Austin Allison
Loveta Swann McKinstry, from [Minnie, Eva, and Loveta Swann and Annie Miller]

Loveta Swann McKinstry

Born 1893, died 1988

Also found as Swann, Loveta, Cumpsten, Loveta Swann and McKinstry-Cumpsten, Loveta

Child of Austin Swann and Nannie Thomas Swann. Married Samuel Small McKinstry. Parent of Sammy Nan McKinstry Allison, Veta Jean McKinstry Allison and Mildred Adeline McKinstry Osborn.

In 54 photographs · 4 collections · face marked in 54

Youngest surviving daughter of Austin Swann and Nannie Thomas Swann. Her memorial is headed "McKinstry-Cumpsten", showing her second marriage to Robert (Bob) Cumpsten; the heading here takes the form under which she appears in the family record.

Family

ParentAustin Swann1860–1931ParentNannie Thomas Swann1864–1896
Loveta Swann McKinstry1893–1988
SpouseSamuel Small McKinstry1878–1955
ChildSammy Nan McKinstry Allison1920–2009ChildVeta Jean McKinstry Allison1922–2020ChildMildred Adeline McKinstry Osborn1927–2012

Brothers and sisters

SiblingEva Swann West1886–1979SiblingMinnie Swann McKinstry1890–1964
How each relationship is known

A life in photographs

IdentifiedPossibly this personLifetimeYears, with age beneath

Faces, by date

Cut from each photograph where this person is marked, and never retouched. In date order, so they can be weighed against one another.

  1. [1895-1896]Aged about 2–3

    [Swann collage showing several Swann family members]

    Named on verso She is the girl on the left with the 'x'.

  2. 1900Aged about 7

    [Picnic in Jacobia, circa 1900]

    Identified on photogoraph

  3. [1900-1901]Aged about 7–8

    [Loveta Swann with cook, Pete Lovall]

    Identified on verso.

  4. [1900-1909]Aged about 7–16

    [Ben Thomas and Family]

    A child that looks similar to Loveta is at the left of the photograph

  5. [1901-1903]Aged about 8–10

    Loveta Swann at Jacobia home

    Identified on photogoraph

  6. [1902-1903]Aged about 9–10

    [Swann and Girdner children in yard at Jacobia]

    Identified on photogoraph

  7. [1903-1907]Aged about 10–14

    [Loveta Swann and Mable Swann]

    Identified on verso.

  8. [1903-1904]Aged about 10–11

    Grandpa Swann and some grandchildren

    Matches likeness around this period.

  9. [1906-1908]Aged about 13–15

    Loveta and a friend

    Identified on photogoraph

  10. [1909-1911]Aged about 16–18

    [Eula Girdner, Loveta Swann, Ila Hancock]

    Identified on verso.

  11. 1909Aged about 16

    [Group of six girls in a wagon]

    Someone is identified as "me" on the verso. I believe it to be Loveta Swann.

  12. [1909-1911]Aged about 16–18

    All three girls

    Identified on photogoraph

  13. [1909-1911]Aged about 16–18

    [Minnie and Loveta Swann in a boat]

    Identified on photogoraph

  14. 1910Aged about 17

    [Loveta Swann and Mae McCoy]

    Named on verso.

  15. [1910]Aged about 17

    [Loveta Swann and Mable Swann]

    Identified on verso.

  16. [1910]Aged about 17

    [Minnie, Eva, and Loveta Swann and Annie Miller]

    Identified on verso.

  17. [1910-1911]Aged about 17–18

    [Portrait of Loveta Swann, circa 1911-1912]

    Identified on verso.

  18. [1910]Aged about 17

    [Group of Swann families]

    Known identity.

  19. [1910]Aged about 17

    Swann families

    Known identity.

  20. [1910]Aged about 17

    [Minnie, Eva, and Loveta Swann and Annie Miller]

    Identified on verso.

  21. 1911Aged about 18

    Loveta's baccalaureate dress and hat

    Identified on verso.

  22. 1911Aged about 18

    [Loveta Swann as a 1911 graduate of Hagerman High School]

    Identified on verso.

  23. 1911-1912Aged about 18–19

    [Loveta Swann at Western College, Artesia, New Mexico]

    Identified.

  24. 1911Aged about 18

    Loveta Swann graduation picture

    Identified on verso.

  25. [1915-1920]Aged about 22–27

    [Loveta Swann in a field near Tyler, Texas]

    Identified on photogoraph

  26. [1920-1925]Aged about 27–32

    [Loveta Swann McKinstry, Edith Thomas, Minnie Swann McKinstry]

    Identified on verso.

  27. [1920]Aged about 27

    [Loveta McKinstry with daughter Sammy as an infant]

    Known identity

  28. [1920-1921]Aged about 27–28

    [Sammy McKinstry with no pants]

    Known identity

  29. [1920]Aged about 27

    [Sammy McKinstry in whicker basket with her mother, Loveta, peering in]

    Identified from photographs

  30. [1920]Aged about 27

    [Sammy McKinstry being held by her mother, Loveta]

    Identified from photographs

  31. [1920]Aged about 27

    [Sammy McKinstry being held by her mother, Loveta]

    Identified from photographs

  32. [1920]Aged about 27

    [Loveta McKinstry sitting on the porch of a home holding her daughter, Sammy]

    Identified from photographs

  33. [1920]Aged about 27

    [Loveta McKinstry guiding Sara Beth West as she holds an infant Sammy]

    Identified from photographs

  34. [1920]Aged about 27

    [Loveta McKinstry holding Sammy on the porch of a home]

    Identified from photographs

  35. [1920]Aged about 27

    [Loveta McKinstry holding Sammy with Sara Beth West standing left]

    Identified from photographs

  36. [1921-1922]Aged about 28–29

    [Loveta McKinstry holding the hand of her daughter Sammy]

    Known identity

  37. [1921-1922]Aged about 28–29

    [Eva, Minnie, Loveta, and Sammy waiting for a train at the Hagerman train station]

    Identified from photographs

  38. 1922Aged about 29

    [Minnie McKinstry, Loveta McKinstry, Eva West, Sammy McKinstry]

    Identified on verso.

  39. [1922]Aged about 29

    [Pregnant Loveta Swann and Eva Swann West next to car]

    Known identity

  40. Possible

    [1922-1926]Aged about 29–33

    [Flooding at Jacobia, Texas]

    No identification available.

  41. [1923-1924]Aged about 30–31

    [Loveta, Sammy, and Jean McKinstry at the Felix River]

    Known identity

  42. [1923-1924]Aged about 30–31

    [Sam, Loveta, and Sammy McKinstry in the forest]

    Known identity

  43. [1924]Aged about 31

    [Christmas at the McKinstry home]

    Identified on verso.

  44. [1924]Aged about 31

    [Loveta, Sammy, and Jean McKinstry, circa 1924]

    Identified on photograph.

  45. [1924-1926]Aged about 31–33

    [Group of McKinstrys and Swanns next to a cabin]

    Known identity

  46. [1926-1927]Aged about 33–34

    [Loveta, Sammy, and Jean McKinstry sitting on concrete]

    Known identity

  47. [1929]Aged about 36

    [Sam and Loveta McKinstry with children and a horse]

    Known identity.

  48. [1930-1931]Aged about 37–38

    [Loveta, Sammy, Jean, and Mildred McKinstry in outfits with large hats]

    Known identity

  49. [1933-1935]Aged about 40–42

    [Sam and Loveta McKinstry family]

    Identified on verso.

  50. [1940-1945]Aged about 47–52

    Minnie, Loveta, Glenn Zirkle, Eva, Mrs. Major

    Identified on verso.

  51. [1940-1945]Aged about 47–52

    Minnie McKinstry, Eva West, Mrs. Major, Eva Major, Loveta McKinstry

    Identified on verso.

  52. [1940-1945]Aged about 47–52

    [Minnie Swann McKinstry, Loveta Swann McKinstry, Glenn Zirkle, Eva Swann West]

    Identified on verso.

  53. [1944-1945]Aged about 51–52

    [Harold and Jean Allison with Loveta McKinstry at the Camellia Room in Savannah, Georgia]

    Known identity

  54. 1945Aged about 52

    Jean, Loveta, + Mildred McKinstry, abt. 1945

    Identified on verso.

Photographs

See them in each collection's inventory, filtered to Loveta Swann McKinstry: Swann Family Photographs (28)Thomas Family Photographs (1)McKinstry Family Photographs (17)Allison Family Photographs (1)

1 more photograph withheld.Private, to protect living people. Open to family.Family sign-in

The record

Heading
McKinstry, Loveta Swann, 1893-1988
Status
Established
Also found as
  • Swann, Loveta
  • Cumpsten, Loveta Swann
  • McKinstry-Cumpsten, Loveta
Sources
  1. Find a Grave memorial 52656923, as linked from Austin Swann's memorial (7284582) as his child: "Loveta Swann McKinstry-Cumpsten 1893-1988"; the memorial page itself not yet read
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