When Mary Ann Polly Sweet was born on 25 December 1827, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Sweet, was 30 and her mother, Orpha Betsy Brown, was 36. She married Elisha Slaven on 8 March 1847, in Campbell, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 6 June 1898, in Scott, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Tennessee, 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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