Daughter of John F. Leverton and Annie Earing who were married in 1862 in Portsmouth, NH.
Thank you to Findagrave member Elaine #47932173 for sending the following obituary:
Falmouth Enterprise, Friday, April 25, 1947; Page: 8
Obituaries
MRS. IDA L. SWAIN
Mrs. Ida Leverton Swain, wife of the late Albert C. Swain of Quisisett, died Tuesday in West Barrington, R. I., at the home of her brother, George Leverton.
She had lived in Falmouth 62 years when she moved to West Barrington two years ago; Capt. Swain had been for 40 years a caretaker of Penzance Point properties when he died in 1938. Mrs. Swain was his second wife. She was Miss Ida Leverton, and was married to Capt. Swain in 1925.
Capt. Swain, son of a whaling captain, also followed the sea and made voyages across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean in a U.S. revenue ship, in whalers, and up and down the coast on fishing boats. After his death, Mrs. Swain moved to a small house in Falmouth. In 1945 she wrote to The Enterprise a plea for a home, as in that year of housing shortage her landlord wanted his house for his own home. No home turned up for a woman who had lived here for 60 years and didn't want to leave Falmouth. She went to West Barrington where her brother had offered her a small apartment. Mrs. Swain was 81 and died after a short illness.
Thank you to Findagrave member Elaine #47932173 for sending the following obituary:
Falmouth Enterprise, Friday, April 25, 1947; Page: 8
Obituaries
MRS. IDA L. SWAIN
Mrs. Ida Leverton Swain, wife of the late Albert C. Swain of Quisisett, died Tuesday in West Barrington, R. I., at the home of her brother, George Leverton.
She had lived in Falmouth 62 years when she moved to West Barrington two years ago; Capt. Swain had been for 40 years a caretaker of Penzance Point properties when he died in 1938. Mrs. Swain was his second wife. She was Miss Ida Leverton, and was married to Capt. Swain in 1925.
Capt. Swain, son of a whaling captain, also followed the sea and made voyages across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean in a U.S. revenue ship, in whalers, and up and down the coast on fishing boats. After his death, Mrs. Swain moved to a small house in Falmouth. In 1945 she wrote to The Enterprise a plea for a home, as in that year of housing shortage her landlord wanted his house for his own home. No home turned up for a woman who had lived here for 60 years and didn't want to leave Falmouth. She went to West Barrington where her brother had offered her a small apartment. Mrs. Swain was 81 and died after a short illness.
Daughter of John F. Leverton and Annie Earing who were married in 1862 in Portsmouth, NH.
Thank you to Findagrave member Elaine #47932173 for sending the following obituary:
Falmouth Enterprise, Friday, April 25, 1947; Page: 8
Obituaries
MRS. IDA L. SWAIN
Mrs. Ida Leverton Swain, wife of the late Albert C. Swain of Quisisett, died Tuesday in West Barrington, R. I., at the home of her brother, George Leverton.
She had lived in Falmouth 62 years when she moved to West Barrington two years ago; Capt. Swain had been for 40 years a caretaker of Penzance Point properties when he died in 1938. Mrs. Swain was his second wife. She was Miss Ida Leverton, and was married to Capt. Swain in 1925.
Capt. Swain, son of a whaling captain, also followed the sea and made voyages across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean in a U.S. revenue ship, in whalers, and up and down the coast on fishing boats. After his death, Mrs. Swain moved to a small house in Falmouth. In 1945 she wrote to The Enterprise a plea for a home, as in that year of housing shortage her landlord wanted his house for his own home. No home turned up for a woman who had lived here for 60 years and didn't want to leave Falmouth. She went to West Barrington where her brother had offered her a small apartment. Mrs. Swain was 81 and died after a short illness.
Thank you to Findagrave member Elaine #47932173 for sending the following obituary:
Falmouth Enterprise, Friday, April 25, 1947; Page: 8
Obituaries
MRS. IDA L. SWAIN
Mrs. Ida Leverton Swain, wife of the late Albert C. Swain of Quisisett, died Tuesday in West Barrington, R. I., at the home of her brother, George Leverton.
She had lived in Falmouth 62 years when she moved to West Barrington two years ago; Capt. Swain had been for 40 years a caretaker of Penzance Point properties when he died in 1938. Mrs. Swain was his second wife. She was Miss Ida Leverton, and was married to Capt. Swain in 1925.
Capt. Swain, son of a whaling captain, also followed the sea and made voyages across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean in a U.S. revenue ship, in whalers, and up and down the coast on fishing boats. After his death, Mrs. Swain moved to a small house in Falmouth. In 1945 she wrote to The Enterprise a plea for a home, as in that year of housing shortage her landlord wanted his house for his own home. No home turned up for a woman who had lived here for 60 years and didn't want to leave Falmouth. She went to West Barrington where her brother had offered her a small apartment. Mrs. Swain was 81 and died after a short illness.
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