William Guthery was born in Pike County and married Lucinda Manville Cleveland on 4 August 1839 in Marion County. Lucinda, born in New York about 1819, is identified in the family history as a daughter of Silas Hall Cleveland and Betsey Briggs.

William farmed and raised livestock. The family account describes a move from the vicinity of Parr Town to a farm along Paw Paw Creek near Marseilles. His reported death on 20 March 1863 left Lucinda raising their children and managing the farm. She reportedly died 4 August 1879. Both are associated with Guthery Cemetery at La Rue.

Isaac and Marilla’s children: Charles Ernest, Walter, Carrie Belle, Blanche Alice, William Howard, Helen Maud, Mary Ethel, Nettie Gertrude, and Earl Edison Guthery.

May’s history supplies extensive recollections of this household. Its descriptions of William’s business and Lucinda’s weaving are family testimony. A creek in William’s reported death locality does not establish drowning or another cause of death.

John Dever Guthery married Susan Frederick on 23 April 1854. Susan’s reported dates are 9 May 1825–29 January 1903; the family history identifies her parents as John Frederick and Lydia Earhart.

The original 1860 Bowling Green Township, Marion County, Ohio, census places Jno. D. and Susan at the bottom of one page, with their children continuing onto the next. This is one household spanning two pages. John’s accepted 1860 chronology remains in Ohio.

William Lloyd and Hattie Della’s children: Susan Matilda, Bernice Anna, Connie V., Twila M., and William J. R. Guthery. The approximate “before 1901” entry for Hattie Bish describes the same reported first marriage as the 1896 entry; it is not counted as another wedding.

The various Joseph, John Dever, and Isaac names recur across generations. Dates, spouses, and households are retained together to keep those identities separate.

Isaac Frazier Guthery married Rachel Frederick on 15 June 1843, reportedly at Waldo in Marion County. Rachel’s life dates are reported as 1820–1901. May identifies Rachel and Susan Frederick as sisters, a relationship attributed here to that family history.

Isaac and Rachel raised their family near La Rue. May reports that they moved to Clarks, Nebraska, in November 1885, accompanied by their younger daughters. Isaac died there in December 1887; the working date is 23 December. Rachel remained at Clarks and reportedly died 20 April 1901. Both are associated with burial at Clarks.

Upton and Sarah’s child roster: Jessie May, Charles Eugene, Frederick Elder, Carrie Louise, Isaac Frazier, Helen S., and Marguerite. The 1905 obituary names Charles E., Frederick E., Frazier, Carrie, and Helen as survivors. Its shorter list does not establish when the other children died.

Philip’s children: Mabel, George Maynard, and Sybil A. with Elizabeth Clark; Margaret Lorraine and Philip E. with Eveline Duckers.

Silas’s household: Rodney McLean Guthrie and Isabel Guthrie Beatty remain in the child list. The 1920 census records Fred E. and Chas. E. as nephews. Fred is likely Frederick Elder Guthery (1884–1951), Upton’s son, as proposed by Ann and supported by the family context.

The published history and profiles differ on some exact dates and middle names. Those differences are retained in the records notes. No additional children or marriages are invented to reconcile them.

Joseph’s name: D. is retained as the working middle initial. It is not expanded to Dawson from the name of a grandson. The supplied roster and weathered gravestone do not establish that expansion.

Hannah’s birth: the working date and place are 18 January 1796, Kentucky. May’s printed page 28 gives 18 January, while page 21 actually prints 8 January. The memorial index agrees on 18 January and Kentucky; the 1850 census index independently reports Kentucky. The profile’s 17 January and Virginia remain competing statements. No original birth record has been established.

Marriage: the Scioto County index records 2 March 1815, naming Hannah Dever. Duplicate profile entries describe this same marriage. May’s less precise 1815-or-1816 statement does not replace the indexed date.

Four reported sons: William, John Dever, Isaac Frazier, and the infant Joseph form the working roster. Lydia Peters’s account names the three adult sons; that is compatible with the infant’s earlier death. The unnamed girl aged five to nine in the 1840 census category is not sufficient evidence of a daughter.

Deaths and burial: Joseph’s working dates, 29 March 1790–5 February 1856, give sixty-five completed years. May’s age of sixty-six is retained as an inconsistent or rounded statement. The supplied gravestone photograph supports the name and apparent death date, but its faint age inscription is not used for a precise birth calculation. May reports Hannah’s death on 7 March 1864 and burial of both spouses at Guthery Cemetery near former Parr Town, now La Rue.

War of 1812: the readable published roster lists Joseph Guthery as a private in Captain David Shelby’s Mounted Company, serving 4 September–14 October 1812. The heading describes the company as probably from Ross County. This is the Ohio Adjutant General’s later compilation, cited by May as the 1916 roster, page 154; it is not an original muster roll.

