Guthrie Family Group 5 – Branch D
LEROY GUTHRIE 1823OH – 1862TN,
JANE HILL RULAND and HARRIET PRUDEN
of Ohio, Illinois, and Tennessee, USA

LEROY GUTHRIE
Parents: James C Guthrie 1795 GA – 1862 IA and Nancy Corn 1798 VA – 1857 IA
Birth: 7 October 1823
Birth Location: Ross County, Ohio, USA
Occupation: Miner (1850)
Military Service: Civil War Company A 18th Regiment Missouri Volunteers
Marriage 1: Jane Hill Ruland about 1847 in Calhoun County, Illinois, USA
Marriage 2: Harriet Pruden on 9 Feb 1854 at Calhoun County, Illinois, USA
Death: 6 April 1862
Death Location: Shiloh Battlefield, Hardin County, Tennessee
Burial: Shiloh National Military Cemetery in Hardin County, Tennessee

JANE HILL RULAND
Parents: Israel Ruland Jr 1800 MI – 1865 MO and Sarah Kaziah Burnett 1801PA – 1841MO
Birth: 9 April 1823
Birth Location: Ten Mile, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA
Guthrie Children: 2
Death: 11 February 1853
Death Location: Calhoun County, Illinois, USA
Burial: Unknown, presumably in Calhoun County, Illinois, USA

HARRIET PRUDEN
Parents: Jacob Pruden (or Prudhomme) 1795IL – 1840-49IL and Charlotte Cisko 1796IL – 1861 IL
Birth: 14 August 1829
Birth Location: Hardin, Calhoun County, Illinois, USA
Guthrie Children: 6
Death: 15 November 1911
Death Location: Lincoln, Johnson County, Nebraska, USA
Burial: Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, USA

NOTES:
Leroy Guthrie was born on 7 October 1823 in Ohio. He was a farmer’s son and grew up working the land. His family moved to Iowa about 1844 settling first in Jackson County, Iowa. Leroy ended up in Calhoun County, Illinois where he married Jane Hill Ruland, a daughter of Israel and Sarah (Burnett) Ruland. They had two children: Lindley H Guthrie, born in 1848, and Melissa Ann Guthrie, born in February 1850.

It appears that he may have been on the same journey west that ended in his brother Faulkner’s death on the north fork of the Platte River. The California Gold Rush (1848-1855) brought hundreds of thousands to California seeking their fortune. The 1850 census shows that Jane and her children were living in her father’s household. Leroy Guthrie, 28, and his brother-in-law, Lindley H Ruland, 24, were in Kelsey and Vicinity, El Dorado, California working as miners. They returned home having not struck it rich.

Sadly, Leroy may have been away from home when his 1-year old son Lindley H Guthrie died on 26 August 1849. Melissa’s birth may have been another surprise as she was born in February of 1850. The birth locations for both children are listed as Iowa.

On 11 Feb 1853, Jane (Ruland) Guthrie died at the age of 29. Her cause of death and burial location are unknown. Almost exactly one year later, on 9 Feb 1854, Leroy married Harried Pruden in Calhoun County, Illinois. They were living in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa during most of the children’s births, but moved to Liberty, Adair, Missouri by 1860. They had four sons: Asher James (1854), John Wesley (1857), Levi Leroy (1859), and Charles Anderson (1861).

Leroy served during the Civil War soldier having enlisted in Adair County, Missouri for a 3yr term. He was with Company A 18th Regiment Missouri Volunteers. He was killed at Pittsburg Landing during the Battle of Shiloh, and is buried at Shiloh National Military Cemetery in Hardin County, Tennessee.

After Leroy’s death, his wife Harriet applied for a widow’s pension. She kept house in Richwood, Calhoun, Illinois with her sons as they attended school and worked on the farm. The 1885 State Census of Nebraska shows Harriet living with her youngest son Charley in Wilson, Colfax, Nebraska. She was in Adams, Iowa in 1905, and when 80 years old during the 1910 census, Harriet was living with son Charles and family in North Bluff, Lancaster, Nebraska. She died at 82, on 15 Nov 1911 in Havelock, Lancaster, Nebraska and was buried in Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska.

