Joseph Sweeney

Joseph Sweeney

Male 1840 - 1894  (53 years)

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  • Name Joseph Sweeney  [1
    Alt. Birth 1832  [2
    • Age on 1880 census is 48 years.
    Born 11 Dec 1840  Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    • 1870 census said he was born in New York
    Gender Male 
    City Directory 1869-1870  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    150 Guoin rear 
    • Sweeney, Joseph, drayman, h. rear 150 Guoin
    Census 5 Jun 1870  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [7

    • Sweeney, Joseph, 30 years; teamster; value real estate $1500; personal estate $500; born New York, mother foreign born, father born USA
      Sweeney, Claria, 33 years, keeping house, born Michigan; mother & father born USA
      Sweeney, Marcie, 15 years, at home, born Michigan
      Bellmore, Alfred, 30 years, teamster, born Canada
      Belle, Mortiz, 31 years, laborer, born Canada

      150 Guoin Street
    City Directory 1871-1872  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    150 Guoin 
    • Sweeney, Joseph, drayman, h 150 Guoin
    City Directory 1872-1873  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    250 Dequindre 
    • Sweeney, Joseph, teaming, h 250 Dequindre
    City Directory 1874-1875  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    150 Guoin 
    • Sweeney Joseph, saloon, 150 Guoin, h. same
    City Directory 1879  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    150 Guoin 
    • Sweeney, Joseph, saloon, 150 Guoin, h same
    Census 15 Jun 1880  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    150 Guoin 

    • Sweeny, Joseph, 48 years, married, saloon keeper, born Ireland, parents born Ireland
      Sweeny, Clara, 34 years, wife, married, keeps house, born Ireland, parents born Ireland
      Sweeny, Mary, 22 years, daughter, at home, born Michigan, parents born Ireland


    City Directory 1887  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    150 Guoin 
    • Sweeny Joseph, saloon 150 Guoin, h same
      Business Directory (page 1622)
      Sweeny Joseph, 150 Guoin
    City Directory 1881-1889  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    150 Guoin - saloon 
    • Sweeney Joseph, saloon 150 Guoin, h same
    City Directory 1890  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [14
    290 Franklin - Sweeney House 
    • Joseph Sweeney, 290 Franklin, Sweeney House, proprietor, 1890-1891
    Newspaper Article 28 Dec 1890  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [15
    Sweeney House ad - Detroit Free Press 
    • Housework - Girl Wanted to do General housework. Apply Sweeney House, corner of Riopelle and Franklin sts.

      (Ad ran on 28 & 29 December 1890)
    Newspaper Article 26 Jul 1891  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [16
    Sweeney House ad - Detroit Free Press 
    • HOUSEWORK - WANTED, GIRL FOR GENERAL housework. Apply Sweeney House, cor. Riopelle and Franklin st.
    City Directory 1893  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [17
    290 Franklin - Sweeney House 
    • Sweeney, Joseph, propr Sweeney House, 290 Franklin (page 1148)
      Street and Avenue Guide (page 1422)
      290-294 (Franklin) Sweeney House
      290-294 Sweeney, Joseph, barber
      Riopelle st intersects
      Hotels (page 1814)
      Sweeney House, 290 Franklin
      Saloons (page 1895)
      Sweeney House, 290 Franklin

