Alexander Sherwood Healy (1836 - 1875)

Born 1836 in Jones County, Georgia, United States

Died 21 Oct 1875 at about age 39 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Alexander Healy is a part of US Black heritage.

Alexander Sherwood Healy was born in 1836 in Macon, Georgia. He was a son of Michael Healy and Eliza Clark.

He was a Roman Catholic priest. He was a baptism sponsor for at least two of the children of his sister Martha M. (Healy) Cashman.^[1][2]

He passed away on 21 October 1875^[3] and is buried in Saint Augustine Cemetery, South Boston, Massachusetts.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019 (From records supplied by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston). St. James the Greater (Boston) Baptisms, 1865-1874, page 104.
2. ↑ Massachusetts: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1920 Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019 (From records supplied by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston). St. Thomas Aquinas (Jamaica Plain) Baptisms and Confirmations, 1869-1884, Page 76.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7L7-8YX : 10 December 2014), Alexander S. Healy, 21 Oct 1875; citing Boston, Massachusetts, v 276 p 266, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,208.
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 February 2021), memorial page for Rev Fr Alexander Sherwood Healy (24 Jan 1836–21 Oct 1875), Find A Grave: Memorial #187693642, citing Saint Augustine Cemetery, South Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by chasseur (contributor 48705606) .

See also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healy_family
• https://www.thebostonpilot.com/opinion/article.asp?id=178526

• "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGKV-4RHD : 22 December 2017), Alexander S Healy, 1869; citing Passport Application, United States, source certificate #, Passport Applications, 10/31/1795 - 12/31/1905., 163, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

• "Massachusetts, Boston Passenger Lists, 1820-1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KGK2-DGL : 1 September 2016), Alex S Healy, 26 Aug 1870; citing p. , Ship Steamship Calabria, NARA microfilm publication M277 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 078; FHL microfilm .

• Jim Goulding; The Healys: One Extraordinary Family, Posted by on March 10, 2014