Alameda-Sonoma County CA Archives Obituaries.....Swift, Mary Jane (Hargrave) November 4, 1917
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Oakland Tribune, November 5, 1917
"MARY SWIFT DIES.

Berkeley, Nov. 5 - Mrs. Mary J[ane] Swift, who lived in California 71 years, 
coming here across the plains [in 1846] with the Donner party [Harlan party] 
and enduring hardships en route to which her father succumbed [at Great Salt 
Lake], died at her home, 3131 Ellis street [in Berkeley], yesterday [November 
4].  The remains were shipped to Healdsburg for interment this afternoon [at 
Oak Mound Cemetery].

Mrs. Swift was 80 years of age.  She came west with her father [John Hargrave] 
and mother [Catherine (Fowler) Hargrave] when a girl, accompanying the Donner 
party [Harlan party], which was prevented from reaching the California plains 
by heavy snow at Donner lake in the Sierras [sic].  Her parents, however, 
escaped being snowed up by taking what was known as the "hard" trail and 
reached the Pacific coast without delay.

Surviving Mrs. Swift are two sons, Grant [Richard Grant Swift] and Fred Swift 
[Frederick Swift], and a brother, Fred Hargrave [John Frederick Hargrave] of 
Oakland." END

Additional Comments:
Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California), November 5, 1917 (Monday), Page 4, 
Column 1.  She was married to Richard Swift (1831-1905).

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