William Sylvester Swezey, ^

1847 - 1918  (71 years)

• Name	William Sylvester Swezey  [1]
  Suffix	^
  Birth	4 Oct 1847	Suffolk Co., NY   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Name	William Sylvester Sweezey
  Death	18 Nov 1918	Yaphank, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [2]
  Person ID	I1110	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Charles Swezey, ^,   b. Abt 1818, NY d. 9 Apr 1894, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Mary Eliza Platt Rose, ^,   b. 5 Feb 1829, NY d. 1885, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	1842	Suffolk Co., NY   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F69	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Robert Sweezey comments: 1880 Census - Living in Brookhaven with his parents. No wife. It says he was born in 1852. As does the 1870 and 1865 census. Actually the census says he was born between July 1851 and June 1852. 1900 Census of Brookhaven shows a Wm S. Sweezey born Oct 1856 living with a sister named Hannie E. born June 1860. I believe this is that William Sweezey, and the sister that is listed is the same as "Fannie F." that is listed as this Willias sister. I believe that the birth date is not correct. I found the soundex of this census, and it shows a Fannie E. Sweezey, born June 1860 as the sister of William S. Sweezey, born Oct 1856. 1910 Census - Living in Brookhaven with his sister Fannie. It says he was born in 1855. Both William and his sister are listed as single. Maybe William is getting senile as he gets older. The 1850, 1860, 1865, 1870 and 1880 census all show hes born in 1852. I found William's last will and testament. His only remaining heirs in 1918 were his sister Fannie, his nephews Edmund and Frank Badette, and his nieces Emily and Madaline Badette (his sister Elizabeth's children). It appears that he never mared, or if he did his wife and any children had died before 1918. It also appears that Fannie also never married since there is no mention of children or husband. There is a possibility that Fannie was married to a Badette also and that these nephew's and niece's are from her marriage, but since all the legal documents refer to her as 'Fannie Sweezey' and I know that Elizabeth married Hurbert Badette, I am quite sure I have this right. William's last will gives everything he owns to his executor Jesse E. Johnson "... to have and to hold in trust to collect the rents and profits thereof and to apply to the use and benefit of my sister Fannie Swezey, so long as she shall live." It would also appear that his sister Elizabeth is also no longer alive at this time, or her husband Hubert. I am not sure what to make of Jesse Johnson, there is a reference in the legal documents as to his relationship with William that I cannot make out, but it did mention the word "resident" in it. Since I do not believe that William ever married, I am assuming that Jesse might be his live-in friend. According to his head stone, William was born in 1853. William is buried in the Yaphank Cemetery with his parents and sister Fannie.

  
  

• Sources

  [S21] Robert H. Sweezey, Sweezey.com and Sweezey.net, http://sweezey.net/genealogy/software/getperson.php?personID=I00936. [S103] The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record (New York Genealogical Society: New York), Vol 122, No. 1 (Jan 1991), p. 28. Family Record of John Rose of Long Island: This family record was found in by Bernice Weir of Huntington, Long Island, when she was helping Sister Eileen Cleater, former head of Trocair, a Catholic organization. They had been willed the contents of an old home (that of Marie M. Baddetty who died at 105). While dusting a new Bible, photocopies from an old Bible fell out, and are here presented. John Rose, descendant of Robert Rose of Southampton and East Hampton, Long Island, married Elisabeth Rose, daughter of the Rev. David Rose ... of the Branford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, family. Thus, this marriage joined these two Rose families.... This Bible / Is the Property of / John Rose. [S3] Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National, p. 212. [S21] Robert H. Sweezey, Sweezey.com and Sweezey.net, http://sweezey.net/genealogy/software/getperson.php?personID=I02821.