This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4U.2ADI/792.802 Message Board Post: Update: William Harvey Swearingen was the son of William and Julia (Beak?) Swearingen. William H was born in Arkansas but not convinced it was Baxter. Could have been Marion. The family is found in the 1880 census of Marion Co. William Harvey and his brother Don were in Nebraska about 1898-1900. Don disappered from there about 1901 leaving a wife and 2 sons. William H turns up in Newton County in 1903 where he married Celia Ann Davis on 5/31/1903. They had 4 children Arvil Lister, Dessie, Ora and Albert Harold (my father) William H died in 1914. In 1915 Celia married Thomas Jefferson Sexton.. They had 3 sons. Riley, Walter and Edward.