Swope is an Americanized version of the name Schwab.

I.     Yost Swope was born on February 22, 1678 in Leiman-Duchy of Baden, Germany. His mother's name was Anna Catherine Schwab. He died 1735 in Lancaster County Pennsylvania and is buried at Heller's Church in that county. It is from Yost and his son John that our family is descended.

     1.      John Swope born May 26, 1704. Died Dec 18, 1780. John Swope married first Anna Dorothea Line. Ten children were born to this union. Anna Dorothea died. John remarried and it is from this union that John Adam was born.
John Swope married secondly Catherine Elizabeth Grove (Graeff or Greve). They had issue as follows:

John Jacob Swope	Born June 1744
Christiana Swope	Born Nov 10, 1745
John Henry Swope	Born March 10, 1747
Maria Sabina Swope	Born December 1748
Susanna Swope	Born May 1750
John Daniel Swope	Born Nov 1751
Anna Elizabeth Swope	Born Nov 12, 1753
John Adam Swope	Born May 2, 1756

Yost Swope¹ - John Swope² - Adam Swope³

     Adam Swope Swope³ married Sarah Grabill of Lancaster County, who was born May 18, 1765.
     Adam bought a farm and other property near Littlestown where he lived until his death. He was also a larger holder of Virginia lands. Adam Swope was a member of a military organization known as the "Associators" belonging to Capt. Roland's Co., associated July 5, 1775 for the defense of American liberty. He died February 7, 1821 and is buried in the churchyard of St. John's Lutheran Church at Littlestown, Pa. Their children were:

l.	Catherine Swope	Born March 7, 1784
2.	Johnathan Swope	Born May 5, 1787
3.	Samuel Swope	Born April 16, 1791
4.	Ephriam Swope	Born July 4, 1796
5.	Susan Swope	Born June 1, 1799
6.	Elizabeth Swope

     Johnathan Swope born May 5, 1787 in Lancaster County, Pa. married Elizabeth Brothers in Adam County at Littlestown. In 1857 he moved to Fulton County, Ill. where he bought a farm. He died in 1868 at Astoria, Ill.

Their children were:

1.	Jacob Swope	Born July 2, 1811
2.	Edward Swope	Born October 12, 1814
3.	Levi Swope	Died at age 14

     Jacob Swope⁵ was born July 2, 1811 in Adam County, Pa. He was married there January 19, 1833 to Elizabeth Musser who was born October 19, 1814. They lived in Adams County until 1857 when he moved to Fulton County, Ill., to which his son Edward preceded him in 1856. Jacob bought a farm there. He died April 8, 1887. Their children were:

1.	Edward F. Swope	Born December 25, 1835
2.	Catherine Ann Swope	Born November 16, 1838
3.	Jane F. Swope	Born September 30, 1840
4.	Elizabeth B. Swope	Born July 1, 1842
5.	Jacob W. Swope	Born October 21, 1843
6.	George Dallas Swope	Born May 17, 1845
7.	Maria Swope	Born May 17, 1845
8.	John H. Swope	Born September 22, 1851
9.	James Riley Swope
10.	Walter Harmen Swope

     Edward F. Swope⁶ was born at Spring Forge, York Co., Pa. December 5, 1835. In 1856 he moved to Fulton Co., Ill. He married Frances E. Brown in Astoria, Ill. Frances E. Brown was born at Lodi, Seneca Co., New York December 3, 1837. They lived in Illinois until 1870 when they to Nemeha County, Nebraska. Frances died December 1891 near Stella, Nebraska. Their children were:

1.	Clinton Swope	Born February 18, 1859 at Canton, Ill.
2.	Annie L. Swope	Born May 1, 1861 at Canton, Ill.
3.	Charles M. Swope	Born August 16, 1863 at Astoria, Ill.
4.	William C. Swope	Born August 15, 1865 at Astoria, Ill.
5.	Arthur L. Swope	Born September 28, 1869 Died July 23, 1870
6.	Ina F. Swope	Born May 29, 1871 near Aspenwall, Neb.
7.	Edgar Lloyd Swope	Born February 28, 1875 Died at age 18
8.	Frank Lawrence Swope	Born October 15, 1877
9.	Walter H. Swope	Born October 29, 1880

William C. Swope⁷ was born August 15, 1865 near Astoria, Ill. He died January 31, 1954 at Albuquerque, N. M. He married Celia Julia Burke July 4, 1892. They were married in St Patrick's Catholic Church, near Edmond, Oklahoma Territory. Celia Julia Burke was born February 8, 1869 near Stella, Nebraska. She died June 5, 1951 at Albuquerque, N. M. William C. moved with his parents to Nemaha County Nebraska when he was five years old. Celia J. to Oklahoma Territory with her widowed mother in 1890. A brother C. M. Burke had come to Oklahoma Territory in 1889. William C. came to Oklahoma Territory in 1890. William C. and Celia J. had eight children, five of whom were born near Edmond, Oklahoma Territory. In 1902 William C. came to Roger Mills County, Indian Territory where he filed on land. In 1903 he moved his family to Roger Mills County where the other three children were born.
Their children were:

1.	Edward Patrick Swope	Born December 4, 1893	Edmond, Oklahoma Territory
2.	Leo John Swope	Born February 3, 1895	Edmond, Oklahoma Territory
3.	Mary Frances Swope	Born June 19, 1897	Edmond, Oklahoma Territory
4.	Marguerite Irene Swope	Born March 20, 1900	Edmond, Oklahoma Territory
5.	Cecelia Catherine Swope	Born June 22, 1903	Edmond, Oklahoma Territory
6.	Helen Patricia (Nell or Nellie)	Born January 31, 1907	Roger Mills Co.
7.	Vivienne Gertrude Swope	Born November 25, 1910	Roger Mills Co.
8.	Genevieve Loretta Swope	Born February 17, 1913	Roger Mills Co.

Thanks to Gini Hagen for these family documents.

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