ELLIS COUNTY, TX - Bio Swafford ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Swafford Brimberry I have a two volume book of genealogy of the Swafford family dating back to James Peter Swafford born in Dublin Ireland. He and his wife, Rennie, came to America from Ireland in 1770. They had 8 sons. Our ancestor was the 8th brother, William born 1785. He had only one son, John W. born 1805 in Tennessee. John W. married Mary Fields and they had 14 children. Their 5th child was Pryor Evans Swafford born 1831. He and his wife, Jane "Jenny" Oaks had 12 children. Their 4th child was John Evans Swafford who married Samantha Jane James in Boone County, Arkansas in 1877. They had seven children. My grandfather was their second child: Marion Garfield Swafford. (born in Arkansas 1881) He married Emma Mae Muirhead(born in TX and they had four children including my father Troy[1906]. Lela May, Fred The third child of John and Samantha was Retta Elvira Swafford who married William Henry Muirhead. Their children were: Ruby Pearl, Helen, Charlie, Robert and Earle (Earlene's Father).