Bernice Edward WILLIAMS6,7,3,4,5

also known as Bennie E WILLIAMS

about 1908 - 8th Feb 20022,6,7

Parents

Daughter of Harvey J WILLIAMS & Huldah Irene NICHOLSON.

Life History

23rd Nov 1907

Born.1,2,3,4,5

about 1908

Born.

between 1910 and 1930

Resident in Prairie, Arkansas, Arkansas.3,4,5

24th Oct 1939

Married Louis Wirt MCSWAIN in Arkansas County, Arkansas.10

Louis and Bernice's marriage license was issued on 19 Sep 1939.  The ceremony was conducted 24 Oct 1939.
-- Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939, Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., page 0835

9th Jan 1942

Birth of son Roger Louis MCSWAIN in Stuttgart Arkansas, Arkansas.7

11th Jul 1975

Death of Louis Wirt MCSWAIN in St Vincent Infirmary, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas.8,9,7

Feb 2002

Buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas, Arkansas, by Essex Funeral Home.6

8th Feb 2002

Died in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee.2,6,7

Notes

  • "Bernice" is pronounced BURN-iss.
    -- Orville Boyd Jenkins

    Bernice's son Roger Louis informs us that her middle name was Edward.  Bernice died in Memphis, Tennessee, where she had been living withLouis and Nancy, before being hospitalized due to an injury then moving to a rest home.  The Social Security Death Index still showed her residential address as St. Charles, Arkansas.

Sources

  • 1. Gravestone of Louis Wirt and Bernice Williams McSwain, Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas
  • 2. Social Security Death Index
  • 3. 1910 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
    • 26 April, Prairie Township, District 13, page 5B, Hse/Fam #87
  • 4. 1920 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
    • 19 January, Prairie Township, District 15, page 4A, Hse/Fam #62
  • 5. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
    • 16 April, Prairie Township, District 7, page 5B, Ethel & Point Rd, Hs
  • 6. Obituary of Bernice Williams McSwain, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 10 Feb 2002
    • http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ouisersplace/gindex/obitmch.h
  • 7. Roger Louis McSwain, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, November 2007
  • 8. Bertie Lois Dumond McSwain, Family Information, handwritten 27 February, 1979
  • 9. SSDI Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 2, Ed. 6
  • 10. Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939
    • Vol 2, Certificate 00347, page 0835

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