Alexander John Swasey
1853–1913
Birth MAY 20, 1853 • Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina,
Death OCT 4, 1913 • Galveston, Texas
He was married to Zulieka Granger Phillips Swasey. He was my grandmother Ada Phillips Swasey Rogers' father. This is my second post about him...see the earlier one here.
He was a bookkeeper, and so was my grandfather, George Rogers. Mmmm, what's that they say about marrying your father?
Alexander Swasey's mother was Anna J (Fanny Tylstra) Zylstra Swasey. There was difficulty reading the census, and apparently even the family believed her name had been Fanny Tylstra. But I saw the "Z" in longhand on a census report, and changed my Ancestry notation for her name, and found more of her family. Unfortunately I've never found when or where she died.
She had lived in St. Augustine FL where her brother was the postmaster. (See this old post about them!) Alexander's father was Captain Alexander G. Swasey, a nautical man who spent most of the Civil War in prison in a fort in Boston Harbor. He had been a blockade runner for a short time for the Confederacy. He died shortly after the end of the war, when Alex John was just 12.
Alexander John was born in Charleston, SC in 1853. He married Zulieka Phillips Swasey in Galveston, TX in 1884 where they lived until 1907.
My grandmother was married in the Swasey home in 1905 in Galveston. I don't know if her l year younger sister had married before Alexander John and Zulieka moved to Houston by 1907.
They lived in Houston until Alexander died in 1913. His wife lived until 1935. They are both buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Galveston TX
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