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Swiggett Name:
The family knew him as James Harrison Swigart however, there is "more to the story." He was married as James D. Swiggett on 12/24/1891 in or near Liberty, Casey Co., KY per the online KY Marriages." Some time about 1900 he moved the family to McLean Co., IL. (my father William Earl Swigart was born in IL in either 1898 or 1900). Somewhere, somehow, for some reason, between then and 1908 or so, the family name got changed to "Swigart." My father knew of the family name had been Swiggett, but never knew himself as anything but Swigart. Dad's oldest sister, Tencie -b. 1892, evidently knew herself as a Swiggett because soon after the birth of her first daughter she started a family bible, and recorded herself as "Tencie Cloe Swiggett," then erased Swiggett and wrote Swigart over it (Swiggett is clearly visible under Swigart). I assume the name change came some time during or after the move to Illinois. Tencie was born in Liberty, KY, and the family must have moved around the turn of the century when she was about 8+ years old for her to have known herself as a Swiggett.Swigart Name:
The first public recording of the Swigart name, that I have located so far, was in a Decatur, IL newspaper in 1919 when James got into an accident when his horses ran away on him and crashed his wagon into a cut of RR cars and broke a power pole. He is listed in the 1930 Census as James H. Swigart, the IL. death index has him as James H. Swigart, and was buried in Decatur as James H. Swigart. However, his funeral memoriam has his name James B. Swigart. I have no Idea where the B. came from. My dad said the name was changed because a teacher at school wouldn't believe anyone could have a name like Swiggett and changed it to Swigart. I have no idea if this is true or not (my dad could tell stories -- some were true, some were not) however, there were other Swigart's living in and around Decatur at the time so it is possible.
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