Hannah was living in Brown County, Ohio, when she appointed Alfred as her attorney on 28 March 1845. The original instrument calls him her brother. Her marriage to Thomas Dickings on 10 September 1846 is supported at index level.

The 1850 household is indexed with Harriett Dickings, 40, Thomas, Sarah Ann, Catharine, and Nancy Guthry, 14. The name and age variations remain part of the record comparison. Thomas’s exact death date is unsettled; Hannah’s obituary says she moved to Leavenworth in 1867, shortly after his death.

Nancy Ann’s reported children with Benjamin Hopkins Dunlap: Frank W. (1859–1869), Grace Elizabeth (1860–1930), William Walter (1865–1950), and Harry Mayo (1870–1912). Hannah’s obituary names a surviving daughter Mrs. Dunlap of Caddo, Indian Territory, supporting the family association; it does not identify Nancy Ann’s father.

Hannah’s age: the census trail supports a birth around 1810, with June 1810 in the 1900 index. Her obituary calls her a nonagenarian but prints 1830 in its body. That internal contradiction is preserved; 1830 is not adopted as her birth year.

The 1900 index reports three children born and three living, whereas the family roster includes the infant Gracy. The count remains unresolved. The obituary names three surviving daughters: Mrs. Dunlap, Mrs. Thompson, and Miss Minerva Dickens.

Use 8 May 1821 as William’s working birth date. His memorial index also gives 1821. The alternative 8 May 1820 was calculated from a reported age at death and is not independent birth evidence.

The original Scioto County register distinguishes their 22 October 1849 marriage from its 24 October recording. Elizabeth Mary Nelson’s birth is displayed as July 1824: the profile gives the 24th and the memorial index the 22nd.

The working identification follows this couple from Jefferson Township, Scioto County, in 1850 to Grand River Township, Daviess County, Missouri, by 1860. The marriage record does not name William’s parents, so connecting the Ohio bridegroom to Aaron’s heir depends on the combined family, land, and census evidence.

William’s reported death was 19 January 1872; Elizabeth Mary’s was 21 March 1874. Their memorial information places their burials in Guthrie Cemetery, Grand River Township, Daviess County, Missouri.

Alfred was alive in the 1850 Washington Township, Scioto County, household. He apparently died by 1860, when Julia is reported as a widow; the basis for that widow description has not been newly verified. His exact death date remains unknown.

Julia Ann Houchins, recorded as Houtchins in the 1848 marriage index, was born about 1827 and reportedly died 6 July 1911. Her profile gives 2 September 1827, while the 1900 index gives July 1827.

A descendant report states that Julia’s mother, Elizabeth (Kenney) Houchins, remarried a Brown. That may explain the Brown surname used for Julia in a later family account. A marriage between Julia herself and a Brown has not been established.

Julia’s family is followed from Ohio to Logan County, Illinois. Her 1900 and 1910 census indexes report four children born and three living. These counts fit the four-child working roster, but are not substitutes for individual birth and death records.

William Franklin and Sarah Elizabeth are associated with two named sons: Charles Albert Guthrie, born about 1868–1869, and James Guthrie, born about 1873. Sarah’s 1900 index reports four children born and two living; the other two have not been identified in the reviewed material.

Charles Albert’s profile gives 1868, but his age of ten months in the 1870 index suggests about 1869. The inconsistent 1900 birth-year and age fields do not settle the question. He is reported to have died in 1952; the project pedigree names his wife as Ethel Murrell Pratt.

The original 1880 schedules record Franklin as married in his mother Julia’s Illinois household and Sarah as widowed in her parents’ Kansas household. Divorce or separation could explain the difference, but neither has been established. Franklin’s reported 15 April 1881 death remains unverified by a direct death record.

Sarah’s reported death was 4 July 1940 at Wichita, Kansas. The recorded Y-DNA and Family Finder participant in this descendant line is kit 292715.

Aaron Walter Guthrie and Julia Azelious Irwin: two reported children, Gracie Gertrude (1883–1902) and Lawrence Daily (1885–1925). The family is traced through Illinois and Iowa to Kansas City, Kansas. Earlier records give Aaron’s birthplace as Ohio; the 1940 index’s Oklahoma entry remains a source discrepancy. Julia’s reported dates are 31 August 1861–30 November 1962.

Louisa Ella Guthrie and John Henry Smalley: their son was James Alfred Smalley (1884–1948). The 1900 marriage duration supports the reported year 1873; the 1910 duration instead suggests about 1871. Both are retained without creating a second marriage. John’s reported dates are 26 March 1844–11 August 1920.

