Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 559-560 [McCracken]

     ELBRIDGE GUTHRIE, dry-goods merchant of Paducah, was born in
Buckingham county, Virginia, in the year 1849.  His parents were
John James Guthrie and Martha (Goodman) Guthrie, natives of
Buckingham and Cumberland counties, respectively.  The paternal
grandfather, William P. Guthrie, was born in Cumberland county,
Virginia, of Scotch ancestry, while the maternal grandfather, Thomas
Goodman, was born in Amelia county, Virginia.  John James Guthrie
was a farmer by occupation.  In politics he was an old-line Whig,
but when the Civil war came on, with fitting loyalty to his native
state, he cast his lot and fortune with the Confederate states by
enlisting in the Confederate army.  He served therein until the
close of hostilities, then returned home and resumed civic life, and
farmed until his death in 1893, dying at the ripe old age of
seventy-four years.  He died in March, and in December of the same
year his wife's death occurred, she being seventy-four years of age
also at the time of her demise.  To this worthy couple were born the
following children: Mrs. Elizabeth England, of Graves county,
Kentucky; Mrs. Georgie Shepard, of Virginia; Mrs. Alice Apperson, of
Virginia; Mrs. Martha J. Shepard, of Virginia; Mrs. Angeli Foster,
of Virginia; Thomas G., John B. and Forest, all living in Virginia;
Edward B., of Paducah, Kentucky, and Elbridge.
     Elbridge Guthrie was reared on his father's farm, and given a
fair literary education.  In October, 1869, he left the parental
home.  The greater part of the two succeeding years he spent in
Calloway county, Kentucky.  In 1871 he came to Paducah to accept a
clerical position with his cousin, J. J. Guthrie, then a dry-goods
merchant of this city.  For twenty years thereafter he was a dry-goods
clerk.  In 1893 Mr. Guthrie embarked in the dry-goods business
on his own account.  He has propered [sic] in business and to-day
[sic] is recorded among the substantial and trustworthy merchants of
Paducah.  September 21, 1880, Mr. Guthrie married Miss Mollie
McElroy, a daughter of the late James H. McElroy, of Lebanon,
Kentucky, where Mrs. Guthrie was born and reared.  Her mother bore
the maiden name of Jane M. Grundy and was born in Washington county,
Kentucky, in 1814.  She is now past eighty-nine years of age, and
makes her home with Mrs. Guthrie.  Her father was Samuel Grundy, a
brother of Felix Grundy, who served as United States attorney
general.
     One child has blessed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie, Robert
Rivers, born January 22, 1892.  They are members of the Presbyterian
church, and are numbered among the most respected of Paducah's
people.

Guthrie Goodman England Shepard Apperson Foster McElroy Grundy
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Buckingham-VA Cumberland-VA Amelia-VA Graves-KY Calloway-KY Washington-KY

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