While conducting a study of 294 marines who have been awarded the Medal of Honor from the American Civil War to the present, author Terence W. Barrett, PhD, stumbled across the story of Private First Class Douglas E. Dickey.
His wife died in North Carolina, leaving him with a son, George Swallow (1781-1858). Fritz and George migrated to Ohio ca. 1798, and settled on land later in Darke County, Ohio. George changed the spelling of this his surname to Swallow.