Date of birth: 1876
Date of death: 01 1949

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Burial Information

Section 10 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0152-03
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary

Last Rites Held
For Delta Planter
Was Lifelong
County Resident

Services for John Edgar Gwin, prominent Delta planter and landowner who died in the Greenwood hospital, Saturday afternoon at 2:30 were held in the Methodist church, Tchula by the Rev. Scott of Itta Bena, assisted by the Rev. H. H. Wallace, local pastor. Burial was in the Lexington cemetery with Southern Funeral home in charge.

Mr. Gwin, the son of Capt. and Mrs. Sam Gwin, pioneer settlers of Holmes county, was born February 21, 1876, and had lived in this vicinity all his life. He was a member of the Methodist Church and of the Board of Stewards.

He was well known for his many contributions to worthy causes.

He married Miss Malie Wyatt to which union were born two sons, Frank Wyatt Gwin and Sam.

After the death of his wife, he married Miss Estelle Merchant of Kosciusko who survives him.

Other survivors are his son, Frank; two sisters, Mrs. J. B. Hutton, of Jackson, Mrs. Vick Robbins of Vicksburg, and one brother, Walter Gwin of Greenwood, and four grandchildren.

Active pallbearers were Sam Hutton, Gilliam Gwin, Edgar Gwin, Byron Sharpe, Tom James, and Walter Gwin.

The Lexington Advertiser (Lexington, MS)
January 6, 1949, Vol. 111, No. 38, Pg. 1

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Family Members

Parents
Capt Samuel Donnell Gwin
1842–1908

Martha Rosalind Durden Gwin
1846–1940

Siblings
James M. Gwin
1866–1866

John Durden Gwin
1867–1937

Sam D. Gwin
1872–1872

Irene Rosalind Gwin Hutton
1873–1955

Walter Keirn Gwin
1880–1949

William Willis Gwin
1884–1930

Mary Stansbury Gwin Robbins
1887–1975

Infant Gwin
unknown-unknown

Children
Frank Wyatt Gwin
1899–1989

Samuel Donnell Gwin
1906–1947

Spouses
Malie E. Wyatt Gwin
1879–1923

Essie Merchant Gwin
1892–1975

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