Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - R. E. Swearingen

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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R. E. Swearingen is the oldest son of Samuel and Sallie N. (Cox) 
Swearingen, and was born in Crawford County, Ark., in 1844. [For life 
of parents, see sketch of Mrs. Swearingen.] During his youth Mr. 
Swearingen had no educational advantages, public schools being then 
unknown in this part of the country. In 1872 he was united in marriage 
to Miss Susan Hargrave, who was born in this county in 1853, and was a 
daughter of Benjamin and Narcissa (Foster) Hargrave. Mrs. Swearingen 
died January 26, 1875, leaving one son and one daughter, and January 
29, 1879, Mr. Swearingen was married to Miss Grace Larue, who was born 
in Kentucky in 1862, and is a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Burdine) 
Larue, also natives of Kentucky, who settled in Crawford County in 
1870. By his last marriage Mr. S. is the father of three boys and one 
girl. May 12, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, Third Arkansas Infantry, 
for six months, in which he served till the following fall, when the 
regiment was disbanded. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, 
Twenty-second Arkansas Infantry, in which he served till the close of 
the war, participating in the battles of Oak Hill, Prairie Grove, 
Helena, Ark., and Saline River, Ark. Mr. Swearingen has made all his 
property since starting in life for himself in 1870, and is now the 
owner of 234 acres of good valley and bottom land; 110 acres are in 
the bottom, and are cultivated and improved; he living in a nice house 
himself, and having one tenement house on the home place, besides good 
outbuildings. Mr. S. is a Democrat and cast his first presidential 
vote for Seymour in 1868. He is a Mason, and his wife belongs to the 
Methodist Church. 

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