Pike Township Family Stories
BEN AND JESSIE SWICKARD
Nichols, Iowa Centennial Book 1884-1984, page 205Benjamin Franklin Swickard, a son of John Swickard and Margaret Nichols Swickard, was born 31 December 1869 and died 29 December 1948. On 17 June 1896 he was married to Jessie E. Walcott, a daughter of Samuel E. Walcott and Florence Annette Smith Walcott.
Jessie was born 20 December 1872 in New York and died 5 April 1952. Both are buried in the Nichols cemetery.
They had no children.
Nichols, Iowa Centennial Book 1884-1984, page 304
By Alberta Metcalf KellyBen Swickard built the house where the Goddards now live. He was the owner of the local lumber yard. The time was 1902. Many of the homes built at that time had a Victorian aspect. Ben’s grandparents were John Swickard and Margaret Nichols Swickard.
Ben met Jessie Walcott of Davenport when she came to teach at Nichols. She was niece-in-law of Scott Baker, the banker. She loved children and started many of them to read.
Many of you may remember their sleigh and their first car. In their wills, they left money for a band shell, now in the first park, and a library, which never came to pass.
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