Hello Sharon,

This family is given on Ancestry.com World family tree.

The submitters are

Bill Gawne gawne@cesmail.net
gmelvin@bristolbay.com

Franklin GAWNE b: 5 JUL 1849 d: 24 MAY 1929
+Margaret Jane ROGERS b: 4 AUG 1854 d: 16 JAN 1934

Children of Margaret Jane Rogers and Franklin Gawne:

1. Albert GAWNE b: 23 NOV 1872 d: 11 DEC 1872

2. Washington Franklin GAWNE b: 31 MAR 1874 d: 26 DEC 1964 Married Rosetta LEACH b: 8 MAR 1887 d: 21 NOV 1905

3. Eliza GAWNE b: 1876 d: 1933 Married Mark CARNESb: 1874 d: 1945

4. Margaret GAWNE b: MAY 1878 d: AFT. 1934 Married Lemuel James HOUSE b: 1876

5. Wellington Cyrus GAWN b: 28 SEP 1880 d: MAR 1964 Married Jessie L. KERR b: MAR 1887

6. William Peter GAWNE b: 7 JUL 1881 d: 1978 Married Bertha MC CLOUD b: ABT. 1885

7. Alfred W. GAWNEb: 3 JUL 1884 d: 4 AUG 1886

8. Thomas Cassius GAWNE b: 29 NOV 1886 d: 4 APR 1887

9. Electa E. GAWNEb: 9 MAR 1888 d: 13 SEP 1888

10. George Melvin GAWNE b: 5 JUL 1889 d: 5 APR 1967 Married Emma Agatha GRISWOLD b: 13 MAR 1898 d: 6 JAN 1949

11. Baby Twin GAWNE b: 5 JUL 1889 d: 5 JUL 1889

12. Louisa Rachel GAWNE b: MAR 1891 d: AFT. 1934 Married Charles GRIFFOR

13. Alvin Edward GAWNEb: 10 MAR 1894 d: 24 APR 1964 Married (1) Fanny Cornelia BERRY b: 20 NOV 1900 d: 10 APR 1931 Married (2) Ethel RABEDEAUX Married (3)Isabel Mildred Bertha DREESEN b: 8 MAR 1918

14. Ivan Ernest GAWNE b: 2 AUG 1896 d: 1 JUL 1920 Married (1) Gladys ARD Married (2) Glenias M. MCLEAN b: 1901

15. John Wesley GAWNE b: 15 MAY 1900 d: 22 MAR 1984 Married Vera Adele ADAMS b: 11 FEB 1895 d: 9 JUL 1973

A few snippets of info that are at this site:

Methodist Minister; served in Glennie, Homer, Crump, Metamora, Lapeer, Bay
City, Prescott, Maple Ridge, Alger, Turner, Saganing (where he preached
the Gospel to the Indians), and Freeland. He is buried behind the
Methodist Church in Freeland. In 1903 he established the Glennie
Methodist Church. He was first ordained in the Free Will Baptist Church,
and was also ordained in the Presbyterian Church.
When his first wife died, he hired someone to watch the baby. He
later married her and had seven more children with Rosabelle Lattimer

From a letter from George and Lee Gawne, 31 May 1993: [George Gawne was
a son of W.F. Gawne, and a grandson of Franklin]
"They were no doubt married in Canada - Can't find the date. She also
may be of French Indian descent. She definitely had some Indian blood.
As I said before they came to Michigan when my husband's father W.F.
Gawne was 8 yrs old. They farmed for a living, as did most in the area.
He filled in the food supply hunting and fishing in season. Sounds like
he was master of his house-hold as she prepared his meals at what-ever
hour requested, day or night. No other insights on their lives."

From a letter from Brian Gawne to Melvin Gawne, 27 April 1992:
"I haven't been able to check into this but I think Franklin was
entitled to a medal fro the part he played in the Fenian Uprising of
1867-69. I think he was in the Lincoln Co. Militia at this time."

Personal reminiscence of Melvin Gawne about his grandfather: There was a
rumor that Franklin served time in the Canadian Services, possibly the
Canadian Cavalry. He got into some kind of trouble and shot his
commanding officer. I remember that he always wore a suit, and had a
bag of peppermints in his pockets.

I suggest, if you don't find this family in the 1880 U. S. census, that you try the 1881 Canada census. Both are available at Family search.org.

Be sure that you check the information above by finding birth records, baptismal records, census, etc. Don't just take for granted that another researcher has done careful work.

Good luck