The Deaton Family

Walter Dawson Swayney was the illegitimate son of Callie Swayney. He came with Callie when she married Reuben Deaton. Walter was a key figure in identifying Reuben as the one who struck his mother, Callie, over the head with a shotgun during an argument. The Deaton Family Book mentions the fact that...

Reuben and Callie had an infant daughter, Lutitia, who died in infancy.

Reuben and Callie had an infant son, Charles, who died in infancy.

Calcina "Callie" Swayney appearing in the Indian Census Records: http://www.deaton-family.com/Photos/CALLIE-SWAYNEY-INDIAN-CENSUS-6-YEARS-OLD.jpg http://www.deaton-family.com/Photos/CALLIE-SWAYNEY-INDIAN-CENSUS-10-YEARS-OLD.jpg http://www.deaton-family.com/Photos/CALLIE-SWAYNEY-INDIAN-CENSUS-12-YEAR...

Calcina "Callie" Swayney was a full-blooded Cherokee woman and was Reuben's second wife. Newspaper articles implicate Reuben in her demise, but research has not shown whether he was found guilty of her death, or not. http://www.deaton-family.com/Photos/CALLIE-SWAYNEY-DEATON-DEATH-CERTIFICATE.jpg htt...

Middleton Turner Cantrell, older brother to Eliza Cantrell.

This is a photo of Uncle Jack Carver, who was Leutica's brother. He is mentioned in the Deaton Family Book.

David Deaton Death Certificate in 1921. The Deaton Family Book speaks to him going to New Mexico for his health due to Tuberculosis. The Death Certificate shows that he died at the Albuquerque Sanitarium on March 30th, 1921. I spoke with the Fairview Memorial Cemetery and they said notification of h...

David Deaton appears as a "Boarder" living in Marion County, West Virginia in January 1920.

David Deaton appears as living with The Wheeler Family (Elijah and Martha Ann) in the Census of 1910 in Towns County, Georgia.