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HISTORY OF BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP MARION COUNTY OHIO
HON. JOHN D. GUTHERY
This well known and honored citizen of Marion county is of Scotch-Irish and English ancestry, though his parents, Joseph and Hannah (Dever) Guthery, were natives of Pennsylvania and Kentucky respectively. They came to Pike County, Ohio, at a very early day, and from there to Marion county in 1827, settling in Salt Rock Township. Joseph Guthery was born in Greene County, Penn., March 29, 1790, and died in Marion County, Ohio, February 5, 1856. His wife Hannah was born January 17, 1796, and died in Marion County, Ohio, in 1864. They had four children, all sons - John D., born September 16, 1819; and Isaac F., born October 24, 1821, are the only surviving ones. Mr. John D. Guthery obtained a good English education under the tutorship of Joseph M. Dickinson, in the common Schools of the township, and from the age of twenty to twenty-seven years taught school at intervals. He was married, April 23, 1854, by the Rev. J. K. Ford of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to Susan Frederick, a daughter of John and Lydia (Earhart) Frederick. By the above marriage, there were the following children: Joseph D., March 12, 1855; James B., October 28, 1856; Rachel A., March 29, 1859; William L., February 15, 1862; John H., June 30, 1864; Isaac S., February 8, 1866; Frederick E. and Alma Dell, twins, born January 13, 1868, all of whom are living except Alma Dell, who died December 14, 1869; and Emma C. was born February 18, 1858, and died August 8, 1868. John D. Guthery, the subject of this sketch, is the largest landholder in the township, owning some 1,240 acres, a large proportion of which is under cultivation. He is a Democrat in politics, and has served the township and county in various official positions, always with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents, among which were nine consecutive years as Township Clerk, Land Appraiser three times, Justice of the Peace twenty-one years, and for two terms represented his county in the Ohio State Legislature. He is a man of excellent judgment, strict integrity and of rare executive ability, and his whole public career is without a stain. He has retired from active farming, renting most of his land to tenants, but still resides on the homestead in Bowling Green Township. The parents of his wife were of German extraction, but natives of Pennsylvania and Maryland respectively. Their children were Matilda, Ann, Catherine, Simon, Rachel, Philip E. and Susan who still survive. Sarah, Elizabeth, Lydia, John F., Eve and Mary are deceased. All these children lived to have families, excepting Sarah, who died at the age of sixteen years. The father, John Frederick, died December 23, 1853, and the mother of this family, Lydia died August 29, 1859.
FROM THE "GUTHERY FAMILY OF GREENE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA" compiled
by Mary Gray May.Two years before his father's, Joseph Guthery's, death, John Guthery and Susan Frederick were married. He was thirty-five and she twenty-nine. They had lived since childhood "down the road" from each other, her father's farm being across the road from the Parr Town village stores and church. When they were married, they went to live on a farm near LaRue, but they lost that place and they then bought Susan's father's farm from the other Frederick heirs and lived there the rest of their lives. They prospered and, owing to his unusual business ability in farming, trading and stock raising, their lands increased on both sides of the road after Parr Town no longer existed, until their holdings were more than three thousand acres, a very large holding for Ohio and the largest in Marion County. The old abandoned church that Silas Cleveland had preached in became one of the granaries on their farm.
John Guthery has held local office since young manhood. He was Justice of the Peace for twenty years. Often he went into the backwoods to perform marriage ceremonies. He was township clerk for nine years, land appraiser three times.
He formed with his grown sons the firm of John D. Guthery and sons which carried on for many years. So much work was required in the legal handling of the estate that tradition says he urged his yougest son, Fred, to take up law as a profession for himself and as aid to the family. From 1876 to 1879 he was State Representative.
He and his sons were political leaders of their party (Democratic) in the county, travelling about addressing the people on the issues of the day. They were all brilliant speakers and convincing in debate.
He was a tall, spare man with a swinging walk; a book on the Scottish Guthries says this was a family characteristic. He had blue-gray eyes, very clear and bright, a straight nose with the winged nostrils repeated in other Gutherys of his generation and some nieces and nephews, and the close lips of the race which was also noted in the Scottish Guthries. Usually grave, he had his fund of humor which was dry and expressed itself with a quiet smile or gentle inward laugh. Thinking how he seemed, one thinks, What a grand old man! Of that race called men of "long-limbs, long knives, long guns and long memories" - - - the Scotch-Irish.
