After all these elaborate and generous actions, one would think Captain Gwinn's saga would finally, at long last, be at an end. However, it wasn't. There was still more to go. For most, being buried twice and then dug up and moved two more times for a total of three burials that should have been end game.
But not so with the captain.
Photographs taken in 2010 by the Executive Director of the Naval Historical Foundation, Captain Charles T. Creekman, Jr., USN (Ret.), brought attention to the new gravestone's understated words.
The engraving, as shown on the picture to the right of this, simply reads: "John/ Gwinn/ Maryland/ Captain/ US Navy/ September 4, 1849," and makes no mention of the USS Constitution.
An upgrade for the headstone was made.
Nothing came of that request, until an error was discovered on the reverse of the headstone. This is the side for his wife.
That inscription read: "His Wife/ Elizabeth/Bruce/ September 4, 1849."
Gwinn's wife in actuality was Caroline S. Lynch and she died on June 1, 1864.
Well.... --Brock-Perry
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