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tomahawk.jpg (7429 bytes) Tomahawk Ranch -- The "Old David Gwin Homeplace" is located north of Hotsprings, Virginia along highway 220.

The Homeplace was named the "Tomahawk Ranch" by Marcellus Franklin Wiley. David Gwin's grave and a wife and another person are on top of the hill next to the house. There are three marble tombstones which have been knocked over. The home is no longer in the family.

There is a Historical Society in the County, headed by Hugh Gwin, a descendent of David's.

David Gwin's daughter, Nancy, married James Wiley (Robert Vaiden Wiley's G-Grandfather). James and Nancy inherited the Tomahawk and evidently passed it on to their son, John. John evidently passed it on to Marcellus Franklin Wiley (Robert Vaiden Wiley's father). Robert Vaiden Wiley passed away in April of 1998. It is thought by family members that Robert was the last surviving "True Son" of a confederate soldier.

Marcellus fought in the Civil War when he was 19. He did not marry and have childrren until 1914, when he was in his 70's. He had two sons, John Franklin (born in 1914) and Robert Vaiden (born 1919). The information came from a book entitled "Early Western Augusta Pioneers" by Cleek. The Cleeks were also Wiley family members.

Sharon Guynn Wiley's family is not originally from the Virginia area that she knows of. Her side of the Guynn (Guinn) is from Tennessee and she believes are married into mainly Indian families. Some researchers think her GG-Grandfather Guinn was from Virginia, but records maintained he was born in North Carolina (NC) in 1796. Sharon believes he was born in Warren County, TN, which would have been NC at the time of his birth. Sharon had never been to Virginia before 1984, when she met her husband. When she found out his father had cousins named Gwin, they had a good laugh about being kissin' cousins.

Guinn Surnames | Guinn Frontpage | 1939 Press Release
Genealogy Section | Sigga B. Gwin's Obit

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