James Morris Guier -- Young Victim of a Vehicle Accident

 

James Morris Guier  was born on May 1, 1934 in Trigg County, Kentucky. He was the sixth of seven children born to Amos Ira Guier and Ambie Lois Bridges Guier.  Amos was a carpenter and both he and Lois were natives of Trigg County.  James, or Jimmie as he was known, was a descendant of Drewry Bridges.

Jimmie’s siblings were Jesse Lloyd Guier, born in 1920 and died at the age of 1½ years old; Virginia Guier, born in 1922 and married Vernon Eugene Anderson; Juanita Guier, born in 1924 and died at the age of 4 years old; Dorothy Nell Guier, born in 1929 and married Cecil “Bill” Vernon Bridges; Jane Colleen Guier, born in 1931 and married Lloyd Shelton; and Clara Josepine Guier, born in 1938 and married Jerry Uriah Price.

Jimmie lived most of his life in Trigg County except for a three-year period when he lived near Paducah, Kentucky. In 1940 he entered the first grade at Andrew Jackson School in Paducah.  Over the following years he attended several other schools, and in 1949 he was a member of the eighth-grade class at Trigg County High School.  He was active in the High School Band where he played the trumpet and was a member of the Cadiz Boy Scouts.

On Saturday evening, September 17, 1949 around 7:30 p.m. Jimmie along with two friends, Eugene Sumner, age 22  and Frieda Bridges, age 15 were enroute from Cadiz to Princeton to attend a movie.  The threesome was traveling in a half-ton pick up truck.  They were traveling in a very hard rain at the time and it was difficult to keep the vehicle on the road.  They were on the Cadiz-Princeton Road near the Rock Spring Church where there was a noted dangerous curve.  As they approached the curve in the torrential downpour, the vehicle left the road and crashed.  Jimmie was killed instantly at the scene of the wreck; his cause of death given as a crushed skull.  Fortunately, Eugene and Frieda were unhurt in the crash.

Jimmie was 15 years old at the time of his death.  He was buried in the Lawrence Cemetery in Trigg County.

 

 A young Jimmie Guier

Jimmie, far right, with his sisters

 

Jimmie tombstone

 

LINEAGE:  (James Morris Guier was the son of Amos Ira and Ambie Lois Bridges Guier.  Amos was the second child of Nathan Stanley and Emma Lee Sumner Guier.  Emma was the second child of Benjamin Miles and Henrietta Gabrella Bridges Sumner.  Henrietta was the first child of Drewry and Peachie Ann Tart Bridges.  Drewry was the fourth child of William and Mary Thomas Bridges.  William was the fourth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges.  Ambie was the seventh child of Alfred Franklin and Minnie Lancaster Bridges.  Alfred was the fourth child of Simco N. and Emeline Martin Bridges.  Simco was the third child of William and Mary Thomas Bridges.  William was the fourth child of Drury and Charity Cohoon Bridges.)