Edward Henry Guillet

The fourth child and third son of Alexandre and Adelaide Guillet was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 25, 1874.  The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio about 1890 where he graduated from Central High School.  He was musically inclined playing drums in several bands and joining his brother Victor in string ensembles.  his son Ross recalls Edward played to entertain the family and he took much pleasure in listening to classical and opera music on his Victorola.  He enjoyed baseball.

He entered the laundry business in Columbus, Ohio and continued for many years.  He became a partner in Penn Sanitary Laundry in Cleveland.  The company endured through the stock market crash of 1929.

He married Mary Louise Green on October 10, 1895.  Their mutual interest in music brought them together.  They had four children: Adelaide, Stanley, Ross (1910) and Mary Lou.  His wife died in 1919 and Edward cared for the 2 younger children with the help of housekeepers until 1931 when the youngest finished high school.  He remarried Kathleen Fitzgerald in 1933.

he died of natural causes on October 1, 1946.

Amanda Ruth Hoyt (Watson)

7/2004

Amanda was born July 1, 1974 in Atlanta Georgia to Steve and Lynda Watson.  Amanda's father left a year later.  She moved to El Paso Texas in fifth grade.  After middle school she needed to move to Ohio to live with her dad and step mother, Claudette.  She attended the original Olentangy High School.  She was on the cross country team, home coming court and student body.  Immediately after high school she joined the Army reserves.  She went through Basic training and then Advanced Training as a medic in San Antonio, Texas.  When she returned she chose to live with the family of a high school friend rather than her father.  Joan and John Peiffer and their three boys became a surrogate family to Amanda.  Amanda enrolled in school at Ohio State University.  During weekend Army drill Amanda met Brue Hoyt.  They lived togther for a year and a half before breaking up.  They began dating again by the summer of 1996.  A year later they were married on July 26, 1997.  She moved into the house he owned on Aberdeen Ave in Columbus Ohio.  She graduated from OSU with a degree in Women's studies in winter 1998.  She quickly acquired employment in the Ohio Senate as a legislative aid for Senator Linda Furney whom she had interned for a year earlier.

Amanda went on to work for Herington, the Minority Leader in the Senate.

April 13, 2004 she had her first Child, Lillian.  December 8, 2006 she had her second child, Eleanor. 

Amanda left the state for a brief time to work for Moresteam.com.  She returned to the state in the Treasurers office.  When Capri Cafaro became minority leader of the senate, she asked Amanda to be her chief of staff.  She is currently working in the private sector utilizing networks and experience gained in public life.

July 2010

Steven David Watson 1942 -

Steven David Watson was born Dec. 14, 1942 to Herbert and Louise Watson.  He was married to Lynda Treat in 1965 and had they had four children: Lisa Ann Tilson (Watson)(June 11, 1965), Paul David Watson (October 14, 1967), Teresa Lynn Cano (Watson) (July 16, 1970), and Amanda Ruth Hoyt (Watson) (July, 1, 1974).  The family Lived in Atlanta Georgia in 1974.  He divorced Lynda in 1975.  Steve worked as an engineer in Mansfield, Ohio where he met Claudette Inscore Hoffman.  He married Claudetteand April 8, 1981.  They moved to Delaware, Ohio where they had built their own log cabin on Ford Road.  His daughter Amanda moved in with him before starting high school in 1988 and lived with them until she graduated, June 1992.  Steve and Claudette retired and moved to  Santa Theresa,  NM, a suburb of El Paso, Texas in 2006.  He moved there to be in the sun and live near his daughters Lisa and Teresa.  He lives with his wife, Claudette, and runs a custom golf cart business called Mountain View Golf Carts.

Lydia Stone Potts (Hoyt)

Lydia Stone Hoyt was born January 30, 1882 in North Monroeville, OH.  Her parents William Jules (Judd) Hoyt  and Harriet (Hattie) M. Hoyt.   Lydia's parents had the same last name because they were second cousins.  The Hoyt line can be traced back to Walter Hoyt  of Somerset, England.   He came to the US in 1629.  She was a licensed practical nurse.  She was working in a hospital when she met George Herbert Potts.  On May 3, 1909 she married George in Sandusky, Ohio.  After her husband died in July 1942 her son, Wallace, was hospitalized for mental illness at Toledo State Hospital.  Lydia came to stay with Wallace's wife and two boys.  She moved to Spokane Washington with Wallace and his family in 1943.  She died of Heart Failure November 2, 1945 in Seattle Washington.  She was buried in Acacia Cemetery.

