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"Mother had but one brother, the oldest of the family. We called him Uncle Guian, and he seemed to have been quite a favorite with my mother as I recall her conversation about him. He worked at the shoemaker's trade while he was getting a medical education. After that he practiced medicine in Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. He was three times married, but neither wife lived very long. There were two daughters of the second marriage. My last uncertain news of them was that they were
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somewhere in Minnesota. Uncle Guian took service in the army during the civil war as a surgeon, and he died in the service. No picture of my mother was ever secured by any of the family, and the only pictures I have are of Aunt Eliza Morrow and Uncle Guian. My recollection is that my mother's features were more after the likeness of the brother than the sister.
