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Show FATHER OF THIRTY CHILDREN. John Guy, Maryland Farmer, Thrice Married, Still Robust and Hearty. Denver Dam, Md. Col. Roosevelt Btarted for Arrlca before being acquainted ac-quainted with tho fnct that one of the best exponents of his nntl-rnco suicide theory Is John W. Guy, who has been tho father of 30 children, 20 sons nnd ten dnughters, of whom thero are 21 living, his oldest child, a son, bolng 53 years old, his youngest, a daughter, being two years of age. Guy, who Is a farmer, resides about ono mile from Molfa- station, on the Now York, Philadelphia & Norfolk railroad, and was 75 years old on April G. - In 1E55 ho was married to Mary Ann Rayflold, a farmer's daughter, and to this union seven children woro born. On Soptember 12, 18G8, ho married Miss Margarot Elizabeth Ayers, after n romantic elonement. who boro him 18 children. His third wlfo wnB Miss Lola Crockett, a beautiful girl of 1G years, whom ho married when In his sixty-fifth year, In 1898. To this union five children have boen born. Desplto tho fact that 1G of his children chil-dren aro married, he has only 23 grandchildren and throo great-grand-childron. Ono of Guy's sons, by his first marriage, married a sister of his present wlfo, and a daughter by his second wlfo married n brother of his present wife. Although well ndvnnced in yenrs, Guy still is robust nnd henrty, without n bend in his body or a grny hnir, nnd he may bo seen each dny working on the farm with his farm hands. |
