Fannie E. Swezey, ^

1855 - 1927  (72 years)

• Name	Fannie E. Swezey  [1]
  Suffix	^
  Birth	10 Jun 1855	Suffolk Co., NY   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	21 Sep 1927	Yaphank, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I1111	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2024

  
  

  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   [4, 5]
  Family ID	F69	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Robert Sweezey comments: It appears from her brother's will that Fannie never married, and that she was alive in 1918. She is buried at Yaphank Cemetery with her parents and brother. 1880 Census, she is still living with her parents. The 1900 and 1910 census has her living with brother William. I found a Fanny Sweezey in the 1920 census in Brookhaven who is 62 years old, and living alone. It could be this Fanny Sweezey.

  
  

• Sources

  [S21] Robert H. Sweezey, Sweezey.com and Sweezey.net, http://sweezey.net/genealogy/software/getperson.php?personID=I02823. [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. [S49] Long Island Advance (Long Island Advance, 20 Medford Ave, Patchogue, NY), 27 Sep 1927. Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Swezey, 72, of Brookhaven, the widow of the late William Swezey, who died last week in Yaphank after an illness of 18 years was hel Saturday afternoon in the Brookhaven Episcopal church by the Rev. Frederick Compson and interment was in Yaphank cemetery. The musical service was given by Miss Ellen Learned and host of friends were in attendance. Mrs. Swezey had been confined for 18 years with paralysis. I think it unlikely that Fannie was ever married, and the William Swezey mentioned in the obituary was actually her brother. She had been confined for 18 or so years in Yaphank, perhaps part of the time at the Suffolk County almshouse. The obituary was part of the "doings in Brookhaven" column, and may have been written by someone who did not know her or her family well. He brother had predeceased her by nine years, and apparently left the estate in trust for her care. The family homestead was destroyed about 1920. [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.