His father's will Abstract in which he is shown
Historical Context:Gettysburg during his years of residency and his role there
Census Data 1820, 1830 and 1840

• Birth: 15 Aug 1785,  Paradise Twn, York,PA  ìOf York Countyî^10,11
• Death: 20 Dec 1841, Gettysburg, Adams Co.,Pennsylvania^10,12
• Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg, Penna²⁹ beside husband & children minus dtr Julia Ann  & son David
• Father: Henry (Heinrich)** SPANGLER (1750-1791)
• Mother: Maria Clara** HOKE (1762-1818)
• Description [also includes Previous Family Alliance in the SWOPE/SPANGLER Lines, Ascendancy to mid 12th century]

• Clarissa (1804-1865)
• Conrad Spangler ìSpanglerî (1807-1859)
• George H. (1813-1889)
• John AdamìJohnî(1815-1880)
• Samuel (1818-1848)
• Julia Ann (1820-1892)
• David (Rev.) (1824-1881)

Will Abstract for Conrad SWOPE, father to Adam SWOPE
 
 
 

Adam is found in his father's will abstract along with three brothers [probated in Hanover, York County, Pa ]:

Will Abstract Conrad Swope.
SWOOPE, Conrad.  Hanover Township.
July 29, 1799    September 5, 1799
Executors:  George Charles and John Swoope.
Wife:  Gloria Swoope.
Children:  John, Henry, George and Adam.

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Gettysburg During Adam SWOPE's Residency and His Role There:

Adam Swope, son of Maria Clara "Gloria" [nee HOKE] and Conrad SWOPE , was born in Hanover, Pa ìmoved to Gettysburg, & in 1806 was proprietor of a tannery there, this business he carried on a few years & then relinquished it and engaged in other business. About middle life his health failed & he retired from active pursuits. He was a modest, unassuming man & universally respected. He was a consistant member of St. Jamesí Lutheran Church. î.²  He owned a dog & had to pay the ìdog Taxî as a result in June of 1806.  His dog was listed of ì Adam Swop 1 dog of midel size his name is Forney and yeal collorî. ⁵ [I have no idea why he named his dog Forney...was it for the revolutionary General Peter Forney? ] The tax books show that there were 83 houses & two tan yards in Gettysburg in 1806.  Adam Swope owned one of the tan yards & William Buchanan the other. ì⁵  Also In 1806 a farmer was convicted for a breach of the Lordís day by driving a wagon through the boro of Gettysburg on Sunday.⁵  In 1807 there were 89 houses in the borough & a brewery had been built.⁶
In 1809 he is listed as owning & assumedly living in his property in Gettysburg ⁷ while many others paid taxes for empty lots, though there were quite a few who were resident. In March of 1810 the Gettysburg Academy was established with 2000$ appropriated to it, & one half of this sum to fund a library. In Sept of 1811, Gettysburg recieved the first elephant circus ever on exhibition in Gettysburg. The  show boasted  ìthe only one in America, & this perhaps its last visit to these partsî. ⁷ In 1814 the property owners of York Street east of the court house took steps to pave the street.⁷ Adam Swope was elected to the  town council in 1824 & served as clerk.⁸ In 1828 the council began to order property owners to pave sidewalks in front of property in Second Square.  They also made the clerk position a paid position (Adam only performed that task for one year). In 1829 the property owners on Baltimore Street from High Street to the borough line were ordered to pave in front of their lots, & in 1829 the council appointed for 5$ a professional clock winder for the town clock.  In 1832 the anti swine-running-at-large ordinance was suspended for 60 days. in 1834 the annual revenue of the borough had risen to 1573.  The tax books that year show 414 persons paying taxes in the borough.  In 1840 Adam was again voted to town councel (& served as road commissioner). In October of that year the council passed an order to petition legislature for authority to borrow 6000$ for water works. in 1841 the first bank opened for general business. ⁸

Adam Swope is in  Census entries of 1820 & 1830 & 1850. In the last he is  head of household, retired, real estate valued 1,500$  71 years old, literate as are all  adults in his household, & living with Clarissa his daughter 45 years old (name would be illegible minus prior knowledge), his son Spangler (apparantly how his son Conrad Spangler called himself) then 42 and a Cegar (or Segar?) Maker,  son George, 35 & a Cabinet maker, & also son David, a 24 year old Student. The family group resided between  the Butcher Nicholas Kodori, & the Coach Painter Eli Bentley. ⁹In 1860 after his death, some children may  have continued resident in the same home, as they are found living between butcher George Codori, and painter RUPP.

