James Magnus MCSWAIN Bernetta Octavia MCSWAIN Stella D MCSWAIN Ruth Alma MCSWAIN James Marvin MCSWAIN Thad Mathew MCSWAIN Wirt Barnard MCSWAIN Katherine L MCSWAIN Ruth L LOWREY Mini tree diagram
Bruce B MCSWAIN

Bruce B MCSWAIN1,2,3

18th Oct 19231,2,3 - 3rd Jun 19511

Life History

18th Oct 1923

Born in Arkansas.1,2,3

3rd Jun 1951

Died in White River Refuge, Arkansas County, Arkansas.1

Died by drowning

after 3rd Jun 1951

Buried in Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas.1

Other facts

 

Military service: Inf 26 Inf Div World War II BSM-PH in Arkansas.1

Notes

  • 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 22 April, District 25, page 6B, Prairie Township, Ethel & Point Rd, Hse #125, Fam #126
    McSwain, James M Head M W 45 AR NC NC Farmer
    McSwain, Mattie A Wife F W 43 AR NC TN
    McSwain, Bruce B Son M W 6 AR AR OK

    1940 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 8 April, Ethel, District 26, page 3B, Belleview Rd, Hse #48, Owns Farm, Value $800
    McSwain, Jim Head M W 55 Grade 6 b Alabama lived in same house in 1935 Farmer
    McSwain, Annie Wife F W 53 Grade 8 b Arkansas same house in 1935 Housekeeper
    McSwain, Bruce Son M W 16 Single Grade 6 b Arkansas same house in 1935 Farm Laborer

    Date of death may be 03 June rather than 13 June. It is hard to read on the stone.

    Bruce B. McSwain drowned while on a fishing/hunting expedition on the White River Refuge.
    -- George Oliver McSwain, email correspondence, January 2007

    Gravestone of Bruce B McSwain
    Bruce B McSwain
    Arkansas PFC 101
    Inf 26 Inf Div World War II BSM-PH
    Oct 18 1923  June 3 1951
    Mt Pleasant Cemetery, Ethel, Arkansas County, Arkansas
    Photo by Edith McSwain Jenkins, 13 May 2017

    U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
    Bruce B Mc Swain
    Birth 18 Oct 1923
    Death 3 Jun 1951
    Enlisted 15 Feb 1943, Discharged 30 June 1946
    U S Army 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division, Company I
    Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Dewitt [DeWitt is struck out and corrected to Ethel], Arkansas
    Ship to Thad M McSwain, DeWitt, Arkansas
    Approved 20 Jun 1951
    Shipped 9 Aug 1951 from Columbus, Mississippi

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