As I continue to think about endogomy vs. multiple lines of descent and the impacts of both/either on my at-DNA match lists I realized I simply couldn’t hold all of
Category: Prather Family Research
Airy Gaither – Airy Prather – Airy Hilton – Airy Swartz: where did this unusual name come from?
Airy Swartz was born about 1815, in Clark County Indiana, to newly weds John Swartz and Nancy Prather.1 Throughout her long life the census takers would have problems with her
William Prather – a reputation posthumously trashed
William Prather ( 1766 – 1853) was a schoolteacher in Virginia and possibly North Carolina1, a pioneering landowner of Clark County, Indiana2 and a farmer and probate Judge of Jennings
How many children might John Swartz “jr”, 1797-1865 PA and Clark County, IN have had?
updated to reflect additional research on candidates for “missing children”. As I prepare a biographical write up for John Swartz (oldest son of John Swartz and Elizabeth Ohlweiler) and his