Born about in New York, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Sweeney
and Margaret (Lynch) Sweeney
Sister of
Mary (Sweeney) McSweeney, Ellen Sweeney, Jeremiah Sweeney, Hannah Sweeney and Julia Sweeney
Wife of
John Bennett
— married
about 1884 in Georgetown, Clear Creek, Colorado, United States
Descendants 
Died about
at about age 79
in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
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Biography
Margaret was born about 1862. She followed her sister Mary, and Mary's husband, Felix, McSweeney, to Colorado, where she met John Bennett. They married in Georgetown, Colorado in 1884. She had a tough life. Maggie lost her husband, John Bennett, in 1891, with 3 young girls to raise. When John died, she moved the family to Victor, Colorado, where she ran a boarding house for Irish miners.[1] ( John had a brother in Victor and there were Sweeney relatives there as well.) When the value of gold declined, Maggie and the girls moved to Salt Lake City, where John's brother Lawrence had established himself.[2] Family talk has it that Maggie and her daughters did not feel comfortable in SLC. By 1920 she was in San Francisco, where she worked in a department store and lived at 157 Hyde St.[3]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66VK-897N : 29 January 2022), Maggie Bennett, 1900. Victor, Teller, Colorado, United States
- ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5X3-F72 : accessed 22 February 2022), Maggie Bennett, Salt Lake City Ward 1, Salt Lake, Utah, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 101, sheet 4A, family 77, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1606; FHL microfilm 1,375,619.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHWB-M1J : 31 January 2021), Maggie Bennett, 1920. San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
- "Colorado, County Marriages, 1864-1995," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJ7-YHP2 : 19 February 2021), John Bennett and Maggie Sweeney, 24 Dec 1884, Clear Creek, Colorado, United States; citing reference ID , State Archives, Denver; FHL microfilm 1,839,973.
- "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KNQ2-XQT : 19 February 2021), Daniel Ryan and Maggie Bennett, 17 Sep 1901, Victor, Teller, Colorado, United States; citing no. 750, State Archives, Denver; FHL microfilm 1,690,129.
- "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPWY-Q38 : 26 November 2014), Sweeney in entry for Mary E Pound, 28 Jan 1960; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
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John Pound
Maggie's sister, Mary, married Felix McSweeney in about 1882 and they moved from Potsdam, New York (I assume) to Colorado soon afterwards. Maggie either went to Colorado with them or followed shortly thereafter. She met John Bennett and they married in Georgetown. They took up residence in Pitkin, now known as Aspen, where John and a business partner acquired the Buckhorn Saloon and Billiard Hall, now known as the Red Onion. John died on a business trip to Salt Lake City in about 1890, leaving Maggie to raise their three girls. She moved to Victor, Colorado, a mining town adjacent to Cripple Creek, where she ran a boarding house for Irish miners. One of John's brothers and his family were in Victor at the time. When the value of gold declined in about 1905, the family moved to Salt Lake City, where John's brother, Lawrence, was established and had gainful employment. According to family lore, they didn't feel at home in Utah (the teenaged girls felt ostracized) and they moved again, to California. Maggie ended up working in a department store in San Francisco. Lawrence Bennett and his family stayed on in Utah, eventually moving to Ogden, where Lawrence was heavily involved in the Catholic Church.
posted 25 Mar 2020 by John Pound
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Sweeney-3451 and Sweeney-3431 appear to represent the same person because: Father's name, husband's name, and daughter Mary (Bennett) Pound match. Birth dates close.
Rejected matches › Margaret (Bennett) Kent (abt.1860-)
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