Emma A. Swinehart

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Research of Joseph Swinehart on FTM
She was also a certified schoolteacher, although she worked as a telephone operator and in other positions for Western Union for over 40 years. Against her family’s protests, she married Millard Swihart, a brother of Minor Swihart. Her family was very opposed to the union and it lasted only briefly – according to Wanda Lee Fulscher, possibly less than a week and he took off. She moved to Columbus shortly after separating from Millard and began working for Western Union. One of the highlights of her life was a two-month cruise she took of Europe in 1950. She toured Scotland, England, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and France. Even today that would be quite an adventure. She was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery Upper Sandusky in the same plot as her parents, her sister Mattie, and infant brother Jacob Solomon.