Guthrie Family Group 5 – Branch D
FAULKNER GUTHRIE
c1821 OH – c1850 NE

FAULKNER GUTHRIE
Parents: James C Guthrie 1795 GA – 1862 IA and Nancy Corn 1798 VA – 1857 IA
Birth: About 1821
Birth Location: Mercer County, Ohio, USA
Military Service: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Death: 1851
Death Location: Platte River, which is a major waterway in Nebraska

Children: None Known
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – No Known Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Known Descendants

NOTES:
There are discrepancies with the estimate for Faulkner Guthrie’s birth year. If he was the oldest son he would have been born 1817-1820. If not the first, he could have been born 1821-1825 or 1825-1830. There is no data on his marriage, and he does not appear in the 1850 census.

Faulkner apparently drowned in north fork of the the Platte River (probably in Nebraska) on his way to California in 1851. The California Gold Rush hit in 1849, so that is a likely cause for his journey.

READING and RESOURCES

BOOK: Hedge, Manoah (1906) Past and Present of Mahaska County, Iowa: together with biographical sketches of many of its prominent and leading citizens and illustrious dead. Digital Repository: Internet Archive.
Biographical Sketch of Rev. James D Guthrie and family, pp.411-413

ARTICLE: ‘The Journal of Jane Holbrook Gould – Iowa to California in 1862‘ Annals of Iowa, Edited by Philip K Lack, State Historical Society of Iowa.
Note: An interesting look at a journey taken in the same direction Faulkner Guthrie potentially took on his way from his home in Iowa to California, his ending tragically at the beautifully described Platte River area.

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