Guthrie Family Group 4 – Branch B
WILLIAM OLANDER GUTHREY 1825GA – 1895AR and CLEMENTINE STEWART
of Walker County, Georgia and Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA

WILLIAM OLDANDER GUTHREY
Parents: William Guthrey 1770VA – 1854GA and Mary Warren ‘Polly’ Musgrove
Birth: 22 February 1825
Birth Location: Georgia, USA – probably in Greene or Oglethorpe County
Occupation: Farmer
Marriage: Clementine Stewart about 1853 probably in Georgia
Death: October 1895
Death Location: Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA
Burial: Black Springs Cemetery, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA

CLEMENTINE STEWART
Parents: Wilson Stewart abt. 1805GA – aft. 1860AL and Mahala Hinniard
Birth: 20 April 1838
Birth Location: Georgia, USA
Guthrey Children: 6
Death: November 1904
Death Location: Black Springs, Montgomery, Arkansas, USA
Burial: Unknown, not listed with memorials at Black Springs. (Find-a-Grave)

NOTES:

William Olander Guthrey was the youngest child in the family, born on 22 Feb 1825 in Georgia. In 1850, the Guthreys were living in Lookout Valley, Walker, Georgia. William was already 24 and listed as a farmer. His parents, William Guthrey, 80, and Mary, 64, were the only others in the household. That same year, his future wife, Clementine Stewart, was living with her family in Carroll County, Georgia making it the probable locale for their marriage about 1853.

William and Clementine settled in Pond Springs, Walker County, Georgia where they farmed and started their family. William’s father died in 1854 and his mother Mary continued to live with them, most likely until her death in 1860. They continued to live in Pond Springs, Walker, Georgia through the 1880 census. Sometime over the next 15 years they moved to Black Springs, Montgomery, Arkansas. William died there in October of 1895, and Clementine nine years later in November 1904.

GUTHREY CHILDREN: 6
Y-DNA Project Participants: NONE
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

CHILD 1: WILLIAM HARRISON M GUTHREY
1854 GA – 1930 AR
Spouse 1: Martha Ovalene Fowler
Spouse 2: Ella Crumley

Born on 12 Dec 1854, the eldest son of William Olander and Clementine (Stewart) Guthrey was named William Harrison Guthrey. Trees list an M initial, potentially for Musgrove, it has not yet been found documented. He was 16 at the time of the 1870 census when his family was living Fricks Gap, Walker County, Georgia. He was listed as attending school that year.

William was twice married. At 20 years of age he married Martha Ovalene Fowler on 27 Oct 1875 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia. During the 1880 census the family was listed in Pond Spring, Walker County, GA. William was a farmer. They had 4 children between 1877 and 1883. Sometime during the next 13 years, William moved his family to Montgomery County, Arkansas.

Daughter Clinta Elmore Guthrey’s birth is documented to William H Guthrey, 42, and Ella Crumbly, 17, her first child, occurring on 31 July 1896, a full term birth of a legitimate child, but it is a delayed certificate signed and issued on 7 April 1942.

Note that William’s first wife, Martha, died on 22 Nov 1896, just months after the child’s birth. Either “Clintie” was actually Martha’s biological daughter and Ella simply claimed her as her own to make the the legalization of a birth certificate easier, or William’s presumed affair with Ella resulted in a pregnancy.

William married Ella Crumley on 27 Oct 1898 in Montgomery County, Arkansas. They had five other children born between 1899 and 1917 living in Caddo and Black Springs. Ella was the daughter of Aaron Hammer Crumley and Nancy Jane Whitehead. Her family had moved from Blount County, TN to Arkansas after 1880.

An Arkansas paper, DeQueen Bee, Vol. 1, Issue 8, page 3, published on 23 July 1897 described a brush with death.
“Fight with an Ex-Convict
W.H. Guthrie, of Montgomery County, had a narrow escape from death at the hands of Chas. Willis, an escaped convict, recently. Guthrie met Willis in the road while on his way to Hot Springs, and recognizing him, tried to arrest him. Willis resisted and a desperate fight ensued, Guthrie being seriously cut in several placed. Willis is still at large.”

