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Description
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Letter from W.B. Graham in Max Meadows Virginia to Richard Gwyn
Max Meadow, Virginia, September 2nd, 1902, Mr. R. L. Gwyn, Mount Airy, North Carolina, Dear richard: Zeb is in west end of county looking after some young cattle. So I conclude to write you. I have concluded not to buy & mix ingredients. It is difficult to get it uniformly mixed. I use a fertilizer containing Phosphoric Acid 8 per cent Ammonia 2 per cent & potash 2 per cent. It is animal bone & potashcompound manufactured by Baugh & Son Baltimore, Maryland. It costs delivered about $19.50 per ton. Over at the other house (Hull Place) they mix 2 sacks of acid phosphate (South Carolina rock) with one of Bone meal. With one sack of this mixture they put about 20 pounds of potash or a sack of muriate of potash to a ton of the mixture. The acid phosphate costs about $13 per ton. The Bone meal about $25.50 per ton, & the muriate of potash about $45 per ton. Bone meal is more prolonged in its effect and will tend to improve clay land. On your sandy soil I hardly believe it will give results as satisfactory as over here. The bone meal is used principally for the ammonia it yields. I believe it would be better you use a fertilizer that will respond quickly & fully. The fertilizer I use is manufactured by Baugh & Son expressly for wheat. It is called Baugh's wheat fertilizer & sometimes known as Baugh's animal bone & potash compound. The establishment is in the city of Baltimore. Hoping you are all well I remain As ever, Yours truly, W. B. Graham
-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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September 2 1902
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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_i93015.029ab_mam
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Source
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Frances Randleman
