We have just returned from a trip to Chattanooga, and the Guthrie Family Reunion. Gary has learned that he loves the hills of Tennessee, where he feels the peace and calm of everything God has made for us to enjoy in the nature around us.
It's a long and interesting story of how we are included in this wonderful Guthrie family. To save time and space I will just briefly tell our story:

When Gary's dad, King Evans Guthrie (dob, June 26, 1898) was still a young man living on the family farm in Athens, Tennessee there was something that happened in his life that caused him to become embarrassed, angry, or both. We have heard conflicting stories but do not really know for sure what happened, yet he hopped a freight train, changed his name by dropping his last name and became King (NMN) Evans, of Marshall, Texas. There he met and married a lady named Glee who bore him a son, Robert Evans then died of Scarlet fever. Then as a single father he met another local young lady who also had two young sons. This was Gary's mother, Tennie Mae Young. They had six children, Harold Gene, Anna Marlene, Flora Ilene, Darcy Kate, Gary King, and a baby boy who live only a day. They also lost Anna Marlene at 15 months to some kind of illness.

King never told his secret to any of his children or either wife. No one knew until his oldest son joined the Mormon religion, and in researching his genealogy learned he was really a Guthrie. He came back from a trip to Tennessee with this knowledge, and ask his dad if it were true. King confessed that it was true, but swore him to secrecy until after his death. Then when he died in 1972, Robert came home to Texas to share this information with his step-mother and siblings.

That is when we learned that we were a part of this beautiful family, and ever since we have tried to learn more about them. This was only the second reunion we have attended, but we have made several trips to Tennessee. We are Evans' and our kids are Evans', but we are still also connected to this other whole family named Guthrie.