Re: Swords, Raymond 1915, Dana, Illinois
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Swords, Raymond 1915, Dana, Illinois
7/12/00
There is a large group of Swords' families who settled in the Dana/Long Point, IL area in the second part of the 1800's who were all orginally from Indiana, mainly Marion County which is near Indianapolis.Your John is probably related somehow to one of those.Do you have any other information?We have one mystery from our side of the family.My grandmother, Marguerite (Swords) Vahldieck had a brother William who mysteriously moved to California and was not heard of again.He was listed as living in Mercedes, California in 1942, the year my grandmother died.His parents were Luther and Julia Swords of Dana, IL and Luther was originally from the group from Indiana.Could your relative possibly been named William John?Let's see if we can piece any of this together!