When Mary Ann Sweet was born in 1799, in Flemingsburg, Fleming, Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas Henry Sweet, was 38 and her mother, Mary Neely, was 35. She married Aquila Jones on 14 February 1822, in Fleming, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Carrollton, Burlington Township, Carroll, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died on 12 January 1856, in Delphi, Deer Creek Township, Carroll, Indiana, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Delphi, Deer Creek Township, Carroll, Indiana, United States.
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English (Somerset): from the Middle English personal name Swet(e) (Old English Swēt(a) (male), Swēte (female)), or else a nickname from Middle English swet(e), sweyt ‘sweet; pleasing; beloved; attractive’ (Old English swēte, swōt), from which the personal names derive. Compare Swett .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess and French Ledoux ‘the gentle, the sweet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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