Elizabeth L. Guthrie and Barton Manuel: their son was Charles Gilbert Manuel (1883–1971). Elizabeth’s obituary gives Portsmouth, Ohio, as her birthplace, while her death index says Plymouth, Ohio; the county is not established. Their memorial accounts report a divorce, but no divorce date or decree is known.

Elizabeth’s working death date is 4 November 1923, at Emden, Illinois. Barton’s is 8 July 1926, at Jacksonville, Illinois, supported by a death index with stone and funeral-clipping corroboration. Her 1920 widow description is therefore not evidence that Barton had already died.

The original Ross County return supports 22 October 1809 for Aaron Guthrey and Nancy Howard’s marriage. It supplies no parent names. The Howard sister-and-cousin relationships come from Lydia Peters’s later account; Nancy’s competing tree parentages remain unproved.

The death clipping reports Aaron’s death at Piketon on the fourth of the month, aged forty, and calls him sheriff and auditor. Its supplied identification is Ohio Monitor, 14 May 1825, volume IX, issue 32, p. 3, supporting 4 May 1825. The clipping itself ends with an attribution to “Times”; the full newspaper issue has not been newly inspected.

Its reference to three orphan children does not establish that Nancy had died. Neither does her absence from the 1828 heirs deed. Her death remains unknown; 23 December 1843 is an unverified report, and an absence-based 1825–1828 death range is not adopted.

1806 and 1815: the 21 October 1806 deed names John Guthery and Lydia his wife as grantors to Aaron. A separate 19 June 1815 deed explicitly names John Guthery Junr. as grantor of 93 acres, section 6, township 5, range 22, for $500. The two Johns must remain distinct.

The 1815 index entry: Aaron himself, not his heirs, is indexed as grantor to James Corwine on 30 August 1815. A separate 9 October 1816 entry names Aaron and wife as grantors to Corwine. These are lifetime transactions; their complete title sequence should not be reconstructed from index rows alone.

1 September 1828: the original deed names Hannah Guthery, William Guthery Junior, and Alfred Guthery as Aaron’s sole heirs at law, all under twenty-one. It recites an August 1827 court order authorizing completion of a contract Aaron had made with Thomas Waldron.

The administrator signs as William Guthery Senior, expressly distinguishing him from the minor William Junior. His precise relationship to Aaron is not stated in this instrument. He signed the heirs’ names on their behalf; the recorded names are not evidence of the minors’ personal signatures.

The parcel is Piketon out-lot 16, distinct from in-lot 167. The deed’s one-dollar consideration accompanies a recital that the prior contract was fulfilled; it does not establish the original total purchase price. Acknowledgment and recording are dated 5 September 1828.

28 March 1845: Hannah’s original power of attorney identifies her as an heir of Aaron, resident in Brown County, and appoints her brother Alfred to sell her interest in Piketon property. It is an agency appointment, not a sale to Alfred. The separate 1848 recording date remains an index attribution.

23 August 1847: the transcribed William–Alfred–Hannah deed to John Buchert concerns in-lots 167 and 95–98, with Hannah represented by Alfred. Its covenant includes an exception concerning Alfred’s undivided interest in lot 167; it should not be summarized as an unrestricted transfer of every interest.

Principal locators: 1:91; A:13; C:147–148; 9:425; and 9:482–483. The 1847 passage is retained from the existing transcription, not claimed as a newly inspected original.

1820: the Aron Guthrie index lists one male aged 26–44, one female aged 26–44, and three females under ten. It does not name the girls. Hannah’s working June 1810 birth also makes a simple age-slot assignment uncertain. No additional daughters are created solely to fill those columns.

Tax records: the research trail includes Aaron in the early Ross County tax lists and Aaron’s heirs in later Piketon assessments, including lot 167 through 1838. A tax entry under the heirs’ name does not prove that every heir lived locally that year.

Official work: the sheriff’s roster and county history give 1823–1825. Earlier commissioner-book abstracts include sheriff-related payments in 1822; the precise office chronology requires the original entries. The abstracts also describe auditor and clerk services, jury summonses, supplies, and other county business.

A sheriff’s conveyance is an official act and is not evidence of personal ownership of all land conveyed. A crossed-out payment order is likewise not evidence of a payment made.

