Guthrie is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Kanawha County,

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, United States, near Twomile Creek. Guthrie is named after James Guthrie who settled in the area around 1798. In 1800 he married Elizabeth Casdorph. James and Elizabeth had brothers serve in the

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. They had nine children: Henson, Elijah, Mary, Nancy, Martha, Sarah, James, John, and Julia Ann. Sarah was the grandmother of

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insurance agent Norris W. Hensley. James Guthrie's second wife was Judith Hensley. The Bonham Dairy was in Guthrie.https://www.mywvhome.com/thirties/bonham.html

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Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Kanawha County, West Virginia {{KanawhaCountyWV-geo-stub