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Frances Helen Sweeny was born on 19 June 1937 at Beaumont House, a nursing home in Marylebone Lane, London, to American amateur golfer, socialite and businessman Charles Francis Sweeny and his wife, Scottish debutante Margaret Whigham. [1] [2] Her mother had suffered eight miscarriages and given birth to a stillborn daughter prior to her birth. [3]
Thomas Sweeney was born in Armagh, Ireland to Thomas Sweeney and Sarah Ann Campbell.His family emigrated to the United States when he was a child. He and his brothers Michael, Campbell and Robert Henry Sweeney lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and by 1830 settled near the important Ohio River port of Wheeling in what was then Ohio County, Virginia.
With the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898, Sweeney enlisted as a private in the 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, a unit that saw no action during the war. [3] By the war's end Sweeney had been commissioned as a second lieutenant. [4] In February 1900, Second Lieutenant Sweeney received orders sending him to the Philippines. [5]
West Virginia: County: Raleigh: Elevation [1] 1,828 ft (557 m) Time zone: UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer : UTC-4 (EDT) GNIS ID: 1558395 [1] Sweeneyburg is an ...
Betsy Sweeney bought a crumbling 130-year-old house for $16,500 in Wheeling, West Virginia and renovated it into a gorgeous historic home — complete with its original pocket doors, Victorian ...
Lunenburg County was established on May 1, 1746, from Brunswick County. The county is named for the former Duchy of Brunswick-Lünenburg [3] in Germany, because one of the titles also carried by Britain's Hanoverian kings was Duke of Brunswick-Lünenburg. Bedford, Charlotte, Halifax, and Mecklenburg Counties were later formed from Lunenburg County.
In 1907, several newspapers announced Sweeny's death, [17] [36] [37] but in January 1908 one paper reported that she was in Ashland, Wisconsin. [17] In 1912, she was reported to be in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and was threatening to break windows in revenge for her twelve-year-old son having been committed to a home. [4]
Sweeny is a surname which may refer to: Alastair Sweeny (born 1946), Canadian publisher, historian, and author Charles Sweeny (1882–1963), American soldier of fortune