John Strange Swartz

GEDCOM Note

Category: Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
Category: Utica, IndianaCategory: New Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Watson, Indiana

Biography ==Information from Find A Grave:≤ref>https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15005139/john-schwartz≤/ref>

John Schwartz was born on November 1, 1767, in Darmstadt in the Hesse Province of Germany to John and Elizabeth Schwartz.
It is believed he immigrated with his parents to the American Coloniesin about 1772, settling among the German community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His father John is recorded as farming 5 acres at Lancaster in the 1790 census.
John married Elizabeth Olweiler (Oldweiler) on June 17, 1792, in Elizabeth, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Through this union they wouldproduce 11 children. In 1801 John and Elizabeth and four of their children left their Lancaster Pennsylvania roots and journeyed west to recently opened lands in Indiana. They settled in the Utica Township of Clark County, where six more children would be born.
The Methodist Church was important in the lives of the Schwartz family. John and Elizabeth were among the founders of the first Methodist church in Indiana (what would become the New Chapel United Methodist Church in Clark County). Two of their sons, Jacob and George, would also be ordained in the church and have careers as Methodist ministers.
The children in the Schwartz family would somewhat simplify the GermanSchwartz name, anglicizing it to "Swartz". Succeeding generations would also keep that spelling.
John Schwartz died on June 22, 1824, in Utica Township in Clark County, Indiana, at the age of 56, and is buried in the New Chapel United Methodist Church cemetery.

Children:
:Robert
:Elizabeth (Swartz) Jacobs, 1793 - 1859
:Anna (Swartz) Bottorff, 1795 - 1878
:John Swartz, 1797 - 1865
:Rev Jacob Swartz, 1800 - 1878
:Rev George Swartz, 1802 - 1890
:Sara Eliza (Swartz) Fry, 1805 - 1878
:Nancy (Swartz) Spangler, 1808 - 1845
:Mary Ann (Swartz) Smith, 1810 - 1887
:Leonard Swartz, 1813 - 1879
:Sophia (Swartz) Jacobs, 1820 - 1885

Research Note ==* See John Swartz and Elizabeth Ohlweiler of Pennsylvania and Clark County, Indiana and their descendants – The McLeland-Wieser Familyhttps://www.mcwieser.info/mcleland-wieserfamily/?page_id=231. Accessed 24 Jul 2023.* See Three Swartz/Schwartz men of Floyd and Clark County, Indiana by Eberhart, Elsie Swartz, 1986, page 280 for more information on theSchwartz/Oldweiler family. https://archive.org/details/threeswartzschwa00eber/page/280/mode/2up==

