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Guide to the Vardaman-Gwinn Collection, RG 349
Date: June 12, 1975
Date Span: 1860-1963
Scope / Content: Genealogies of the Vardaman, Gwin, and Bassett
families, compiled by James Bassett Gwin II; handwritten copies (1860-1865)
of Civil War-era poems and song lyrics; typescript of letter (1864) from
John Forsyth Vardaman to his father; obituaries (1952-1954) of Adrian Vardaman
Gwin and Maggie Vardaman Webb; and miscellaneous family memorabilia.
Biographical Sketch: The John Gwin family settled at Cahaba,
Alabama, prior to 1820. The Bassett family, from Worthing, Sussex, England,
settled at Cahaba in 1847. The Edwy Vardaman family moved to Tallapoosa
County, Alabama, from Meriwether County, Georgia, in 1849.
SERIES I: Biography of John Forsythe Vardaman
and Julia Flynn Vardaman by James Basset Gwin, Jr.
SERIES 2: Family Records of Gwin Family
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Line of William Sutton Gwin and Iva Eliza Basset
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Line of Mary Ann Elizabeth Gwin
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Line of Isham Griffin Gwin, Sr.
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Line of Anne Gwin and Joseph Basset
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Line of Louis Basset and Sarah Gwin
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Line of David William Gwin
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Supplement to Gwin Family History (five pages)
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Gwins Genealogy Index
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Edwy Liles Vardaman and Lucinda Mauk and Martha Conway Vardaman
SERIES 3: Basset Family History Compiled by James Basset Gwin II
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Line of Charlotte Basset and Fred Cheesman
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Line of William Basset and Harriet Bawley
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Line of Charlotte Basset and Charles Alexander Derby
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Line of Charlotte Basset and Henry Landon Derby
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Line of Mary Ann Basset
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Lines of Joseph Basset and 2nd wife, Catherine Blann
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Line of Emma Maria Basset
SERIES 4: Family Histories and Obituaries
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Vardaman Family History
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Flynn Family History
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Charles Luker and Martha Shares Family History
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Obituary of Mrs. T.J. Webb (Newspaper clipping)
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Obituary-Adrian Vardaman Gwin, Newspaper clipping - March 3, 1954)
SERIES 5: Miscellaneous
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Excerpts from Memories of Old Cahaba by Anna M. Gayle Fry-Basset
Family
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Xeroxed excerpts from History of Alabama & Dictionary of Alabama
Biography by Thomas McAdory Owen
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Xeroxed excerpts from Memorial Record of Alabama
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Correspondence -- James Gwin and Dr. Ralph B. Draughon-1963
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Honorable Discharge United States Army, July 11, 1945, for Adrian S. Gwin
SERIES 6: Papers of John Forsythe Vardaman, 1835-1906
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Includes original songs, poems, correspondence-typed copies and explanations
by James B. Gwin, Jr. 1860-1864 (14 items)
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Engineering Drawing Tools used by John Forsythe Vardaman at East Alabama
Male College approximately 1859
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Certificate: James F. Vardaman, Notary Public, Coosa County, 1875 (Hanging
in Archives)
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