Lockridge GWINN [Parents] was born 1815. He died 1882. Lockridge married Elizabeth BRAGG on 1848.
Elizabeth BRAGG married Lockridge GWINN on 1848.
Caleb LIVELY was born 1820. He married Sidney GWINN.
Sidney GWINN [Parents] was born 1816. She died 1889. Sidney married Caleb LIVELY.
Eldridge GWINN [Parents] was born 1817. He died 1881. Eldridge married Cynthia Ann SURBAUGH on 1844.
Cynthia Ann SURBAUGH married Eldridge GWINN on 1844.
William VINEY married Francina S. GWINN on 1839.
Francina S. GWINN [Parents] was born 1813. She died 1885. Francina married William VINEY on 1839.
Samuel Lake GWINN [Parents] "Sam" was born 1824. He died 1899. Sam married Francis Jane LOWRY on 1897.
Francis Jane LOWRY married Samuel Lake GWINN on 1897.
Laban G. GWINN [Parents] was born 1828 in Greenbrier, VA. He died 1900 in McKendree, Fayette, WV. Laban married Mary Jane BURDETT on 1854.
Laban G GWINN was born on 28 FEB 1828 in , Greenbrier, WV(VA). He died on 16 MAR 1900 in McKendree, Fayette, WV(VA). Parents: John GWINN and Sarah "Sally" GEORGE.
He was married to Mary Jane BURDETT on 16 NOV 1854 in , Greenbrier, WV(VA). He was sealed to spouse on 1 JUN 1978. Children were: Sarah C GWINN, John Henry GWINN, George Loomis GWINN, Virginia Belle GWINN, Emily A GWINN, Cynthia J GWINN, Ella E GWINN, Lewis Sherman GWINN.Source: http://www.familyorigins.com/users/h/i/s/Patricia-A-Hiser/FAMO1-0001/d54.html#P6936
Laban and his wife must have been already living on the property. Nelson Gwinn has a document signed by George S. Birditt and Giles Birditt (Burdette) giving permission for Laban Gwinn to marry their sister, Jane. This is dated the fourth day of November, 1854. By 1861, Laban had built a house and barn on the Round Bottom property and was farming there. But the life there was to be disrupted by the Civil War, which brought hardship, heartache, and division to so many families in the border state of West Virginia.
This heartache is evident in a letter written to Laban Gwinn while he was a refugee in Indiana by his brother-in-law, Samuel. The letter was written in 1863, in Iowa, where Samuel, perhaps, had settled on the "congress land" his grandfather had directed to be purchased for the use of his grandsons. He wrote:
I have received no letters from my own parents since this rebellion broke out, or since this war began. I was, am yet, and always will be Union; live or die, sink or swim, survive or perish and I supposed that you must have all gone South for I continued to write to you for some time after and I received no letters. It’s a long night of anxiety; two years and more—and no letter from Papa, or Mother, or brother, or sister, or cousin, or friend, or the home of our birth. And particularly when times are such as they are.
Laban, too, was a Union man, and his loyalty was to cost dearly. (Other letters written to Laban Gwinn while he was in Indiana were published in West Virginia History, Volume XLIII, no. 3, Spring 1982, "The Civil War Letters of Laban Gwinn: A Union Refugee," by William E. Cox.)
In September of 1861 there was active fighting in the New River Valley. General Floyd had artillery positioned on Cotton Hill to keep the Union forces from using the ferry at Gauley Bridge. On October 29, General Rosecrans stationed Brigadier General H. W. Benham opposite the mouth of Loup Creek with 3000 men, but New River "went on a rampage," and they were unable to get across the river to destroy Floyd’s artillery. However, there was a skirmish at McCoy’s Mill, site of present-day Glen Jean, and Floyd’s cavalry commander was killed. Floyd fell back to Piney Creek in Raleigh County and McCoy’s Mill was then in the hands of Union troops. In December of that year, Laban Gwinn took the oath of allegiance before a Union officer, and was given a pass back to his home on New River.
