Life History

Notes

• "The first wife of William Boyd McSwain was Bonnie Mitchell, daughter of Hiram and Francis Clercie Sizemore Mitchell, she had the 3 boy's by William, (William Boyd JR., Jack and, Robert) my step-grandmother Mary Kiser had Betty and Carolyn who I really through the years haven't got to know. Bonnie died in 1929 in Newberry, S.C. with TB, William and Bonnie's residence at that time was East Robinson st. Gaffney, S.C."
  --  Larry McSwain, Comment on an Ancestry genealogy, 22 October 2014
  
  Betty is the youngest in the household in 1940.
  
  1940 Federal Census, Cherokee County, South Carolina, 16 April, Hamrick Mill, District 11-19 Page 15A, Hse #267 rents $4
  McSwain, Boyd Head M W 39 Married Grade C4 b SC same place in 1935 Cotton Mill Spinner [b abt 1901]
  McSwain, Mary F W 26 Wife Married Grade H4 b SC same place in 1935 Cotton Mill Battery Filler [b abt 1914]
  McSwain, Boyd Son M W 18 Single Grade 7 b SC same place in 1935 Cotton Mill Doffer [b abt 1922]
  McSwain, Bobby Son M W 16 Single Grade H1 b SC same place in 1935 [b abt 1924]
  McSwain, Jack Son M W 13 Single Grade 6 b SC same place in 1935 [b abt 1927]
  McSwain, Betty F W 6 Dau Grade 0 b SC same place in 1935 [b abt 1934]
  - page 15B -
  McSwain, Carolyn F W 2 Dau Grade 0 b SC [b abt 1938]
  McSwain, Amanda F W 61 Mother Widow Grade 3 b SC same place in 1935 [b abt 1879]

Sources

• 1. 1940 Federal Census, Cherokee County, South Carolina
  • 16 April, Hamrick Mill, District 11-19 Page 15A, Hse #267 rents $4
• 2. Ancestry Comments