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Blanche V. Swisher Bennett

Birth	:	1879 Page County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	Dec 1919
Burial	:	North Grove Cemetery, Hepburn, Page County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.8422012, -94.9396973
Description	:	In the death of Peter Swisher his community loses a citizen who was for many years an active and prominent one. He came to this section of the United States from the East a few years after he had completed more than two years in the Union army in the cause of the Civil war. He served with the Twenty-first Pennsylvania cavalry. In the affairs of Page county he often took a very active part. He was a member of the board of supervisors of that county when the present court house was erected in Clarinda. His name appears with... Read More	In the death of Peter Swisher his community loses a citizen who was for many years an active and prominent one. He came to this section of the United States from the East a few years after he had completed more than two years in the Union army in the cause of the Civil war. He served with the Twenty-first Pennsylvania cavalry. In the affairs of Page county he often took a very active part. He was a member of the board of supervisors of that county when the present court house was erected in Clarinda. His name appears with the other members of that board on the corner stone of the structure. In his own community near North Grove he was also a leader in organizing and fathering movements for the good of the community. He was one of the men who gave material and moral support to the founding and erection of the North Grove church On account of these works and his general good qualities of citizenship, Mr. Swisher's demise is mourned by a large host of friends. Mrs. Harry Bennett, who was enroute to Villisca from Seattle, Wash., to be present at the funeral Friday of her father, Peter Swisher, who died at about midnight Monday night, passed away very suddenly at about 10:30 Thursday morning of this week at the Burlington passenger depot in Omaha. No more particulars were made known in the telephone call Thursday morning at 10:45 from one of the superintendents of the road to J. A. Still of the local Burlington office. Mr. Still at once made the sad news known to Ernest Swisher, Mrs. Bennett's brother, who was in Villisca when the call came. Mr. Swisher came to this city from his home southeast of town for the express purpose of meeting his sister, who was expected to arrive on No. 6 at 9:44. The train was late and the brother was in a Villisca business place when informed of Mrs. Bennett's death. Thelma Bennett 5 or 6 years of age, was with her mother and they were waiting at the station in Omaha for their train. Ernest Swisher left Villisca Thursday on No. 3 for Omaha. He said before leaving for Omaha that he planned to bring the body to this city, to await word from the husband in Seattle as to what arrangements should be made for the burial. The suddenness of this sad case is a great shock to the relatives and friends. The last knowledge relatives had Mrs. Bennett was in almost perfect health. She came to Villisca Aug. 23 for a visit in the home of her father's family southeast of this city. She returned to Seattle Oct. 20, after a few weeks in the homes of her relatives in this community. When she returned she was apparently enjoying good health. She and her small daughter, Thelma started the long trip from Seattle to Villisca Sunday night at 4:15 in response to word from here that her father was critically ill. It is thought that perhaps the hardships of the trip under present conditions might have had some bearing on Mrs. Bennett's death. Blanche Swisher was born southeast of Villisca and spent many of the years of her life in this vicinity. How ever, the family have lived for some time in the west. She is survived by her husband, daughter Thelma, son Harry, aged eleven years, and son Paul, aged eight years, and one sister and three brothers of southeast of Villisca. Mrs. Bennett was in her forty-first year at the time of her sudden death. CLARINDA JOURNAL, Clarinda, Iowa, Dec 18, 1919

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Latitude: 40.8422012
Longitude: -94.9396973

Family Members:

Parent

Peter Swisher

(1836 - 1919)

Anna Rebecca Kriner Swisher

(1850 - 1913)

Siblings

(1868 - 1931)

(1870 - 1918)

(1873 - 1899)

(1882 - 1969)

(1885 - 1941)

Children

Henry E. Bennett

(1908 - 1981)

Paul C. Bennett

(1910 - 1979)

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