W. D. Thurmond, of Oak Hill, joined the Confederate Army on August 26, 1862, and organized a company of partisan rangers who were sworn into the army as part of Lt. Cal. David S. Hounshell’s Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, on September 19, 1862, at Fayetteville. Although they were not formally organized until September, these guerrilla fighters were active in the New River Valley during the previous summer. Some time in August, Laban Gwinn was warned ( family tradition says by a neighbor boy whom he had befriended, and who swam the river to warn him) that the Confederates were coming to arrest him. While Laban guarded the boat landing with a rifle, Mary Jane packed food, clothing, and three small children (Sarah, John, and eighteen-month-old Loomis) into a covered wagon. The family started up the mountain toward Camp McCoy’s Mill, and as they looked back, saw their house and barn burning.
Source: The Gwinns of Round Bottom
By Leona Gwinn Brown
http://www.gwinnreunion.org/book/
Mary Jane BURDETT was born 1838. She died 1910. Mary married Laban G. GWINN on 1854.
John Henry PATTERSON married Catherine GWINN.
Catherine GWINN [Parents] was born 1834. She died 1900. Catherine married John Henry PATTERSON.
Joseph S. CRANE Sr. [Parents] was born 1783. He died 1839 in Baltimore. Joseph married Catherine SOPP.
Other marriages:WOODFIELD, Sarah Ann
In 1806, Joseph opened a business as a shoemaker on the West side of lower Manhattan.(29) In 1808, he married Catharine Sopp in the Zion Lutheran Church in Baltimore, Maryland.(30) It is interesting to note that then, as now, the Zion Church services were conducted only in German.(31) It would seem that Joseph was conversant in German as well as Dutch and English, as were many merchants of the day. The last record of Joseph's business in New York City was in 1809, where he is listed in the New York Directory as Joseph S. Crane, shoemaker at 152 Cherry Street.(32)
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The early 1830s brought many changes in Joseph's life. He purchased 5,575 acres in Greenbrier from his half- brother, William Kip Scudder; and Joseph's wife, Catharine, although she could not sign her name, opened her own bank account in Baltimore.(44) It is probable that Joseph was spending more time preparing for their new life in Greenbrier County. Baltimore was rife with disease and difficulties, and there was a great movement westward. He had plans to build a gristmill on his land on Meadow River in Greenbrier.(45)...
Joseph purchased additional land in Greenbrier in 1834, the prime 212 1/2 acres of property on Meadow River, (50) where he cleared some land and built a home. Over a hundred years later, three millstones were uncovered on that same property along Mill Creek. The log house, built without nails, still stands today on US Route 60, although it was moved from its original nearby location.(51)
Catherine SOPP married Joseph S. CRANE Sr..
They had the following children:
M i George Washington CRANE. F ii Mary Jane CRANE. M iii Edward Ebbets CRANE. M iv Benjamin Franklin CRANE.
Benjamin Franklin Crane and James Amos Crane married sisters, Hannah McClung and Martha McClung, daughters of William Joby McClung and Mary May "Polly" Callison. Benjamin and James were farmers, and both served in Company F of the 27th Virginia Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, during the Civil War. James Amos and his wife had eight children. He died at his home near Big Clear Creek at about 61 years of age.(80
Source: West Virginia
Historical Society
Quarterly
VOLUME XVI, NO. 4
October, 2002
The Cranes of Greenbrier County
By Diane Crane Benelli, C. Michael Pavesi, Charles A. Cohenour, Kathy Cohenour
http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs1604.htmlM v James Amos CRANE.
Benjamin Franklin Crane and James Amos Crane married sisters, Hannah McClung and Martha McClung, daughters of William Joby McClung and Mary May "Polly" Callison. Benjamin and James were farmers, and both served in Company F of the 27th Virginia Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, during the Civil War. James Amos and his wife had eight children. He died at his home near Big Clear Creek at about 61 years of age.(80
Source: West Virginia
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VOLUME XVI, NO. 4
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By Diane Crane Benelli, C. Michael Pavesi, Charles A. Cohenour, Kathy Cohenour
http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs1604.htmlM vi William Henry Harrison CRANE was born 1815. M vii Joseph S. CRANE Jr. was born 1816.
Amick's Independent Scouts
Hounshell's Batt'n Virginia Cav. (Partisan Rangers.)
Crane, Joseph S.
