Death
Swift died on 23 July 1865 in Geneva, aged eighty-two, and was buried in Washington Street Cemetery in Geneva next to his wife, who had died in Geneva on 15 November 1855. Six of their children are also buried there:
- Charlotte Swift, born 5 April 1826, died 31 December 1840;
- Julius H. Swift, died 6 February 1850, aged 35;
- Thomas Delano Swift, born Wilmington, 27 November 1812, died Geneva September 1829;
- James Thomas Swift, died 31 July 1890;
- Foster Swift, M.D., born Geneva 31 October 1833, died Santa Cruz, West Indies 10 May 1875;
- Jonathan Williams Swift, Commodore, United States Navy, born Taunton, 30 March 1808, died Geneva 30 July 1877.
Also buried there are three of their daughters-in-law and one of their grandsons.
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