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William E. Swank

William E. Swank

Male Abt 1856 -

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  • Name William E. Swank  [1
    Born Abt 1856  Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Residence Abt 1889  California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I5820  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 10 May 2022 

    Father Samuel Swank,   b. 10 Jan 1827, Harrison County, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1899, Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Mother Sarah Walker,   b. Abt 1830, Madison County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Oct 1912, El Dorado County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years) 
    Married 1 Jan 1850  Rock Island County, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • Samuel Swank's 1889 Otoe County, Nebraska, biography offers a marriage date of 1847, but their recorded marriage date is actually 1850.
    Family ID F1558  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family [wife of William E. Swank] Tucker 
    Married Before 1889  [3
    Children 
     1. Lena Swank
    Last Modified 10 May 2022 
    Family ID F3336  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • ". . . the last I heard lived in California." [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S3125] Lawson Howland (showland@cableone.net) to Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC), email, 4 February 2013; attached was they typescript of material written by J. N. Wannamaker and printed in "The Times" [locale not stated] on 31 December 1936, based on a letter that Mr. Wannamaker received from Martha "Mattie" (Paul) Rippy regarding her Paul and Walker ancestry, as well as a description of their lives in Kansas. Mr. Wannamaker's wife Sadie (Paul) Wannamaker was Mattie Rippy's younger sister and both were the children of Eliza (Walker) Paul, the daughter of Samuel A. Walker.

    2. [S4396] 1880 U. S. census, Otoe County, Nebraska, population schedule, Palmyra Precinct, enumeration district (ED) 199, p. 3 (penned), p. 427 (stamped, verso), dwelling 17, family 17, Samuel Swank household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 10 August 2014); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 753.

    3. [S1760] Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska, containing. . . (Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1889), 236-237, biography of Samuel Swank, Otoe County; digital images, USGenNet (http://www.usgennet.org : accessed 14 Nov 2011).

    4. [S1761] Illinois Secretary of State, "Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900," database, Illinois State Archives (http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/archives.html : accessed 14 November 2011), entry for Samuel Swank-Sarah Walker, Rock Island County (1850); citing marriage book A: 43, license no. 577.