The Guild Family
First Generation:
George M. Guild was born
September 6, 1812. His parents were Jeremiah Guild and Martha May from
England. Jeremiah was a tanner. He immigrated to Butler County, Ohio in
1816 and died in 1820. Martha died in 1821, leaving eight surviving
children.
George was nine years old
and was “put out” to a farmer. He was so maltreated that he ran away when
he was 13 years old. He apprenticed himself to a saddle maker at
Cincinnati, Ohio. He became journeyman in Butler County. He moved to
Wayne County, Indiana. George experienced religion when he was 21 years
old. He studied in Dublin and was licensed to preach in the Methodist
church in 1838.
George M. married
Sarah
Hull April 8, 1838 in Wayne, Indiana. Sarah was born May 17, 1819 in
Highland, Ohio. George began teaching in 1840 and was an ordained minister
in 1843. He was given a circuit of five counties. In 1847, he built the
first church in Rensselaer. He preached for more than 40 years. They
moved to Gilliam Township, Jasper County in 1853 and to Medaryville,
Pulaski County Indiana in 1880. George was a Methodist minister until ill
health brought his retirement. George died November 20, 1886. Sarah died
March 4, 1911 in Medaryville, Indiana.
1. Gurth Guild.
2. Charles L. Guild was born in 1840. At
21 years old, he was 5’ 9-1/2”, dark complexion, hazel eyes, black hair.
Charles died at the Battle of Shiloh during the Civil War, April 7, 1862.
He belonged to Co. G, 9th Regt., Indiana Volunteers Infantry.
Frances Guild said, “He was the second of nine children of Rev. George
Guild and Sarah (Hull) Guild. He, I believe, planned to be a minister. We
have a letter he had written helping care for a wagon load of wounded. As
you know, he was the first soldier killed in that vicinity, therefore the
G.A.R. Post was called the C. L. Guild Post.” He is buried in the south
section of the Independence Cemetery beside his parents.
3. Martha C. Guild was born in 1843.
4. George Stollard Guild was born January
16, 1848 in Rochester, Indiana.
5. John H. Guild was born in 1850.
6.
James R. Guild was born in
1852. James married Harriet C. Querry on March 26, 1876. Harriet was born in
1858 and died in 1954. James died in 1929.
7.
Thomas M. Guild was born in 1854 was
born in Pennsylvania and came to Indiana as a child. Thomas graduated from
DePauw. He married Sarah Brown February 22, 1874. He served 38 years in
the North Indiana Conference. Sarah died in 1920 and Thomas married Myrtle Judkins. Thomas died in 1941.
8. Daniel H. Guild was born March 1860 in
Medaryville, Indiana. He married Amy Loweshe Conard on September 1, 1887.
Daniel died in 1929.
9.
Jeremiah Guild was born in 1862.
Second Generation:
George Stollard Guild was born January 16,
1848 in Rochester, Indiana. He married Clarrissa Rachel McJimsey (McGimpsey) on May 19, 1867 in Medaryville, Indiana. Guild
and McJimsey owned the Medaryville Livery and Feed Barn. When George's
father's health began to fail, George purchased the family farm. His
mother and father, George and Sarah, made their home with him. George died
September 17, 1907 in Medaryville, Indiana. An excerpt from his obituary
reads:
"His last illness was caused by a strain sustained from jumping
from a load of hay on Thursday, Sept. 12th, producing a clogging of the
bowels. Everything that kind administration and medical skill could do
were of no avail; he grew worse continually, his heart weakened and the
final struggle was passed Tuesday morning just at the break of day. An
autopsy was held, several physicians attending, and it was pronounced a
case incurable from the beginning."
In a newspaper article written at the time,
the “kind administration” included a two foot long tube and a bicycle
pump. It did relieve the blockage, however, he was so exhausted and had a
pre-existing heart weakness and did not survive.
1.
