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I'm sorry, I did not copy that correctly. Lettice Wyatt and Nimrod Smith lived in Pendleton District, Anderson Co. SC. Jesse Swain's will was filed 15 April 1884 in Gordon Co. GA. He was alive at the 1880 census. I don't believe he ever moved to Tennessee, but his brother in law Silas Smith, who was one of the guardians under the John Swain will, lived in McMinn Co. TN. Therefore some of the records engendered by the John Swain estate are in Tennessee. This could cause some confusion, since Jesse was executor. Like Talitha and Jesse, my great grandfather Johnson L. Sims moved his entire family to Arkansas in the early 1850's, apparently because the Swain farm in Abbeville Co. SC, where they had lived, was sold during settlement of John Swain's estate, thirty years after his death (because his second wife survived until 1851). Your question about Scotland is apt. Robert and John Swain and their wives are buried in the Presbyterian churchyard in Donalds, SC. The Sims family were still Presbyterian when they moved to Arkansas. John Swain's second wife Anna and his brother Robert Jr's wife Nancy Smith, like the Swains, were said in the censuses to have been born in Ireland. I don't know whether Nancy was related to all the other Smiths who married Swains. But these people were no doubt northern Irish, possibly of Scottish descent.
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