Georgia:  Coweta County:  Biography of JOSEPH H. WYNN

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JOSEPH H. WYNN, a prominent citizen of Coweta county, residing in Kedron, 
was born in 1844. He is a son of Glen O. Wynn, born in Oglethorpe county 
in 1817, whose father, John Wynn, was a revolutionary soldier, a native 
of Virginia. About the year 1800 the latter with his wife, Susannah 
(Owen) Wynn, also of Virginia, came from that state to make a home in 
Georgia. Their son, Glen O., had comparatively few school privileges, but 
by a diligent use of such as he had he acquired a quite extensive general 
knowledge and was a man of broad and thoughtful mind. His wife, Miss 
Sarah P. Lumpkin, was a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Arnold) Lumpkin, a 
niece of Joseph Henry Lumpkin, and an aunt of Samuel Lumpkin, now judge. 
Both Mr. and Mrs. Wynn were faithful and devoted members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church. In 1841 they came to settle in Coweta county, cleared 
up a farm from the dense woods, patnston through all the famous and 
hardly-contested battles fought during the retreat to Atlanta before 
Sherman, and also in the siege of Atlanta. After the war young Wynn spent 
a year upon the farm, and then went to Newnan to try the mercantile 
business, but after a year at this he returned to the farm, where he has 
since remained. In 1870, he married Miss Sallie Arm Glass, who was born 
in Coweta county in 1844, and is the daughter of Glove and Lydia (May) 
Glass, both natives of Georgia. Both Mr. Wynn and his wife are members of 
the Baptist church. Of their seven children all save one are living: R. 
L., Ernest G., Joe H., Gordon, George and Robert E. Mr. Wynn is a member 
of the masonic fraternity and is widely known and esteemed.

Transcribed from MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA published by the Southern Historical 
Association, 1895.