OBIT: Jeremiah R. SWEENY, 1891, formerly of Blair County, PA

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Death of a Former Resident.

  Jeremiah R. Sweeny, of Allegheny City, died Thursday of general 
debility, after a long illness.  The deceased was born in Indiana 
county and for some years had been a resident of this city, and for the 
last eighteen years had been living in Allegheny.  The deceased was 
married in St. John's church, Altoona, about twenty-four years ago, to 
Annie McConnell.  He is survived by four children, Mary, Thomas, Joseph 
and Annie; three brothers - Thomas, of Blairsville; William, of 
Indiana, and Edmund B. Sweeny, and four sisters - Mrs. W. L. Galloway, 
of this city; Mrs. H. J. Crouse, Mrs. O. C. Earle, of Blairsville, and 
Sister M. Teresa, of the convent at Ebensburg.  On Saturday the body of 
the deceased was brought to the residence of Mrs. W. L. Galloway, of 
814 Howard avenue.  The funeral will take place this morning at 8.30 
o'clock, to proceed to St. John's church, where at 9 o'clock services 
will be held.  Interment in St. John's cemetery.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, February 23, 1891