Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Guttery was born about 1806, in Virginia, United States, his father, Samuel Guthrie, was 37 and his mother, Mrs Samuel Guthrie, was 33. He married Zelpha Modglin in 1836, in Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Lamar, Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 6, Lamar, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 5 March 1881, in Lamar, Aransas, Texas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Lamar, Texas, United States.
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- T Guthrie, "United States Census, 1860"
- Thomas Guttery in entry for Elvira Holcomb, "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976"
- Thomas Guttory in household of Enoch Holcomb, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Scottish McQueen.
English: perhaps a variant of Scottish Guthrie .
Possibly an altered form of the German occupational name Gutterer, denoting a maker of balloon-shaped glass bottles, or of German Güttrich, from an ancient Germanic personal name formed with god, got ‘god’ or gōd ‘good’ + rih ‘powerful’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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