Ancestry of
Mary Jane Virginia Swaim

(1833–1865)

Mary Jane Virginia Swaim

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Swaim 
  • Mother:
  • Abiah Shirley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Feb 1833 
  • Birth Location:
  • Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina  
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Sep 1865 
  • Death Location:
  • Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina 
  • Notes: 

  • The tombstone for Mary Swaim gives her birth year incorrectly as 1825. That was the year of her husband Algernon Porter's birth.

• Marriages for Mary Jane Virginia Swaim

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  • Spouse:
  • Algernon Sidney Porter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Apr 1858
  • Marriage Location:
  • Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina

• Sources for Mary Jane Virginia Swaim

  • ¹ Family Tree for Family of Sidney Porter and Ruth Coffin Worth, (original in the possession of Kathy Russell-Regan, descendant of Sidney's brother Romanta, OCT 2021).
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/08/2020).
  • ³ North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979, FHL No. 102170506, Image 850, Marriage record for Algernon S Porter and Mary V Swaim.
  • ⁴ The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, North Carolina), 07 SEP 1941, Sect. 3, p. 14, "Mother of O. Henry Woman of Talent".
  • ⁵ The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, North Carolina), 22 JUN 1866, p. 2, "The Life of William Swaim," Chapter Ninth.
  • ⁶ Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940, FHL No 7578226, Image 146, Marriage of son Shirley W Porter and Mollie E Vanstory.
  • ⁷ Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940, Marriage record for son Shirley W Porter and Mollie E Vanstory.
  • ⁸ Greensboro History Museum, William Sidney Porter Papers (Mss. Coll. 11).
  • ⁹ Homans, James E., The Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 8, New York: The Press Association Compilers, Inc. (1918), 371.
  • ¹⁰ Lang, Mae Elizabeth, The Pioneers from Vickory to Vickery, St. Joseph, Illinois: Typed manuscript (n. d.), https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/25928/, 121.
  • ¹¹ Page, Arthur W., ed., The World's Work, Volume 33, Nov., 1916 to April, 1917: A History of Our Time, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company (1916-1917), 55.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 206.
  • ¹³ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 52.
  • ¹⁴ Smith, C. Alphonso, O. Henry Biography, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company (1916), 25-26.