In 1854 the terms of Borough council changed to one, two & three years respectively. In 1855 Adamís cousin George Swope was elected to the council. Adam died in 1855. In 1884 his grandson Samuel McCurdy Swope would be on the town council, serving as attorney.
Adam is buried Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg with most  of his children four of whom died unmarried and shared through their adult lives great intimacy, sometimes residing together, &  involvement, like their father, in civic affairs.

1820:
Adam SWOPE Appears in 1820 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co, Penna as Head of Household
Shows Column one (hard to read-looks like 1), Columns 2, 3, 5, 7(all with one entry) , Column 10 one entry.
Corresponds to one free white  male under 10 , one 16-25 , one 26-through 44 , one 45 and over , one free white female  10-15 and one 45 and over following the data retrieval form of Ancestry.com, but the columns are not demarkated and could be in error. See Multi media for the hard copy.
This is a hard census to read as the ages of the do not line up with how i read it, and the number of male children is lacking by one. Samuel would be 1-2; John Adam would be 4-5; George would be 6-7; Conrad Spangler "Spangler" would be 13-14;   Clarissa would be 15-16; Head of Household Adam Swope would be 41-42. Lydia would 34-35 & pregnant with Julia Ann to be born in Nov, and David was not yet conceived.

1830:
Appears in 1830 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co., Penna as Head of Household (included in multimedia view)
Columns 2, 3, 4, 5,  show one person for all columns.(Means Free White Males: one person 5-10 years (david, son born 1824) , one 11-15 (son Samuel born 1818 and turning 12 this year , or son John Adam ìJohnî born 1815 and turning 15 this year but not reflecting BOTH sons), one 16-20  and direct to line  George born 1813 and turning 17 in  1830)  one 20-30 (son Conrad Spangler  born 1807 and turned 23 in 1830). Column 8 shows entry of 2 persons (for Free white male 50 -60 years old two persons-(one of whom would be Adam Swope, Head of Household. The second of which is an unknown older male.) . Under Females, columns 2, 5, and 7 show all with one person (female 5-10 one person (Julia Ann born 1820) , 20-30 one person (Clarissa born 1804)  and 40-50 years of age one person (Lydia, wife to Adam Swope) . No other detail on family.

1850:
Adam Swope is listed in the 1850 Census for Gettysburg Borough, Adams County, as head of household, apparantly retired, as his occupation reads ënoneí, real estate valued 1,500$  71 years old, literate as are all  adults in his household, living with Clarissa his daughter 45 years old (name would be illegible minus prior knowledge), Spangler (apparantly how his son Conrad Spangler called himself) then 42 and a Cegar (or Segar?) Maker,  son George, 35 and a Cabinet maker, and son David, a 24 year old Student. The family group resided next to the Butcher Nicholas Kodori, and on the other side, the Coach Painter Eli Bentley. ⁹Wife Lydia had died in 1841.

By  1860 Adam SWOPE had followed his wife to death, but  the 1860 Census shows  their children Clarissa, George and John Adam living  together next to the Butcher George Codori [nicholas son? or just a coincedence? ] and the Painter Nicholas RUPP . That RUPP is a Painter, and CODORI a butcher, makes me consider that they were perhaps living in the same home in which they grew up, but I haven't yet verified this home ennumerated's exact location.

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Children of Adam SWOPE and Lydia SPANGLER: [detail on each child is available through link in their name]

• Clarissa (1804-1865)
• Conrad Spangler ìSpanglerî (1807-1859)
• George H. (1813-1889)
• John Adam ìJohnî(1815-1880)
• Samuel (1818-1848)
• Julia Ann (1820-1892)
• David (Rev.) (1824-1881)

1.1 Clarissa SWOPE^{13, 2}

By  1860 Adam SWOPE had followed his wife Lydia SPANGLER to death, but  the 1860 Census shows  their children Clarissa, George and John Adam living  together next to the Butcher George Codori [nicholas son? or just a coincedence? ] and the Painter Nicholas RUPP .

Clarissa lived  with her brothers George  and John along with Johnís wife Nancy Moore McCurdy Swope and their 4 children. She and brother George are classified as one family [Dwelling [297 /343rd [family] enumerated] , brother John and his wife and children another [Dwelling 297/344th [family] enumerated] , but the home is given the same Census Dwelling number.

