| William Guy ... was born in Ireland, in 1794, and emigrated to the United States in 1820, locating in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. William Guy became identified with the Democratic party, and was a member of the Episcopal church. He was a weaver by trade, but took up the occupation of farming in Hempfield township, Pennsylvania. He married (first) in Ireland, and had two children: A daughter who remained in Ireland when her father came to America; Richard, born November 1, 1816, who came with his father to America, and died in 1873. Richard Guy married Catherine Allshouse, of Hempfield township, and they were the parents of seven children, as follows: Mary, Samuel, Henry, Hester, Josephine, Sarah, and Frank, who lives in Kansas. William Guy married (second) in 1824, Sarah Frazer, of Sewickley township, Pennsylvania, and they had ten children, as follows: 1. Elizabeth, born February 6, 1826, married Robert McGill, of Hempfield township, Pennsylvania, and had five children: Frank, Elizabeth, Alexander, Annie, and Irwin. Mrs. McGi1l died in 1875. 2. James, born September 9, 1827, married Mattie Bortz, and had the following children: William, Sarah, Richard, Joseph, James, Andrew, Irwin, Jennie, and Adelia. 3. Susanna, born April 27. 1829, married Jonas Bortz, and they were the parents of nine children, four of whom died within a period of three weeks of diphtheria. Their only children now living are: Albert, Annie, and Elizabeth. 4. William, born April 8, 1831, married Hannah Kepple, and had one child, Henry M., a carriage and wagon manufacturer in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. 5. Jacob, born June 7, 1833, married (first) Catherine Long, and they had one child, Elmer, a carpenter. Jacob married (second) Catherine Kistler, and they had the following children: Milton, Cora, Lydia, Sarah, Grace, Ettie, Jesse, Robert. 6. Sarah Jane, born March 10, 1836, married William Nipple, and had five children: Mary, Edward, Oliver, Ellen, Emery. 7. John, of whom later. 8. Henry, born April 5, 1841, a stone mason by trade, and has helped to build many of the most important of the public buildings in Greensburg, Pennsylvania; among these may be mentioned the old Greensburg Academy, the Greensburg Seminary, the Masonic Hall, and others. Mr. Guy is a member of the Second Lutheran Church of Greensburg, and is a Democrat. He married, November 19, 1868, Mary Anna Smail, daughter of John Smail, who was a farmer of Hempfield township. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Guy were the parents of three children: Ella L. Melissa, John and William. Ella L. Melissa was born July 10, 1869, married Frank Shuey, a farmer of Hempfield township, and they had three children: Elsie, Edna and Charles. John was born April 23, 1873, married Susan Allshouse, a daughter of Reuben Al1shouse, of Berry. They had one child, Helen. John Guy lost his life as the result of an explosion in the Edgar Thompson steel works at Braddock, December 26, 1904. William was born March 29, 1876, married Sarah Shuey, a daughter of John M. Shuey, a farmer and thresher of Hempfield township. 9. Anna, born June 21, 1843. She married (first) William Keppler, and they had two children: Margaret Sarah and John. Mr. Keppler died in 1870, and his widow married Elijah J. Bricker and they have one child, Harry Bricker. 10. Agnes, born March 5, 1846, married Henry Piper, of Jeannette, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and they have three children, as follows: Emma, George, and William.16 |