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Austin Swann, from [Austin Swann with granddaughters Sammy, Jean, and Peggy McKinstry]

Austin Swann

Born 1860, died 1931

Child of Malcom Swann and Nancy California Atkinson Swann. Married Nannie Thomas Swann. Parent of Eva Swann West, Minnie Swann McKinstry and Loveta Swann McKinstry.

In 18 photographs · 2 collections · face marked in 15

Born near Macon, Mississippi; came to Hunt County, Texas as a child around 1870; removed to Hagerman, New Mexico in 1908 and died there. He married Nannie Thomas in 1885. She died in 1896 in Texas from tuberculosis.

Family

ParentMalcom Swann1828–1910ParentNancy California Atkinson Swann1836–1899
Austin Swann1860–1931
SpouseNannie Thomas Swann1864–1896
ChildEva Swann West1886–1979ChildMinnie Swann McKinstry1890–1964ChildLoveta Swann McKinstry1893–1988

Brothers and sisters

SiblingAnnie Swann1859–1860SiblingLizzie Swann Girdner1864–1956SiblingJohn Swann1867–1941SiblingPhebe Swann Bouknight1871–1935SiblingNannie Atkinson Swann Girdner1878–1971
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. [1875-1878]Aged about 15–18

    [Malcom Swann family 1870s]

    Named on verso.

  2. [April 1885]Aged about 25

    [Austin and Nannie Swann wedding photo]

    Named on verso.

  3. [1890-1895]Aged about 30–35

    Old Malcom Swann Gin

    A figure matching Austin Swann sits two spots to the right of Malcom.

  4. [1890-1895]Aged about 30–35

    Portrait of Austin Swann

    Can confirm the identity.

  5. [1895-1905]Aged about 35–45

    [Austin Swann on a fishing or hunting trip]

    Identified on verso.

  6. [1900-1901]Aged about 40–41

    Austin Swann and his old steam engine

    Identified on verso.

  7. 1910-1920Aged about 50–60

    [Austin Swann in field]

    Austin Swann is identified on the verso.

  8. [1917-1920]Aged about 57–60

    [Austin Swann in a car with Eva Swann and others next to the car]

    Identified on photogoraph

  9. [1920-1921]Aged about 60–61

    [Sammy McKinstry sitting on the porch with Austin Swann churning butter]

    Identified from photographs

  10. [1920-1925]Aged about 60–65

    [Austin Swann with Jim McKinstry and Edmund McKinstry]

    Austin Swann is identified on the verso.

  11. [1921-1922]Aged about 61–62

    [Sammy McKinstry pretending to cook]

    Known identity

  12. 1924Aged about 64

    [Jean McKinstry and Austin Swann]

    Identified on verso.

  13. [1924-1926]Aged about 64–66

    [Group of McKinstrys and Swanns next to a cabin]

    Known identity

  14. [1927]Aged about 67

    [Austin Swann with granddaughters Sammy and Jean McKinstry]

    Identified on verso.

  15. [1928]Aged about 68

    [Austin Swann with granddaughters Sammy, Jean, and Peggy McKinstry]

    Identified on verso.

Photographs

See them in each collection's inventory, filtered to Austin Swann: Swann Family Photographs (11)McKinstry Family Photographs (7)

The record

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Swann, Austin, 1860-1931
Status
Established
Sources
  1. Find a Grave memorial 7284582, read in full: "Austin Swann", 30 Dec 1860 (Mississippi) - 30 May 1931 (Hagerman, Chaves County, N.M.), buried Concord Cemetery, Jacobia, Hunt County, Tex.; accessed 10 Sep 2026
  2. Hunt County, Texas, Marriages 1846-1911, p. 471, vol. E p. 12: Austin Swann and Nannie G. Thomas, married 16 Apr 1885 (transcribed on the memorial above)
  3. Obituary, Greenville (Tex.) Evening Banner, 1 and 3 Jun 1931, p. 8 (transcribed on the memorial above)
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