Weymer Joseph Guptill, (1877-1912) 

Headstone GPS Coordinates: Grave location unknown in the cemetery.

Birth: 31 August 1877, Minnesota

Death: 12 February 1912, Crosby, Kitsap County, Washington

Relatives in Seabeck Cemetery: None

American Revolutionary War Patriots*: Reuben Libby (Massachusetts) DAR # A001169

Isaac Farnworth, SR, (Massachusetts), Jonas Farnsworth (Massachusetts) 

Disclaimer: These lines have not been officially proven by NSDAR standards.

Weymer Joseph Guptill was born on August 31, 1877, in Minnesota, possibly in Meeker County, to John Guptill of Maine and Sarah Lenora Libby of Northfield, Maine. His father was a farmer. Weymer was the fourth of six children; his three older siblings were born in Maine, while he and his two younger siblings were born in Minnesota.

By 1889, when Weymer was twelve, the family had moved west to Port Ludlow, Jefferson County, Washington, where John found work as a laborer. Living with them was Sarah’s younger brother, Lorin Libby, then thirty years old, who was also employed as a laborer. Tragedy struck the following year when Sarah died at the age of thirty-eight from unknown causes. At just twenty years old, Weymer’s sister Lucia—the eldest child—likely assumed responsibility for her younger siblings until her marriage six years later.

By 1900, John had settled in Seabeck, supporting himself as a shoemaker. Weymer does not appear in the 1900 census, and his whereabouts during this period remain unknown. However, his marriage license, dated March 29, 1905, lists his residence as Seabeck. On that date, he married Jessie Hinton, also of Seabeck. Weymer was twenty-seven, and Jessie was twenty-one.

The couple had three children, all born in Seabeck: Cecil (1906), Ivan (1909), and Vera (1910).

In 1910, Weymer was farming his own 80-acre property west of Tahuya Lake, near what is now Peter Hagen Road. Located on the property was the Crosby Post Office, where Jessie served as postmistress. John, by then elderly, was living with the family as well.

Weymer’s life was cut short by illness. Like many residents of Seabeck and Crosby during that period, he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis. He died at his home in Crosby on February 12, 1912, at the age of thirty-four. His brother-in-law, Lester Clough, served as the informant on his death certificate. Weymer’s funeral was held at the family residence, followed by his burial at Seabeck Cemetery. Sadly, no headstone marks his grave, and its exact location is unknown.

After Weymer’s death, Jessie relocated to Port Townsend with their three young children, where her parents were then living. She later remarried and went on to build and operate her own candy store near Port Townsend High School.