Jane (Walker) Gwin (1792 - 1867)

Born 1792 in Greene, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Wife of John (Gwin) Gwinn — married [date unknown] in Blount County, Tennessee

Descendants

Died 1867 at about age 75 in Cahaba, Dallas, Alabama, United States

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Jane "Jennie" Walker Gwin
Birth 1794 Tuckaleechee, Blount County, Tennessee, USA
Death 1867 Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, USA
Burial New Cahaba Cemetery Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama, USA
Memorial ID 77051511

Jane Walker, daughter of Thomas Walker, Sr., and Elizabeth Magill Walker, was born in Blount Co., TN (then still part of North Carolina) in about 1794, some two years before Tennessee statehood. It was there also that she and her next-older brother, Thomas, married two Gwin siblings; she married John Gwin in 1812, and Tom married Polly Gwin perhaps about 1814.

She and her new husband moved to what would soon become the new slave state of Alabama, and most if not all their children were born there, most in Dallas County. She lived the entire remainder of her life in Dallas County.

She is buried in the New Cemetery at Cahaba, AL, in a grave marked by an undated stone which reads simply, "In Memory of Jane Gwin". We know that her death was after the sale of some of their property, the date on the deed of which sale is 16 Feb 1864. We further know that the 1870 census record lists John as a widower, thus leaving a window of some five to six years for her death (her date of death listed above, 1867, is only approximate, arbitrarily selected from about the middle of that window).

John would outlive her by at least seven years, dying in Shelby County at the home of his son William in 1877. He is buried at the Wilsonville City Cemetery, Shelby Co., AL.

Family Members:
Spouse:

• John Gwin 1792–1877

Children:

• Sarah Gwin Basset unknown–1885
• The Honorable Isom Gwin 1817–1853
• William Gwin 1820–1889
• Louisa A. Gwin McKnight 1829 – unknown^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ https://new.findagrave.com/memorial/77051511

• Letter from Michael Lambert of January 2008
• [1] The Cabells and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy Alexander Brown January 1, 1895 Houghton, Mifflin & Company: Husband, Child page 299