A veteran of the Spanish-American War, Will served as a Private in Company A, First Battalion Nevada Volunteer Infantry, July 9th to October 29th, 1898. Will enlisted and was discharged from service on the same dates as his brother, Oliver (State of Nevada Biennial Report of the Adjutant General, 1899-1900).
Judge Clark Guild remembered his brother Will in his 1967 Oral History for the University of Nevada:
"My brother Will followed mining in Silver City and Como. He was accidentally hurt by a rock out of an ore chute in one of the mines in Como, and while it didn't show permanent injury, later on in life when he was one of the guards at the smelter at Wabuska, the Thompson Smelter, it developed through the years that this injury that he had recieved had developed cancer. And he died at my home in Yerington."
"I was very young, but I owed, and my brothers and sisters owed, a great deal to my brother Will. He was called "Happy." He had foregone his higher education. Dad was getting old, and he was the support of the family and very much devoted to all of us and faithful to the end."
"He was incapacitated with cancer. I asked Dr. Huffaker at the time, who was in Carson, if we should send him to Mayo's. And he said, "Clark, it won't do any good. The boy is beyond repair. Make him comfortable." So we had a side sun porch. And if I was fifteen or twenty minutes late in getting home from the office, why, he'd commence to worry. "I don't know why people don't let Clark come home when his office hours are over. They just keep him going all the time, all the time." He had a watch hanging up by the post, and he was watching the watch all the time."
The Yerington Times, May 17, 1919
DEATH OF WM. R. GUILD
"Sadness has again entered the home of a pioneer family of the county. Early Friday morning, Will Guild succumbed to sarcoma, a malady from which he had suffered for the past six months.
For the last four months he has been with Mr. and Mrs. Clark Guild, where he has received constant care. During the last days, one of his devoted sisters has been constantly with him, ministering to his every want. Mrs. Slingerland, Mrs. Eglin and Mrs. Buckley have alternated weeks between the aged, infirm mother at Dayton and the suffering brother here.
The death of this young man in his prime of life has saddened his relatives and friends to an unusual degree. His amiable disposition and sterling qualities had won him many friends.
William Russell Guild was born in Dayton, Nevada, February 14, 1879, the son of Lucius A. Guild and Mrs. Maria Wheatley Guild. He spent his life at Dayton and in other parts of Lyon County, with the exception of the time spent on his grandfather's farm in Utah.
He was a miner and before his death was employed at the Thompson Smelter. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having been a volunteer with Co. A., First Nevada Battalion. He was also a member of Lyon Lodge No. 12, Knights of Pythias.
Surviving are his mother, three brothers, Lucius E. of Ogden, Henry C. and Clark J. of this city [Yerington], and three sisters, Mrs. George Slingerland of Pocatello, Idaho, Mrs. Lucy Buckley of Sacramento, and Mrs. George Eglin of Dayton.
The funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Knights of Pythias will be in charge of the funeral, Dr. Dixon will preach the sermon, and the Brother Knights will officiate at the grave."
Judge Clark Guild remembered his brother Will in his 1967 Oral History for the University of Nevada:
"My brother Will followed mining in Silver City and Como. He was accidentally hurt by a rock out of an ore chute in one of the mines in Como, and while it didn't show permanent injury, later on in life when he was one of the guards at the smelter at Wabuska, the Thompson Smelter, it developed through the years that this injury that he had recieved had developed cancer. And he died at my home in Yerington."
"I was very young, but I owed, and my brothers and sisters owed, a great deal to my brother Will. He was called "Happy." He had foregone his higher education. Dad was getting old, and he was the support of the family and very much devoted to all of us and faithful to the end."
"He was incapacitated with cancer. I asked Dr. Huffaker at the time, who was in Carson, if we should send him to Mayo's. And he said, "Clark, it won't do any good. The boy is beyond repair. Make him comfortable." So we had a side sun porch. And if I was fifteen or twenty minutes late in getting home from the office, why, he'd commence to worry. "I don't know why people don't let Clark come home when his office hours are over. They just keep him going all the time, all the time." He had a watch hanging up by the post, and he was watching the watch all the time."
The Yerington Times, May 17, 1919
DEATH OF WM. R. GUILD
"Sadness has again entered the home of a pioneer family of the county. Early Friday morning, Will Guild succumbed to sarcoma, a malady from which he had suffered for the past six months.
For the last four months he has been with Mr. and Mrs. Clark Guild, where he has received constant care. During the last days, one of his devoted sisters has been constantly with him, ministering to his every want. Mrs. Slingerland, Mrs. Eglin and Mrs. Buckley have alternated weeks between the aged, infirm mother at Dayton and the suffering brother here.
The death of this young man in his prime of life has saddened his relatives and friends to an unusual degree. His amiable disposition and sterling qualities had won him many friends.
William Russell Guild was born in Dayton, Nevada, February 14, 1879, the son of Lucius A. Guild and Mrs. Maria Wheatley Guild. He spent his life at Dayton and in other parts of Lyon County, with the exception of the time spent on his grandfather's farm in Utah.
He was a miner and before his death was employed at the Thompson Smelter. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having been a volunteer with Co. A., First Nevada Battalion. He was also a member of Lyon Lodge No. 12, Knights of Pythias.
Surviving are his mother, three brothers, Lucius E. of Ogden, Henry C. and Clark J. of this city [Yerington], and three sisters, Mrs. George Slingerland of Pocatello, Idaho, Mrs. Lucy Buckley of Sacramento, and Mrs. George Eglin of Dayton.
The funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Knights of Pythias will be in charge of the funeral, Dr. Dixon will preach the sermon, and the Brother Knights will officiate at the grave."
