Nathan VINEY was born 1800. He married Margaret GWINN on 1820 in Monroe, VA.
Margaret GWINN [Parents] "Martha" was born 1805 in VA. She married Nathan VINEY on 1820 in Monroe, VA.
William C. RINER was born 1821. He died 1895. William married Elizabeth GWINN on 1845 in Monroe, VA.
Elizabeth GWINN [Parents] "Betsey" was born 1812 in Monroe, VA. She married William C. RINER on 1845 in Monroe, VA.
Ephriam J. GWINN [Parents] married Rachel KELLER on 1822 in Monroe, VA.
Rachel KELLER was born 1803. She died 1889. Rachel married Ephriam J. GWINN on 1822 in Monroe, VA.
They had the following children:
F i Mary Jane GWINN was born 1823 and died 1907. M ii William Harvey GWINN was born 1824. M iii Samuel Keller GWINN was born 1826.
Samuel Gwinn
Enlisted 2/11/63 Monroe Co., Absent sick 5/31/63 at home in Greenbrier,
Source: WeaverM iv James Mathew GWINN was born 1829 in Greenbrier, VA. He died 1911 in Harvard, IA. F v Elizabeth Catherine GWINN was born 1830 and died 1910. M vi Hirium GWINN was born 1834 in Green Sulphur, Summers County, VA. M vii Marion F. GWINN was born 1835 and died 1912. F viii Virginia Ann GWINN was born 1837 and died 1890. M ix Harrison H. GWINN was born 1840 in Greenbrier, VA. He died 1926. M x Augustus GWINN was born 1842 in Green Sulphur, Summers, VA. M xi Andrew Herbert GWINN was born 28 Jun 1843 in Greenbrier, VA. He died 1864.
Guinn, Andrew H. Private Private
Thurmond's Company
Film Number M382 roll 23
Enlisted 9/19/62 at Fayetteville, Taken POW 1/3/63 on Lick Creek, Greenbrier Co. WV, sent to CampChase, OH held until exchanged on 3//28/63. In Petersburg Hospital 4/2/63 with Paritis.M xii Bob Marion GWINN was born 1845 in estimate. F xiii Elizabeth GWINN was born 1849 in Greenbrier, VA. M xiv Thomas GWINN was born 1849.
Marshall Harvey RICHAMOND married Mary Jane GWINN on 1841.
Mary Jane GWINN [Parents] was born 1823 in Green Sulphur, VA. She died 1907. Mary married Marshall Harvey RICHAMOND on 1841.
John Henry SURBAUGH was born 1829 in Greenbrier, VA. He died 1876 in Clay, Wayne, IA. John married Elizabeth Catherine GWINN on 1850 in Greenbrier, VA.
Elizabeth Catherine GWINN [Parents] was born 1830 in Greenbrier, VA. She died 1910 in Corydon, IA. Elizabeth married John Henry SURBAUGH on 1850 in Greenbrier, VA.
Marion F. GWINN [Parents] was born 1835 in Green Sulphur, Summers, VA. He died 1912. Marion married Sarah GEORGE on 1859 in Greenbrier, VA.
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Gwinn, Marion Private Private
Film Number M382 roll 23
Enlisted 11/15/62 at Lick Creek, Greenbrier, VA Paroled 4/24/65 Charleston, VA age 28. Taken POW 1/3/63 at Lick Creek, Greenbrier, VA sent to Camp Chase until exchanged 3/28/63. In Petersburg Hospital 4/2-27/63 with debilitis.
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Sarah GEORGE was born 1834. She married Marion F. GWINN on 1859 in Greenbrier, VA.
William Tolliver MEADOR was born 1834 in Giles, VA. He died 1873. William married Virginia Ann GWINN on 1856 in Greenbrier, VA.
Virginia Ann GWINN [Parents] was born 1837 in Greenbrier, VA. She died 1890. Virginia married William Tolliver MEADOR on 1856 in Greenbrier, VA.
Samuel GWINN Jr. [Parents] was born 1772 in Botetourt, VA. He died 1863 in Green Sulphur, Raleigh, WV and was buried in Gwinn Cemetery, Summers, WV. Samuel married Elizabeth TAYLOR on 1803.
Only two of Robert’s sons, James and Samuel, settled in what is now West Virginia. James and most of his descendants remained in Monroe County; Samuel was one of the first settlers in what is now Summers County. He was the father of John, who bought the Round Bottom property from Isaac and Elizabeth Sanner in 1855.
Samuel Gwinn’s first journey across the mountains into what is now West Virginia may have been as a militiaman to guard settlements against the Indians. In 1756 the Virginia General assembly directed that a "chain of forts" be erected along the frontier for the defense of the settlers against the Indians. George Washington was entrusted with planning the locations and supervising the construction of these forts. One of them, Captain Breckenridge’s Fort, was located between present day Covington and Warm Springs, Virginia, just a ridge or two west of the head of the Calfpasture where the Gwinn family lived. (Could this explain the popularity of Breckenridge as a given name in the Gwinn family?) Other forts in this area were Fort Dinwiddie and Fort Dickinson.
