Month: December 2025

I just became aware of this “Story Corps” interview of Nelson Gwinn by my cousin Jeanine. Hearing Granddad’s voice is amazing. What an unlooked for gift. In this interview conducted on October 17, 2009, 89-year-old Nelson Gwinn shares memories of his life in West Virginia with his granddaughter, Jeanine Heemstra….

[This article is a summary of the work of Leona Gwinn Brown – the DEFINATIVE work on the history Round Bottom and the New River Gwinns. It is posted here in hopes that you will go read it in its entirety at https://www.gwinnreunion.org/] In the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, where…

Flanagan describes a community on the brink of collapse due to the ongoing American Civil War. The author notes that “times is very hard” and that the threat of starvation is drawing near.

This site exists to provide access to the “Gwinn Papers” and to preserve the family history of the descendants of Laban Gwinn. For many years Nelson Gwinn cared for these papers and later he passed them to his grandchildren. All of these stewards had hopes of finding a way to…