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George William Swepson

Born 23 Jun 1819 in Mecklenburg County Virginia, USA

Son of William Mallory Swepson and [mother unknown]

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Husband of Maria Virginia Bartlett (Yancey) Swepson — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

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Died 7 Mar 1883 at age 63 in Raleigh Wake County North Carolina, USA

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"[George W. Swepson] became one of the chief Scalawags of the Reconstruction period. His machinations in railroad bonds contributed in large measure to the financial ruin of the state. He and his carpetbagger friend, Milton S. Littlefield . . . displayed open contempt for constitutional restrictions."

George William Swepson and Virginia Bartlett Yancey had no children. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina, where his grave is marked by a very tall monument.

Name: George William Swepson. Given Name: George William. Surname: Swepson. Source: Details: <a href="http:/www.sadiesparks.com/wmswepson.htm">Some Descendants of William Mallory Swepson<a>. A Given name was found in addition to a first name in the NAME tag.

Born 23 JUN 1819. Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Source: Details: <a href="http:/www.sadiesparks.com/wmswepson.htm">Some Descendants of William Mallory Swepson<a>.

Died 7 MAR 1883. Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. Source: Details: <a href="http:/www.sadiesparks.com/wmswepson.htm">Some Descendants of William Mallory Swepson<a>.

Buried Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. Source: Details: <a href="http:/www.sadiesparks.com/wmswepson.htm">Some Descendants of William Mallory Swepson<a>.

Note: #N1647.

Marriage Husband @I3201@. Wife @I3195@. Marriage 23 NOV 1842. Caswell County, North Carolina. Note: #N25256.

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Note N1647 George William Swepson (1819-1883)

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Geo. W. Swepson Papers, #707-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: George William Swepson was the treasurer of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and president of the western division of the Western North Carolina Railroad. The collection includes legal proceedings and correspondence in the case of North Carolina versus Swepson and Littlefield, a Reconstruction railroad fraud in which Swepson was involved with General Milton Smith Littlefield (1830-1899). _______________

What brought George W. Swepson to Caswell County, North Carolina? The earliest record of his presence there is the November 23, 1842 (bond date) marriage to Virginia Bartlett Yancey. A tribute to him upon his death states that he moved to Caswell County in 1840, forced to enter the business world by the death of his father. Historian William S. Powell also states, but without supporting documentation, that Swepson "had moved to Caswell County by 1840." Some claim he was a school teacher, but no record supporting that occupation has been found. Swepson purportedly was scheduled to attend Randolph Macon College, but never matriculated.

Was he a person of financial means before relocating to Caswell County, or did this wealth come to him by marriage into the Yancey family? At the time of the 1850 US census, Swepson presumably would have been living in Caswell County for at least 8 years. Census records for 1850 shows him with real estate valued at ,000, described as a farmer, and owning 24 slaves. How did he obtain this real estate and these slaves? Swepson's father was wealthy, owning 32 slaves at the time of the 1830 federal census. The father, William Mallory Swepson, died in 1835, and his will left all assets to his wife, but with the following provision: "with the privilege of giving off to my children as they marry or become of age such property as she may see cause . . . ." The will also provided: "[I]t is my will and desire at the death of my beloved wife Ann E Swepson, or upon marrying again, that my lands, stock, household and kitchen furniture and every thing lent her, except what she may have given off to her child or children, shall be sold except the negroes and the money arising from the sale and the negroes shall be equally divided between my children: Charity Ann Swepson, George W Swepson, Robert R Swepson, Martha A Swepson, and Mary E Swepson.

George Swepson's mother, Ann E. Swepson died the following year, 1836. Thus, George W. Swepson may have inherited substantial cash. Was this the financial basis of his various business ventures? But, why did take his cash to Caswell County? Geographically, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, is not far from Caswell County, North Carolina.

How did George W. Swepson go from being a Caswell County "farmer" in 1850, to being president of a Raleigh bank in 1865?

