Individual Details
Hix Guynes
(22 Feb 1909 - 28 Jul 1988)
SHAMROCK - Hix "Doc" Guynes, 79, died Thursday.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today in the Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Wynes Manning, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Dozier Cemetery, by Richerson Funeral Home.
Mr. Guynes, born in Vernon moved to Shamrock in 191. He was a rancher and a rodeo participant. He won many trophies for his competition in rodeos. He was a charter member of the Shamrock Sheriff's Posse. He married Myrtle Smith in 1980 at Shamrock. He was a Baptist.
Survivors include his wife; two sisters, Charlene Stafford of Shamrock and Gladys Knighton of Pomona, California.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, July 30, 1988)
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The Wellington Leader
Thursday, September 13, 1945
Three Day Rodeo Set At Shamrock
The Shamrock Rodeo Club has announced a non-professional rodeo Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 21, 22 and 23. The shows are scheduled for Friday night, Saturday afternoon and night and Sunday afternoon.
Prizes will be awarded for bronc riding, bull riding, dogging, calf roping and cow milking. A sponsors contest will be held, in which the girls are to leave the chute horse back, ride to the center of the arena, dismount, milk a cow, and return to the chute on foot. A junior cowboy contest is also scheduled.
Carl B. Armstrong will be arena director, while Doc Guynes is in charge of all stock and equipment. Mr Guynes is widely known among rodeo fans of the southwest, having ridden in many contests here, as well as winning in Canadian, Mangum and Stamford shows. The Bill Lyons stock of Wichita Falls, wildest in this part of the country, will be leased for the rodeo
(Thanks to Jeanette Perrin Coaly for this article!)
Parents:
Henry Beckham Guynes 1864–1912
Sarah Elizabeth Parker Guynes 1874–1965
Spouses:
Myrtle Arthur Guynes 1909–2002 (m. 1980)
Cora Mae Cagle Guynes 1910–1938
Sallie Olga Davis Guynes 1915–1978
Services will be at 2 p.m. today in the Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Wynes Manning, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Dozier Cemetery, by Richerson Funeral Home.
Mr. Guynes, born in Vernon moved to Shamrock in 191. He was a rancher and a rodeo participant. He won many trophies for his competition in rodeos. He was a charter member of the Shamrock Sheriff's Posse. He married Myrtle Smith in 1980 at Shamrock. He was a Baptist.
Survivors include his wife; two sisters, Charlene Stafford of Shamrock and Gladys Knighton of Pomona, California.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, July 30, 1988)
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The Wellington Leader
Thursday, September 13, 1945
Three Day Rodeo Set At Shamrock
The Shamrock Rodeo Club has announced a non-professional rodeo Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 21, 22 and 23. The shows are scheduled for Friday night, Saturday afternoon and night and Sunday afternoon.
Prizes will be awarded for bronc riding, bull riding, dogging, calf roping and cow milking. A sponsors contest will be held, in which the girls are to leave the chute horse back, ride to the center of the arena, dismount, milk a cow, and return to the chute on foot. A junior cowboy contest is also scheduled.
Carl B. Armstrong will be arena director, while Doc Guynes is in charge of all stock and equipment. Mr Guynes is widely known among rodeo fans of the southwest, having ridden in many contests here, as well as winning in Canadian, Mangum and Stamford shows. The Bill Lyons stock of Wichita Falls, wildest in this part of the country, will be leased for the rodeo
(Thanks to Jeanette Perrin Coaly for this article!)
Parents:
Henry Beckham Guynes 1864–1912
Sarah Elizabeth Parker Guynes 1874–1965
Spouses:
Myrtle Arthur Guynes 1909–2002 (m. 1980)
Cora Mae Cagle Guynes 1910–1938
Sallie Olga Davis Guynes 1915–1978
Events
| Birth | 22 Feb 1909 | Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas |  |  | |
| Census (family) | 18 Apr 1940 | Wheeler County, Texas - Sallie Olga Davis | | | |
| Death | 28 Jul 1988 | Shamrock, Wheeler County, Texas | | | |
| Burial | Dozier Cemetery, Collingsworth County, Texas | | |
Families
| Spouse | Sallie Olga Davis (1915 - 1978) |
Notes
Birth
Hix GuynesEvent Type: Birth
Event Date: 22 Feb 1909
Event Place: Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, United States
Event Place (Original): Vernon Wilbarger Co Tx
Gender: Male
Father's Name: Henry Becton Guynes
Mother's Name: Sarah Elizabeth Parker
Census (family)
Hix Guynes Head Male 31 Texas - Trader, livestockSallie O Guynes Wife Female 25 Texas
Death
Age: 79Given Name: Hix
Surname: Guynes
Birth Date: 22 Feb 1909
State: Texas
Last Place of Residence: Wheeler, Texas
Previous Residence Postal Code: 79079
Event Date: 28 Jul 1988
Burial
There is a preneed marker for Hix in the Wheeler Cemetery with his first wife (mother of his two children), but he is buried here (Dozier Cemetery) with his second wife.Endnotes
1. Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4L6T-7VZM.
2. United States Census, 1940 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4Q6-N3B.
3. United States Social Security Death Index https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JLJH-N3N.
4. Texas Death Index, 1964-1998 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JVN5-ZMR.
5. Texas Death Index, 1903-2000 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZJL-19M.
6. Find a Grave Memorial 35444268.