Oliva Erwin who married Jeremiah Swing in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 26, 1827. HELP find her parents please!
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Olivia also used the names Olive and Oliva. She was born July/Aug in 1809/10. Her 1850 census in Ripley Indiana lists her birth as Maryland and her age as 39, a widow with 7 children. (Her husband Jeremiah Swing was the son of Samuel Swing and Mary "Polly" Murphy Swing.)My ancestor was her daughter Sara Jane Swing Cole, age 16, then living next door with her husband Madison Cole age 23. In 1870 Olivia (Erwin) Swing is in the Warsaw, Ill. census age 60, living alone, but with her son "Jerry" Swing nearby. On the 1900 census her son lists his mother as born in West Virginia. (Did part of Marlyand later become West Virginia?) According to someone from the family Olivia Erwin died in 1874. I have no idea who her parents were.
Hi Joy,
Could you also provide additional information? Do you know where she was in 1874 when she supposedly passed? Specifically the county in which she died. And also, how is her named spelled in the 1870 census that you found her in.
Thanks,
Amy Ervin-Smithson