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From: "James Boatwright" <>
Subject: Re: [ALDALLAS-L] GWIN & WILSON Families in Dallas Co.
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:06:31 -0600
References: <200111221510.fAMFA9e08039@newmail.rootsweb.com>


I just remembered that when we lived in the country in Dallas County until 1951,
our RFD mail carrier was a Jesse Wilson from Orrville, Dallas Co., Alabama. I
know he had 2 or 3 brothers. Charlie? Walter? A Walter Wilson was a car
salesman at the Progressive Chevrolet dealership in Marion, Alabama, from the
1940's thru the 1950's.
A lady, Mrs. June Moore, who would know all about these, is now in the hospital
here. When she gets better, maybe I can ask her.

James




----- Original Message -----
From: "jmcdgwin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [ALDALLAS-L] GWIN & WILSON Families in Dallas Co.


> >Subject: Re: [ALDALLAS-L] GWIN & WILSON Families in Dallas Co.
> >Sent: 11/22/20 10:23 AM
> >Received: 11/21/01 5:43 PM
> >From: James Boatwright,
> >Reply-To:
> >To:
> >
> Hello, James--good to meet you! :-)
>
> >I went to grammar, junior, and high school in Selma, Dallas Co., Alabama with
> >Ernest Gwin(n) and his twin sister (I forgot her name right now, but can get
> >it).
> >Ernest joined the US Navy around 1951 - 53.
> >He and his sister both passed away not too long ago.
>
> Well, that is fascinating to me, and I'd certainly be interested in
> knowing her name. I'd also like to know more about who they were, as I'm
> missing quite a few relatives in the area. How big a population did/do
> these schools serve--just the city or the entire county? I wonder if any
> of their siblings are still alive.
> >
> >Thank You,
>
> Thank YOU, James--I'm looking forward to hearing and learning more from
> you!
>
> >James
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "jmcdgwin" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 3:38 PM
> >Subject: [ALDALLAS-L] GWIN & WILSON Families in Dallas Co.
> >
> >
> >> It has been awhile since I sent anything to the list, and in case there
> >> are new people on the list now, I'd like to introduce my family and see
> >> if anyone knows more about them. THANK you all for reading this and
> >> responding if you can help or have any questions.
> >>
> >> Around the time Alabama was becoming a territory and just before
> >> statehood, my Ggg-grandparents John and Jane (nee Walker) Gwin struck out
> >> from East Tennessee (Blount Co. is where she was raised and they were
> >> married) and settled in Dallas Co., AL, where all nine of their children
> >> were born and raised and where Jane is no doubt buried. They lived most
> >> if not all of that approximately fifty-year period of time--from the
> >> end/aftermath of the War of 1812 to the end/aftermath of the Civil
> >> War--in Cahawba/Cahaba.
> >>
> >> Meanwhile, two brothers and their wives--Nathaniel Burdine Wilson (and
> >> his wife Jane Jones) and Ezekiel Burdine Wilson (and his wife Sarah
> >> Harrell Rasco)--left their homes in SC and traveled to AL, showing up in
> >> Limestone Co. for the 1820 census. They, too, eventually made their ways
> >> to Dallas Co., where two of Nathaniel's children met and married two of
> >> John and Jane Gwin's kids. There were several other relatives of all
> >> three of these families who also moved to Dallas Co.--parents, siblings,
> >> et al.
> >>
> >> John and Jane Gwin's family:
> >>
> >> 4.1--Isham Gwin , Dallas Co. Justice of the Peace
> >> ------m. date unk. Mary Burdine WILSON*
> >> 4.2--Mary Gwin
> >> ------m1. 27 Dec. 1838 Drury Hampton Roark;
> >> ----- m2. 17 May 1849 Mr. Abel Turner
> >> ---------5.1--Walter Roark--killed at Gettysburg
> >> ---------5.2--Anna Turner m. Rufus King Gwin, her first cousin
> >> 4.3--Thomas Gwin
> >> 4.4--William Gwin, my Gg-grandpa
> >> -----m. 12 May 1842 Rosann "Roe" Carlisle Jones WILSON*
> >> ---------5.1--Mary Ann Elizabeth Gwin m. Robert Guy Lochridge
> >> ---------5.4--William Sutton Gwin m. Ida Eliza Bassett (my g-grandparents)
> >> -------------6.1--James Bassett Gwin, Sr., my grandpa
> >> ------------------m. Adrian "Ada" Belle Vardaman, my grandma
> >> ---------5.7--Isham Griffin Gwin, Sr., m. Mary Etta "Molly" Self
> >> 4.5--Sarah Gwin m. Louis Basset
> >> ---------5.1--Emma Basset, m. 22 May 1867 Champe Carter McCullough
> >> ---------5.2--Ann Adelia Basset, died young
> >> 4.6--Mary Ann Gwin m. Joseph Lavalett Basset
> >> 4.7--Martha I. Gwin m 22 Apr 1847 Jesse Comelander
> >> 4.8--Chesley R. Gwin m1. 20 Mar 1850 Frances E. "Fannie" Bell;
> >> -----m2. Mrs. Blevins, a widow
> >> 4.9--Louisa A. Gwin; m1. Mr. Gaviness;
> >> -----m2. 17 May 1849 Mr. William G. McKnight.
> >>
> >> By 1870, John had moved with his son William's family to Wilsonville in
> >> Shelby Co., and Cahaba was all but a ghost town.
> >>
> >> I wish each of you a most enjoyable and spiritually beneficial
> >> Thanksgiving! :-)
> >> Father, I THANK You for all these friends and family. Draw them close to
> >> Yourself, and give each a deepened desire to know You personally better
> >> and better. Thank You for Your encouragement, for meeting all our needs,
> >> for taking care of us, and for letting us all know just how much You love
> >> us,
>
>
>
>
> In Jesus,
> John
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