      listed elsewhere: cook, domestic, and six boarders
    Occupation 1890-1893  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [18
    salon keeper 
    Cemetery 1894  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [19
    Mt. Elliott Cemetery 
    • Permission given by Mary Stay to bury Joseph Sweeney at Mt. Elliott Cemetery.
      "Please Sir I am willing to let them beary (sic) Joseph Sweeney on the lot. To oblige me, Mary E. Stay Lot 75, Sec F"
    Died 27 Feb 1894  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 20
    Cause: Pneumonia 
    • Wayne County death register -
      Joseph Sweeney, married, age 54, pneumonia, born New York, saloon keeper
    Alt. Death 28 Feb 1894  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [21
    • Probate filings state his death as 28 February 1894.
    Obituary 2 Mar 1894  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [21
    Detroit Free Press 
    • DIED
      SWEENEY - February 28, 194, at residence, 348 Franklin street, Joseph, beloved husband of Maggie Sweeney, aged 53 years. Funeral Saturday at 9:30 from residence and 10 a.m. from SS. Peter and Paul's (Jesuit) church.
    Burial 3 Mar 1894  Detroit (Mt. Elliott), Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [22
    • Section F, lot 75, Harvey/Stay plot
      (grave - name - age - interment)
      1 - Joseph Duquette, 46 y, Sept 30, 1867
      2 - Elizabeth Harvey, 14 m, Jan 15, 1868
      3 - Thomas Sweeney - 1/2 hr, Sept 7, 1869
      4 - P. H. Delaney - 27 y, Dec 22, 1869
      5 - Thomas Sweeney - 35 y, Jan 16, 1871
      6 - William J. Sweeney - 7 w, Apr 8, 1871
      7 - Ludwine Leonard, 90 y, June 20, 1883
      8 - Ellen McMahon, 11 y, Feb 27, 1885
      9 - Clara Sweeney, 49 y, June 9, 1887
      10 - John Stay, 38 y, Jan 12, 1888
      11 - Thomas A. E. Harvey, 20 y, Jan 17, 1890
      12 - Mary E McGarry, 5 d, June 10, 1890
      13 - Joseph Sweeney, 53 y, Mar 3, 1894
      14 - Philomene I. McGarry, 3 m, July 21, 1894
      15 - Thomas G. Harvey, 72 y, Feb 27, 1900
      16 - Ann McMahon, 53 y, Dec 1, 1904
      17 - Edna E. Valliere, 4 m, July 24, 1905
      18 - Carl Harvey, 2 y, July 14, 1914
      19 - Ellen D. Harvey, 70 y, May 19, 1915
      20 - Mary Harvey, 1 y, Oct 17, 1917
      21 - Thomas Harvey, 3 y, Oct 17 1917
      22 - Wilhelmina Harvey, 35 y, Oct 17, 1917
      23 - Geo. D. Harvey, 51 y, Mar 31, 1923
      24 - Ada C. Bowman, 7 y, May 8, 1928
      25 - Ada C. Bowman, 7 y, Dec 28, 1928
    Buried 3 Mar 1894  Detroit (Mt. Elliott), Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Section F, lot 75, grave 13 - Harvey/Stay plot
      Mt. Elliott Cemetery Records - 4 Apr 1975 by Alyce Gauthier
      Joseph Sweeney #14
      Place of Nativity:
      Age: 53 years
      Parish: St. Peter & Paul
      Residence: 394 Franklin
      Date of Decease: 28 Feb 1894
      Cause of Death: Pneumonia
      Undertaker: Geist Bros
    Legal Matter 28 Jun 1894  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [23
    Commissioners' Notice - Detroit Free Press 
    • COMMISSIONERS' NOTICE - In the matter of the estate of JOSEPH SWEENEY, deceased. We, the undersigned, having been appointed by the Probate Court for the county of Wayne, state of Michigan, commissioners to receive, examine and adjust all claims and demands of all persons against said decease, do hereby give notice that we will meet at the office of Sidney T. Miller, 80 Griswold street, Detroit, Michigan, in said county, on Wednesday, the third day of October, A.D, 1894, and on Thursday, the twenty-ninth day of November, A.D. 1894, at ten o'clock a.m. of each of said days, for the pourpose of examining and allowing said claims, and that six months from the 29th day of May, A.D. 1894, were allowed by said court for creditors to present their claims to us for examination and allowance.
      Dated Detroit, June 6, 1894
      Sidney T. Miller
      James C. Smith, Jr.,
      Commissioners.
    Newspaper Article 16 Jul 1894  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [24
    Sweeney House ad - Detroit Free Press 
    • A COMPLETE three-chair barber shop, fixtures for sale. Call at the Sweeney House, 348 Franklin st., corner of Riopelle.
    Inventory of property 1895  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Sweeney House 
    • Furniture in "Sweeney House"
      Bar room:
      1 bar, 1 blackboard, 1 writing desk, 1 show case, 1 hand beer pump, 1 water pressure beer pump, 1 stove, 10 charis, 2 tables, 1 tobacco choffer, 1 marble cash holder, 1 clock, 1 mirror, 3 pictures, 1 keyboard, bar glasses, etc.
      Kitchen:
      2 tables and damaged dishes
      Dining Room:
      4 tables, 27 chairs, 4 easters, 1 doz. teaspoons, 1 lounge, knives for 2 tables, 1 doz. tablespoons
      Bedrooms:
      9 beds, 15 quilts, 18 pillows, 2 ticks, 7 ticks without covers, 8 blankets, 10 lamps, 7 bureaus
      All valued at $280