Even after George W. Swepson moved to Alamance County, he apparently maintained interests in Caswell County:

"On February 12, 1861, the legislature chartered the Caswell Railroad Company with a capital of one million dollars for the purpose of constructing a railroad from Milton by way of Yanceyville to Company Shops (Burlington) on the North Carolina Railroad. Commissioners appointed to take subscriptions for stock were: Giles Mebane, James G. Moore, G. W. Swepson, John Tapscot, Samuel Watkins, M. McGehee, Geo. W. Thompson, Samuel P. Hill, N. M. Roan, William Long, and Dr. Allen Gunn. Charter provisions were made for the various officers and for the performance of necessary duties. The gauge of the line was to be the same as that of the North Carolina Railroad; and since this was to be strictly a North Carolina undertaking, the legislature declared that if any connection was made to any road in Virginia leading to Richmond the charter would be forfeited. The approaching Civil War was surely the cause of the demise of this scheme." Source: Powell, William S. When the Past Refused to Die. Durham (North Carolina): Moore Publishing Company, 1977, pp. 500-501.

Whether Powell is correct that the Civil War "was surely the cause of the demise of this scheme" will never be known. However, many other similar schemes failed well before the Civil War. Inadequate funding most likely was the main failure factor. _______________

Letter from G. W. Swepson of Haw River, Almanance Co., NC to his brother-in-law Dr. William E. Dodson, concerning the death of his sister, Charity Ann Swepson, Hepburn, Dodson (courtesy of Ann Heth Connor)

July 5th, 1861

Mr. Wm. E. Dodson

My Dear Sir

We have just received through Robert and Mary the sad intelligence of the death of my dear sister. I had vainly hoped that she would be spared to reach a good old age. How little did I think when I last parted with her that it was for the last time on earth, but we have the consolation of believing she was a real Christian. My dear Sir, you can hardly realize how much I am grieved to think that my dear sister is lost to me forever and to think of the helpless condition of her dear little ones. I fully appreciate how little calculation men are to take care of such young and helpless children. I hope you will consent for my wife to take one or both of the dear little ones. She is very anxious for you to consent to it. We fully appreciate the condition in which you and they are left.

Mary’s health will prevent her giving much attention to them, and Martha is not calculated to do much for them. If you will not consent for us to take both of them, we do hope and really think you ought to let my wife take the infant Virginia. If you will let us have it we will forthwith come down and will get and take with us a woman who has a very young infant, and will bring her with us as soon as it will be prudent to do so.

We will make short and easy journeys of it., coming one day to Keysville, Danville the next, Yanceyville the 3rd., and home 25 miles the next. I really do think you ought at any rate to let us take Virginia. . I feel fully convinced my wife will as nearly fill a mother’s place to it.as any one living. She I know will care of it more than anyone else on earth, save perhaps yourself, now it has lost it’s mother. If my wife had it, it would not lack a mother’s care.

Please let us hear from you soon. Give my very best love to all and accept for yourself.

My sincere regards,

Yours,

G. W. Swepson _______________

The following items are from Kendall, Katharine Kerr, Editor. Historical Abstracts of Minutes of Caswell County North Carolina. Wendell (North Carolina): Broadfoot's Bookmark, 1976. The court to which reference is made is the Caswell County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions:

October Court 1847: Abisha Slade, clerk of court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions, official bond tendered in renewal with Geo. W. Swepson, Thos. I. Reid, and Geo. Williamson securities.

January Court 1853: Samuel Moore, George W. Swepson, and Wm. Long to settle accounts of Howell Boswell, executor of Martha Slade.

July Court 1853: Last will of Catherine L. Russell to be proved, George W. Swepson, executor. Administration of estate of W. H. Russell granted to Geo. W. Swepson with Ann Yancey and Miss Ann E. Yancey, securities. [Ann Yancey may have been Mrs. Bartlett Yancey, mother-in-law of George W. Swepson; and Miss Anne E. Yancey may have been a daughter of Ann Yancey and a sister-in-law of George W. Swepson.]

January Court 1858: Bank of Yanceyville vs. Geo. W. Swepson, H. M. Nash, and B. Y. McAden.

October Court 1860: Wm. R. Hill, cashier, vs. Geo. W. Swepson, R. Y. McAden, B. Y. McAden, and John A. Graves.

April Court 1867: Wm. Lea, adm., with will annexed of John A. Graves, dec. vs. Wm. Graves and others -- March 30, 1867 -- Tract of 120 acres dold to Geo. Williamson subject to widow's dower; house and lot called Mansion house and lot to George Swepson at 0; lot on west side of mansion house and lot adjoining to Joseph C. Pinnix for 0 and lot on east side of unimproved land to Geo. Swepson.

