Notes for: Rhoda Yeater
Rhoda (Yeater) Gain, was enumerated in the 1900 Census in the household of her brother and mother, along with three of her children:
1900 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (McClellan District), enumerated on Jun 15 1900:
Head of household Zedock Yeater, 32, b. Mar 1868, farmer, married; mother Isabel Yeater, 60, b. Feb 1840 in Ohio, widowed, mother of 8 children (all still living); sister Rhoda Gain, 28, b. May 1872, widowed, mother of 5 children (4 still living); niece Jane Gain, 8, b. Dec 1891; nephew Clyde Gain, 3, b. Dec 1896; niece Nancy Gain, b. May 1900; brother Mathias Yeater, 21, b. May 1879, farm laborer, single.
(NOTE: Rhoda's fourth living child, Maud Gain, was enumerated in this census in the household of Richard L. Weekley, maternal step-grandfather of Rhoda's husband William Gain.)
Rhoda married Harze Eadle Swiger on Aug 10 1901.
1910 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (McClellan District), enumerated on Apr 22 1910:
Horace E. Swiger, 34, farmer, married 8 yrs (1st marriage); wife Rhoda, 39, married 8 yrs (2nd marriage), mother of 8 children (7 still living); dau Armena, 7; son Everett, 3; son Larcie O, 7 months; stepson Clyde Gain, 12; stepdau Nancy Gain, 9.
1920 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (McClellan District), enumerated on Jan 27 1920:
Eadle Swiger, 44, farmer; wife Rhoda, 49; dau Armena G, 17, servant for private family; son Evertt, 14; stepson Clyde Gain, 22, single, laborer at oil company; dau Nancy Gain, 20, single, servant for private family.
(NOTE: Nancy Gain should have been identified as a stepdaughter.)