Mathias Swonger ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: L788-VQR.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1850 in Dickinson, Cumberland, PA. ¹ The 1850 census recorded Mathias Swanger, farmer, 28, living with wife Mary, 21; James, 3; and Theodore, 1. Everyone was born in Pennsylvania.

2. Census in 1870 in Springfield Township, Clark, OH. ³ The 1870 census recorded Mathias Swonger, farmer, 49, living with wife Mary L., 41; James F., join carpenter, 22; Charles M., laborer, 19; Mary A., 17; Anna L, 15; Elizabeth I., 14; Frances V., 11; Martha H., 10; Abbie A., 7; Malinda E., 5; and Florence A., 1. The 5 youngest children were born in Ohio, everyone else in Pennsylvania. The post office was Springfield, OH. Mathias' real estate was valued at $2,500 and personal estate $300.
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3. Census in 1880 in Sandusky Township, Sandusky, OH, USA. ⁴ The 1880 census recorded Mathias Swanger, farmer, widowed, 58, living alone. He was born in Pennsylvania and his parents in England.

4. Obituary: The Cleveland Leader: Death List: Mathias Swonger, No. 52 Bolivar St., sixty-nine years, apoplexy. On 29 Jul 1892 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH. ⁵

Mathias married Mary Lucetta Cook, daughter of Stephen Beecher Cook and Lydia Beecher, on 6 Jan 1847 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA. (Mary Lucetta Cook was born on 1 May 1829 in Forge Springs, Lancaster, PA,^{6 7} died on 7 Jul 1879 in Tiffin, Seneca, OH ^{6 7} and was buried in Tiffin: Greenlawn Cemetery, Seneca, OH ⁷.)