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The Philip
SWIRE
family is recorded in the 1860 U. S. Census in Galveston, Texas as
follows:
1860 Texas Census, Galveston
County, Galveston - Ward 2, June 21, 1860, Page 473
Dwelling #611-613 (Boarding House)
SWIRE, P. - age 27, male, white, Merchant, born West Indies
SWIRE, Mary - age 22, female, white, born NY
SWIRE, Lola - age 3, female, white, born LA
SWIRE, Mary - age 2 months, female, white, born TX
Four months after that census was taken, Philip purchased
land in Louisiana. This land purchase was recorded in
Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana on 01 October 1860. After the land
purchase, Philip likely
remained in Texas, as he served with a Galveston unit with the
Confederacy during the Civil War. His military service was with
Company B, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery, also known as Cook's
Regiment. He was severely
wounded at the Battle of Shiloh (Tennessee).
By the 1870 U. S. Census, the Philip
Swire's were living in Louisiana:
1870 Louisiana Census, West Baton
Rouge Parish, Post Office: Baton Rouge, Page 268A, Sept. 7, 1870
Dwelling #192-192
SWIRE, Philip - age 42, male, white, Farmer, $30,000 real estate
value/$3,300 personal estate value - born West Indies, parents
of foreign birth
SWIRE, Anna - age 31, female, white, Keeping House, born New
York, father of foreign birth marked then crossed out
SWIRE, Walter - age 8, male, white, born Louisiana, father of
foreign birth
SWIRE, Fanny - age 3, female, white, born Louisiana, father of
foreign birth
SWIRE, Maria - age 7 months, female, white, born Louisiana,
father of foreign birth, born in November
SEYMOUR, Jane - age 17, female, white, At Home, born West
Indies, parents of foreign birth
JOHNSON, Samuel - age 11, male, white, At Home, born Louisiana
KEAN, Henry - age 24, male, white, Farm Laborer, born New York
WALKER, Elizabeth - age 20, 30 or 50 (hard to read), female,
black, Domestic Servant, born Louisiana
WALKER, John - age 10, male, black, Domestic Servant, born
Louisiana
It was likely during the 1880's when
family history states that Philip SWIRE's gardens/farm harvested
so much produce (to supply to steamboats), that the boys could
be remembered by their sister Fannie as "complaining" about all
the work.
The Philip SWIRE family has not yet
been located in the 1880 U. S. Census, but is found in 1900 as
follows:
1900 Louisiana Census, East Baton
Rouge Parish
Dwelling #186-195
SWIRE, Philip - Dec. 1827 -- married 38 years
SWIRE, Anna C. -- Un 1840 -- 60 -- 12 children, 3 living
SWIRE, Roger P. -- June 1874 -- 25
SWIRE, Sterling B. -- Apr 1882
In the census above, Anna KEAN
SWIRE
is listed as having had twelve children, and only three are
living. Her known children are: Lola SWIRE, Mary SWIRE, Walter
John SWIRE, Fred SWIRE, Frances "Fannie"
SWIRE, Tezora Maria
Ritchie SWIRE,
Roger Philip SWIRE, Harry Kean
SWIRE, Archibald
James Bakewell SWIRE, Stirling Bayless SWIRE, and two unnamed
children, one of which was stillborn in 1873.
Philip SWIRE died on 23 January 1912
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After Philip's death, his widow Anna
resided in Slaughter, East Feliciana Parish, LA. She died on 09
August 1927 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Today there is a SWIRE Avenue in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but its connection, if any, to the
Philip SWIRE family, is not known. |
