SWIFT, Cleavurs
Date of death: 16 Jan 1893 – Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 20, 1893, page 1 column 4
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
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Clevis [sic] Swift, one of the old and well known citizens of Franklin township, died suddenly at his home south of Franklin Monday morning. Mr. Swift had gone to the woodhouse to get an arm load of wood and after being out about twenty minutes, members of the family noticing his absence, went to learn the cause and found Mr. Swift lying with face down and just as he had fallen. He was unable to rise and being carried into the house, expired in about ten minutes. He was unable to speak after being found and could give no information of the symptoms immediately preceding his death. A bruise on the forehead together with his position, showed that he had struck against the corner of the shed in falling. Coroner L. L. Whitesides was summoned to hold an inquest. This revealed heart trouble to be the cause of death, the wall of the left ventricle being burst open. The aorta, also was three times the normal size and this doubtless was the cause of the ventricle bursting. Mr. Swift was in his seventy-eighth year, and was living with his son, Evan Swift.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, January 20, 1893, page 6 column 6
OBITUARY
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Cleaveurs Swift, an old and respected citizen, (of whom the world is not worthy) has been called to a better country that is heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed to be called his God for he has prepared for such a city, for he died in faith not having received the inheritance but having received a foretaste, embraced and rejoiced in anticipation of that inheritance that is incorruptible undefiled and that fadeth not away. His life was not without a thorny pathway but God taught him in his youth to esteem the reproach of Christ as greater riches than earthly treasures and when the hand of Providence seemed to be against him he meekly bowed realizing that whom the Lord loved he chastened and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth, and being thus prepared for the service of God he united with the old school Baptist church in his youth about the 20th year of his age.
He was born December 26, 1814, and was united in marriage with Sarah Ann Tapp, May 30, ‘33, who fell asleep in Jesus 7 years ago. To them was born six children, two of whom passed over the river of death before them. Four are still living, three sons and one daughter. He came from Kentucky, his birth place in his youth and has been a resident of Indiana nearly sixty years. He was a member of Bethlehem church at the time of his death.
P. K. PARR
Link to Cleavurs Swift’s grave
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry