Peter Guice Burial Site at Friendship Baptist Church

This video was filmed at the historic Friendship Baptist Church in Saluda, NC, which was established in 1834 and primarily features the burial site of Peter Guice (1788-1873). The Guice family came from Scotland in the 1780s and settled near the Howard Gap Trail, at the top of a downward slope to the Green River crossing. The family built a drovers inn, stock pens, a grist mill, and a blacksmith shop to accommodate travelers. A son, Peter Guice, built a wooden bridge to replace the ford where the Howard Gap Trail crosses the Green River. Today, the Interstate 26 bridge crosses the Green River at almost the identical spot and bears his name.
An interesting note: The Guice (Guise) People, are descended from the Royalty Lineage of the Guice People who married relatives and were of the Royalty Lineage of England and Scotland of 1300's /1400's...see a Library Book on Mary, Queen of Scots. She was born a Stuart. Her mother is Mary Guice, a Lady Gambler and Card-shark, and was married to King James V. Mary Guice is the oldest Daughter of Claude, Duke of Guice. Claude's wife was Lady Antoinette of Bourbon. Mary, Queen of Scots, became Queen of Scotland, when she was 9 months old. Source: ancestry.com, Virginia Stewart Houk
Filmed and produced by Cindy Stephenson Tuttle, Historic Saluda Committee
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[@mavmation2534]

What an interesting graveyard! I’m an English/Scottish Guice as well!

[@martinanderson312]

Fascinating, Cindy! Thanks for posting this. So curious to know more about those unmarked graves, especially the wooden ones. I noticed the grave of your great-great-great grandfather is listed as Joseph E. Guise, but that interesting script about him that you read called him Joseph Alexander Guise...

[@cindytuttle8506]

Martin, his name was Joseph Ellaxander Guice, with an E. Yes, I want to learn more about the very old graves especially the one tucked back in the woods. We should speak to the preacher there. He's been there since the 1960s.