Gwynn - John
JOHN GWYNN
Source: Crawfordsville Review Monday Feb 28, 1916
John GWYNN, 73, died at the Ben-Hur Sanitorium Saturday morning at 3. Mr. Gwinn was one of the pioneers of this county having been born on a farm SW of the city. He was a veteran of the civil war, enlisting in the 86th Indiana when it was 1st organized and remaining until his company was mustered out in 1865. During the war he contracted a chronic disease that never left him and it was an attack of this that caused his death. Mr. Gwynn was never married and is survived by one brother, James Gwynn of Washington State and Edna Canine and Mrs. Elizabeth Fullenwider of this city, both cousins. There were no funeral services and burial was at Masonic cemetery yesterday afternoon. - kbz
Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Saturday, February 26, 1916
John Gwynn, unmarried and a veteran of the civil war, who was born in this county seventy-three years ago, died this morning at three at the Ben-Hur sanitarium from the effects of a chronic disease he contracted while in the war. He was the son of Mitchell and Lucy Gwynn, pioneer settlers who came here from Kentucky eighty years ago and located on a farm four miles southwest of this city, where the subject of this sketch was born. Mr. Gwynn has been residing on west Spring street until he went to the sanitarium. He was a member of Company K of the 86th Indiana Infantry, joining the company when it was organized and remaining with it throughout the war, being honorably mustered out in 1865. The parents of Mr. Gwynn have been dead for many years and he is survived by one brother, James Gwynn, who resides in the state of Washington. There is a niece and a nephew in Terre Haute, and Rona Canine and Mrs. Elizabeth Fullenwider, of this city, are cousins. There will be no funeral services and burial will be at two Sunday afternoon at the Masonic cemetery, south Grant avenue. - kbz