Thomas Benjamin Sweeting (1853 - 1933)

Born 16 May 1853 in Harbour Island, Eleuthera, Bahamas

Husband of Charity (Pinder) Sweeting — married 22 Jan 1883 in Key West, Monroe County, Florida, USA

Descendants

Died 8 Jan 1933 at age 79 in Key West, Monroe County, Florida, USA

Thomas Sweeting is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Thomas was born 16 May 1853 in Harbour Island, Eleuthera, Bahamas.^[1] He was baptized there on 24 July of that year.^[2] He was the son of Frederick Sweeting and Sarah Albury.

He married Charity Pinder on 22 January 1883 in Key West, Monroe County, Florida, in a ceremony performed by R. S. Honiker, Minister of the Gospel.^[3]

Thomas died on 8 January 1933 in Key West,^[4] and he is buried there in the City Cemetery.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Bahamas Registrar General, Civil Registration, Births, 1853, Second Quarter, Part of the Parish of St. John Harbour Island, p. 51, no. 16, [Unnamed] Sweeting, 16 May 1853; digital image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-8BHP-RZK?i=53&wc=Q4ZP-N38%3A216278301&cc=1922411 : accessed May 2020). The Dolly Mae CD states that Thomas was born in June 1853, Oreste Lombardi, comp., Thomas Benjamin Sweeting, RIN 1961, Harbour Is.paf, 2013 Dolly Mae Bahamas 40th Anniversary CD (Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas: Wyannie Malone Museum, 2014). The 1900 census is a confirms Thomas's Bahamian birth record, as it states that he was born in May 1853. 1900 U.S. Census, Monroe County, Florida, population schedule, Key West City Ward 3, enumeration district 101, stamped page 73, sheet 15A, dwelling 252, family 252, Thos. B. Sweeting household; digital image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DTFQ-W3N?i=27&cc=1325221&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AM36C-FYW : accessed May 2020); citing National Archives microfilm T623, roll 174.
2. ↑ Oreste Lombardi, comp., Thomas Benjamin Sweeting, RIN 1961, Harbour Is.paf, 2013 Dolly Mae Bahamas 40th Anniversary CD (Hope Town, Abaco, Bahamas: Wyannie Malone Museum, 2014).
3. ↑ Monroe County Marriage Licenses 1: 327, Thos. B. Sweeting and Charity Pinder, 22 January 1883; digital image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L94X-THDR?i=237&cc=1803936&cat=341167 : accessed May 2020).
4. ↑ Florida State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, death certificate no. 1226 (1933), Thomas B. Sweeting, 8 January 1933, Monroe County; digital image, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LZS-47N?cat=816256 : accessed May 2020).
5. ↑ Donna Jean Robinson, "Thomas Benjamin Sweeting," Memorial no. 141495199, posted 18 January 2015; memorial without photograph, Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/141495199/thomas-benjamin-sweeting : accessed May 2020).