When Joseph Warren Sweet was born on 11 October 1850, in Allen, Indiana, United States, his father, Benjamin Sweet, was 38 and his mother, Malinda Harrod, was 32. He married Cassandra Alvira Brunson on 13 August 1878, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Marion Township, Allen, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died on 12 April 1939, in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Allen, Eel River Township, Allen, 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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