Lura Guyman

H. W. Beckwith, History of Vermilion County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1879)

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Lura Guyman, Catlin, farmer, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on the 20th of August, 1793, and was married to Noah Guyman, May 1812, who was a native of North Carolina and came to Vermilion County in 1829, and resided where Mrs. Guyman now lives until his death in 1861. He served in the Blackhawk war in 1832, under Col. Moore. She is the mother of one's son and one daughter now living: Franklin N. and Mary H. Payne, who is the mother of three children: Milton N., Lura E., wife of George Trimmell, and Jesse L., wife of J. G. Redmon. Mrs. Guyman has been a practicing physician in the county for sixty years, and has been at the births of over one thousand children, always making her visits on horseback; consequently she has ridden more miles on horseback than any other woman in the state. She is now eighty-six years of age, and attends a garden of one-fourth of an acre, that would do credit to any man in the county.