Helen Rhyne Burwell

• American

Helen Rhyne Burwell, daughter of textile pioneer Abel P Rhyne and Martha Elizabeth Costner Rhyne, became the wife of Charlotte automotive dealer Armistead Burwell and the mother of World War II PT-boat lieutenant Armistead Burwell. Her life linked two influential regional lineages — the mill-building Rhynes of Gaston County and the long-established Burwell family of Charlotte — families whose civic, industrial, and military roles helped shape the Piedmont across generations. - AsNotedIn

Lineage

• Father Abel Peterson Rhyne

• Son: Lt Armistead Burwell