Account book of Wyatt Walker (Yanceyville, North Carolina), showing persons listed as having procurd goods or coach services between the years of 1854-56, among others: Geo. W. Sweson.

Milton Chronicle, Items Concerning Yanceyville: 1857 - George W. Swepson - who lives 8 miles above Yanceyville on Greesboro Rd. advertises to sell wagons. _______________

Geo. W. Swepson Indicted, Raleigh News 20: The grand jury of the Criminal Court of this county yesterday found a true bill against George W. Swepson on the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, the amount so obtained being about one million dollars.

Source: The Wilmington Sun (Wilmington, North Carolina), 21 Nov 1878, Page 1. _______________

George W. Swepson apparently suffered a "stroke of paralysis," from which he eventually died. Source: The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina), 8 March 1883, Thursday, Page 3. _______________

In 1850, George W. Swepson apparently owned 24 slaves while living in Caswell County, North Carolina. Source: 1850 United States Federal Census - Slave Schedules.

Biography of George William Swepson Raleigh, North Carolina Courtesy of Virginia Historical Society The Center for Virginia History Toni M Carter, Assistant Librarian

George William Swepson businessman and Republican activist during Reconstruction, was born in Mecklenburg Co., Va., but in the early 1840's moved to Caswell Co., North Carolina, where he is said he taught school. In 1842 he married Virginia Bartlett Yancy, the daughter of Bartlett Yancy, a lawyer and congressman. Swepson enjoyed considerable success as a banker, textile manufacturer, and broker; the town of Swepsonville was named for his cotton mill built there in 1868. He was also a wholesaler and a land speculator. A dreamer and a planner, he met his downfall by using other people's money to finance his projects.Instead of fulfilling his promise of becoming a great industrial statesman, he is remembered as one of the rascals in the history of North Carolina. Swepson became so involved in railroad fraud after the Civil War that he was dubbed "Our Boss Tweed" and was responsible for the coining of the term "swepsonize" to signify whatever evil was current at the moment.

As his business fortunes grew, Swepson moved from Haw River to Raleigh. He became a major stockholder and president of the Raleigh National Bank, a partner in the New York bond firm of Swepson, Mendenhall, and Company, and president of the Western North Carolina Railroad. It was in this latter capacity that he became involved with the notorious carpetbagger Milton Smith Littlefield. Together they defrauded the state of an estimated million in bonds that were intended for a western extension of the Western North Carolina Railroad.This they accomplished through forged proxies, stock manipulation, bribes, crooked bookkeeping, and numerous other intrigues. The two men used the purloined state bonds to purchase an interest in Florida railroads. Swepson envisioned building a railroad empire as Cornelius Vanderbuilt had in new York. Legend maintains that he disappeared from Raleigh in the dead of night with the million in bonds in the cab of a Raleigh and Gaston Railroad engine, tipping the young engineer two dollars when he arrived at his Haw River destination.

Swepson was indicted along with Littlefield for embezzlement, but probably due to the influence of highly placed friends, he was never convicted. The state was able to recover some of the funds through the sale of a few Florida railroad bonds. The fraud, however, delayed construction of the eastern extension of the Western North Carolina Railroad until 1880 and thus resulted in substantial economic loss to the region.

Swepson's tarnished reputation was further damaged in 1876, when he fatally shot Adolphus G. Moore in Haw River. Moore was a business partner of Democrat Thomas W. Holt, who later became governor of North Carolina. Moore, also a Democrat, had once been arrested by radical Republican governor William Woods Holden. The killing of Moore apparently was politically motivated, although there is no known record of an investigation or a formal conclusion to the matter. Again, Swepson was free.

At times it was estimated that he had a personal fortune of between and million. To secure that fortune, he kept all of his assets in the names of his wife or agents and out of reach of authorities. Swepson was considered a conservative, "an Old Line Whig." Although not active politically, he was a close friend of Governor Holden and other prominent officials in the Reconstruction Republican Regime.

Swepson and his wife had no children. He was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, where his grave is marked by a very tall monument.

