Forrest Lee Guye

GUYE, CRAWFORD, SLAGHT, DUNSMORE

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 7/3/2006 at 11:08:52

Winterset Madisonian
1965

FORREST LEE GUYE DIES AT 99 YEARS

Forrest Lee Guye, member of the pioneer Guye family in Madison county, died Sunday Aug. 29, in Des Moines, where he had lived most of his adult life. He would have been 99 years of age Sept. 12.

Mr. Guye was a barber by trade, operating the barber shop in the Iowa state house for a number of years.

Mr. Guye was born in Madison county Sept. 12, 1866, a son of Samuel Houston and Nancy Caroline Crawford Guye. His father was 10 years old when he came to Madison county in the spring of 1846 as a member of the Guye family, which along with the Clanton-Clark family, were the first permanent settlers of this county.

His mother was a daughter of James P. Crawford, who brought his family to this county in 1855. Mr. Crawford died later that year, and was the first person buried in the Primitive Baptist cemetery just northeast of Winterset.

He was a long-time member of the Church of Christ and had been a member of the Odd Fellows lodge for 74 years. He was a graduate of the DeSoto high school.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Emma Slaght Guye in 1917; and by his second wife, Lucile Dunsmore Guye in 1950.

Funeral services were held August 31 from the Hamilton Funeral home in Des Moines conducted by the Rev. Tom Foglesong, former pastor of the First Christian church of Winterset. Burial was made in Woodland cemetery.