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Our Swanger - DeWitt Ancestry
A 307 year Lineage of OUR Swangers
from Michael Schwanger (born in 1680) to Joel Swanger DeWitt, Sr. (died in the 1987))

Version 8 (8 / 5 / 07)
by Don DeWitt (contact)

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INTRODUCTION

The Swanger family connects to the DeWitt family via my grandfather, Joel Swanger DeWitt, Sr. His middle name comes from his mother's maiden name: Bertha Agnes Swanger.  The purpose of this document is to trace back Bertha's family as far as is possible, because we share their genes as well as DeWitt genes.

I offer two methods to view the Swanger information.
  1. If you just want to follow the direct line Nicolaus Schwanger to Joel Swanger DeWitt in Missouri, then the Family Line section is just for you.
  2. Each family often has many children and sometimes even multiple spouses.  This is all very interesting and those details are offered in the Individual Family Histories section.
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To see the Family Line carrying the Schwanger (Swonger or Swanger) name from the 1600s to the Swangers and DeWitts in the 1970s, click on the link above. To view more information about anyosne listed in the following lineage, click on their name (if underlined) and you will move to their Individual Family History.
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If you have information to share about anyone, please contact me at the email address at: CONTACT.

References are available at the bottom of the Family Histories at: REFERENCES.

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The Swanger Family Line Section



Name Birth Date Death Date Marriage Date





1_ Nicolaus Schwanger (ref) b. ? d. ?


| m.   Magdelena Falmen  b. ? d. ? m. ?


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2_ Michael Schwanger (ref) b. 1680 d. 1720


| m.    Magdalena Wodring b. 30 Oct 1701 
in Diedendorf, Germany		 d. 1751


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|		 Jacob Schwanger (ref) b. 14 Oct 1714 
in Abreschviller, Lorraine, 
Germany [now France]		 d. 1788 
in Middleton, 
Cumberland, PA


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|		 m.    Maria Susanna Leyenberger b. 16 Jun 1708 
in Rauweiler, Saarwerden, 
Germany		 d. 1777
in PA		 m. 27 Oct 1735
(ref)


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|		 (They and six children immigrated 
to US on 20 Oct 1747) (ref)




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|		 Jacob Swanger, Jr. (ref) b. 5 May 1743
in Helleringen, Lorraine, 
Germany [now France]		 d. aft 1792


| m.    Anna Maria Schmid b. ? d. ? m. bef 1770


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5_ Philip Schwanger (ref) b. BEF 1770 d. ?


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 m.    Anna Maria Hess b. ? d. ? m. 3 Mar 1791


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|		 Ephriam Swanger (ref) b. 5 Sep 1808
in Heidelberg, PA		 d. 30 Jul 1853


| m.    Sarah Howel b. ? d. 1838 m. ?


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7_ Jefferson Swanger b. 30 May 1830 b. 20 Jun 1916


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 m.    Sara Ann Camp (Campe) or (deKemp)
 b. 30 Apr 1833 d. 22 Sep 1903 m. 22 Jan 1857


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8_ Bertha Agnes Swanger b. 27 Feb 1862 d. 16 Sep 1935


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 m.    Mark Pinkney DeWitt b. 18 Mar 1858 d. ?/ ? 1937 m. 27 Dec 1883


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9_ Joel Swanger DeWitt b. 8 Apr 1893 d. 2 Apr 1987


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 m.    Mary Doris Harvey b. 19 Oct 1895 d. 8 Jan 1978 m. 29 Aug 1913


There are four more generations of Joel Swanger DeWitt, Sr. descendants enjoying life in these United States but their identities are held PRIVATE.
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From Alvin Swonger (ref): The first source I encountered with information about Jacob Schwanger's european ancestry was a book called "Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America" by Annette Kunsleman Burgert, Picton Press, Camden, Maine (1992). This source included baptism records for five children of Jacob and Maria Susanna. It omitted eldest son Paul. I later corresponded with the gentleman who had done the research in France (Alsace) and he reexamined the church records and found Paul with surname misspelled "Schwager", which is why he had been initially omitted from this family listing. I hired this researcher to then look further for Schwanger records in the area and thereby obtained the marriage date for Jacob and Maria plus the rest of the information posted on my website regarding the European ancestry (parents, grandparents, siblings) of Jacob.



From Roy Swanner (ref): The 11th Annual Schwanger Family Reunion will be held in Corbin co., KY on Saturday, June 23, 2007. Registration packages will be mailed by mid-April. If you do not receive a registration package, please use the enclosed Registration Form. Below is information contained in the mailing:

Why the 2007 Reunion is in Kentucky

In October 1747 Jacob and Maria Schwanger immigrated from Helleringen, Lorraine, Germany (now in France) to Philadelphia in the American colony of Pennsylvania. They soon moved west to Lebanon County, PA where they purchased land and had seven sons. This family established the line from which over the next 260 years nearly all Swangers, Swongers and many of the Swanners in America descended.

Sometime before 1796 one of Jacob and Maria’s grandsons, John Jacob Swanger, left Pennsylvania and made the long trip through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia to the newly created Carter County in the new State of Tennessee. In this wilderness on the edge of the Indian frontier, John Jacob Swanger married Violet Boring of Carter County and together they founded the “Smokey Mountain” line of Swangers and Swanners. Over the next 200 years this line has spread throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and other southern states.

Following the Trail of Daniel Boone

One of John Jacob and Violet Swanger’s sons, Phillip Swanner (Violet changed the family name to Swanner after John Jacob’s death) left Washington/Carter County, TN for Kentucky sometime before the Civil War. Following Daniel Boone’s Wilderness Trail through the Cumberland Gap, they reached Clay County and then Laurel Co. Kentucky. Today many of Phillip Swanner’s descendants are living in the Laurel Co. area.