s/o Benjamin and Elizabeth (Cash) Swinney.
ROBERT H. SWINNEY, of Highland, was born in Somerset, Kentucky, August 31, 1862, the son of Benjamin L. and Elizabeth Cash Swinney, both natives of Kentucky. His father was a farmer and stock dealer and the son lived at home until his twentieth year and learned something of his father's methods of trade and business. He then went to Missouri, where he spent five years in and about Springfield. He came to California in 1887 and located at Highland, where he worked at milling in the mountains during the season and also contracted for ditch construction and carried on the development and irrigation of orange groves. He has a five-acre grove and owns some town property. In 1893 Mr. Swinney married Miss Ara Ann Parker, daughter of Robert Parker of Redlands. They had one son, Cash Lartton Swinney. Robert and Ara Ann divorced about 1903. Robert then married Rosa Belle Smith, daughter of John and Parizada Smith of Missouri. They had one son, Robert E. Swinney.
From the San Bernardino New, Friday, Jan. 15, 1915.
Robert H. Swinney, age 52, a native of Kentucky, and a resident of this city for a number of years, died this morning at his home near Urbita Springs. He leaves a wife and two sons and other relatives. The funeral will occur ... Monday afternoon ... the interment being in Mountain View cemetery.
ROBERT H. SWINNEY, of Highland, was born in Somerset, Kentucky, August 31, 1862, the son of Benjamin L. and Elizabeth Cash Swinney, both natives of Kentucky. His father was a farmer and stock dealer and the son lived at home until his twentieth year and learned something of his father's methods of trade and business. He then went to Missouri, where he spent five years in and about Springfield. He came to California in 1887 and located at Highland, where he worked at milling in the mountains during the season and also contracted for ditch construction and carried on the development and irrigation of orange groves. He has a five-acre grove and owns some town property. In 1893 Mr. Swinney married Miss Ara Ann Parker, daughter of Robert Parker of Redlands. They had one son, Cash Lartton Swinney. Robert and Ara Ann divorced about 1903. Robert then married Rosa Belle Smith, daughter of John and Parizada Smith of Missouri. They had one son, Robert E. Swinney.
From the San Bernardino New, Friday, Jan. 15, 1915.
Robert H. Swinney, age 52, a native of Kentucky, and a resident of this city for a number of years, died this morning at his home near Urbita Springs. He leaves a wife and two sons and other relatives. The funeral will occur ... Monday afternoon ... the interment being in Mountain View cemetery.
s/o Benjamin and Elizabeth (Cash) Swinney.
ROBERT H. SWINNEY, of Highland, was born in Somerset, Kentucky, August 31, 1862, the son of Benjamin L. and Elizabeth Cash Swinney, both natives of Kentucky. His father was a farmer and stock dealer and the son lived at home until his twentieth year and learned something of his father's methods of trade and business. He then went to Missouri, where he spent five years in and about Springfield. He came to California in 1887 and located at Highland, where he worked at milling in the mountains during the season and also contracted for ditch construction and carried on the development and irrigation of orange groves. He has a five-acre grove and owns some town property. In 1893 Mr. Swinney married Miss Ara Ann Parker, daughter of Robert Parker of Redlands. They had one son, Cash Lartton Swinney. Robert and Ara Ann divorced about 1903. Robert then married Rosa Belle Smith, daughter of John and Parizada Smith of Missouri. They had one son, Robert E. Swinney.
From the San Bernardino New, Friday, Jan. 15, 1915.
Robert H. Swinney, age 52, a native of Kentucky, and a resident of this city for a number of years, died this morning at his home near Urbita Springs. He leaves a wife and two sons and other relatives. The funeral will occur ... Monday afternoon ... the interment being in Mountain View cemetery.
ROBERT H. SWINNEY, of Highland, was born in Somerset, Kentucky, August 31, 1862, the son of Benjamin L. and Elizabeth Cash Swinney, both natives of Kentucky. His father was a farmer and stock dealer and the son lived at home until his twentieth year and learned something of his father's methods of trade and business. He then went to Missouri, where he spent five years in and about Springfield. He came to California in 1887 and located at Highland, where he worked at milling in the mountains during the season and also contracted for ditch construction and carried on the development and irrigation of orange groves. He has a five-acre grove and owns some town property. In 1893 Mr. Swinney married Miss Ara Ann Parker, daughter of Robert Parker of Redlands. They had one son, Cash Lartton Swinney. Robert and Ara Ann divorced about 1903. Robert then married Rosa Belle Smith, daughter of John and Parizada Smith of Missouri. They had one son, Robert E. Swinney.
From the San Bernardino New, Friday, Jan. 15, 1915.
Robert H. Swinney, age 52, a native of Kentucky, and a resident of this city for a number of years, died this morning at his home near Urbita Springs. He leaves a wife and two sons and other relatives. The funeral will occur ... Monday afternoon ... the interment being in Mountain View cemetery.
Gravesite Details
Buried on Jan. 18, 1915. Shares a headstone and plot with father's second wife.
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