Josephine Ward Thomson Swann (ca. 1828-1906)
MSA SC 3520-2271
Wife of Thomas Swann, Governor of Maryland, 1866-1869

Born: ca. 1828¹
Mother: Mary Watson²
Father:  General Aaron Ward³
Mother: Mary L. Watson
Marriage:  June 20, 1878 to Governor Thomas Swann⁴
Previous Marriage: 1845 to U.S. Senator John Renshaw Thomson, who died in 1862 and left her a widow⁵
Died: March 2, 1906 in Washington, D.C.⁶
Burial: Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey⁷

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