Alma and Pink Guier
Sidney Alma Williams was born on November 27, 1901 in Trigg County, Kentucky. She was the oldest of eight children born to Thomas Green Williams and Johnnie Vara Thomas Williams. Thomas Green was a farmer and both he and Johnnie were natives of Trigg County. Alma was a descendant of Starkie Thomas.
Alma’s siblings were Annie Lucille Williams, born in 1903 and married Robert Elliott Malone; Gillis Thomas Williams, born in 1905 and married Kittie Hendricks; Lillie Roberta Williams, born in 1908 and married Olive James “Ollie” Cunningham; Loys Lamont Williams, born in 1910 and married Mary Leta Boyd; Geneva Evelyn Williams, born in 1913 and married Earl Wane Simmons; John Cullen Williams, born in 1915 and married Audrey G. Forrest and later married Vera May Cox Gibbs; and Forest Hilda Williams, born in 1918 and married Gilbert N. Bridges.
On April 24, 1920, Alma married Pink Harrell Guier. Pink was born on May 23, 1893 in Trigg County. He was the son of Edwin R. Guier and Mary “Molly” Tyler Harrell Guier. Edwin was a farmer and both he and Mary were natives of Trigg County.
Pink served his country during World War I. He was inducted in the U.S. Army on May 34, 1918 and was trained at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville. He was assigned to the 4th Company, 1st Battalion, 159th Depot Brigade, but he did not serve overseas. Unfortunately, Pink suffered from the measles, mumps, and typhoid fever, in addition to other diseases he contacted during the service. The diseases left him with a crippled left arm and he was given a disability discharge on June 8, 1919, with the rank of private.
Alma and Pink settled in their first home which was the old Toll-Gate building on Highway 68 about two- and one-half miles west of Cadiz in the Warrenton community. They later erected a new frame home and the Toll-Gate building was relocated to the side of the yard and was used as a work shop throughout Pink’s life. Pink and Alma had one of the first wind-powered radio sets and first oil-powered refrigerators in Trigg County in the days before rural electricity was established.
As a farmer, Pink was a forerunner of trying new products, implements and methods of farming. He was one of the first to use crushed lime on his farm, working through the University of Kentucky. Along with being a grain and tobacco farmer, Pink raised hogs as well as beef cattle. His farm was recognized as a model farm that used some of the most modern practices in producing top grade crops year after year.
Alma and Pink were the parents of two sons, Lacy Elarth Guier, born in 1921 and married Macie Juanita Stone and Pink Harrell Guier, Jr., born in 1924 and married Betty Sue Green.
Pink died on April 27, 1967 at the age of 73 at the Trigg County Hospital in Cadiz. He was buried in the Green Hill Memorial Gardens in Hopkinsville. Alma died on March 28, 1978 at the age of 76 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville. She was buried in the Green Hill Memorial Gardens in Hopkinsville next to her husband.
Alma tombstone
Pink tombstone
LINEAGE: (Sidney Alma Williams was the daughter of Thomas Green and Johnnie Vara Thomas Williams. Johnnie was the third child of William Henry and Sidney Dyer Thomas. William Henry was the third child of Stanley and Emily Ann Light Thomas. Stanley was the second child of Starkie and Mary Bridges Thomas. Starkie was the fourth child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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