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Spouses/Children:
1. DODSON, Margaret Arvella
- SWEENEY, James Edward
- SWEENEY, Thomas D.
- SWEENEY, William J.
- SWEENEY, Sarah
- SWEENEY, Cecilia
- SWEENEY, Charles Cornelius
- SWEENEY, Marjorie M.
- SWEENEY, Eileen H.
- SWEENEY, Mary J.
- SWEENEY, Patrick A.
- SWEENEY, Andrew A.
- SWEENEY, Constance L. (DNA Link)+
- SWEENEY, Edward
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SWEENEY, Edward Joseph (DNA Link) 2 3 4 5
- Born: 24 October 1883, Chapelhall, Holytown district, Bothwell parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland 2 3 4
- Marriage (1): DODSON, Margaret Arvella on 18 October 1910 in Sebastian county, Arkansa, USA 1
- Died: 1962
- Buried: 1962, Bokoshe, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States of America 6
Other names for Edward were SWEENEY, Edward,1 7 8 SWEENEY, Edward J. 6 9 and SWEENY, Edward.10 11
User ID: L95.
General Notes:
Edward Sweeney emigrated to the USA after the 1 April 1901 when the 1901 UK census was taken, in which he is recorded living with his parents in Chapelhall. Initially he worked as a coal miner. In the 1910 US census he was a boarder. By the 1920 census of the USA he was married, but continued to work in the coal industry. Later, by 1930 he owned his own farm in Milton township in Le Flore county on the eastern border of Oklahoma, where he lived with his wife and their thirteen children. By 1940 he had returned to mining. The four eldest sons living with him were also miners. They lived and worked in McCurtain, a town in Haskell county in the south-east of Oklahoma, where the US census recorded they had lived since at least 1935. Edward was a wage earner but owned his home.
On 27 April 1942, when he registered for the World war II draft, Edward Joseph Sweeney was resident in McCurtain, Haskell, Oklahoma, USA. He was married and worked as a self-employed coal operator in Milton, Oklahoma. he was 6 feet 1inch, and weighed about 178 pounds. He had a light complexion; his eyes were hazel and his hair was red. 4 7 8 12
Edward married Margaret Arvella DODSON on 18 October 1910 in Sebastian county, Arkansa, USA.1 (Margaret Arvella DODSON was born on 29 December 1890 in Niangua, Webster County, Missouri, United States of America,6 died on 18 December 1988 in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, United States of America 6 and was buried in 1988 in Bokoshe, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States of America 6.)
Marriage Notes:
"Name: Edward Sweeney
Gender: Male
Age: 26
Birth Year: abt 1884
Residence: Bokoshe, Leflore, Oklahoma
Spouse's Name: Margaret Dodson
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 19
Spouse's Residence: Bokoshe, Leflore, Oklahoma
Marriage Date: 18 Oct 1910
Marriage License Date: 18 Oct 1910
Marriage County: Sebastian
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 1034047"
from Arkansas County Marriages Index 1
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