Barbara Swigart
LUCAS ... Among the few old pioneers yet living about here is Barbara Swigart, relict of John Swigart, and mother of the well-known Luther M. Swigart, of Mansfield. Mrs. Swigart is fast verging on to 90, now past 88 years of age. She is indeed one of the early pioneers of Monroe and yet delights in telling her old stories of the Indians and of the trials and hardships she once had to encounter. She raised a large family, all of whom seem well-to-do. Her father, Jacob Young, was the second white man who entered Orange township, Ashland county, having emigrated from Hardy county, Va. Mother Swigart has been a great slave all her life, always possessed of a kind heart and an industrious spirit, and will perhaps ere long find rest in that bright world, where we truly hope that sorrows and disappointments are unknown; where there is no more labor, or tears.
From The Ohio Liberal, December 3, 1884