Life History

Notes

• 1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 4 September, p 315, Hse/Fam #593
  George McSwain 22 M Farmer Born NC [born abt 1828]
  Hannah McSwain 23 F b NC [born abt 1827]
  Marcus L McSwain 1 M b NC [born abt 1849]
  
  1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 13 July, PO not named, page 73, Hse/Fam #48
  George McSwain 32 M Farm Laborer $0 Real Estate $75 Personal Estate born NC
  Hannah McSwain 35 F born NC
  Marcus McSwain 10 M b NC
  
  In the 1870 census, Marcus is listed a Marion L.  This name is transcribed by Ancestry as Marcos, so maybe that is what the enumerator intended.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 13 July, Township 3, PO Stices Shoals, page 15 (scan 116), Hse #109, Fam #115
  McSwain, Thomas 74 M Farmer $200 Real Estate $100 Personal  born North Carolina [b abt 1796]
  McSwain, Hannah 45 F W Keeping House born North Carolina Cannot read or write [b abt 1825]
  McSwain, Marion [Marcos?] L 20 M W Farm Laborer born North Carolina Cannot read or write [b abt 1850]
  
  McSwain researcher David Holden provides the famiy configuration and details for Marcus and his siblings.
  
  George Washington McSwain
  Birth: ABT 1827 in North Carolina
  Death: 9 Jan 1864
  Father: William McSwain b: 22 Sep 1792
  Mother: Mary Nancy Bridges b: 1789
  Marriage Hannah McSwain b: ABT Nov 1825 in North Carolina, No death info
  Children:
  1. Marcus L. McSwain b: ABT 1849 in North Carolina, Death: Unknown [abt 1875]
  2. Perry Green McSwain b: ABT Mar 1854 in North Carolina, Death: AFT 1930
  3. William Kine McSwain b: 15 Jun 1856 in North Carolina, Death: 16 Jul 1915, Burial: Mt. Sinai Baptist Cemetery, Cleveland Co., NC
  4. Thomas David McSwain b: 29 Dec 1859 in North Carolina, Death: 9 Aug 1928, Burial: Flint Hill Baptist Cemetery, Boiling Springs, Cleveland Co., NC
  5. George W. McSwain b: ABT Dec 1862 in North Carolina, Death: Unknown
  Note: It's possible that George A. [?] lived in Laurel, Jones Co., Mississippi, in 1910. If so, he was married to Charity R., born about 1850, in SC.
  --  David Holden, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dwh1951&id=I331
  
  Holden does not have a death date for Marcus, but I estimated the date of death from another fact Holden reports.  Marcus' wife was Francis Ledbetter, born 27 March 1839.  Holden also reports that this same Francis Ledbetter was the wife of William Kine.  Francis married Marcus on 7 April 1873, and William about 1876.  No death date is reported for Marcus, but he must have died, or she would not have married his brother.  Thus, using round figure years, I estimated Marcus died in about 1875.

Sources

• 1. 1850 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 4 September, p 315, Hse/Fam #593
• 2. 1870 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
  • 13 July, Township 3, PO Stices Shoals, page 15 (scan 116), Hse #109, Fam #115