Researching Stephen Swails
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 51 people with the Swails surname? In that year Swails was ranked number 3528 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Stephen means "crown" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Stephen Swails on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Stephen Swails and the Swails Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 2 people with the Swails surname in the UK? Swails is now ranked number 4039 for popularity in the UK. |
Swails Family History Databases
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Some Famous People called Stephen Swails
Stephen Atkins Swails
Stephen Atkins Swails (23 February 1832 – 17 May 1900) was a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Although originally enlisting as a private, he was the first African-American soldier promoted to commissioned rank, as a line officer, in that conflict, as evidenced by the U.S. War Department's initial refusal of that promotion due to his "African descent."
Swails was a free black who was so light in coloring that he was often mistaken as white. He was single and employed mostly as a waiter in Cooperstown, New York at the start of the Civil War, and although he fathered several children by Sarah Thompson, they never married. His enlistment papers state he was employed as a boatman in Elmira, New York when he joined the army. In 1863, he answered Frederick Douglass' call to arms and joined the 54th Massachusetts when it began forming, and served in that regiment, eventually being commissioned as an officer, until the end of the war. After the war, he settled in South Carolina and later Washington, D.C., becoming a lawyer and politician.
Source: Stephen Atkins Swails, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Swails
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