Leona (Bolton) Wynne (1761 - 1798)

Born 1761 in Caswell, North Carolina

Wife of Obediah Wynne — married 4 Mar 1786 in Caswell, North Carolina, USA

Descendants

Died 1798 at about age 37 in North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Leona "Oney" Bolton was born in 1761 in Caswell County North Carolina, daughter of Charles Lent Bolton and Elizabeth Hickens/Higgens. She grew up in Caswell County, where on 4th March 1786 she married Obediah Wynne. They were not flighty teenagers. Oney was 25 years old and Obediah was 29. They must have decided to move to Wilkes County Georgia almost immediately, because their first child, a son, John, was born there in 1787. Oney and Obediah had four children together before her death in 1798, the aforementioned John in 1787, Sarah in 1790, Elizabeth in 1792 and Obediah Jr. in 1794. Oney was mentioned in her father's 1803 Caswell County NC will, in context; "Obediah Wynn's children by daughter Oney".

Bedcovering embroidered by Oney Bolton in 1778

Provenance of Bedcovering

This photo was sent to me by Suzanne McDowell of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. She had traced the origins of this donated bedcovering back to Leona "Oney" Boulton, who made it when she was about 17 years old (i.e.1778). Oney is my 4th g-grandmother and Suzanne was seeking information on her life. She probably worked on it for several years.

A piece of cloth that size would have been enormously expensive at the time. Only a wealthy family could have afforded it. (Did you notice the wild turkey she embroidered at the center?) Probably everything else Oney touched or made has vanished, but this work of art has survived. I find that amazing and very touching. This teenaged girl embroidered a covering that almost certainly went with her to her home when she married and probably came back to Caswell County with her children after she and Obediah Wynn died.

Suzanne provided the provenance of the bedcovering:
"My task at the MESDA Summer Institute in 2010 was to see if I could discover if the piece was made in Virginia in the 1790s or in Georgia after 1815. ...I ended up deciding it was made in VA in the 1790s which meant the maker was likely Oney Boulton Wynne ...and the piece was saved and passed onto her her daughter Sarah "Sallie" Wynne."

Provenance of the bedcovering was as follows: "It descended in the family of Dr. Joseph C. Greenfield. His ancestors (the Lumpkins) immigrated from VA to GA in the late 18th c. between 1783 and 1785. Sarah "Sallie" Wynn (b.1790 in Wilkes, GA) married John Favor (Faver) born in Wilkes, GA in 1791. Their son John Bolton Favor married Martha Antoinette Lumpkin (b1835) in Oglethorpe, GA. Martha was the daughter of Samuel Lumpkin, the brother of Wilson Lumpkin who became the governor of GA. Their son, Samuel Lumpkin Favor, married Ellen Ellizabeth Smith of Coweta, GA. The daughter of John Boulton Favor and Martha Antoinette Lumpkin Favor was Jewel Favor who married the donor."

Best, Suzanne (McDowell)
Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. [1]

Oney Bolton married Obediah Wynne on the 4th of March 1786 in Caswell County North Carolina.

Marriage

^[1] North Carolina, Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
Image #000806 County Caswell Record #01 352
Name: Oney Boulton
Spouse: Obadiah Winne
Bond date: 4 Mar 1786
Bond #000019306
Bondsman: William Rainey
Witness: Ald Murphey,
Clerk of Court
Household Members
Name:
Obadiah Winne
Oney Boulton
Husband Obediah Wynne.
Wife Oney Leona Bolton.

Leona "Oney" was named in her father Charles Bolton's Caswell Co. North Carolina 1803 Will;

^[2]
CHARLES BOULTON - Will written 14 Feby 1803
Wife Elizabeth (land on Dan River with mansion house);
son Lent Boulton;
daughter Judith Thomas and her 2 sons Icabod and John Thomas;
3 sons Charles, Thomas and William;
John Boulton's children;
Obediah Wynn's children by daughter Oney;
son John Boulton's sons.
Exec: William Boulton, Thomas Gatewood, Lent Boulton.
Wit: Elizabeth Combs, James Dix.

Death

Leona Bolton Wynne Died in 1798, leaving four children under the age of 11.

Sources

1. ↑ North Carolina, Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
   Image #000806 County Caswell Record #01 352
2. ↑ Caswell County, NC Will Books, 1777 & Court Filings Book E October 1803 pg 27