George SWOPE 45 [looks like it could be 45 or 48 but we know its 45], Cabinet maker, real estate 1500$, personal worth 400$
Living with Clarissa Swope, 50, real estate valued 1000, no personal monetary worth noted [sister to George and John A]
John A Swope, 43 Saddle Tree Maker, personal worth 1000$ [brother to both George and Clarissa]
Nancy , 36 [Nancy Moore McCurdy Swope, Johnís wife] and their children: Lydia J, 13;  James, 11; Samuel, 9 and;  John , 7
These persons are all residing next to Tanner Henry RUPP and Butcher George A CODORI
 

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1.2 Conrad Spangler ìSpanglerî SWOPE^{13, 2}

1820 Census:
Adam SWOPE, his father,  Appears in 1820 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co, Penna as Head of Household
Shows Column one (hard to read-looks like 1), Columns 2, 3, 5, 7(all with one entry) , Column 10 one entry.
Corresponds to one free white  male under 10 , one 16-25 , one 26-through 44 , one 45 and over , one free white female  10-15and one 45 and over following the data retrieval form of Ancestry.com, but the columns are not demarkated and could be in error. See Multi media for the hard copy.
This is a hard census to read as the ages of the do not line up with how i read it, and the number of male children is lacking by one. Samuel would be 1-2; John Adam would be 4-5; George would be 6-7; Conrad Spangler "Spangler" would be 13-14;   Clarissa would be 15-16; Head of Household Adam Swope would be 41-42. Lydia would 34-35 & pregnant with Julia Ann to be born in Nov, and David was not yet conceived.

1830 Census:
Appears in 1830 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co., Penna where her father , the Head of Household, is the only person named.
Columns 2, 3, 4, 5,  show one person for all columns.(Means Free White Males: one person 5-10 years (david, son born 1824) , one 11-15 (son Samuel born 1818 and turning 12 this year , or son John Adam ìJohnî born 1815 and turning 15 this year but not reflecting BOTH sons), one 16-20  and direct to line  George born 1813 and turning 17 in  1830)  one 20-30 (son Conrad Spangler  born 1807 and turned 23 in 1830). Column 8 shows entry of 2 persons (for Free white male 50 -60 years old two persons-(one of whom would be Adam Swope, Head of Household. The second of which is an unknown older male.) . Under Females, columns 2, 5, and 7 show all with one person (female 5-10 one person (Julia Ann born 1820) , 20-30 one person (Clarissa born 1804)  and 40-50 years of age one person (Lydia, wife to Adam Swope) . No other detail on family.

1850 Census:
The 1850 census for Gettysburg Borough, Adams County, shows father Adam Swope  as head of household, apparantly retired, as his occupation reads ënoneí, real estate valued 1,500$  71 years old, literate as are all  adults in his household, living with Clarissa his daughter 45 years old (name would be illegible minus prior knowledge), Spangler (apparantly how his son Conrad Spangler called himself) then 42 and a Cegar (or Segar?) Maker,  son George, 35 and a Cabinet maker, and son David, a 24 year old Student. The family group resided next to the Butcher Nicholas Kodori, and on the other side, the Coach Painter Eli Bentley.⁹
He died before 1860 census of Getttysburg where his sister Clarissa, Brother George and Brother John [along with John's wife and family] reside together.

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1.3 George H. SWOPE^{13, 2}

Census Entries
1820 Census:
Adam SWOPE, his father,  Appears in 1820 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co, Penna as Head of Household
Shows Column one (hard to read-looks like 1), Columns 2, 3, 5, 7(all with one entry) , Column 10 one entry.
Corresponds to one free white  male under 10 , one 16-25 , one 26-through 44 , one 45 and over , one free white female  10-15and one 45 and over following the data retrieval form of Ancestry.com, but the columns are not demarkated and could be in error. See Multi media for the hard copy.
This is a hard census to read as the ages of the do not line up with how i read it, and the number of male children is lacking by one. Samuel would be 1-2; John Adam would be 4-5; George would be 6-7; Conrad Spangler "Spangler" would be 13-14;   Clarissa would be 15-16; Head of Household Adam Swope would be 41-42. Lydia would 34-35 & pregnant with Julia Ann to be born in Nov, and David was not yet conceived.