Children: 6
Y-DNA Project Participants: YES
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

CHILD 1: LINDLEY H GUTHRIE
Born 28 July 1848 IA – Died 26 August 1849 IA

Lindley H Guthrie appears to be named after his maternal uncle, Lindley H Ruland, who accompanied his father to California during the Gold Rush. The boy’s death in 1849 may have occurred while his father Leroy was mining in California as he was there during the 1850 census.

CHILD 2: MELISSA ANN GUTHRIE
Born 17 February 1850 IA – Died 27 January 1897 MO
Spouse: James Orville Richey (Richie) on 6 February 1866 in Calhoun County, Illinois, USA

The only surviving child of Leroy Guthrie by his first wife, Jane Hill Ruland, daughter Melissa Ann Guthrie was born in Iowa on 17 Feb 1850. She was seven months old at the time of the 1850 census when she and her mother were living at the home farm of her paternal grandparents while Leroy and her uncle Lindley Ruland were in California’s El Dorado County during the Gold Rush.

If her birth year is correct, Melissa was just 15 years old on 6 February 1866 upon her marriage to James Orville Richey, just a few days shy of turning sixteen. They married in Calhoun County, Illinois and lived there through the 1880 census, and the majority of their eleven children were born there. James served during the Civil War as a soldier in Company E 14th Illinois Infantry. He survived the war and continued in his occupation of farming.

James Orville Richey died in January of 1892 in St Louis, Missouri. He is buried at Armstrong Cemetery in Fieldon, Jersey County, Illinois. Melissa died five years later in January of 1897 in St Louis, Missouri, She is interred there at Friedens Cemetery Mausoleum and Chapel.

Richey / Richie Children: 11
Y-DNA Project Participants: N/A – Female Guthrie
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Charles Lewis Richie: born about 1867 in Illinois – died after the 1880 census
2.) George LeRoy Richie 29 Apr 1869IL – 8 Apr 1922 MO (m1.1900) Cora Ann Guthrie (daughter of Asher James Guthrie & Fannie Jane Mortland) +child; (m2.1903) Ida Maude Cheatham +children
3.) John Harvey Richie: 1871 – 25 Oct 1906 CA – no further details
4.) Ida Eva Richie: 2 Nov 1873 IL – 2 Oct 1960 MO (m.1900) Charles Lazerth Hammerle +children
5.) Clarence James Richie: 6 Feb 1876 IL – 2 Jan 1957 CA (m.1915CA) Ethel Lee Hammond +children
6.) Lulu Melissa Richie: 3 Aug 1878 IL – 2 Aug 1919 MO (m.about 1900) George Waters +children
7.) Alice Myrtle Richie: 27 May 1880 IL – aft. 1880 – no further details
8.) Henry Orville Richie: 5 May 1881 IL – 2 Jan 1923 (m.) Linda Hernandez
9.) Joseph Cleveland Richie: 28 Jun 1884 NE – 5 Feb 1921 CA – no further details
10.) Perry Vincent Richie: 5 May 1886 IL – 24 Feb 1958 IL – unmarried
11.) Ruby May Richie: 25 Feb 1889 – 8 May 1974 MO (m.) George J Fink -no children

CHILD 3: ASHER JAMES GUTHRIE
Born 23 November 1854 IA or IL – Died 12 November 1930 FL
Spouse 1: Fannie Jane Mortland m. 22 November 1877 in Calhoun County, IL
Spouse 2: Mary Elizabeth Eddings m. about 1921

Asher James Guthrie was the first of Leroy’s children with his second wife Harriet Pruden. Sources differ on whether his birth on 23 November 1854 occurred in Iowa or Illinois. By 1860, the family was living in Liberty, Adair, Missouri. He attended school and no doubt worked on the family farm. The 1870 census places the family back in Calhoun County, Illinois.

