Mary Elizabeth Swanson
Mary Elizabeth Swanson (maiden name: Remore) was born around 1837 in Camden, New York, to Peter and Lydia Remore. Her father was a blacksmith who owned $100 of real estate and $340 of personal property by 1860. She married James Swanson around 1855, and they had at least three children: Ella, born around 1856; Isabella, born around 1860; and Minnie, born around 1862.
 
They lived in Camden, and her husband worked as a sawyer and mechanic. James enlisted in the Union army in August 1862 and died in the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864. She applied for a widow’s pension in July 1865 and eventually secured one. She married George Johnson sometime in the late 1860s. He worked as a farm laborer, and they owned $200 of personal property by 1870. She developed an “internal tumor” by the late 1870s, and over the “last five years of her life she was a great sufferer.” She underwent surgery in late 1886, “feeling that there was a slight chance to save her life by its removal.” The surgery, however, was unsuccessful, and she died in Rome, New York, on December 2, 1886.
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(1111)Swanson, Mary Elizabeth ~ Johnson, Mary Elizabeth ~ Remore, Mary Elizabeth18371886-12-02
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Civilian
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  • Gender: Female
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 35

  • (1982) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, undated
  • (1983) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 22 October 1862
  • (1984) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 8 November 1862
  • (1985) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 1 December 1862
  • (1986) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 9 December 1862
  • (1987) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 1 January 1863
  • (1988) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 4 January 1863
  • (1989) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 9 January 1863
  • (1990) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 19 January 1863
  • (1991) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 29 January 1863
  • (1992) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 15 February 1863
  • (1994) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 20 March 1863
  • (1995) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 16 April 1863
  • (1996) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 15 May 1863
  • (1997) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 21 May 1863
  • (1998) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 9 June 1863
  • (1999) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 12 June 1863
  • (2000) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 17 July 1863
  • (2001) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 25 July 1863
  • (2002) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 5 August 1863
  • (2003) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 10 August 1863
  • (2004) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 16 August 1863
  • (2005) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 19 August 1863
  • (2006) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 8 October 1863
  • (2007) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 7 November 1863
  • (2008) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 28 December 1863
  • (2009) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 2 January 1864
  • (2010) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 16 January 1864
  • (2011) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 6 February 1864
  • (2012) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 13 February 1864
  • (2013) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 18 February 1864
  • (2014) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 28 February 1864
  • (2015) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 10 March 1864
  • (2016) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 3 April 1864
  • (2017) [recipient] ~ James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 23 April 1864

People - Records: 1

  • (1111) Swanson, Mary Elizabeth is the [wife of] (1110) Swanson, James

Places - Records: 2

  • (1012) [birth] ~ Camden, Oneida County, New York
  • (1014) [death] ~ Rome, Oneida County, New York

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SOURCES

1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Rome Daily Sentinel, 3 December 1886.