The venerable lady whose name heads this sketch is one of the early pioneers of the State.  She knew Union and Delaware Counties when they were one vast wilderness, and has witnessed the many changes that marked their settlement and that developed them into fine farming communities.  The extensive fields of grain, so familiar to us, she remembers as dense forests, only inhabited by wild beasts.  She was born in Hocking County, Ohio, December 9, 1799, and is a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Dils) Shoup.  Her father, and her grandfather, Sebastian Shoup, were both all through the Revolutionary War.  Her parents came to Ohio in an ox cart, in 1799, and settled in Hooking County.  They had eleven children, Mrs. Swartz being the seventh.  Her father was a millwright, and erected the first mill in Hooking County.  Mrs. Swartz never saw an apple until in 1812 ; her father purchased a peck of a neighbor, who had brought some from New York.  They cost $1, which was equivalent to two or three days' work, per peck.  In 1817, she married Daniel Swartz, who was born in Pennsylvania December 3, 1797.  This union was blessed with five children, all of whom grew up, but have since died.  The sole representatives of this old lady are two grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  She is now living with Jacob E. Swartz, who was born in 1860, and now lives on a farm within the corporation of Richwood, where she has lived since 1834.  In her younger days, she was accustomed to driving four-horse teams, and often made the trip of eighteen miles to the nearest mill.  She was a remarkably strong and hearty woman, not afraid of labor, and could make a full hand at any work ; she could feed, harness, hitch and drive a team, milk the cows. feed the hogs, chop wood, saw and roll logs, pitch and stack hay, and indeed do anything that was required on a farm in the infancy of our country. She often took her spinning-wheel on her shoulder and walked five miles to do a week's spinning, for which she would get 50 cents.  She has spun and woven thousands of yards of cloth, and made all the clothing worn by the family, in addition to doing her household work and assisting the men about the farm.  She has been a rigid member of the church for over a half century, and is highly respected and esteemed for her many Christian virtues.  Though now over four, score years of age, she has full possession of her faculties, enjoys good health, and has a very robust constitution for one of her years.