'Dad Always Referred to Him as the Last of 17 Children'

Apparently the web listings are incomplete and I have further research to confirm the truth or falsehood of my grandfather's claim of being the only one of his siblings to "escape" Texas.

So after last week’s father’s day column in which I discussed some Swindle family history - my grandpa’s story that he was the only one of his many brothers and sisters to leave Texas - I shared it with my Dad and he alerted me that the web listings were incomplete and missed a few of the children in both families:

Dave your granpa Ralph was the last of …