Amos Ira and Lois Bridges Guier-- Carpenter and Homemaker

 

Amos and Lois Bridges Guier

Amos Ira Guier was born on June 17, 1894 in the Oak Grove  community of Trigg County, Kentucky. He was the second of four children born to Nathan Stanley Guier and Emma Lee Sumner Guier.  Nathan was a farmer and both he and Emma were natives of Trigg County.  Amos was a descendant of Drewry Bridges. 

Amos’ siblings were Frank Elmer Guier, born in 1893 and married Eula Franklin Thomas; Jesse E. Guier, born in 1896 and died at the age of 17 with pneumonia; and Mallie Mae Guier, born in 1898 and married Carey Thomas Vinson.

In 1916. Amos was a member of the Third Infantry of the Kentucky Brigade serving at Camp Stewart in El Paso, Texas.  This unit was of the U.S. Army forces commanded by General John Pershing in Mexico in an effort to capture Pancho Villa and his guerilla army.  Later, on April 13, 1918, Amos joined the U. S. Navy in Louisville, Kentucky,  and he served in World War I.  He was honorably discharged from the Navy on September 11, 1919 with the rating of seaman second class.

After returning from his military service, he married Ambie Lois Bridges on December 21, 1919. Amos and Lois, along with Buck Bryant and Avia Iola Ford went by horse and buggy to Linton, Kentucky where both couples were married while seated in their buggy by Rev. Speck, a Methodist minister.

Ambie Lois Bridges was born on January 12, 1900 on Beechy Fork Creek in the Maple Grove community of Trigg County.  Lois was the fourth of five children of Alfred Franklin Bridges and Minnie Lancaster Bridges.  Alfred Franklin was a farmer and both he and Minnie were natives of Trigg County.  Lois was a descendant of Simco N. Bridges.

Lois’ siblings were Bluford Clyde Bridges, born in 1891 and married Birdie Hopson Calhoun; Albert Claude Bridges, born in 1895 and married Ethelene Bonner; William Hopson “Willie” Bridges, born in 1899 and married Sarah Ellen McCoy; and Denny Lee Bridges, born in 1901 and married Margaret L. Nolan. Lois had three half-siblings from her father’s first marriage to Ella Turner, Charlotte “Lottie” Bridges, born in 1883 and married Harry Winfield Lancaster; John Madison “Matt” Bridges, born in 1884, and married Huewell Tandy Lawrence; and Annie Emmaline Bridges, born in 1888 and married William Albert Ford.

In his early years, Amos worked in Ohio, Florida and other states, working primarily in construction.  In 1943, he was working on the Kentucky Dam project in Marshall County, Kentucky when he decided to return to Trigg County.  In 1943-44, he began building a family home during the middle of World War II when building materials were hard to come by.  He moved his family into the unfinished home in 1944 while he worked on construction of homes, barns and churches in Trigg and Christian counties.

Amos and Lois were the parents of seven children, Jesse Lloyd Guier, born in 1920 and died at the age of 18 months; Virginia Guier, born in 1922 and married Vernon Eugene Anderson; Juanita Guier, born in 1924 and died at the age of 3½; Dorothy Nell Guier, born in 1929 and married Cecil Vernon “Bill” Bridges; Jane Colleen Guier, born in 1931 and married Lloyd Shelton; James Morris Guier, born in 1934; and Clara Josephine Guier, born in 1938 and married Jerry Uriah Price.

Amos died on January 3, 1962 at the age of 67 at the Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz as a result of a heart attack.  He was buried in the Lawrence Cemetery in Trigg County.  Lois died on December 13, 1992 at the age of 92 at the Shady Lawn Nursing Home in Cadiz.  She was buried in the Lawrence Cemetery next to her husband.

 Lois

 

 Amos in World War I

 

Amos and Lois tombstone

 

LINEAGE: (Amos Ira Guier was the son 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 Lois Bridges was the daughter of Alfred Franklin and Minnie Lancaster Bridges.  Alfred Franklin 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.)