 1934 Vera married LeRoy George Hurford, known as Nick. They settled in Alliance, Stark County, Ohio, and had one daughter, born in 1935.

Vera worked as a pottery decorator in 1940, while Nick was a laborer for American Steel Foundries. Her younger brother Truman lived with them while working as a dairy-farm hand. By 1950 Nick was driving a truck for a building-supply company, and Vera continued in the china industry.

Nick died in Alliance on 11 April 1974, aged 69. Vera survived him until 28 February 1999. Both were buried at Alliance City Cemetery.

Earl Lorraine Fullerton

13 October 1908 or 1909 – April 1919

Earl was born in Sebring, the third son in Anna and Arthur’s family. He died in childhood after sustaining serious injuries while wrestling with two playmates. Newspapers in several Ohio communities carried reports of the accident.

The Cincinnati Enquirer and other Ohio papers described the fatal injuries. Questions about his exact birth and death dates are discussed in the evidence notes. Earl left no descendants.

Infant Son Fullerton

1911 – 1911

The Guthrie Research Tree records an infant boy born to Anna and Arthur in 1911 who died that same year. His given name, exact dates and burial place have not been established in the records presented here.

Arthur Junior Fullerton & Miyo Ono

12 June 1917 – 3 August 1993

Arthur Junior was born in Sebring. In 1940 he was living with his sister Thelma and her husband Delbert Craven in Beloit. He worked as a laborer in structural work before his later employment with Pan American Airlines. The 1950 census recorded him as an airline storekeeper in Honolulu.

He married Miyo Ono on 30 March 1948, according to a marriage notice published in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on 6 April. Miyo was born on Maui on 28 November 1920, a daughter of Tokumatsu Ono and Minei (Ji) Ono. Her Japanese-born parents had married in Honolulu in 1914.

Her father’s records trace a working life in Hawaii and a return voyage from Japan in July 1940. His draft registrations include one dated 25 April 1942, during the Second World War. Tokumatsu died in 1946, before Miyo’s marriage.

Arthur and Miyo had three daughters. Arthur died in Aiea, Honolulu County, Hawaii, on 3 August 1993, aged 76. Miyo died on 3 March 2007, aged 86.

Truman LeRoy Fullerton & Nellie Margaret Clark

2 June 1919 – 7 June 2003

Truman, the youngest Fullerton son, was born in Sebring. By 1940 he was living with his sister Vera and her husband Nick Hurford in Alliance and working as a farm hand.

He registered for the draft on 16 October 1940. The family research separately records his Army enlistment at Cleveland on 29 July 1942 and discharge on 1 February 1946. His civilian employment included work connected with clay products.

While in the service, Truman married Nellie Margaret Clark in Kentucky on 8 June 1943. Nellie was born on 4 June 1923, a daughter of Lucian B. Clark and Minnie L. Dalton. They made their home in Alliance and raised four children: one son and three daughters.

Nellie died on 5 June 2001, just after her seventy-eighth birthday. Truman died at Alliance City Hospital on 7 June 2003, aged 84.

Anna Kathleen “Kate” Fullerton & Laurence Charles Hoover

26 February 1921 – 10 October 1998

Kate was born less than a month before her mother died. In both 1930 and 1940 she was living with her eldest surviving sister, Thelma, and brother-in-law Delbert Craven. Their home was in Sebring in 1930 and Beloit by 1940. Her brother Arthur Junior was also in the latter household.

On 24 January 1942 Kate married Laurence Charles Hoover, a son of John Hoover of Portage County, Ohio. Laurence named Chapman Bros. as his employer on his 1940 draft registration. The family account also records his later work as a machine operator in a storm-window plant and Kate’s work as a pottery tinter.

They had two children: a daughter born in 1943 and a son born in 1952. Laurence died in Alliance on 5 November 1982, aged 64. Kate died on 10 October 1998, aged 77. Both were buried at Alliance City Cemetery.

Family Evidence & Record DifferencesOpen for the ten-child family, conflicting dates and record cautions.

Ten children rather than eight. The Guthrie Research Tree includes Bessie Gladys Fullerton, 1901–1901, and an infant son, 1911–1911. Vera’s 1907 birth certificate records five children born and four living; Anna’s 1910 census entry records six born and five living. Those totals support the loss of an earlier child, consistent with Bessie’s entry, but they do not independently establish her name or dates. The two infants’ individual details currently come from the Research Tree.

Anna’s death date. The photographed Ohio state death index records Anne E. Fullerton in Mahoning County on 22 March 1921, agreeing with the memorial index. That date is used here. The 20 March date in the Research Tree and compiled family account still requires comparison with her original death certificate.

Arthur’s birth year. The Research Tree gives 14 June 1878; the First World War draft index gives 14 June 1877. The 1880 census records Arthur, aged two, with Harry and Clara Fullerton. A linked 1900 entry for an A. Fullerton born in July 1884 does not fit this chronology and should not be accepted as Arthur’s record without examining the original household.

Vera’s birth certificate. Pennsylvania certificate no. 112379 records her birth on 28 August 1907 in Wickboro, with parents Arthur Fullerton and Annie Guthrie. The sex field appears marked male, contrary to her later records. This entry requires care in transcription; it does not establish a different child.

Earl’s dates. The compiled research reports 1908 in the Ohio birth index and 1909 in his death certificate, with a birth day of 13 October. The photographed Ohio index lists Earl Fullerton of Mahoning County with a death date of 6 April 1919. An Alliance newspaper dispatch dated 7 April reports his death that day, while the compiled account gives 8 April. Original vital records and dated newspaper pages are needed to reconcile the dates.

Harold’s children. The family account’s heading and summary say thirteen children, while its narrative says eleven, born between 1932 and 1949. No complete child list in the available records resolves the count.

Thelma and the younger children. Thelma’s age of seventeen and pottery employment belong to the 1920 census. She turned nineteen in March 1921. Kate’s presence in Thelma’s 1930 and 1940 households establishes residence, but not when that arrangement began or whether formal guardianship was granted.

Indexes and military records. Entries naming Anna as the mother of Vera, Truman or Kate concern those children’s records, not Anna’s own death. Draft registrations alone do not establish military service. Tokumatsu Ono’s 25 April 1942 registration belongs to the Second World War; Truman’s Army service is separately reported in his enlistment and discharge history.

Explore the RecordsOpen for the principal sources behind this family account.

Armstrong County marriage index, 26 September 1900: Anna Eliza Guthrie and Arthur Samuel Fullerton.
United States censuses, 1880 and 1900: Anna in the Guthrie household; Arthur’s 1880 entry with Harry and Clara Fullerton.
United States censuses, 1910 and 1920: the Fullerton household in Smith Township, Mahoning County, Ohio; children, occupations and Anna’s reported birth and survival counts.
Pennsylvania birth certificate no. 112379: Vera Lavina Fullerton, 28 August 1907, Wickboro; parents, Arthur’s occupation and the family birth count.
Ohio state death index, photographed page: Anne E. Fullerton, Mahoning County, 22 March 1921; Earl Fullerton, Mahoning County, 6 April 1919. The Find a Grave memorial index also gives Anna’s death as 22 March.
First World War draft index: Arthur Samuel Fullerton, birth recorded as 14 June 1877.
Later census households and family research: Thelma and Delbert Craven, Vera and Nick Hurford, and the younger Fullerton siblings.
Ohio newspaper reports on Earl Fullerton: The Cincinnati Enquirer; The Lima Gazette and The Lima Republican; and The Fulton County Tribune. A later retrospective is saved in the Research Tree as The Past in Review.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 6 April 1948: notice reporting Arthur Junior Fullerton and Miyo Ono’s marriage on 30 March.
Guthrie Research Tree and compiled family research: the ten-child list, spouses, later family histories, military-service information and burial reports.

DNA ParticipationOpen for the current participation status of Anna’s descendants.

No autosomal DNA participation is currently documented through Anna Eliza Guthrie’s family. Descendants of her children may contribute autosomal results alongside their documented family connections.

Anna did not inherit her father’s Y chromosome, so her sons’ paternal lines do not carry this family’s Guthrie Y-DNA. Project participants are identified by kit number only.

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Most Wanted DocumentsOpen to see which records could answer the remaining questions.

Anna Eliza Fullerton’s original Ohio death certificate, to compare the indexed date with the family account and confirm the reported cause.
Birth, death or cemetery records for Bessie Gladys Fullerton and the infant son born in 1911.
Arthur Samuel Fullerton’s birth or baptismal record, original draft card and death certificate, to compare the 1877 and 1878 birth years.
Earl Lorraine Fullerton’s original birth and death records and complete contemporary newspaper notices.
A documented child list for Harold Lester Fullerton and Frances Lillian Faulkner.
Family photographs, pottery-business records, obituaries and documents showing how the siblings maintained their family ties after Anna’s death.

Descendant Families · Sidney Easton’s Family

Sidney Easton Guthrie & Margaret Jane Campbell

Sidney Easton Guthrie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 22 September 1881
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Work & Home: Farm laborer and later coal miner. Worked for Keystone Mining Company and lived in Rimersburg and Sligo, Clarion County.
Death: 14 August 1968
East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio; aged 86. His home was then in Pennsylvania.
Burial: Rimersburg Cemetery, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

Margaret Jane Campbell

Parents: Joseph Campbell & Ella McClure.
Birth: 20 May 1895
Clarion County, Pennsylvania.
Family: Known as Maggie. Mother of Audrey McClure Guthrie and Sidney Easton Guthrie Jr.
Death: 6 September 1944
Butler County Memorial Hospital, Butler County, Pennsylvania; aged 49.
Burial: 10 September 1944, Rimersburg Cemetery, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

Married 17 June 1914
Pennsylvania · Sidney was 32.

From the Family Farm to the Coal Mines

In 1900 Sidney was eighteen, single and living with his parents in Sugar Creek Township. He worked as a farm laborer. The 1910 census again found him in the family household, working on the home farm.

Sidney married Margaret Jane Campbell on 17 June 1914. Their daughter Audrey was born the following year, and their son Sidney Jr. followed in 1917. By 1920 the family was renting a home in Rimersburg, where Sidney worked as a coal miner. They lived in Sligo in 1930 and were back in Rimersburg by 1940.

Sidney’s mining career included employment with Keystone Mining Company at East Brady. His obituary also records membership in the United Mine Workers and an earlier association with the Rimersburg Presbyterian Church.

The family lost Audrey in 1942. Margaret died two years later, on 6 September 1944, during a hospital stay in Butler County. Her death certificate names Sidney as the informant and records their home in Rimersburg.

In 1950 Sidney was widowed and living alone in Rimersburg. He later moved to the Beaver area of Pennsylvania to live with his son. He died at an extended-care facility in East Liverpool, Ohio, on 14 August 1968, nearly twenty-four years after Margaret. His obituary reported that his son and four grandchildren survived him. Sidney was buried in Rimersburg Cemetery.

Their Two Children

Audrey McClure Guthrie & George Maxwell Craig

25 June 1915 – 22 March 1942

Audrey was born in Clarion County; the family research identifies Rimersburg as her birthplace. About 1933 she married George Maxwell Craig, known as Max, a son of Leslie David Craig and Bessie Lee Wyman of Sligo.

Max worked as a grocery-store clerk in 1940. They had two children, born in 1935 and 1939.

Audrey died in Sligo on 22 March 1942, aged 26. Her death certificate records lobar pneumonia of five days’ duration and names her parents as Sidney E. Guthrie and Margaret J. Campbell. Her mother supplied the information. Audrey was buried at Sligo Cemetery on 26 March.

Max married again in August 1942; the family account reports that this marriage ended in divorce about 1950. He died in Butler, Pennsylvania, on 23 August 2001 and is reported buried at Gruenwald Cemetery in Herman, Butler County.

Sidney Easton Guthrie Jr. & Clara Ruth River

14 December 1917 – 2 June 1988

Sidney Jr. was born in Rimersburg and spent his early years in Clarion County. In 1940 he was single, living with his parents and working as a miner.

The family research records his military service from 1 October 1940 to 9 September 1945, spanning the Second World War. It also reports his membership in the Eighth Air Force Historical Society.

