1. | SWAIM, Thomas Hendricks was born on 28 May 1848 (son of SWAIM, Jeremiah Weatherly and BOBBITT, Melissa Jane); died on 5 Jan 1893; was buried in Weakley, Tennessee, USA. Notes:
S - Goodspeed Weakley County, TN Page Rights Reserved c 1996 - 2000 Jane N. Powell http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnobion/weakley/s.htm Thomas H. Swaim, M. D., and farmer of the Tenth District, is a son of Jeremiah W. and Melissa J. (Bobbitt) Swaim. He was born in Weakley County, Tenn., in 1849, and was one of nine children, six of whom are living. The father was of Irish descent, born in Greensboro, N. C., May 20, 1809. He came to Tennessee when about nine years of age and was a merchant and farmer by occupation, owning at one time nearly 2,000 acres of land. He was married in 1830 and flat-boated for nearly fifteen years. He died in 1880. Mrs. Swaim was born near Raleigh, N. C., March 1, 1817, and moved to Maury County, Tenn., in 1830. She died November 2, 1884. Our subject secured a practical business, education, and in 1876 entered the medical department of the Vanderbilt University at Nashville, and graduated in 1877. After practicing some six months in a hospital, he returned home and has practiced his profession with the best of success to the present time. May 28, 1884, he married Mrs. Carrie (Brasfield) Boswell, by whom he has two children: Grover Cleveland and Thomas Hendricks. Dr. Swaim resides on a good farm of 200 acres, well improved and cultivated. Besides this he owns 700 acres in the Eighth District, 163 acres in another portion in the Tenth District and considerable property in Dresden and Union City. Mrs. Swaim was born in Weakley County, January 28, 1856. Her father, George R. Brasfield, died in 1881, and her mother in 1864. Dr. Swaim is a Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for Horace Greeley. He is Grand Master of the Masonic fraternity and his wife is an influential member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Buried:
Mt. Zion Cemetery
Thomas married BRASFIELD, Caroline Tamesia on 28 May 1884 in Weakley, Tennessee, USA. Caroline (daughter of BRASFIELD, George Robert and ROGERS, Mary J) was born on 28 Jan 1856 in Weakley, Tennessee, USA; died in 1932; was buried in Gleason, Weakley, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- SWAIM, Oscar Lee was born about 1886.
- SWAIM, Henry Boy was born about 1885.
- SWAIM, John Carlisle was born on 13 Nov 1888 in Gleason, Weakley, Tennessee, USA; died on 19 Oct 1977 in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- SWAIM, Grover Cleveland was born about 1891.
- SWAIM, Thomas Hendricks was born about 1892; died about 1942.
- SWAIM, Tamesia was born on 13 Nov 1888 in Gleason, Weakley, Tennessee, USA.
- SWAIM, Roscoe Vernon was born on 10 Nov 1889 in Gleason, Weakley, Tennessee, USA; died in in Vermont, USA.
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