OBIT: Jefferson T. SWEARMAN, 1942, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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JEFFERSON T. SWEARMAN

  Jefferson T. Swearman, born near Accident, Md., May 19, 1876, died at Cuyahoga 
Falls, O., March 27, 1942, at the age of 65 years, 10 months and 8 days.
  He located in Salisbury, Pa., in his early manhood, where he a few years later 
was united in marriage with Miss Julia Wahl, youngest daughter of the late 
Casper Wahl, who was twice married, and was born to her father and his first 
wife.
  Mr. Swearman, more than 30 years ago, succeeded his father-in-law in the 
butchering and retail meat business in Salisbury for some years, then located in 
Akron, Ohio, and later in Cuyahoga Falls, as near as the writer remembers. For 
some years he was employed in the street car service at Akron, later embarked in 
the meat business at Cuyahoga Falls.  How long he was in that business the 
writer does not know.
  This obituary is written at the request of some of his relatives; but the 
writer has not been supplied with the details of Mr. Swearman's death, and is 
therefore written according to such data as has been available to him.
  Mr. Swearman's body was brought to Salisbury by a Cuyahoga Falls mortician, 
who arrived here Tuesday afternoon.  A funeral service was held in Cuyahoga 
Falls, which was conducted by the Rev. Franklin Frye, D.D., last Monday, and was 
interred in the Salisbury I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Tuesday afternoon, under the 
direction of the mortician who brought it here.  Funeral rites at the grave were 
conducted by Rev. S. D. Sigler, pastor of the Salisbury Lutheran Church, under a 
tent supplied by Stanley M. Thomas, local mortician.
  Mr. Swearman is survived by his wife, two sons, Floyd and Arthur, also by 
three grandchildren, several brothers and two sisters.
  Persons present at the funeral rites from outside of the Salisbury community, 
were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Swearman and daughter Julia, of Ohio; several brothers 
and two sisters of the deceased, William Reitz and daughter, and Irwin Rayman, 
whose addresses are unknown to the writer.  Mrs. Swearman was unable to be here 
on account of ill health.

Meyersdale Republican, April 2, 1942