This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Guthrie Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IBh.2ACIB/686.1.2.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I read with interest your information. I too descend from Dempsie Guthrie who was married to Ann Ellis. My GG-grandmother was their daughter, Eliza Guthrie who married Charley McKinley in Clinton County, Ky. My cousin did a DAR supplemental proving back to Levi Guthrie and the DAR is pretty strict about verifying it's information. Here are some of the resources used: "The State Records of North Carolina (Published under the Supervison of the Trustees of the Public Libraries, By Order of the General Assembly) Collected and Edited by Walter Clark, Vol. XV, 1780-81, pages 619-620" "Notarized bible from Rosa Guthrie Hancock naming Abijah as g-father, Stephen as gg-father, Levi as ggg-father" 1860 Census, Clinton County, KY, Demsie Gutherie naming son Abijah 1850 Census, Clinton County, KY, Abihjah Guthrie naming son Stephen 1810 Census, Adair County, KY, Steph Guthrie with 2 males 0-10 yrs; (1860 Census, Clinton County KY shows Abijah and Dempsie as 54--the correct ages if they were 0-10 in 1810) Levi immediately above Levi in Carteret Co. NC with two males under 16 in 1800 Census (Stephen and Beverly--son of Levi who married Patience Grider, daughter of Martin Grider--19 Dec 1803. Stephen married Betsy Grider 5 Jan 1804, previously proved. Adair Co. Will Rec 1804-1818, Book B p.11 Ky GRC Adair Co, Marriage Bonds, 1802-1826, p. 17 I do have a copy of DAR form submitted and it lists the other DAR #s of people who have also proved back to Levi Guthrie. If you have any more information or resources please let me know. Thanks!