Guthrie Family Group 5 – Branch C
Rev. Orin Guthrie (1804KY – 1854TX) & Nancy Boyd & Eliza Jane Davis
of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas, USA

THE FAMILY of REV. ORIN GUTHRIE, NANCY BOYD & ELIZ JANE DAVIS

REV. ORIN GUTHRIE
Parents: Shadrick Guthry (1772SC – 1850MS) and Malinda Badley
Birth: 28 October 1804
Location: Kentucky, USA
Marriage 1st: Nancy Boyd on 20 Jan 1827 in Hardeman County, TN
Marriage 2nd: Elizabeth Jane Davis on 23 Jan 1829 in Hardeman County, TN
Occupation: Primitive Baptist Minister and farmer/rancher
Death: 9 October 1854 @ 49 years of age
Location: Lavaca County, Texas, USA
Burial: Mount Olive, Lavaca County, Texas, USA

NANCY BOYD
Parents: Unidentified
Birth: Unknown, presumably 1805-1811
Location: Unknown, possibly in Hardeman County, TN
Guthrie Children: None
Death: 1827-1828
Location: Hardeman County, TN
Burial: Unknown, presumably in Hardeman County, TN

ELIZABETH DAVIS (Biographical Sketch)
Parents: Daniel Davis and Elizabeth Davidson
Birth: 15 May 1815
Location: Bedford County, Tennessee, USA
Guthrie Children: 4
Marriage 2nd: John McKinney on 6 June 1855 Lavaca, Texas, USA
Death: 23 Mar 1892 @ 76 years of age
Location: Charco, Goliad, Texas, USA
Burial: Mount Olive, Lavaca, Texas, USa

NOTES:

Orin Guthrie, the son of Shadrick and Malinda Guthry, was born on 28 Oct 1804 in Kentucky. He was a minister in the Primitive Baptist Church and a farmer/rancher. Orin married first to Nancy Boyd on 20 Jan 1827 in Hardeman County, Tennessee. No children. She must have died within a year or two of their marriage. Her cause of death is unknown. Orin remarried on 23 Jan 1829, also in Hardeman, to Elizabeth Davis. Most of the Davis family moved to Texas, but Orin and Elizabeth, along with one of her brothers, settled in Mississippi. Between 1841-1850 the family moved to Lavaca County, Texas where they bought land from the Davis family. Orin Guthrie died there 9 Oct 1854. His widow, Elizabeth, lived until 23 Mar 1892 passing away in Charco, Goliad, Texas.

GUTHRIE CHILDREN: 4
Y-DNA Project Participants: YES
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

CHILD 1: ELIZABETH JANE GUTHRIE
Born 1831 KY – Died 1910 TX
Spouse: Wesley F Vick m. about 1847

Elizabeth Jane Guthrie was born on 31 January 1831 in Kentucky. Her parents moved to Mississippi where she married at a young age, reportedly at 16 in 1846 to Wesley F Vick. He was a son of Rev. Richard and Mary Vick. The Guthrie and Vick families moved to the Republic of Texas settling in Lavaca County where the Davis family had moved. They lived and farmed near Hallettsville. The biographical sketch (see below) on the Guthrie and Vick families mentions only six children, but census records show ten. Wesley was a Confederate Soldier during the Civil War. ‘Mrs E J Vick’ was approved a widow’s pension in 1899.

Vick Children: 10
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Eliza Jane Vick: 3 Jun 1848TX – 8 Apr 1902 TX (m.1856TX) Franklin Marion McMurray +children
2.) Mary Frances Vick: 29 May 1850TX – 19 Jul 1931TX (m.1868TX) James Davis +children
3.) Cynthia Ann Vick: 9 Feb 1852TX – 25 Aug 1918TX (m.1868TX) James Arthur Goode +children
4.) Texana Vick: 1 Jan 1855TX – 16 Oct 1915TX (m.1870TX) Joseph McCord +children
5.) Georgia Annie Vick: 7 Jan 1856TX – 11 Nov 1894TX (m.1878TX) John P Fitch +children
6.) Oran Richard Vick: 31 Jan 1859TX – 12 Jun 1948TX (m.1877TX) Martha Elizabeth Harper +children
7.) Jefferson Davis Vick: 14 Dec 1861TX-1937TX (m1.1882TX) WA Strickling, (m2.1886TX) Rosie Hollan +children
8.) Sarah Vick: 5 Mar 1866TX – 7 Nov 1948 (m.1885TX) Patton McCord +children
9.) John Wesley Vick: 27 Dec 1867TX – 14 Jan 1941TX (m.1890TX) Dora Ella McCullough +children
10.) Carrie Vick: 26 Dec 1869TX – 2 Sep 1958TX (m.1885TX) Charles S Riggs +children

