Swihart, Chester B.

Birth Name Swihart, Chester B.
Gramps ID I6525
Gender male
Age at Death 63 years, 4 months, 22 days

Events

Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Birth 1869-07-15 Van Wert, Van Wert Cty, Ohio, USA  
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Census 1870 Van Wert, Van Wert Cty, Ohio, USA  
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Census 1880 Van Wert, Van Wert Cty, Ohio, USA  
4a
Census 1900 Toledo, Lucas Cty, Ohio, USA  
5a
Census 1920 Ross Twp, Wood Cty, Ohio, USA  
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Death 1932-12-06 Toledo, Lucas Cty, Ohio, USA  
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Burial   Forest Cemetery, Toledo, Lucas Cty, Ohio, USA  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Swihart, Samuel [I6520]1814-05-131878-11-15
Mother Weible, Christina [I6513]1832-08-251917-03-20
    Brother     Swihart, Edward Lee [I6521] 1857-07-09 1917-04-13
    Brother     Swihart, Frank S. Benjamin [I6522] 1860-08-25 1892-05-22
    Sister     Swihart, Sarah L. [I6523] 1862 1906
    Brother     Swihart, Samuel L. [I6524] 1865-01-22 1942-02-10
         Swihart, Chester B. [I6525] 1869-07-15 1932-12-06

Families

    Family of Swihart, Chester B. and Minek, Anna [F2135]
Married Wife Minek, Anna [I6553] ( * 1869-05-23 + 1908-04-14 )
   
Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Marriage 1897-12-23 Lucas Cty, Ohio, USA  
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  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Swihart, Edna M. [I6555]1908-01-051986
    Family of Swihart, Chester B. and Walter, Jessie M. [F2136]
Married Wife Walter, Jessie M. [I6554] ( * 1875-03-18 + 1943-02-19 )
   
Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Marriage 1918-01-15 Lucas Cty, Ohio, USA  
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Narrative

Note: Chester Swihart and family

There are a few notable gaps in the records I have been able to find for Chester and his family, though I believe I have found enough to have a relatively good picture which is admittedly completed with some guesses.

After the 1880 US Census listing in his mother's household, the next record found for Chester is a marriage form Lucas Cty, Ohio in 1897, two days before Christmas, to German-born Anna Minek (or similar, to be reviewed further below). A few short years later, Chester and Anna can be found living in Toledo, Lucas Cty, Ohio in the 1900 US Census, with his mother Christina living with them.

That I have been able to determine, Chester and Anna's only child (Edna M.) was born in Toledo a few weeks after their tenth wedding anniversary, when the two of them were in their late thirties. A bit more than three months later, Anna died in April of 1908. Following that should have been the 1910 US Census listing for Chester and his family, but I have not managed to find either Chester or Edna in the year's records.

In early 1918, nearly ten years after Anna's death, Chester remarried to Jessie M. (Walter) Harrison, herself a widow, and the two of them were counted with Edna in the 1920 US Census in Ross Twp, Wood Cty, Ohio. I have not managed to find a 1930 US Census record for Chester or Jessie, though Edna can be found that year living as a boarder in Chicago, Cook Cty, Illinois.

The next record I can find for Chester is his death record in late 1932 in Toledo, after which he was buried in Forest Cemetery in Toledo (where his first wife, Anna, is buried). Jessie survived him by just over ten years, and died in Toledo in early 1943. She is buried in Willow Cemetery in Oregon, Lucas Cty. In those intervening years between their deaths, there should be a 1940 US Census record for Jessie, but I have not managed to find it as of yet.

As Chester and Jessie married when he was forty-eight and she was forty-two, and as there were no additional children living with them in 1920, I am confident they had no children together. I have not determined whether Jessie had any children from her first marriage, nor have I found any indication that she remarried after Chester's death. As for Chester, all indications point to Edna being his only child.

As for Edna, after her residence in Chicago in 1930, the next record I can find for her is her US Social Security Death Index record, naming her Edna Swihart and giving her death as July 1986 and her last residence as Phoenix, Maricopa Cty, Arizona. I have not found any marriage records for her, nor any indication that she ever married or had children. Additionally, I have not found any burial listing for her, which suggests to me she may have outlived not just her parents, but possibly her first cousins as well (of which there appear to have been only two), and there may well have been no relatively close family (by relations or geography) to handle the arrangements of her burial following her death.