Charles H. Guild. Charles was born September 18, 1868. He married Millie
J. Robinson, December 29, 1894, Jasper County, Indiana. Millie was the
daughter of Michael Robinson and Sarah McCullough Robinson. He was a real
estate dealer. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage July 11, 1941
2. Gurthe M. Guild. Gurthe may have been a
banker in Medaryville. Gurthe married Mary Lee Daughetee August 22,
1896. They had a son, Morris Thomas Guild. Mary died 1899. She was the
daughter of John S. Daughetee and Elizabeth Ann Barnett Daughetee. Gurthe
then married Mary Nicholson, July 4, 1907 in Jasper County, Indiana.
3.
James A. Guild. James married Ava Posey January 15, 1897 in Pulaski
County, Indiana.
4. Nathan Harper Guild was born June 9,
1871 in Gilliam, Indiana.
5. John H. D. Guild was born in 1872.
John married J. Maud Prevo. He died in 1936.
Third
Generation:
Nathan Harper Guild was born June 9, 1871
in Gilliam, Indiana. He married Millie Francis Massey on June 9, 1889 in
Gilliam, Indiana. According to Millie's granddaughter, Nathan and Millie
owned and managed a hotel in Medaryville, Indiana. Nathan may have been
the "black sheep" of the family. In 1908, Nathan came out to San
Francisco. A year later in 1909,
Millie and all the children came out on the train. Millie told Midge Guild
that she wasn’t used to a big city like San Francisco. She was also amazed
at all the buildings with cracks from the 1906 earthquake. In 1919, the
family moved to Banning, California, where Nathan was a "mule skinner". He
drove a freight wagon. Nathan died July 20, 1937 in Banning. Nathan and
Millie are buried in the Banning cemetery in Banning.
1. Anna Marie Guild was born May 29, 1890
in Jasper, Indiana. She married Orron Stephen Bell on September 3, 1908.
Orron was born October 1, 1887, near Paris, Illinois. They moved to
Hebron, Indiana in 1934. Anna died March 30, 1968.
2. Earl Eugene Guild was born September 7,
1894. He married Dorcus Gill. Earl died December 9, 1963.
3. Lessie Floy Guild was born June 30,
1896. Lessie died September 13, 1972.
4. Mildred "Midge" Guild was born
September 23, 1900. She married Gus A. Porter. They had one daughter,
Barbara Porter. Midge and Gus divorced and she later married Don Watson.
She died July 31, 1985.
5. Claude Winford Guild was born November
3, 1902 and died March 16, 1904.
6. George Massey Guild was born September
9, 1903. He married Daisy Grey. George died December 21, 1973.
7. Ralph Lucien Guild was born October 18,
1905 in Jasper, Indiana. He died August 27, 1907 in Medaryville, Indiana.
8. Kennith Clifford Guild was born October
19, 1907. He married Bernice Felts.
Fourth Generation:
Lessie Floy Guild
was born June 30, 1896 in
Indiana. In 1909, she traveled with her mother and siblings to San
Francisco. Later, the family moved
to Banning, California.
In 1911, she and
Barton Ray de Crevecoeur
tried to elope. Both were only 15. Floy’s mother called Bart's father,
Ben de Crevecoeur, then Constable of Banning. Ben tracked them down in
Yuma and brought them home. Upon their return, Millie said that because
they had already spent the night together and they would most likely run
away again, she let them get married. In about 1921, Floy and Bart were
divorced.
In 1938, Floy married Bennett "Benny" A.
Babb. She had pulled up next to him, at a stoplight and remarked that she
had always wondered how it would feel to kiss a man with a mustache.
Together, they owned what became one of the largest poultry breeding
ranches in the west; dealing in genetically bred purebred and crossbreeds
of egg producing poultry. They sold the ranch in 1945 and retired.
Together, they traveled and finally settled for a while in Elk, California.
Benny and Floy moved to San Diego County in
the early 1950’s. They owned an avocado ranch for several years in
Encinitas until Floy became ill and bedridden in the late 1960's. Floy
died September 13, 1972. Benny married Rocina Benz, a childhood friend in
1973. She died in 1991 and Benny died at home, January 26, 1996.
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