Vitals: Obits: Gue: Fayette Co Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Jane Nelson. jnelson@paonline.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ____________________________________________________________ The Tecumseh ****, Tecumseh, Nebraska Saturday, May 22, 1920 PIONEER SETTLER CALLED FRANCIS A. GUE DIED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON Was Native of Pennsylvania and Had a Splendid War Record-- Funeral Friday, Francis A. Gue, civil war veteran and early settler, died at his home on Tecumseh, at 4:30 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon, May 19, 1920, after a period of ill health which extended over considerable time. He was aged eighty years, seven months and nine days. Mr Gue was a native of Perryopolis, Pa., and was born October 10, 1839. His early life was spent in Pennsylvania and later he located in Indiana. He was married to Miss Mary Paris of Clinton county, Ind., November 18, 1860. On June 6, 1862, Mr Gue enlisted with Company G, Eighty-Sixth Indiana volunteer Infantry, and went at once into the service, being actively engaged the most of the time until the fall of 1863. He participated in many big engagements, including Chickamauga, where he was taken prisoner, September 20, 1863. For ten days Mr Gue was engaged in caring for the wounded on the field of battle at Chickamauga, and then followed eighteen or nineteen months of the terrible prison life for which the civil war was noted. He was confined in Libby for a few days and then taken to Pemberton for a short term. The next transfer was to Danville, and this was in the late fall of that year. The next April Mr Gue was sent to Andersonville, where he remained until November, when he was transferred to Charleston, being confined in the prison yard there almost under the fire of the union guns. He was later taken to Florence, and was released at Wilmington, N. C. under a flag of truce, March 1, 1865. He was a physical wreck with but very little hope of his life being spared, when the government took him to the military hospital in connection with the academy at Annapolis. For weeks the unfortunate man hovered between life and death, was spared, yet never fully recovered a marked degree of health. Returning to Indiana at the close of the war Mr and Mrs Gue arranged to come to Nebraska and located for a time at Brownville, afterwards coming to Johnson county and going on to Todd Creek precinct farm in 1866. A few years later they moved to Tecumseh, where Mr Gue entered mercantile lines for a period. When he was fourteen years of age Mr Gue professed his religious faith and became associated with the Baptist Church. He was a charter member of the Tecumseh church. He remained true to this faith throughout life, and died firm in the belief of the life hereafter. Mr Gue was a prominent member of the republican party and took part in party affairs during his active years. He served Johnson county as a member of the board of commissioners for two terms and had perhaps held other less important political office. He was a member of Heckathorn Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Tecumseh, and was a leader in this fraternity. For a long time the gentleman had not been well, but, most of the time, had been up and about. His physical failure was gradual, and death gave him relief from the pains of the flesh; Wednesday afternoon. He is survived by his wife, a brother, P L Gue of this county, and two brothers and a sister who live in Pennsylvania, and who are Newton and James Gue and Sarah Chambers, all of Perryopolis. Amma Gue and Miss Ota Gue of Long Branch are nephew and niece of the deceased. Mr Gue was an affable, pleasant gentleman, a kind and loving husband, good neighbor and splendid citizen, and he will be missed by any friends, who extend sympathy to the relatives at this time. The funeral was held at the home at 11:00 o'clock, Friday forenoon, and was conducted by Rev George S Price, pastor of the Tecumseh Baptist church. Members of the Grand Army were in attendance. The interment was in the Grandview cemetery at Long Branch. ======= James P Gue James P Gue, 82 years old, died Thursday evening at the home of his son Charles of near Perryopolis. He had spent practically all of his life in Perryopolis. Since the death of his wife, twelve years ago, he had been residing with his son. In addition to the son Charles, there are three daughters, Mrs Roy Lynch, Mrs Alvin Sisley and Mrs J K McIntire of Perryopolis. The body was removed by Funeral Directors Ira Blair & son to the home of Mrs Roy Lynch, where services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev Percy Davis, pastor, of the Perryopolis Christian Church, officiating. Interment will be made in Mount Washington cemetery. (YOD 1927) ============ Tecumseh, Nebraska, Saturday, August 6, 1927 TAPS FOR AN OLD SOLDIER PETER L GUE DIED AT LONG BRANCH TUESDAY Was a Native of the State of Pennsylvania and Served With An Indiana Company Peter L Gue of the Long Branch section, in failing health for six or seven years, suffered a paralytic stroke at bedtime, last Monday evening, and he expired at 11:00 o'clock, a m on Tuesday, August 2, 1927. Mr Gue and daughter lived on a farm which had long been the family home, and he had suffered previous strokes. His age was ninety years, ten months and seventeen days. Peter Layton Gue was a son of Elijah and Sarah (Layton) Gue, and he was born in Perryopolis, Pa., September 13, 1836. The days of his boyhood and young manhood were spent in Fayette County, Pa., and his education was secured in the common school. Mr Gue was married to Miss Dorcas Dent Halliday, at Michigantown Ind., October 21, 1866, and his wife departed this life, in Johnson county, February 8, 1924. They were the parents of three children, who are all living and who, in the order of their ages , are Ota Gue and Amma Gue of Elk Creek and Mrs Vinnie Baird of Worden, Mont. The brothers and sisters of the deceased are all dead. Mr Gue was a veteran of the Civil war and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic post of Tecumseh until he became too feeble to attend its meetings. He enlisted on Company G, Eighty-Sixth Indiana volunteer Infantry, at Frankfort, June 6, 1862, served throughout the rebellion. and was honorably discharged at the close of the struggle. He was in a number of engagements, but was not injured. However, Mr Gue was in the hospital once or twice, once from injuries received while assisting in getting heavy army wagons out of the mud while on march. In the spring of 1866 Mr Gue came to Nebraska from Indiana, and lived at Brownville for a time. As soon as buildings could be erected he and his young wife located on the farm in Johnson county, which remained the family home up to this time, with the exception of a short time spent in Tecumseh, following the grasshopper devastation in the early years. Mr Gue's principal activity of life was farming, though he worked at the tailor trade in his youth, while living in Pennsylvania, and at shoemaking when he lived in Indiana, and for the short time he lived in Tecumseh. When crops failed he had to work at his trade to make a living, and as pioneers of Nebraska, Mr and Mrs Gue suffered the hardships and privations which were the lot of all early settlers. He was a quiet man, his characteristics being strict honesty and integrity. He was kind and loving to his family, considerate of all, and during the long time he had lived in Johnson county had made a wide acquaintance of admiring friends, who regretted his being stricken in his later years and who mourn with the family the departure of so fine a man. The funeral was held at the home at 10:00 o'clock, Thursday morning, and was largely attended, including old soldiers and Sons of Veterans. Rev W H Wright, pastor of the Tecumseh Methodist church, had charge of the services. The interment was in the family lot in the Grandview cemetery, the burial services being conducted by the Tecumseh camp of Sons of Veterans and being military in their nature.