This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2R.2ADE/829.1.1 Message Board Post: from The Heritage of Clay County, Alabama, article Rev. Sylvester E. Swope & Family, Pioneer Family: "...He left Kentucky sometime in the 1820's with his brother George and settled in Harris County, Georgia. He married Perriba Baker on 28 April 1831 in Troup County, Georgia. They moved to Talladega County, Alabama in 1842, which is now Clay County. They were the parents of the following eight children: Sarah Frances, Harriet E., Ann P., Mary A., George, William, Martha, and sylvester McDaniel. Their home was in fish Head Valley. "He was converted to the Methodist church under the ministry of Rev. Lovick Pierce in Georgia, 19 October 1828, licensed to exhort by Rev. W. D. Matthews, LaGrange Circuit, Georgia Conference, 20 May 1834; licensed to preach by Rev. G. A. Chappell, in the Quarterly Conference of Hamilton Circuit, Georgia Conference, 30 July 1837..." "...His first wife died in the early 1870"s(1871) and Rev. Swope married on 3 Sept. 1875 to Lucinda Jane Allen in clay County." Note: Rev. Sylvester E. Swope died 03 August 1890 in Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama