Another link with the Old South was severed with the death Sunday night of James Alcorn Swift, owner of Eagle's Nest Plantation, at Jonestown, Miss. Mr. Swift, a former Memphian, was stricken with a heart attack about 9 and died almost immediately. He was 68. Services will be held at 2 this afternoon at the plantation with the Rev. Lucius Malone officiating. Burial will be in the family cemetery there. Mr. Swift, whose family figured prominently in Mississippi politics after the Civil War, directed the operation of the 3,000-acre plantation since his graduation from Princeton University in 1912. The plantation has been in the family since 1852. The parents of Mr. Swift were Charles Jewett Swift, an attorney who helped organize the California Bar Association, and Mrs. Justina Alcorn Swift. His grandfathers were James Alcorn, Governor of Mississippi for two terms in the 1880s and a United States senator for 12 years, and George Parker Swift of Columbus, who installed the first spinning mills in Georgia. Mr. Swift left the plantation in 1917 to become a World War I infantry captain and again in the 1930s to operate an auto sales firm here for a few years. Born at San Francisco, he moved to Memphis as a child. He attended Bruce School and was graduated from Memphis University School in 1908. His wife was the former Miss Emma Lou Roberts of Rosedale, Miss., who died in 1950. He was an Episcopalian. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Amelia Rison Manice of Jonestown and Mrs. Jewett Swift Cotton of Santa Barbara, Calif.; two nephews, Tim Treadwell III and Charles Swift Treadwell of Memphis, and two nieces, Mrs. Charles R. Hicks of Mobile and Mrs. Richard P. Spencer IV of Columbus, Ga. Active pallbearers will be James Alcorn Russell Jr., Tim Treadwell III, Charles Swift Treadwell, Mr., Spencer, Richard Russell, Kirk Haynes and George Butler Jr. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on Tuesday, June 11, 1957)

J. Alcorn Swift, 30, a planter of Jonestown, Miss., and prominent in Memphis and Mississippi society, was resting easily at Baptist Memorial Hospital last night, and hospital attaches declared he would be in condition to leave the institution in a short while. Swift and a party of friends were driving to Memphis on Friday afternoon when the car Swift was driving skidded into a ditch 19 feet deep just this side of Lakeview. Mr. Swift was painfully, but not seriously, injured and other members of the party badly shaken up. He was rushed to Baptist Hospital by George Broadnax who was in a car just behind the Swift car at the time of the accident. (Published in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, on Sunday, June 17, 1923)