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From Mary Gray May's "Guthery Family of Greene County Pennsylvania" book..................
WILLIAM GUTHERY AND HIS WIFE LUCINDA CLEVELAND GUTHERY
Directly across from the old home of John Dever Guthery, Sr., who was the second son of Joseph and Hannah Dever Guthery, in Bowling Green township, Marion County, Ohio, is an old cemetery - the Guthery Cemetery, where many Gutherys and their kin lie. Once, just adjoining this cemetery, a church stood, and next to it a store, and on down the line other buildings, making a village that was called Parr Town. It did not flourish because, when LaRue was settled with its railroad and outlet to markets, Parr Town died utterly. But once it was center for township trade. In the Baptist Church there Silas Cleveland was pastor. He had several children and one daughter was Lucinda Manville, who was married to William Guthery. His father, Joseph Guthery, lived two or three miles down the road toward New Bloomington, on the bank of Rush Creek, in what was known as the Old Homestead. William was twenty-two when they were married, on August 4, 1839, and Lucinda was twenty. It is likely they went housekeeping in a log house, though another, a frame house, many years later was pointed out to their little granddaughter by her mother, who was their oldest daughter, as the house where she lived when she was a little girl - until she was twelve years old. The house was about two or three miles from Parr Town, on the same road as the Old Homestead, but on a curve that leads to New Bloomington, Ohio. It was a simple house that owed its charm to an open porch, with wings of the house on each side, and an upper balcony. A lane began at the road and sank to a lower level to reach the house in a hollow. Trees were at the front and an orchard behind. They lived here for about fifteen years, then William wanted more land so he sold the farm and bought another on the banks of Paw Paw Creek not far from Marseilles, Ohio. It was beautiful country, wooded and slightly hilly and the soil very productive. In later years John Dever Guthery Jr., William's youngest son, owned a farm about two miles beyond, toward Marseilles, and it was inherited by his daughters, Gladys Crim, Lois Weinman and Marie Fran
There were fine pastures and William raised livestock to sell and bought others to sell. He was becoming more and more prosperous and one of the leading young farmers of his county. His brother, John Dever Guthery, Sr. often said he was the best business man of the three brothers. He took an active part in politics, being an ardent Democrat, as all the Gutherys then were. His daughter, Elizabeth, rode beside him on her dun colored mare, Vesta, while, with the red sash of the marshal of the day, worn from shoulder to waist, he headed the procession on political rally day. There was a close friendship between them. They understood each other; she was his oldest living child and constant companion. He talked to her about his business, and she learned from him a love of animals and the outdoors, and an understanding of managing a farm. They looked alike. A picture of him shows him to have had wide open gray eyes far apart, hair worn long and turned under as was the fashion of the day, close lips and a handsome nose. He wore no beard. He looks very serious and dignified, but his son John Dever Jr., remembered how his father played with him and how he trotted him on his knee, singing songs that came out of his head as he went along. One of them was:
I looked in a book and what did I see!
A pretty little boy upon my knee.
Lucinda Cleveland Guthery was a gentle, amiable young mother, never known to lose her temper, so John Guthery Sr. said. She had a fine family background, being a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford of the Mayflower, Governor of the Plymouth Colony for thirty-six years, and leader of his people, and of his son William, Major and Deputy-Governor of the Plymouth Colony. She belonged to the same line of descent as President Grover Cleveland, their common ancestor being the pioneer Moses Cleveland, of Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1635. Another discendant of the first Moses was that Moses who founded Cleveland, Ohio. The four sons of the first Moses, with Major James Fitch, another ancestor of Lucinda's, opened up lands in Eastern Connecticut and made settlements at Plainfield and Canterbury. Major Fitch was a great grandson of Sir Thomas Fitch of Bocking parish, Essex County, England. (See Cleveland family history.) Her father, the Reverend Mr. Silas Hall Cleveland, was an active member of his community, not only as a pastor but in civic affairs. He was the first Justice of the Peace in Bowling Green township, Marion County, Ohio.
Their future in a material way looked very bright and then, in the flower of his manhood, at forty-six years of age, William Guthery died. The oldest daughter, Elizabeth, was twenty-one, the oldest son, Isaac Frazier, named for his uncle, was fourteen, while William James and John Dever Jr. were but seven and five respectively. It is a terrible handicap to a boy to grow up without a good father. These boy children grew up useful and good men. It was a hard pull for the mother. She devoted her life to her children. Besides managing the farm she made their clothing from the wool off the backs of their own sheep. She carded it and wove it, made their shirts, stockings and socks. She had a loom upstairs and carried a kettle of coals up with her to keep her feet warm while she sat weaving. They grew almost all they ate and had their meat from their own farm animals; money was scarce during the Civil War and she earned some by weaving hats of rye straw. Nine years after they moved to this farm she had to take over alone and she bravely struggled on for almost sixteen years, dying at the home of her son Isaac at the age of sixty years. She and her husband lie with other Gutherys in the Guthery Cemetery at what was once Parr Town. For Lucinda's family record see the history of the Cleveland family. Included in this account is a fragment of a large treatise consisting of three volumes on the Clevelands of America, from which has been taken the family line herein given.