1830 Census:
Appears in 1830 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co., Penna where her father , the Head of Household, is the only person named.
Columns 2, 3, 4, 5,  show one person for all columns.(Means Free White Males: one person 5-10 years (david, son born 1824) , one 11-15 (son Samuel born 1818 and turning 12 this year , or son John Adam ìJohnî born 1815 and turning 15 this year but not reflecting BOTH sons), one 16-20  and direct to line  George born 1813 and turning 17 in  1830)  one 20-30 (son Conrad Spangler  born 1807 and turned 23 in 1830). Column 8 shows entry of 2 persons (for Free white male 50 -60 years old two persons-(one of whom would be Adam Swope, Head of Household. The second of which is an unknown older male.) . Under Females, columns 2, 5, and 7 show all with one person (female 5-10 one person (Julia Ann born 1820) , 20-30 one person (Clarissa born 1804)  and 40-50 years of age one person (Lydia, wife to Adam Swope) . No other detail on family.

Census 1850
1850 Census for Gettysburg Borough, Adams County, shows father Adam Swope  as head of household, apparanantly retired, as his occupation reads ënoneí, real estate valued 1,500$  71 years old, literate as are all  adults in his household, living with Clarissa his daughter 45 years old (name would be illegible minus prior knowledge), Spangler (apparantly how his son Conrad Spangler called himself) then 42 and a Cegar (or Segar?) Maker,  son George, 35 and a Cabinet maker, and son David, a 24 year old Student. The family group resided next to the Butcher Nicholas Kodori, and on the other side, the Coach Painter Eli Bentley. ¹³

1860 Census:
George lived with his siblings Clarissa [no occupation listed] and John [saddle tree maker] along with Johnís wife Nancy Moore McCurdy Swope and their 4 children.  George and his sister Clarissa are classified as one family [Dwelling [297 /343rd [family] enumerated] , John and his wife and children another [Dwelling 297/344th [family] enumerated] , but the home is given the same Census Dwelling number.

George SWOPE 45 [looks like it could be 45 or 48 but we know its 45], Cabinet maker, real estate 1500$, personal worth 400$
Living with Clarissa Swope, 50, real estate valued 1000, no personal monetary worth noted [sister to George and John A]
John A Swope, 43 Saddle Tree Maker, personal worth 1000$ [brother to both George and Clarissa]
Nancy , 36 [Nancy Moore McCurdy Swope, Johnís wife] and their children: Lydia J, 13;  James, 11; Samuel, 9 and;  John , 7
These persons are all residing next to Tanner Henry RUPP and Butcher George A CODORI

Census 1870:
In 12th July 1870 Census (pg 31 of Census for Adams County, Gettysburg Boro on line via Ancestry.com & in hard copy)  he is residing as apparant Head of Household  with his brother John Adam Swope & that family. The family is listed 165/176 & is listed as one family & shows:
George, cabinet maker 57  Real Estate value 4000, Personal Estate Value 3500 (Brother to John A)
(Clarissa, the sister of George and John A and with whom they lived as well in the 1860 census had died in 1865.)
John A, Saddle tree maker  Real Estate Value 3000 Personal estate Value 600
Nancy 49 and a housekeeper
James A 21, ìworks as a Cabinet Makerî
Samuel McC, 19, Student College (this would be Pennsylvania College, later to be called Gettysburg College-He would marry Anna Kate Stair and this line would continue our direct descendancy)
John F, 15 Clerk in dry good store

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1.4John Adam ìJohnî SWOPE^15,16  [MUCH MORE DETAIL ON THIS CHILD is available through link to his own page] 

• Much more data is evident on John Adam "John" SWOPE via his own page entry available through link in his name, above

• Birth: 1820 after July 12th or 1821 before July 12, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania [according to census entries 1850 and 1870]  [outside chance born 1817 due to one aberrant census age entry 1860] -Probably In Parentís Cabin Out Emmitsburg Road (Cumberland Township)^18,19
• Death: 6 Aug 1904, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• Father: James McCURDY (1785-1822)
• Mother: Martha  MOOR(E) (ca1787-1854)

Children: [More detail on children available via links provided]

• Lydia Jane (1845-)
• James Adam ìJamesî (1848-)
• Samuel McCurdy(1850-1931)
• John Franklin (1855-1895)

