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Swearingen Cemetery

History
Samuel Swearingen settled here in 1785, and in 1790 near this site his only daughter Mary, the wife of Jacob Colvin, and her infant child were scalped and killed in the last Indian murder in Beaver County. They are buried here in the family plot.
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