Generation No. 1 1. JONATHAN*5 SWOPE (JOHAN* ADAM4, JOHANNES* (JOHNJNO)3, YOST* "JOSEPH" (SWABSCHWAB)2, GEORGE (GEORG)1) was born May 05, 1787 in Berwick Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, and died in Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois, Home. He married ELIZABETH BROTHERS in Littleton, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Notes for JONATHAN* SWOPE: Trade of Gunsmith. 1857 moved to Fulton Co., IL. 1850 census Heidlebery Twp., York Co., Pa, M432-839 Roll, Pg 340. More About JONATHAN* SWOPE: Fact 1: Gunsmith, Farmer Fact 2: July 18, 1791, Holy Trin. Luth. Lancaster Co., PA. Fact 3: Gunsmith, Farmer Fact 4: Swope Book pg. 271 Fact 5: 1850, census Heidlebery Twp., Pa, M432-839 More About ELIZABETH BROTHERS: Fact 1: check Family Ped: United Ancestries Fact 2: Check WFT vol 3 Ped #5731 Fact 3: check Mortality index: US Children of JONATHAN* SWOPE and ELIZABETH BROTHERS are: 2. i. JACOB*6 SWOPE, b. July 02, 1811, Adams County, Pennsylvania; d. April 08, 1887, Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois, Home. 3. ii. EDWARD* SWOPE, b. October 12, 1814, Adams County, Pennsylvania; d. March 16, 1895, lived Buffalo, New York--check notes. iii. LEVI 2 SWOPE, b. Abt. 1816, Pennsylvania. Generation No. 2 2. JACOB*6 SWOPE (JONATHAN*5, JOHAN* ADAM4, JOHANNES* (JOHNJNO)3, YOST* "JOSEPH" (SWABSCHWAB)2, GEORGE (GEORG)1) was born July 02, 1811 in Adams County, Pennsylvania, and died April 08, 1887 in Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois, Home. He married ELIZABETH MUSSER January 19, 1833 in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Notes for JACOB* SWOPE: Taken from the National Achives - Chicago, 7358 S. Pulaski Rd. U.S. Census Agriculture; (Tll33- 6 pg. 59 & 60]; Astoria Twp., Fulton Co. IL; Aug 9, 1860 JACOB SWOPE Name of Agent, Owner or Manager: Jacob Swope; 40 acres improved; 40 acres unimproved; $1,000 cash value of farm; $50 value of farm implement & machinery; 2 horse; 2 milch cows; 1 other; 12 swine; 200 value of live stock; 60 bushel wheat; 200 bushel Indian corn; 60 bushel Irish potatoes; 9 bushel sweet potatoes; 40 bushel buckwheat; 208 lbs. butter; 8 ton hay; 8 bushel clover seed; 60 molasses, gallons of, & from home made; 100 value of animals slaughtered U.S. Census Agriculture; (Tll33-38 pg.17); Astoria Twp. Fulton Co. IL; June 15 & 16, 1880 JACOB SWOPE Name of Agent, Owner or manager: Jacob Swope; 60 acres improved, tilled including & grass in rotation whether pasture or meadow; 5 acres permanent meadows. pasture, orchard, vineyard; 15 unimproved, woodland & forest; $ 3,000 value of farm including lands, fence & buildings; $65 value of farm implements & machinery; $656 value of live stock; $5 cost of building or repairing; $50 amount paid for wages for farm labor during 1879 including value or board; 4 weeks hired labor in 1879 upon farm & dairy excluding housework; $586 estimated value of all farm production sold, consumed or on hand 1879; 3 acres mown 1879; 8 acres not mown 1879; 6 ton hay; 3 horse of all ages on hand June 1, 1880; 5 milch cows; 9 others; 3 calves dropped 1879; 4 sold alive 1879; 1 slaughtered 1879; 1 died, strayed, stolen & not recovered. JACOB SWOPE 1880 340 lbs. butter made on farm 1879; 7 sheep on hand June 1, 1879; 2 lamb dropped; 4 fleeces, clip, spring 1880 shorn & to be shorn; 23 lbs. weight 1880; 38 swine on hand June 1, 1880; 40 barn-yard, poultry on hand June 1, 1880 exclusive of spring hatching; 3 other; 340 doz. eggs produced in 1879; 15 acres Indian corn 1879; 375 Indian corn 1879; 3 acres oats 1879; 37 bushel Oats 1879; 6 acres rye 1879; 70 bushel rye 1879; 15 acres wheat 1879; 332 bushel wheat 1879; 1 pulse-bushel, Canada pea (dry) 1879; 1/4 acres Irish potatoes 1879; 10 bushel Irish potatoes l879; 3 bushel sweet potatoes 1879; 50 lbs. tobacco 1879; 1 acres apple 1879; 35 bearing apple trees 1879; 9 bushel apple; 12 bearing peach trees 1879; $2 total value of orchard product of all kinds sold or consumed; 1/4 acres vineyards; 18 cord, amount of wood cut in 1879; $24 value of all forest product sold or consumed in 1879 OBIT - From the Newspaper, Wednesday, Apr. 13, 1887. Have letter from son Edward, telling of wifes death. Church - Presbyterian, Astoria, IL Had 14 children. 