Rev. Asbury Weston Guyer

1832 - 1899

• Prefix	Rev.
  Born	26 Apr 1832	Blair County, Pennsylvania
  Gender	Male
  Died	17 Dec 1899	Duncansville, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania
  Buried	Everett Cemetery, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania
  Person ID	I6897	Johnson Hindin Tree
  Last Modified	5 Jun 2017

  
  

  Family	Catherine Amelia ASHCOM,   b. 7 Oct 1843, Colerain Twp., Pennsylvania ,   d. 1893, Martinsburg, Blair Co., Pennsylvania
  Married	1866
  Children	1. Herbert A. Guyer,   b. 1869,   d. 21 Jun 1889, Bellwood, Pennsylvania   2. Mary Elizabeth Guyer   3. Maude I. Guyer,   b. 1872,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Nellie H. Guyer,   b. 15 Apr 1876, Pennsylvania ,   d. 29 Nov 1959, Inyo Co., California   5. Edna R. Guyer,   b. 2 Feb 1879, Pennsylvania ,   d. 30 Oct 1909, Homestead, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F2809	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  According to Asbury's obituary in the December 22, 1899 edition of the Bedford Gazette, Asbury was a Methodist minister from 1854, first in the itinerant ministry in the churches in and around Altoona, Pennsylvania. According to a post in the message boards of ancestry.com at http://boards.ancestry.netscape.com/surnames.guyer/13.17.24.43.101.102/mb.ashx (copied in 2009), the following material is from a "Manual Of The Central Pennsylvania Conference" (no date given): In 1866 while stationed at Hollidaysburg, Rev, Guyer was united in marriage to Catherine B., daughter of Benjamin Ashcom, who resided near Everett, Pa. She proved a faithful helpmeet for twenty-seven years, dying at Martinsburg in 1893. To them were five children: one son, Herbert, died by accident in 1889 at Bellwood, and four daughters, Mrs.Harry Lindsay, of Bellwood, and Misses Maud, Nellie, and Edna, survive. To quote from one who know knew him intimately,"Brother Guyer was preeminently a preacher of the Gospel." He never turned aside to business. To him it never lost its magnitude and importance; it was his chief joy. He had preached it nearly forty-six years and in twenty-three different appointments. From Maryland on the south to Clearfield on the north, from Schuylkill on the east to Blair on the west, in all these lovely valleys and pleasant hillslopes drained by the Susquehanna and the Juniata, his voice and his message had been heard, every hill and stream were familiar to him. He had never seen the "inside of a college," but by close application and regular habits of study he had acquired a substantial fund of information. He was one of a family of preachers, all natural orators, and he himself possessed the gift of extemporaneous speech to a remarkable degree. He used no notes. His theme developed as he progressed, as the petals of a rose unfolded into bloom. From his home and charge at Duncansville, Blair County Pa., of pneumonia on Sunday, December 17,1899, Rev. Asbury W Guyer, age sixty-seven years, passed to his eternal reward. He was born April 26,1832, in Warriors Markvalley, Huntingdon County, Pa., three miles from Tyrone, where his parents George and Mary Guyer, reared a family of eight sons and two daughters, of whom only one brother, Caleb Guyer, of Tyrone, survives. Five of these eight sons, John, George, James, Simpson, and Asbury, became ministers of the Gospel. When eighteen years of age, young Asbury was converted at a camp meeting held at Laurel Springs under the pastorate of Rev.J.S. McMurray. Receiving an unmistakable call to the ministry, he was given a license to preach, and served one year as a supply under the presiding elder on Sunbury Circuit. Guyer suffered a severe attack of typhoid fever, which so impaired his health that he was compelled to take supernumerary relation for two years.