CHILD 2: WILLIAM DAVIS GUTHRIE
Born 1831 KY – Died 1860 TX
Spouse: (m.1853TX) Martha Ann Elizabeth Culpepper m. 1853 in Texas

William Davis Guthrie was the only son of Rev Orin Guthrie and wife Elizabeth Davis McKinney. He was born in Kentucky, moved to Mississippi with his family in his youth, and then to Texas. He was 19 and living at home in Lavaca during the 1850 census. He married Martha Ann Elizabeth Culpepper, daughter of Frank and Eglantine (Langley) Culpepper on 10 Feb 1853 in Lavaca County, Texas. They had one son born in 1858 named William Francis Guthrie.

William Davis Guthrie was a farmer. The 1860 census lists him with $700 worth of real estate and a personal estate worth $800. Unfortunately, he had a short life. He died later that year on 9 Oct 1860 at only 29 years of age.

His widow, Martha, remarried on 2 Jul 1861 in Sweet Home, Lavaca, TX to William’s cousin, Shadrick Marion Guthrie. They lived in Lavaca, Baylor, and Wichita. Their family consisted of 5 sons and 1 daughter: Stonewall Jackson Guthrie, Shadrack Marion Guthrie Jr, James J Guthrie, Edgar Ardnee Guthrie, Ninevah Irene Guthrie, and Lemuel Guthrie.

Guthrie Children (by WDG): 1
Guthrie Children (by SMG): 6
Y-DNA Project Participants: YES
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) William Francis Guthrie: 9 May 1858TX – 21 Dec 1933TX (m.1877TX) Martha ‘Mollie’ Elizabeth Kate Edgar +children

CHILD 3: MARY ANN GUTHRIE
Born 1839 KY – Died 1862 TX
Spouse: Daniel F Culpepper m. 1855 in Lavaca County, Texas

Mary Ann Guthrie was born about 1839 in Kentucky. She was listed as being only 10 in the 1850 census, so her birthday was likely in the second half of the year. She was a young bride at about 16 years old on 16 Aug 1855 in Lavaca County, TX when she married Daniel F Culpepper. He was a son of Frank & Eglantine Culpepper making this the second Culpepper marriage in the family (see above). Mary Ann gave birth to 5 known children, and died in 1862. She was buried in Mount Olive Cemetery in Lavaca. Mary Ann was only 23 at her death.

Daniel Culpepper remarried to Zilpha L Reeder on 18 Sep 1872 in Lavaca County, TX. They had 1 son and 6 daughters together: Eglantine Culpepper, Blanche Culpepper, Margaret Culpepper, Cynthia Jane Culpepper, Ira G Culpepper, Ida Gertrude Culpepper, and Winnie Bell Culpepper.

Culpepper Children (by Mary Ann): 5
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) William Richard Culpepper: 9 or 19 Sep 1856 – 1857 (bef. 1860)- died in infancy or early childhood
2.) Martha Ann Elizabeth Culpepper: 14 Feb 1858TX – 13 Dec 1950TX (m1.1876TX) Obadiah Lamar McGinty +children; (m2.1889TX) Cicero W Nichols +children
3.) James M Culpepper: 1860TX – 1861TX – died in infancy
4.) A. Culpepper: 1861TX – 1864TX – died in early childhood
5.) Mary Ann Culpepper: 13 Mar 1862TX – 20 Aug 1892TX (m.1877TX) William Jackson Thames +children

CHILD 4: CYNTHIA ANN GUTHRIE
Born 1841 MS – Died 1881 TX
Spouse: John Thomas Jefferson Culpepper m.1855 in Lavaca County, Texas

The youngest child in the family was Cynthia Ann Guthrie, born in Mississippi on 10 September 1841. The family moved to Lavaca, Texas before she was ten years old. The 1850 census lists her as 8 years old. Her father, Rev. Orin Guthrie, died in 1854, which may have been one reason why Cynthia was married the next year at only 13 years of age to John Thomas Jefferson Culpepper. He was 27 at the time of their marriage, and another of the Culpepper children of Frank and Eglantine (Langley) Culpepper.

