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When I was very young, I was told that four Gue brothers sailed up the Mississippi River with Lafayette just after the close of the Revolutionary War. As the war was over, the brothers left the ship and set off to make their fortunes in the New World. Whether true or not, it makes for a good story and I can't help but wonder if any of you other Gue descendants have heard it. That fact could validate the story since my line is
My paternal grandfather, Edward (M?) Gue, born in the late 1800s and died of Spanish Influenza in 1918, lived as an adult in a Wyoming mining town where he was the town butcher. He had a sister named Myrtle who lived in Iowa or southern Minnesota. His widow, Mayme Violet Buck Gue, and their three children: Howard Benjamin Gue (1909-1998), Esther Myrtle Gue Lundgren, and Irma Gue Zarrow then settled in central Iowa (State Center, then Marshalltown). The daughters moved to different states after they reached adulthood.
This Gue line will end in name as Howard had three daughters. As Howard’s middle name is Benjamin, I suspect our Gue line is related to the Benjamin Gue who wrote a history of Iowa. I saw such a book in the Marshalltown library 40 years ago.
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