| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Sixth Generation2082. Mary B. "Mollie" Coffey was born in July 1858 in Spencer, Owen Co., IN. Mary died in Spencer, Owen Co., IN in 1932 and was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer, Owen Co., IN in 1932 .7869 Mary B. "Mollie" Coffey and William Erle Swigert were married on 4 September 1883 in Spencer, Owen Co., IN.7870 They7870 appeared in the census on 8 June 1900 in Spencer, Owen Co., IN.7871 William Erle Swigert7872, son of Peter Swigert and Lucinda Smith, was born on 3 July 1860 in Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN. William died in Spencer, Owen Co., IN in 1917 and was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer, Owen Co., IN in 1917 .7873 "W. E. Swigert is a native of Indiana, born in Indianapolis July 3, 1860. His parents were Peter K. and Lucinda (Smith) Swigert, were for some time residents of Indiana. The father enlisted in Company D, Twenty-sixth Indiana Volunteers, and participated in quite a number of engagements, and at the last battle on the Atchafalaya River [Louisiana], he received wounds which caused his death Octboer 18, 1863. The mother is still living in Missouri. W. E. Swigert is the youngest in a family of three children, and was reared in Indiana until eight years of age, when his mother was married to Joseph W. Buchanan. They then went to Missouri. Ten years later Mr. Swigert returned to Indianapolis, and having while in Missouri commenced to study dentistry, on his return to Indiana he pursued the study for another year. He then entered the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis, where he graduated at the end of the first term. In March, 1880, he came to Spencer, opened and fitted up an office for the practice of his profession, and is at the present doing a successful business here. In the winters of 1880-82, he was Demonstrator of Mechanical Dentistry in the Indiana Dental College. He was married, September 4, 1883, to Mary Coffey, daughter of Joel and Charity Coffey, old and respected pioneers of Owen County." Mary B. "Mollie" Coffey and William Erle Swigert had the following children:
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