OBIT: John S. GUYER, 1924, Morrison's Cove, Bedford County, PA

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John S. Guyer

A well known resident of Morrisons Cove, died at his home three miles south of 
Loysburg on Saturday evening, December 6, at 10 o'clock from a complication of 
diseases and old age.  Mr. Guyer was aged 82 years and was born near Loysburg on 
June 29, 1842, the son of Jacob and Fannie Smith Guyer, both deceased.  Mr. 
Guyer was one of the oldest and most widely known and respected citizens of 
Bedford county.  He served as county treasurer of Bedford county, from 1902 to 
1905.  At the time of his death he was a director of the Mutual Fire Insurance 
company.  On September, 1867, Mr. Guyer was married to Betty Stayer, who died in 
1887.  On September 1889 he was married to Jane Stayer who survives, as do the 
following children: Mrs. James Snyder, Snake Spring Valley; Albert Guyer, 
Bedford; Mrs. A. S. Grubb, New Enterprise and W. S. Guyer, Clarksburg, W. Va.  
He is survived by twenty-one grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.  The 
following are the brothers and sisters: Emanled Guyer, Curry Station; Mrs. 
Barbra Replogle, New Enterprise; Mrs. Fannie Bechtol, Woodbury and Mrs. Samuel 
Kagarise, New Enterprise, Pa.  Mr. Guyer was a life-long member of the Church of 
the Brethren and took an active part in church affairs.  The funeral services 
were held at Koontz church of the Brethren at 10 a.m. on Wednesday in charge of 
Rev. D. T. Detwiler and J. J. Shaeffer.  Interment was made in cemetery near 
church.

Bedford Gazette, December 12, 1924, page 8