Footnotes: Ashville Citizen 29 Oct. 1950, Richard N. Current. Those Terrible Carpetbaggers (1988) Jonathan Daniels Prince of Carpetbaggers (1958) Charles L Price The Railroad Schemes of George W. Swepson, East Carolina College Publications In History 1 (1964) James T. Pugh Papers (Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Raleigh News and Observer, 28 Sept., 1930 Thomas E. Skinner, Sermons and Reminisences (1894)

For additional information on the financial activities of George W. Swepson see: <a href="http:/www.webroots.org/library/usahist/hownc012.html">"Swepson and Littlefield"</a>. This is chapter nineteen in Western North Carolina: A History from 1730-1913, John Preston Arthur (1914). _______________

In the latter part of the year 1868, while the political affairs of the state of North Carolina were in the hands of the corrupt reconstruction government, George W. Swepson, a native of North Carolina, and Milton S. Littlefield, of New York, secured control of the Western Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad Company,1 a corporation empowered to build railroads westward from Asheville to Paint Rock and from Asheville to Ducktown near the North Carolina-Tennessee state line.2 Subsequently Swepson received ,367,000 worth of special tax bonds of the state of North Carolina in payment of the State's subscription for two-thirds of the capital stock of the company and for purposes of the construction of the railroads as indicated.3 The net proceeds of the sale of these bonds amounted to ,909,486.20. By far the larger part of this sum was misappropriated by Swepson, a very small portion of it being used in making a pretense of beginning the construction of the railroads. The sum of 3,633.39 was invested by Swepson in securities of certain Florida railroad companies. This was the largest item among his various "investments."4

The pupose of this paper is to trace the story of these Florida investments and the many efforts of the Western Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad Company to recover something from them. If multiplicity of entanglements is any indication of depths of corruption, this story should be one of the choicest chapters in the history of fraud. From October, 1868, to October, 1869, Swepson was president of the Western Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad Company.5 It was during that period that he disposed of the North Carolina state bonds and came into possession of the proceeds.

1 Shipp Fraud Commission Report, pp. 212, 213, 233, 234, 281-283. 2 Private Laws of N. C., Special Session, 1868, ch. 24, p. 27. The Western Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad Company was a separate corporation from the parent company, the Western North Carolina Railroad Company. By the creation of the former the powers of the latter were limited to the construction of a railroad be tween Salisbury and Asheville. The road had already been constructed to a point within a few miles of Morganton before the War Between the States. 3 Bragg Fraud Commission Report, pp. 4, 8, 9. 4 Woodfin Report, January 10, 1871, doc. No. 21 (N. C.), 1870-71, p. 24. 5 Depositions of C. M. McLoud and G. W. Swepson in Western Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad Company v. Drew, Circuit Court of the U. S. for the Northern District of Florida, 1879, pp. 13, 14 (5). (Figures in parentheses refer to re-numbered pages in printed copy.)

Source: The Florida Investmenst of George W. Swepson, C. K. Brown. The North Carolina Historical Review, Vol. 5, No. 3 (July, 1928), pp. 275-288. _______________

The Town of Swepsonville, North Carolina, was named for him. There was at one time a Swepsonville Academy located there. Reference: Centennial History of Alamance Co., NC, 1849-1949, by Walter Whitaker in collaboration with Staley A. Cook & A. Howard White.

P 142-Swepsonville and Saxapahaw: "The villages of Alamance and Bellemont were both established by George W. Swepson, who built the first cotton mill there in 1868. This mill, called Falls Neuse, after a small town below Raleigh, N. C., was in full operation in 1870 with fifteen spinning frames and a hundred and fifty looms on "Alamance Plaids." Cotton from eastern Carolina was shipped by rail to Haw River and then by boat to Swepsonville.

When fire destroyed the mill in 1880, it was rebuilt, and in 1886, the name was changed to Virginia Cotton Mills. A brick factory was constructed in 1893, following a second fire.

Virginia Mills, Inc., employs more than 1,100 workers today in the manufacture of upholstery and drapery materials and rayon.

George William Swepson was the "rascal" of the Swepson family, and his illegal activities have been well chronicled, concerning the railroad bonds fraud, as well as having fatally shot a man by the name of Adolphus G. Moore, in Haw River, NC, for which he was never charged or prosecuted. Moore had been Swepson's next-door neighbor in Caswell County, North Carolina. _______________

George W. Swepson apparently at one time owned the Eagle Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. Western North Carolina: A History from 1730-1913, John Preston Arthur (1914) at 463. Query whether he made this investment with funds embezzled from the Western Division of the Western North Carolina Railroad. _______________

Bragg Committee by William C. Harris, 2006

See also: Western North Carolina Railroad

Photograph of Thomas Bragg. Image from the State Archives of North Carolina.

