George MCSWAIN Mary G MCSWAIN Phillip K MCSWAIN Sarah H MCSWAIN Julius Logan MCSWAIN George B MCSWAIN Nancy C MCSWAIN William W MCSWAIN James L MCSWAIN Catherine WEATHERS Mini tree diagram

Francis M MCSWAIN1,3,2

about 18491,2,3 - after 1870

Life History

about 1849

Born in Cleveland County, North Carolina.1,2,3

after 1870

Died in Unknown

Notes

  • 1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 4 September, p 31, Hse/Fam #587
    George McSwain    57  [b abt 1793, note differences in ages from census to census] Farmer  $600 Real Estate b NC
    Catharine McSwain 34 b NC
    Polly G McSwain      7 b NC
    Sally H McSwain      5 b NC
    Phillip K McSwain     3 b NC
    ** Francis M McSwain  1 b NC **
    Andrew Ruske        21  [Not known who this is] Farmer b NC
    Mary Weathers       75 [b abt 1775] b NC

    1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 4 August 1860, p 54, Hse/Fam #385
    George McSwain Sr   61 M Farmer $100 Personal Estate b NC
    Catherine McSwain 40  F b NC
    Francis M McSwain 10  M b NC

    Francis was the first of the family of North Carolina McSwains to settle in Arkansas County.  I found him in Prairie Township in 1870, while his mother Katy (Catherine) and his other brothers and sister Nancy are in Giles County, Tennessee, for the 1870 census.  (This is also where the Butler family lived before some of them also showed up in Prairie Township of Arkansas County.)

    Francis is single and living alone in a separate household, but next door to cousins John F and Mary G McSwain, both also born in North Carolina.  They are shown with a Post Office of St. Charles, but both John and Francis are shown as farmers.  They probably were living south of St Charles, the nearest post office.  This is where the whole McSwain clan later settled, near Ethel.  Ethel later got its own post office.  Both St Charles and Ethel are in Prairie Township.

    1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 4 July, Prairie Township, PO St Charles, page 15, Hse/Fam #119
    McSwane, Framcis 22 M W Farmer $No Real Estate $220 Personal Estate NC (b abt 1848)

    1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 4 July, Prairie Township, PO St Charles, page 15, Hse/Fam #118
    McSwane, John F 30 M W Farm Laborer $No Real Estate $140 Personal Estate NC (b abt 1840)
    McSwane, Mary 26 F W Keeping House NC (b abt 1844)
    McSwane, George F 9mos  b Oct 1869 M W Tennessee

    Also nearby, next door to John and Mary, is another cousin, Virgil Weathers.

    1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 4 July, Prairie Township, PO St Charles, page 15, Hse/Fam #117
    Wethers, Virgil 30 M W Farmer $160 Personal Estate b SC (b abt 1840)
    Wethers, Sarah 26 F W Keeping House b NC (b abt 1844)
    Wethers, George W 4 M W b Tennessee (b abt 1866)

    George and his family are still reported in or near St. Charles, still in Prairie Township, in 1880, when Katy, Francis and the whole family (less father George who died before they moved to Tennessee) are a bit farther south near Ethel, in the same Prairie Township or Arkansas County.

    John and Mary moved to St Charles only a few months before the census in July of 1870.  Their son John F is reported as born in Tennessee in October 1869.  (Birth months of those less than one year old are included in this census.)  So they had to move from Tennessee between October 1869 and July 1870.  I expect that they were living near Katy and the family in Giles County, Tennessee, where John was born, then Francis moved with them to Arkansas, likely in the Spring of 1870, after the winter.

    John F's son, George F, later moved to Texas, where other McSwains of the Carolina clan also moved directly or from Arkansas.

Sources

  • 1. 1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
    • 6 August, p 54, Hse/Fam #385
  • 2. 1870 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
    • 4 July, Prairie Township, PO St Charles, page 15, Hse/Fam #119
  • 3. 1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
    • 4 September, p 31, Hse/Fam #584

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