Happy New Year to one and all!


      This is an old fashioned New Years Card sent to my mother Evelyn from her friend Eva, probably back in the 1930's.

Remembering Snowy Times

On this snowy day, remembering some snowy times in W.Va.

This was my mother's, Evelyn Findley Swisher's homeplace where she grew up on a farm in Simpson, W.Va. Later on her brother, Eldon Findley bought the farm and raised his family there.          

This is my niece Rachel Swisher Fetty and my nephew, Kevin Swisher when they were visiting with us on one snowy day. Rachel is holding her little dog, Gretchen.  I wonder what Kevin is holding in the litle bag?  Cookies, Maybe?  We all loved Mom's chocolate chip cookies.  I can see he is holding a Beatle record that I gave him as well. We all loved to listen to the Beatles! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!                   

This is a walk through a snowy woods with my niece Becky Swisher Duclos on the right and a little girl I babysitted for named Tracey Fisher Robertson .        



  Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost

Who's woods are these I think I know
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the wood and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
The only other sound's a sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

                                            The snowy Dove of Peace


              A picture of me, Linda Swisher Kovach, at home in W.Va.

                                                          


    This is my great niece, Amber Faull and my daughter, Amanda Kovach on a visit back in Grant Town, W.Va.

                                                      










                                   

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 Some Christmas cards from 1929 to 1930                                                                                          

                                                                     
                                        This card was sent to my father Rex Swisher from my mother, Evelyn Findley in 1931.                                            

       

 This card was sent to my mother, Evelyn from my father, Rex in 1929.

The inside of the envelopes are so pretty! 

Eating watermelon, a family tradition

    Here are some more family reunions

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 Here is my Dad, Rex Swisher serving watermelon to his grandson, Jimmy, granddaughter, Becky on left and granddaughter, Vicki behind him giving him the horns. Ha! His daughter-in-laws, Cathy on the left and Jean on the right.

My nephew. Jimmy, my brother, Don, and brother Jim.

My sister-in-law Cathy

From the left, my brother Don, nephew Jimmy. brother Jim, nephew Kevin, and nephew Chris, and my mother in the background.

Looks like Chris is having a good time!

  

     






 Uh, oh!  Here's some more horns!

I remember a story my Mom told about one time when they were on vacation up in the mountains at Harmon's cottages where my Dad liked to fish and us kids liked to swim in the North Branch of the South Potomic River.  There was a cold water springs that fed into the river.  One day my Dad got a watermelon and put in the water to keep it cold for dinner that night. Then he decided to go fishing. My Mom and Aunt Grace decided to play a trick on him.  While he was fishing, they hid the watermelon.  When he went to look for it that night he thought someone had stolen it! They had a good laugh about that!                                           

Arthur and Lola Swisher

My Grandfather, Arthur Ellsworth Swisher and my Grandmother, Lola Mae Huff Swisher

The Swisher family always loved to get together for family reunions.  This picture was probably taken at a family reunion.  Watermelon was a favorite!  I remember even at our house when we would get together with my brother, Jim and Jean and their family,  Rachel, Kevin, Ronda, Kelly, and Jimmy,  my brother Don and Cathy and their sons, Chris and Brian,  and my sister, Lois and Ron and their two daughters, Vicki and Becky.  Dad would be grilling steaks or some BBQ chicken and sometimes hamburgers. Mom would fix her delicious potato salad and iced tea.  And later we would have watermelon.  I remember all the grandchildren having a seed spitting contest!

Swisher Family Christmas

A special visit back home with Mom and Dad at Christmas  1975

Starting Swisher family website

                                                    Rex Swisher and his sister, Mary  1908

I have been working on the family tree since the 1960's. I want to work on a site where people can connect.  This is a picture of a Swisher family reunion sometime in the early 1940's.

Pictured in back row from left to right, Randall Wolverton, my father, Rex Swisher, my Grandmother Lola, my mother, Evelyn, Aunt Mary, Aunt Alma.

Second row:  Cousin Norma, Aunt Mildred, Aunt Louise, Aunt Grace.

First row: My brother, Don, cousin Bill, Aunt Betty, cousin Terry, cousin Tommy, and my brother Jim.