In 1868-69 North Carolina's Reconstruction government extended .83 million in the form of bonds and stocks to 18 railroad companies in the state. Although it was mainly zeal for internal improvements that accounted for the state's generosity, some of the more extravagant and ill-advised aid measures resulted from the activities of a railroad "ring" operating primarily through the Republican-controlled General Assembly. The ringleaders were lobbyist Milton S. Littlefield, a suave transplanted northerner, and George W. Swepson, an erstwhile North Carolina banker. Swepson had gained the confidence of Republican governor William W. Holden, who foolishly believed that tax revenues would be adequate to meet the interest on the bonds.

By 1870 the bond market had virtually collapsed, leaving North Carolina with a heavy debt and few new railroad miles to show for it. With the state's credit standing deteriorating, both reform Republicans and Conservatives (Democrats) in the General Assembly demanded an investigation of the railroad scandal. The Senate appointed a three-member investigating committee headed by former governor Thomas Bragg, a respected Conservative. Influenced by Holden, who believed that the fraud charges were politically motivated, Republicans in the Senate limited the scope of the committee's work and thus prevented a thorough inquiry into the scandal. The Bragg Committee did reveal the need for an extended, unrestricted investigation of the charges. When the Conservatives assumed power later in 1870, they appointed a committee known as the Shipp Commission, which subsequently uncovered numerous incidents of fraud and bribery-some involving Conservatives-in the issuance of railroad bonds and stocks. Neither Swepson nor Littlefield, the chief perpetrators of the corruption, were brought to justice.

Source: NCPedia. _______________

Womack's Mill (Caswell County, North Carolina)

George W. Swepson acquired the mill property from Abner Miles in 1856. Swepson's name unfortunately does not appear in the industrial schedules for the Census of 1860. He was a land speculator and likely an absentee owner. Research did not reveal the name of the miller operating the flour mill in 1860. George W. Swepson later earned a repudiation as a chief scalawag during the Reconstruction Period and has been referred to by one local historian as "one of the greatest rascals of North Carolina history." At the height of the Civil War, in August 1862, Swepson sold the "grist and saw mill" to his brother-in-law, Thomas J. Womack. The mill came to be known locally as Womack's Mill and the business specialized in custom grinding of corn and wheat for the farmers of central Caswell County.

Source: Historic American Engineering Record, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service [https:/www.ncccha.com/memoranda/millswomacksmill.html; Accessed June 1, 2017]

"There were eleven flour mills recorded in Caswell County in 1850, none with more than three employees. . . . The owners were: Stephen Dodson, Sidney Lea, William Long, James Mebane, John Mitchell, Richard J. Smith, Swepson & Paschall, A. G. Walters, William P. Watlington, George Williamson, and James E. Williamson. . . ."

Source: Powell, William S. When the Past Refused to Die. Durham (North Carolina): Moore Publishing Company, 1977, pp. 118-119. _______________

Adolphus G. Moore (born 1836 in Caswell County, North Carolina) was killed 27 January 1876 in Haw River, Alamance County, North Carolina, by George William Swepson (1819-1883), husband of Virginia Bartlett Yancey (1826-1901). She is the youngest child of Bartlett Yancey, Jr., and Ann (Nancy) Graves. Moore and Swepson were competitors in the North Carolina textile business (cotton mills). Apparently Swepson was never charged with a crime.

Adolphus G. Moore was a one-third owner of the Granite Cotton Factory in Haw River. His partner and two-third's owner was his brother-in-law, Thomas Michael Holt (1831-1896), who invented "Alamance Plaids," and served as North Carolina's Governor in the 1890s. This Holt family had many Caswell County connections. By virtue of Moore's will, his sister and wife of Thomas Michael Holt, became owner of one-third of the Granite Cotton Factory, thus consolidating ownership between husband and wife. _______________

George W. Swepson purportedly found religious "salvation" late in life, being baptized by Reverend Thomas E. Skinner. One of his fellow parishioners at the Raleigh First Baptist Church was former North Carolina Governor William Woods Holden. Source: Skinner, Thomas E. Sermons, Addresses and Reminiscences. Edwards & Broughton: Raleigh, 1894.

