Martha Ann Swinney 1818-1879
Martha Ann Swinney was my 3-great-grandmother. She was born in GA on 11 Jun 1818, possibly in or near Greene Co. She married Robert Franklin Johnson in Troup Co., GA on 8 Aug 1833. He was born 5 Nov 1807 in Greene Co., GA. They had two of their children born in GA. They then moved to Bibb Co., AL about 1839. Six more children were born there. By the late 1840's the family moves to Walnut Grove, Leake Co., MS. They have three more children born there. They move to Carthage in Leake Co., MS sometime before 1860. Robert is killed by a falling tree while clearing land in early 1870. Martha Ann is on the 1870 Leake Co. census taken on 16 Jul 1870 and is marked as widowed with 7 children still living at home with her. She makes a decision to move her family to Rusk Co., TX and most of her children move with her in 1872. They settle in Laneville, Rusk Co., TX. Did she have Swinney relatives in Rusk Co.? I am inclined to believe she did. There was Thomas Jefferson Swinney and his family living nearby her family. Thomas and Martha Ann, along with members of their families, are buried in the Gallaway-Laneville Cemetery. He was living next door to his parents John and Sarah(Baker) Swinney and Lorenzo Dow Johnson's family was living on the other side of him. Lorenzo was one of Martha Ann's and Robert's sons. Does anybody know who her parents were? I am stumped on this one.
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