"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND
 BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY 
& CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
MADISON TOWNSHIP
PAGE 356

HENRY T. SWEARENGIN was born in Randolph County, N. C., April 19, 1819,
and came with his parents to Morgan County in 1836.  On the 27th of December,
1843, he was happily married to Mary M. Parks, who bore him eight children, of 
whom two died in early childhood.  In July, 1846, he and wife were baptisted in the
Christian Church at Mt. Gilead, in which he became a Deacon in 1847 and a Trustee
in 1860, and of which he contined a leading and consistent member until his death, 
January 20, 1884, at the age of sixty-four years nine months and one day.  His widow
still resides on the old homestead of 500 acres, in the management of which she is
assited by two of her sons--the youngest now twenty-three years old.  Mrs. Swear-
engin was born in Mason County, Ky., April 10, 1826, and is the daughter of
William and Henrietta (Thomas) Parks, natives of Kentucky, and of English extrac-
tion;  they came to Indiana in 1840, located in this township, and here died in 1849 
and 1879 respectively, at the ages of fifty-five and seventy-nine years.

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