He married Clara Ruth River. They settled in Industry, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and had two children: one son and one daughter. Sidney’s father later made his home with him in the Beaver area.

Sidney Jr. died on 2 June 1988, aged 70, survived by Clara and their children. Clara died in 1998.

DNA Participation Chart

No project participation is currently documented through Sidney and Margaret’s two children. Sidney Jr.’s line offers a potential route for Guthrie Y-DNA participation; descendants of either child may participate through autosomal DNA.

Child’s Line	Guthrie Y-DNA	Autosomal DNA
Audrey McClure Guthrie Craig	Not transmitted through a daughter	No participant reported
Sidney Easton Guthrie Jr.	Candidate male line; no participant reported	No participant reported

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Family Evidence & Record DifferencesOpen for the birth-year transcription, marriage location and Sidney’s final residence.

Margaret’s birth-year transcription. Her original Pennsylvania death certificate, no. 79052, clearly records 20 May 1895 in Clarion County. The 1893 year is a transcription error repeated in the compiled family information. Her census ages also generally support a birth around 1895.

The marriage date and county. The marriage index gives 17 June 1914 in an Armstrong County collection; the Research Tree identifies Clarion County. The original license and return are needed to establish the ceremony’s location. Sidney was 32 on that date, rather than the age of 34 given in the compiled account.

Sidney’s death in 1968. The Oil City Derrick obituary published on Thursday, 15 August 1968, reports that he died the preceding Wednesday, establishing 14 August 1968. This agrees with the Research Tree. The contemporary obituary supports 1968, rather than 1969, and provides a more precise account than a differing day in an obituary index.

Home and place of death. Sidney’s obituary places his home with his son in the Beaver area of Pennsylvania. He died in an East Liverpool care facility across the state line in Ohio. The death location should not be treated as evidence that he had moved to Ohio to live with his son.

Audrey’s original record. Pennsylvania death certificate no. 25253 gives her birth as 25 June 1915 in Clarion County and death as 22 March 1942 in Sligo. Rimersburg as her precise birthplace comes from the compiled family research. The certificate records burial at Sligo Cemetery on 26 March and identifies her mother as the informant.

Census spellings and ages. Guthrie appears under several spellings in census indexes. These entries should be compared with the original schedules. Ages producing an estimated 1882 birth for Sidney do not outweigh his consistently recorded birth date of 22 September 1881.

Military records. Sidney Sr.’s First and Second World War draft registrations document registration, not military service. Sidney Jr.’s service dates are reported separately in the family research. His original service records and full obituary would clarify his wartime unit and service branch.

Explore the RecordsOpen for the principal sources behind this family account.

United States censuses, 1900 and 1910: Sidney in his parents’ Sugar Creek Township household, working in farming.
Marriage index, 17 June 1914: Sidney Guthrie and Margaret Campbell, Armstrong County collection; compare with the Research Tree’s Clarion County location.
United States censuses, 1920–1950: the family in Rimersburg and Sligo, Sidney’s mining occupation and his later widowed household.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 79052: Margaret Jane Guthrie, 6 September 1944; birth date, parents, husband, hospital and burial information.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 25253: Audrey McClure Craig, 22 March 1942; parents, husband, pneumonia and burial details.
Oil City Derrick, 15 August 1968, page 14: Sidney Easton Guthrie’s obituary, reporting his death the previous day, Pennsylvania residence, mining employment and Rimersburg burial.
First and Second World War draft indexes: Sidney Easton Guthrie Sr., born 22 September 1881.
Guthrie Research Tree and compiled family research: the children’s marriages, later households, Sidney Jr.’s military history and the spouses’ later deaths.

Most Wanted DocumentsOpen to see which records could answer the remaining questions.

Sidney and Margaret’s original marriage license and return, identifying where the ceremony took place.
Sidney Sr.’s original 1968 death certificate.
Marriage records for Audrey and George Maxwell Craig, and Sidney Jr. and Clara Ruth River.
Sidney Jr.’s military service records and complete obituary.
Family photographs, mine-employment records and documents adding to this family’s life in Armstrong, Clarion and Beaver counties.

Descendant Families · Jennie May’s Family

Jane “Jennie” May Guthrie & John Calvin Snyder

Jane “Jennie” May Guthrie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 2 November 1883
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Family & Home: Mother of ten children. Lived in Bradys Bend and Sugar Creek townships, Armstrong County, and later Madison Township, Clarion County.
Death: 11 July 1925
Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; aged 41.
Burial: Rimersburg Cemetery, as identified in the memorial index.

John Calvin Snyder

Parents: Samuel Snyder & Mary Jane Myers, according to the family research.
Birth: 4 February 1878
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; the Research Tree identifies Apollo.
Work: Coal miner and later farmer in Madison Township, Clarion County.
Death: 9 October 1955
Curllsville, Clarion County, Pennsylvania; aged 77.
Burial: Rimersburg Cemetery, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

Married 8 May 1902
Recorded in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

A Family of Ten in the Mining Communities

Jennie was sixteen and still attending school when the 1900 census recorded her in William and Lavina’s Sugar Creek Township household. She married John Calvin Snyder on 8 May 1902. Their ten children were born between 1902 and 1922.

In 1910 John and Jennie lived in Bradys Bend Township with five children, all of whom Jennie reported as living. By 1920 they were in Sugar Creek Township with eight children. John worked in the coal mines, and the older sons began mining while still in their teens.

The family later made its home in Madison Township, Clarion County. An account reproduced from the Clarion Democrat describes Jennie’s death in a Kittanning hospital on 11 July 1925, following an operation for cancer. It reports that John had himself been hospitalized for blood poisoning and was discharged on the day Jennie was admitted.

All ten children survived their mother. The account places nine at home and one son in Pittsburgh; it also names Jennie’s parents among the survivors. She was a member of Sandy Hollow Methodist Episcopal Church. Her funeral was held on 14 July, conducted by the Rev. S. H. Bartlett of Rimersburg.

John remained widowed and turned to farming. The 1930 census found him on a rented farm in Madison Township with seven children still in the household. He continued farming in 1940, when son Clarence and his family were living with him. John died on 9 October 1955 and was buried at Rimersburg Cemetery.

Their Ten Children

Harry Joseph Snyder & Flossie L. Gallagher

29 October 1902 – 24 June 1988

Harry was born in Armstrong County and was working as a coal miner by seventeen. He was the son living in Pittsburgh when Jennie died in 1925; the family account records that he subsequently returned to the area.

About 1934 he married Flossie L. Gallagher. They lived in Madison Township, Clarion County, and raised three sons. Harry died on 24 June 1988.

Lincoln William Snyder & Nellie Marie Noonan

11 August 1904 – 19 April 1946

Lincoln entered coal mining as a teenager. By 1930 he was married to Nellie Marie Noonan, owned his home and worked as a mule driver in a coal mine. They had three children: one son and two daughters.

His death certificate records a fall at a mine on 15 November 1945 and links his later fatal illness to the resulting spinal injury. Lincoln died in Madison Township on 19 April 1946, aged 41. The certificate names his occupation as a mine loader and his wife as the informant.

He was buried at Rimersburg on 22 April. Nellie survived him until 9 June 1991, when she died at 84. Both are reported buried at Rimersburg Cemetery.

Elsie Lavine Snyder & Albert Sepp

2 February 1907 – May 1984

Elsie was born in Armstrong County. On 19 February 1927, shortly after her twentieth birthday, she married Albert Sepp in Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. They had three sons, born between 1928 and 1941.

The family lived in Swissvale, Allegheny County, where Albert worked as a waterworks bench hand in 1930 and a steel-mill boilermaker in 1940. By 1950 they had moved to Rimersburg, and he was loading coal in the mines.

Albert died in Vanport, Beaver County, on 25 July 1965. Elsie died in May 1984 and was buried at Sylvania Hills Memorial Park in Rochester, Beaver County.

Chester Samuel Snyder & Nellie Viola Chandler

24 October 1908 – 23 October 1980

Chester was born in Kaylor, Bradys Bend Township, Armstrong County. A later sworn correction identifies him by name and corrects the original birth entry from female to male. He was sixteen when his mother died.

In 1930 Chester was single and working on his father’s farm. About 1934 he married Nellie Viola Chandler, a daughter of William Nelson Chandler and Annette Viola Luther. They settled in Madison Township and had four children: two sons and two daughters, born between 1935 and 1938.

Chester was looking for work in 1940 and was employed in coal mining for Keystone by 1950. He died in Youngstown, Ohio, on 23 October 1980, the day before his seventy-second birthday. Nellie died in Campbell, Ohio, on 21 May 2000. Both were buried at Rimersburg Cemetery.

Clarence Sylvester Snyder & Helen Kathryn Mahood

4 April 1910 – 31 May 1973

Clarence’s delayed birth certificate records his birth in Kaylor, Armstrong County, to John Calvin Snyder and Jennie May Guthrie. As a young man he worked on his widowed father’s farm and later entered coal mining.

About 1933 he married Helen Kathryn Mahood. They had seven children: two sons and five daughters. Their first child, Calvin James Snyder, was born prematurely and lived four days.

They lived in Madison Township in 1940 and in Clintonville, Venango County, by 1950. An employment record cited in Clarence’s delayed birth registration states that he began work with Sharon Steel Corporation on 7 December 1950.

Clarence died in Youngstown, Ohio, on 31 May 1973. Helen died in Leesburg, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, on 2 December 1987. Both were buried at Rimersburg Cemetery.

Hugh Loraine Snyder & Anna Elizabeth Flick

10 January 1911 – 22 October 1985

Hugh was born in Armstrong County and spent his childhood in the family’s mining and farming households. By 1930 he had left school and was working in the coal mines.

In the early 1930s he married Anna Elizabeth Flick. They had four children: two sons and two daughters.

The couple were living in Kittanning when Anna died on 19 May 1984. Hugh died in New Kensington, Westmoreland County, on 22 October 1985. Both were buried at Rimersburg Cemetery.

Mildred Jane Snyder, Walter James Henry & George Donald Buzard

25 April 1916 – 1 March 2004

Mildred was born in Cowansville and attended Sandy Hollow and Monarch schools. On 6 July 1936 she married Walter James Henry. The family account identifies seven children: three sons and four daughters.

From 1950 to 1958 Mildred worked in the decorating department of the Owens-Illinois glass plant in Clarion. Her obituary recalls her enjoyment of crafts, quilting, bowling and dominoes.

Her later marriage to George Donald “Bud” Buzard is recorded in the family account as 28 December 1982. Bud had three children from his first marriage to Rena Silvia Switzer. No children are reported from his marriage to Mildred.

Bud died on 19 April 1993, aged 78, and was buried at Rimersburg Cemetery with his first wife. Mildred died on 1 March 2004.

Vernie Grace Snyder, William Franklin Henry & Russell Elwood Switzer

8 August 1918 – 30 May 2002

Vernie was born in Cowansville. About 1935 she married William Franklin Henry, the twin brother of her sister Mildred’s husband, Walter James Henry. Vernie and William had two children: one son and one daughter.

William was killed by a rock fall on 28 May 1939 while working for Keystone Mining Company. The 1940 census found Vernie widowed, heading a rented household in Madison Township.

In the early 1940s she married Russell Elwood Switzer, who worked as a driver in his family’s junk business. They had one daughter, born about 1945.

Russell died in 1993. Vernie died in Sligo, Clarion County, on 30 May 2002 and was buried with him at Rimersburg Cemetery.

Arthur Melvin “Jack” Snyder & Lois Elinor Barr

31 December 1921 – 13 April 1949

Arthur Melvin, known as Jack, was born in Madison Township, Clarion County. He married Lois Elinor Barr about 1942. His draft registration named Hugh Snyder as his employer; his death certificate later identified his occupation as coal miner for Keystone Mining Company.

Jack and Lois had four children: three sons and one daughter, born between 1943 and 1946. On 11 April 1949, Jack’s car collided with a truck in Toby Township. He died from his injuries at Butler County Memorial Hospital on 13 April, aged 27. Lois was the informant for his death certificate. Burial followed at Rimersburg on 17 April.

