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FRANCIS SWANK, farmer; P. O. Center, Montgomery Co.; born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, in the year 1842; is a son of Solon and Elizabeth Swank, who were born in the above county, in which they lived till their decease; his father died Sept. 2, 1877, aged 57 years and 4 months; his mother, Dec. 24, of the same year, aged 56 years 11 months and 22 days; they were parents of eight children, three of whom are living, viz., Francis, John and Elmira; the deceased are Susan, Mary A., Alvin, Judy and Ephraim, who was a member and Corporal of Co. E, 63d O. V. I.; he was wounded in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain; while reaching out from his rifle-pit to remove an obstruction to his sight, he received a buckshot wound in the wrist; necessitating amputation; gangrene setting in afterward caused his death July 22, 1864, aged 21 years, having passed through many of the hard-fought battles of the war. Our subject was a member of the same company and participated in all the battles in which the regiment was engaged; he was one of the fortunate ones, coming home “whole.” Sept. 25, 1862, he was married to Leah Ruhl, by whom he has had six children, five of whom are living, viz., Alice C., Jesse M., Clinton C., Dora E. and Ezra J.; Cora is deceased. He possesses 118 acres of good land, highly improved and in a state of good cultivation; he and his estimable wife are members of the U. B. Church of two years’ standing. Mrs. Swank was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1841, and on the last day of the year.