Genealogy of the Gwinn Family
in Southern Iowa

Leota Boston Gwinn was my Grandmother on my father's side.  I was 15 when she passed away.  Many of my cousins weren't old enough ...

Anderson Erickson Dairy used to run these cute ads featuring local children and the children's testimony that they like AE Milk and Da...

The original family settled about mid-way between Derby Iowa in Lucas County and Humeston Iowa in Wayne County.  While my branch migrated ...

LUCAS EVENTS REPORTED - November 1955:  Much of my family's history revolves around the coal mining town of Lucas, in Lucas County, Io...

It looks like my whole family was up to something in West Jackson in April 1956.  Jackson is a township in Lucas County, Iowa, West of the...

There comes a time in every genealogist research - - at least I'd like to think that others have the same problem - - that you run into ...

I have been accused reaching too far to be inclusive of family members. Easter Lowe Thommen was my second cousin, twice removed. If her li...

Amos Keller Gwinn, known as A.K. or simply K, was my great grandfather. My uncle Gerald Gwinn's middle name, Kay, is from A.K.'s ...

The history of the Lucas/Wayne County Gwinns is sprinkled with brushes with the law. I think any family our size must eventually have a fe...

Agnes Ferrick Gwinn, one of the last of the senior generation of our family in Iowa, passed away last month. RIP Aunt Agnes

Elizabeth Catharine Gwinn Surbaugh was my great great great grandfather's sister. My working assumption was that Samuel and Mary Jane w...

A J GWINN VISITS MOTHER I found this as I was looking for something else and it intrigued me. "A.J. Gwinn visited over Sunday with hi...

MRS. GWINN DIES AT 91 Cynthia George Gwinn, daughter of John and Sarah Gwinn, was, along with her husband, Samuel Keller Gwinn, the first o...

Easter Lowe was the Great Grand Daughter of my earilest Iowa ancesters, Samuel and Sintha Gwinn. Her father was Leland Gwinn Lowe, son of Ir...

Byron "Deak" Gwinn is notorious for shooting his brother-in-law, Liberty Snooks, to death for "Callin' Ma a liar." I...

Cleo Marie Kent married Andrew Albert Gwinn on Feb 28th, 1931. Her sister, Zella Mabel Kent married Andrew's brother Willie Butch (Bill...

Although she was called Cynthia Gwinn in her obit, I believe she thought of herself as Sintha. That is how her name is written on her heads...

Uncle Amos was always one of my Dad's favorites. I've been told that Dad was named for Uncle Amos, the Raymond becoming simply Ray....

It's been a while since I posted. I ran across this yesterday along with some other older obits and thought it would be a great start t...

When Ralph Snook (son of Liberty Snook who was killed by his brother in law, Deak Gwinn)passed away, he was married to a Mrs. Gladys Agan. I...

I was out to the Gwinn Cemetery this week end to see how bad the storm damage had been from recent bad weather. The good news is that either...

It's been a while since I posted. There've been two local family reunions: The Memorial Day reunion in Russell, IA and the 4th of ...

Herald-Patriot, Chariton Ia, Thurs., Feb. 44, 1926 Andrew J. Gwinn Andrew J. Gwinn was born in Greenbrier county, West Virginia on Aug 6, 18...

I am putting out the call! I'd like to get a picture of the original Gwinn homestead that stood near the Gwinn Cemetery. I am told that ...

A cousin asked me for a copy of this picture. I gave him what I had with me and a promise of a nicer copy when we meet again (see you in Lu...

Several of Squire John Gwinn's children eventually settled in southern Iowa, including Cynthia Gwinn, my ancester and, along with husban...

It's been a short summer with little time for the computer. I've run into a few things I need to post and I've had two distant I...

Andrew J. Gwinn was my great great grandfather, the oldest son of Samual Keller and Cintha Gwinn. You will seen Cintha or Cinthia; her he...

I ran across a postcard of the Gwinn Aircar on ebay a while back and decided to investigate. I know it's off subject a bit, havin...

After several years of planning and over six weeks of work, and just in time for the annual Memorial Day Gwinn Reunion, there is a new g...

EPHRIAM GWINN was the father of Samuel Keller Gwinn and Mary Jane Gwinn, who along with their spouses, Marshall Richmond (it had not yet bee...

I am told that we are "go" for the new gate on the Gwinn Cemetery. If all goes well, I hope to document the process in both pictur...

I just finished reading Castles in the Air, about the renovation of Gwydir Castle, the ancestral home of the Wynne family, Sir John and Sir ...

As we discuss putting a gate up at the Gwinn Cemetery, the question comes up, "Do we know for sure that the cemetery is really named Gw...

I've been reading Castles in the Air . I don't have the book in front of me, so I can't tell you the author. It is written by ...

The first settlers in what is now Richman Township, Wayne County, Iowa were Marshall Richmond and his wife, Mary Jane Gwinn. When Marshall r...

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Hi. This is a test to see if there's any interest. This blog will discuss issues and background of the decendents of Samuel Keller and ...