THE DEATH OF TIMOTHY SWEENY:- In Fairview Township, Butler County,
Pennsylvania, died on the 27th Feb. [February ?], Timothy Sweeny,
aged 122 years. Mr. Sweeny was born in the year 1737, in Carrhan,
parish of Ardfert, co. [county?] Kerry, Ireland, and emigrated to
this country in 1837, being then one hundred years old. The
subject of this notice was never known to have had an hours sickness,
even up to the very day of his death, but was always remarkably stout
and healthy, having the full use of all his faculties to the last,
with a delicacy of hearing and a quickness of perception that was
really miraculous in one who had journeyed so far beyond the
allotted bounds of earthly existence. His last day on earth was
spent, as usual, at the genial fireside of his daughter, Mrs. Nolan,
surrounded by admiring and affectionate grandchildren, and nothing
occurred to warn them that in the sleep of the coming night the
patriarch was to sink silently and at once into the deeper slumber
of the grave.
Pittsfield U.S.A. Post.
