Richard Walton GWIN^{[1, 2]}

1804 - 1885  (80 years)

• Name	Richard Walton GWIN  [3, 4, 5]
  Birth	30 Jan 1804	Wears Valley, Sevier, Tennessee, USA   [3, 4, 5]
  	See gwingenealogy.net. Nickname was "Dick."
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Jan 1885	Sycamore, Montgomery, Kansas, USA   [3]
  Burial	Neodesha, Wilson County, Kansas, USA   [3]
  	Find A Grave Memorial # 73009279
  Person ID	I340028124144	Welch Webb Haigler Mershon
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	Rev. Isom GWIN,   b. Abt. 1764, Virginia, United States d. Dec 1830, Orange County, Indiana, United States (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Mary Ann CANTERBURY,   b. Abt. 1770, Virginia, United States d. Aft. 1850, Orange County, Indiana, United States (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	30 Aug 1787	Montgomery County, Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F195	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy Elizabeth WATKINS,   b. 15 Mar 1807, Grayson County, Kentucky, USA d. 6 Jul 1885, Neodesha, Wilson County, Kansas, USA (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	12 Apr 1824	Harrison, Harrison, Indiana, United States
  Children	1. Mary GWIN,   b. 13 Feb 1825, Harrison, Harrison, Indiana, United States d. 28 Nov 1893, Richmond, Washington, Iowa, USA (Age 68 years)   2. Elizabeth GWIN,   b. 1826   d. 1826 (Age 0 years)   3. William Watkins GWIN,   b. 29 Sep 1827, Harrison, Indiana, USA d. 17 Oct 1904, Keota, Keokuk, Iowa, USA (Age 77 years)   4. Jane Watkins GWIN,   b. 27 Mar 1830, Sangamon County, Illinois, USA d. 30 Dec 1919, Franklin County, Kansas, USA (Age 89 years)   5. Sarah Ann GWIN,   b. 23 Aug 1831, Menardorschuyler, Sangamon, Piatt, Illinois, USA d. 2 Mar 1926, Grenola, Elk, Kansas, United States (Age 94 years)   6. Dorothy GUINN,   b. 1833, , , Illinois, USA   7. Martha GWIN,   b. 27 Mar 1834, Menard, Illinois, United States d. 11 Jun 1901, English River, Washington, Iowa, United States (Age 67 years)   8. John GWIN,   b. 1835, Illinois, USA d. 1909 (Age 74 years)   9. Nancy GWIN,   b. 1839, , Louisa, Iowa, USA d. 1843, , Louisa, Iowa, USA (Age 4 years)   10. Elizabeth GWIN,   b. 1840, , , Iowa, USA d. 11 May 1911, , Washington, Iowa, USA (Age 71 years)   11. Margaret GUINN,   b. 1842, , Menard, Illinois, USA d. 11 Jun 1901, English River, Washington, Iowa, USA (Age 59 years)   12. Caroline C GWIN,   b. 1844, , , Iowa, USA d. 1909 (Age 65 years)   13. Anna Bear GWIN,   b. 26 October 1845, Washington County, Iowa, USA d. 2 February 1921, Wynona, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA (Age 75 years)   14. Richard Walton GWIN, Jr.,   b. 1847, Washington Co, , Iowa, USA d. 1909 (Age 62 years)   15. Silas Walton GWIN,   b. 3 May 1850, Washington Co, , Iowa, USA d. 19 Nov 1913 (Age 63 years)   16. Martin V GWIN
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2023
  Family ID	F128	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		61101692_135318479420
  		73009279_132952734258

  
  

• Notes

  Obit from R W Gwinn FAG site: R.W. Gwin, father of Mrs. E.T. Wells ws buried in Neodesha Cemetary last Friday. He was a resident of Sycamore Valley and was aged 82 years. He had been a pioneer in the settlement of four territories, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas and was the father of 15 children, 14 of whom were still living; his wife whom he had lived with 63 years, is still living but was too much prostrated by the death of her companion to be able to attend the burial. The old pioneers are passing away and will soon live only in the memories of their children. Buried Neodasha Cemetary, Montgomery Co., Kansas. Richard W. Gwin and Nancy Elizabeth Watkins were the parents of Mary Gwin Baer, William W. Gwin Jr Jane Gwin Haigler, Sarah Ann Gwin, Martha Gwin Snyder, John Gwin, Eliza M Wells, Nancy Gwin Gould, Elizabeth Gwin Adams Silas Walter Gwin. Born, respectively, in Tennessee and Kentucky, Richard Walton Gwin and Nancy Elizabeth (nee Watkins) Gwin also lived in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas. They lived their last years in southeast Kansas on their farm in the Sycamore Valley between Neodesha (pronounced /nee-OH-deh-SHAY/) and Independence. The town of Sycamore lies ten miles south of Neodesha in Montgomery County. They are buried in the Neodesha City Cemetery. Neodesha is in south Wilson Co., 23 miles due north of the seat of Montgomery Co, Independence. Richard Walton Gwin, b. 30 Jan 1804 [John Gwin Note: Cordelia Fischer has 12 Jan 1804; his gravestone says, "Died Jan. 7, 1885, Aged 80 yrs., 11 mo., 6 da."; but my calculations (from the gravestone) came up with Feb. 1, 1804.] in Tennessee [what was all but certain Crowson's Cove, Sevier Co., TN]; d. 7 Jan 1885 near Sycamore, Montgomery Co., KS; bd. Neodesha Cem., Neodesha, Wilson Co., KS--Find A Grave Memorial# 61101692; m. by his father, Isham Gwin (Minister of the Gospel), 12 Apr 1824 [John Gwin Note: Cordelia Fischer has 10 Apr 1824] in Harrison Co. To find their graves, ask anyone in town how to get to the cemetery. Upon arriving, find this thirty-foot- high statue of a Union soldier facing north (left photo). A short road leads north from the statue and tees into another going east and west (center photo). Just across this second road are the Richard Gwin plot and the Silas Gwin plot. Down the second road (to the east) is a third plot, that of Richard's grandson, Albert Wells. Albert's family plot is marked with a huge block of granite with the name WELLS as the only inscription. Smaller stones in front and beside it mark the five individual graves there. The large stone is visible from the statue and appears (in the right photo) to be just in front of the cannon's muzzle, though it is actually a hundred yards ENE of it. Richard's and Nancy's plot (photo, right) contains markers for the following five graves: 1-2. Their own monument (see photos, far right) 3. Daughter-in-law Mary Elizabeth Gwin, w/o Richard W. Gwin, Jr.; 4. Grandson Earl W. Gwin, s/o Richard Jr. and Mary; and 5. Son-in-law Ezra T. Wells, h/o Eliza Louisa Gwin; More individual photos appear at those links. Visible in the distance is the large white marker of the Albert Wells family plotNotes from the gwingenealogy.net Richard Walton pages. Says that his nickname was Dick. MORE INFO ON THE CHILDREN IS ON THE RW GWIN BOOKMARKED SITE.

  
  

• Sources

  [S_834655672] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. [S1235128289] Findagrave, Richard Walton “Dick” Gwin, Sr 7 Jan 1885. Findagrave Richard Walton “Dick” Gwin, Sr [S_820428111] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S_834656119] Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Federal Census, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc), Year: 1880; Census Place: Independence, Montgomery, Kansas; Roll: 389; Family History Film: 1254389; Page: 241C; Enumeration District: 154; Image: 0787. [S1200900126] Ancestry.com, Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, Kansas; 1865 Kansas Territory Census; Roll: ks1865_6; Line: 25.