In 1950 Lois headed the household with her children and a boarder, Chester Corman. The family research records two further children from Lois and Chester’s relationship in the early 1950s. They married in Colonial Heights, Virginia, on 10 October 1989, following his divorce on 20 September.

Chester died on 25 March 1990. Lois remained in Virginia and died in Hopewell on 20 April 2002. They were buried together at Bermuda Memorial Park in Enon, Chesterfield County.

Arnold George Snyder

31 December 1922 – 17 December 1944

Arnold, the youngest child, attended school in Madison Township and worked on his father’s farm. Family research records his entry into active Army service at Pittsburgh on 10 December 1942, shortly before his twentieth birthday.

He served as a private first class in Company C, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division. He was killed in action in Europe on 17 December 1944, aged 21.

Arnold was unmarried and left no descendants. His remains were returned for burial at Rimersburg Cemetery, where a military marker commemorates him. His father filed a Pennsylvania Second World War compensation application following his death.

Family Evidence & Record DifferencesOpen for birth records, family counts, cemetery identifications and unresolved chronology.

Ten children. The Research Tree, memorial links and the reproduced account of Jennie’s death identify ten children. Her 1910 census entry reports five born and five living; the household had grown to eight children by 1920. Arthur and Arnold were born afterward.

Jennie’s birth and marriage age. The 1900 census gives November 1883, consistent with the Research Tree and memorial date of 2 November 1883. The marriage index gives her age as 21 in May 1902, which does not fit that birth date. The original marriage application should be examined before treating the indexed age as a separate birth estimate.

John’s parents. The Research Tree and memorial links identify his father as Samuel Peter Snyder; the compiled narrative uses Samuel Porter. His mother is identified as Mary Jane Myers in the memorial information. Samuel Snyder is used here without choosing between the conflicting middle names.

Jennie’s burial and newspaper notice. Her memorial index identifies Rimersburg Cemetery, while the reproduced newspaper account names Crawford Cemetery. The records presented here do not establish that those names refer to the same burial ground. The obituary index dates the Clarion Democrat item to 23 July 1940, although it describes her death in July 1925. The original newspaper page is needed to determine its context and confirm the publication date.

Chester’s corrected birth record. His sworn amendment corrects an unnamed female entry to Chester Samuel Snyder, male, born 24 October 1908 in Kaylor, Bradys Bend Township. The amendment also changes his mother’s surname spelling from Guthrie to Gutherie. This is a correction for Chester, not evidence of another child.

Clarence’s delayed registration. Certificate D-217866-10, filed 10 August 1964, records his birth on 4 April 1910. It cites employment and insurance records in support. The Sharon Steel employment entry begins on 7 December 1950; it does not establish his employment earlier that census year.

Lincoln and Arthur’s death certificates. Lincoln’s certificate, no. 32125, gives 11 August 1904 as his birth date and 19 April 1946 as his death date. Arthur’s certificate, no. 30774, gives 31 December 1921 as his birth date, despite a 1922 year appearing in a memorial link. The certificates also document their accidents and identify their parents and wives.

Other names and chronology. Albert Sepp’s middle name appears as Conrap in the compiled account and needs confirmation from his marriage record. Mildred’s first husband’s reported 1993 death and her 1982 remarriage do not establish how or when her first marriage ended. Vernie’s children’s differing census household placements and relationship labels require comparison before drawing conclusions about parentage. A school entry for a Melvin Snyder has not been securely linked to Arthur Melvin Snyder.

Military evidence. John Calvin Snyder’s draft registrations support his birth date of 4 February 1878 but do not establish military service. Arnold’s military history is reported in the family research; his original service, casualty and compensation records would provide the fullest documentation.

Explore the RecordsOpen for the principal sources behind this family account.

United States censuses, 1900–1940: Jennie’s childhood household, the growing Snyder family and John’s later farming households.
Armstrong County marriage index, 8 May 1902: Jennie May Guthrie and John Calvin Snyder.
Chester Samuel Snyder’s amended birth record: sworn correction of his name, sex and mother’s surname spelling; birth on 24 October 1908.
Pennsylvania delayed birth certificate D-217866-10: Clarence Sylvester Snyder, born 4 April 1910; registration filed in 1964.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 32125: Lincoln William Snyder, 19 April 1946; the mine accident and subsequent illness.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 30774: Arthur Melvin Snyder, 13 April 1949; birth, parents, wife and fatal road accident.
Clarion Democrat account and obituary index: Jennie’s 1925 death and funeral; the indexed 1940 publication date requires examination of the newspaper page.
Find a Grave: John Calvin Snyder’s memorial and gravestone photograph; Jennie’s memorial index and linked family entries.
First and Second World War draft indexes: John Calvin Snyder, born 4 February 1878.
Guthrie Research Tree and compiled family research: the children’s marriages, occupations, descendant counts, later deaths and burial information.

DNA ParticipationOpen for the current participation status of Jennie’s descendants.

No autosomal DNA participation is currently documented through Jane May Guthrie’s family. Descendants of her children may contribute autosomal results alongside their documented family connections.

Jennie did not inherit her father’s Y chromosome, so the paternal lines descending through her sons do not carry this family’s Guthrie Y-DNA. Project participants are represented by kit number only.

Learn about joining the Guthrie DNA Project.

Most Wanted DocumentsOpen to see which records could answer the remaining questions.

Jennie’s original death certificate, cemetery register and complete newspaper notice, to compare the burial information and publication date.
John and Jennie’s original marriage application and return, especially the entry giving Jennie’s age.
John Calvin Snyder’s original birth or death record, and records clarifying his parents’ full names.
Elsie and Albert Sepp’s marriage record, confirming Albert’s full name.
Records establishing the end of Mildred and Walter Henry’s marriage and her later marriage to George Buzard.
Original census schedules and family records clarifying the children’s household placements in the Henry and Switzer families.
Arnold George Snyder’s service, casualty, burial and Pennsylvania compensation records.
Family photographs, letters and documents that add to the ten children’s stories.

Descendant Families · Mina’s Family

Jemina Alice “Mina” Guthrie & Oliver Brooks Young

Jemina Alice “Mina” Guthrie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 30 March 1887
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Family & Home: Mother of ten children. Lived in Sugar Creek, Washington and Perry townships, Armstrong County.
Death: 27 November 1968
Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania, according to the Research Tree; aged 81.
Burial: Crawford Cemetery, identified as Bradys Bend, Armstrong County, in her memorial.

Oliver “Ollie” Brooks Young

Parents: Isaiah Young & Lydia McCoy.
Birth: 12 November 1880
Phillipston, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.
Work: Teamster and farmer.
Death: 22 November 1956
Perry Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; aged 76.
Burial: Buried 25 November 1956. The cemetery named on his death certificate differs from the compiled family account; see the evidence notes below.

Married 20 June 1906
East Brady, Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

Ollie and Mina’s Armstrong County Family

Mina was thirteen and attending school when the 1900 census recorded her in William and Lavina Guthrie’s Sugar Creek Township household. Her name was Jemina Alice Guthrie, and she was commonly known as Mina. She was nineteen when she married Oliver Brooks Young, usually called Ollie, on 20 June 1906.

In 1910 they lived in Sugar Creek Township with Sidney and Myrtle. Mina reported two children born and both living. By 1920 the household had grown to six children, and the family was living in Washington Township. Four more children followed during the next decade.

Ollie’s First World War draft registration identifies him as a teamster in the compiled research. Later records describe him as a farmer. The couple moved to Perry Township by 1940, and their home remained a gathering place for the younger children and extended family. In 1950 Leslie and Hartzell were still living with their parents, while Delbert’s family was nearby.

Ollie and Mina lost three daughters during their lifetimes: Myrtle in 1929, Annabelle in 1946 and Gladys in July 1956. Following Annabelle’s death, her two sons were raised in the families of her siblings Sidney and Hazel.

Ollie died in Perry Township on 22 November 1956, ten days after his seventy-sixth birthday. His death certificate records a coronary occlusion and identifies Mina as his surviving wife. Mina lived another twelve years, dying on 27 November 1968.

Their Ten Children

Sidney Easton Young & Margaret Hannah Umbaugh

31 July 1907 – 19 October 1992

Sidney was born in Sugar Creek Township. His amended birth record confirms his name and birth date and corrects his mother’s maiden name to Jemina Alice Guthrie.

On 10 January 1939 he married Margaret Hannah Umbaugh in East Kittanning. Their marriage return is preserved in the Fulton County license docket. Sidney worked as a state-road laborer, farm hand and later a grader operator in strip mining.

The couple adopted one of Sidney’s nephews after his sister Annabelle’s death. Margaret died in 1986 and Sidney on 19 October 1992. Both were buried at Lawn Haven Burial Estates in Worthington, Armstrong County.

Myrtle Lavina Young

19 February 1909 – 15 July 1929

Myrtle was unmarried and living with her parents when she was struck by a moving automobile on the state highway in East Franklin Township. Her death certificate records a fatal brain injury and places her death in Kittanning on 15 July 1929. She was twenty.

Her father supplied the family information for the certificate. Myrtle was buried at Crawford Cemetery on 17 July 1929. No children are documented.

Hazel Marie Young & Carl Edward Heilman

19 December 1910 – 2 April 1989

Hazel was born in Kaylor, Armstrong County, and grew up in Washington Township. On 29 April 1935 she married Carl Edward Heilman, a steelworker.

By October 1940 they were living in the Tarentum area of Allegheny County, where Carl worked for Allegheny Ludlum Steel. The family account reports no biological children, but Hazel and Carl raised one of Annabelle’s two sons after her death.

Carl died on 2 July 1988. Hazel died in Natrona Heights on 2 April 1989. They were buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in Lower Burrell, Westmoreland County.

William Isaac Young

10 July 1913 – November 1978

William, the fourth child and second son, was born in Adrian, Armstrong County. He worked in the lumber industry in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Ohio.

The family research identifies one daughter, born about 1945 in Kentucky. His marital history has not been established. William died in November 1978 and is reported buried at Crawford Cemetery. A conflicting birth year in a linked memorial entry is discussed below.

Walter Earl Young

29 June 1915 – January 1980

Walter was born in Washington Township, Armstrong County. At twenty-five he registered for the Second World War draft, named his father as his contact and reported employment at Eljer Pottery in Ford City.

The compiled research links his birth date to a Social Security death index entry for January 1980, with a last residence in Kittanning. An obituary was indexed in the Butler Eagle on 17 January 1980, page 6.

Walter’s marriage and children remain unconfirmed. The complete obituary is particularly important because a Find a Grave family link displays incompatible dates for a Walter Earl Young.

Gladys Catherine Young, James Hollobaugh & John Calvin Hiles

3 February 1916 – 28 July 1956

Gladys was born in Washington Township. The family research identifies two sons with James Hollobaugh before her marriage to John Calvin Hiles, placed about 1935–1936. Gladys and John had three children: two sons and a daughter.

In 1940 the Hiles household in Bradys Bend Township included John’s widowed father, William H. Hiles, a coal miner. John worked for a limestone company. The older boys were entered under the Hiles surname; in 1950 the Hollobaugh surname and stepson relationships distinguish them from the Hiles children.

By 1950 John and Gladys occupied their own home on a three-acre property, and John worked as a stone driller. Gladys died in Bradys Bend Township on 28 July 1956, aged forty, from uterine cancer that had spread.

Her death certificate records burial on 31 July at St. Paul’s Cemetery in Sugar Creek Township. John survived her by about three years, dying at forty-nine. Their youngest child was still a teenager.

Leslie Clarence Young & Rose Marie Wiles

11 October 1921 – 6 January 2002

Leslie, the seventh child, was working at a sawmill by eighteen. His 1942 draft registration names him Leslie Clarence Young, although he signed with the middle initial C. At that time he worked for National Electric Products in Ambridge, Beaver County.

By the 1950 census he was a digger operator in strip mining. On 6 May 1950 he married Rose Marie Wiles, a daughter of Ross Albert and Catherine Mae Wiles. They had two children.

