Emery County Progress | 1909-07-31 | Page 3 | Father of Thirty Children

FATHER OF THIRTY CHILDREN john guy maryland farmer thrice married st II 11 robust and hearty beaver dam md col roosevelt started for africa before being ac I 1 qua ined with the tact that one 0 the best exponents of his anti race suicide theory is john W guy who has been the father of 30 children 20 sons and ten daughters ot whom there are 21 living his eldest child a son being 53 years old his youngest a daughter being two years of age guy who Is a tanner resides about one mile from melfa station on the new york philadelphia norfolk railroad and was 75 years old on april 6 in he was married to mary ann rayfield a farmer s daughter and to this union seven children were born on september 12 he married miss margaret elizabeth ayers after a romantic elopement who bore him 18 children his third wife was miss lola crocket a beautiful girl of 16 years whom he married when in his sixty fifth year in to this union five children have been born despite the fact that 16 of his chil dren are married he has only 23 grandchildren and three great gran 1 children one of guy a sons by his first marriage married a sister of his present wife and a daughter by his second wife married a brother of his present wife although well advanced in years guy still is robust and hearty without a bend in his body or a gray hair and he may be seen each day working on the farm with his farm hands