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Description
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Letter to Richard Gwyn from his brother Hugh Gwyn in Chatham Hill Virginia
Chatham Hill, Virginia, April 21, 1898, Dear bro, I return the note herewith hope will reach you in time. Could we claim I was bidding for you on the land. I think it will be all ok. no one will kick as I have never claimed the land or had any benifit from it. We are all well. I have never seen Jim. I will keep paper till do see him then will return it. Will look for you and sister ? this summer. Much love, Your bro Hugh
-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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April 21 1898
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Rights
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
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Type
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text
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Identifier
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Mta_GFC_i93015.022_mam
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Source
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Frances Randleman
