Eleanor "Nellie" Swearingen

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Eleanor "Nellie" Swearingen (Virgin)

Also Known As: "Newhouse"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Swearingen Ferry, Morgan Grove, Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States
Death: December 02, 1793 (51)
Wellsburg, Brooke County (formerly Ohio County, VA, West Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Jeremiah Virgin and Lucy Virgin
Wife of Capt. Van Swearingen and John Newhouse
Mother of Zachariah Swearingen; Drusilla Brady; Lucy Eleanor Stephenson; Thomas Swearingen; Elzy Swearingen and 1 other
Sister of Capt. Rezin Virgin, Rev. War Vet.; Lieut. Brice Virgin, Rev. War Vet.; Hannah Nancy Enochs; John Virgin, "Drummer Boy"; Pvt. Thomas Virgin, Rev. War Vet. and 5 others
Half sister of Capt. Rezin Virgin, Rev. War Vet.

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About Eleanor "Nellie" Swearingen

Daughter of Jeremiah Virgin, Eleanor Virgin married "Indian" Van Swearingen 03 May 1786. After his death in 1793, the widow Swearingen married John Newhouse in 1799. John Newhouse died in 1830 and in 1850, Eleanor Newhouse lived with her daughter, Eliza J. (Newhouse) Fracker, and son-in-law, William A. Fracker, in Columbus Ward 2, Franklin, OH.

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Eleanor Virgin was Swearingen's second and possibly his third wife. He had four children of record prior to his marriage to her in 1786: Drusilla, Zachariah, Thomas and Elzey.

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58. VAN6 SWEARINGEN (THOMAS5, THOMAS4, THOMAS3 VAN SWEARINGEN, GARRETT2 VAN SWERINGEN, DAVID JANSE1 SWIERINGH) was born Bet. 1742 - 1750 in Shepardstown, Jefferson, West Virginia or Berkley County, Virginia, and died December 02, 1793 in Virginia. He married ELANOR VIRGIN.

Children of VAN SWEARINGEN and ELANOR VIRGIN are:

  •   i.   THOMAS7 SWEARINGEN.
  •   ii.   DRUSILLA SWEARINGEN, m. SAM BRADY.
  •   iii.   ELZY SWEARINGEN.
  •   iv.   VAN SWEARINGEN.

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Eleanor "Nellie" Swearingen's Timeline

1742
August 3, 1742
Swearingen Ferry, Morgan Grove, Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States
1764
February 13, 1764
Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia, British Colonial America
1769
1769
of Pennsylvania
1788
December 6, 1788
Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia, United States
1793
December 2, 1793
Age 51
Wellsburg, Brooke County (formerly Ohio County, VA, West Virginia, United States
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