Sources

≤references />*1790: 1790 United States Federal Census, Year: 1790; Census Place: Bucks, Pennsylvania; Series: M637; Roll: 8; Page: 147; Image: 619; Family History Library Film: 0568148, (http://search.ancestry.com/collections/5058/records/296952 : 3 January 2017)*1803: Abraham Epler and Anna his wife to John Swarts IN Clark CO Deeds, Clark, Indiana, Deed Records, 1801-1901, 2: 209 - 210, Abraham Epler and Anna his wife to John Swarts, 15 April 1803; FHL microfilm;* 1803: John Swartz, miller IN Clark CO History of the Ohio Falls Cities, History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties with illustrations and biographical sketches., 2 volumes (1882; reprint, Cleveland, Ohio: L.A. Williams & Co., reproduction by Unigraphic, Inc. 1966), 2: 399.* 1809: Voted in Territorial elections, IN Territorial Voting records,Charles M. Franklin, Indiana Territorial Pioneer Records 1801-1815 (Indianapolis, Indiana: Heritage House, 1983), 15; Citing original records in the Indiana State Library, Archives Division.* 1809: Signed petition - US Territorial Papers, John Porter Bloom andClarnec Edwin Carter, editors, The Territorial Papers of the United States, 28 vols (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service, 1934), 7: 707-708.* 1809: U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, Document: Territorial Papers of the US; Volume Number: Vol 7; Page Number: 688; FamilyNumber: 96, (http://search.ancestry.com/collections/2234/records/102231 : 3 January 2017)* 1811: Member of the board of New Chapel Methodist Church Swartz 3 Swartz/Schwartz men, Elise Swartz Eberhart, Three Swartz/Schwartz men ofFloyd and Clark County, Indiana (Indianapolis, Indiana: Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe, 1986), 387 (citing a photocopy of a page from "Old Ledger of Secretary - Notes of the New Chapel Meeting House" in possession of Mrs. Wendall Fry in 1973.).* 1820: 1820 United States Federal Census, Census Place: Jeffersonville, Clark, Indiana; Page: 10; NARA Roll: M33_13; Image: 25, (http://search.ancestry.com/collections/7734/records/1238568 : 3 January 2017)* 1824: Administration sought on the estate of John Schwartz, DeceasedIN Clark CO Will books, Clark, Indiana, Wills book, A: 306, John Schwartz deceased; FHL microfilm 549,316, item 1.* 1824: John Schwartz admin for Martin Snider IN Clark CO Probate Records, Clark, Indiana, Probate order book, A: 111 (difficult to read), John Schwartz admin for Martin Snider; FHL microfilm 549,316, item 3.* 1825: Request for partition of estate of John Swartz deceased IN Clark CO Partitions, Clark, Indiana, Civil Court Partition Book, 1: 300-302, Swartz John deceased; FHL microfilm 2,312,951.* 1826 May 29: Final record of partition of the estate of John Swartz,deceased IN Clark CO Partitions, Clark, Indiana, Civil Court Partition Book, 1: 180 - 181, John Schwartz deceased; FHL microfilm 2,312,951;"among the heirs of said deceased to wit; John Swartz, Solomon Jacobs & Elizabeth his wife formerly Elizabeth Swartz, Samuel Bottorff and Ann his wife formerly Ann Swartz, George Swartz, John Fry and Sarah his wife formerly Sarah Swartz, Nancy, Mary, Leonard and Sophia Swartz infants under the age of twenty one by Elizabeth Swartz their natural guardian.\" Notice that Jacob Swartz and Elizabeth Swartz aren't mentioned as heirs - apparently since they are the administrators.* 1826 May 30: Final report of administrators of John Swartz deceased,IN Clark CO Probate Records, Clark, Indiana, Probate order book, A: 197, Swartz John deceased; FHL microfilm 549,316, item 3.* 1909: Captain Lewis C. Baird, Baird's History of Clark County Indiana (Indianapolis, Indiana: B.F. Bowen & Company, 1909), 669-670; mentioned in the biography of great grandson Samuel J Swartz IN Clark CO Bairds history, Biography of James Edgar Brown..... Bessie Ann Brown, the youngest was married August 6, 1903 to S.J. Swartz who was for many years in the undertaking business at Jeffersonville. The latter first married a Miss Conway, who died November 24, 1901, leaving two children Bessie Alberta and Ralph C. The founds of this family were John and Elizabeth (Oldweiler sic) Swartz, who were born in Germany before the American Revolution and after coming to this country first settled in Pennsylvania, when they removed to Indiana about the beginning of the nineteeth century. They located in Clark county of a farm situatied inUtica township and became leaders in founding the New Chapel Methodist Epsicopal church, which is now the oldest existing congregation in Indiana Methodism. Jacob Swartz, son of this pioneer couple, was the father of Thomas J. and A.A. Swartz, that later a well known banker of Jeffersonville. Thomas J. married Eleanot Lentz and their son became the husband of Bessie Brown, as recorded above. S. J. Swartz, like his ancestors before him for several generations is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and also holds membership in the Independent Orderof Odd Fellows, Masons, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen."

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• LHK9-HRW
• 15005139