      Real Estate:
      Premises in the City of Detroit, County of Wayne, and State of Michigan, known as lot number twenty two (22) in the subdivision of the Dominique Riopelle farm located on the southwest corner of Riopelle and Franklin Streets.
      Valued at $10,000

      "..a two story brick building used for boarding house purposes and numbered 344-348 Franklin Street in addition to which is an old two story frame building numbered 67 Riopelle Street"

      *Wayne County Probate Court - Case 19977
      Michigan State Archives
    Legal Matter 12 Mar 1895  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Probate hearing 
    • Published in The Wayne County Legal News on the 16th and 23rd of February and the 2nd of March 1895:
      "James C. Smith, Jr. Attorney, 80 Griswold St.
      STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Wayne, ss-
      At a session of the Probate Court for said County of Wayne, held at the Probate Office, in the City of Detroit, on the fourteenth day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, Present, Edgar O. Durfee, Judge of Probate, in the matter of the estate of JOSEPH SWEENEY, deceased. On reading and filing the petition, duly verified, of Henry Valliere, the administrator of said estate, praying that he may be licensed to sell certain real estate of said deceased for the purpose of paying the debts of said estate and the charges of administrating said estate. It is ordered that the twelfth day of March next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, at said Probate Office, be appointed for bearing said petition, and that all persons interested in said estate appear before said Court, at said time and place, to show cause why a license should not be granted to said administrator to sell real estate as prayed for in said petition. And it is further ordered, that a copy of the order be published three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing, in the Wayne County Legal News, a newspaper printed and circulating to said County of Wayne.
      Edgar O. Durfee, Judge of Probate
      Homer a Flint, register.
    Legal Matter 12 Jun 1895  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [25
    Auction Sale - Detroit Free Press 
    • Administrator's Auction Sale
      LOT 50X151 FEET,
      Southwet Corner Franklin And Riopelle Streets,
      With Large 2-story Brick Building, and one 2-story Frame House
      T0-DAY, JUNE 12
      At 12 o'clock, noon, city time, on the premises
      This is a Valuable Corner, fronting on Franklin St., Riopelle St. and Railroad.
      SUITABLE FOR MANUFACTURING OR HOTEL PURPOSES
      CAPITALISTS, SPECULATORS, it will pay you to investigate and attend this sale.
      The property will be sold to the highest bidder, for the purpose of settling up the Joseph Sweeney Estate.
      TERMS CAHS; $250 at time of sale. Title perfect.
      HENRY VALLIERE, Administrator, FRED T. SIBLEY, Attorney.
      O. WARDELL & SONS, Auctioneers,
      Telephone 1357, Office 101 Woodward Avenue, Detroit
    Probate 12 Jun 1895  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Maggie Sweeney, 56 years, wife, sues estate for support. Mable Valliere, daughter of Joseph Sweeney, states Maggie was never married to Joseph. Maggie "went to live with him as his wife in December 1888 and they lived together as man and wife up to the time of his death.."
    Legal Matter 29 Jun 1895  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [26
    Legal Notice - Detroit Free Press 
    • LEGAL NOTICES

      STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Wayne, ss. -
      In the matter of the estate of Jos. Sweeney, decease, No. 19977. Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order granted to the undersigned, administrator of the estate of Joseph Sweeney, deceased, on the 12th day of March, 1895, by Edgar O Dufree, Esq., judge of probate for the county of Wayne, there will be sold at public bendue to the highest bidder, on the premises, No. 344 Franklin street, in the city of Detroit, county of Wayne and state of Michigan, on Wednesday, the 12th day of June, A.D. 1895 at 12 o'clock noon of that day, city time (subject to all encumbrances by mortgage or otherwise exisitng at the time of the death of said inestate), the following described real estate, to wit: Lot number twenty-two (22) of the subdivision of the Dominique Riopelle farm, located on the southwet corner of Riopelle and Franklin streets, in the seventh ward of the city of Detroit, county of Wayne and state of Michigan.
      HENRY VALLIERE
      Administrator of the estate of Joseph Sweeney, deceased.
      FREDERICK T. SIBLEY, Attorney.
      Dated April 27, 1895
      The above sale is herby adjourned to Wednesday, Junee 26, 1895, at same hour and place.
      HENRY VALLIERE
      Administrator of the estate of Joseph Sweeney, deceased.
      FREDERICK T. SIBLEY, Attorney.
      The above sale is further adjourned to Wednesday, July 10th, 1895, at same hour and place.
      HENRY VALLIERE
      Administrator of the estate of Joseph Sweeney, deceased.
      FREDERICK T. SIBLEY, Attorney.
    Legal Matter 1 Jul 1895  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Maggie Sweeney 
    • Henry Valliere, administrator for estate, denies request of Maggie Nutter Sweeney because she is not a widow.
    Probate 7 Nov 1896  Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Mabel petitioned as sole heir to the estate. Henry Valliere, administrator of estate.
    Cemetery 4 Apr 1975  Detroit (Mt. Elliott), Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [27
    Sweeney Plot 
    • Sweeney Plot - lot 75 F
      Joseph Duquette, 46 y., date of burial 30 Sep 1867
      Thomas Sweeney, 1/2 hr., date of burial 7 Sep 1869
      P. H. Delaney, 27 y., date of burial 22 Dec 1869
      Thomas Sweeney, 35 y., date of burial 16 Jan 1871
      William J. Sweeney, 7 w., date of burial 8 Apr 1871
      Ludwine Leonard, 90 y., date of burial 20 Jun 1883
      Ellen McMahon, 11 y., date of burial 27 Feb 1885
      Clara Sweeney, 49 y., date of burial, 9 Jun 1887
      John Stay, 38 y., date of burial 12 Jan 1888
      Mary E. McGary, 5 days, date of burial 10 Jun 1890
      Joseph Sweeney, 53 y., date of burial 3 Mar 1894
      Philomene Irene McGary, 3 m., date of burial 21 Jul 1894
      Ann McMahon, 53 y., date of burial 1 Dec 1904
      Edna E. Valliere, 4 m., date of burial 24 Jul 1905

      by Alyce Gauthier
    Name Joseph Sweeny 
    _HASHTAG Mt. Elliott Cemetery 
    • buried at Mt. Elliott Cemetery
    _UID C365818AD8FA4E7FA80E01C8B3AF16E2AB03 
    Person ID I289  Gauthier Family Tree
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2019 

    Father Thomas Sweeney,   b. Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Julia Le Mieux,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F105  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Clarisa "Clara" Leonard,   b. 4 Mar 1836, Waterford, Oakland, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Jun 1887, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years) 
    Married 30 Jun 1868  Detroit (Sts. Peter & Paul Jesuit), Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [28
    Marriage Ceremony 30 Jun 1868  Detroit (Sts. Peter & Paul Jesuit), Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [28
    • Witnesses were Thomas Sweeney and Catherine Sweeney.
    Children 
     1. Thomas Edward Sweeney,   b. 6 Sep 1869, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Sep 1869, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     2. William Joseph Sweeney,   c. 16 Feb 1871, Detroit (Sts. Peter & Paul Jesuit), Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1871, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 0 years)
     3. Clara Mabel Sweeney,   b. 25 Aug 1874, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jun 1961, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years)
    Last Modified 24 Aug 2019 
    Family ID F104  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Margaret Willis,   b. Abt 1839,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married Type: Unmarried 
    _STAT Unmarried 
    Last Modified 24 Aug 2019 
    Family ID F2061  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Robert Emmett McCoy's document on Sweeney-Leonard Family
    Robert Emmett McCoy's document on Sweeney-Leonard Family
    Hand written information about the Sweeney-Leonard Family from Robert Emmett McCoy.

  • Notes 
    • (Research):possible-
      1862 City Directory for Detroit (Charles F. Clark's - ancestry.com)
      Sweeney, Joseph, sailor, bds 319 Franklin


  • Sources 
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