Rose worked for Russell Bennett Studio for thirteen years and as an activity director at Chicora Medical Center for twenty-two years. She belonged to Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chicora and enjoyed baking, cards, bingo and travel.

Leslie died on 6 January 2002, and Rose on 7 May 2009. They are reported buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in Frogtown, Armstrong County.

Delbert Lorraine Young & Eleanor M. Crawford

26 May 1923 – 25 December 1996

Delbert was born in Cowansville, Armstrong County. As a teenager he worked as a farm hand. His draft registration of 30 June 1942 places him in Perry Township and records employment with the Western Allegheny Railroad at Kaylor.

He entered the United States Army at Pittsburgh on 20 January 1943. The family research records both domestic and overseas service, promotion to sergeant and an honorable discharge at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on 12 January 1946.

About 1946–1947 he married Eleanor M. Crawford, a daughter of Addie N. and Edna M. Crawford. They raised one daughter and two sons, born between 1948 and 1954. In 1950 Delbert worked as an operator in coal strip mining, and the family lived near his parents.

Delbert died on Christmas Day 1996 in Worthington. Eleanor survived him until 9 January 2020. Both were buried at Lawn Haven Burial Estates in Worthington.

Annabelle Emma Young & Paul Musloe

6 January 1925 – 5 December 1946

Annabelle, the youngest daughter, was born in Washington Township. At eighteen she married Paul Musloe in Hancock County, West Virginia, in 1943. Paul had worked as a bricklayer’s helper; Annabelle worked as a restaurant waitress.

They had two sons. Annabelle died at Allegheny Valley Hospital on 5 December 1946, aged twenty-one, following pregnancy complications. Her death certificate identifies Paul as her husband and identifies her parents as Ollie Brooks Young and Mina Guthrie.

She was buried at Crawford Cemetery on 8 December 1946. Her sons were subsequently raised in the families of her brother Sidney and sister Hazel.

Hartzell Derwood Young & Barbara A. Wetzel

12 April 1930 – 3 December 2009

Hartzell was the youngest of Ollie and Mina’s ten children, born in Washington Township. He served in an armored division of the United States Army during the Korean War and was discharged as a sergeant first class.

On 29 October 1958 he married Barbara A. Wetzel. They had one daughter. Hartzell belonged to American Legion Post 488 in Bradys Bend.

His working life included trucking for Michigan Limestone Mine, operating his own truck, logging for Blakely Logging in Petrolia and coal mining for Tesone Coal Company and Rosebud Mining.

Barbara died on 6 March 1997. Hartzell died on 3 December 2009, the last surviving member of the ten siblings. His daughter and two grandsons survived him.

Family Evidence & Record DifferencesOpen for name variants, original certificates and unresolved census and cemetery details.

Jemina Alice Guthrie, known as Mina. Original record images support Jemina. The correction to Sidney Easton Young’s birth record explicitly replaces the erroneous entry “Jamima Sutheria Young” with Jemina Alice Guthrie; Sidney signed the correction. Many indexes transcribe her name as Jemima, and that spelling also appears in her online memorial. Those secondary spellings should not replace her documented name.

Birth and marriage. The 1900 census gives Mina’s birth as March 1887. The Research Tree and memorial give 30 March 1887. The marriage index records 20 June 1906 in Clarion County, with Mina aged nineteen and her parents named William and Lavina Guthrie. East Brady is specified in the family research.

The 1950 census transcription. The supplied index gives Ollie an age of 19 and Mina an age of 13, despite identifying their adult sons in the household. These entries are inconsistent with the earlier records. Their documented birth dates place them at 69 and 63 in April 1950; the original schedule is needed to verify what the enumerator actually wrote.

Ollie’s death and burial. Death certificate no. 96140 confirms 12 November 1880, Phillipston, his parents and his death on 22 November 1956. It describes him as a farmer and records eighteen years in the Perry Township community. Its burial entry appears to read Crosswell Cemetery, Perry Township, on 25 November. The compiled account instead places him at Crawford Cemetery with Mina. The cemetery register and a clearer gravestone photograph are needed to reconcile those descriptions.

Myrtle and Annabelle. Myrtle’s certificate, no. 72295, confirms her 1909 birth and 1929 death, distinguishing the accident location in East Franklin Township from her place of death in Kittanning. Annabelle’s certificate, no. 102583, confirms her 1925 birth, 1946 death, marriage and burial. Both certificates name their parents and Crawford Cemetery.

Gladys’s birth and burial. Her death certificate, no. 60467, gives 3 February 1916, age forty, and burial at St. Paul’s Cemetery, Sugar Creek Township. The memorial family link displays 1917, and her ages in the 1920 and 1930 census indexes also warrant checking against the original schedules. The compiled account names Oak Grove Cemetery. The certificate is followed here, with the differences retained for further research.

William and Walter’s memorial links. Mina’s memorial links William Isaac Young with a 1910 birth year, whereas the Research Tree and compiled account give 1913 and his childhood census ages fit the later year. The linked Walter Earl entry displays 1918–1929, incompatible with this son’s childhood census entries, adult draft record and reported 1980 death. Those linked dates are not adopted here.

Sidney’s marriage. The original Fulton County application and return, license no. 1583, document his marriage to Margaret H. Umbaugh in East Kittanning on 10 January 1939. The county holding the license record should not be substituted for the ceremony location.

Leslie’s middle name. The compiled research reports Clarence on his draft registration and C. in his signature. Charles appears in a secondary family account. Clarence is retained here; the original registration remains the most useful record for comparing the forms.

Later family histories. The children’s occupations, military service, marriages and descendant counts draw partly on the compiled family research. Annabelle’s sons belong to her biological family even though Sidney and Hazel raised them; they should not be counted as separate biological descendants in each household.

Explore the RecordsOpen for the principal sources behind this family account.

United States census records, 1900–1950: Mina’s childhood household and the Young family’s homes in Sugar Creek, Washington and Perry townships. Compare index entries with the original schedules, especially in 1950.
Pennsylvania marriage index, 20 June 1906: Jemina A. Guthrie, indexed as Jemima A. Guthrie, and Ollie B. Young, Clarion County; film 001315274.
Sidney Easton Young’s amended birth record: birth on 31 July 1907 and correction of his mother’s maiden name to Jemina Alice Guthrie.
Fulton County marriage license no. 1583: Sidney E. Young and Margaret H. Umbaugh; the return records their East Kittanning ceremony on 10 January 1939.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 72295: Myrtle Lavina Young, 15 July 1929; birth, parents, road accident and burial.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 102583: Annabelle Emma Musloe, 5 December 1946; parents, husband and Crawford Cemetery burial.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 60467: Gladys Catherine Hiles, 28 July 1956; birth date, parents, husband and St. Paul’s Cemetery burial.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 96140: Ollie Brooks Young, 22 November 1956; birthplace, parents, occupation and burial entry.
First and Second World War draft registration indexes: Ollie Brooks Young, born 12 November 1880, with Mina identified as his contact.
Find a Grave: Mina Young’s memorial and shared Young gravestone photograph. Some linked children’s dates conflict with other family records.
Butler Eagle obituary index: Walter E. Young, 17 January 1980, page 6; Butler Area Public Library film 483.
Guthrie Research Tree and compiled family research: the ten children’s marriages, working lives, military histories, later deaths and descendant counts.

DNA ParticipationOpen for the documented participation status of Mina’s descendants.

No autosomal DNA participation is currently documented through Mina Guthrie’s family. Descendants may contribute autosomal results together with their documented ancestral connections.

Mina did not inherit her father’s Y chromosome, so the paternal lines descending through her sons do not carry this family’s Guthrie Y-DNA. Project participants are represented by kit number only.

Learn about joining the Guthrie DNA Project.

Most Wanted DocumentsOpen to see which records could resolve the remaining questions.

Mina and Ollie’s original 1906 marriage application and return, and Mina’s complete death record and obituary.
The original 1950 census schedule to check both parents’ indexed ages.
Cemetery registers and clear gravestone photographs to reconcile Ollie’s and Gladys’s burial information.
William Isaac Young’s birth, marriage and death records, and Walter Earl Young’s complete January 1980 obituary.
Gladys’s birth and marriage records, alongside the original 1920 and 1930 census schedules.
Leslie’s original draft registration and Delbert’s and Hartzell’s military service and discharge records.
Family photographs, letters and recollections documenting the ten children’s lives.

Descendant Families · Daniel Walker’s Family

Daniel Walker Guthrie & His Families

Daniel Walker Guthrie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 29 January 1889
Cowansville, Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Work & Service: Pottery kiln worker and quarry laborer; United States Army veteran of the First World War.
Death: 12 March 1971
Alliance, Stark County, Ohio; aged 82.
Burial: Highland Memorial Park, Knox Township, Columbiana County, Ohio.

Harriet Irene Blind

Parents: James Blind & Anna Harmon.
Birth: 6 July 1898
Leetonia, Columbiana County, Ohio, according to the Research Tree.
Marriage & Child: Married Daniel in 1915; later divorced.
One son: Dale Walker Guthrie.
Death: 7 September 1991
Columbiana County, Ohio; aged 93.
Burial: Zion Hill Church of the Brethren Cemetery, North Lima, Ohio, according to the family research.

Laura Christine McGee

Parents: John Calvin McGee & Laura May McCoy.
Birth: 4 January 1903
Pennsylvania.
Marriage & Family: Daniel’s second wife; marriage date not established.
Mother of Violet Marie and stepmother of Dale.
Death: 29 July 1975
Alliance, Stark County, Ohio; aged 72.
Burial: Highland Memorial Park, Knox Township, Columbiana County, Ohio.

Daniel & Harriet: 21 August 1915
New Cumberland, Hancock County, West Virginia.
Daniel & Christine: later marriage; exact date and place remain to be documented.

From the Family Farm to Ohio’s Potteries

Daniel grew up in William and Lavina Guthrie’s large Sugar Creek Township family. In 1900 he was eleven and attending school. By 1910 he had moved to Ohio, where he lived with his sister Anna Eliza Guthrie Fullerton, her husband Arthur and their children in Smith Township, Mahoning County.

He was already working as a kiln drawer in a pottery at twenty-one. Pottery work would remain a recurring part of his life, interrupted by other employment and military service.

Daniel married Harriet Irene Blind on 21 August 1915. Both were living in Sebring, Ohio, but crossed into West Virginia for their marriage at New Cumberland. Their son Dale Walker Guthrie was born in Sugar Creek Township, Pennsylvania, on 26 March 1916.

First World War Service

The compiled family account places Daniel in iron and steel work in Ohio when he registered for the draft in June 1917. The Ohio military roster records his entry into the National Army at Salem, Ohio, on 28 May 1918, with his residence listed as Leetonia.

His assignments included the 6th Infantry Replacement Regiment at Camp Gordon, Georgia, the Camp Gordon replacement draft and the 329th Infantry. By September 1918 he was assigned to Company G, 6th Infantry. The roster credits him with service in St. Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne and a defensive sector, at the rank of private.

Daniel returned from France aboard the America. The Army transport index records his departure from Brest on 13 July 1919 and arrival at Hoboken, New Jersey, on 22 July 1919. His father, William C. Guthrie of Cowansville, was named as his family contact.

Two Families and a Return to Pottery Work

In 1920 Daniel and young Dale were living with William and Lavina in Sugar Creek Township. Daniel’s brother John Earl and his family shared the household. Daniel worked as a laborer at a lime quarry.

Daniel and Harriet’s marriage ended in divorce. Harriet married Frank Raymond Spiker on 20 August 1920. The precise divorce date and circumstances have not been established from the records reviewed.

Daniel subsequently married Laura Christine McGee, known as Christine. She had grown up in Madison Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Their daughter Violet Marie was born in 1924. Christine also helped raise Dale, Daniel’s son by Harriet.

The 1930 census found Daniel, Christine, Dale and Violet in Garfield village, Goshen Township, Mahoning County, Ohio. Daniel was again working as a pottery kiln drawer. By 1935 the family lived in Sebring, where Daniel continued in that occupation in 1940.