John and Cynthia had 13 children. They resided in Lavaca County the remainder of their lives. They farmed and raised sheep. Cynthia died in 1881 and John in 1902. They were buried at Mount Olive Cemetery in Lavaca County, Texas.

Culpepper Children: 13
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Francis Orren Culpepper: 10 Mar 1856TX – 1 May 1932OK (m.1877TX) Elizabeth J Richardson +children
2.) Benjamin Franklin Culpepper: 14 Oct 1857TX – 9 Jun 1896TX (m.1892TX) Johnnie Hester Cudd
3.) Joseph Washington Culpepper: 14 Apr 1859TX-11 Apr 1942TX (m.1893TX) Laura Culpepper +children
4.) Eliza Jane Culpepper: 30 Jan 1861TX – 23 Mar 1956TX (m.1879TX) James Allen Richardson +children
5.) Cynthia Ann Culpepper: 11 Feb 1862TX-27 Jan 1943CA (m.1880TX) Robert Sylvester Walker +children
6.) William Guthrie Culpepper: 12 Jun 1863TX-2 May 1954TX (m1.1900TX) Anna Lee Standard; (m2.1910 TX) Laura Ethel Stewart
7.) Daniel J.D. Culpepper: 25 May1866TX – 1888TX – died at 22 years of age – unmarried
8.) Katie Belle Culpepper: 4 Sep 1869TX – 1950TX (m.1890TX) James Fred Conner +children
9.) Robert Lee Culpepper: 24 Mar 1872TX-19Mar 1862CA (m.1897TX) Mae Conner Middlebrook +children
10.) Noah Cleburn Culpepper: 28 Apr 1875TX-28 Sep 1950TX (m.1905) Annie Sophia Kohleffel +children
11.) James Lewis Culpepper: 4 Jan 1877TX – 14 Sep 1949 (m.1896TX) Ollie Emma Dykes +children
12.) Hattie Lee Culpepper: 30 Mar 1879TX – 27 Aug 1964TX (m.1898TX) Robert Nicholas Key -no children;
13.) John Culpepper: Sep 1881 TX – Oct 1881 TX – died in infancy

READING and RESOURCES

BOOK: Jillson, Willard Rouse (1925) The Kentucky Land Grants – A Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky 1782 – 1924, 1 Volume in 2 Parts. Digital Repository: Family Search.
p.823 Grants West of Tennessee River
Guthry, Shadrick – 160A – Book 2 – p.171 – NW Qr Sec 34 – T1 R3 W
Guthrie, Shadrack – 160 A – Book 3 – p.30 – NW Qr Sec 25 – T2 R2 E
Guthrie, Wm – 160A – Book 3 – p.31 – NW Qr Sec 25 – T2 R2 E
Guthrie, Shadrick – 160A – Book 3 – p.258 – SW Qr Sec 25 – T2 R2 E
Guthrie, Owen – 160A – Book 3 – p.260 – SW Qr Sec 36 – T3 R1 E
Guthry, Orin – 160A – Book 5 – p.30 – SE Qr Sec 36 – T3 R1 E
Guthry, Orin – 160 – Book 6 – p.117 – SE Qr Sec 25 – T2 R2 E
(There are other Guthrie entries in this book.)

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of ELIZABETH DAVIS GUTHRIE MCKINNEY:
Elizabeth Davis Guthrie McKinney, Written by her daughter Johnnie Elizabeth McKinney Thornton for the DAR and published in the History of Gonzales County, Texas. Digital Repository: sonsofdewittcolony.org

HISTORICAL TIMELINE: GONZALES COUNTY, TEXAS.

WEBSITE: Gonzales County Texas Genealogy & History Network

HISTORICAL SKETCH: VICK and GUTHRIE FAMILIES
Written by Ruth Johnson Stuckey for the History of Gonzales County, Texas.

LAWSUIT (SUPREME COURT of TEXAS): W.D. Guthrie v. Orin Guthrie’s Admins
Reports of Cases Argued by the Texas Supreme Court, p.541-544. Digital Repository: Google Books.

WEBSITE: Texas Land and Property

DOCUMENTS: Lavaca County, Texas, 1846-1886, and General Index
All Locked to Regular Online Access – Must be accessed at FHL or associated center.

