Thomas Jefferson Swift

Brief Life History of Thomas Jefferson

When Thomas Jefferson Swift was born in October 1840, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States, his father, John Dean Swift, was 43 and his mother, Hardenia Burnley Clough, was 32. He died in October 1844, in his hometown, at the age of 4, and was buried in United States.

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Family Time Line

John Dean Swift
1797–1852
Hardenia Burnley Clough
1808–1882
America M Swift
1823–1855
Sarah Ann Swift
1827–1897
Sarah Ann Swift
1827–1897
Zerelda Angeline Swift
1828–1908
Louisa Louvina Alice Swift
1829–1890
Cleavers Warren Swift
1831–1888
Clerveas Warren Swift
1831–1852
William Wallace Swift
1833–1922
Marcellus Montgomery Swift
1834–1916
Francis Marion Swift
1838–1865
Thomas Jefferson Swift
1840–1844
John\Jackson "Jack" Randolph\Andrew Jackson Swift
1842–1912
Andrew Jackson Randolph Swift
1842–1911
James K Polk Swift
1845–1864
Chester Ashley Swift
1846–1918
Elisha Swift
1848–1915
Garland Swift
1851–1851
Arthur Swift
1851–1861

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  • Thomas J Swift, "Find A Grave Index"

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): nickname for a rapid runner, from Middle English swift ‘swift, fleet’ (Old English swift), or else from the Middle English personal name Swift (Old English Swift).

Irish: when not the English name, an Anglicization (part translation) of Gaelic Ó Fuada which is based on fuad ‘haste’ (see Foody ).

Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish name.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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