Name: 905653 -- Sweeney

Updated: 06-19-2019 11:06:30. Owner: George Sweeney


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Floyd J. Sweeney: Birth: 20 Oct 1894 in Poole, Buffalo, NE. Death: 21 Oct 1962 in Eugene, OR

  2. Daisy Adeline Sweeney: Birth: 15 Dec 1897 in Tama?, IA. Death: 13 Dec 1942 in Springfield, OR

  3. Jenny Sweeney: Birth: 27 Jan 1899 in Poole, NE. Death: 10 Feb 1899 in Poole, Buffalo Co., NE

  4. John Charles Sweeney: Birth: 12 Jan 1900 in Poole, Buffalo, NE. Death: 30 Jun 1963 in Tillamook, OR

  5. George Philo Sweeney: Birth: 23 Jan 1902 in Whitman, NE. Death: 16 Dec 1969 in Grand Island, NE

  6. Justin Clark "Dick" Sweeney: Birth: 5 Jul 1904 in Poole, Buffalo, NE. Death: 26 Dec 1961 in Poole, Buffalo, NE

  7. Samuel Noah Sweeney: Birth: 20 Jan 1906 in Poole, Buffalo, NE. Death: 16 May 1992 in Springfield, OR

  8. Thelma E Sweeney: Birth: 12 Oct 1907 in Poole, Buffalo, NE. Death: 1 Jul 1983 in Mission Viejo, CA


Notes
a. Note:   Custom Field:<_FA#> 14 Mar 1947body recovered from Willamette River Custom Field:<_FA#> 14 Feb 1947committed suicide by jumping in the Willamette River. Custom Field:<_FA#> 18 Mar 1947body interred in the Laurel Hill Cem., Springrfield, OR REFN: 8.0 James'gravestone indicates year of birth as 1867, however, census report entries of 1870 and 1880 were consistent indicating he was born in 1863. James died by suicide, jumping in the Willamette River; body was not found for one month. James and his early family lived in a dug-out (a living area in the side of a hill), probably on the Tillson place, just west of Pool Siding, (Poole) NE. In the early 1900's they moved to Whitman, NE (I first made this assumption that the move was to take advantage of the Kincaid Bill which allowed settlers to free land; If this was true the move was premature, as the Bill never took effect, and Jim with his family and newborn, George P. (my father) moved back to Poole, NE. After reading an excerpt from Winona Snell's "Poole Remembered", she stated that the village of Pool Siding went 'bankrupt' and the land was sold off about 1900 which probably influenced Jim Sweeney to move his family west to Whitman, NE. I (Jerry Sweeney) can recall, when I was a youngster visiting in Ore., my grandfather, Jim, could eat Christmas candy by positioning the candy, just right, on his gums and crunching the candy-WITHOUT HIS DENTURES IN! He was truly a tough old Irishman! I was told by my father (George Philo Sweeney) that his father,Jim, had taken "the cure" for alcoholism two times.

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