John Senior and John Junior also appear in the company. May identifies them as Joseph’s father and brother, but the roster alone does not establish those relationships. Her report that Joseph received land bounty remains a lead for the military file; a specific warrant acreage, statute, or land location is not asserted here.

21 October 1806: John and Lydia Guthery conveyed 96 acres jointly to Moses and Joseph, then of Ross County, in section 6, township 5, range 22. Book 1, page 92, states one hundred pounds consideration. The two brothers and their wives sold the tract to Jonathan Clark on 29 November 1817 for $2,400, A:223–224. Both original descriptions read Range 22. Matching location, acreage, and most calls support the land-chain identification, while the final westward call differs by one pole.

Piketon in-lot 119: Jonathan and Elizabeth Clark conveyed it to Joseph on 26 November 1817 for $150, pp. 229–230. Joseph and Hannah conveyed it to Peter Fortney on 26 May 1827 for $250, C:34–35. The later deed was recorded 18 August 1827; that is not its execution date.

Other town property: Joseph and Hannah’s deed to John Ware Senior, pp. 397–398, was executed 19 December 1822, acknowledged 10 May 1824, and recorded 2 November 1824. It concerns half of the north end of out-lots 18 and 19 in Clark’s addition. The visible consideration is blank, so no amount is supplied.

Commissioner abstracts also place Joseph on a grand jury in 1821, a petit jury in 1825, and a road-viewing assignment in 1825. These references describe county work; they are not a fresh reading of every original commissioner entry.

The 1820 Seal Township, Pike County, index lists Joseph with two boys under ten, an adult man aged twenty-six to forty-four, and an adult woman aged sixteen to twenty-five. The 1830 Big Island Township, Marion County, index lists three boys, a man aged forty to forty-nine, and a woman aged thirty to thirty-nine.

May’s account places the move north in 1827 and describes successive locations in Salt Rock, Big Island, Montgomery, and Bowling Green townships. It dates a Bowling Green move to 1829, while the 1830 index identifies Big Island. The broad move to Marion County is supported; the exact township sequence is retained as a narrative that requires more precise land correlation.

The 1840 index includes the unidentified young girl as well as the adult couple and two younger males. It does not name her or state a relationship. The 1850 Bowling Green index lists Joseph, sixty, and Hannah, fifty-four, with Pennsylvania and Kentucky birthplaces respectively.

John Dever’s 1860 family: the original Bowling Green schedule begins dwelling 748/family 736 with Jno. D., forty, and Susan, thirty-five, at the bottom of one page. Page 103 continues with Joseph, six; James, four; Fannie, three; and Rachel, one. Blank dwelling columns on the continuation do not create a separate household.

The Indiana residence notation was an unsupported profile entry. It is not retained as an accepted 1860 move or used to construct a separation of the family. The original’s abbreviated names, the name Fannie, and Joseph’s age of six remain literal source readings; the schedule itself does not spell out Dever, Dawson, or Susan’s maiden surname.

Rachel Cleveland Guthery: use 3 September 1848 provisionally, following May’s visually checked printed page 47. The profile gives 1846. The short interval that would result after brother Joseph’s reported March 1846 birth warrants caution, but chronology alone is not proof of the correct year.

Their son Joseph: use 26 November 1849 provisionally for his death, also from May’s printed page 47. The profile’s 22 November remains a variant. Neither date is described as coming from a contemporary death registration.

Elizabeth and Amos Gray: the reviewed family profile gives 2 May 1866 for their marriage. The 1886 year appearing in one summary is not retained as the working date.

Two later namesakes: William’s sons Isaac Frazier, born 1849, and John Dever, born 1859, must remain separate from William’s brothers born in 1821 and 1819. Spouses and households provide essential context when following these names.

William’s reported birth and death dates give an age of forty-four at death, while the family narrative calls him forty-six. The source’s rounded ages do not independently establish a different birthday.

Joseph Dawson’s birth: 12 March 1855 is the accepted working date, reported by May and the supplied memorial index. The photographed marker reads 1855–1923, supporting the year but not the month and day. The profile’s 11 March 1854 and the 1860 census age of six remain conflicting evidence. The exact-date agreement between two compilations is not assumed to be independent testimony.

Joseph Dawson’s marriage: the original Marion County return records Joseph D. Guthery and Mary E. Wolford on 29 May 1877. The license and application are dated 19 May. John D. Guthery signed the application; his identification as the groom’s father comes from family correlation rather than an explicit relationship field.

The original supplies the county jurisdiction but does not name Waldo or Green Camp as the ceremony site. Those towns remain attributed profile and family-history claims. The record supports 1877 over May’s 1875 marriage year. Its printed qualifying-age clauses are not actual ages from which to calculate birthdays.

