Dear Jennifer - Thank you so much! You helped fill in the blanks, and I am especially pleased you posted the data to the Internet for the benefit of others! I am glad to see there WAS a Leora, as I had jotted down her name on a scrap of paper years ago and then doubted myself. I will have to look back at your note, but I believe you found another child I was not aware of.

Do you have any other information on Jacob Jones (as this name is a hard one to research!!!). I don't know who his parents were. Was Mariah his second wife (as a family researcher felt)? Since the will you have apparently did not specify "stepchildren," I supposed Nancy WAS the natural daughter of Mariah. That was another question that I had.

On Friday, I am going to a Sweany cousin family picnic/reunion in Portland, Oregon. If I obtain any further information I will post it to the Internet. The Sweanys were my mother's line. My mother was Leona Lavonne Sweany, born in Chehalis, WA in 1910. Her father was Arlie Otto Sweany, husband of Vertie May Grymes. Arlie's father was Henry (husband of Nancy C. Jones) and Henry's father was Samuel Sweany. I have not been able to trace what country the Sweanys originated from prior to immigrating to the United States. My line from Indiana settled in the Portland/Milwaukie OR area.

Henry Sweany was one of a group of so-called 100-day volunteers who served late in the Civil War (Union side) out of Delaware Co. IN. Their job was to relieve other soldiers and were sent to guard railroads in AL and TN. Apparently none of the volunteers died from wounds received as a direct cause of the war, but several died of disease. Henry Sweany survived. (Another Sweany also enlisted, Daniel, who no doubt was a relative).

After Nancy Jones Sweany died, Henry was a widower for a long time. Late in life he remarried to a Sarah Jones (no relation to Nancy, per DCI history book). They had no children. From medical records on one of Henry's grandchildren, Violet May Sweany, who died as a child in the Salem, OR "Home For The Feebleminded", Henry Sweany had apparently committed suicide in his 70s.

Some of the Sweanys in DCI suffered from tuberculosis. I don't know if this was the case with Henry.

Researchers will find that my Sweany families (as well as Grymes families) were often misspelled in records, but you can be assured that the surnames were definitely Sweany and Grymes.

Any other snippets?

Jean