History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 713.
[Harrison County]  [Rutland Precinct]

JOHN SWINFORD, farmer, P. O. Rutland, was a native of Harrison County,
where he was born March 17, 1837.  His grandfather, John Swinford, came
from North Carolina very early and settled in Harrison County; he died
at advanced age of seventy years.  His grandfather on mother's side,
Edmund Pollard, was a soldier in the Revolutionary.  His father, Matthew
Swinford, was born in Harrison County in the year 1800; he was a cooper by
trade, but farming was his principal occupation; he died in native county,
aged seventy years.  John Swinford, the subject of this sketch, was early
trained to till the soil.  He married Nancy, daughter of Thomas and
Caroline (Garnett) Rose, of Harrison County; has four children, named and
aged respectively: Thos. N., eleven; James D., eight; Cora F., six,
Edmund F., three.  Both himself and wife are members of the Methodist
Church at Boyer's Chapel.  Politically he is a Democrat.

Swinford Garnett Rose Pollard
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NC

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