Guthrie Family Group 5 – Branch G
SAMFORD WILBURN GUTHRIE and MARY E ALBRITTON and NELLIE J BROWN
of Cobb and Fulton Counties, Georgia, and Blount County, Alabama, USA

SAMFORD WILBURN GUTHRIE
Parents: Henry Guthrie (1812GA-1855GA) and Manerva Lyon (1813GA-1896AL)
Birth: 8 or 18 May 1842
Birth Location: Georgia, USA – either in Cobb or Newton County
Marriage 1: Mary E Albritton on 23 Feb 1873 in Marshall County, AL, USA
Marriage 2: Nellie J (Brown) Barnes on 24 Jul 1910 in Blount County, AL, USA
Occupation: Day Laborer / Farm Laborer / Hotel Proprietor
Military Service: CSA – 7th Georgia Regiment, Company H, Capt. King – Rank: Private
Death: 26 April 1927
Death Location: Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama, USA
Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery, Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama, USA

MARY E ALBRITTON
Parents: Isaac Griffin Albritton and Judah L Sewell
Birth: 10 April 1846
Birth Location: Cobb County, Georgia, USA
1st Marriage: Samuel Paden about 1865
Paden Children: 2
Guthrie Children: 2
Death: 20 March 1910
Death Location: Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama, USA
Burial: Oak Hill Cemetery, Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama, USA

NELLIE J (BROWN) BARNES
Parents: David Brown and Celia (MNU)
Birth: February 1858
Birth Location: 1933
1st Marriage: John Barnes on 22 Jan 1878 in Clay County, AL, USA
Barnes Children: 1
Guthrie Children: None
Death: 2 January 1933
Death Location: Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial: Centre Methodist Cemetery, Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama, USA

NOTES:

There is a discrepancy regarding Samford Wilburn Guthrie’s exact DOB. He listed his birthdate as 8 May 1843. A letter read by Clara Ellis Kelton at the United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting Dec 1925 indicates that he was born in Covington, Newton, Georgia on 18 May 1842.

As a boy, Samford lived in Roswell, Cobb County, Georgia. In May 1861, he enlisted in the 7th Georgia Regiment as a private in Company H under Captain King. He continued to serve until he was captured in Virginia in the aftermath of the Battle of the Wilderness aka the Seven Days Battle, and carried to Point Lookout Prison in Maryland, where he remained for 4 months. Next transferred to Elmyra NY where he became sick and was given 60 days leave. The war ended while he was at home.

Note that census records list him as Samford and Samuel or Sam Guthrie. “His numerous friends called him Uncle Sam. Mr Guthrie once ran all kinds of country machinery, including an old time carder on a branch of the Warrior River near Rosa.”

Samford married Mary E (Albritton) Paden about 1873. They lived in Blount County, Alabama. Mary’s first marriage produced 2 sons, listed with her in the 1870 and 1880 censuses: William, 14, and John, 11. Sam and Mary had 2 children, daughter Ida and son Samuel Edward ‘Eddie’. After Mary’s death, Sam remarried to Nellie J (Brown) Barnes. During his latter years, Samford was a hotel proprietor in Oneonta, Blount, Alabama.

Guthrie Children: 2
Y-DNA Project Participants: NONE
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

CHILD 1: IDA L GUTHRIE
Born: 25 Aug 1874 AL – Died: 21 March 1944 NM @ Age: 69
Spouse: George Newton Ellis m. 22 September 1892 in Blount County, Alabama, USA
Ellis Children: Yes
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

Ida L Guthrie was born in Alabama, the eldest of Sam and Mary’s three children. She married George Newton Ellis, a son of Amos and Sarah (Coleman) Ellis, who were also in the hotel business. The Ellis Hotel in Oneonta was owned by Sam Guthrie, and later by Sam’s son-in-law, George Newton Ellis. Ida and George had two daughter, Clara and Ruby Pauline. On 21 March 1944, Ida (Guthrie) Ellis passed away at age 69. Her husband George outlived her by six years. He died on 5 January 1950. They are buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Oneonta, Blount, Alabama.

1.) Clara R Guthrie: 14 Jul 1893 AL – 20 Jul 1977 AL m.1915AL Robert Grover Kelton +child
2.) Ruby Pauline Guthrie: 1 Nov 1900 AL – 9 Jan 1976 m. 1958AL Troy Sylvester Morrow -no children

CHILD 2: SAMUEL EDWARD GUTHRIE aka “EDDIE”
Born: 16 Jan 1889 AL – Died: 24 Jan 1961 MO @ Age: 72
Spouse: Regina Mary Thurmure
Guthrie Children: NONE
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – No Descendants
Autosomal DNA Participants: N/A – No Descendants

“Samuel Edward Guthrie, 71, native and long-time resident of Blount County, died suddenly January 24 in St. Louis, Mo. Born at Guthrie’s Mill near Rosa, he was the son of the late Sam and Mary Allbritton Guthrie. Retired as a printing company employee, he was a Shriner, a member of the Methodist church, and a veteran of WWI. Surviving are the widow, mrs. Mary Regina Thurmure Guthrie; two nieces, Mrs. R. G. Kelton of Oneonta and Mrs T.S. Morrow of Cullman. Last rights will be held Friday in St. Louis.”