William Lloyd’s first marriage: the reported 16 September 1896 marriage to Hattie Blanche Bish and the approximate “before 1901” event are treated as descriptions of one marriage. Her reported death three months later remains unverified. His second marriage is reported as 30 January 1902 to Hattie Della Gracely.

Other source differences: James Buchanan’s birth appears as 1856 in his profile and 1857 in a family summary. Isaac Sherman’s death appears as 1923 in the published account and 1933 in the reviewed parent-profile links. These variants are not silently reconciled, and no duplicate identities are created.

The working roster includes the children who died young, including Hannah Wansinetta, whose separate supporting record was not supplied. A shortened list of surviving children is not treated as a complete birth list.

Arminda Mabel and Sybil Elizabeth were twins. May’s printed pages 93–94 distinguish Arminda’s reported death on 10 November 1915 from her twin’s later life. The history reports Elizabeth Sybil living at ninety-four with daughter Sybil Lillian Sawyers. Sybil’s actual death date remains unknown in this review; neither 1915 nor the book’s publication year is assigned as her death year.

May gives 29 November 1889 for Sybil’s marriage to John Bedford Russell, while another family summary gives 1890. The marriage is retained with that year difference; no second marriage is implied.

Lydia Olive’s birthplace remains Ohio. The profile’s Marion Township, Allen County, and the Marion County family context are competing locality leads. Her lack of linked children does not prove that she had none.

Philip Earhart’s birth is retained as approximately 1858–1859: the profile supplies 6 July 1859, while reported census ages point toward 1858. The children of Elizabeth Clark and Eveline Duckers remain in separate maternal groups.

Exact-date and name variants also occur for Isaac, Rachel, and Silas. May’s text uses Silas Almon alongside the working Silas Albans identity, and supplies dates differing from the profiles. The table therefore uses broader dates for Silas and Rachel. Isaac’s working death remains 23 December 1887; the family’s suggested appendicitis is not treated as a medically documented cause.

The accepted marriage is 27 December 1892, Clarks, Nebraska, supported by the Merrick County marriage index and Ann’s report of the record. The inspected index names Silas A. Guthrie and Laura I. McLean. Its small register thumbnail was not a readable full original.

The Marion Star item published 21 December 1912 is a retrospective announcement. Its nearby July 1, 1893 heading creates a dating inconsistency, but the publication year is not the wedding year. No anniversary interpretation is retained.

The original 1920 Crook County, Wyoming, census, Election District 16, District 0027, lists Silas A., head; Isabel, wife; Rodney M., son; Isabel, daughter; Fred E., nephew; and Chas. E., nephew. The wife’s literal census name is Isabel within the established Laura Isabel McLean family.

Fred E. is removed from the nuclear-family child list. He is likely Frederick Elder Guthery, son of Upton Keller Guthery. His recorded age of thirty-five, Ohio birthplace, the accompanying nephew Chas. E., and Upton’s obituary naming sons Frederick E. and Charles E. support that identification. The census does not itself name Fred’s parents or establish his full name and lifespan.

Rodney McLean and Isabel remain the two children identified in the working family. The mistaken Fred assignment does not require a prior marriage, a different mother, or an altered birth year for a supposed son of Silas.

Upton Keller Guthery died 2 July 1905, Marion, Ohio. His obituary in The Marion Star of Monday, 3 July 1905, reports death at home the preceding Sunday morning and says he would have turned fifty-four on the issue date. This supports the working birth date 3 July 1851. The earlier 1903 death year is not retained.

The obituary names his wife, five surviving children, and brothers William E. of Omaha and Silas of Moorcroft, Wyoming. Its account of teaching, stock business, and county-auditor service remains attributed to the obituary. The children not named among its survivors are not automatically assigned death dates.

William Eugene Guthrie died 15 November 1935 at his home in Bridgeport, Nebraska. The Star-Herald of Sunday, 17 November, reports his death on Friday morning. The date is derived from that issue and weekday statement. It names widow Margaret Guthrie and daughter Margaret Hewitt and describes the Wyoming–Omaha–Bridgeport sequence.

William’s original marriage return independently supports his family identity. It records Wm. E. Guthrie and Maggie S. Hewitt, 3 December 1885, Des Moines, Iowa. He is described as a stock grower residing at Cheyenne, born at La Rue, and a son of Isaac F. Guthrie and Rachel Frederick. His age of thirty-seven is explicitly his age at next birthday. The record uses initials; Eugene and Margaret come from correlated family information.

Disposition reports differ: the early notices announced or reported burial at Bridgeport cemetery. A later Dalton Delegate report, 29 November 1935, describes cremation at Denver and ashes returned for intended scattering in the North Platte River. No unrecorded exhumation or completed scattering is inferred to combine these accounts.

