A Family Lost: The Swartzwelder Tragedy of 1923

A young family’s hopeful life in Tuscarawas County ended tragically at a rural railroad crossing near Strasburg, Ohio. Charles and Florence Corbett Swartzwelder, a young couple from Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, arrived in Tuscarawas County, Ohio in 1921. Charles was born on September 2, 1897, in Pine Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, the son of William JamesContinue reading “A Family Lost: The Swartzwelder Tragedy of 1923”