Full Name: Hortense Alma Stubbs Penrose Swift
Sent by Iowa Yearly Meeting to go to Jamaica as a teacher. For forty years she lived a life of service as missionary and friend. Following the death of her husband, Alma spent three years as his successor as Superintendent of the Jamaica Mission. She also served the Seaside and Amity Hall Meetings, and was deeply interested in Happy Grove School and worked tirelessly for its welfare. In 1913 she moved to Buff Bay, where she made her home a center of light and love in that community. She labored unceasingly at Orange Bay and Cedar Hurst. In 1918, when many children were left orphaned after influenza had swept Jamaica, Alma Swift opened her home for the reception of orphan boys, and with her devoted helpers carried on a splendid work until her health failed in 1928. Arrangements were then made for caring for the orphan boys at Glenleigh in the new orphanage know as Swift Home for Boys. After her death, Alma Swift’s remains were carried from Buff Bay to their last resting place at Seaside. †
Headstone photo purchased by Caretaker. Photographed by jamaicanancestralrecords.com. Permission given to publish on Findagrave only. May not be reproduced on any other website including Ancestry.
Sent by Iowa Yearly Meeting to go to Jamaica as a teacher. For forty years she lived a life of service as missionary and friend. Following the death of her husband, Alma spent three years as his successor as Superintendent of the Jamaica Mission. She also served the Seaside and Amity Hall Meetings, and was deeply interested in Happy Grove School and worked tirelessly for its welfare. In 1913 she moved to Buff Bay, where she made her home a center of light and love in that community. She labored unceasingly at Orange Bay and Cedar Hurst. In 1918, when many children were left orphaned after influenza had swept Jamaica, Alma Swift opened her home for the reception of orphan boys, and with her devoted helpers carried on a splendid work until her health failed in 1928. Arrangements were then made for caring for the orphan boys at Glenleigh in the new orphanage know as Swift Home for Boys. After her death, Alma Swift’s remains were carried from Buff Bay to their last resting place at Seaside. †
Headstone photo purchased by Caretaker. Photographed by jamaicanancestralrecords.com. Permission given to publish on Findagrave only. May not be reproduced on any other website including Ancestry.
Full Name: Hortense Alma Stubbs Penrose Swift
Sent by Iowa Yearly Meeting to go to Jamaica as a teacher. For forty years she lived a life of service as missionary and friend. Following the death of her husband, Alma spent three years as his successor as Superintendent of the Jamaica Mission. She also served the Seaside and Amity Hall Meetings, and was deeply interested in Happy Grove School and worked tirelessly for its welfare. In 1913 she moved to Buff Bay, where she made her home a center of light and love in that community. She labored unceasingly at Orange Bay and Cedar Hurst. In 1918, when many children were left orphaned after influenza had swept Jamaica, Alma Swift opened her home for the reception of orphan boys, and with her devoted helpers carried on a splendid work until her health failed in 1928. Arrangements were then made for caring for the orphan boys at Glenleigh in the new orphanage know as Swift Home for Boys. After her death, Alma Swift’s remains were carried from Buff Bay to their last resting place at Seaside. †
Headstone photo purchased by Caretaker. Photographed by jamaicanancestralrecords.com. Permission given to publish on Findagrave only. May not be reproduced on any other website including Ancestry.
Sent by Iowa Yearly Meeting to go to Jamaica as a teacher. For forty years she lived a life of service as missionary and friend. Following the death of her husband, Alma spent three years as his successor as Superintendent of the Jamaica Mission. She also served the Seaside and Amity Hall Meetings, and was deeply interested in Happy Grove School and worked tirelessly for its welfare. In 1913 she moved to Buff Bay, where she made her home a center of light and love in that community. She labored unceasingly at Orange Bay and Cedar Hurst. In 1918, when many children were left orphaned after influenza had swept Jamaica, Alma Swift opened her home for the reception of orphan boys, and with her devoted helpers carried on a splendid work until her health failed in 1928. Arrangements were then made for caring for the orphan boys at Glenleigh in the new orphanage know as Swift Home for Boys. After her death, Alma Swift’s remains were carried from Buff Bay to their last resting place at Seaside. †
Headstone photo purchased by Caretaker. Photographed by jamaicanancestralrecords.com. Permission given to publish on Findagrave only. May not be reproduced on any other website including Ancestry.
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