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Caswell County Genealogy
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 1893 - 1969 (76 years)
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| Name |
Gwynn, Allen Hatchett [1, 2] |
| Title |
Judge |
| Birth |
12 Nov 1893 |
Locust Hill Township, Caswell County, North Carolina  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
5793 |
| Death |
16 Dec 1969 |
Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina [1] |
| Person ID |
I5717 |
Caswell County |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
| Family |
Johnston, Martha Janie, b. Abt 1893 d. 24 Jul 1982 (Age ~ 89 years) |
| Marriage |
25 Aug 1917 [2] |
| Reference Number |
42388 |
| Children |
| | 1. Gwynn, Anne Russell, b. Abt 1919, North Carolina [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. Gwynn, Allen Hatchett Jr., b. Abt 1923, North Carolina [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| + | 3. Gwynn, Julius Johnston, b. 23 Jan 1927, Guilford County, North Carolina d. 10 Sep 2003, Reidsville, Rockingham County, North Carolina (Age 76 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F2937 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
16 Apr 2024 |
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| Notes |
- Allen Hatchett Gwynn (1893-1969)
(for larger image, click on photograph)
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This photograph appeared in the Trinity College (now Duke University) 1919 yearbook, which was titled Victory.
Graduated from Trinity College (now Duke University) as part of the class of 1919.
Name: Gwyn, Allen Hatchett
City: Yanceyville
County: Caswell
State: NC
Year: 1919
Class: Senior
School: Duke University
 
(for larger image, click on photograph)
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World War I veteran whose biographical sketch was published in Caswell County in the World War, 1917-1918: Service Records of Caswell County Men, George A. Anderson, Compiler (1921).
See: The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985)
Note that Allen Hatchett Gwyn inherited from his Aunt Mattie Hatchett Womack Allison the substantial Yancey-Womack property that she owned, which included the Bartlett Yancey, Jr. house and surrounding acreage. Allen Hatchett Gwyn and Janie Johnston Gwyn eventually sold the property to Eugene Aldridge of the West Yanceyville (Caswell Community). Part of the property was donated by Eugene Aldridge to create the parcel on which the new N. L. Dillard Middle School was build on Highway 158 just west of Yanceyville. The address of the school is 255 Hatchett Road, Yanceyville, North Carolina.
The Bartlett Yancey, Jr. house and surrounding property (included in the assets willed to Allen Hatchett Gwyn by Mattie Hatchett Womack) went through several owners, including Les and Carole Strader, who did major renovations to the house, before becoming the property of the present owners, Mike and Lucindy Willis, who now operate the building as the Yancey House Restaurant.
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Another midcentury form that Milton cabinetmaker Thomas Day interpreted in a lively fashion is the pier table. These were often made in sets of two and placed in the parlor niches then popular in many homes. As the pier table form grew in popularity, Day took liberties with the standard urban design. He made a set of two tables with pier mirrors for the Gwyn family of Caswell County between 1853 and 1860. The Gwynn (also seen as Gwyn) family had been in Caswell County for quite some time. One member, Littleton Gwyn served the county as a state representative and helped sponsor the 1830 petition to bring Aguilla Wilson Day into the state. This particular set of pier tables came from the estate of Judge Allen Gwyn, Reidsville, Rockingham County. The description applies to both sets.
Source: Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color, Patricia Phillips Marshall and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll (2010) at 121 and 244 (footnote 139).
Consider the possibility that the pier tables obtained from the estate of Judge Allen Hatchett Gwynn were made by Thomas Day for the owners of the Bartlett Yancey House.
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Allen Hatchett Gwyn, lawyer and judge, was born near Yanceyville, Caswell County, the son of Joseph P. and Sarah E. Hatchett Gwyn. Gwyn attended the Yanceyville graded school and received the A.B. degree from Trinity College, Durham, in 1913. After serving as a private and second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry from 1917 to 1919, he entered the Trinity College law school where he was graduated in 1921. Gwyn practiced law in Reidsville from 1921 until 1938. During that time he served as city attorney (1927-38), as a Democrat from the Seventeenth Senatorial District in the state senate (1931-33), and as solicitor for the superior court of the Seventeenth Judicial District (1934-38). From 1939 until his death he was a judge of the superior court.