1.5 Samuel SWOPE^12,21

1830 Census:
Appears in 1830 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co., Penna where her father , the Head of Household, is the only person named.
Columns 2, 3, 4, 5,  show one person for all columns.(Means Free White Males: one person 5-10 years (david, son born 1824) , one 11-15 (son Samuel born 1818 and turning 12 this year , or son John Adam ìJohnî born 1815 and turning 15 this year but not reflecting BOTH sons), one 16-20  and direct to line  George born 1813 and turning 17 in  1830)  one 20-30 (son Conrad Spangler  born 1807 and turned 23 in 1830). Column 8 shows entry of 2 persons (for Free white male 50 -60 years old two persons-(one of whom would be Adam Swope, Head of Household. The second of which is an unknown older male.) . Under Females, columns 2, 5, and 7 show all with one person (female 5-10 one person (Julia Ann born 1820) , 20-30 one person (Clarissa born 1804)  and 40-50 years of age one person (Lydia, wife to Adam Swope) . No other detail on family.
 

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1.6 Julia Ann SWOPE¹²

ìShe was a woman eminent for her many christian virtues, and she had wide scope for their practice as the wife of a clergyman. Her married life was spent in Lancaster and Adams counties, where her husband was pastor of different Reformed Churches. After his death she resided in Gettysburg with her brother Georgeî.²²

Spouse: Emanuel (Rev.) HOFFHEINS^12,24

• Birth: 18 Sep 1815
• Death: 28 Mar 1863, Abbotstown, Adams County, Penna
• Occupation: Pastor of Various Reformed CHurches in Lancaster and Adams counties and also including Martinsburg, W. Va in 1896 Served 10 years , also teaching school in Maytown [Maytown Reformed Church]. He Died while paster in Abbotstown, Penna.^,22

Children:

• John Adam (Rev.) (1840-) [married Hettie ADAMS]
• Thomas Emanuel (Died as Child) (1842-1844)
• Lydia Elizabeth (1844-1862)
• Clara Julia (1849-1890)
• Emma Louisa (1850-) [married Rev. J. A. KOSER "of Gettysburg" . Minister Luth parishes Pa, then Sioux City, Iowa.]
• Samuel (Died as Infant) (1855-1855)
• Lilly Dale (Died as Child) (1858-1864)
• Charles Nevin (Died as Infant) (1860-1860)

1830 Census:
Appears in 1830 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co., Penna where her father , the Head of Household, is the only person named.
Columns 2, 3, 4, 5,  show one person for all columns.(Means Free White Males: one person 5-10 years (david, son born 1824) , one 11-15 (son Samuel born 1818 and turning 12 this year , or son John Adam ìJohnî born 1815 and turning 15 this year but not reflecting BOTH sons), one 16-20  and direct to line  George born 1813 and turning 17 in  1830)  one 20-30 (son Conrad Spangler  born 1807 and turned 23 in 1830). Column 8 shows entry of 2 persons (for Free white male 50 -60 years old two persons-(one of whom would be Adam Swope, Head of Household. The second of which is an unknown older male.) . Under Females, columns 2, 5, and 7 show all with one person (female 5-10 one person (Julia Ann born 1820) , 20-30 one person (Clarissa born 1804)  and 40-50 years of age one person (Lydia, wife to Adam Swope) . No other detail on family.

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1.7 David (Rev.) SWOPE^23,13,4

Spouse: Clara Jane GILBERT^{23,4 [}1c2r from her husband]

• Birth: 29 Oct 1835, Gettysburg, Penna
• Father: Jesse (Dr )GILBERT (1807-1838)
• Mother: Ann Elizabeth/   ìElizabethî / Sarah Elizabeth/ FORNEY (1812-1858) [this mother, a FORNEY woman herself, was also a Swope, as she had as her own mother  Eliza SWOPE, Eliza being  a grandaughter of this writer's directs Conrad SWOPE married Maria Clara "Gloria" HOKE, via their son Henry SWOPE married Elizabeth HERR. Elizabeth HERR who married Henry SWOPE was  a Great Grandaughter of our directs Rudolph HERR and Barbara BRUBAKER [ their son John HERR married Barbara GROFF, their son Michael HERR married Elizabeth surname Unknown, their dtr Elizabeth HERR, married Henry SWOPE]. This makes Clara Jane GILBERT related to us in two wasy in addition to having married into our line. It also made her 1c2r from her husband]
• Burial: Evergreen Cemetery, Gettysburg Penna²⁹

• Luther Gilbert (Died as Infant) (1857-1858)
• Gilbert Ernest (Dr.) (1860-1899) [Gilbert married Belle McKinney HAYS born 1867. They were parents to Gilbert E Swope who wrote the Swope family history in 1898. Belle also wrote geneology, detailing her own line. They had no progeny, thus ending this line of Swopes and Hays]
• Jessie Elizabeth (Died as Child) (1863-1878)
• Josephine Roedel (Died as Infant) (1866-1867)

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Mention of Rev. David SWOPE by a former classmate and prisoner at Gettysburg who encountered him on the streets of that  besieged and mourning town on occasion of the battle :
ì In the charge of Pickettís Division at the battle of Gettysburg I was wounded and taken prisoner. With some others I was taken to the Twelfth Corps Hospital, situated in the rear of the left battle line of the Federals. I was here treated with much   kindness and consideration. Among other officers who showed me kindness was Col. Dwight of New York. Professor Stoever, of Pennsylvania College, at which I graduated in 1850, on a visit to the Hospital met me, accidently, and we had a talk of the old college days.
 I made known to the authorities my wish to go to Gettysburg, and while there to avail myself of the opportunity of getting a new suit.They gave me a free pass to Gettysburg, with the sole condition that I present it at the  Provost office there and have it countersigned. I went alone, unattended. The fields and woods were open to me. They  somehow knewóI know not howóthat I could be trusted; that my honor was more to me than my life.....On another street a gentleman approached me and made himself known. It was Rev. David Swope, a native of Gettysburg, who was of the class next below mine. He manifested genuine pleasure in meeting me. He told me he was living in Kentucky  when the war broke out. He recalled a little incident of the college days. He asked me if I remembered in passing a certain   house I said to a little red-headed girl with abundant red curls, standing in front of her house, "I'll give you a levy for one of those curls." I told him that I remembered it as if it were yesterday. He said that little girl was now his wife; and that she would be  delighted to see me. He took me to a temporary hospital where there were a large number of our wounded.
 He had taken charge of the hospital, and manifested great interest in them and showed them every tender care and kindness. I fancied that those Kentucky days had added something to the sympathy of his kind, generous nature towards our wounded; and when I took leave of him, I am sure the warm grasp of my hand told him, better than my words, of the grateful  feelings in my heart.î
From PRISON REMINISCENCES BY JAMES F. CROCKER READ BEFORE STONEWALL CAMP,CONFEDERATEVETERANS, PORTSMOUTH,  VIRGINIA, FEBRUARY, 2nd, 1904. PORTSMOUTH, VA.³⁴
 

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G E Swope wrote  of David in 1898 that ìHe spent the first five years of his ministry as pastor of the Lutheran Churches at Johnstown, Pa and Whitemarsh near Philadelphia. In 1860 he moved to New York State, where the greater part of his ministry was spent as pastor of several of the best churches of his synod. Owing to the severity of the climate of New York State he moved to Pennsylvania a few years before his death, and died while pastor of the church at Dickinson, Pa. He was a zealous, laborious minister, taking a deep interest in all his parishioners. He was a faithful steward ë of the manifold grace of God.í As a preacher, earnest, palin, eminently practical and biblical. He evinced sincere reverence for the church of his fathers and her doctrines and carefully and conscientously practised her usages. In private and domestic life he was tender in feeling, genial, warm-hearted and confiding. It was a sincere pleasure for him to be helpful to the needy and distressed, and to extend Christian sympathy to the unfortunateî.²³
 

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1. Will Abstract Conrad Swope.
SWOOPE, Conrad.  Hanover Township.
July 29, 1799    September 5, 1799
Executors:  George Charles and John Swoope.
Wife:  Gloria Swoope.
Children:  John, Henry, George and Adam.
viewable at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/york/wills/willabstrp-s.txt Son Adam.

2. Gilbert Ernest Swope, The Swope Family 1676-1896, T.B. & H.B Cochran, Publishers, 68, page 75.

3. Census listing: 1850 Head of household, Gettysburg Borough, Adams Co., Penna.

4. Theodore W. Herr, Genealogical Record of Reverend Hans Herr and His Direct Lineal Descendants, Lancaster, PA: The Examiner Printing House. 1908., Viewed through Library at Genforum, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/_glc_/5107/?Welcome=993216436, p 566.