Susan came from a fine family and like all good girls of her day was well trained in everything needful as a companion and helper of a busy man like her husband: sewing, knitting, weaving, quilting, poultry raising including rearing quinea fowl and pea fowl, cheese making, butter making. What a sweet place her milk house was, in its cool and fragrant cleanness. Flower raising, fruit cultivation with help from the men. The farm was almost self sustaining in its production of foods. The big white house was a busy place supplementing the stir and movement and hum of the outside fields.
Her charity and love covered not only her own numerous family but her neighbors - - - no one ever heard a cruel word pass her lips.
When she died, at her memorial service was read those lines from Proverbs that were agreed by those who listened to be a true description of her:
"Who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies.
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life."After her death he lived only a few months, though there seemed no reason why he should not go on living many years. It seemed as though in going she had taken too much of him with her. They were carried across the road to the family burying ground where so many other Gutherys and Fredericks lay that had been close to them in life.
HISTORY OF BOWLING GREEN TOWNSHIP MARION COUNTY OHIOHON. JOHN D. GUTHERY
This well known and honored citizen of Marion county is of Scotch-Irish and English ancestry, though his parents, Joseph and Hannah (Dever) Guthery, were natives of Pennsylvania and Kentucky respectively. They came to Pike County, Ohio, at a very early day, and from there to Marion county in 1827, settling in Salt Rock Township. Joseph Guthery was born in Greene County, Penn., March 29, 1790, and died in Marion County, Ohio, February 5, 1856. His wife Hannah was born January 17, 1796, and died in Marion County, Ohio, in 1864. They had four children, all sons - John D., born September 16, 1819; and Isaac F., born October 24, 1821, are the only surviving ones. Mr. John D. Guthery obtained a good English education under the tutorship of Joseph M. Dickinson, in the common Schools of the township, and from the age of twenty to twenty-seven years taught school at intervals. He was married, April 23, 1854, by the Rev. J. K. Ford of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to Susan Frederick, a daughter of John and Lydia (Earhart) Frederick. By the above marriage, there were the following children: Joseph D., March 12, 1855; James B., October 28, 1856; Rachel A., March 29, 1859; William L., February 15, 1862; John H., June 30, 1864; Isaac S., February 8, 1866; Frederick E. and Alma Dell, twins, born January 13, 1868, all of whom are living except Alma Dell, who died December 14, 1869; and Emma C. was born February 18, 1858, and died August 8, 1868. John D. Guthery, the subject of this sketch, is the largest landholder in the township, owning some 1,240 acres, a large proportion of which is under cultivation. He is a Democrat in politics, and has served the township and county in various official positions, always with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents, among which were nine consecutive years as Township Clerk, Land Appraiser three times, Justice of the Peace twenty-one years, and for two terms represented his county in the Ohio State Legislature. He is a man of excellent judgment, strict integrity and of rare executive ability, and his whole public career is without a stain. He has retired from active farming, renting most of his land to tenants, but still resides on the homestead in Bowling Green Township. The parents of his wife were of German extraction, but natives of Pennsylvania and Maryland respectively. Their children were Matilda, Ann, Catherine, Simon, Rachel, Philip E. and Susan who still survive. Sarah, Elizabeth, Lydia, John F., Eve and Mary are deceased. All these children lived to have families, excepting Sarah, who died at the age of sixteen years. The father, John Frederick, died December 23, 1853, and the mother of this family, Lydia died August 29, 1859.
FROM THE "GUTHERY FAMILY OF GREENE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA" compiled
by Mary Gray May.Two years before his father's, Joseph Guthery's, death, John Guthery and Susan Frederick were married. He was thirty-five and she twenty-nine. They had lived since childhood "down the road" from each other, her father's farm being across the road from the Parr Town village stores and church. When they were married, they went to live on a farm near LaRue, but they lost that place and they then bought Susan's father's farm from the other Frederick heirs and lived there the rest of their lives. They prospered and, owing to his unusual business ability in farming, trading and stock raising, their lands increased on both sides of the road after Parr Town no longer existed, until their holdings were more than three thousand acres, a very large holding for Ohio and the largest in Marion County. The old abandoned church that Silas Cleveland had preached in became one of the granaries on their farm.