DOCUMENTS: Lavaca County, Texas, 1881-1921 and General Index 1889-1921
FHL 005845773 – General Index of Deeds, v. CA, 1889-1897
Letter G Index Begins IMG 120 of 255 thru 135 of 255
Vol 9 – 250: Guthrie, D M – Deed – from P W Huddleston & wife
Vol 9 – 349: Guthrie, W F – Deed – from R B Allen
Vol 9 – 483: Guthrie, D M – Deed – to Aug. Hattenback
Vol 10 – 22: Guthrie, E & R E L – Deed – to J L Culpepper
Vol 12 – 781: Guthrie, Wm – Deed – from W F Vick & wife
Vol 15 – 619: Guthrie, W F – Release – from R B Allen
Vol 15 – 623: Guthrie, W F & wife – Deed – to Jas Hranitzky
Vol 16 – 708: Guthrie & Webb – Deed – from A. May
Vol 17 – 513: Guthrie, S M Jr – Deed – to F P Webb
Vol 19 – 643: Guthrie, SM Jr – Deed – from A Gilmer & wife

DOCUMENTS: Lavaca County, Texas Probate Minutes, 1846-1916
All Locked to Regular Online Access – Must be accessed at FHL or associated center.

DOCUMENTS: Civil Court Minutes, Lavaca County, Texas
Film FHL 005852866 – Index to Civil Minutes, v. A Case 1 – 4913, 1847-1912
Letter G Index Begins IMG 87 of 332
Direct Index to Minutes
P = Plaintiffs; D = Defendants; MB = Minute Book/Page; PJ = Page of Judgment Entry
Final No. 117: P: Guthrie, Geo. W & wife; D: Jesse L Sanders; MB: A – 165; PJ: 165
Final No. 178: P: Guthrie, Geo W; D: Robb A Sandford; MB:A – 207; PJ 207
Final No. 224: P: Guthrie, W E; D: William Goode; MB: A-237; PJ 237
Final No. 401: P: Guthrie, W D, et al; D: John McKenney et al; MB: A-485; PJ: 485
Final No. 480: P: Guthrie, W E; D: J T J Culpepper; MB A-539; PJ 539
Final No. 489: P: Guthrie, W D et al; D: John McKinley & wife adms; MB: B-53; PJ: 53
Final No. 2779: P: Guthrie, SM Sr; D: WH Brewer; MB: K-417; PJ-417
Reverse Index to Minutes
P = Plaintiffs; D = Defendants; MB = Minute Book/Page; PJ = Page of Judgment Entry
Final No. 13: D: Guthrie, Geo W, et al; P: State of Texas; MB: A-15; PJ:15
Final No. 15: D: Guthrie, Geo W; P: State of Texas; MB: A-13; PJ:13
Final No. 25: D: Guthrie, Geo W; P: State of Texas; MB: A-67; PJ: 67
Final No. 161: D: Guthrie, Geo W & wife; P: C Ballard & Co; MB: A-194; PJ: 194
Final No. 292: D: Guthrie, Geo W et al; P: Alexis Tucker agent; MB: A-399; PJ: 399
Final No. 349: D: Guthrie, Wm D; P: John McKinney & Wife adms; MB: A-447; PJ: 447
Final No. 376: D: Guthrie, Wm D; P: Wm Shuford; MB: A-438; PJ: 438
Final No. 479: D: Guthrie, W D, et al; P: John McKinney & wife adms; MB: A-539; PJ: 539
Final No. 492: D: Guthrie, Wm E, et al; P: W G Randall & Co; MB: B-14; PJ: 14
Final No. 1999: D: Guthrie, Dan; P: State of Texas; MB: F-428; PJ: 428
Final No. 3622: D: Guthrie, S M Jr; P: State of Texas; MG: L-453; PJ: 453

DOCUMENTS: District Court Minutes, 1847-1940, Lavaca County, Texas
These films correspond to the linked cases above. Digital Repository: Family Search
District Court Minutes, v. A, 1847-1857 – FHL 005852851
District Court Minutes, v. B, 1857-1863 – FHL 005852852
District Court Minutes, v. F, 1875-1879 – FHL 005852856
District Court Minutes, v. K, 1891-1898 – FHL 005852856
District Court Minutes, v. L, 1898-1902 – FHL 005852861

DOCUMENTS: Minutes, 1847-1912, Lavaca County, Texas
All Locked to Regular Online Access – Must be accessed at FHL or associated center.

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