MRS. GWINN DIES AT 91
Cynthia George Gwinn, daughter of John and Sarah Gwinn, was, along with her husband, Samuel Keller Gwinn, the first of our line to settle in Iowa. She lived a hard life in pioneer Wayne County, loosing six children between 1852 and 1892 and seeing one die in prison for killing her son in law.
Her headstone in the Gwinn Cemetery spells her name "Sintha" and I believe that is how she thought of herself. She lies next to her husband and near the seven children she buried in her lifetime.
I may have already published her obit from the the Chariton Leader but the Humeston New Era copy was harder for me to find so I added it, too. There is little difference between them.
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