1850 census Heidlebery (Heidleberry?) Twp., York Co., Pa., M432-839, pg 340. The Argus Newspaper, Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois, Wednesday April 13, 1887 Died, Jacob Swope died at his home in Astoria last Friday morning, at the advanced age of 76 years. He was long resided in this section, and of his acquaintances remember him as an industrious faithful Christian. He leaves an aged wife --------------------- four years to mourn his death. There are also six sons and four daughters of this couple scattered in different states. Mr. Swope has long been a member of the Presbyterian Church and his funeral was held at the church Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock for relatives and friends of the deceased. The Argus, Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois, Thursday December 24, 1891 Sad Death of a Former Citizen The following letter from Edward Swope, of Stella, Nebraska, to his mother in this city, gives an account of the death of his wife, who was a sister of Abram Brown, of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Swope, at one time lived here, but went to Nebraska about fourteen years ago. Mr. Swope and children have the sympathy of a large circle of relatives and friends in South Fulton in their sad bereavement. Stella, Nebraska, December 18, 1891 Dear Mother; With a sad heart I send you sad news. My dear Frances is dead. Yea, last Sunday at 11:30 a. m., she was taken away from me. On Tuesday following, at 3 o'clock she was laid to rest in Prairie Union Cemetery. She was not feeling well for a few weeks, before she was taken down, had the grippe or a cold. On Friday morning she got up, and went about her work, had breakfast nearly ready, when her right foot became partially paralyzed. I then got her to lie down on the couch, and in less than one hour her right hand became paralyzed. She lay still and talked till about 12:30 when she fell into a deep sleep or stupor, from which she could not be aroused. She remained so for 47 hours when she breathed her last. More About JACOB* SWOPE: Fact 1: Look Family Pedigrees: Everton Publishers Fact 2: Check WFT vol 3 Ped #5731 Fact 3: April 09, 1887, check Census: PA-1820-1860 Fact 4: 1850, census Heidlebery Township, Pennsylvania Fact 5: Marriage Index: IL, IN, KY, OH, TN 17020-1926 Fact 6: 1840, lived in York County, Pennsylvania More About ELIZABETH MUSSER: Fact 3: 1842, lived in York County, Pennsylvania Children of JACOB* SWOPE and ELIZABETH MUSSER are: i. UNKNOWN7 SWOPE. 4. ii. EDWARD* T SWOPE, b. December 25, 1835, Spring Forge, York County, Pennsylvania; d. 1856, lived Stella, Nebraska. 5. iii. KATHRYN* CATHARINE N SWOPE, b. November 16, 1836, York County, Pennsylvania (1836-38); d. Bef. 1935. 6. iv. JANE F SWOPE, b. September 30, 1840, Pennsylvania; d. Bef. 1935, 15 children. 7. v. ELIZABETH* BROTHERS SWOPE, b. July 01, 1842, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania; d. July 23, 1935, 1105 Monroe Street, Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois. 8. vi. JACOB* W SWOPE, b. October 26, 1843, Adams County, Pennsylvania; d. April 20, 1901, Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois. 9. vii. GEORGE DALLAS SWOPE, b. May 17, 1845, 1845 or 46 Pennsylvania; d. Bef. 1935. viii. EPHRAIM 1 SWOPE, b. 1846, Pennsylvania (1847). 10. ix. MARIA* C SWOPE, b. May 17, 1848, York County, Pennsylvania; d. Bef. 1935. x. MARY C SWOPE, b. 1850, Pennsylvania. 11. xi. JOHN* H SWOPE, b. September 22, 1851, York County, Pennsylvania (1852); d. Aft. 1935, lived Beardstown, Illinois. 12. xii. JAMES* R (R J) SWOPE, b. February 01, 1853, York County, Pennsylvania; d. Aft. 1935, lives Berkley, California. xiii. WALTER* HARMEN SWOPE, b. January 03, 1855, York County, Pennsylvania; d. Bef. 1935, lived Smith County, Kansas; m. BERTHA P ?. Notes for WALTER* HARMEN SWOPE: Work for wholesale firm, Pueblo, Col. 1889 lived Kansas in county of Smith. More About WALTER* HARMEN SWOPE: Fact 3: Commercial Traveler 3. EDWARD*6 SWOPE (JONATHAN*5, JOHAN* ADAM4, JOHANNES* (JOHNJNO)3, YOST* "JOSEPH" (SWABSCHWAB)2, GEORGE (GEORG)1) was born October 12, 1814 in Adams County, Pennsylvania, and died March 16, 1895 in lived Buffalo, New York--check notes. He married MILLY JANE FOLEY December 09, 1837 in Clark County, Ohio. Notes for EDWARD* SWOPE: Worded Springfield, Oh. Known as the largest live stock trade in On. This business till 1864, went to Buffalo, NY, at time of death head of firm of Swope, Hughes, Waltz & Benstead. Children of EDWARD* SWOPE and MILLY FOLEY are: 13. i. JANE* FOLEY7 SWOPE, b. March 26, 1839. ii. ELIZABETH* B SWOPE, b. July 02, 1841; d. lived Santa Ana, California; m. JOHN D ALLEN. Notes for ELIZABETH* B SWOPE: Graduated Springfield, OH. Female Seminary. Live Santa Ana, Calif. 