The later feature’s conflicting relative death day, 1845 birth year, and education details do not override the earlier death notice or establish a new exact birth date. Reprints of the same notice are not counted as independent eyewitness reports.

• Scioto County marriage index: Joseph Guthery and Hannah Dever, 2 March 1815, in the Scioto County Marriage Records, 1803–1860 collection. Supplied index panels reviewed; the full original register was not newly inspected.
• Ohio Adjutant General: Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812 (1916), p. 154, Captain David Shelby’s Mounted Company, 4 September–14 October 1812. The supplied printed roster was directly inspected. It is a later compilation, not an original muster.
• Pike County deed registers: Book 1, p. 92, John and Lydia to Moses and Joseph, 21 October 1806; A:223–224, both couples to Jonathan Clark, 29 November 1817; pp. 229–230, Clark to Joseph, 26 November 1817; pp. 397–398, Joseph and Hannah to John Ware Senior; C:34–35, Joseph and Hannah to Peter Fortney, 26 May 1827. Original register images reviewed.
• Pike County commissioner abstracts: order 876, grand jury, 21 February 1821; order 1021, petit jury, 2 March 1825; order 1152, road viewing, 8 June 1825. These references come from the supplied research transcriptions.
• Federal census indexes: Joseph’s 1820 Seal Township, Pike County; 1830 Big Island Township, Marion County; 1840 Marion County; and 1850 Bowling Green Township entries. Hannah’s 1850 index identifies dwelling 460/family 464 and a Kentucky birthplace.
• Original 1860 census: Bowling Green Township, Marion County, Ohio, dwelling 748/family 736, beginning with Jno. D. and Susan at the bottom of one page and continuing with the children on p. 103.
• Joseph Dawson’s marriage return: Marion County, Ohio, Joseph D. Guthery–Mary E. Wolford; license/application 19 May 1877, ceremony 29 May, filing and recording in June. Original image reviewed; no book/page locator was visible in the supplied image.
• Nebraska marriage index: Silas A. Guthrie–Laura I. McLean, 27 December 1892, Clarks, Merrick County office; considered with Ann’s report of the marriage record and The Marion Star, 21 December 1912, p. 5, retrospective announcement.
• Original Iowa marriage return: Wm. E. Guthrie–Maggie S. Hewitt, 3 December 1885, Des Moines; Iowa Marriage Records, 1880–1950, viewer grouping 1886, section 336, image 80 of 177. The written event year is 1885.
• Original 1920 census: Crook County, Wyoming, Election District 16, District 0027, lines 68–73: Silas A., Isabel, Rodney M., Isabel, Fred E., and Chas. E.; son, daughter, and nephew relationships read directly.
• Upton Keller Guthery obituary: The Marion Star, 3 July 1905, p. 8, “U. K. Guthery Passes Away.” The death date 2 July is derived from the issue date and Sunday-morning wording.
• William E. Guthrie newspapers: Star-Herald, 17 November 1935, p. 1; Western Nebraska Observer, 21 November 1935, p. 10; Dalton Delegate, 22 and 29 November 1935, p. 1. Reprints and the conflicting disposition reports are distinguished above.
• William’s lifetime reports: Bridgeport News-Blade, 22 August 1929, p. 8, and 1 March 1934, p. 6; The Business Farmer, 26 April 1934, p. 15. These describe family travel, nursery plans, and tree sales.
• Mary Sibyl Gray May: The History of Lieutenant-Colonel John Guthery of Greene County Pennsylvania and of Allied Families (Middletown, Connecticut: Godfrey Memorial Library, 1956). Relevant sections include Joseph and Hannah, pp. 21–28; William’s family, including p. 47; Joseph Dawson, p. 69; and Arminda/Sybil, pp. 93–94. The corrected numerical readings were checked against page images during the evidence review.
• Lydia Guthery Peters’s account, April 1872: surviving typed copies, considered with the Wyoming State Archives WPA Federal Writers Project file, WPA Bio 385, compiled by Minnie A. Rietz. The related 1936 correspondence and Wyoming family sketch provide provenance and family context; they do not constitute an original newspaper issue.
• Memorials and family profiles: Joseph and Hannah at Guthery Cemetery; Joseph Dawson’s supplied marker and index; and descendant profiles used for reported dates. The weathered Joseph stone and Joseph Dawson’s year-only marker are not treated as sources for unreadable or absent exact dates.
• Guthrie DNA Project member notes: 15 October 2026, Family Finder kits B59698 and 351544; public presentation limited to kit numbers and historical pedigrees.
• Joseph in the Guthrie Research Tree and the John Guthery & Lydia Baldwin Family Hub.