Hugh Tone Swearengin was born about 1829, the oldest son of Eli Swearengin and Sarah Caroline Jackson. He was named after his grandfather Hugh Swearengin (1776-ca1862). He left Jackson Co., TN and migrated to what was then Greene Co., MO (now Douglas Co., MO) about 1853, his parents having settled there some years earlier. He was married to Elizabeth Harley, daughter of Hiram and Elizabeth (Stafford) Harley, and sister to both John Edman Swearengin's first wife Martha and Bart Stafford's wife Matilda. He served in the Civil War as a private in Co. H of the 72nd Enrolled Missouri Militia with his brothers Andy and Eli F. and 1st cousin Levi Nelson Swearengin. He died about 1865 as letters of administration were issued on his estate in 1865. There exists a family story that Hugh and his father-in-law Hiram Harley were killed by bushwackers in 1863. There are stories of a number of Militia men being killed by bushwackers while not on active duty in Christian and Douglas Countys during 1863. His son George filed a Civil War dependents pension claim on him. I have seen it claimed that he was a brother to Eli (1805-1854) but a newspaper article from the 1880's refers to Levi T. Swearengin as the uncle of Hugh's sons Hiram and George. Eli did have a brother Hugh but he appears in the 1860 census of Jackson Co., TN as 45 years old, a farm laborer, living in the household of Tobias Gipson. In 1975, when I first read the stones in Old Swearengin Cemetery, there was a simple flat concrete marker that lay level with the ground bearing the inscription "Hugh T" and nothing else. When I returned some years later it was nowhere to be found. I assume that the grass had grown completely over it. Steve Bench