Guthrey Children: 11
Y-DNA Project Participants: NONE
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Luda Mae Guthrey 1877GA-1948AR (m1.1896) Wayland DeWeese Roberts (doctor) +children; (m2.1933) Samuel Thompson (farmer); (m3.1946) Elijah Chenault (Ret. School Teacher)
2.) Mary Emma Guthrey 1879GA-1954AR (m.1894) Daniel Edgar Rogers (farmer) +children
3.) Leonard Parks Guthrey (Baptist Minister/Shoe Repair) 1881GA-1951AR (m.c1912) Pearl Fair McDonald +children
4.) Jonathan Edward Guthrey (physician) 1883GA-1931AR (m.1914) Gypsie Bill Addington +children
5.) Clinta Elmore Guthrey 1896AR – 1974AR (m.bef.1930) Robert B Patton (road construction) -no children
6.) William Harrison Guthrey 1899AR-1988AR (carpenter) (m.1928) Viola Black +children
7.) Myrtle Lee Guthrey abt. 1903 AR – 1923 (m.1923) Oather Carver -no children
8.) Goldie Bernice Guthrey 1911AR-1989AR – unmarried
9.) Walter Asbury Guthrey 1914AR – 1944(WWII) (m.1942AR) Loda Hays – no children
10.) Orville Stewart Guthrey 1917AR-1984AR (m.bef.1948) Pearl Cothrin – unk children

CHILD 2: JOHN BEVERLY GUTHREY
1857GA – 1925 OK
Spouse 1: Sallie Thornton
Spouse 2: Adele Lee Jones

John Beverly Guthrey was born in Cassandra, Walker, Georgia on 8 Feb 1857 to William Olander and Clementine (Stewart) Guthrey. He was 3 during the 1860 census in Pond Springs, and 13 during the 1870 census of Fricks Gap, all in Walker County, GA. John was still living at home in Pond Spring at 23 during the 1880 census and working as a farm laborer. He married soon afterward to Sallie Thornton. The first of their 4 sons was born in July 1883. They moved west into Navarro County, Texas prior to the 1900 census where they rented a farm. Sallie died on 21 August 1900 in Texas. Sue is buried at the Campbell-Elrod Cemetery in Drane, Navarro, TX.

About two years later, William remarried to Adili ‘Addie’ Lee Jones in Texas, but returned to Arkansas where their two children, a son and daughter, were born. Addie had been previously married to Robert Padlock, a school teacher, but they were later divorced. The couple had one daughter, Etta Naomi Tadlock, born 11 Dec 1892. She lived with her mother and step-father until the time of her marriage.

Before 1910 they set out again. Addie had siblings in Meridian, Roger Mills, Oklahoma. They purchased a homestead, built a large house, and remained for the next two decades. John Beverly Guthrey died in Strong, Roger Mills, OK on 2 Jan 1925. He is buried at Dempsey Cemetery in Grimes, Roger Mills, OK. Adele lived until 30 Sep 1953 and died at Fort Supply, Woodward, OK at 80 years of age.

Guthrey Children: 7 (incl. 1 Step-Child)
Y-DNA Project Participants: NONE
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Oscar L Guthrie 1883AR-1911OK – Oscar was single during the 1910 census.
2.) Franklin Leon Guthrie 1887AR-1944NM, carpenter, (m.Pearl Hunter) +1 stepson
3.) John Curtis Guthrie 1893AR-1912OK – John was single during the 1910 census
4.) William Newton Guthrie 1894AR-1944TX (m.abt.1935) Julia Ann Dannenberg – no children
5.) Etta Naomi Tadlock (stepdaughter) 1892TX-1938OK (m. about 1915) Frederick Parker Harris +children
6.) Pearle Jones Guthrie 1904Ar-1983NM (m1.1923) Lonnie G Arnold, (m2.) Lawrence Hiram Dixon
7.) Robert Forrest Guthrie 1906Ar-1978NM (m.) Ruby Geranium Black +children

CHILD 3: GEORGE E C GUTHREY
1860 GA – 1865 GA
Died Young

George Guthrey was born on 23 November 1860 in Walker County, Georgia and died at five years of age in 1865. No further details known.