In 1942 Daniel registered for the Second World War draft at fifty-three. The family account identifies his employer as Saxon China Company. By 1950 he and Christine were living together in Sebring, and his occupation was recorded as kiln placer in pottery manufacturing.

Daniel died at Alliance City Hospital on 12 March 1971 and was buried at Highland Memorial Park. Christine survived him until 29 July 1975 and was buried in the same cemetery.

Harriet lived until 7 September 1991. The Research Tree records five marriages after Daniel: to Frank Raymond Spiker, Harry M. Monigold, Lawrence David Lane, John Leonard Russell and Wilson C. Ritchie.

Daniel’s Two Children

Dale Walker Guthrie & Lucy Josephine Cistolo

26 March 1916 – 24 August 2003
Son of Daniel Walker Guthrie & Harriet Irene Blind

Dale’s original Pennsylvania birth certificate identifies his parents as D. W. Guthrie and Harriet Blind. It records his birth in Sugar Creek Township on 26 March 1916. His middle name is Walker; the index reading Walter is a transcription error.

As a young child he lived with his father and paternal grandparents in Pennsylvania. In 1930 he was fourteen and attending school in Goshen Township, Ohio, in the household of Daniel and his stepmother Christine.

By 1940 Dale was lodging in Koppel, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The census records government laboring work, and his draft registration of 16 October 1940 identifies his employer as a WPA project.

The Research Tree places his marriage to Lucy Josephine Cistolo in 1943. Lucy was born in Ellwood City on 30 November 1925. They had seven children: five sons and two daughters.

Later records place Dale in the Darlington and Beaver Falls area. The Research Tree gives his death as 24 August 2003, aged eighty-seven. An obituary index records publication the following day, although the precise death location requires comparison with the complete obituary.

Lucy died in Patterson Township, Beaver County, on 27 July 2005. The Research Tree also records a later marriage for Dale to Shirley Yvonne Reese (1928–2003) and a later McClurg marriage for Lucy; those marriage dates remain unconfirmed.

Violet Marie Guthrie Snyder

1924 – 2014
Daughter of Daniel Walker Guthrie & Laura Christine McGee

Violet was five when the 1930 census recorded her with Daniel, Christine and her older half-brother Dale in Goshen Township, Ohio. She was fifteen and still living with her parents in Sebring in 1940.

The Research Tree and Daniel’s linked memorial identify her as Violet Marie Guthrie, later Snyder, with a death year of 2014. Her marriage record and complete obituary are needed to establish the fuller history of her own family.

DNA Participation Chart

Daniel’s family is represented in both Y-DNA and autosomal testing. The documented participants descend through Dale Walker Guthrie & Lucy Josephine Cistolo, and therefore through Daniel’s marriage to Harriet Irene Blind.

Child’s Line	Guthrie Y-DNA	Autosomal DNA
Dale Walker Guthrie Mother: Harriet Irene Blind	✓ Represented Kit 563776 Y37; GFG1A	✓ Represented Kits 563776 and B75156
Violet Marie Guthrie Snyder Mother: Laura Christine McGee	Not transmitted through a daughter	No participant documented

Kit 563776 contributes both Y-DNA and Family Finder results. Kit B75156 contributes autosomal participation. Together they represent two project participants. No participation through Violet’s descendants is documented in the reviewed material.

The Y-DNA result connects this direct paternal line with Guthrie Family Group 1A. It does not, by itself, identify the earlier ancestor linking this Pennsylvania family to another GFG1A branch. Project participants are represented by kit number only.

Learn about joining the Guthrie DNA Project.

Family Evidence & Record DifferencesOpen for Dale’s corrected identity, marriage details and the limits of the military indexes.

Dale belongs to Daniel and Harriet. Pennsylvania birth certificate no. 39938 records Dale’s parents as D. W. Guthrie and Harriet Blind. The 1920 census index incorrectly assigns him to Earl and Mary Guthrie, who shared the household. The household relationship “grandson” refers to William, the head of household; it does not establish which of William’s sons was the father. Dale also appears as Daniel’s son in the 1930 household. He should not be counted among John Earl and Mary’s children.

Walker, not Walter. Dale’s handwritten birth certificate reads Dale Walker Guthrie. The cursive K has been misread as a T in the transcription. The birthplace indexed as “Lugar Creek” is likewise a misreading of Sugar Creek. These are indexing errors, not alternate names or places.

Harriet’s age and birthplace. The original 1915 marriage record gives her age as twenty-one and birthplace as Mahoning County, Ohio. The Research Tree gives 6 July 1898 in Leetonia, Columbiana County, which would make her seventeen at marriage. Dale’s 1916 birth certificate also gives Harriet’s age as seventeen and her birthplace as Ohio. The latter supports a birth around 1898, but her own birth record is needed to settle the exact date and county.

The first marriage and divorce. The original Hancock County marriage page, 494, records both the license and ceremony on 21 August 1915. The minister’s return specifies New Cumberland. The bride appears as Harriot Irene Blind. Daniel is still marked married in the 1920 census index; Harriet’s absence from that household does not establish a divorce date or a custody arrangement.

Christine’s marriage and surname. McGee is the spelling in the Research Tree; Magee appears in the compiled heading. The family account places the marriage before Violet’s 1924 birth, but an original marriage record has not established that date. Daniel and Christine are documented together as husband and wife by the 1930 census.

Pottery work began before the war. Daniel’s 1910 census entry identifies him as a kiln drawer. His 1930 employment therefore represents a return to, or continuation of, that trade rather than its beginning. In 1950 the recorded occupation changes to kiln placer.

Military service and registration. The Ohio roster and Army transport index establish Daniel’s First World War service. His later draft registration does not establish Second World War service. The Veterans Administration index includes 29 July 1919 as a military date, but the displayed field does not identify the event; it is not treated here as a verified discharge date.

Daniel’s middle name in indexes. Walker is supported by the family research, Veterans Administration entry and the heading of his original marriage license. Walter appears in the Second World War draft index and in portions of the marriage clerk’s entries. The preferred name remains Daniel Walker Guthrie.

Dale’s later life. The Research Tree gives 24 August 2003 and Beaver as his death details, while the obituary index associates him with Brighton Township and records publication on 25 August. The complete obituary is needed to distinguish the place of death from residence. The 1943 marriage to Lucy and their later marriages also need original records for precise dates and locations.

Memorial links are incomplete. Daniel’s online memorial links Violet but omits Dale. That omission does not outweigh Dale’s birth certificate and census evidence. Daniel’s father remains William C. Guthrie; the expanded middle name Crawford in memorial information has not been established for him.

Explore the RecordsOpen for the original marriage and birth records, census trail and military sources.

Hancock County, West Virginia, marriage record, page 494: Daniel Walker Guthrie and Harriet Irene Blind; license and New Cumberland ceremony, 21 August 1915.
Pennsylvania birth certificate no. 39938: Dale Walker Guthrie, born 26 March 1916 in Sugar Creek Township; parents D. W. Guthrie and Harriet Blind; filed 10 April 1916.
United States censuses, 1900–1950: Daniel’s childhood in Pennsylvania, the Fullerton household in Ohio, the shared 1920 Guthrie household, and his later Goshen and Sebring family.
Ohio roster of soldiers, sailors and marines in the First World War: Daniel W. Guthrie, entry into service on 28 May 1918, units and campaigns.
United States Army transport passenger-list index: Daniel W. Guthrie, Company G, 6th Infantry, aboard the America; Brest departure 13 July 1919 and Hoboken arrival 22 July 1919.
Veterans Administration master index: Daniel Walker Guthrie, born 29 January 1889 and died 12 March 1971; the separate military-date field requires examination of the original card.
First and Second World War draft records: Daniel’s registrations and Dale’s 16 October 1940 registration identifying WPA employment.
Ohio death index, certificate 030775: Daniel W. Guthrie, 12 March 1971, Alliance City Hospital, Stark County.
Find a Grave: Daniel Walker Guthrie’s memorial at Highland Memorial Park, Garden of Apostles, Section 7.
Obituary Daily Times index: Dale W. Guthrie Sr., aged eighty-seven; publication recorded on 25 August 2003.
Guthrie Research Tree and project records: Harriet and Christine’s families, Dale and Lucy’s seven children, Violet’s later surname and the documented kit connections shown above.

Most Wanted DocumentsOpen to see which records could complete this family’s history.

Harriet Irene Blind’s original birth record, to resolve the age and county differences in her marriage record.
Daniel and Harriet’s divorce record, and Daniel and Christine’s marriage application and return.
Daniel’s complete Ohio military-roster entry, discharge record and Veterans Administration card.
The original Army transport manifest and complete draft cards, including the employment entries.
Dale and Lucy’s original marriage record and records documenting their later marriages.
Complete obituaries and death records for Daniel, Harriet, Christine, Dale and Lucy.
Violet Marie Guthrie Snyder’s marriage record, obituary and family history.
Family photographs, wartime letters and material documenting Daniel’s pottery work.

Descendant Families · Hugh Loraine’s Family

Hugh Loraine Gutherie & Lillie Jane Snyder

Hugh Loraine Gutherie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 23 November 1893
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Work: Farm laborer, coal miner and teamster.
Death: 24 April 1974
Cowansville, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; aged 80.
Burial: Crawford Cemetery, Bradys Bend, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

Lillie Jane Snyder

Parents: Samuel P. Snyder & Mary Jane Morrow, as named in her marriage record.
Birth: 1894
Pennsylvania; her marriage record identifies Sugar Creek Township.
Family & Home: Mother of nine children. Lived with Hugh in Sugar Creek Township for many years.
Death: 1993
Bradys Bend, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, according to the Research Tree.
Burial: Crawford Cemetery, sharing the Gutherie family marker with Hugh.

Married 15 January 1914
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

A Life in Sugar Creek Township

Hugh was one of William and Lavina Guthrie’s younger children. The 1900 census recorded him at six, attending school in Sugar Creek Township. By sixteen he was working as a laborer on the family farm.

He married Lillie Jane Snyder on 15 January 1914. Both lived in Sugar Creek Township. The marriage application described Hugh as a laborer and Lillie’s occupation as domestic; her father, Samuel P. Snyder, supplied written consent.

Hugh and Lillie had nine children: four sons and five daughters. Their first child, Wilbert, was born in June 1914. By 1920 they were renting a home in Sugar Creek Township with Wilbert, Marlin and their young daughter recorded as Durtha. Hugh was then working as a coal miner.

The family remained in the township. In 1930 Hugh worked as a teamster at a mill, and five children were living at home. By 1940 Hugh and Lillie owned their farm home, and Hugh continued working as a teamster. The younger children still at home were Elsie, James, John and Florence.

The family suffered several early losses. A daughter died at two in 1920, another in infancy in 1935, and their eldest son Wilbert died in a work accident in 1940.

Hugh registered for both World War drafts. The compiled family account describes work on his father’s farm at the first registration and self-employment in Cowansville at the second. In 1950 the census again recorded him as a coal miner, with James, John and Florence remaining in the household.

Hugh died in Cowansville on 24 April 1974. His funeral notice names Crawford Cemetery as the burial place. Lillie survived him until 1993. Their shared headstone bears the surname GUTHERIE.

Their Nine Children

Wilbert Hugh Gutherie & Wilda Maude Bond

29 June 1914 – 27 May 1940

Wilbert was the eldest child of Hugh and Lillie. He married Wilda Maude Bond, and the family research identifies two daughters from their marriage.

Wilbert worked as a farm laborer. On 27 May 1940, he died in East Franklin Township, Armstrong County, when a ditch collapsed during the excavation of a drain around a barn. His death certificate records accidental suffocation. He was twenty-five.

Wilbert was buried at Crawford Cemetery on 30 May 1940. Wilda later married his first cousin, Wesley Sidney Guthrie, the son of James Samuel Guthrie and Ida Mae Snyder. Her daughters by Wilbert became Wesley’s stepdaughters.

Wilda died on 6 March 1998 and shares a Crawford Cemetery marker with Wilbert. Her later family with Wesley is described in James Samuel Guthrie’s family section.

Marlin Samuel Gutherie

Born about 1916–1917 · Died 1992

Marlin was the second son. He appears at three in the 1920 household and at fourteen in 1930. The Research Tree and memorial information agree that he died in 1992, although their birth years differ.

