Jacob M. Swisher Jr. (1806 - 1881)

Born 13 Feb 1806 in Berkeley, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Barsheba (Ferrell) Swisher — married 19 Feb 1829 in Monongalia, Virginia, United States

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 1881 at age 75 in Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia, United States

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Biography

Son of Jacob M. Swisher and Catherine Bunner.

Married Barsheba Ferrell 1829.

He was a Civil War veteran.

Father of Henry Zadock Swisher.

Notes

From the Daily intelligencer., April 28, 1863, Image 2, Wheeling, WV online at Chronicling America: "Meeting in Marion County - Pursuant to the announcement in last week's National, a meeting was held in the Court House on Monday, the 6th inst., for the purpose of choosing delegates to represent the county in the Parkersburg Convention." ... "Resolved, That the following persons be appointed delegates to represent the Union men of Marion county in the Convention which meets at Parkersburg on the first Wednesday after the expiration of ten days after the date of the President's Proclamation admitting West Virginia into the Union." ... "District No 3. - George W. Jolliff, Jacob Swisher, Col. R. Moran, and Nelson Merrifield."

And from the Daily intelligencer., May 21, 1863, Image 2, "New State Election to be Held on Thursday, May 28, 1863 - The following persons have been appointed Commissioners and Conductors to hold the election at the various precincts:" ... "3d District, Pride's - Jacob Swisher, Conductor; Joseph Garlow, Amos Bunner, Jacob Morgan, Commissioners."

From The Wheeling daily intelligencer., February 21, 1868, Image 2, "The gallant Republicans of Marion county met last Wednesday and appointed delegates to the State Convention to be held in this city [Wheeling] next Saturday." The list includes Jacob Swisher. [By May 23rd of that year, Thos. Swisher was instead in that list.]

From the Historical encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Schuyler County, Chicago: Munsell Pub. Co., 1908, p. 938, in a sketch about his son, Solomon C. Swisher, it says: "His father, Jacob Swisher, was for twenty-five years a well known lumberman of Marion County, W. Va., arriving there in his youth from Butler County, Va., where he was born in 1812. He married Beersheba Ferrell, who bore him fifteen children, eleven of whom are now living, and who died while absent from her southern home, at about fifty years of age. Jacob Swisher also died while away from home, but in the same State, having attained to seventy-five years. He was an honorable and highly respected man and wielded a beneficial influence in all his walks of life. Following Solomon C., the oldest of this large family, came Elizabeth, who lives near the old home in Virginia; Enoch W., a farmer of Mississippi; Nancy, widow of Mr. Dukes, living also in Virginia; Nelson, at home; Harriet, in Virginia; Wesley, a soldier in the Federal army, who died during the service in a Southern hospital; Sarah, wife of Mr. Watson, of Monessen, Pa.; Henry W., of Virginia; Emeline, wife of John Swisher (not a relative), and a resident of West Virginia; Robert, deceased in Hancock, Ill.; Jennie, who died single at the age of forty; Elvira lives in Marion County, W. Va.; Frank, a resident of the vicinity of Canton, W. Va.; and a child who died in infancy."

Sources

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8D8-9SH : 4 April 2020), Jacob Swisher Jr, Marion county, Marion, Virginia, United States; citing family 267, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHMM-DKJ : 19 March 2020), Jacob Swisher, 1860.

"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ4P-GWG : 19 March 2020), Jacob Jr Swisher, 1870.

"West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NMTK-Y2B : 10 March 2018), Jacob Swisher, 26 Mar 1881; citing Marion, West Virginia, County Records, v 1 p 70, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 834,815. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=834815&ImageNumber=345

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1R-SJPJ : 15 December 2015), Jacob M. Swisher, 1881; Burial, Fairmont, Marion, West Virginia, United States of America, Swisher Cemetery; citing record ID 144169910, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144169910