Matilda B. Guthrie 1821 NY – 1876 NY and John Pierce
of Wayne County, New York, USA

MATILDA B GUTHRIE
Parents: Ahiel Guthrie c1789MA-1851NY and Diantha Bullock 1782NY-1873NY
Birth: 10 February 1823
Birth Location: Sodus, Wayne, New York, USA
Marriage: John Pierce about 1845, presumably in Wayne County, NY
Pierce Children: Matilda B (1846), Eugene H (1850), Lyman C (1858)
Death: 10 May 1876
Death Location: Huron, Wayne, New York, USA
Burial: Huron Evergreen Cemetery in Huron, Wayne, New York, USA

JOHN PIERCE
Parents: Unidentified
Birth: About 1817-1818
Birth Location: England
American Immigration: Unknown, bef. 1840
Occupation: Farmer
Death: 31 March 1894
Death Location: Huron, Wayne, New York, USA
Burial: Huron Evergreen Cemetery in Huron, Wayne, New York, USA

NOTES:
Matilda B Guthrie was born in Sodus, Wayne, NY on 10 Feb 1823. No marriage record found, but she presumably married John Pierce prior to 1846 when their eldest daughter was born. John Pierce was born in England or Wales. His identity is difficult to determine as there are several men of the same name and age entering or residing in New York at about the same time. He was a farmer. John and Matilda lived in Huron, Wayne, NY and raised three children. Matilda died in 1876 leaving a will dated 7 July 1875 and probated 8 May 1879 in Wayne, NY. This is unusual only because her husband was still living at the time. John Pierce was made the sole executor. John died on 31 March 1894 in Huron, Wayne, NY. They are buried at Huron Evergreen Cemetery.

Pierce Children: 3
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No

CHILD 1: MATILDA B PIERCE
1846 NY – 1941 NY

Matilda was born about 1846-1847 in New York, USA. Prior to her marriage, Matilda was a school teacher. She married Daniel W Gibs in 1874. They lived in Sodus, Wayne, NY where Daniel worked as a carpenter. Daniel had been previously married to Cornelia V Westbrook, with whom he had several children. She died in 1871. Daniel married about three years later to Matilda B Pierce. She and Daniel had one son, Carl John Gibbs, born in 1881. Daniel died 30 Jan 1907 at 78. Matilda lived until 7 Feb 1941 and was 95 at the time of her passing. They were laid to rest at Sodus Rural Cemetery..
Gibbs Children: 1
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No

CHILD 2: EUGENE H PIERCE
1850 NY – 1939 NY

Eugene H Pierce was born on 31 May 1850 in Huron, Wayne, NY. He took up farming, and eventually married at about 28 to Emily S Overton, daughter of Sheldon & Catherine Overton. They had one daughter, Anna (1890) who married Albert Riley. The young couple lived with the Pierce family during the first few years of their marriage before establishing their own household. Emily died on 8 May 1933 in Wolcott. Eugene was 89 at his death on 2 October 1939. He was found dead in the barn having apparently been doing some light work despite his age. They are buried at Huron Evergreen Cemetery.
Pierce Children: 1
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No

CHILD 3: LYMAN C PIERCE
1858 NY – 1938 NY

Lyman C Pierce was born about 1858 in Huron, Wayne, New York. He became a school teacher and worked in Wayne County in that role until his sixties. He married Margaret J Holbrook in Manhattan, NY on 23 Jan 1896. Margaret was a Canadian immigrant. Afterward they settled in Yonkers, Westchester, New York. They had two daughters, Helen G (1897) and Mildred/Margaret H (1900). Lyman died on 16 Oct 1938 in Yonkers at about 80 years old. Margaret lived in Yorkers during the 1840 census, but moved to Englewood, Bergen, NJ when her daughter Helen (Pierce) Broderick and family moved there. She was in Princess Anne County, a resident of Virginia Beach, at the time of her death at 94.
Pierce Children: 2
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Descendant of a Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: No

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