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• Name: Martin L. Sweeney
• Sex: M
• Birth: 27 JAN 1837 in Hemlock Run near Towanda, PA
• Death: 08 MAY 1926 in died Saturday evening at home on farm; grave at St Basil's in Dushore PA
• Burial: St. Basil's Cemetery, Dushore, PA.
• Residence:
  1. 1843 in Moved to Sullivan Co.
  1. in acre.
• Person Id: I05245
• Tree Id: 619379

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Parents
Father:

• Michael Francis Sweeney: Birth: 31 AUG 1802 in Kilglass, County Sligo, Ireland. Death: 13 FEB 1894 in died at home on farm in Cherry Mills, Sullivan County, PA
Mother:

• Catherine Sweeney: Birth: 24 DEC 1811 in Kilglass, County Sligo, Ireland. Death: 24 JUN 1877 in Cherry Mills, Sullivan County, PA

Family
Marriage:

• Married: Julia "Little Grandma" Wright on 31 MAR 1861 at St. Basil' Church in Dushore, PA.
  
• Julia "Little Grandma" Wright: Birth: 25 MAY 1839 in Carne, County Sligo, Ireland near County Mayo. Death: 23 NOV 1922 in Died Thursday morning at home on farm; grave at St Basil's in Dushore PA

Children:

1. James "Big Jim" Sweeney: Birth: 30 MAR 1862 in in Ringdale, PA per death certificate (says "1863", but gives age as 69 years, 8 months, 10 days). Death: 03 NOV 1931 in of "apoplexy" at 10 a.m. at his home in Benton, Sugarloaf Township, Columbia County, PA

2. Michael D. Sweeney: Birth: 08 AUG 1863 in Cherry, PA. Death: 21 AUG 1952 in Sayre, PA; at Robert Packer Hospital

3. Anna "Aunt Annie" E. Sweeney: Birth: 20 JUL 1865 in Cherry, PA. Death: 1946

4. Eleanor "Nellie" Sweeney: Birth: 27 JUL 1868 in Cherry, PA. Death: ABT 1956 in buried in the Catholic cemetery in Towanda, PA

5. John William Sweeney: Birth: 21 JAN 1870 in Ringdale, PA. Death: 14 JUL 1947 in Dushore, PA; at his home on Railroad Street after a lingering illness

6. Blanche Julia Sweeney: Birth: NOV 1875. Death: 22 FEB 1961 in Sayre, PA; buried in Epiphany Cemetery in Sayre, PA

7. Edward Leonard Sweeney: Birth: 18 DEC 1875 in Cherry, PA; on the family farm. Death: 10 NOV 1949 in Albany Valley, PA; heart attack at home of brother Michael

8. Peter Francis Sweeney: Birth: 19 MAY 1877 in Satterfield, PA, Sullivan County. Death: 07 MAR 1934 in at age 56, at Packer Hospital in Sayre

9. Infant Son Sweeney: Birth: 1879. Death: 24 DEC 1879 in Cherry, PA; reported in the Sullivan Review

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