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Beatrice A. Swezey, ^^{[1, 2]}
Abt 1892 - 1950

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  Birth	Abt 1892	NY   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1900	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [3]
  	She was living with her parents.
  Census	1930	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [2]
  	Address: Hawkins lane
  	She was living with her husband Allen and son Wallace V. She was first married at age 33. She was a housekeeper for a private house.
  Living	1948  [4]
  Name	Beatrice H. Swezey
  Occupation	school teacher  [5]
  Died	8 Apr 1950	Huntington, Suffolk, NY   [6]
  Person ID	I622	Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets
  Last Modified	9 Aug 2011

  
  

  Father	Wallace Halsey (Alonzo) Swezey, ^,   b. 9 Jan 1860, NY ,   d. 17 Jan 1951, Yaphank, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  Mother	Adeline DeMange, ^,   b. 22 Apr 1860, France ,   d. 1 Jul 1949, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  Married	22 Apr 1884	Bellport, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  Residence	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  	Address: 175 Old Stump road (modern address)
  Family ID	F189	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Allen V. Keene, ^,   b. Abt Mar 1889, Meridan, New Haven, CT ,   d. 1 Jun 1959, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  Married	Abt 1925  [2]
  Residence	Aft 1926	Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [7, 8, 9, 10, 11]
  	Address: 5 Hawkins lane (Sleepy Hollow Farm)
  	Both Allen and Beatrice were living in 1947.
  Children	1. Wallace Valentine Keene, ^,   b. 25 Jul 1926, {Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY} ,   d. 19 Jun 1995, Brookhaven, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY
  Documents		Keene family farm house on Hawkins lane in Brookhaven Hamlet .. this document is the Historic Sites datasheet entry for this site and contains photograpic references.
  Family ID	F5252	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S50] WorldConnect: Lamontain Sweezy, He cites: (From C. Eugene Swezey's "The Swezeys of Huntington ". [S129] 1930 Census, Census Place: Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York; Roll: 1650; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 39; Image: 418.0.. [S191] 1900 Census, Roll: T623 1165; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 748. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 22 Apr 1948. Allen Keene and his wife were both mentioned in the Patchogue Advance. [S901] Email: Meg Koch, Beatrice Swezey Keene; email; 1 August 2011; John Deitz and others. "Beatrice was a school teacher - the photo of the unidentified class I had at Marty's shows Beatrice as the teacher." [S50] WorldConnect: Lamontain Sweezy. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 24 Dec 1926. This is the earliest reference so far found of their residency in Brookhaven hamlet. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 2 Jan 1947, p. 5. This is the latest reference to Allen Keene's residency in Brookhaven hamlet so far found, although son Wallace is known to have lived on Hawkins lane until his death. [S901] Email: Meg Koch, Rose family residence; email; 1 August 2011; JohnDeitz and others. ... folks around here played musical houses in the summers. My grandparents leased this house [on Old Stump road] and moved all the way to Hawkins Lane for summers. ... All the land down Hawkins Lane was a one time owned by Wallace Swezey. Wallace was fond of selling land; Addie [his wife] made him deed lots down Hawkins Lane to each of the children. As the children became adults they sold, swapped, combined, whatever the lots. That is why when I was growing up three of Addie's children—Viola, Beatrice, Emma—lived down there. .... [S127] Advance, Long Island, 4 Mar 1927. Telephones were installed Tuesday at the following homes: Allen Keene, Julien Rose, Ellen Learned and Anders Myher, all down Hawkins Lane. [S127] Advance, Long Island, 2 Jun 1959, p. 6. Allen V. Keene, 72, died Monday at his home on Hawkins Lane, Brookhaven. Mr. Keene was born in Meridan, Conn., and had been a Brookhaven resident for the past 37 years. He was a retired electrician. He is survived by his wife, Beatrice, a son, Wallace C. Keene and a sister, Mrs. Frederick Swezey, all of Brookhaven. Rosary services were held at Herrmann's Funeral Home, Center Moriches, at 8 p.m. yesterday. Requiem mass was at Mary Immaculate R. C. Church, Bellport, this morning. Interment followed in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Coram.