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Isaac SWISHER

Isaac SWISHER

Male 1793 - 1854  (60 years)

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  • Name Isaac SWISHER 
    Born 15 Jul 1793  Brown's Creek, Mt. Clare, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Military War of 1812  [3] 
    Died 19 Feb 1854  Rockford (Lost Creek), Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Buried Rockford Methodist Cemetery, Lost Creek, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I22278  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 23 Aug 2010 

    Father Peter SWISHER, II,   b. 28 Oct 1746, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jan 1832, Rockford (Lost Creek), Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years) 
    Mother Mary WAGGONER,   b. CA 1757, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F8285  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mariah JETT,   b. 21 Jan 1797, Fauquier Co, VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Aug 1863, Rockford (Lost Creek), Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Married 11 Apr 1813  Monongalia Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Notes 
    • 1850 Census, Harrison Co, Virginia (now West Virginia), enumerated on Aug 8 1850:
      Isaac Swisher, 56, farmer; Maria, 52; Lorenzo, 21, school teacher; Lewis, 20; Olive, 16; Isaac, 13; Simonton, 10; Emily, 6; Calvin Boyce (Boyle ?), 23, blacksmith. [4]
    Children 
    +1. Sarah Ann SWISHER,   b. 1817,   d. 1894  (Age 77 years)
     2. Owen Thomas SWISHER,   b. 11 May 1826, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1889  (Age 62 years)
    +3. Isaac Francis SWISHER,   b. 6 Mar 1837,   d. 24 Feb 1896, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years)
     4. Simonton SWISHER,   b. 30 Jul 1840,   d. 17 May 1863  (Age 22 years)
    +5. Emma V. SWISHER,   b. 1845, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Sep 1918, Lost Creek, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
    Family ID F8298  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S2238] Cemeteries of Grant District, Harrison County, WV, (Harrison County Genealogical Society, Clarksburg, WV).

    2. [S1684] Jeffrey Wood , (Ancestry World Tree, http://awt.ancestry.com).

    3. [S283] Ritchie County in History and Romance, Minnie Kendall Lowther, (McClain Publishing Co, Parsons, WV, 1990), p. 244.

    4. [S1251] Genealogical & Personal History of Upper Monongahela Valley WV, Bernard L. Butcher, (1912, reprinted 1978 by Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD).