Tony & Muriel Swank
348. Moardecai Maynard "Tony"4 SWANK (Jessie Isabel3 LLOYD, Mary Adeline
"Addie"2 BARBER, Jane E. "Jennie"1 RICHARD, JosephA, XavierB) (#249) was born in Stryker, Williams Co., OH 27 OCT
1898. Moardecai died 23 MAR 1976 in Whitmore Lake, MI., at age 77. burried with second wife His body was interred 26
MAR 1976 in Milford, IN.
He married twice. He married Elizabeth Louise DEVONCHI date unknown. Most likely married about 1926
(Elizabeth Louise DEVONCHI is #4467.)
Elizabeth was born 10 SEP 1897 in Fulton Co., GA. She had a birth certificate from Gerorgia and it listed the location as
Columbus, GA? Elizabeth was the daughter of Frederick Leon Bishop DEVONCHI and Elizabeth Luwese DEVONCHI.
Elizabeth died FEB 1974 in Lucas Co., OH, at age 76. Elizabeth Lousie (Luwese) Bishop, Geffe, Swank, Fischer. Elizabeth Louise
was raised by an Aunt and Uncle DeVonchi in the Atlanta, GA area. Was her maiden name Bishop? or deVonchi? The SS records indicate that her
father was Frederick Leon Bishop and her mother as Elizabeth Luwese deVonchi. She has several times listing that her father was born in
Spain and her mother was born in France.
He married Muriel "Suzie" CLAYTON date unknown. Third marriage for M. M. "Tony" Swank (Muriel "Suzie"
CLAYTON is #6587.)
Muriel was born 11 JAN 1906 in Kosciusko Co., IN. Muriel was the daughter of Irvin CLAYTON and Margaret Ann
MCKIBBEN. Muriel died 18 DEC 1973 in Ann Arbor, MI, at age 67. Her body was interred 1973 in Milford, IN.
Maynard was a former member of the Stryker Volunteer Fire Dept in the early 1900's. He was a bus driver for Grey Hound at his retirement.
His WWI registration card list his first name as Moard.
cause of death was listed as rupture tmoracic aneurism, consequence of atherosclerosis cerebrovascular.
Moardecai Maynard "Tony" SWANK and Elizabeth Louise DEVONCHI had the following child:
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JeanneMarie5 SWANK (still alive).
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