Returning to the question of Anna's maiden name, the records I can find give that she was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1869, though when she came to America is unknown to me at this time. Whether her parents immigrated as well is also uncertain to me. The records I can find that give her maiden name give a variety of spellings and anglicizations, and the one I have used stems from her death record. I would readily believe that her surname was actually Minnich or similar, as some of the indexed records seem to lie in that direction for spelling. I have not had any luck finding records in Ohio that clearly belong to her parents (named Henry Minek and Christina Hagen, or similar) to help confirm her surname.

Pedigree

  1. Swihart, Samuel [I6520]
    1. Weible, Christina [I6513]
      1. Swihart, Edward Lee [I6521]
      2. Swihart, Frank S. Benjamin [I6522]
      3. Swihart, Sarah L. [I6523]
      4. Swihart, Samuel L. [I6524]
      5. Swihart, Chester B.
        1. Minek, Anna [I6553]
          1. Swihart, Edna M. [I6555]
        2. Walter, Jessie M. [I6554]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Ohio, Births and Christenings, 1821-1962 [S0223]
      • Confidence: High
  2. Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953 [S0122]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X63L-29S : 8 December 2014), Chester B Swihart, 06 Dec 1932; citing Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, reference fn 73120; FHL microfilm 1,992,773.

  3. US Census of 1870 [S0020]
      • Date: 1870-06-13
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GM-NZ1 : 17 October 2014), Christena Swihart in household of Samuel Swihart, Ohio, United States; citing p. 50, family 376, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,774.

        Event Year 1870
        Event Place Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio, United States
        Samuel Swihart M 58 Ohio
        Christena Swihart F 36 Ohio
        Edward D Swihart M 13 Ohio
        Frank S B Swihart M 10 Ohio
        Saml S Swihart M 5 Ohio
        Sarah L Swihart F 8 Ohio
        Chester B Swihart M 0 Ohio

  4. US Census of 1880 [S0045]
      • Date: 1880-06-06
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M83Q-TH3 : 15 July 2016), Christiana Swihart, Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district ED 150, sheet 337A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1073; FHL microfilm 1,255,073.

        Event Date 1880
        Event Place Van Wert, Van Wert, Ohio, United States
        Christiana Swihart Self F 46 Ohio, United States
        Edward Swihart Son M 22 Ohio, United States
        Ben Swihart Son M 20 Ohio, United States
        Sarah Swihart Daughter F 18 Ohio, United States
        Sam Swihart Son M 5 Ohio, United States
        Chester Swihart Son M 10 Ohio, United States

  5. US Census of 1900 [S0039]
      • Date: 1900-06-08
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMDK-WGV : accessed 3 May 2017), Christina Swihart in household of Chester B Swihart, Port Lawrence Township, Precinct E Toledo city Ward 6, Lucas, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 56, sheet 4B, family 76, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,297.

        Event Year 1900
        Event Place Port Lawrence Township, Precinct E Toledo city Ward 6, Lucas, Ohio, United States
        Chester B Swihart Head M 31 Ohio
        Anna Swihart Wife F 31 Germany
        Christina Swihart Mother F 67 Ohio

  6. US Census of 1920 [S0041]
      • Date: 1920-02-03
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDY3-M7F : accessed 9 May 2017), Chester B Swihart, Ross, Wood, Ohio, United States; citing ED 175, sheet 10A, line 17, family 199, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1449; FHL microfilm 1,821,449.

        Event Date 1920
        Event Place Ross, Wood, Ohio, United States
        Chester B Swihart Head M 50 Ohio
        Jessie M Swihart Wife F 45 Ohio
        Edna M Swihart Daughter F 12 Ohio

  7. Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001 [S0234]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6DK-3XM : 13 December 2014), Chester Swihart, 06 Dec 1932; citing Death, Lucas, Ohio, United States, source ID 148, County courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 2,031,423.

  8. Ohio, Marriages, 1800-1958 [S0095]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD64-Z86 : 8 December 2014), Chester B. Swihart and Anna Minch, 23 Dec 1897; citing Lucas County, Ohio, reference 2:3PBQ3JF; FHL microfilm 909,005.

  9. Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013 [S0291]
      • Date: 1918-01-17
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZD2-9C5 : 8 December 2014), Chester B. Swihart and Jessie Harrison, 15 Jan 1918; citing Lucas, Ohio, United States, reference v 34 p 337 cn 30413; county courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 2,133,352.