On 20 November 1877, when he was 22 years old, Asher married Fannie Jane Mortland. She was 17. They lived in Hardin, Calhoun, Illinois throughout much of their marriage during which Asher worked as a farmer and carpenter. They had 8 children born between 1879 and 1894, two sons and six daughters. Fannie died on 21 March 1916 at only 55 years of age of arteriosclerosis complications. Her body was interred at Oak Grove Cemetery in Saint Charles, Missouri.

Asher remarried about 1921 to Mary Elizabeth Eddings, both of them in their 60s at the time. They moved to Tampa, Hillsborough, Florida by 1930. Asher worked as as a retail merchant in the grocery business. He died at the age of 75 in Tampa and was buried there at Orange Hill Cemetery.

Guthrie Children: 8
Y-DNA Project Participants: NONE
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Margaret May Guthrie: 4 Jul 1879 IL – 4 Nov 1975 IL (m1.1896IL) Chesley Wheeler Twichell +children, (m2) Edward Meyer
2.) Charles James Guthrie: 14 Apr 1881IL – 9 Jun 1951IL (m.) Sadie Ethel Tavernier +children
3.) Cora Ann Guthrie: 14 May 1882IL – 11 Feb 1963MO (m1.1900IL) George LeRoy Richie (see above) +child; (m2. abt. 1910MO) William Ely Williams.
4.) Bertha Jane Guthrie: 6 Jun 1885NE – 30 May 1960MO (m.abt.1905) Charles Willard Huffstutter +children
5.) Harriett Alice Guthrie: 25 Sep 1887NE – 15 May 1968 (m.1903IL) William Frederick Kraut +children
6.) Ralph Lee Guthrie: 6 Sep 1891IL – 3 May 1967 – no further info
7.) Myrtle Daisy Guthrie: 12 May 1892 NE – 18 Jan 1914 MO – died at 21 years old
8.) Catherine ‘Cassie’ A Guthrie: 1 Sep 1894MO – 25 Mar 1971MO (m.1916MO) Charles Simon Hafer +children

CHILD 4: JOHN WESLEY GUTHRIE
Born 20 December 1857 IA – Died 6 January 1948 in CA
Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Smith m. 8 April 1880 in Hardin, Calhoun County, Illinois, USA

John Wesley Guthrie was born in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa on 20 December 1857. His parents moved the family to Liberty, Adair, Missouri by the time of the 1860 census when John was still two years of age. They moved again before the 1870 census to Richwood, Calhoun County, Illinois by the time he was 12. He was attending school. Ten years later, John married Mary Elizabeth Smith on 8 April 1880. She was a daughter of William Wesley and Amanda Elizabeth (Carroll) Smith.

They remained in Calhoun County, Illinois during the birth of their children, 1 boy and 6 girls between 1881 and 1896. At the turn of the century, John and Mary settled in Missouri, first in DeSoto where John worked as a Day Laborer, and then by 1910 to Saint Louis where he worked as an Elevator Operator at a Wholesale Carpet House. Next, the family moved from Missouri to Los Angeles, California, in 1914. John worked as a flagman for the railroad.

On Sunday, 6 April 1930, The Los Angeles Times, published the announcement “Pair to Observe Golden Wedding” — Their golden wedding anniversary will be celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Guthrie, 3723-1/2 Revere avenue, at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, when 150 relatives and friends will gather at a reception in the Masonic clubrooms on Glendale Boulevard. John Wesley Guthrie and Mary Elizabeth Smith were married April 8, 1880, in Hardin, Ill. They have lived in California since 1914. Their children are Mrs. William Lawson Jones of Beverly Hills, Mrs Tilford L. Bennett, Mrs Charles E Hull of Villisca, Iowa; Mrs Lloyd L. Campbell and Mrs. Carol G. Jones.”

Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Guthrie died on 13 February 1945 in Los Angeles. She was 88. John Wesley Guthrie’s death occurred three years later on 6 January 1948 when he was 90 years old, also in L.A. They were interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.