His original birth record and complete obituary would establish the exact date and provide a fuller account of his adult family.

Daughter Recorded as Durtha

25 March 1918 – 10 June 1920

This daughter was living with Hugh and Lillie at the 1920 census. Her death certificate records her birth on 25 March 1918 and death in East Brady, Clarion County, on 10 June 1920, aged two years, two months and sixteen days.

The certificate identifies her parents as Hugh Guthrie and Liley Snyder and records accidental poisoning. She was buried at Crawford Cemetery on 13 June 1920. The differing forms of her given name are discussed in the evidence notes.

Alverda Jane Gutherie Gillen

1920 – 2008

Alverda was nine in Hugh and Lillie’s 1930 household, where her name is indexed as Alverta J. The linked memorial identifies her later married surname as Gillen and gives her life dates as 1920–2008.

Her marriage record and obituary would add the details of her own family and later life.

Elsie Grace Gutherie Welton

1924 – 2016

Elsie grew up in Sugar Creek Township. She was five in the 1930 census and fifteen in 1940, when she was still living with Hugh, Lillie and the younger children.

The Research Tree and memorial identify her married surname as Welton and give her life dates as 1924–2016.

James Arthur Gutherie

1929 – 2019

James appears as an infant in the 1930 household, at ten in 1940 and at twenty in 1950. He was one of Hugh and Lillie’s four sons.

The Research Tree lists him as James A.; his linked memorial supplies the full name James Arthur Gutherie and life dates 1929–2019. His own family remains to be developed from marriage, obituary and other records.

John Clifford Gutherie

1932 – 2021

John, the youngest son, was seven in the 1940 household and seventeen in 1950. Both censuses place him with his parents in Sugar Creek Township.

The Research Tree and linked memorial identify him as John Clifford Gutherie, with life dates 1932–2021. His marriage record and obituary are needed to extend this account to his own family.

Infant Daughter, Possibly Flora Marie

1935 – 1935

The Research Tree records an unnamed daughter who was born and died in 1935. Hugh’s memorial links an infant named Flora Marie Gutherie with the same year of birth and death.

These entries may identify the same child. An original birth or death record would confirm the name and exact dates.

Florence Mae Gutherie Davis

Born about 1935–1936 · Died 2024

Florence was the youngest surviving daughter. She was four in the 1940 census and fourteen in 1950, living with her parents and brothers James and John.

Her linked memorial identifies her as Florence Mae Gutherie Davis and reports her death in 2024. The birth year differs between the Research Tree and memorial, so an exact year is not selected here.

DNA Participation Chart

No Y-DNA or autosomal project participation is currently documented through Hugh and Lillie’s children. The chart identifies the lines where further participation could contribute to the family research.

Child’s Line	Guthrie Y-DNA	Autosomal DNA
Wilbert Hugh Gutherie	No continuing male line documented; two daughters reported	No participant documented
Marlin Samuel Gutherie	Male line to investigate; no participant documented	No participant documented
Daughter recorded as Durtha 1918–1920	No descendant line	No descendant line
Alverda Jane Gutherie Gillen	Not transmitted through a daughter	No participant documented
Elsie Grace Gutherie Welton	Not transmitted through a daughter	No participant documented
James Arthur Gutherie	Male line to investigate; no participant documented	No participant documented
John Clifford Gutherie	Male line to investigate; no participant documented	No participant documented
Infant daughter, possibly Flora Marie 1935	No descendant line	No descendant line
Florence Mae Gutherie Davis	Not transmitted through a daughter	No participant documented

A Guthrie Y-DNA candidate must descend through an unbroken father-to-son line. The adult sons’ descendant families still need to be traced before a living candidate can be identified. Descendants through either sons or daughters may contribute autosomal results alongside their documented family connections.

Project participants are represented by kit number only. Learn about joining the Guthrie DNA Project.

Family Evidence & Record DifferencesOpen for the Gutherie spelling, the children’s names and dates, and the original certificates.

The Gutherie spelling. Hugh and Lillie’s shared headstone reads GUTHERIE. Hugh’s funeral notice and Wilbert’s original death certificate also use Gutherie, as do Hugh’s draft-registration indexes. The 1914 marriage record and the toddler’s 1920 death certificate use Guthrie. Gutherie is retained for this family, with the other spelling recognized when searching individual records.

Lillie’s parents. The original marriage application names Samuel P. Snyder and gives her mother’s maiden name as Mary Jane Morrow. Samuel’s middle name is expanded to Peter in the compiled account. The original record’s initial is retained here.

The marriage date and ages. Marriage record no. 13581 and its return establish 15 January 1914 in Sugar Creek Township. Hugh is recorded as twenty-one, although his 23 November 1893 birth date makes him twenty. Lillie is recorded as twenty, and her father’s consent is included. The return was dated 19 January 1914.

Hugh’s mother. The marriage index transcribes her name as Laura Crawford Guthrie. The original handwriting and the wider family evidence support Lavina Alice Crawford. The indexed first name should not replace her established identity.

Wilbert and Wesley were first cousins. Wilbert’s original death certificate, no. 47724, identifies Hugh L. Gutherie and Lillie Jane Snyder as his parents and Wilda Maude Bond Gutherie as his wife. Wesley Sidney Guthrie was the son of Hugh’s brother James Samuel. Wilda’s daughters by Wilbert were Wesley’s stepdaughters after her later marriage.

The daughter who died in 1920. The Research Tree and census index use Durtha. The given name on death certificate no. 68428 appears to read Derethea, while the linked memorial uses Katheryn Diriatha Gutherie. The parents and dates point to the same child, but the name forms have not been combined into an assumed full name. The certificate records accidental bichloride-of-mercury poisoning without establishing further circumstances.

Marlin’s birth year. The Research Tree gives 1917; his memorial gives 1916. Ages of three in 1920 and fourteen in 1930 do not, by themselves, establish the exact birth date. His death year is reported as 1992 in both sources.

The 1935 infant. The unnamed daughter in the Research Tree and the memorial entry for Flora Marie Gutherie share the year 1935. The identification remains provisional until an original infant record is compared.

Florence’s dates. The Research Tree gives a 1936 birth, while the linked memorial gives 1935–2024 and the married name Davis. Her childhood census ages support a birth around 1935–1936. The memorial provides a reported death year, but her obituary and original records are needed for exact dates.

Draft registrations. The First and Second World War indexes support Hugh’s birth date of 23 November 1893. Registration alone does not establish military service. Employment details described in the compiled account should be compared with the complete original cards.

Explore the RecordsOpen for the marriage record, death certificates, census trail and family memorial.

Armstrong County marriage record no. 13581: Hugh L. Guthrie and Lillie J. Snyder; application, parental consent and return for the 15 January 1914 marriage.
United States census records, 1900–1950: Hugh’s childhood, the growing family and his work as farm laborer, miner and teamster.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 47724: Wilbert Hugh Gutherie, 27 May 1940; birth, parents, wife, work accident and Crawford Cemetery burial.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 68428: Hugh and Lillie’s daughter, born 25 March 1918 and died 10 June 1920; the handwritten given name requires comparison with other original records.
First and Second World War draft-registration indexes: Hugh Loraine Gutherie, born 23 November 1893.
Find a Grave: Hugh Loraine Gutherie’s memorial, shared headstone and funeral notice. The linked children’s memorials supply later married names and reported death years.
Guthrie Research Tree and compiled family research: the nine-child family structure, later family connections and the remaining differences in names and dates.

Most Wanted DocumentsOpen to see which records could extend and clarify this family’s story.

Hugh and Lillie’s complete obituaries and death records, including Lillie’s exact birth and death dates.
Marlin Samuel’s birth record and obituary, to resolve the 1916–1917 birth-year difference.
A birth or baptismal record for the daughter who died in 1920, clarifying her full name.
The 1935 infant’s birth and death records, to confirm whether she was Flora Marie.
Florence Mae’s birth record and obituary, to establish exact dates.
Marriage records, obituaries and family histories for Alverda, Elsie, James and John.
Wilbert and Wilda’s marriage record and records of their two daughters’ families.
Documented father-to-son pedigrees through Marlin, James or John to identify possible Y-DNA candidates.
Family photographs, letters and records of Hugh’s farming, mining and teamster work.

Descendant Families · John Earl’s Family

John Earl Guthrie & Mary Phoebe Johns

John Earl Guthrie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 5 July 1896
Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Work: Lime quarry laborer and coal miner.
Death: 2 December 1930
Toby Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania; aged 34. His headstone gives 3 December.
Burial: John Cemetery, Frenchs Corners, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.

Mary Phoebe Johns

Parents: William Anthony Johns & Frances Montana Johns, as listed in the Research Tree.
Birth: 18 January 1901
Pennsylvania, according to the Research Tree; census ages vary.
Family & Work: Eight identified children with John. Later married Norman Bestwick; recorded as a dressmaker in 1940.
Death: October 1985
According to the Research Tree.
Burial: Crestview Memorial Park, Grove City, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, according to the compiled family account.

Married about 1916–1917
An estimated date from the compiled family account; their marriage record is still sought.

From Sugar Creek to Toby Township

John Earl grew up in Sugar Creek Township with William and Lavina Guthrie. He appears as John E. in 1900 and as thirteen-year-old John, attending school, in 1910. Later censuses call him Earl or Earl J. Guthrie.

By 1920 Earl and Mary were living in his parents’ household. Earl worked as a laborer at a lime quarry. Their young sons Harry and Daniel were there, along with Earl’s brother Daniel Walker and his son Dale. The shared household has contributed to confusion about the children’s parentage.

In 1930 Earl and Mary rented a home in Toby Township, Clarion County. Earl worked as a coal miner, and seven children were enumerated with them. A younger son, Clinton, appears in later records. Their family has eight identified children: six sons and two daughters.

John died of influenza on 2 December 1930, according to his original death certificate. Mary supplied the family information. He was buried on 5 December at John Cemetery. His headstone records his death one day later than the certificate.

Mary’s Later Household

Mary subsequently married Norman Bestwick (1899–1982), about 1931–1932 according to the compiled account. They had three children of their own.

In 1940 Mary and Norman lived in Worth Township, Mercer County, with five of her Guthrie children and their three younger children. Mary worked as a dressmaker, classified by the census as a government wage worker. The record does not identify a particular employment program.

The family remained in Worth Township in 1950. Robert, Laken and Clinton Guthrie were still at home with Mary, Norman and the younger children. Norman died in 1982, and the Research Tree places Mary’s death in October 1985.

Their Eight Children

Harry Joseph Guthrie Sr.

Born about 1917–1918 · Died 2009

Harry was two in the 1920 household and twelve in 1930. His linked memorial identifies him as Harry Joseph Guthrie Sr., 1917–2009, while the Research Tree gives a birth year of 1918. An original birth record would resolve the difference.

Daniel W. Guthrie

1919 – 2008

Daniel was an infant in 1920 and eleven in John and Mary’s 1930 household. The Research Tree gives his life dates as 1919–2008.

He was a different person from his uncle, Daniel Walker Guthrie, and his cousin, Dale Walker Guthrie. His middle initial is retained without expanding it to an unverified name.

Warren Henry Guthrie

1922 – 1997

Warren was seven when the family was enumerated in Toby Township in 1930. The Research Tree and linked memorial identify him as Warren Henry Guthrie, 1922–1997. His marriage record and obituary would help develop the account of his adult family.

Margaret Guthrie Bartolone

Born about 1924–1925 · Died 1981

Margaret was five in 1930 and fifteen in Mary and Norman Bestwick’s 1940 household. Her linked memorial identifies her as Margaret M. L. Bartolone, 1924–1981; the Research Tree records Margaret L. Guthrie with a birth year of 1925.

Her given name and married surname are retained here while the differing initials and birth years await confirmation from original records.

Daughter — Private

This daughter is included in the family count. Her identifying details are withheld for privacy.

