Austin Allison
Eva Swann West, from [Eva and Ben Jack West]

Eva Swann West

Born 1886, died 1979

Also found as Swann, Eva Swann Powell

Child of Austin Swann and Nannie Thomas Swann. Married Benjamin Jackson West.

In 26 photographs · 2 collections · face marked in 26

Eldest daughter of Austin Swann and Nannie Thomas Swann. Of Hagerman, New Mexico; the "Mrs. B.J. West" of her father's obituary.

Family

ParentAustin Swann1860–1931ParentNannie Thomas Swann1864–1896
Eva Swann West1886–1979
SpouseBenjamin Jackson West1872–1947

Brothers and sisters

SiblingMinnie Swann McKinstry1890–1964SiblingLoveta Swann McKinstry1893–1988
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. [1899-1902]Aged about 13–16

    [Eva Swann with Juanita, Raymond, and Thurman Bouknight]

    Identified on photogoraph

  2. [1900-1904]Aged about 14–18

    Eva Swann West

    Identified on verso.

  3. [1902-1903]Aged about 16–17

    [Swann and Girdner children in yard at Jacobia]

    Identified on photogoraph

  4. [1903-1904]Aged about 17–18

    Grandpa Swann and some grandchildren

    Matches likeness around this period.

  5. [1906]Aged about 20

    [Eva Swann, circa 1906]

    Identified on photogoraph

  6. [1909-1911]Aged about 23–25

    All three girls

    Identified on photogoraph

  7. [1910]Aged about 24

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

    Identified on verso.

  8. [1910]Aged about 24

    [Group of Swann families]

    Known identity.

  9. [1910]Aged about 24

    Swann families

    Known identity.

  10. [1910]Aged about 24

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

    Identified on verso.

  11. [1917-1920]Aged about 31–34

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

    Identified on photogoraph

  12. [1920]Aged about 34

    [Sammy McKinstry being held by her her aunt, Eva]

    Identified from photographs

  13. [1920]Aged about 34

    [Sammy McKinstry being held by her her aunt, Eva, while sitting in a whicker chair]

    Identified from photographs

  14. [1920]Aged about 34

    [Sammy McKinstry being held by her her aunt, Eva, while sitting in a whicker chair]

    Identified from photographs

  15. [1920-1921]Aged about 34–35

    [Sammy McKinstry with her Aunt Eva sitting on exterior stairs]

    Identified from photographs

  16. [1920]Aged about 34

    [Eva Swann about the time she married Elza Powell]

    Identified on photogoraph

  17. [1921-1922]Aged about 35–36

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

    Identified from photographs

  18. 1922Aged about 36

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

    Identified on verso.

  19. [1922]Aged about 36

    [McKinstry-Swann group]

    Known identity.

  20. Possible

    [1922-1923]Aged about 36–37

    [Kenneth and Lucille Foster with their daughter, Camille, next to a car]

    Possible identity

  21. [1922]Aged about 36

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

    Known identity

  22. [1922]Aged about 36

    [Sammy McKinstry looking in a mirror outside with her aunts Minnie and Eva nearby]

    Identified from photographs

  23. [1925]Aged about 39

    [Eva and Ben Jack West]

    Identified on photograph.

  24. [1940-1945]Aged about 54–59

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

    Identified on verso.

  25. [1940-1945]Aged about 54–59

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

    Identified on verso.

  26. [1940-1945]Aged about 54–59

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

    Identified on verso.

Photographs

See them in each collection's inventory, filtered to Eva Swann West: Swann Family Photographs (16)McKinstry Family Photographs (5)

The record

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West, Eva Swann, 1886-1979
Status
Established
Also found as
  • Swann, Eva Swann Powell
Sources
  1. Find a Grave memorial 52583012, as linked from Austin Swann's memorial (7284582) as his child: "Eva Powell Swann West 1886-1979"; the memorial page itself not yet read
  2. Named as a surviving daughter in Austin Swann's obituary, Greenville (Tex.) Evening Banner, 1 and 3 Jun 1931
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