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• The Hamrick Data Pages give the exact date of birth for Nancy McSwain Hamrick, 1 October 1841.  This is supported by the censuses of 1850 and 1860, while some others are a year or so off.  The Hamrick information, however, reports her birth state as North Carolina, additionally providing the location, Kings Creek, York County.  All the censuses differ, reporting her birth state as North Carolina.
  
  Her North Carolina Death Certificate also reports her death a year later than the census ages would seem to allow, 1 October 1842.  I have seen other instances where the reported date of birth at the time of death was a year off, even when provided by the family.  The wrong year of birth for one of my Gregory uncles was even wrong on his gravestone.
  
  The Ancestry transcription is wrong on her age, also.  On their transcription of her death certificate which they post, Ancestry reports her age at death as 86.  But her age at death on the certificate is 87 yrs, 11 mos, 4 days.  This means she would have been 88 on 1 October.  This seems to mean a birth year of 1841, as the Hamrick genealogy indicates, even though the year is reported on the certificate as 1842.
  
  The certificate additionally reports the sate of birth as North Carolina, rather than South Carolina,.  This means the death certificate joins all the censuses to put the great weight of testimony behind North Carolina as state of birth, except the error in the reported year of birth might seem to detract from the accuracy of the death certificate.
  
  North Carolina Death Certificates, 1909-1975
  Nancy Hamrick [Nancy McSwain]
  Age at death 87 yrs, 11 mos, 4 days
  Birth 1 Oct 1842 North Carolina
  Death 5 Sep 1929 Lenoir, Caldwell County
  Burial Mt Olive Cemetery [should be Mt Olivet Cemtery, Ellenboro, Rutherford Co], 7 September 1929
  (Cause of Death is unreadable)
  Widowed, Spouse Abram Hamrick
  Father Lewis McSwain b NC
  Mother Mary Hamrick b NC
  Burial 7 September 1929 Mt Olive Cemetery,
  District 14-5176, Register No 40, Certificate no 272, Filed 30 September 1919
  
  The death certificate had hte name of the cemetery as Mt Olive Cemetery, with no locaiotn stated.  No location is stated, and searches on cemeteries and churches in Caldwell and nearby counties, or near Lenoir have not produced any clear determinative information.  Her memorial on Find a Grave clarified this by reported her burial informatoni from Mt Olivet Cemetery in Ellenboro, in Rutherford County.  This memorial is dated 2010, but did not come up in seraches until 6 June 2015.
  
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  Nancy McSwain Hamrick
  Birth Oct. 1, 1841
  Death Sep. 5, 1929
  
  Parents:
  Louis Hobson McSwain (1814 - 1890)
  Mary Hamrick McSwain (1816 - 1906)
  Spouse Abraham Hamrick (1840 - 1915)
  Children:
  Mary E. Hamrick (1866 - 1883)
  Martha Christine Hamrick Blanton (1871 - 1919)
  Roxana Hambrick McKinney (1877 - 1925)
  
  Siblings:
  Martha McSwain Hopper (1836 - 1917)
  Rebecca Elizabeth McSwain Hamrick (1838 - 1867)
  Hannah McSwain Green (1839 - 1931)
  Oliver McSwain (1844 - 1864)
  Lucy McSwain Love (1847 - 1914)
  Lewis Moore McSwain (1851 - 1941)
  Elijah Bonaparte McSwain (1853 - 1921)
  Ambrose McSwain (1856 - 1905)
  Margaret Caldonia McSwain Hamrick (1860 - 1919)
  
  Burial Mount Olivet Baptist Cemetery, Ellenboro, Rutherford County, North Carolina
  
  Created by Record Hunter Jun 20, 2010
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #53923025, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53923025
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Sources

• 1. 1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 14 August, page 72, Hse/Fam #511
• 2. Hamrick Data Pages
  • http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hamrick/wga75.html
• 3. 1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 4 September, p 315 (scan 158), Hse/Fam #596
• 4. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 5. North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1975
• 6. North Carolina, Death Collection, 1908-2004
• 7. RootsWeb ID: I6287
• 8. 1880 Federal Census, Rutherford County, North Carolina
  • 22 June, Colfax, District 161, page 20, Hse #180, Fam #191
• 9. Ancestry Trees
  • Hamrick-McSwain2, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?op=GET&db=*v59t0959&id=I592&ftm=1
• 10. 1880 Federal Census, Rutherford County, North Carolina
  • 22 June, Colfax, District 161, page 21, Hse #180, Fam #191
• 11. Ancestry Trees
  • Hamrick-McSwain, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?op=GET&db=*v87t1995&id=I089&ftm=1
• 12. 1900 Federal Census, Rutherford County, North Carolina
  • 6 June, Precinct 1, District 131, page 3B, Hse/Fam #55
• 13. North Carolina, Marriage Records, 1741-2011
• 14. Ancestry Trees
  • Hamrick-McSwain1, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm-cgi?op=GET&db=:2899708&id=I1236&ftm=1