Hi Mary, I'm sorry, but this is all the info I have on him: Died during the second week of the invasion of Normandie, France. From Cassandra Owen. Vincennes, Indiana newspaper had the following write-up: SON KILLED IN FRENCH BATTLE Ed Swan Received Word of Death Ed Swan, 302 North Second street has received word that his son Ferdinand (Ruff) Swan, 21, was killed in action in France June 22. The information was obtained in a letter from another son, John Swan, of Success, Ark. Mr. Swan entered the service from Arkansas, where he had spent the greater part of his time with his grandmother. A year ago last Labor Day he visited here briefly with his father and stepmother. He married a girl from his Arkansas home, who with one child survive. He also leaves his father, stepmother, two sisters, Mrs. Lucy Swan Crowel(this is the way Crowle was spelled in the paper) and Miss Thelma Swan, and two brothers, John Swan of Arkansas, and Woodrow Swan, in the armed service, and now believed to be somewhere overseas. From Janice Wolf. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 2:02 AM Subject: ARCLAY Digest, Vol 1, Issue 17 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Roll Call ([email protected]) > 2. Re: Cemetery Photo ([email protected]) > 3. Re: marriage record in Piggot?? ([email protected]) > 4. Re: Digest, Vol 1, Issue 15 (Mary Ann Johnson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 14:02:26 EDT > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ARCLAY Roll Call > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Sorry, I don't have a Mary in my McClintocks. I have a Laura McClintock > that married a William Moore and William I McClintock that married > Malinda > Moore. Ben > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: 2 Sep 2006 23:51:01 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ARCLAY Cemetery Photo > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: allen > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GV.2ADE/1696.1 > > Message Board Post: > > hello, my name is linda shipley. i live in greenway, ar. which is near > rector. my husband and i tried to find the tombstone but we didn't locate > it. a lot of the stones are in very poor shape and impossible to read. we > did find two small stones that had allen but not the right initials. they > were in bad condition also, one was leaning forward almost to the point of > falling over. do you have any idea of the general area where it might be? > do you know of close family names that they might be buried near. very > often there are clusters of related people. sorry i didn't find them. > linda shipley > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: 2 Sep 2006 23:12:44 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ARCLAY marriage record in Piggot?? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: williams, winstead > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GV.2ADE/1874.1 > > Message Board Post: > > hello, my name is linda shipley. i live near piggott, ar. in fact i was > born and raised there. i saw your message and made a note to myself to > check for info you needed when i went to the county courthouse and piggott > library. i found the marriage record for your ggrandparents. they were > married jan. 13, 1907.i discovered they were both living in greenway, > which is where i live. greenway is four miles south of piggott. rector is > about ten miles south of piggott. i made a copy of the license for you. if > you will e-mail me your address i will send it to you. > [email protected] also i found a notice from the clay county > democrat{ rector newspaper} date of issue jan. 02, 1936. it says- > williams, mr s. p. who has been ailing for some time with a throat > trouble, died at his home on south phillips st. early monday morning. > services tuesday at first baptist church by the pastor. burial in woodland > heights cemetary. i didn't find anything on jennie. hope this info helps > some. li! > nda shipley > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 12:05:17 -0700 > From: "Mary Ann Johnson" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: ARCLAY Digest, Vol 1, Issue 15 > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hi Larry, > Thank you for responding. > > Do you have the location of Ferdinands burial in France or maybe even a > photo? > > Thank You. > Mary A. 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If you're looking for the burial of Ferdinand (Ruff) Swan, it appears his body was returned to the States for burial. The American Battle Monuments Commission does not have him listed as being being in any of the foreign cemeteries used for WWII burials. I even checked the national and state military cemetery burial listing site and he is not listed in any of them either. He is evidently buried in a public or private cemetery - wherever his widow decided to have him buried which could have been in her hometown. During WWI and WWII it was not uncommon for a serviceperson to be buried near the death site with a notation in the records made. Then after the war ended, the government removed the bodies and had them shipped home if the family had so designated. I have a cousin who died in 1944 but the body was not returned until 1948 to Missouri. I have heard from others who have said it took 5 to 7 years for the return. I would suggest you check his hometown, his widow's hometown, and the town they were living in when he entered the service to see if he was buried in one of those locations. Debbi Geer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Thank You Debbi for the information. Mary Johnson