Henry Swift/Malinda Smart/2nd Retta Boyd/Clay County, AR
 

HENRY SWIFT was born in Orange County, N. Y., July 29, 1843, a son of
John and Jane (Weloh)Swift, who were born in Nottingham, England, 1873,
he came to Arkansas.  He was occupied in farming in Randolph County until
1885, since which time he has been a resident of Clay County.  He was
first married February 7, 1879, to Miss MALINDA SMART, a daughter of
Lemuel and Jane Smart, of Arkansas and by her became the father of two
children: Laura, who died at the age of fifteen months, and an infant,
deceased.  His wife died in 1882, and he took for his second wife, in
1884, MISS RETTA BOYD, a daughter of WILLIAM BOYD, of Shannon County,
MO.  She died quite suddenly in February, 1885, having borne one
daughter: Henrietta, who was born on the 22d of March, 1883.

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Chicago: Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

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