Elizabeth Guthrie

Brief Life History of Elizabeth

When Elizabeth Guthrie was born in 1803, in Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee, United States, her father, Rev. Robert Guthrie, was 33 and her mother, Mary Smith, was 34. She married George Washington Wills on 9 April 1823, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 29 May 1836, in Chariton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 33.

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Family Time Line

George Washington Wills
1802–1861
Elizabeth Guthrie
1803–about 1836
Marriage: 9 April 1823
James Wills
1824–1877
Wills
about 1830–
Bettie Wills
1831–
Jane Wills
about 1836–about 1836
Margaret Jane Wills
1848–1865
Margaret Jane Wells
1826–1866
Leathea Parilee Wills
1829–1853
Harriet Louisa Wills
1847–

Sources (9)

  • Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth "Betsy" Guthrie - Published information: birth-name: Elizabeth Guthrie
  • Elizabeth Guthrie, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth "Betsy" Guthrie -

World Events (8)

1803

France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.

1803

Historical Boundaries 1803: Louisiana Purchase, United States 1812: Missouri Territory, United States 1821: Missouri, United States

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from a place near Forfar, named in Gaelic with gaothair ‘windy place’ (a derivative of gaoth ‘wind’) + the locative suffix -ach.

Scottish: possibly an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mag Uchtre ‘son of Uchtre’, a personal name which is perhaps akin to uchtlach ‘child’.

Irish (Clare and Antrim): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh ‘descendant of Flaitheamh’, a byname meaning ‘prince’. This is the result of an erroneous association of the Gaelic name in the form Ó Fhlaithimh (Fh being silent), with the Gaelic word laithigh ‘mud’, and of mud with gutters, and an equally erroneous association of the Scottish surname Guthrie with the word ‘gutter’. Compare Laffey .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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