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Letter to Rosamond Gwyn from her daughter A postmarked Chilhowie Virginia
August 24th 1888, My dear Mother, I wrote you sometime since but have never gotten any letter from you. Sis Mary wrote me tho that your hand was stiff so that might to keep you from trying to write me. I have gotten two letters from Richard lately & answered the first one & think will write you this time instead of Richard & say to you that I do not want to sign anything that would cut you out of a support from your land & home that was left for you I understand that it was something of the kind that he Richard wants me to sign I have never gotten the papers but I will not sign it if I did unless I see you first. I want you to live there ??p?el independant of any body & just have any thing & everything you want of your own. If you do not need the rent you can give it to Richard. But Ma be sure and keep it just as it was fixed for you & enjoy all the comforts your money can give you do not live there stinting yourself of anything you know it is yours & no one elses & do not let any one have the control of it. I would not hesitate to sign my own right away to that estate but I never will sign yours away. I do not care what promise is made you I would not want to see you at your old home if it did not belong to you just as it was left for you. You promised us that you would never sign your right away & I hope you have not. I want to go and see you this fall if possible. Martha is here with me & seems to be very honest & will take care of everything the best she can. We are all getting on here about as usual. Rosa has be here & stayed 5 weeks with her little boys. Her ????? was very sick when she came but improved very much. She is with Mittie now & writes me that he is improving still & getting real fat. she expects to go home next week. Jimmie and Mit have paid us two visits each this summer. They both seem very well. I have a good garden & the most chickens I ever did have. I had 47 turkeys as large as grown here & they all disappeared in one day & night but 3 & I have not heard of them since. I am so lonely I do care much for anything. Do wish you would come & spend the winter with me this year. Mr Tate is about as well as has been. Has not had a spell of Rheumatism since spring. He is trying very hard to reform now does not drink so much & I think his health is better. I make a heap of butter now but it has been so hot I have not sent it off for two weeks & have not seen any of the kin out here lately. I have been looking for bro Johns children for some time but none of them comes. Cous Sallie Wright came & spent a day or two with me. I expect she has your home eve this I will write & tell you when I can go over there you must come home with me. Give my best love to Richard, Sister Tishie, Martin, Will and all of the relatives & except ????? of love for your own self ???? Your loving daughter A, the envelope is addressed to - Ms Rosamond Gwyn, Mt. Airy, Surry County, North Carolina, postmarked - Chilhowie, Virginia, August 25, 1888, stamp has been torn off, postmark on the back - Mt. Airy, North Carolina, August 27, 1888
-Hugh Gwyn, born 1804, died 1885, wife - Rosamond Dickerson
-Moved to Mount Airy in 1850
-Home was on the Piper's Gap Road four miles from Mount Airy
-Home was called Idle Wilde
-Hugh and Rosamond had ten children
-One of Hugh's sons was Richard Littleton Gwyn
-Richard Littleton Gwyn was the only child that stayed in Mount Airy
-Richard married Letitia Hollingsworth Gwyn and stayed at Idle Wilde
-Richard and Letitia had eight children
- Imogene (Genie) Gwyn (single),
-Joseph (Joe) Hollingsworth Gwyn who married Blanche Holt, as a young man he operated Gwyn Drug store and ran the nearby White Sulphur Springs Hotel, he died in 1975 at the age of 93,
-Annie Gwyn who married Thomas D. Gilliam and they had three children Nancy Gilliam, Betsy Gilliam and Thomas D. Gilliam Jr.,
-Hugh Gwyn,
-Letitia Gwyn who married William Simpson,
-Richard Reginald Gwyn,
-May Gwyn who married William Ashby,
-Elma Gwyn who married Robert E. Ashby and they had two children
-Next Idle Wilde's ownership fell to Richard Reginald Gwyn and Robert and Emma Gwyn Ashby and Genie Gwyn
-In the 1970's the house stood empty for the first time in 120 years
-It later burned
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Date
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August 25 1888
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Rights
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
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text
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Identifier
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Mta_GFC_i93015.014abcd_mam
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Source
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Frances Randleman