Louella Golden Guillet (Acra) 1916 - 2006

Lou Acra (1916-2006)

July 1997

Mountaineer Echo Newspaper Week of January 26, 2006 issue: Mrs. Louella GOLDEN GUILLET, age 89, died Thursday, January 5, 2006. She was born October 11, 1916 in Middletown, Ohio, the second oldest of seven children to Walter ACRA and Nellie STAPLES. She graduated from Middletown High School in 1934. She retired in 1968 as a secretary with Monsanto Chemical in Miamisburg, Ohio and moved with her husband Ross GUILLET, to Lakeview Arkansas. She was a hospice Volunteer, helped found and was a Volunteer for the Baxter County Arkansas Library and wrote a newspaper column for the Lake River Times in Bull Shoals, Arkansas for several years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ross in 1995; her parents; sisters, Meredith PECK, and Jan BACK; and her brother, Milton ACRA. Mrs. GUILLET is survived by her son; four stepdaughters; one brother; two sisters; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. 

She was born Oct 11, 1916 in Middletown, Ohio to Charles and Nellie Ruth Staples Acra.  Second of seven children.  I always knew her as Grandma Lou and until I was 8 or 9, I did not know she was a step grandma.  Though she was not my biological grandmother, I always thought of her as such since she married my grandpa before I was born.  She sent letters often (always typed).  She was one of the nicest people you'd meet.  She was married in Sep. 1934 to Milan Alexander and had a son, James Alexander (last known to me living in Virginia in 2007), from that marriage.  They were divorced in 1947.  She married my Grandpa Ross Guillet April 24, 1964

Lauretta Elizabeth Guillet (Monroe) 1913 - 1963

1938

Lauretta Monroe was born April 10, 1913, the fourth and last child of Frank Forest and Dorothy Phillips Monroe, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio.  1913 was a year long remembered because of flooding caused by heavy rains in the Ohio River Valley.

Lauretta (Laurie or Rett) enjoyed a normal childhood, probably pampered because she was the youngest child and only girl.  She participated in sports and loved to go fishing.  Following high school she entered Western Reserve University School of Nursing and graduated in 1935.

She worked hospital, private duty, and clinical nursing, and several summers as a camp nurse at Ho Mita Koda (a camp for diabetic children).  It was at camp that she met Ross Guillet.  They were married August 13, 1938.

She was the proud mother of four daughters (Dorothy, Linda, Jane and Sally) who reflected her loving care and interest.  Camping with her family was a great joy.  She was involved with the Red Cross and Church activities.

Lauretta was diagnosed with brain cancer.  She is not in the video of Linda's wedding September 1962 she was mostly hospitalized in her final year of life.  My father describes her battle with cancer very difficult.  She succumed to cancer in Ohio Februaury 27, 1963 after a long hard fight. 

It has never been pursued as far as I know but her husband worked with Polonium for years and I wonder if there was a connection to her cancer.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium#Toxicity

George Herbert Potts

George Herbert Potts was born July 31, 1878 in  Manchester, England (a less reliable account states he was born in Yorkshire).  His parents were Edward Potts and Sarah Ackroyd.  George studied Civil Engineering at Cambridge University in England. George was married Dec 26, 1903 in Bolton, Lancashire, England to Mary Yates  They had one child, Lucy Yates Potts.  George left Mary.  He came to the United States by way of Canada.

While working as an engineer on a crane explaining what needed to be done, he fell.  He was badly injured and was hospitalized.  While in the hospital he met Lydia Stone Hoyt.  They were married.  Berry Vernon, son of Lucy Yates, records the date of George's marriage to Lydia as May 3, 1909.  George and Lydia's daughter in law, Wilda, told me the marriage was not legal and writes that George was not a US citizen ans that it caused Lydia to need to be "repatriated in October 1943 in Toledo, Ohio."

They had four children:  Herbert Jay Potts born in Denver, Colorado Aug 19 1910,  Ada Margaret Kinsella (Potts) born in Cleveland, OH August 10 1906, Elsa Wallace Florian (Potts) born Sep 6, 1913.  and Wallace Potts Hoyt (Hoyt Potts) born in Norwalk, Ohio March 17, 1917.

George died of Tuberculosis July 4, 1942 in Green Springs, Ohio.