William A. Guilford (5 February 1844 – c. October 1909) was a businessman and state legislator from Upson County, Georgia.
William Guilford opened a barber shop in Thomaston, and was involved in organizing the county's annual Emancipation Day celebration, still observed on or about 29 May each year.
Their known children included William (died before 1870), Guilford, Duffield, Lincoln, Douglass, Richard, Ludie, Benjamin, and Lidie (Lydia).
[1] Guilford was one of several witnesses on behalf of political activist William Fincher of Pike County, who was accused of vagrancy in 1868.
The jury sentenced the man to a year of hard labor on the public roads.