A veteran of the Spanish-American War, Will served as a Private in Company A, First Battalion Nevada Volunteer Infantry, July 9th to October 29th, 1898. Will enlisted and was discharged from service on the same dates as his brother, Oliver (State of Nevada Biennial Report of the Adjutant General, 1899-1900).
Judge Clark Guild remembered his brother Will in his 1967 Oral History for the University of Nevada:
"My brother Will followed mining in Silver City and Como. He was accidentally hurt by a rock out of an ore chute in one of the mines in Como, and while it didn't show permanent injury, later on in life when he was one of the guards at the smelter at Wabuska, the Thompson Smelter, it developed through the years that this injury that he had recieved had developed cancer. And he died at my home in Yerington."
"I was very young, but I owed, and my brothers and sisters owed, a great deal to my brother Will. He was called "Happy." He had foregone his higher education. Dad was getting old, and he was the support of the family and very much devoted to all of us and faithful to the end."
"He was incapacitated with cancer. I asked Dr. Huffaker at the time, who was in Carson, if we should send him to Mayo's. And he said, "Clark, it won't do any good. The boy is beyond repair. Make him comfortable." So we had a side sun porch. And if I was fifteen or twenty minutes late in getting home from the office, why, he'd commence to worry. "I don't know why people don't let Clark come home when his office hours are over. They just keep him going all the time, all the time." He had a watch hanging up by the post, and he was watching the watch all the time."
The Yerington Times, May 17, 1919
DEATH OF WM. R. GUILD
"Sadness has again entered the home of a pioneer family of the county. Early Friday morning, Will Guild succumbed to sarcoma, a malady from which he had suffered for the past six months.
For the last four months he has been with Mr. and Mrs. Clark Guild, where he has received constant care. During the last days, one of his devoted sisters has been constantly with him, ministering to his every want. Mrs. Slingerland, Mrs. Eglin and Mrs. Buckley have alternated weeks between the aged, infirm mother at Dayton and the suffering brother here.
The death of this young man in his prime of life has saddened his relatives and friends to an unusual degree. His amiable disposition and sterling qualities had won him many friends.
William Russell Guild was born in Dayton, Nevada, February 14, 1879, the son of Lucius A. Guild and Mrs. Maria Wheatley Guild. He spent his life at Dayton and in other parts of Lyon County, with the exception of the time spent on his grandfather's farm in Utah.
He was a miner and before his death was employed at the Thompson Smelter. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having been a volunteer with Co. A., First Nevada Battalion. He was also a member of Lyon Lodge No. 12, Knights of Pythias.
Surviving are his mother, three brothers, Lucius E. of Ogden, Henry C. and Clark J. of this city [Yerington], and three sisters, Mrs. George Slingerland of Pocatello, Idaho, Mrs. Lucy Buckley of Sacramento, and Mrs. George Eglin of Dayton.
The funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Knights of Pythias will be in charge of the funeral, Dr. Dixon will preach the sermon, and the Brother Knights will officiate at the grave."
Judge Clark Guild remembered his brother Will in his 1967 Oral History for the University of Nevada:
"My brother Will followed mining in Silver City and Como. He was accidentally hurt by a rock out of an ore chute in one of the mines in Como, and while it didn't show permanent injury, later on in life when he was one of the guards at the smelter at Wabuska, the Thompson Smelter, it developed through the years that this injury that he had recieved had developed cancer. And he died at my home in Yerington."
"I was very young, but I owed, and my brothers and sisters owed, a great deal to my brother Will. He was called "Happy." He had foregone his higher education. Dad was getting old, and he was the support of the family and very much devoted to all of us and faithful to the end."
"He was incapacitated with cancer. I asked Dr. Huffaker at the time, who was in Carson, if we should send him to Mayo's. And he said, "Clark, it won't do any good. The boy is beyond repair. Make him comfortable." So we had a side sun porch. And if I was fifteen or twenty minutes late in getting home from the office, why, he'd commence to worry. "I don't know why people don't let Clark come home when his office hours are over. They just keep him going all the time, all the time." He had a watch hanging up by the post, and he was watching the watch all the time."
The Yerington Times, May 17, 1919
DEATH OF WM. R. GUILD
"Sadness has again entered the home of a pioneer family of the county. Early Friday morning, Will Guild succumbed to sarcoma, a malady from which he had suffered for the past six months.
For the last four months he has been with Mr. and Mrs. Clark Guild, where he has received constant care. During the last days, one of his devoted sisters has been constantly with him, ministering to his every want. Mrs. Slingerland, Mrs. Eglin and Mrs. Buckley have alternated weeks between the aged, infirm mother at Dayton and the suffering brother here.
The death of this young man in his prime of life has saddened his relatives and friends to an unusual degree. His amiable disposition and sterling qualities had won him many friends.
William Russell Guild was born in Dayton, Nevada, February 14, 1879, the son of Lucius A. Guild and Mrs. Maria Wheatley Guild. He spent his life at Dayton and in other parts of Lyon County, with the exception of the time spent on his grandfather's farm in Utah.
He was a miner and before his death was employed at the Thompson Smelter. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War, having been a volunteer with Co. A., First Nevada Battalion. He was also a member of Lyon Lodge No. 12, Knights of Pythias.
Surviving are his mother, three brothers, Lucius E. of Ogden, Henry C. and Clark J. of this city [Yerington], and three sisters, Mrs. George Slingerland of Pocatello, Idaho, Mrs. Lucy Buckley of Sacramento, and Mrs. George Eglin of Dayton.
The funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Knights of Pythias will be in charge of the funeral, Dr. Dixon will preach the sermon, and the Brother Knights will officiate at the grave."
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