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• In April 2008, Connie's son Kenneth Wirt McSwain contacted me byemail, giving me some information on his mother and her marriage toWirt Barnard McSwain.  Kenneth says his mother was born in Ethel(Prairie Township, Arkansas County) and is still living at age 88, nowin Sherwood, Arkansas (a suburb of North Little Rock, in PulaskiCounty).  In August Ken sent me more family data.  This gives hismother's full name as Connie Louise.
  
  With this information I was able to make sense of an entry I had foundsome time before in the Arkansas Marriage Index, indicating a marriageof Wirt B McSwain to Connie Jones in 1938.  I had not been able todetermine who that Connie Jones was.  Then in one email message KenMcSwain referred to his grandfather Jim Jones.  With this clue I thenwas able to find Connie and her parents James and Elizabeth in the1930 census for Prairie Township, Arkansas County, Arkansas.
  
  1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas, 25 April, PrairieTownship, District 15, page 8B, Ethel and Chute Rd, Hse #153, Fam #154
  Jones, James M   Head  Rents Farm  M W 30 AR AR MS Farmer
  Jones, Elizabeth  Wife  F W 29 AR KY AR
  Jones, Connie L Dau F W 10 AR AR AR

Sources

• 1. Kenneth Wirt McSwain, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, April-September2008
• 2. 1930 Federal Census, Arkansas County, Arkansas
  • 25 April, Prairie Township, District 15, page 8B, Ethel and Chute Rd,
• 3. Kenneth Wirt McSwain Family Tree (private electronic communication)
• 4. George Oliver McSwain, email correspondence, November 2006
• 5. Social Security Death Index
• 6. Gravestone of Wirt Bernard and Inez Sanders McSwain, Mt PleasantCemetery, Ethel, Arkansas
• 7. Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939
  • Vol 2, Certificate 00217, page 0835