Crane, Joseph S. First Lieutenant First Lieutenant
Company not specified
Source: National Archives Film Number M382 roll 13
Joseph S. Craine, 2nd Lt. Amick Company
Source: Supplement to official Records
Born 1815 if his father
Enlisted 1861 at Meadow Bluff by Col. Echols, paroled 4/25/65 at Lewisburg, age 25
Enlisted 1861 in 27th VA Infantry, meadow Bluff, promoted to 4th Sergeant 6/1/63, AWOL 2/29/64.
Resident of Lewisburg 1890.
Source: Weaver
Born 1840, or a son?
All of Joseph's sons from his first marriage, except for Joseph Jr. married and settled in Greenbrier and raised their large families there. Joseph Jr. served in the Navy for three years, (67) although there are no surviving records for that time period. He is referred to as "Captain" Joseph S. Crane in the Lewisburg Chronicle dated 1851 where he ordered the Lewisburg Light Infantry Company to a "parade in full uniform, arms and accoutrements, on Saturday the 12th April at 4 o'clock p.m."(68) He also served in the State Militia during the Civil War.(69)
Following his father's death, Joseph Jr. became guardian of his father's children by Sarah Ann; and through his efforts, he was able to secure a land bounty on their behalf for Joseph S. Crane's service m the war of 1812. Sarah Catharine sold her portion and her rights to Mill Creek farm to her stepfather, John Martin for $200. It is not known what use Richard or John Quincy made of the land. For a time, Richard K. lived with Joseph in ahotel in Lewisburg in the 1850s.(70) A printer by trade, (71) Joseph Jr. published a newspaper called The Western Era that evolved into The Greenbrier Weekly Era, of which he was sole owner until he sold it in 1860. He maintained contact with his sister, Mary Jane, and her husband, William Starr in Baltimore and was a Lewisburg representative for the Wesley Star & Sons business in "tobacco and all kinds of western produce and provisions."(72)
In the 1880s, Joseph Jr. lived with his oldest brother, Edward, (73) and in 1898, he died at the home of his niece, Mrs. Anna Catharine Crane Hines, on Mill Creek.(74) His obituary describes him as "Captain," and portrays him as a man who "... was charitable to a fault, giving away all he ever made to relatives and friends..." He, too, is buried at Amwell Baptist Church cemetery in Rupert.(75)
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Joseph CRANE [Parents] married Sarah KIP on 1774 in New York.
In December of 1774,(5) Sarah Kip married Joseph Crane in the Dutch Reformed Church in New York City, the same church where she was christened in 1755.(6) Joseph was a surveyor from Essex County, New Jersey; and it is the authors' belief that Joseph was the son of Ezekiel Crane and Elizabeth Holloway, one of five children. Ezekiel fought in the French and Indian Wars, and in 1758 he was taken prisoner by the French at Oswego, and then died in Canada.(7) After Ezekiel's death, Joseph's mother married John Range.(8)
The following September with the Revolution imminent, Joseph wrote his will and named Sarah as executor, along with Sarah's father, Richard Kip, and John Range, whom we believe to be Joseph's stepfather. Naming Sarah sole heiress to his estate, Joseph refers to her as his "... dear beloved wife... of the City of New York..." Sarah's brother, Richard Kip, and her brother-in-law, Daniel Ebbets, both witnessed the will.(9)
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Sarah KIP married Joseph CRANE on 1774 in New York.
They had the following children:
M i Joseph S. CRANE Sr. was born 1783 and died 1839.
Ezekiel CRANE [Parents] married Elizabeth HOLLOWAY.
Joseph was the son of Ezekiel Crane and Elizabeth Holloway, one of five children. Ezekiel fought in the French and Indian Wars, and in 1758 he was taken prisoner by the French at Oswego, and then died in Canada.(7) After Ezekiel's death, Joseph's mother married John Range.(8)
Source: West Virginia
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VOLUME XVI, NO. 4
October, 2002
The Cranes of Greenbrier County
By Diane Crane Benelli, C. Michael Pavesi, Charles A. Cohenour, Kathy Cohenour
http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs1604.html
Elizabeth HOLLOWAY married Ezekiel CRANE.
They had the following children:
M i Joseph CRANE.