Ancestry of
O. Henry
Short Story Writer
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- Grandmother of O. Henry — 3rd Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 7
- Father:
- Daniel Shirley
- Mother:
- Birth Date:
- ABT 1809
- Birth Location:
- Virginia
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 18 Jan 1858
- Death Location:
- Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Green Hill Cemetery, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina
- Spouse Name:
- William Swaim
- Marriage Date:
- May 1831
- Marriage Location:
- prob. Guilford County, North Carolina
- Child:
Mary Jane Virginia Swaim (Ahnentafel No:3 )
Abiah Shirley
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Additional marriages for Abiah Shirley
- Spouse:
- Lyndon Swaim
- Marriage Date:
- ABT 1842
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Sources for Abiah Shirley
- 1 Fayetteville Weekly Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina), 25 JAN 1858, p. 3, Obituary for Abia Swaim, gives death date as 8 JAN 1858.
- 2 Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/09/2020).
- 3 North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Index, 1741-2004, Marriage bond for William Swaim and Abiah Shearley.
- 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), 08 JUN 1866, p. 2, "The Life of William Swaim," Chapter Seventh.
- 6 The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, North Carolina), 22 JUN 1866, p. 2, "The Life of William Swaim," Chapter Ninth.
- 7 Greensboro History Museum, William Sidney Porter Papers (Mss. Coll. 11).
- 8 Lang, Mae Elizabeth, The Pioneers from Vickory to Vickery, St. Joseph, Illinois: Typed manuscript (n. d.), https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/25928/, 121.
- 9 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.
- 10 Smith, C. Alphonso, O. Henry Biography, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company (1916), 22-26.