Obituary of George Andrew Swartz

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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003
From: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000008
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George Andrew Swartz 
Bath County News-Outlook Thursday, October 27, 1938 
George Swartz Dies At Olympia 
   George Andrew Swartz, 86 years old, passed away at his home at Olympia 
early Monday morning, October 24, after several years' illness of the 
infirmities due to his advanced years. 
   Funeral services were held at the Olympia Christian church at 10:30 
o'clock Tuesday morning, conducted by the Rev. R. T. Moores, pastor of 
the Salt Lick Christian church, assisted by the Rev. Henry S. Ficklin.  
Interment was in the family lot in the Old Fields cemetery. 
   The passing of Mr. Swartz' removes one of the landmarks of that 
section of the county.  A farmer and merchant at Olympia for a number 
of years, he was well known throughout This part of the county and 
enjoyed the respect and esteem of his neighbors and friends.  He was 
a native of Bath, the second son of Billy and Frances Ann McCoslin 
Swartz, born March 8, 1852.  On November 17, 1875, he united in marriage 
with Miss George Ann Wright who, with six of the nine children born to 
them, survives him.  Fifty three years ago, Mr. Swartz united with the 
Christian church under the late Rev. James Nichols and the Rev. Joseph 
Adams, widely known evangelists of that day. 
   Besides his widow, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. M. M. 
Steele, Ashland, Mrs. George Warner, Georgetown, Ill., and Miss Elizabeth 
Swartz, at home; three sons, J. H. Swartz, and E. M. Swartz, Pineville, 
Ky., and W. B. SaHow of Hudnall, W. Va..; two sisters, Mrs. Annie Griggs 
and Mrs. May S. Sheets, Pineville; seventeen grandchildren and four 
great-grandchildren.