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
  
  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 15B, Hse #267 rents $4
• 2. Ancestry Comments