Sam worked in various occupations over the years. During the 1910 census of Oneonta, at 21 years of age and single, he was working as a merchant in a General store. By 1920, he had moved to St. Louis, Missouri and married Regina. He worked as a restaurant proprietor, and was still in that role ten years later. During the 1940 census, at 51, he was working for the City Hall Meter Department of the WPA as a Meter Checker. In 1950, he owned a Boarding House, but took up work in a local printing company after that.

Sam died in 1961 and Regina a year later. They are buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

READING and RESOURCES

ADVERTISEMENT: Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, 9 August 1888, page 3.
WOOL CARDING.
S.W. Guthrie of Dry Creek Beat, has had his wood carders fixed up in Tip-top Order, and invites everybody and their relations to bring on their Wool and have it put up in good rolls.
DO NOT HOLD BACK, BRING IT ON AT ONCE.
Note that this advertisement and others like it is published in monthly editions of the same paper for at least 2 years.

NEWSPAPER NOTICE: The Montgomery Advertiser, Friday, 3 January 1896, page 3.

NEWSPAPER NOTICE: Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, 23 January 1896, page 2.

SAME PAPER – NEXT PAGE: An advertisement for clothing at S.W. Guthrie & Co.

NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT: Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, 19 March 1896, page 3

NEWSPAPER NOTICE: Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, 25 June 1896, page 3.
“Mr S. W. Guthrie has the contract to carry the mail between Oneonta and Blountsville, for the next four years, and will make the first trip July 2d.”

PERSONAL SNIPPET: Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, 10 March 1898, page 3.
“We are sorry to learn that Mrs Austin South, of East Lake is seriously ill. She is a sister of Mrs. S. W. Guthrie, of Oneonta.”

PERSONAL SNIPPETS: Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, 21 April 1898, page 3.
“Mr W. A. Causey, of this vicinity, spent Sunday in town with Mr S. W. Guthrie and family”

“Mesdames S. W. Guthrie and A. M. South, who were thrown from a buggy and severely hurt, are convalescing.”

PERSONAL SNIPPET: Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, 26 January 1899, page 3.
“Mr George Ellis and family of Cleveland spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents, Mr and Mrs S. W. Guthrie.”

NEWSPAPER NOTICE: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 5 September 1901
“Mr S. W. Guthrie has taken charge of his Hotel on 1st Ave., and Mr. A.D. McKinney has moved into Mr Guthrie’s house on 2nd Street.”

PERSONAL SNIPPET: Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, 3 April 1902, page 3.
“Mr and Mrs S. W. Guthrie visited his sister Mrs Marion Nation, near Liberty, Tuesday.”

NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT: Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, 10 April 1902, page 3.
“FOR RENT. The large store house adjoining the Guthrie Hotel, recently occupied by De Lache & Co. Terms reasonable. — S.W. Guthrie, Oneonta.”

PERSONAL SNIPPET: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 10 October 1907, page 3.
“Mrs S.W. Guthrie attended the 88th birthday celebration of her father, Isaac Allbritton, near Warrior last week.”

NEWSPAPER NOTICE: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 14 November 1907, page 1.
” S.W. Guthrie, whose hotel was destroyed by fire last week, has rented the Darden hotel and his old boarders are “at home” with him again.”

PERSONAL SNIPPET: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 21 November 1908, page 1.

NEWSPAPER NOTICE: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 12 December 1907, page 1.
“S.W. Guthrie has let the contract for rebuilding his hotel to J. W. Alldredge and G.N. Ellis. it is to be a framed building and will contain twenty-three rooms. It is to be completed about March 1st.”

NEWSPAPER NOTICE: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 19 August 1909, page 1.
“S.W. Guthrie is placing lumber on his lot opposite his hotel and will put up a building which will be occupied by Dr. J.T. Stone as a drug store.”

NEWSPAPER NOTICE: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 24 March 1910, page 1.
“John Paden, of Jonesboro, attended the funeral of his mother, Mrs. S.W. Guthrie, Monday.”

OBITUARY of MARY E (ALLBRITTON) GUTHRIE: Alabama Christian Advocate, 28 July 1910

PERSONAL SNIPPET: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 16 January 1913, page 1.
“S.W. Guthrie and wife are spending a few days at their country home on Route 3, Oneonta.”

NEWSPAPER SNIPPET: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 6 Feb 1913, page 1
“Uncle S.W. Guthrie and wife are in from their country home. Mr Guthrie’s many friends will be sorry to learn that he has been quite sick for several days with pleurisy.”

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: The Decatur Daily, Tuesday, 25 January 1916, page 3.

PERSONAL SNIPPET: The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 27 May 1920, page 1
“Mrs S.W. Guthrie is with her father, David Brown, near Hendrick, who is still quite feeble.”

OBITUARY: JOSEPHUS P GUTHRIE – The Birmingham News, Friday, 27 April 1923

OBITUARY: J.P. GUTHRIE – The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 3 May 1923

OBITUARY: S.W. GUTHRIE DEAD – THE SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT, Thursday, 28 April 1927, Page 1

OBITUARY: MRS. NELLIE (BROWN/BARNES) GUTHRIE – The Southern Democrat, Thursday, 5 January 1933, page 1 – Newspapers.com