For more on Reverend Thomas E. Skinner (and commentary on George W. Swepson) see: Day, Daniel J.A Gentleman of the Old School: Baptist Minister Thomas E. Skinner, 1825-1905. Laser Image Corporate Printing: Durham (North Carolina), 2010. According to the 1850 U.S. Slave Schedules, Reverend Thomas E. Skinner owned 19 slaves. During the Civil War, Skinner went to England, purportedly to purchase New Testament plates to publish Bibles for Confederate soldiers. However, others believe this was not the sole reason for the trip. Skinner ran the blockade on the "Advance," which has other Caswell County, North Carolina, connections [See the entry in this database for John Baptist Smith (1843-1923)]. _______________

Skinner, Thomas E. Sermons, Addresses and Reminiscences. Edwards & Broughton: Raleigh, 1894.

Day, Daniel J.A Gentleman of the Old School: Baptist Minister Thomas E. Skinner, 1825-1905. Laser Image Corporate Printing: Durham (North Carolina), 2010.

< src="http:/archives.chicagotribune.com/1896/10/11/page/25/article/he-hails-all-ships" width="650" height="600" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"><> _______________

Turner, Gregg. A Short History of Florida Railroads. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2003. _______________

1850 United States Federal Census 1850 Caswell Co, NC P 209 Yanceyville PO HH 525-527 (Sept 24, 1850) George W. Swepson 31 M Va Farmer ,000. Virginia B. " 23 F Born Caswell, NC Fannie Y. McAdams [McAden] 10 F Born Caswell, NC Bartlett Y. " [McAden] 19 M Born Caswell, NC Clerk R. R. Swepson 24 M Born Va Clerk ( Also Enu. 1850 Lun, Va on Dec 12th, 1850) Rebecca Spraggins 21 F Born Va John G. Jeffreys 30 M Born Caswell, NC Clerk

Appointment of U.S. Postmasters Name: George W Swepson Post Office Location: Haw River, Alamance, North Carolina Appointment Date: 14 Jan 1859 Volume #: 29 Volume Year Range: 1858-1876

1860 United States Federal Census Name: Geo W Swepson Age in 1860: 41 Birth Year: abt 1819 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Alamance, North Carolina Gender: Male Post Office: Graham Value of real estate: View image Household Members: Name Age Geo W Swepson 41 V B Swepson 32 John Patton 28 Alex Holt 24

1880 United States Federal Census 1880 Wake Co, NC (Raleigh) P314C ED 269 HH 95-95 George W. Swepson 60 WM Va Va Va Occ: Manufacturer Virginia " 53 WF NC NC NC Wife (nee Yancy) Virga. McAden 15 WF NC NC NC Niece & 7 black servants

1900 Wake Co, NC (Raleigh) ED140 P 33a 104 Hillsboro St. HH 113-144 Virginia Y Swepson 73 WF Widow Nov, 1826 NC NC NC No ch Harriet Andrews 59 WF July, 1840 Wid, Boarder Had 7 ch-6 living Ashby Baker 37 WM Nov, 1862 Wid'r Md Md Md Nephew Occ: Cotton Mfg. & 4 servts-Carriage driver, cook, Drayman & chamber maid. _______________

George William Swepson -Born June 23, 1819 Meck Co Va Died: Raleigh, NC-March 7, 1883 - Will Also Proved Meck. Co. Va. Buried Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, NC (M) Maria Virginia Bartlett Yancey April 23, 1842 Caswell Co. NC She was born Nov 2, 1826 & Died 1904 [1901]. Raleigh, NC (No Children) OCC: Businessman, Alamance Co, NC (TEXTILE MILLS) Source: The Landmark (Raleigh, North Carolina), 17 May 1901 (p.3). _______________

Inscription: George William Swepson Born in Mecklenburg County, VA June 23, 1819 Died in Raleigh, North Carolina March 7, 1883

His Loving and Devoted Wife Virginia Bartlett Yancey Born in Caswell County, N.C. November 2, 1826 Died in Raleigh, N.C. May 15, 1901 Trusting in Jesus for Salvation

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