5. Samuel  P Bates, History of Adams County, pennsylvania, Warner, Beers and Co., 1886 Chicago. 2nd Reprint 1980 by The Bookmark Knightstwon, Indiana., Part III (Adams County) Reprinted 1992 Gettysburg Penn, Adams County Historical SOciety, Originally published as History of Cumberland and Adams Counties-1992 reprint of 1886 edition-, p 187.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid. p 188.

8. Ibid. p 191.

9. ìCensus listing, see detail.î 1850 Gettysburg Borough, Adams County, Penna.

10. The Spengler Families 1150-1196, viewed by DM Swope, page 40. [appears same as source 24]

11. Fillmore K. Spangler III, ìThe Spangler Family Genealogy Page,î http://www.spanglers.info/  mainpage when sought in Nov 2002, http://www.txdirect.net/~spangler/ when viewed 120800, spangler@txdirect.net.

12. Gilbert Ernest Swope, The Swope Family 1676-1896, T.B. & H.B Cochran, Publishers, 68.

13. ìCensus listing, see detail.î 1850 Gettysburg Borough, Adams Co. (father is head of household).

14. Gilbert Ernest Swope, The Swope Family 1676-1896, T.B. & H.B Cochran, Publishers, 68, p 75.

15. Ibid. pages 75 & 89.

16. ìCensus listing, see detail.î Gettysburg Borough, Adams Co, Penna Enumerated Aug 23.

17. Gilbert Ernest Swope, The Swope Family 1676-1896, T.B. & H.B Cochran, Publishers, 68, page 89.

18. Family Notes from Donald McCurdy Swope-research and interviews. 1818-appears disputed by census in which she would have been born 1820/21.

19. Census listing: 1850 Gettysburg, Adams Co, Penna shows she is 29, 1870 census she is 49.

20. ìAdams County Sentinel (Centinel) -Spelling varies at Historical Society-mostly Sentinel,î Adams County Newspaper published Gettysburg, Sited by the Adams county historical society in mcCurdy file, 3 march 1845 edition.

21. Grave viewed Evergreen by writer.

22. Gilbert Ernest Swope, The Swope Family 1676-1896, T.B. & H.B Cochran, Publishers, 68, page 90.

23. Ibid. page 95.

24. Edward W. Spangler, The Annals of the Families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, York, Pennsylvania: The York Daily Publishing Co., 1896.

25. Fillmore K. Spangler III, ìThe Spangler Family Genealogy Page,î http://www.spanglers.info/  mainpage when sought in Nov 2002, http://www.txdirect.net/~spangler/ when viewed 120800, spangler@txdirect.net, page 43.

26. ìresearch by this writer, seen by this writer.î

27. Edward W. Spangler, The Annals of the Families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, York, Pennsylvania: The York Daily Publishing Co., 1896., p 43.

28. 1870 Census for Adams County, Gettysburg Boro . Head of Household John A Swope.

29. Gravestones viewed by writer. Photo in possesion.

30. 1860 census [page number 42 in hard copy for Gettysburg Borough, Adams County, penna 197 in upper right hand corner-  page no 197 in mixed townships [only township offered for] Adams County, Penna in ancestry.com subscription ] Ennumerated 13th June 1860
Dwelling 297/343rd enumerated. George Swope, Head of Household.

31.1820 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co, Penna : Adam Swope Head of Household

32.1830 Census for Gettysburg, Adams Co., Penna: Adam Swope Head of Household

33. Samuel  P Bates, History of Adams County, pennsylvania, Warner, Beers and Co., 1886 Chicago. 2nd Reprint 1980 by The Bookmark Knightstwon, Indiana., Part III (Adams County) Reprinted 1992 Gettysburg Penn, Adams County Historical SOciety, Originally published as History of Cumberland and Adams Counties-1992 reprint of 1886 edition

33b. Family research and passed down notations collected by D M Swope and including knowledge as provided by grandfather Samuel McC Swope

34.PRISON REMINISCENCES BY JAMES F. CROCKER READ BEFORE STONEWALL CAMP,CONFEDERATE VETERANS,PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, FEBRUARY, 2nd, 1904. PORTSMOUTH, VA.: W. A. Fiske, Printer and Bookbinder. 1906.
The full account of this confederateís day furlough at Gettysburg when he encountered many former friends beyond Rev David Swope can be found at http://www.civilwarancestor.com/store/files/Ebook0023.htm

35. Census 1830, Gettysburg, Adams Co, Penna John A Swope head of Household, no other members identified by name but able to be discerned through entries for sex and age.
 

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