Walker County AlArchives Biographies.....Guttery, George Houston 1818 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    GEORGE HOUSTON GUTTERY. Mayor of the City of Jasper, son of Robert and Sarah
(Williams) Guttery, was born in Walker County, Ala., in 1818. He was reared on a
farm; educated at Jasper and Hollygrove, and farmed until the breaking out of
the war, when he went into the army as a member of Company A, Fifty-sixth
Alabama Regiment, with Capt. A. J. Guttery, his brother, commanding the company.
He served in Forrest's command in Mississippi, and with Johnson's army from
Dalton to Atlanta, and in all the battles in which it participated until, and
including, Peach Tree Creek.

    In 1866, Mr. Guttery came from Hollygrove to Jasper, commenced business as a
merchant, and conducted that business until 1874, when he was elected sheriff of
Walker County, and served as such until 1877. In the following year he commenced
merchandising again, and continued it until April 20, 1888. The city of Jasper
was incorporated December 22, 1887, and Mr. Guttery was elected its first mayor,
a position he still holds.

    He was married in 1876, to Miss Alice C., daughter of W. L Stanley, one of
the pioneers of Jasper and treasurer of Walker County before and during the war,
and has three children, Claude, Pearl and John McQueen.

    Mr. Guttery's father, Robert Guttery, was a pioneer preacher of the
Primitive Baptist Church, and among the first settlers of Walker County. He came
here from Tennessee with his father, William Guttery, at an early day.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
MINERAL BELT.


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