Robert Earl Guthrie

Born about 1927–1928 · Died 1984

Robert appears at two in 1930, twelve in 1940 and twenty-two in 1950. The Research Tree gives a birth year of 1928, while his linked memorial identifies Robert Earl Guthrie, 1927–1984. The exact birth date remains to be established.

Laken “Gus” Guthrie

19 January 1929 – 2015

Laken’s original marriage application records his birth on 19 January 1929 in Butler, Pennsylvania. At twenty-one he was working as a coal miner.

He applied for a marriage license in Allegheny County on 16 December 1950. The application names his father as John E. Guthrie, deceased, and his mother as Mary Bestwick, maiden name Johns. The application date does not establish the wedding date.

The Research Tree and memorial report his death in 2015. His middle name appears in differing forms, discussed in the evidence notes below.

Clinton Guthrie

1930 – 1980

Clinton, the youngest identified son, was ten in Mary and Norman’s 1940 household. His linked memorial gives the years 1930–1980.

The 1950 census index gives an inconsistent age of seventeen. That entry alone does not justify changing his birth year or assigning him to a different father.

DNA Participation Chart

No Y-DNA or autosomal project participation is currently documented through John Earl and Mary Phoebe’s children. The chart shows the lines where additional participation could help this family’s research.

Child’s Line	Guthrie Y-DNA	Autosomal DNA
Harry Joseph Guthrie Sr.	No participant documented. Male-line descent to investigate.	No participant documented.
Daniel W. Guthrie	No participant documented. Male-line descent to investigate.	No participant documented.
Warren Henry Guthrie	No participant documented. Male-line descent to investigate.	No participant documented.
Margaret Guthrie Bartolone	Guthrie Y-DNA is not transmitted through a daughter.	No participant documented.
Daughter — Private	Guthrie Y-DNA is not transmitted through a daughter.	No participant documented.
Robert Earl Guthrie	No participant documented. Male-line descent to investigate.	No participant documented.
Laken “Gus” Guthrie	No participant documented. Male-line descent to investigate.	No participant documented.
Clinton Guthrie	No participant documented. Male-line descent to investigate.	No participant documented.

A Y-DNA candidate would need an unbroken father-to-son descent from John Earl. The sons’ entries identify research routes, not confirmed living candidates. Descendants through sons or daughters may contribute autosomal evidence. Any participating tester will be identified publicly by kit number only.

Evidence & CorrectionsParentage, conflicting dates and name variants

Eight children, with Dale assigned to his correct parents. Dale Walker Guthrie’s original birth certificate identifies his parents as Daniel Walker Guthrie and Harriet Blind. His presence in the shared 1920 household does not make him John Earl’s son. Dale belongs in Daniel and Harriet’s family and is excluded from this couple’s child count.

John’s birth and death. His original death certificate, no. 114279, gives 5 July 1896–2 December 1930. The headstone agrees on the birth date but records death on 3 December 1930. The certificate-based death date is used here with the stone’s differing date retained. The World War I draft index gives 3 July 1896; the full original card is needed before classifying that difference as a transcription error.

Mary’s dates and first marriage. Her exact birth date comes from the Research Tree. Census ages of seventeen in 1920, twenty-eight in 1930, thirty-eight in 1940 and forty-eight in 1950 are not fully consistent with it. The estimated 1916–1917 marriage also needs an original record: Earl’s reported age of twenty-one at first marriage in 1930 suggests approximately 1917–1918.

The children’s birth-year differences. Harry’s tree and memorial give 1918 and 1917; Margaret’s give 1925 and 1924; Robert’s give 1928 and 1927. Approximate ranges preserve those differences without selecting unsupported exact dates.

Laken’s middle name. The Research Tree uses Berthear, his memorial uses Birthear, and the original 1950 application types Birthane. The signature is not clear enough to settle the spelling. He is presented as Laken “Gus” Guthrie pending further original evidence.

Guthrie spelling. John’s original death certificate and headstone use Guthrie. The documented Gutherie spelling in his brother Hugh’s family is not automatically applied to this branch.

Explore the RecordsCensus households, original certificates and cemetery evidence

1900 and 1910 U.S. censuses, Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. John in William and Lavina’s household; the 1900 index renders the surname Guthary.
1920 U.S. census, Sugar Creek Township. Earl and Mary in the extended Guthrie household. Compare relationships carefully with the children’s original birth records.
1930 U.S. census, Toby Township, Clarion County. Earl J. and Mary P. Guthrie, dwelling 138, family 143; seven children enumerated.
1940 and 1950 U.S. censuses, Worth Township, Mercer County. Mary and Norman Bestwick with Guthrie and Bestwick children; useful for following the household after John’s death.
Pennsylvania death certificate no. 114279, 1930. Original certificate for John Earl Guthrie: birth, death, parents, spouse, occupation and burial. His mother’s surname reads Crawford; the index’s Canford is erroneous.
Allegheny County marriage application, 16 December 1950. Laken Guthrie’s application identifies John E. Guthrie and Mary Johns Bestwick as his parents. This is the son’s application, not John and Mary’s marriage record.
John Earl Guthrie — Find a Grave memorial 34747769. John Cemetery, Frenchs Corners. Compare the photographed marker’s 3 December death date with the certificate’s 2 December.
World War I draft registration index, Armstrong County, board 1. A lead to the original card and its differing birth date. Registration alone does not establish military service.

Most Wanted: Help Complete This FamilyMarriage records, family photographs and descendant research

John Earl and Mary Phoebe’s original marriage record, and Mary’s later marriage record with Norman Bestwick.
Mary’s original birth and death records or a contemporary obituary confirming her dates and burial.
Original birth records resolving Harry’s, Margaret’s and Robert’s differing birth years, and Laken’s middle-name spelling.
Obituaries and family photographs that add to the lives of the deceased children and distinguish similarly named Guthrie relatives.
Documented father-to-son lines from John’s six sons, and descendants interested in autosomal participation.

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Descendant Families · Mary Caroline’s Family

Mary Caroline Guthrie & Clarence Henry Haidet

Mary Caroline Guthrie

Parents: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford
Birth: 21 September 1899
Pennsylvania. The compiled family account identifies Cowansville, Armstrong County.
Family & Home: Mother of a son and a daughter. Lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
Death: 3 November 1987
Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana; aged 88.
Burial: Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Muncie, Indiana; buried 5 November 1987.

Clarence Henry Haidet

Parents: Louis Haidet & Charlotte Julian, according to the Research Tree.
Birth: 1896, Ohio
The Research Tree gives 20 June; his death certificate gives 2 July.
Work & Service: Longtime Broderick’s employee; Army veteran of World War I.
Death: 23 June 1974
Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana.
Burial: Gardens of Memory Cemetery, Muncie, Indiana; buried 25 June 1974.

Married about 1922
One son and one daughter. The marriage date remains an estimate pending the original record.

From Armstrong County to Indiana

Mary Caroline was the youngest of William and Lavina Guthrie’s ten identified surviving children. Born on 21 September 1899, she appears as an infant in their 1900 Sugar Creek Township household. In 1910 she was ten, living with her parents and older brothers Sidney, Hugh and John.

Mary married Clarence Henry Haidet about 1922. Clarence was an Ohio native who had served in the United States Army during World War I. His later obituary records that he lived in Pennsylvania before settling in Indiana.

In 1930 Mary and Clarence were living in Swissvale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, with their son and daughter. The 1940 census records their 1935 residence as Alliance, Stark County, Ohio.

Clarence’s obituary dates their move to Muncie, Indiana, to 1936. Both children were still at home in 1940. By 1950 the census listed only Mary and Clarence in their Muncie household.

Clarence worked for Broderick’s for many years before retiring. His death certificate identifies the industry as foundry manufacturing. He belonged to St. Lawrence Catholic Church, Eagles Lodge 231 and Moose Lodge 33.

Their Later Years

Clarence died at Ball Memorial Hospital on 23 June 1974, following an extended illness. His obituary reported that Mary, their son and daughter, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren survived him. Funeral Mass was held at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, followed by burial at Gardens of Memory on 25 June.

Mary remained a Muncie resident. She died at Ball Memorial Hospital on 3 November 1987, aged eighty-eight. Her death certificate names William Guthrie and Lavina Crawford as her parents. She was buried at Gardens of Memory on 5 November 1987.

Their Two Children

Son — Private

Their son appears in the 1930 and 1940 family households. He survived Clarence in 1974 and supplied family information for both parents’ death certificates. His identifying details are withheld for privacy.

Daughter — Private

Their daughter also appears in the 1930 and 1940 households and was named as a survivor in Clarence’s 1974 obituary. Her identifying details and those of her family are withheld for privacy.

DNA ParticipationAutosomal participation and this female Guthrie line

No autosomal project participation is currently documented through Mary Caroline Guthrie’s descendants.

Mary did not transmit her father’s Y chromosome. A paternal-line Y-DNA test from her son’s descendants would follow the Haidet line rather than the Guthrie paternal line.

Descendants through either child may contribute autosomal evidence to the family’s research. Any participating tester will be identified publicly by kit number only.

Evidence & CorrectionsConfirmed dates, conflicting birth details and the move to Muncie

Mary’s dates. Her original Indiana death certificate gives 21 September 1899–3 November 1987 and identifies her parents as William Guthrie and Lavina Crawford. It records Pennsylvania as her birthplace; the more specific Cowansville location comes from the compiled family account.

Clarence’s birth date remains unresolved. The Research Tree gives 20 June 1896, while his original death certificate gives 2 July 1896. Both the certificate and obituary report age seventy-seven at his death on 23 June 1974. That age fits the July date, but does not independently prove it. An original birth or baptismal record is needed.

Clarence’s birthplace and parents. The tree identifies Marlboro Township, Stark County, Ohio, and parents Louis Haidet and Charlotte Julian. His obituary calls him a native of Harrisburg, Ohio. His death certificate records his parents as not learned; it does not corroborate the tree’s parental identification.

Marriage estimate. The compiled account places Mary and Clarence’s marriage about 1922. Mary’s reported age of twenty-two at first marriage in the 1930 census is compatible with approximately 1921–1922, but an original marriage record is still needed.

Residence and military service. The 1940 census places the family in Alliance, Ohio, in 1935. Clarence’s contemporary obituary supplies the more precise 1936 move to Muncie and explicitly states that he served in the Army during World War I.

Census age estimates. Mary’s age-derived birth estimates of about 1900 do not conflict with her September 1899 birth: she had not yet reached her birthday when those censuses were taken. Differing initials and ages in the children’s indexes should be checked against the original schedules before adding more detailed biographical information.

Explore the RecordsFamily households, death certificates and Clarence’s obituary

1900 U.S. census, Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. Mary C., born September 1899, in William and Lavina’s household; sheet 1, family 9. The surname is indexed as Guthary.
1910 U.S. census, Sugar Creek Township. Mary, aged ten, with her parents and brothers; sheet 3A, enumeration district 0046.
1930 U.S. census, Swissvale, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Clarence H. and Mary C. Haidet with two children; dwelling 320, family 357.
1940 U.S. census, Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. Clarence, Mary and their two children; sheet 1A. The household’s 1935 residence is Alliance, Stark County, Ohio.
1950 U.S. census, Muncie. Clarence and Mary Haidet; dwelling 363. The children’s absence from this household does not establish death.
Indiana death certificate 74-020591, local no. 74-575. Clarence H. Haidet, died 23 June 1974. Records his wife, occupation, World War I service, differing birth date and burial.
“Clarence Haidet Was Ohio Native,” The Muncie Star, 24 June 1974, page 10. Contemporary obituary documenting the 1936 move, Army service, employment, affiliations, surviving family and funeral arrangements.
Indiana death certificate 87-040536, local no. 87-999. Mary C. Haidet, died 3 November 1987. Confirms her birth date, parents and burial on 5 November.

Most Wanted: Help Complete This FamilyOriginal birth and marriage records, photographs and family memories

Clarence’s original birth or baptismal record to resolve the June and July birth dates and confirm his parents.
Mary and Clarence’s marriage license and return, establishing the date and place of their marriage.
Mary’s obituary and family photographs that add to the account of her life in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
Clarence’s Army service records and photographs from his military years.
Family recollections of the move to Muncie and Clarence’s years at Broderick’s.