CHILD 4: MARY ELIZABETH MAHALEY GUTHREY
1866 GA – 1940 AR
Spouse 1: James Oliver Moore
Spouse 2: Benjamin Thomas Gillespie

Daughter Mary was born 12 March 1866 in Cassandra, Walker County, Georgia. She was named with her family in the 1870 and 1880 censuses. She first married James Oliver Moore about 1883 and they had one son, Dexter Oliver Moore. Her husband died the following year on 7 January 1885.

A young widow, Mary soon accepted another proposal. Her second marriage took place when she was 20 years old, on 28 August 1886 in Montgomery County, Arkansas to Benjamin Thomas Gillespie. They had 3 sons and 3 daughters born in Montgomery County between 1887 and 1895. She became widowed again on 6 Feb 1896 and continued to live in Montgomery County through the 1920s. At that time she was living with her daughter Roberta’s family. By 1930 census, they had moved to Cheyenne, Rogers Mills, Oklahoma. She seems to have made the rounds visiting and living with several of her children throughout her remaining years. Mary’s death is recorded as being at Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas on 13 Oct 1940 from a cerebral hemorrhage. She is buried at Black Springs Cemetery in Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas.

Moore Child: 1
Gillespie Children: 6
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrey
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Dexter Oliver Moore 1884GA-1885AR -died at 1 year of age – Black Springs Cemetery
2.) Frederick Clifton Gillespie 1887AR-1895 AR – died at 8 years of age
3.) Nellie Lecta Gillespie 1889AR – 1967AR (m.1905) Walter Eugene Womble +children
4.) Thomas Hamilton Gillespie 1891AR-1960CO (m.abt. 1918) Bessie L Robison +children
5.) Archie Roy Gillespie 1892AR-1959NM (m.abt.1916) Edna Pauline Harris +children
6.) Carrie Roberta Gillespie 1893AR-1933OK (m.1917OK) Henry C Beierschmitt +children
7.) Mary Luella Gillespie 1895AR-1915OK (m.1915OK) Henry C Beierschmitt – no children.

CHILD 5: ROBERT ALBERT LEE GUTHREY
1869 GA – 1943 AR
Spouse: Stella Justice

Most records list this son as Robert Lee except for one census record naming him as Albert L. Robert was born on 2 October 1869 in Cooper’s Gap, Georgia. He was listed on the 1870 and 1880 censuses with his family in Walker County, GA. By 1900 they had moved to Montgomery County, AR. At 30 years of age, he was still unmarried and working as a farm laborer on the family farm in Caddo. Prior to the 1910 census, Robert was married to Stella Justice. They had one son born in 1911. The couple continued to live in Montgomery County, AR. Both die within a few months of each other in 1943, Stella on 14 April and Robert on 25 November. They are buried at Black Springs Cemetery. Their son had been single and living at home while working as a service station attendant. He joined the US Army and moved to Gila County, Arizona. In 1950, Robert was working as a hospital ambulance driver. Dorothy Alice Paxton was a nurse at the same hospital. He married her 20 June 1950.

Guthrey Children: 1
Y-DNA Project Participants: NONE
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Ottis Lee Guthrey 1911AR – 1974AZ (m.1950AZ) Dorothy Alice Paxton +children

CHILD 6: OSCAR DEAN GUTHREY
1875 GA – 1943 AR
Spouse: Martha Bell Hendrix

The youngest of the Guthrey children was born in Cassandra, Walker, Georgia on 2 October 1875. He was 5 years old during the 1880 census when the family was still in Pond Spring. By 1900, they were in Caddo, Montgomery, Arkansas. Oscar worked as a farm laborer on the family farm. He married at 30 years old on 21 June 1906 to Martha Bell Hendrix with whom he had 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 24 August 1943 in Mariana, Lee, AR. Martha outlived him by 19 years. She died in July of 1962 in Rogers, Benton, Arkansas.

