Each month you will be introduced to some of your ancestors. They will be listed in the month of their birth date. Along with vital statistics, I will add personal stories I have been told and/or ones of my own as I have been fortunate to have personally known them. Please add your stories here too.
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| Daddy Swann |
01 Sep 1891 - OTIS FRANKLIN SWANN, SR. -Otis was my grandfather (Daddy Swann). He was the youngest of eleven children born to Matilda Green HARPER and William Wilson SWANN in Conyers, Rockdale County, Georgia. He married Eddye Mae LOYD and they had three children: Frances, Mary Elizabeth, and Otis, Jr.
Daddy Swann loved to tell stories of the family and I remember once he told me that when he was a young boy, he was walking down the road with his aunt. She stopped and said to him, “Otis, look up in the sky. I think one day trains will drive across the sky carrying a lot of people from one place to the other.” He said he thought she was crazy! Then he chuckled and added, “She really wasn’t crazy—look at the way people travel in the sky every day in airplanes!”
