James Reese Swaner

Notes:

Services for James Reese Swaner, 75, of 148 Main Street, Ridgeley, who died yesterday at Memorial Hospital, where he was admitted last Wednesday, will be conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Hafer Funeral Home. The Rev. Robert L. Greynolds, pastor of Calvary Methodist Church, and the Rev. J. L. Stewart, pastor of the North Cumberland Assembly of God Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Hillcrest Burial Park. Mr. Swaner was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and military honors will be accorded by the United Spanish American War Veterans, Howard P. Hartsock Camp No. 9, of which he was a member. Mr. Swaner retired 10 years ago after completing 33 years of service with the Western Maryland Railway. He was a native of Keyser, W. Va., and had lived in Ridgeley 21 years. He was a member of Calvary Methodist Church. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Alice E. (VanMeter) Swaner; sons, James C., Ridgeley; Everett G., this city, and Donald I. Swaner, at home, and a sister, Miss Margaret Swaner, Gaithersburg, Md., and a daughter, Mrs. Elton J. Weakley, at home.

Cumberland Evening Times, March 10, 1947

Family/Spouse: Alice Edith VanMeter. Alice (daughter of Isaac Lucas VanMeter and Hannah Margaret McKenzie) was born about 1886 in Cresaptown, Allegany County, Maryland; died on 26 Feb 1979 in Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Everett G. Swaner died in UNKNOWN.
2. James Carlisle Swaner was born on 3 Oct 1908 in Ridgeley, Mineral County, West Virginia; died on 26 Apr 2001 in Short Gap, Mineral County, West Virginia.