Guthrey Children: 4
Y-DNA Project Participants: NONE
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Nieta Leslie Guthrey 1907AR-1990AR (m.1925AR) Granville Dewey Anderson +children
2.) Cecil Carlow Guthrey 1915AR-1938AR (m.1934AR) Mamie Passmore +child
3.) Opal Pauline Guthrey 1919AR-1986AR (m1.1939AR/div.1957AR) Homer Ashburn +children, (m2.1962AR) Talbert Lee Cooper
4.) Oscar Dean ‘Buster’ Guthrey 1922AR-1972AR (m.1944AR) Mary Elizabeth Sherman +children

These are direct records created at or near the time of events, offering the highest reliability for births, marriages, deaths, residences, and occupations (primarily farmers in Georgia and Arkansas).

• U.S. Federal Census Records (accessed via FamilySearch, Ancestry, or similar platforms):
  • 1850 U.S. Census, Walker County, Georgia (William as a 24-year-old farmer living with parents in Lookout Valley).
  • 1850 U.S. Census, Carroll County, Georgia (Clementine with her family).
  • 1860 U.S. Census, Pond Springs, Walker County, Georgia (couple and early children).
  • 1870 U.S. Census, Fricks Gap, Walker County, Georgia.
  • 1880 U.S. Census, Pond Spring, Walker County, Georgia (last Georgia residence before move).
  • 1900 U.S. Census, Montgomery County, Arkansas (for some children/widow context post-move).
  • Later censuses (1910–1950) for descendants in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, etc., to trace family migration.
• Vital Records:
  • Marriage estimate: About 1853 in Georgia (no exact record cited; inferred from children’s births and censuses; check Georgia county marriage indexes for Walker/Carroll counties circa 1850–1855).
  • Death: William Olander Guthrey, October 1895, Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas (local death registers or probate if available; no statewide index pre-1914 in AR).
  • Death: Clementine Stewart Guthrey, November 1904, Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas (similarly, check county records).
  • Children’s vital events: Births (e.g., William Harrison Guthrey 12 Dec 1854 GA; delayed birth certificate for Clinta Elmore Guthrey 31 July 1896 AR issued 1942); marriages (e.g., William Harrison Guthrey to Martha Ovalene Fowler 27 Oct 1875 Rome, Floyd County, GA; to Ella Crumley 27 Oct 1898 Montgomery County, AR); deaths (e.g., Mary Elizabeth Mahaley Guthrey Gillespie 13 Oct 1940 Fort Smith, Sebastian County, AR from cerebral hemorrhage).
• Burial and Cemetery Records:
  • Black Springs Cemetery, Montgomery County, Arkansas (William’s burial confirmed; Clementine’s not listed on Find-a-Grave memorials; also contains several children/grandchildren like Mary Elizabeth, Robert Albert Lee Guthrey and wife Stella Justice).
• Newspaper Articles:
  • DeQueen Bee, Vol. 1, Issue 8, page 3 (23 July 1897) – article mentioning son W.H. Guthrie in an incident (provides contemporary Arkansas context after family move).

Secondary Sources

These compile or interpret primary records, often with analysis or family narratives.

BOOK: Reeder, Hazel Jones (1983) ‘The Family-Jones, Mason, and Maltby‘, Amarillo, Texas, Manufactured by Staked Plains Press, Canyon, Texas. Digital Repository: Family Search.
Included families: Jones, Mason, Maltby, Hensley, Reeder, Aderhold, Kendal, Gutherie, Cogburn, Keahey, Cobb, Shay. Note: Cannot be viewed online due to copyright restrictions.

• Find-a-Grave – Search Black Springs Cemetery for memorials (William confirmed; Clementine absent; useful for descendants).
• Georgia and Arkansas County/Archive Resources – Walker County, GA courthouse (1850s marriages/censuses); Montgomery County, AR records (post-1880 deaths/probate).