Children of William and Lucinda Cleveland Guthery: Elizabeth, Hannah, Joseph, Rachel, Isaac Frazier Jr., Lydia Louise, Minerva Jane, Susan Emily, William James and John Dever Jr.Both William and Lucinda Cleveland Guthery are buried in the Guthery (Parr Town) Cemetery, Bowling Green Township, Marion County, Ohio.
From Mary Gray May's "Guthery Family of Greene County Pennsylvania" book..................WILLIAM GUTHERY AND HIS WIFE LUCINDA CLEVELAND GUTHERY
Directly across from the old home of John Dever Guthery, Sr., who was the second son of Joseph and Hannah Dever Guthery, in Bowling Green township, Marion County, Ohio, is an old cemetery - the Guthery Cemetery, where many Gutherys and their kin lie. Once, just adjoining this cemetery, a church stood, and next to it a store, and on down the line other buildings, making a village that was called Parr Town. It did not flourish because, when LaRue was settled with its railroad and outlet to markets, Parr Town died utterly. But once it was center for township trade. In the Baptist Church there Silas Cleveland was pastor. He had several children and one daughter was Lucinda Manville, who was married to William Guthery. His father, Joseph Guthery, lived two or three miles down the road toward New Bloomington, on the bank of Rush Creek, in what was known as the Old Homestead. William was twenty-two when they were married, on August 4, 1839, and Lucinda was twenty. It is likely they went housekeeping in a log house, though another, a frame house, many years later was pointed out to their little granddaughter by her mother, who was their oldest daughter, as the house where she lived when she was a little girl - until she was twelve years old. The house was about two or three miles from Parr Town, on the same road as the Old Homestead, but on a curve that leads to New Bloomington, Ohio. It was a simple house that owed its charm to an open porch, with wings of the house on each side, and an upper balcony. A lane began at the road and sank to a lower level to reach the house in a hollow. Trees were at the front and an orchard behind. They lived here for about fifteen years, then William wanted more land so he sold the farm and bought another on the banks of Paw Paw Creek not far from Marseilles, Ohio. It was beautiful country, wooded and slightly hilly and the soil very productive. In later years John Dever Guthery Jr., William's youngest son, owned a farm about two miles beyond, toward Marseilles, and it was inherited by his daughters, Gladys Crim, Lois Weinman and Marie Fran
There were fine pastures and William raised livestock to sell and bought others to sell. He was becoming more and more prosperous and one of the leading young farmers of his county. His brother, John Dever Guthery, Sr. often said he was the best business man of the three brothers. He took an active part in politics, being an ardent Democrat, as all the Gutherys then were. His daughter, Elizabeth, rode beside him on her dun colored mare, Vesta, while, with the red sash of the marshal of the day, worn from shoulder to waist, he headed the procession on political rally day. There was a close friendship between them. They understood each other; she was his oldest living child and constant companion. He talked to her about his business, and she learned from him a love of animals and the outdoors, and an understanding of managing a farm. They looked alike. A picture of him shows him to have had wide open gray eyes far apart, hair worn long and turned under as was the fashion of the day, close lips and a handsome nose. He wore no beard. He looks very serious and dignified, but his son John Dever Jr., remembered how his father played with him and how he trotted him on his knee, singing songs that came out of his head as he went along. One of them was:
I looked in a book and what did I see!
A pretty little boy upon my knee.
Lucinda Cleveland Guthery was a gentle, amiable young mother, never known to lose her temper, so John Guthery Sr. said. She had a fine family background, being a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford of the Mayflower, Governor of the Plymouth Colony for thirty-six years, and leader of his people, and of his son William, Major and Deputy-Governor of the Plymouth Colony. She belonged to the same line of descent as President Grover Cleveland, their common ancestor being the pioneer Moses Cleveland, of Ipswich, Massachusetts in 1635. Another discendant of the first Moses was that Moses who founded Cleveland, Ohio. The four sons of the first Moses, with Major James Fitch, another ancestor of Lucinda's, opened up lands in Eastern Connecticut and made settlements at Plainfield and Canterbury. Major Fitch was a great grandson of Sir Thomas Fitch of Bocking parish, Essex County, England. (See Cleveland family history.) Her father, the Reverend Mr. Silas Hall Cleveland, was an active member of his community, not only as a pastor but in civic affairs. He was the first Justice of the Peace in Bowling Green township, Marion County, Ohio.