Guthrie Children: 7
Y-DNA Project Participants: YES
Autosomal DNA Participants: YES

1.) Iene Elsa Guthrie: 9 Feb 1881 IL – 23 Mar 1971 CA (m.) William Lawson Jones +child
2.) William Leroy Guthrie: 25 May 1882 IL – 9 Nov 1959 CA (m.1904MO) Clara Dickason +children
3.) Laura Alma Guthrie: 19 Sep 1883 IL – 19 Aug 1972 CA (m.) Tilford Lin Bennett +children
4.) Zuba S Guthrie: 18 Mar 1885 IL or NE – 4 Feb 1969 CA (m.) Charles Edmond Hall +child
5.) Leta J Guthrie: 17 Nov 1891 IL – 18 May 1981 (m1.1912IL) Lloyd Lionel Campbell +children, (m2.) William H Parrish
6.) Christmas ‘Carol’ Guthrie: 25 Dec 1894 IL – 20 Apr 1981 CA (m1.1914CA) Frank Richard Jones +child; (m2.1934 CA) Clarence M Neuner
7.) Arline LeMar Guthrie: 18 Jun 1896IL – 27 Feb 1919CA (m.1915CA) Walter Wallace Mahr

CHILD 5: LEVI LEROY GUTHRIE
Born 21 January 1859 IA – Died 5 March 1933 KS
Spouse: Charlotte Lorinda Jackson

The third of second wife Harriet (Pruden) Guthrie’s four sons, Levi Leroy Guthrie was born in Fairfield, Iowa on 21 January 1859. His parents moved within the year to Liberty, Adair, Missouri. They moved again to Richwoods, Calhoun, Illinois where Levi attended school and worked on the home farm as a a farmhand. His marriage to Charlotte Lorinda Jackson came when he was 23 years old. Lottie was the daughter of Alma and Eliza Jane (Myers) Jackson from Leon, Decatur, Iowa.

Levi and Lottie remained in Decatur, Iowa until after the 1900 census. By that time, 6 of their 8 children had been born. By 1910, the family settled in Kansas where they continued farming. Lottie suffered a severe stroke on 23 September 1917, which left her an invalid. She survived for another five years, her death coming on (or about) 17 June 1922 in Natoma, Kansas. Levi died on 2 March 1933 in Elk City, Montgomery, Kansas. He is buried there at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Guthrie Children: 8
Y-DNA Project Participants: NONE
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) Ruby Lilly Guthrie: 27 Jan 1883 IA – 9 Jul 1962 MO (m.1902) Virgil Edgar Adams +children
2.) Nellie Dora Guthrie: 29 Jul 1887 NE – 15 May 1957 TX (m.1914) Arthur Hugh Allison +child
3.) Pearl Alma “Paul” Guthrie: 27 Mar 1890 NE – 21 Nov 1964 WA (m1.1909KS) Nancy Ruble +child; (m2.1931OK) Ida M (Wright) Miller
4.) Rose Harriet Guthrie: 12 Jan 1893 IA – 3 May 1974OR (m1.1911) Ivan Victor Harris +children; (m2.1934 CO) John Kukoski +children
5.) Rhoda Bena Guthrie: 12 Jan 1893 IA – 14 Aug 1971 KS (m.1913) Alba Francis Shurley +children
6.) Ethel Golda Guthrie: 22 Aug 1896 IA – 5 Sep 1980 CO (m.1915IA) Donald Franklin McColl +children
7.) Edith Esther Guthrie: 27 Feb 1902 IA – 4 Oct 1976 NM (m.1922) Roy Clayton Kuykendall +children
8.) Gladys Bessie Guthrie: 11 Jan 1905 IA – 22 Sep 1962 OR (m.1923CO) Chesla Morgan Cheyvront +children

CHILD 6: CHARLES ANDERSON GUTHRIE
Born 20 February 1861 MO – Died 6 June 1944 CA
Spouse: Luela Payton

The youngest son of the family, Charles Anderson Guthrie, was born in Sullivan, Missouri on 20 February 1861. His family moved to Richwoods, Calhoun, Illinois by 1870. At 9, he attended school during that census year. During the 1880 census in Richwoods, Charles was 19 and working on the family farm. His marriage to Luella Payton was on 25 February 1886. He was 25. She was 18. They had 4 sons and 4 daughters born between 1886 and 1908. They moved from Iowa to Nebraska to Colorado to California. Charles died in Pasadena on 6 June 1944. Luella lived another four years. Her death came on 12 June 1948 in Covina, Los Angeles, California.

