WDC GenWeb - Descendants of Jost Schwab

* Jost Schwab b. Feb 22 1677 d. Jan 1726/27
     Also spelled Swab/Swop/Swope
  m. Anna Kathrine Wolfhardt
  *  Joseph Ulrich Swope
     b. 1707 Sinsheim, Baden Germany, d. abt 1756 Lancaster Co PA
     *  Joseph Swope Jr
           Captured by Cornstalk, spent nine years with the Pawnee Indians,
           released by treaty after Battle of Point Pleasant
        b. Aug 11 1751 Augusta Co VA
        d. Mar 2 1819 Wolf Creek, Monroe Co VA(WV)
           buried Swope Cem, Monroe Co
        m. Katherine "Ketty" Sullivan Apr 3 1774
           b. 1756 d. Mar 12 1820 Wolf Creek
           [d/o Timothy Sullivan and Katherine Rainey]
        *  Jonathan Swope
           b. Jan 5 1783 Wolf Creek, Monroe Co VA(WV)
           d. Apr 5 1872 Wolf Creek
           m. Francis "Fanny" Legg Jan 4 1803 Monroe Co
              [maybe d/o Thomas Legg and Elizabeth]
           *  George W Swope b. bef 1810
              m. Elvira Raeburn Jun 19 1837
           *  Elizabeth Swope
              b. 1810 Wolf Creek, Monroe Co VA(WV), d. 1858 Spencer VA(WV)
              m. Isaac Argabrite Jan 1829
                 b. Sep 1808 VA, d. Feb 7 1856 Roane Co VA(WV)
              *  Matilda K Argabrite b. 1834 Monroe Co VA(WV)
                 m. Thompson C Burdett May 11 1856 Roane Co VA(WV)
                    b. abt 1834 Jackson Co VA(WV)
                 Descendants of Matilda Argabrite and Thompson Burdett
                 2nd husband of Matilda K Argabrite:
                 m. Joseph Hardman b. 1833 Lewis Co VA(WV)
                    [s/o Benjamin Hardman and Leah, who also had Benjamin
                    G Hardman b. 1840 Ritchie Co VA, d. Sep 7 1865 Roane
                    Co WV, m. Mar 1857 Roane Co, Isabelle Argabrite b. 1840
                    Monroe Co VA(WV). Ben and Isabella had Frances Hardman
                    and Mr N N Hardman b. 1859 Jackson Co VA(WV), d. Mar 4
                    1844 Roane Co VA(WV)]
              *  James (or Jacob) H Argabrite b. 1843-44 Monroe Co VA(WV)
                 m. Alice Ingraham Apr 5 1866 Roane Co WV
                    b. 1848-49 Jackson Co VA(WV)
                    [d/o John Ingraham and Emily]
           *  Lewis C Swope b. aft 1810
           *  Matilda Swope b. aft 1811
              m. Thomas Johnston Nov 8 1830
           *  Catherine Swope b. aft 1812
              m. Griffin Ellis
           *  Mary Jane Swope b. aft 1813
              m. Henry Miller Jun 25 1842
              m. Chester McGann aft 1842
           2nd wife of Jonathan Swope:
           m. Susannah Siders Jan 3 1850
              Susannah m.1st Mr Roach
           *  Joseph Jonathan Swope b. Dec 28 1854
              m. Lucy J Burdette May 28 1873
                 [d/o L J Burdette]
              *  Ida Susan Swope
                 b. Apr 7 1874 Wolf Creek, Monroe Co WV, d. Jun 7 1942
                 m. Jacob Hereford Hoover Nov 4 1891 Wolf Creek
                 *  Oliver Lewis Hoover b. Sep 20 1892
                 *  Nellie Ruth Hoover b. Mar 9 1895
                    m. Robert Ripley Keller b. Feb 9 1893 d. Jan 11 1967
        *  Eleanor Swope b. Jan 3 1788 VA
           m. John Burdett Jan 29 1805 VA
              b. abt 1785 Greenbier Co VA(WV), d. abt 1836 Jackson Co VA(WV)
           Descendants of Eleanor Swope and John Burdett


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