14. iii. ANN* (ANALISA) ELIZABETH SWOPE, b. December 01, 1843. Generation No. 3 4. EDWARD* T7 SWOPE (JACOB*6, JONATHAN*5, JOHAN* ADAM4, JOHANNES* (JOHNJNO)3, YOST* "JOSEPH" (SWABSCHWAB)2, GEORGE (GEORG)1) was born December 25, 1835 in Spring Forge, York County, Pennsylvania, and died 1856 in lived Stella, Nebraska. He married (1) FRANCIS BROWN. He married (2) FRANCES* (FRANCIS) E BROWN August 16, 1857 in Astoria, Fulton, Illinois. Notes for EDWARD* T SWOPE: Have letter he wrote to mother informing her of his wifes death. Went to Stella, Nebraska around 1877 & still living there in 1891. Swope book, p. 285 & 306. The Argus, Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois, Thursday December 24, 1891 Sad Death of a Former Citizen The following letter from Edward Swope, of Stella, Nebraska, to his mother in this city, gives an account of the death of his wife, who was a sister of Abram Brown, of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Swope, at one time lived here, but went to Nebraska about fourteen years ago. Mr. Swope and children have the sympathy of a large circle of relatives and friends in South Fulton in their sad bereavement. Stella, Nebraska, December 18, 1891 Dear Mother; With a sad heart I send you sad news. My dear Frances is dead. Yea, last Sunday at 11:30 a. m., she was taken away from me. On Tuesday following, at 3 o'clock she was laid to rest in Prairie Union Cemetery. She was not feeling well for a few weeks, before she was taken down, had the grippe or a cold. On Friday morning she got up, and went about her work, had breakfast nearly ready, when her right foot became partially paralyzed. I then got her to lie down on the couch, and in less than one hour her right hand became paralyzed. She lay still and talked till about 12:30 when she fell into a deep sleep or stupor, from which she could not be aroused. She remained so for 47 hours when she breathed her last. More About EDWARD* T SWOPE: Fact 3: Farmer Notes for FRANCES* (FRANCIS) E BROWN: The Argus, Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois, Thursday December 24, 1891 Sad Death of a Former Citizen The following letter from Edward Swope, of Stella, Nebraska, to his mother in this city, gives an account of the death of his wife, who was a sister of Abram Brown, of this township. Mr. and Mrs. Swope, at one time lived here, but went to Nebraska about fourteen years ago. Mr. Swope and children have the sympathy of a large circle of relatives and friends in South Fulton in their sad bereavement. Stella, Nebraska, December 18, 1891 Dear Mother; With a sad heart I send you sad news. My dear Frances is dead. Yea, last Sunday at 11:30 a. m., she was taken away from me. On Tuesday following, at 3 o'clock she was laid to rest in Prairie Union Cemetery. She was not feeling well for a few weeks, before she was taken down, had the grippe or a cold. On Friday morning she got up, and went about her work, had breakfast nearly ready, when her right foot became partially paralyzed. I then got her to lie down on the couch, and in less than one hour her right hand became paralyzed. She lay still and talked till about 12:30 when she fell into a deep sleep or stupor, from which she could not be aroused. She remained so for 47 hours when she breathed her last. More About FRANCES* (FRANCIS) E BROWN: Fact 1: December 15, 1891, Prairie Union Cem. Children of EDWARD* SWOPE and FRANCES* BROWN are: i. CLINTON*8 SWOPE, b. February 18, 1859, Canton, Illinois; lived Buffalo, New York; m. NORA VAN VLECT, April 07, 1891. ii. ANNIE* L SWOPE, b. May 01, 1861, Canton, Illinois; d. lived Nemeha, Nebraska; m. GEORGE KITTLE, December 27, 1882. iii. CHARLES* M SWOPE, b. August 16, 1863, Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois; d. lived Meneha County, Nebraska; m. MARTHA SMITH, April 15, 1886. iv. WILLIAM* C SWOPE, b. August 15, 1865, Astoria, Fulton County, Illinois; d. lived near Edmond, Oklahoma; m. CELIA BURKE, July 04, 1892. Notes for WILLIAM* C SWOPE: Lived near Edmond, Oklahoma Territory. v. INA* F SWOPE, b. May 29, 1871, Near Aspinwall, Nebraska; d. lived Stella, Nebraska; m. WALKER MASON, January 26, 1888. vi. EDGAR LLOYD SWOPE, b. February 28, 1875. vii. FRANK L SWOPE, b. October 15, 1877. viii. WALTER H SWOPE, b. October 29, 1880.