OBIT: SWOPE, Joseph P.; 1906; Patton, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ Cambria Freeman Ebensburg, Pa. Friday, 23 Feb 1906 Volume 40, Number 7 Aged Patton Man Dead Joseph P. Swope, One of Best Known Citizens of Northern Cambria County, Succumbs to Gastritis Joseph P. Swope, one of the best known residents of northern Cambria county, died at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday evening at his home in Patton in the sixty-eighth year of his age. The cause of his death was acute gastritis. Deceased is survived by his wife and five sons – Albert J., Joseph R., Ambrose H. and Herman G. Swope, who reside in Johnstown and Peter Swope who conducts a planing mill at Carrolltown. He also leaves two stepsons – Frank Bauman of Patton and Joseph Bauman of Wilkesbarre – and two brothers and three sisters, viz.: John M. Swope of Westover, Clearfield county; Henry Swope, who lives near Patton and the Misses Anna, Elizabeth and Matilda Swope who reside on the old homestead farm. Of the many cousins of the deceased three ware residents of Johnstown – Dr. M. A. Wesner, Mrs. John McDermott and Henry Noel. The funeral took place Saturday morning and after a requiem high mass in St. Mary's church, interment was made in the cemetery adjoining. Joseph Peter Swope, who was a son of Aloysius and Mary Noel Swope, was born in Allegheny township, this county, on December 5, 1838, and remained on the homestead farm with his parents until the Civil War broke out, when he enlisted and in September, 1862, was assigned to Company A, Eleventh Pennsylvania cavalry, with which he engaged in a number of battles and was mustered out at Pittsburg in July, 1865. Mr. Swope returned home and on May 26, 1867, united in marriage with Mrs. Louisa Glasser Bauman, he and his bride settling in Wilkesbarre. In 1870 Mr. Swope moved back to Cambria county, locating on a farm in Chest township where he remained until 1895, when he gave up farming and moved to Patton to enjoy the fruits of a life of thrift and energy. During his residence in northern Cambria, Mr. Swope was frequently called upon to serve as School Director and in various other local offices in his community, all of which he filled with credit to himself and fidelity to the people he served. He was educated in the schools and was reared and lived for many years on the historic tract of land known as the Glen Connell Place in Chest township, his parents moving there when that place was a wilderness. When he retired in 1895 the farm was conceded to be one of the best in Cambria county.