The Swain surname

In the chronology 8 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Swain, Annie 1 entry, 1869
  • mid-December 1869: The remains of David L. Swain and his daughter Annie are taken from Chapel Hill to Raleigh for reburial
• Swain, C. E. 1 entry, 1997
  • December 2, 1997: Former UNC police officer C. E. Swain sues the university
• Swain, David L. 112 entries, 1822–1913
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• Swain, David L. 2 entries, 1875–1879
  • June 18, 1875: Chapel Hill rings its college and church bells for the new university faculty
  • June 4, 1879: Solicitor General Samuel F. Phillips addresses the university alumni
• Swain, Eleanor 2 entries, 1865–1875
  • May 3, 1865: General Smith D. Atkins leads his troops out of Chapel Hill
  • March 22, 1875: Historical Society of North Carolina is incorporated
• Swain, Eleanor H. 2 entries, 1870–1875
  • June 1870: Historical society reorganized at the university's 1870 commencement
  • March 22, 1875: Historical Society of North Carolina is incorporated
• Swain, Eleanor White 1 entry, 1869
  • early 1869: Great oaks are cut down in the faculty yards under the Pool administration
• Swain, Jurdon 1 entry, 1866
  • July 4, 1866: Freedpeople hold a Black Fourth of July celebration

In books and archives 2 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Swain Family family, 1 work
• Swain, David L. 12 works

In the historical records 10 records

2 deeds, 1 records of enslaved people, 6 marriages and 1 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Swain marriages in full · Search the name in every collection