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SAMUEL AMERY SWANN

The Swann Arms

Colonel Samuel A. Swann

Samuel Swann was born in Caroline county about 1828. He
was educated in old Concord Academy and in the University of
Virginia. His first work was that of teaching. To him belongs

the distinction of having taught the first "free school" ever
established in Caroline county.

When the Civil War broke out Mr. Swann became a lieutenant
in Company B, Ninth Virginia Cavalry, and in 1862 was promoted
to a captaincy. Shortly afterward he was made Colonel
of the regiment and served in this capacity to the close of the war.

After the war Colonel Swann became Sheriff of Caroline and
representative in the House of Delegates. He was later Superintendent
of the Virginia State Penitentiary. He died while
attending the marriage of his niece, Miss Shelton, in Goochland
county, and was buried there.

Colonel Swann was never married. One of his sisters, Lydia
A. Swann, married Cyrus Carson and had issue several children,
one of whom, Carrie Lee Swann, married Lewis Dudley George,
of Penola, Caroline county, Va.