Henry Clay Swart and Abigail Day

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Husband Henry Clay Swart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 8 Nov 1825 - Amwell Twp, Washington Co, PA 3
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         Father: Philip Swart (1797-1876) 3 4 5
         Mother: Asenah Walton (1798-1870) 3 4

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       Marriage: 26 Aug 1852 3

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Wife Abigail Day ^{2 6}

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           Born: 1831 7
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         Father: John Day (1788-1871) 8 9
         Mother: Sarah Miller (1794-1837) 2 10

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Children

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1 M John D. Swart ³

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2 F Laura B. Swart ³

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         Spouse: [Unk] Horn (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Clay Swart

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He was born on the home farm near Amity, in Amwell township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and was raised to the life of a farmer, receiving his education in the old log schoolhouse, with its slab benches for seats. In his early manhood he dealt in stock, mostly hogs and horses-driving through on foot to Cumberland, Maryland, and shipping thence to Baltimore, Maryland, by railroad. He married and they went to housekeeping on his father's farm, where they resided until he purchased, in 1857, a farm one mile south of Amity, formerly known as the Patterson farm.
On August 22, 1862, Mr. Swart enlisted in the Amity company, raised by Capt. Silas Parker, which afterward became the famous Company D, of the 140th P. V. I. He served faithfully, never missing a roll call. He participated in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Spottsylvania, as well as in a number of lesser battles and skirmishes. On May 12, 1864, at the battle of Spottsylvania, after having been under fire every day for a week, he received the terrible wound which made him a cripple for life. After he was wounded he lay on the field from 4 o'clock a. m. until evening, when he was taken to a field hospital, and during the night was loaded into an army wagon and taken, with others, to Fredericksburg, a distance of some fourteen or fifteen miles, over a very rough road on a fearfully dark night, during which his sufferings were intense. To escape falling into the hands of the enemy, the trip had to be taken. After remaining at Fredericksburg some two weeks, the wounded were taken by transports and hospital boats to Washington, D. C., where he was placed in Lincoln hospital, and where he remained some ten days. He then received a leave of absence from the War Department to report when able at nearest army hospital, and was brought home to his family on a hospital stretcher in the latter part of June. Although given the best attendance, he suffered terrible agony for several months, and when only partially able, after an absence from hospital of about ten months, reported personally to a hospital at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the following April. Remaining there about a month until his application could be acted upon, he received from the War Department an honorable discharge, returned to his home and family, but thereafter bore the marks of suffering, and the scars of war. He was never again able to do any physical labor, but successfully managed his farm and farm work until the spring of 1872, when he retired and moved to Washington, Pennsylvania, in order that his children might have better educational advantages.
In addition to Mr. Swart's severe wound in the hip, received at Spottsylvania, he received a slight injury on the side of the nose which never healed, and slowly worked its way into the eye until the sight of that eye was entirely gone, the other being also weakened, so that he was no longer able to read.
In 1859 Mr. Swart made a profession of religion, and united with the Methodist Protestant Church at Amity. For nearly thirty-five years he was a zealous, Christian worker, his membership remaining with the church at Amity, in which he filled several important positions, representing it in the Pittsburgh Annual Conference for five or six years, and in 1884 was one of the lay representatives of the Pittsburgh Conference to the General Conference at Baltimore, Maryland. In early manhood he was a Whig, casting his first presidential vote in 1848 for Zachary Taylor. Upon the organization of the Republican party he united with it, and voted for Gen. Fremont in 1856, in which party he continued until 1884, in which year he joined the temperance cause, and voted for the Prohibition presidential candidate. From his youth up he was a strong advocate of temperance.

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General Notes: Wife - Abigail Day

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near Washington, Washington Co, PA

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 543, 563, 684.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 627.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 684.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 672.

5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 849.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 563, 684.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 685.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 579, 1065.

9 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 626.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 563.