WILLIAM SWANK

SWANK, ETMIRE

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/16/2009 at 04:43:26

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

WILLIAM SWANK, farmer, Sec. 89; P.O. Unionville; born in Warren Co., Ohio, in 1819; at the age of 12, he removed with his parents to Warren Co., Ind., where his father engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1869, his mother having died three years revious; in 1844, he married Ms. Elizabeth Etmire, born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, but a resident of Warren Co. since 10 years of age. Two years after their marriage, they came to Appanoose Co. and settled on the farm where they now reside, with not a house on the prairie between them and the State line; started from Indiana with less than $250 and two yoke of oxen; he now has the premium farm of the county, containing 645 acres, valued at $30 per acre. They have nine children - David, John, Cyrus, Flavius M., Sarah A., H. Clay; Mary C., Martha A., William Sherman. An old line Whig; now a Republican.