Name: edithreeves -- Four Generations of the John Sweat Family

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Otis Ithamer Swett: Birth: 28 Dec 1874 in Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois. Death: 6 Feb 1963

  2. Ernest James Swett: Birth: 7 Jul 1878 in Atlas Township, Pike, Illinois. Death: 24 Jan 1960

  3. Ella Lestina Swett: Birth: 21 Oct 1880 in Atlas, Pike, Illinois. Death: 24 Dec 1971 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois

  4. Della Agnes Sweat: Birth: 7 Oct 1883 in Pearl, Pike, Illinois. Death: 25 Apr 1912 in Pearl, Pike, Illinois

  5. Paul Morton Swett: Birth: 8 Jul 1896 in Pearl, Pike, Illinois. Death: 23 Sep 1952 in St Charles, Kane, Illinois


Notes
a. Note:   RESEARCH NOTES: James and Cora's marriage is recorded in the Pike County Marriage Record. On the marriage record, Cora's name is recorded as "Scorey Mortin." Their children are listed in the <I>Prairie Farmer's Directory of Farmers and Stock Breeders, 1918-1919</I>. Cora died when she was 56 years old. James lived another seven years, always with children in his household. James' death certificate can be found in Illinois Death Certificates. Both he and Cora appear in >I>Cemeteries of Pike County</I>. A family group record for James Marden Sweat and Cora Marie Morton, submitted by Gale Paul Sweat, is in the LDS Archives. This record contains information on all of James and Cora's children, unless the Cora Sweat, age 1, in Pike County Deaths is their daughter.
  CENSUS: United States, 1850, Pike county IL Township 5 South 3 West 132/135 (John A Sweat household) "James age 2, b. IL" CENSUS: United States, 1860, Pike county IL Newburg Township 107/107 (John A Sweat household) "James age 10, in school, b. IL" CENSUS: United States, 1870, Pike county IL Newburg 64/67 (John A Sweat household) "James age 20, farm hand, b. IL" CENSUS: United States, 1880, Pike county IL Ross Township 58/59 "James age 32, married, farming, b. IL ME CAN" also wife, Cora, children: Otis and Ernest, and brother, Augustus CENSUS: United States, 1900, Pike county IL Pearl Township 88/97 "James age 51, married 25 years, farmer, b. Jan 1849 IL ME CAN" also wife, Cora, and children: Ottis, Ernest, Ella, Dellia, and Paul CENSUS: United States, 1910, Pike county IL Pearl Township 94/99 "James M Sweat age 61, married once 36 years, farmer, b. IL ME ME" also wife, Cora, children: Paul (Sweat) and Delia A Walker, and grandson, Gerald A (Walker) CENSUS: United States, 1920, Pike county IL Pearl Township 119/128 "James W Swett age 70, widower, farmer, b. IL MA CAN" also son, Paul, daughter-in-law, Goldie E, and grandson, Gerald Walker

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