Judge Gwyn's work-release program was a major contribution to criminal law. His efforts to lower the high percentage of first offenders who served time in prison for twelve months or less led to effective work-release legislation. Gwyn's views and findings on the program appear in his book, Observations on Crime and Correction: Work, Earn, and Save, published in 1963.
At various times, Gwyn was an instructor at the National College of State Trial Judges and at the Institute of Government of The University of North Carolina. He served on the State Commission on Probation from 1961 to 1965 and was a member of the Governor's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime from 1962 to 1964. In 1967-68, he served as president of the North Carolina Superior Court Judges.
Gwyn married Janie Johnston of Yanceyville on 25 Apr. 1917, and they had three children: Anne Russell, Allen, Jr., and Julius. He was a member of the Methodist church and the Masonic order. Judge Gwyn died in Greensboro and was buried in Reidlawn Cemetery, Reidsville
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World War I Memorial Dedicated in Yanceyville 1929
"A large number of people gathered in the public square at 3 o'clock to pay a permanent tribute to the Caswell men who while bearing arms for the nation died during the World war. A granite rock has been placed in the square and on it is a copper plate bearing the names of 16 men who gave their lives. There was a large turnout for the event and the ceremony was impressive. Allen Gwynn of Reidsville, himself a service man making the address. The memorial is not far from another, commemorating Caswell's part in the Civil war and it is near the German machine gun which Caswell secured as a war trophy."
Source: The Bee (Danville, Virginia), 7 February 1929, Thursday, Pages 1 and 3.
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North Carolina Birth Index, 1800-2000
Name: Allen Hatchett Gwyn
Date of Birth: 12 Nov 1893
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth County: Caswell
Parent1 Name: Joseph Pinkney Gwyn
Parent2 Name: Sarah Eliza Hatchett
Roll Number: B_C020_68001
Volume: 3
Page: 185
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Allen Gwyn
Home in 1900: Locust Hill, Caswell, North Carolina
Age: 6
Birth Date: Nov 1893
Birthplace: North Carolina
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male
Relationship to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Pink
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Name: Sallie E
Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Marital Status: Single
Residence : Locust Hill Township, Caswell, North Carolina
Household Members: Name Age
Pink Gwyn 38
Sallie E Gwyn 35
Lawrence Gwyn 14
Lelian Gwyn 12
Annie Y Gwyn 9
Allen Gwyn 6
Pink Gwyn 3
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Allen Hatchett Gwyn
County: Caswell
State: North Carolina
Birthplace: North Carolina;United States of America
Birth Date: 12 Nov 1893
Race: Caucasian (White)
FHL Roll Number: 1765626
1930 United States Federal Census
Name: A H Gywn
Home in 1930: Reidsville, Rockingham, North Carolina
Age: 37
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1893
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's Name: Janie
Race: White
Household Members: Name Age
A H Gywn 37
Janie Gywn 37
Annie Russel Gywn 11
Allen Gywn 7
Julius Gywn 3
Sarah Johnston 21
Social Security Death Index
Name: Allen Gwynn
SSN: 240-64-3230
Last Residence: 27320 Reidsville, Rockingham, North Carolina, United States of America
Born: 12 Nov 1893
Died: Dec 1969
State (Year) SSN issued: North Carolina (1958)
North Carolina Death Collection, 1908-2004
Name: Allen Gwyn
Gender: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Age: 76
Date of Birth: 1893
Residence City: Reidsville
Residence County: Guilford
Date of Death: 16 Dec 1969
Death City: Greensboro
Death County: Guilford
Autopsy: No
institution: General Hospital
Attendant: Physician
Recorded Date: 1969
Source Vendor: NC Department of Health. North Carolina Deaths, 1968-69
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