Have a record or photograph to share? Please include its source and how it connects to Mary and Clarence. Living relatives’ identifying details should be shared privately.

William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford · Their Children

Two Children Whose Names Are Still Unknown

Lavina’s 1910 census index records twelve children born and ten living. Ten children are identified by name and are known to have survived that enumeration. The totals therefore indicate two additional children who had died by 1910.

Their names have not yet been established. They are included here so that the family account recognizes all twelve reported children. The labels below distinguish the two entries; they do not indicate birth order.

Unidentified Child · Entry 1

Family: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford.
Name & Sex: Not established.
Birth: Date, place and birth order unknown.
Death: Before the 1910 enumeration, as indicated by Lavina’s reported totals. Age at death unknown.
Burial: Not identified.

Unidentified Child · Entry 2

Family: William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford.
Name & Sex: Not established.
Birth: Date, place and birth order unknown.
Death: Before the 1910 enumeration, as indicated by Lavina’s reported totals. Age at death unknown.
Burial: Not identified.

Family Evidence NotesWhat the census totals establish, and what remains unknown

The evidence is a reported total. Lavina’s indexed entry in the 1910 U.S. census, Sugar Creek Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, sheet 3A, enumeration district 0046, records twelve children born and ten living. This supports two deceased children in addition to the ten identified survivors. The original schedule should be checked to confirm the transcription.

No specific birth or death years are established. The available 1900 index entry for William lists household members but does not show Lavina’s childbearing totals. It therefore cannot establish that one of these children was born between 1900 and 1910. Dates of 1900–1900 in a tree entry do not substitute for a birth or death record.

Age at death is unknown. The totals do not establish death in infancy or early childhood. They also do not identify sex, cause of death, burial place or whether either child had descendants.

DNA & Descendant StatusNo documented descendant line has been identified

No descendant line or project participation is documented for either unidentified child.

Because their sex and ages at death remain unknown, a continuing paternal line or other descendants cannot yet be assessed. These entries should remain unresolved, rather than being classified as children who necessarily died without descendants.

Most Wanted DocumentsRecords that may restore these children’s names

The original 1900 and 1910 census schedules: compare Lavina’s children-born and children-living columns directly.
Church baptism and burial registers: look for children of William Guthrie and Lavina, Lavinia or Lovina Alice Crawford in the family’s Armstrong County communities.
Cemetery and sexton records: search family burial plots, including unmarked graves and entries recorded only as a Guthrie child.
Local death notices, civil registers and family Bibles: seek names and dates that can be connected to this specific couple.

A brief notice or handwritten family entry may be enough to begin identifying one of these children. Please include the record’s date, location and source when sharing a possible match.

William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford · Family Research

Explore the Records

Follow this family through census households, original certificates, marriage records, military records and cemetery evidence. The children’s family sections provide the detailed citations and explain differences between original records, indexes and family-tree entries.

Begin with the family: William C. Guthrie in the Guthrie Research Tree, or return to Family at a Glance to explore a child’s line.

DNA Participation Chart

This family is represented in Guthrie Family Group 1A through Daniel Walker Guthrie’s line. Both Y-DNA and autosomal participation are documented. The chart follows William and Lavina’s ten named children and the two additional children indicated by the census totals.

Child’s Line	Guthrie Y-DNA	Autosomal DNA
William Crawford Guthrie	No continuing male line documented. His only identified son died in infancy.	No participant documented.
James Samuel Guthrie	No participant documented. Father-to-son lines to investigate.	No participant documented.
Anna Eliza Guthrie Fullerton	Guthrie Y-DNA is not transmitted through a daughter.	No participant documented.
Sidney Easton Guthrie	No participant documented. Father-to-son descent to investigate.	No participant documented.
Jane “Jennie” May Guthrie Snyder	Guthrie Y-DNA is not transmitted through a daughter.	No participant documented.
Jemina “Mina” Alice Guthrie Young	Guthrie Y-DNA is not transmitted through a daughter.	No participant documented.
Daniel Walker Guthrie	✓ Represented Kit 563776 Y37; GFG1A.	✓ Represented Kits 563776 and B75156.
Hugh Loraine Gutherie	No participant documented. Father-to-son lines to investigate.	No participant documented.
John Earl Guthrie	No participant documented. Father-to-son lines to investigate.	No participant documented.
Mary Caroline Guthrie Haidet	Guthrie Y-DNA is not transmitted through a daughter.	No participant documented.
Unidentified Child · Entry 1	Unresolved: sex and descendant status unknown.	No participant or descendant line documented.
Unidentified Child · Entry 2	Unresolved: sex and descendant status unknown.	No participant or descendant line documented.

How to read this chart: “No participant documented” means that this line is not represented in the project information available for this account. It does not mean that no descendant has ever taken a DNA test. Male-line entries identify research routes, not confirmed living candidates.

The two unidentified entries do not indicate birth order. Participation information reviewed 7 October 2026. All DNA participants are identified publicly by kit number only.

What the DNA Adds

The documented Y-DNA result connects this family’s direct paternal line with Guthrie Family Group 1A. The represented ancestral route is William C. Guthrie and Lavina Alice Crawford; their son Daniel Walker Guthrie and Harriet Irene Blind; and their grandson Dale Walker Guthrie and Lucy Josephine Cistolo.

That connection does not identify the particular earlier ancestor shared with another GFG1A branch. The documentary search for the elder William Guthrie’s Irish birthplace and parentage remains essential.

Another documented father-to-son line descending from William and Lavina would provide a useful independent comparison. Autosomal participation through other children may also help researchers compare inherited DNA alongside family records.

DNA Evidence & Participation DetailsTests represented, the documented route and opportunities to contribute

Kit 563776 contributes a Y37 result assigned to GFG1A and Family Finder autosomal results. Kit B75156 contributes autosomal participation. These are two participants; the Y-DNA and Family Finder entries for kit 563776 belong to the same kit.

Both documented participants descend through Dale Walker Guthrie and Lucy Josephine Cistolo. Dale’s original birth certificate identifies his parents as Daniel Walker Guthrie and Harriet Irene Blind. He belongs to Daniel’s family, not John Earl and Mary Phoebe’s family.

No Big-Y result for this represented line is documented in the material used here. The available Y37 result should not be presented as identifying a precise earlier branch connection or a particular common ancestor.

A Guthrie Y-DNA candidate needs a documented, unbroken father-to-son descent from the ancestral Guthrie line. Descendants through daughters can contribute autosomal evidence, but a Y-DNA test following a daughter’s husband’s paternal line would concern that husband’s ancestry.

Learn about joining the Guthrie DNA Project. Include your documented ancestral line so that participation can be placed correctly.

Census Trail & Household RelationshipsFollow William and Lavina, then compare the children’s households

1850 and 1860, Perry Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania: William’s childhood entries. The later combined Guthrie and Knox household requires careful attention to surnames and relationships.
1870, Perry Township: William working as a farm laborer in Isaac C. Steel’s household.
1880, Sugar Creek Township: William and Lavina with their first three children.
1900, Sugar Creek Township, sheet 1, family 9: William’s April 1850 birth month and year, the family household and twenty-five years of marriage.
1910, Sugar Creek Township, sheet 3A, enumeration district 0046: William and Lavina with four children still at home. Lavina’s index reports twelve children born and ten living.
1920, Sugar Creek Township: the extended household includes Daniel Walker, John Earl and members of the next generation. A child’s relationship to the head of household does not, by itself, identify that child’s parents.
1930, Sugar Creek Township: widowed Lavina in James Samuel and Ida Mae Guthrie’s household.

William’s census entries report his father’s birthplace as Ireland in 1880, 1900 and 1920, but Pennsylvania in 1910. Those differing answers should remain visible in the research. None supplies an Irish parish or the elder William’s birth date.

Original Certificates & Marriage RecordsDocuments that establish relationships and resolve mistaken identities

Lavina Alice Guthrie: Pennsylvania death certificate 14755, 1934. Gives birth on 1 September 1856, death on 10 February 1934, and parents William Crawford and Jemima Burford.
William Crawford Guthrie: Pennsylvania death certificate, 26 February 1955. Identifies his parents as William Guthrie and Lavina Crawford.
James Samuel Guthrie: Pennsylvania death certificate 81690, 1959. Records his parents, wife Ida Mae Snyder and burial.
Daniel Walker Guthrie and Harriet Irene Blind: Hancock County, West Virginia, marriage record, page 494. License and ceremony dated 21 August 1915, with the minister’s return specifying New Cumberland.
Dale Walker Guthrie: Pennsylvania birth certificate 39938, 1916. Establishes Daniel and Harriet as his parents; the handwritten middle name reads Walker.
John Earl Guthrie: Pennsylvania death certificate 114279, 1930. Gives death on 2 December, compared with 3 December on his headstone.
Mary Caroline Haidet: Indiana death certificate 87-040536, 1987. Confirms her birth on 21 September 1899 and parents William Guthrie and Lavina Crawford.

Additional marriage, birth and death records are cited within the individual family sections. Original images take precedence over a demonstrably incorrect index transcription, while genuine disagreements between records are retained and explained.

Military Records, Newspapers & Cemetery EvidenceSources for service, work, migration and family relationships

Daniel Walker Guthrie’s First World War service is supported by the Ohio military roster and Army transport passenger-list index. The transport entry places him aboard the America, departing Brest on 13 July 1919 and arriving at Hoboken on 22 July. See Daniel’s family section for the service chronology and remaining record questions.

Clarence Haidet’s obituary, “Clarence Haidet Was Ohio Native,” The Muncie Star, 24 June 1974, page 10, documents Army service in World War I, the family’s 1936 move to Muncie and his long employment at Broderick’s. Draft registration alone should not be treated as proof of military service.

Cemetery evidence can preserve names and dates omitted from other sources. Compare the photographed marker with the memorial transcription and with civil records. The Gutherie spelling documented in Hugh Loraine’s family is retained for that branch; it is not automatically applied to every relative.

John Earl Guthrie’s memorial and headstone illustrate a genuine record conflict: the stone and death certificate differ by one day. A memorial’s incomplete list of linked children is not proof that another documented child did not belong to the family.

Reading & Resources: Pottery IndustryBackground reading retained from the family’s research collection

Pottery work appears in several of these families’ stories. The following references provide leads for researching the industry’s local history:

Pottery, Glass & Brass Salesman (1917), O’Gorman Publishing Company. The saved reference points to Craven Art Pottery Company in East Liverpool, Ohio.
The Evening Review, 3 March 1939, page 6. An article concerning William P. Jervis and pottery-company history, identified in the family’s compiled reading list.

Company-history references provide context. They do not by themselves establish a relative’s employment, ownership or a connection between similarly named businesses.

Most Wanted DocumentsThe records most likely to strengthen this family’s history

William and Lavina’s original marriage record: census answers suggest about 1874–1875; the exact date and place remain unproved.
William C. Guthrie’s own death certificate and early birth evidence: to test the reported birth date and township and determine whether his middle initial was ever expanded in a reliable record.
The original 1900 and 1910 fertility columns, church registers and burial records: to identify the two unnamed children without assigning unsupported dates or ages at death.
Records naming the elder William Guthrie’s Irish home and parents: a parish, townland or documented family connection would be more useful than another unsourced place-name.
Records resolving the differences noted in each child’s section: especially original birth records, marriage returns and complete obituaries.
Documented paternal lines through additional sons: to identify eligible Y-DNA candidates and broaden independent representation of the family.

William C. Guthrie & Lavina Alice Crawford

Help This Family’s Story Grow

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Do you descend from this family, or have records connected to it? Photographs, letters, family Bible entries, obituaries and personal recollections can add details that census returns and certificates never recorded.

We welcome corrections supported by sources, information about the two unnamed children, and stories that bring William and Lavina’s descendants into clearer view. Please identify the people, places and dates as fully as you can, and include where each record or photograph came from.

If you would like to write a fuller account of your branch, your contribution is welcome. Family histories can be checked against the evidence and edited for the site’s article format while preserving the story you want to share.

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Researched and curated by Ann Guthrie · Guthrie Genealogy