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Author: dhquebbeman
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Hi,
Since it's been seven years plus since your post, I hope you see this. I can't
answer your direct question about the quality of the Floyd Co. marriage registers. I do
know that the WPA didn't index their records, but someone did locally and and it in
the same format as the WPA indexes. I'm not sure where
Ancestry.com got their indexes,
actually, I think they use optical character recognition or some other machine vision
technology to create their own indexes. Anyway...
Christian Zanger married Louisa Mottweiler in New Albany on 18-May-1881. The
Ancestry.com
marriage index lists this on the correct date when you look by bride, but gives the
groom's given name as "O". If you search by groom's last name you'll
find Ancestry has mis-transcribed the entry, wrongly placing the marriage in 1891.
However, at least this entry almost has a recognizable given name for Christian (tho still
spelled wrong).
I am unable to locate either of them in the 1880 census. A Louisa Mottweiler had also
married a Benjamin Sievers (Siefers) in New Albany in 1873. He may be the Ben I found in
Jeffersonville, Clark Co., IN, boarding there. Since marital status isn't given in
1880, and since he's boarding with strangers, no relationship is stated & we just
can't tell.
Additionally, I can't locate any Mottweiler's at all in 1880 Floyd Co. Horribly
mangled writing I guess, because they are all over the Floyd Co. marriage index.
Washington Co. Indiana also has a lot of Mottweilers, and there are some in Harrison Co.
IN too.
So Louisa may have not been a Mottweiler to begin with.
They had a daughter, Annie, in April 1882, and a son David in May 1884. Flashing forward
to 1900, we see them in the household of Frank & Louisa Graham. On 26 Sep 1894, Louisa
Swarens married Benjamin Franklin Graham in New Albany. They had a son Newland Graham who
you can see in that 1900 census entry.
Prior to this, on 1-Dec-1886, David A. Swarens, son of Lewis Swarens and Eliza Smith,
married Louisa Mottweiler Zanger, and they had a daughter Emma Swarens born Feb 1889, and
you can also see Emma living with Frank and Louisa. Unless he and Louisa divorced, David
Swarens must have died before about 1893.
At some point between 1900 and 16-Sep-1909, David Zanger changed his name to David
Swarens, and married Hallie D. Coleman on that date. In the 1910 census of Floyd Co. IN,
you can see them living together with Hallie's mother, Jennie. From this point on
David goes by Swarens and gives his birthplace as Ohio, but with Hoosier parents.
David & Hallie had a daughter, Louisa J. Sawrens, about 1911. By 1930, Louisa is old
enough that she's working at a shirt factory which would be either M. Fine, or Henry
Abraham Seinsheimer Co., where my grandmother Lula Swarens Hurst Miller worked.
That's as much as I know about this family. I was hoping Davis would turn out to
really be a Swarens, but the census data says otherwise. Welcome to the family
nonetheless.
Regards,
-doug quebbeman
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