Hannah: the obituary image confirms the three surviving daughters and the grandfather reference. Its printed 1830 birth year conflicts with its own nonagenarian heading and the census trail around 1810. The 1900 index’s age and child-count fields remain unresolved; the obituary does not justify silently changing those census readings.

William: use the selected 8 May 1821 birth date, while retaining 8 May 1820 as the calculation from the reported death age. His marriage was 22 October 1849, recorded on the 24th, in Scioto County register p. 160. Elizabeth Mary Nelson’s birth remains July 1824, with 22nd and 24th source variants.

Alfred and Julia: Alfred was alive in 1850 and apparently died by Julia’s reported widowhood in 1860. The 1860 schedule did not have a standard marital-status column; no new reading of an explicit widow annotation is claimed. Julia’s reported maternal Brown connection does not establish a Brown marriage of her own.

Franklin and Sarah: the two original 1880 census entries have been checked. Franklin’s married mark and Sarah’s widow slash are conflicting reports. Divorce, separation, and the reported 1881 death remain unresolved; no motive or medical explanation is inferred.

Elizabeth and Barton Manuel: their memorial narratives report divorce, while the death index, stone, and funeral clipping support Barton surviving Elizabeth. Her widow description does not override that chronology. The reported divorce remains distinct from an inspected court decree.

Source variants: Elizabeth’s possible double enumeration in 1880, the 1910 Julia A. “Simmer” index reading, and Aaron Walter’s 1940 Oklahoma birthplace remain comparison points. They do not by themselves establish a second Elizabeth, a Julia Simmer marriage, or an Oklahoma birth.

• Ross County marriage return: Aaron Guthrey and Nancy Howard, 22 October 1809; original image reviewed. Associated indexes cite films 000281649 and 000281637.
• Aaron Guthery death notice: supplied clipping identified as Ohio Monitor, 14 May 1825, volume IX, issue 32, p. 3, with attribution to “Times.” Full issue metadata has not been independently rechecked.
• Pike County Sheriff’s Office, Past Sheriffs; and History of Lower Scioto Valley, p. 719, for sheriff and auditor service.
• Pike County commissioner-book abstracts: volumes covering 1815–1821 and 1822–1827. Retained as abstracts, not a new full inspection of the original books.
• Recorded deeds: John and Lydia to Aaron, 21 October 1806, 1:91; John Guthery Jr. to Aaron, 19 June 1815, A:13; Aaron’s heirs to Thomas Waldron, 1 September 1828, C:147–148, film 008141947, images 95–96.
• Hannah’s power of attorney: executed and acknowledged 28 March 1845, 9:425, film 008097703, image 596. William, Alfred, and Hannah to John Buchert, 23 August 1847, 9:482–483, retained transcription.
• Ohio Tax Records: Aaron’s early Ross County entries and the heirs’ Piketon assessments, 1826–1829 and 1838. Tax locators are research references, not proof of each heir’s residence.
• Hannah Dickens obituary: The Leavenworth Times, 24 July 1900, p. 4, newspaper image; compared with the census indexes and family profiles.
• Marriage evidence: Hannah Guthrey–Thomas Dickings, 10 September 1846, Brown County, film 000384274, index; Alfred C. Guthrie–Julia Houtchins, 25 June 1848, Scioto compilation/index; William Guthrie–Elizabeth Nelson, 22 October 1849, original register p. 160, film 000292694, image 285 of 569.
• Descendant censuses: Ohio, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, and Iowa indexes as discussed above; original 1880 Franklin Gutherie household, Prairie Creek, Logan County, Illinois, dwelling/family 170/173, and Sarah Guther in the Willis household, Grant, Sedgwick County, Kansas, 104/104.
• Illinois death indexes and memorial evidence: Louisa Guthrie Smalley, 28 July 1933, film 1675013; Elizabeth L. Manuel, 4 November 1923, film 1452338, with obituary and memorial 237642182; Barton Manuel, 8 July 1926, film 1613440, with stone, funeral clipping, and memorial 21744441.
• Lydia Guthery Peters’s account, April 1872, later typed copy, p. 84; and Mary Gray May, The History of Lieutenant-Colonel John Guthery of Greene County Pennsylvania and of Allied Families (1956), p. 16. Later copies of the same account are not independent testimony.
• Guthrie DNA Project: saved Y-DNA results overview and member notes dated 15 October 2026, including kit 292715’s recorded pedigree and Family Finder participation.
• Aaron in the Guthrie Research Tree and the John Guthery & Lydia Baldwin Family Hub.