Article about Samuel G. Swezey

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From an article dated January, 9, 1935

Samuel G. Swezey was born in Akron, Ohio in 1837. As a youth he moved to Iowa, and when the Civil War came on he enlisted in Company E of the Eighth Iowa Infantry. His service record was for less than a year, on account of illness. He followed farming in Iowa, later moved to Nebraska, and spent his final years in Hiawatha, Kansas, where he died in 1910. He was for many years a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, always voted the Republican ticket, and was a member of the United Brethren Church. His wife, Anna Burnette, who was a Methodist, was born in Illinois in 1841, and died in 1912. They were married in Iowa. Both are buried at Hiawatha, Kansas. Of their twelve children three are living: Etta, who became the wife of J. W. Woods, a railroad man at Des Moines, Iowa, and their four children were Guy Woods, Byron, deceased, Leota, who married N. Knight, and Glen Woods. ; Benjamin F.; and Bessie, wife of J. W. Maley of Los Angeles.

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