Their future in a material way looked very bright and then, in the flower of his manhood, at forty-six years of age, William Guthery died. The oldest daughter, Elizabeth, was twenty-one, the oldest son, Isaac Frazier, named for his uncle, was fourteen, while William James and John Dever Jr. were but seven and five respectively. It is a terrible handicap to a boy to grow up without a good father. These boy children grew up useful and good men. It was a hard pull for the mother. She devoted her life to her children. Besides managing the farm she made their clothing from the wool off the backs of their own sheep. She carded it and wove it, made their shirts, stockings and socks. She had a loom upstairs and carried a kettle of coals up with her to keep her feet warm while she sat weaving. They grew almost all they ate and had their meat from their own farm animals; money was scarce during the Civil War and she earned some by weaving hats of rye straw. Nine years after they moved to this farm she had to take over alone and she bravely struggled on for almost sixteen years, dying at the home of her son Isaac at the age of sixty years. She and her husband lie with other Gutherys in the Guthery Cemetery at what was once Parr Town. For Lucinda's family record see the history of the Cleveland family. Included in this account is a fragment of a large treatise consisting of three volumes on the Clevelands of America, from which has been taken the family line herein given.
Children of William and Lucinda Cleveland Guthery: Elizabeth, Hannah, Joseph, Rachel, Isaac Frazier Jr., Lydia Louise, Minerva Jane, Susan Emily, William James and John Dever Jr.Both William and Lucinda Cleveland Guthery are buried in the Guthery (Parr Town) Cemetery, Bowling Green Township, Marion County, Ohio.
FROM "THE GUTHERY FAMILY OF GREENE CO., PENN." COMPILED BY MARY GRAY MAY
CLEVELAND FAMILY HISTORY
Lucinda Manville Cleveland, daughter of Silas Hall and Betsey Briggs Cleveland, was born October 15, 1819 at Little Valley, Cataraugus County, New York. She was married to William Guthery on August 4, 1839, in Bowling Green Township, Marion County, Ohio. He was born in Pike County, Ohio, on May 16, 1817, the son of Joseph and Hannah Dever Guthery. They had ten children, three of whom died in infancy.
For a time William and Lucinda Cleveland Guthery lived near the old homestead on the banks of Rush Creek, near Parrtown (no longer existing), Marion County, Ohio. Near them lived William's brothers, John and Isaac. Each was doing well, financially, and were fine business men. William sold his farm and moved to the banks of PawPaw Creek, near Marseilles, Ohio. They lived there until his death on March 20, 1863. Lucinda was left with seven children and eighty acres of land: she kept her family together and her land intact. The house was long and low, with fireplaces in the rooms; a lane led to a yard of flowers and shrubs. A grand-daughter, Mrs. Grace Gray Hoch, remembers eating from sprigged china and cups without handles when visiting her grandmother Lucinda.
Lucinda Cleveland Guthery died August 4, 1879, and is buried beside her husband, William, in the Guthrey, or Parrtown, Cemetery, several miles east of LaRue, Marion County, Ohio.
The children of Lucinda Manville Cleveland and William Guthery are as follows:
Elizabeth Guthery b. April 12, 1842
Rachel Guthery b. September 3, 1848
Isaac Frazier Guthery Jr. b. October 31, 1849
Minerva Jane Guthery b. August 5, 1852
Susan Emily Guthery b. May 23, 1854
William James Guthery b. July 20, 1856
John Dever Guthery Jr. b. December 14, 1858
FROM "THE GUTHERY FAMILY OF GREENE CO., PENN." COMPILED BY MARY GRAY MAYCLEVELAND FAMILY HISTORY
Lucinda Manville Cleveland, daughter of Silas Hall and Betsey Briggs Cleveland, was born October 15, 1819 at Little Valley, Cataraugus County, New York. She was married to William Guthery on August 4, 1839, in Bowling Green Township, Marion County, Ohio. He was born in Pike County, Ohio, on May 16, 1817, the son of Joseph and Hannah Dever Guthery. They had ten children, three of whom died in infancy.
For a time William and Lucinda Cleveland Guthery lived near the old homestead on the banks of Rush Creek, near Parrtown (no longer existing), Marion County, Ohio. Near them lived William's brothers, John and Isaac. Each was doing well, financially, and were fine business men. William sold his farm and moved to the banks of PawPaw Creek, near Marseilles, Ohio. They lived there until his death on March 20, 1863. Lucinda was left with seven children and eighty acres of land: she kept her family together and her land intact. The house was long and low, with fireplaces in the rooms; a lane led to a yard of flowers and shrubs. A grand-daughter, Mrs. Grace Gray Hoch, remembers eating from sprigged china and cups without handles when visiting her grandmother Lucinda.
Lucinda Cleveland Guthery died August 4, 1879, and is buried beside her husband, William, in the Guthrey, or Parrtown, Cemetery, several miles east of LaRue, Marion County, Ohio.
The children of Lucinda Manville Cleveland and William Guthery are as follows:
Elizabeth Guthery b. April 12, 1842
Rachel Guthery b. September 3, 1848
Isaac Frazier Guthery Jr. b. October 31, 1849
Minerva Jane Guthery b. August 5, 1852
Susan Emily Guthery b. May 23, 1854
William James Guthery b. July 20, 1856
John Dever Guthery Jr. b. December 14, 1858
College at Athens, Ohio.
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