The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-16
ANOTHER ENocH ARDEN.
A Father Mourned as Dead for 50
Years is Found near Pulaski
By an Anxious Son.
Samuel Guthrie the Long Lost Faih r

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Linden House last Wednesday
There was nothing in the circum
stance of his coming TO excite won
der until il was ascertained that his
romantic mission was to find ia
ther whom he had not seen in thir
ty-eight years and who had been
mourned as dead by his family fol-
many a year. His fathers name is
Sam'l Guthrie and he lives on Egg
new, in the 18th district of Giles
county, near Esq. Levi Reeds. He
is now eighty-one years of age. and
he and his aged wife live alone, hav
ing but one daughter, Mrs. j. p.
Murrill, who lives a neighbor. Mr..
Guthrie, the son, is a gentleman OF
elegant appearance, weli-to do
merchant OF the wOrld-famOus town
of Perryville, KY, and is quite in
telligent and communicative. There
Is little to be told of his father, as
fa~ as he could relate, for his exist
ence was unknown, and the son
lived from infancy unacqualEted
with the tender relations that spring
from such surroundings. The rea
sons that impelled the old man to
leave his family and bury himself
from their presence and love forever
would be past finding out if we con
suited only the instincts of nature
and the promptings of a heart that
was not dead to the holy impress
sion of love, and although we did
not learn from the son why the sep
aration occurred, yet from other
persons who knew something of the
matter we learn the following brief
facts: Mr.. Sam'l Guthrie near fifty
years ago was a young man of en-
ergy, with rather an independent
manner of thinking and acting,
somewhat given to dissipatlons OF
fast living. He was married to a
lady Of Boyle county, KY, who was
possessed of a pretty little property,
and after they had lived together
several years and four boys had
been born unto them, his manner of
living began to tell upon the prop
erty of his wife. She demonstrated,
but it had not the effect to change
his habits. Still she objected to his
prodigality, doubtless prompted by
loving desire to cure him of his
follies, as well as to keep intact her
property. Her eXpOstulatiOns at
length grew irksome to him, and his
independent spirit moved him to
no longer brook such haunting re-
Dukes, and so one morning he pick
ed up his hat and left. Doubtless
she thought his anger would be dis
sipated soon and he would return
to his family, but the years rolled
on and old age carried the wife of
former years into her grave without
the hope of her life being realized.
No tIdings of his whereabouts were
ever received, and the little boys
after their mothers death almost
forgot that they ever had father,
until about two months ago some
person acquainted with them hap
pened to stumble upon their father
away down here in Tennessee,
learned his history and communi
Gated 1t to his sons. They lost no
time in ferreting out its truth, com
municated with him by letter, and
the youngest of them, who was but
two years old when his father left,
came down TO carry his aged parent
back to the scenes of his earlier
years and to love and support him
in tottering age. 1t is like a dream
to these stalwart men, themselves
upon the neither slope of life, to have
born to them at this late day a ia
Their. They meyer knew his love
and care, and yet the moment they
learned Of his existence their hearts
went out to him. How wonderful
is man. Here we have reverse in
sticts in men with the same blood
in their veins. One left home, wife
love, all and buried him
self in cold oblivion, demonstrating
a curiously cold indifference of
heart, as ineXplicable as it is unnat-
ural. The sons, learning they had
d father, loved him intensely, and
were as eager to gather him back to
themselves, and to love, honor,
cherish and care for him as he was
to desert them. His four sons are
all well off in a worldly way, and
their intention is to have their ia
Their live with them the balance of
his days. He had promised to re
turn with them, and accordingly
left Pulaski for Perryville Sunday.
Many of our readers know him, but
this phase of his history will be
news to them.