Husband William Guffey 1
Born: 16 Jan 1821 - Sewickley Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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Father: James Guffey (1791-1841) 1 2
Mother: Hannah Scott (1791-1878) 1
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General Notes: Husband - William Guffey
He spent his whole life on the place of his birth, receiving the education afforded by the common school of the neighborhood. A bachelor uncle, William Guffey, was half-owner with his father of the homestead farm, and upon his death, which occurred Oct. 2, 1840, he willed to his nephew William a portion of his property. This uncle lived and died at the homestead. By will of his father his property was placed under the control of his mother until her death. After his father's death, which occurred when he was nineteen years of age, he managed his mother's affairs. The farm was worked by his brother, James Scott, up to the year 1876, when the latter removed on to his farm in Elizabeth township. From twenty-one years of age Mr. Guffey suffered from heart-disease, on which account he was not able to engage in the hard work involved in carrying on a farm. On the death of his mother he and his sister Sarah Jane purchased of the rest of the heirs their interest in the homestead. He employed to work the farm Mr. John C. West, whose wife, Anna Mary, daughter of Samuel and Catharine Henderson, had lived with Mr. and Miss Guffey from the time she was eight years of age, and was married at the homestead May 2, 1878.