Ephraim
Monroe
Guffey
aka Guffee
Born in Amherst, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Unknown Guffey
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Lucy (Morris) Guffey
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Sarah (Underwood) Guffey
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
John Guffey, Leticia (Guffey) Kirby, Ephraim Underwood Guffey, W Denver Guffey, Sarah Jane (Guffey) Bridges, Edsel Guffey and Charles Underwood Guffey
Died
at about age 64
in Jackson, Alabama, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Dec 2012
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Biography
Ephraim was born in 1777... he died in 1841
- Research Note: the following information is for a different Ephraim Guffey (1870-1916).
- Ephraim Monroe Guffey was born in January of 1870 in Jackson County, Alabama, presumably in the area southwest of the City of Scottsboro, known locally as Guffey's Holler. He was the son of Ephraim Berry Guffey and the former Miss Morning Caroline McKinney. He is the grandson of Ephraim Underwood Guffey.
- Ephraim married Susan Elizabeth "Bettie" Willmon Guffey on January 1, 1888, in Marshall County, Alabama. To this union was born children - William Berry, James Silas, Homer Pearl, Ernest Monroe, Roy Freeman, Flora Gladys (Pritchett), and Paul Malloy.
- Ephraim and his family were among the first to join the Free Holiness Movement when it arrived at Gunter's Mountain in 1911.
- Ephraim died August 14, 1916, at the ripe old age of forty-six years old.
- For more information, see "The Guffey Family: Ancestors & Descendants of Ephraim Monroe Guffey", by Shannon D. Byrd.
Sources
Acknowledgements
- Joe Day, firsthand knowledge.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ephraim by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ephraim:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ephraim by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Ephraim:
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~2.34%
Opal (Davis) Probasco
:
MyHeritage DNA
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~1.17%
Cathy Probasco :
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~0.78%
Vicky (Trublood) Parrott :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JW8191613 [compare], yourDNAportal VIC0f10b019, Ancestry member vparrott1
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~0.78%
Frank Walling :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T914492 [compare], FTDNA kit #543495
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Robin Lee
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Guffey-1008 and Guffey-839 appear to represent the same person because: same data, please merge
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