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Description
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Envelope Addressed to Mr. R.L. Gwyn from W.J. Smith in Fancy Gap Virginia
After 10 days return to J. Smith, Fancy Gap, Virginia, addressed to - Mr. R. L. Gwyn, Mt. Airy, North Carolina, 2 cent stamp, postmarked - Fancy Gap, Virginia, May 7, 1906, 7:00 am, postmark on back - Mount Airy, North Carolina, May 7, 1906, 12:30 pm, REC'D
-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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May 7 1906
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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_i93015.037_mam
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Source
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Frances Randleman
