Cecil Elliott McGuire

1896 - 1983  (87 years)

• Name	Cecil Elliott McGuire  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Birth	2 Jul 1896	Osage City, Osage County, Kansas   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Oct 1983	Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona   [1, 4, 9]
  Notes	This brief biography was excerpted from a longer biography written by Keith David McGuire, Jr. titled "Cecil Elliott McGuire 1896-1983" Cecil was born in Kansas, moving to with his parents and older brother to the Oklahoma Territory in December 1898. He attended rural schools in Dewey County, Oklahoma, attending through the eighth grade. He moved to New Mexico when he was 18 where he worked as a cowboy on the Drag A Ranch near the town of Datil. He met his future wife, Jean Pearl Phillips, in Magdalena, NM, when he attended her High School graduation ceremony with her brother, a friend of his. On May 17, 1918, he joined the United States Navy at El Paso, Texas, serving until his discharge at Mare Island, near San Francisco on January 28, 1919. During his enlistment, he went to an Electrical Technician School. He was robbed of his savings on the night of his discharge, while staying at a YMCA. He worked odd jobs in both Westwood, California, and also was sent train fare by his father and brother Elvis to join them at a farm near the border of Alabama and Tennessee to help them manage the farming operations. When he had enough saved, he returned to Datil, and went to work for Nations Land & Cattle Co, and continued with the improvements to the homestead he had acquired to joining the Navy. He married Jean Phillips on Christmas Day 1920. The couple relocated to Hurley, NW after Cecil was hired by Mr. Hermann, the husband of a close friend, and fellow teacher of Jean's. Cecil started out in the machine shop at the Nevada Copper Co. The McGuire and Hermann families later both relocated to Bisbee, AZ to work for the Copper Queen Mine Company. Cecil later was promoted to the Copper Queen Smelter, a branch of the Phelps Dodge Corporation in Douglas, Arizona. He also continued his education via correspondence courses, night school, and on the job training, learning the engineering skills necessary to register as a Civil Engineer (Arizona, 1938), and Civil Engineer/Water Rights Surveyor (Nevada, 1958). During his engineering training, in the early to mid-1930's, he worked as a field engineer during the construction of the Hoover Dam. He also worked at the Bureau of Public Roads in Phoenix, supplementing his income by staying rent free in the citrus farm of his supervisor, working evenings and weekends to plow, irrigate, pick fruit, and operate the smudge pots to keep the fruit from freezing. He also did freelance work in surveying and mapping for ranchers and for the city of Douglas. In the 1940's Cecil and his younger brother Keith McGuire Sr collaborated on designing and building a prototype twin counter rotating rotor helicopter design. Keith worked on the fabrication of some of the components. After Keith's untimely death in 1948, Cecil abandoned the project. Cecil took a train from Arizona to Oklahoma to attend Keith's funeral. He later told Keith Jr that he completed the last leg of his long train trip by riding the Caboose of a freight train from Elk City to Camargo, to arrive sooner than he would have had a waited for the scheduled passenger train run. Cecil was an avid hunter and fisher. He and his middle daughter, Ida Mae, took an annual fishing trip every summer, the final one taking place in 1983, shortly before his death. They had to cancel the 1982 trip after Cecil was struck by a car riding his bicycle and was briefly hospitalized. He and his wife Jane were life members of the Hurley New Mexico branch of the Masons and Eastern Stars. (Research):Cecil enlisted into the armed services on 17 May 1918, at the age of 22. His date of birth was erroneously shown on his military records as 2 July 1894 versus his actual year of birth as 1896. He was released from Military service on 28 Jan 1919.
  Person ID	I1885	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	Henry David McGuire,   b. 19 Jan 1868, Lexington, Lauderdale County, Alabama d. 3 Feb 1944, Trail, Dewey County, Oklahoma (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Anna Mary "Mamie" Kuykendall,   b. 12 May 1870, Missouri d. 4 Sep 1934, Camargo, Dewey County, Oklahoma (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	4 Dec 1893	Lyndon, Osage County, Kansas   [1, 2]
  	It appears that they were seperated as of the publication of HISTORY OF THE KUYKENDALL FAMILY SINCE ITS SETTLEMENT IN DUTCH NEW YORK as she was listed as living in Osage City, Kansas and her husband and children were shown as living in Trail, Oklahoma. They reunited when both lived in Illinois during the 1930's, but had separated again prior to her death.
  Photos		McGuire, Henry David and Mamie Kuykendall Family circa 1909, Farm at Red Creek, Oklahoma This picture was taken west of Trail, Oklahoma around 1909, on the McGuire farm on Red Creek. Pictured are, left to right: Henry, Ellen held by her mother Mamie, Keith holding the wagon handle, an unidentified farm hand, Percy, Cecil and Elvis.
  		McGuire, Henry David and Mamie Kuykendall Family circa 1914 Family of Henry David & Mamie (Kuykendall) McGuire Oklahoma, circa 1914 Top Row (L to R): Elvis, Percy, Cecil, Keith Bottom Row: Hildred, Henry David, Ellen, Mamie
  Documents		Kuykendall, Anna Mary "Mamie" to Henry David McGuire, Sr. Marriage Certificate from Osage County, Kansas, December 1893
  Family ID	F174	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Pearl Jean Phillips,   b. Between 1897 and 1900, Oklahoma d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	25 Dec 1920	Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona   [1]
  Children	1. Living   2. Living   3. Living
  Family ID	F1248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

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  Birth - 2 Jul 1896 - Osage City, Osage County, Kansas Marriage - 25 Dec 1920 - Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona Death - 18 Oct 1983 - Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		McGuire, Henry David ca 1900 with wife Mamie, Osage City, Kansas Henry with his wife, Mamie Kuykendall, and their two oldest children, Percy and Cecil, in Osage City, Kansas, ca 1897.
  		_McGuire, Cecil Husband of Jean Phillips B. 1896 Kansas D. 1983 Arizona
  		McGuire, Henry David and Mamie (Kuykendall) Children, September 1934 Percy (b. 1895), Ellen (b. 1908), Keith (b. 1905), Elvis (b. 1901), Hildred (b. 1910), and Cecil (b. 1896) McGuire. Taken at Trail Property, Oklahoma, at the time of their mother Mamie's funeral.
  		McGuire Brothers at School, Dewey County, Oklahoma, 1911 This photo was taken at the Cyclone School, Trail OK School District #16 Brothers Percy, Elvis and Keith McGuire are labeled. Brother Cecil is standing, on the far right of the second row. PLEASE HELP US IDENTIFY THE UNKNOWN STUDENTS.

  
  

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