Guthrie Children: 8
Y-DNA Project Participants: NONE
Autosomal DNA Participants: NONE

1.) George Leroy Guthrie: 23 Oct 1886 NE – 29 Aug 1968 MO (m1.1912) Madge Alice Wilhelm +children; (m2.) Stella (Cada) Mrsny McWilliams
2.) Vernon Hamilton Guthrie: 28 Oct 1889 NE – 25 Aug 1951 CA (m.1912) Helen Irene Byce +children
3.) Walter Anderson Guthrie: 3 Apr 1891NE – Jun 1977 MO (m.1913) Mildred L Wilhelm +children
4.) Florence Luella Guthrie: 20 May 1896 IA – 12 Nov 1967 CA (m.1918CO) John Albert McAnlis +children
5.) Ruth Harriet Guthrie: 23 Jan 1899 IA – 24 Jun 1988 CA (m.1917KS) Howard H Sterrett +children
6.) Bessie Estella Guthrie: 28 Mar 1901 IA – 25 Dec 1966 WA (m.1920CO) Asahel D Hinshaw +children
7.) Ira David Guthrie: 7 Aug 1903 IA – 28 Feb 1987 CA (m.) Carolyn Hilding +child
8.) Dorothy Della Guthrie: 16 Mar 1908 NE – 25 Jan 1982 CA (m.1929CA) Arthur H Rheingans

READING and RESOURCES

Research Locations:
Jefferson County, Iowa, USA
Calhoun County, Illinois, USA
Adair County, Missouri, USA

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

WEBSITE: Shiloh National Cemetery (National Park Service)
Shiloh National Cemetery History
Shiloh National Cemetery Map
Shiloh National Cemetery Search (Note: Leroy Guthrie is not found.)

DOCUMENT: Adjutant General’s Office, 6 June 1864 – Pension No 52,786 (Original Image)
Adjutant General’s Office
Washington, D. C.,
June 6th 1864

Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt from your Office of application for Pension No. 52,786, and to return it, herewith, with such information as is furnished by the files of this Office.

It appears from the Rolls on file in this Office, that Leroy Guthrie was enrolled on the 2nd day of July, 1861, at Adair Co. in Co. A, 18th Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, to serve 3 years, or during the war, and mustered into service as a Corporal on the 14th day of November 1861, at Camp Morgan Mo, in Co. A, 18th Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, to serve 3 years, or during the war. On the Muster Roll of Co. A of that Regiment, for the months of March & April, 1862, he is reported “Killed in the Battle of Pittsburg April 6th 1862.”

I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Saml. Leek
Assistant Adjutant General

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

DOCUMENTS: Jefferson County, Iowa – Land Records, 1839-1932
General Index and Deed Book films at Family Search are locked to routine online access. Must be at the FHC or associated library.

DOCUMENTS: Calhoun County, Illinois – Deed Records, 1825-1926
General Index and Deed Book films at Family Search are locked to routine online access. Must be at the FHC or associated library.

DOCUMENTS: Adair County, Missouri – Deeds, 1841-1888
FHL 007903268: Deed Index v. 0 – 1 1841 – 1870
Abstract and Index of Deeds – Letter G Grantor Index – begins IMG 45 of 536
IMG 50: Guthrie James G and Guthrie, Wm to Alex Young et al – Deed – 20 Apr 1859 – Book H 254
Abstract and Index of Deeds – Letter G Grantee Index – begins IMG 170 of 536
IMG 174: Guthrie, JG and Guthrie, Wm from Henry F Dotson – Deed – 31 Jan 1859 – Book H 198