John Guthery has held local office since young manhood. He was Justice of the Peace for twenty years. Often he went into the backwoods to perform marriage ceremonies. He was township clerk for nine years, land appraiser three times.
He formed with his grown sons the firm of John D. Guthery and sons which carried on for many years. So much work was required in the legal handling of the estate that tradition says he urged his yougest son, Fred, to take up law as a profession for himself and as aid to the family. From 1876 to 1879 he was State Representative.
He and his sons were political leaders of their party (Democratic) in the county, travelling about addressing the people on the issues of the day. They were all brilliant speakers and convincing in debate.
He was a tall, spare man with a swinging walk; a book on the Scottish Guthries says this was a family characteristic. He had blue-gray eyes, very clear and bright, a straight nose with the winged nostrils repeated in other Gutherys of his generation and some nieces and nephews, and the close lips of the race which was also noted in the Scottish Guthries. Usually grave, he had his fund of humor which was dry and expressed itself with a quiet smile or gentle inward laugh. Thinking how he seemed, one thinks, What a grand old man! Of that race called men of "long-limbs, long knives, long guns and long memories" - - - the Scotch-Irish.
Susan came from a fine family and like all good girls of her day was well trained in everything needful as a companion and helper of a busy man like her husband: sewing, knitting, weaving, quilting, poultry raising including rearing quinea fowl and pea fowl, cheese making, butter making. What a sweet place her milk house was, in its cool and fragrant cleanness. Flower raising, fruit cultivation with help from the men. The farm was almost self sustaining in its production of foods. The big white house was a busy place supplementing the stir and movement and hum of the outside fields.
Her charity and love covered not only her own numerous family but her neighbors - - - no one ever heard a cruel word pass her lips.
When she died, at her memorial service was read those lines from Proverbs that were agreed by those who listened to be a true description of her:
"Who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies.
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life."After her death he lived only a few months, though there seemed no reason why he should not go on living many years. It seemed as though in going she had taken too much of him with her. They were carried across the road to the family burying ground where so many other Gutherys and Fredericks lay that had been close to them in life.
Children of John Frederick and Lydia Earhart are:
Susan Frederick
Matilda Frederick
Ann Frederick
Catherine Frederick
Simon Frederick
Rachel Frederick
Philip E. Frederick
Sarah Frederick
Elizabeth Frederick
Lydia Frederick
John F. Frederick
Eve Frederick
Mary Frederick
John Frederick is buried in Guthery Cemetery. They came from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and settled at Parr Town, Marion County, Ohio. When the two Frederick girls married John Dever Guthery and Isaac Frazier Guthery they lived on adjoining farms for a number of years.Details of Frederick family history are not available.
Lydia Earhart Guthery is buried with her husband in Guthery Cemetery.
Children of John Frederick and Lydia Earhart are:
Susan Frederick
Matilda Frederick
Ann Frederick
Catherine Frederick
Simon Frederick
Rachel Frederick
Philip E. Frederick
Sarah Frederick
Elizabeth Frederick
Lydia Frederick
John F. Frederick
Eve Frederick
Mary Frederick
John Frederick is buried in Guthery Cemetery. They came from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and settled at Parr Town, Marion County, Ohio. When the two Frederick girls married John Dever Guthery and Isaac Frazier Guthery they lived on adjoining farms for a number of years.Details of Frederick family history are not available.
Lydia Earhart Guthery is buried with her husband in Guthery Cemetery.
(5883.) DONALD WRIGHT (4090.) (2128.) (788.) (201.) (31.) (3.) (1.):
m. SARAH ---.CH: (7253.) Donald Franklin. (R165).
(5884.) RAYMOND ELLIOTT (4093.) (2128.) (788.) (201.) (31.) (3.) (1.): b. 12-6mo-1902, Grant Co., IN; m. l-6mo-1927, to EDRIE JACKSON, d/o Clarence O. and Monte (Jackson). Jackson; b. 13-3mo-1905. Mr. Elliott is a teacher in Fairmount High School, and resides on a farm purchased in 1939 from the heirs of (4943.) Carter Guy Johnson.
CH: (7254.) Karen Beth. (Another dau.; also an adopted son, Joe, b. 1930.)