MARTHA PARKER "MATTIE" (HOLLAND) SWANN

MARRIAGE:

Wed by Rev. B. M. Stevens
Warner Minor Swann
Marriage: January 13, 1891
Marriage Location: Waxahachie, Texas
Ceremony performed by: Rev. B. M. Stevens

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The Sterling Price Camp expressed very feelingly its profound regret at the untimely demise of Mrs. Mattie Swann, the wife of Comrade W. M. Swann, a leading, active member of the camp, and universal sympathy was manifested for her husband and family."

Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
November 16, 1903
Dallas, Texas
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Mattie wrote a poem titled "To the Daughters of the Confederacy" which was read to the Sterling Price Camp in August 1898.

The following poem,"When My Ship comes Home," is one of several poems by Mattie Holland Swann printed in the Dallas News. This one was printed on January 10, 1898:

If there should chance to come, some day to me,
With white sails set across the beryl sea,
My ship that hath been long away
Many a lonely year and dreary day
Laden with earth's fairness from afar
Those other lands beneath some lambient star


"If its staunch sides down to the very hold
Were filled with jewels rare and bars of gold
And quaintest wonder that my soul hath guessed
Whose highest beauty still is unexpressed
I still would turn away with lashes
And the old, old aching of regret.

"If that same ship should haply come
Safe into the port of heart and home
With the tried friends I have loved long and well
Freed from the dark and dreary spell
Of sad, lone yeas that we have spent apart
With the frost of silence thick upon each heart.

"Methinks my brow would need no kingly crown
After the love that shone in eyes of brown
Or blest me amply from the eyes of blue
For never yet were eyes more fond and true
And the glad lingering of hands in mine
Whose mere memory thrills like priceless wine.

"O wandering ship! I pray some day so blest
I'll sight you sailing toward my golden west
But, oh! God grant you may not wait so long
That lips are over cold to sing love's song
I pray you come before the light shall fail
That falls on beryl sea and snowy sail!"

Dallas Morning News
January 10, 1898
Transcribed by Carol Moore
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Children of Warren Minor Swann, Sr. and Mattie Holland: M. W., Jr. and Lelle Swann, long-time Dallas music teacher.

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1860

1860 Clarke, Mississippi


O. S. Holland, 33, editor,GA
L. P. Holland, 19, GA
H. H. Holland, 6, MS
M. P. Holland, 3 mos, MS
J. J. Booth, 12, apprentis,GA

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1870

1870 Beat 2, Mobile Co., Alabama
July 7, 1860

Olanda Holland, 44, clerk, GA
Lucy Holland, 29, ALA
Harry Holland, 16, MS
Mattie Holland, 10, MS
Paul Holland, 8, MS
Lelin Holland, 6, MS
Mary Obrions, 14, ALA

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1900

1900 Dallas Ward 11, Dallas Co., Texas
June 11, 1900
Married 9 years.
Mattie had 2 children, both living.
Warner: merchant,cotton press co.

Warner Swann, head, 53, May 1847,VA
Mattie H. Swann, wife, 40, Apr 1860, MS
Lellie K.Swann, daughter, 8, Jan 1892, TX
Mina W. Swann, son, 6, Dec 1894, 6, TX

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