Henry Guth, Jr.
December 4, 1892 - February 22, 1987

Departure April 3, 1919 at St Nazaire, France
Arrival April 14, 1919 at Hoboken, New Jersey on the U.S.S. Floridian (ID 3875)
Unit Company K 362nd Infantry
Rank Sergeant
Service Number 2261311

Buried Mountain View Cemetery, Livingston, Montana

The Guth Family
Back: Raymond, Alma, Anne, Lora and Albert
Front: Alice on Henry Jr.'s lap, Henry Sr., Dorathea holding Mabel, and Julius holding Florence.

HENRY AND DORATHEA GUTH
Henry and Dorathea (Wieck) Guth lived on a farm 1/2 mile west and 1/2 mile north of Aspinwall, where Frank Kasparbauer now lives. Dora Wieck was born in 1875 in Schleswig-Holstein, a province in north Germany then under Danish rule. Her father, Jacob Wieck was an officer in the Danish army. Disliking this and horse meat rations, he took his family to Clinton and Davenport, Iowa, the destination and disbursement center for immigrants from the German lowlands and the Low German speaking people.

Henry was born in Iowa in 1869, the son of a Civil War army captain, whose father, Dr. Guth, received permission from the King of Denmark to migrate to the United States. Henry's father traded his livery stable for the homestead which became the Guth Estate. His mother managed and rented the homestead to the Wieck family, who broke the prairie sod. She had lost her husband in the Colorado Gold Rush.

Henry, 22, married Dora, 16. They purchased the farm and 10 children were born to this union: Henry, Julius, Lora, Alma, Anne, Raymond, Albert, Alice, Florence and Mabel. All attended the Aspinwall School. Henry, Sr. died in 1910; Dora stayed on the farm with the children, aged nine months to 17 years. Lora died at the age of 20 and her son Donald was adopted by his grandmother Dora; he has been listed in ''Who's Who." Henry Jr. received the Croix de Guerre in World War I.
Alice, Florence and Mabel taught in the Crawford County schools.

Dora passed away in 1968 at 93 years of age. Henry, married to Angeline Kuhns, lives at Wilsall, Montana; Julius, deceased, was married to Elva Axland; Lora, deceased, was married to T.R. McCann; Alma, deceased, was married to Edward J. Ewoldt; Anne, deceased, was married to Bob Eickelcamp; Raymond is married to Florence Baker; Albert, married to Leona Petersen lives at Audubon; Alice, deceased, was married to Joe Lamp; Florence, married to Carl Wegner, lives at Wilsall, Montana; Mabel, whose husband Oliver Ohde is deceased, lives in Spokane, Washington; and Donald is married to Josephine Lindsey.

Memories by Chloris (Guth) Zimmerman daughter of Henry Guth Jr.
In September 1917 Henry Guth went into the military service. Boot training was at Camp Lewis, Washington. While he was in the service he corresponded with an attractive neighbor girl, Angeline Kuhns.
Sgt. Guth was sent to France. His unit Co. K, 362nd Infantry, 91st Division, was in the Battle of Lile Shilt near Steenbruge, Belgium.
Of the 250 man Co. K, there were 14 survivors and he was their commanding officer.
Co. K got replacements and then fought in the Battle of Argonne Forest in France.
They didn't come out of that in real good shape either.

France awarded Henry the "The Croix De Guerre" with palm for bravery. Other major battles for Company K were St. Mehil and Muse.

Note: Henry (WWI) could be considered Henry Guth, III, as his grandfather was Henry J. Guth, whose son was Henry, Jr, who had the WWI generation Henry.

Henry Guth
Henry Guth, a decorated World War I Veteran, died Sunday, February 22, 1987, at the Livingston Memorial Hospital. He was 94.

Mr. Guth and his wife came to the Ringling area in 1926 and in 1933 moved to the Shields River Valley where they ranched.

He was a member of the American Legion, Wilsall Vets Clubs, American and Montana Hereford Associations, and the Park/Gallatin Hereford Association. He served as the Park County Democratic Central Committee chairman for many years, the Wilsall School Board, and the Park County Fair Board.

Born to Henry and Dora (Wieck) Guth, December 4, 1892, he was educated in Aspinwall, Iowa, and homesteaded near Sumatra before enlisting in World War I.

He served in France and Belgium and was decorated by the French government with the French Medal of Honor and the "Croix De Guerre" with a palm leaf for bravery.

On October 14, 1919, he married Angeline Kuhns in Billings. Mrs. Guth died in 1953.

Besides his wife, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Evalyn Massman-Stoner, in 1983.

Survivors include two daughters, Elaine Tashjian of Troy, New York; and Chloris Zimmerman of Wilsall; a brother, Raymond of Fort Collins, Colorado; two sisters, Mabel Ohde of Spokane, Washington; and Florence Wegner of Seattle, Washington; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the American Lutheran Church in Livingston with burial in Mountain View Cemetery with military honors at graveside.

The Franzen-Davis-Bebee Mortuary in Livingston is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials may be made to the Wilsall Scholarship Fund or to a charity of the donor's choice.

Independent-Record Helena, Montana February 24, 1987