Elizabeth (Lockridge) Gwinn (abt. 1752 - 1832)

Born about 1752 in Augusta, Virginia, British Colonial America

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Graham — married 24 Jun 1763 in Augusta County, Virginia

Wife of Samuel (Gwin) Gwinn Sr. — married 20 Jun 1775 in Augusta County, Virginia (West Virginia in 1863)

Descendants

Died 25 Jan 1832 at about age 80 in Green Sulphur Springs, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth Lockridge, married June 24, 1763 Robert Graham, son of John Graham and Elizabeth Elliot; married Samuel Gwin, son of Robert Gwin and Jean Kincaid. ^[1]

From: The Gwinns of Round Bottom by Leona Gwinn Brown; (From an unpublished manuscript written by Laban Gwinn, son of George Loomis Gwinn and Rosa Spade Gwinn):

A record in an Augusta County Court Order Book shows that by June 20, 1775, Elizabeth was married to Samuel Gwinn. By 1780 they had moved to what is now Monroe County, West Virginia. Their first home was near the present town of Lowell. They lived here until 1799, when they moved to land Samuel had acquired near Green Sulphur Springs, in present-day Summers County.

Some time before moving to the Greenbrier country, Samuel Gwinn married Elizabeth Lockridge Graham, the sister of Major Andrew Lockridge. Elizabeth’s first husband was Robert Graham, brother of Major Lockridge’s wife, Jane (or Jean).

Elizabeth, like many pioneer women, must have been a person of great courage and stamina to endure the trials of her life. Her first husband, Robert Graham, died in 1744. His will, recorded in March of that year, mentions three daughters, Sara, Jane, and Rebecca. By April 30, court records show, Elizabeth had also paid funeral expenses for a child, probably Rebecca. Soon Elizabeth was to go with her new husband, Samuel Gwinn, to the wilderness of Western Virginia, to face a life of hard work and constant fear of the Indians. Probably not knowing whether she would ever see them again, she left her two little daughters, Sara and Jane, with her brother, Major Andrew Lockridge.

A record in an Augusta County Court Order Book shows that by June 20, 1775, Elizabeth was married to Samuel Gwinn. By 1780 they had moved to what is now Monroe County, West Virginia. Their first home was near the present town of Lowell. They lived here until 1799, when they moved to land Samuel had acquired near Green Sulphur Springs, in present-day Summers County.

Daughters of the American Revolution information:

9. The Said Samuel Gwinn was the child of Samuel Gwinn born on - - 1752 at Augusta Co VA died at Greenbrier Co VA on 25 - Mar - 1839 and his ( 1st ) wife Elizabeth Lockridge Graham born on c - - 1752 at VA died at Green Sulphur Springs VA on 25 - Jan - 1832 married on a 20 - Jun - 1775

Notes

James Grimes a.k.a. Graham cannot be the son of Robert and Elizabeth as Elizabeth would have only been eight years old when he was born and did not marry Robert until 1763.

James Graham was born in 1745 in Franklin County, Virginia. He was the son of Robert Graham and Elizabeth Lockridge. On 12 Feb 1763 he married Sarah Farley in Botetourt County, Virginia.

When Elizabeth Lochridge was born in 1737 in Augusta County, Virginia, her father, James, was 45 and her mother, Isabella, was 36. She married Robert Graham in 1763.^[2] It appears that after she was widowed she married Samuel Gwin (a reliable source is needed for this).^[3] She died on January 25, 1832, in Virginia.^[4]

Sources

• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A048733
• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=1305589&MyLineageCount=1
• http://www.gwinnreunion.org/book/
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ4X-4RM

1. ↑ (Early western Augusta pioneers, page 388)
2. ↑ Source number: 1049.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JBC; Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
3. ↑ Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. Ancestry.com. U.S., Volume: 341.
4. ↑ Source number: 1049.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JBC; Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.

• Source number: 1049.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JBC. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Yates Publishing
• Early western Augusta pioneers : including the families of Cleek, Gwin, Lightner, and Warwick, and related families of Bratton, Campbell, Carlile, Craig, Crawford, Dyer, Gay, Givens, Graham, Harper, Henderson, Hull, Keister, Lockridge, McFarland, and Moore. Cleek, George Washington. Online source: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005802262
• https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A048733

Elizabeth Lockridge Lockridge Graham Gwinn BIRTH 1759 USA DEATH 25 Jan 1832 (aged 72–73) Green Sulphur Springs, Summers County, West Virginia, USA BURIAL Gwinn Cemetery, Green Sulphur Springs, Summers County, West Virginia, USA MEMORIAL ID Find A Grave: Memorial #18554384 Has a photo of gravestone. Gravestone and birthdates are not matching https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Robert_Graham_and_Elizabeth_Lockridge_%281%29

Graham, William Luther. History of the Graham family. (St. Albans, West Virginia, United States: W.L. Graham, 1982).