Robert Andrew Wynn

Born April 11, 1846, Robert A. Wynn is one of the few surviving Confederate veterans in Northeast Georgia.

All of his 94 years, except the time spent in the service of the Southern States, he has lived on the same home-place which his grandfather settled while the Indians roamed this section and which, by the changing of county lines has been in four counties. Mr. Wynn was born on the Wynn farm only a few miles from the present location father was Edwin.

Minor Wynn, who was born in Burke county and moved here with his parents when only three years old. Edwin Wynn's father was Duke Hamilton Wynn, one of three brothers who came from Wales and first located at Winnsburg, S. C.

From there he moved to Georgia, settling first in Burke county, then coming to what is now Banks county between 1800 and 1807. The location at that time was known as the Wofford Settlement and was in Franklin county, but was later included successively in Jackson, Habersham and Banks counties. Robert Andrew Wynn was born in 1846 in the house that his grandfather had built some forty years before. It stood at that time in Habersham county, but in 1857, the year that Banks county was cut off from Habersham.

The old house burned and another one was built on the same site; the same residence in which Mr. Wynn still lives. Mr. Wynn enlisted in the Fourth militia regiment and was in the confederate army serving in the militia disbanded and then joined Glenn's Brigade. Among the battles in which he fought was that at Kennesaw Mountain when General Johnson's forces valiantly held back Sherman's army. Since the war he has served his community and county in various capacities. For eight years he was county surveyor of Banks county.

In 1892-93 he represented the county 111 the legislature. He was justice of the peace for Golden Hill district for more than 25 years.
Mr. Wynn never married. He and Edwin Wynn, his brother, and Miss Julia Wynn, his sister, all remained single and lived on the home property, and another sister, Mrs. Annie E. Waters, came back to the home place to live after the death or her husband.

Miss Julia Wynn died in November, 1939. The Wynn farm, which now belongs to Mr. Wynn and Mrs. Waters consists or 1200 acres. In his home Mr. Wynn has old books showing Indian grants and treaties between the Colonies and the States and the Indians, and documents dating back to the times or his grandfather when the Indians were just beginning to yield a jealously preserved hunting ground to the white settlers. His visits to Cornelia or to other towns are few, in spite of his 94 years.

Mr. Wynn Is mentally and physically alert. In the picture he is shown with his long hunting rifle, a weapon that he Is still able to handle skillfully.