Life History

Notes

• In Frank's Texas birth record, only his second name was recorded.  His full name in a family Bible is Marion Franklin.  The birth certificate says only Franklin.  The death index has only his first name, Marion.
  
  Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
  Franklin Mc Swain
  Birth 21 Nov 1930 Near Goree, Knox, Texas
  2nd child of this mother, both children living
  Father Eldon Millard Mc Swain, Farmer, age 22
  Father Birth Place Taylor County, Texas
  Mother Olive Belle Howry, age 20
  Mother Birth Place Harderman County, Texas
  Mother Residence Goree, Texas
  Certificate #103191
  
  1940 Federal Census, Knox County, Texas, 10 April, Goree Precinct 4, District 138-6, page 5B, Hse #108, Rents $10
  McSwain, Eldon Head M W 32 Married Grade 7 b Texas same place in 1935 Laundry Proprietor [b abt 1902]
  McSwain, Olive Wife F W 30 Married Grade 2 b Texas same place in 1935 [b abt 1910]
  McSwain, Millard Son M W 11 Grade 5 b Texas same place in 1935 [b abt 1929]
  McSwain, Marion Son 10 Grade 4 b Texas same place in 1935 [b abt 1930]
  McSwain, Eva Dau 7 Grade 1 b Texas same place in 1935 [b abt 1933]
  Smith, Ruby L Niece 12 Grade 5 b Texas same place in 1935 [b abt 1928]
  
  Benyamen [Benjamin,] Texas Time 715 AM March 11, 1952
  Marion Franklin McSwain went in service March 11, 1952
  --  Bible of Millard Eldon McSwain, courtesy of Judy McSwain Miller, daughter of McSwain Neal McSwain, 14 August 2014
  
  Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
  Marion Mcswain
  Death 20 Jan 1964 Knox County
  Gender Male
  Marital Status Married
  
  "Per Patsy Mull McSwain he died in a car accident."
  --  Comment on the Randy Martin Memorial genealogy, Ancestry.com, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/7106982/person/-1074485329?ssrc=&ml_rpos=1&ftm=1
  
  "My uncle, Marion Franklin, also passed away, and it is not noted [in the Bible].  He died in jan, 1964..leaving our house. He died a couple of doors down from our house in a car wreck.  He was a Marine, based in San Diego for two years. He never married.  He went by the name "Tuffy"."
  --  Judy McSwain Miller, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 20 August 2014

Sources

• 1. Millard Eldon McSwain Bible
• 2. Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
• 3. 1940 Federal Census, Knox County, Texas
  • 10 April, Goree Precinct 4, District 138-6, page 5B, Hse #108, Rents $10
• 4. Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
• 5. Ancestry Comments
• 6. Judy McSwain Miller