In addition to these official forts, many settlers who had substantial cabins fortified their homes by cutting loopholes in upper walls and sometimes by building stockade—type fences around them. When word came to a settlement that the Indians were "on the move", the settlers packed up some supplies and moved into one of these forts to be better able to fend off an attack. This was called "forting". Often, too, members of the militia would gather at an endangered fort to fight off an attack.
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It may have been during one of these expeditions to defend a fort that Samuel Gwinn got his first look at the Greenbrier country. In an earlier affidavit, submitted in applying for a government pension he believed was due him for his military service, he stated that "In the year 1771 or 2 he served a three month’s tour under Captain Laughridge (Lockridge), was drafted in Augusta County, Va., and was stationed at Clover Lick on the headwaters of Greenbrier in Augusta County and was stationed at that place to guard the frontier settlements against the Indians."One of the smaller family forts was located at Clover Lick, which is in present day Pocahontas County. Today, Clover Lick is only an isolated hamlet by the Greenbrier, but according to Dr. Price’s History of Pocahontas County, in those days "The main route for emigration from Maryland, Pennsylvania, and other points north and northeast, passed by Clover Lick, to Kentucky and Ohio. As many as forty and fifty would be entertained overnight. This made Clover Lick one of the most public and widely known places in the whole country." It was the home of pioneer settler Jacob Warwick, and, according to Dr. Price, was the scene of at least two engagements with the Indians.
Samuel Gwinn was to see more of the Greenbrier country in the coming years, and was finally to make it his home. In 1771, Lord Dunmore became governor of Virginia. He, along with several others, including George Washington, was very interested in land speculation west of the Alleghenies. His policies encouraged further settlement in what had been the Indians’ ancestral hunting grounds, and led to what is known as "Dunmore’s War". The Battle of Point Pleasant on October 10, 1774, between Virginia forces and Chief Cornstalk’s warriors, was the only major engagement of this war, but has been called by some the first battle of the Revolution.
On July 24, 1774, Lord Dunmore ordered Colonel Andrew Lewis to enlist men from Augusta, Fincastle, and Botetourt Counties and to prepare to join him at the mouth of the Kanawha River. He himself was to lead a force from Fort Dunmore (now Pittsburgh) and join Lewis there. Colonel Lewis marched by way of Warm Springs and proceeded to gather his forces at Camp Union, near Lewisburg, where about 1100 men were mustered for the march to Point Pleasant. If, as his pension statement declares, Samuel Gwinn was on this march, he passed through country to which he was later to return as a settler. A historical marker at Green Sulphur Springs, now in Summers County, West Virginia, identifies the road there as being part of the route this expedition took. This is in the area where Samuel Gwinn and his descendants later came to own thousands of acres of land.
General Andrew Lewis was a surveyor for the Greenbrier Company, a company organized to speculate in land and encourage settlement west of the Alleghenies. Three members of the Lewis family were among the organizers of this company, and it may have been that they encouraged Samuel Gwinn to settle in the Greenbrier country after the Battle of Point Pleasant. In 1778 Thomas Edgar recorded a survey he made for Samuel Gwinn of one hundred acres of land in Greenbrier County on the "South East Side of Greenbrier River at the foot of Loops Knobbs which he is intitled to by settlement before the first day of January 1778. (The Virginia legislature, in 1779, passed a law that settlers who had taken up land prior to January 1, 1778, might obtain 400 acres at a nominal price and preemption rights to another thousand acres at the usual price of forty pounds per hundred acres.)
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Samuel ‘s older sons, Samuel Jr. and Andrew, remained in Monroe County. Samuel Gwinn took two slaves to the new property, cleared land and built a cabin, and then took his family on horseback across the mountains, Elizabeth carrying the baby Ephraim (born June 14, 1799) in her arms. John Gwinn was then ten years old.
Samuel Gwinn died in 1839 and is buried near Green Sulphur Springs. (Elizabeth died in 1832, at the age of seventy-three, according to the inscription on her tombstone, but there is some reason to question the accuracy of the dates).
Source: http://www.gwinnreunion.org/book/
Elizabeth TAYLOR was born 1785 in Rockbridge, VA. She died 1876 in Summers, WV. Elizabeth married Samuel GWINN Jr. on 1803.
They had the following children:
F i Mary GWINN "Polly" was born 1804 in Monroe, VA. F ii Jane GWINN was born 1806 and died 1859. M iii Jesse GWINN was born 1808. He died 1853. F iv Elizabeth GWINN was born 1809. She died 1830. M v James GWINN was born 1811 and died 1902. M vi John GWINN was born 1812 and died 1878. M vii Samuel GWINN was born 1814 in VA. F viii Sarah GWINN was born 1816 and died 1851. F ix Julia Ann GWINN was born 1818. M x Ruth GWINN was born 1820 and died 1886. M xi Andrew GWINN was born 3 Dec 1821 and died 1913. F xii Nancy GWINN was born 1824 and died 1861. M xiii Laban GWINN was born 1827 and died 1873.
William HANGER married Jane GWINN on 1833.
Jane GWINN [Parents] "Jennie" was born 1806. She died 1859. Jennie married William HANGER on 1833.
James GWINN [Parents] was born 1811. He died 1902 in Madison, IN. James married Mary HUNTZINGER on 1839 in Wayne, IN.
Mary HUNTZINGER was born 1820. She died 1860. Mary married James GWINN on 1839 in Wayne, IN.