Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Swearingen, S. G. 1807 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  S. G. SWEARINGEN, farmer, P. O. Duncanville, who is the personification of
good humor and kindness, was born January 8, 1807, in Ohio. He is a son of
Thomas V. Swearingen, a merchant by occupation, who was born December 19, 1779,
in Virginia, and who died September 29, 1863. He was joined in matrimony, April
6, 1806, to Miss Theodosia Goodale, born February 25, 1785. She died April 6,
1832, and was the mother of six children. Our subject's ancestors were of French
and Holland descent, and he can date his family back as far as the beginning of
the seventeenth century. He was educated in Chillicothe, Ohio, and in early life
clerked for his father; afterward he learned the tanner's trade, which he
followed till 1851, when he came to Crawford County, Ill., where he has been a
farmer ever since. Mr. Swearingen was married to Miss Sarah N. Colwell, born
December 19, 1808, in Pennsylvania. She died May 20, 1871, and she is the mother
of four children, as follows: Lincoln G., who died near Vicksburg, while in the
army; Sally C, deceased; Cynthia, deceased; Theodore P., born November 16, 1848,
he is now married. Mr. Swearingen was married a second time, November 28, 1872,
to Mrs. C. A. Cunningham, born April 15, 1830, she is a daughter of W. J. and
Amelia Crews, and the mother of three children, from her first husband.  The
children are all married, and their names are Thomas H., William O. and Charles
A. Mr. and  Mrs. Swearingen are members of the Methodist Church.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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