Given up by her parents, she was "adopted" by the Valentine family of Patchogue "and records have it that while she was still a child a mysterious, beautiful, woman from the city would periodically visit, occassionally accompanied by a man".
Obituary - "Mrs. Annie M. Swezey, wife of Capt. H. Edward Swezey, a bayman and ferry operator, died yesterday at her home at 363 Grove avenue after a long illness. She was 68 years old and was a Gold Star mother, one son, Lewis H. Swezey, having been killed in action during the World war. Besides her husband she leaves a son, H. Chester Swezey, head of an Eastport trucking concern and two daughters, Mrs. Edward Bristow of Eastport and Mrs. Charles A. Collins of this village. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. George C. Fort of the Methodist church officiating and the interment will be made in Cedar Grove Cemetery."
(Glen Bristow; Patchogue Advance, Friday, March 09, 1934, Page: 8)
Given up by her parents, she was "adopted" by the Valentine family of Patchogue "and records have it that while she was still a child a mysterious, beautiful, woman from the city would periodically visit, occassionally accompanied by a man".
Obituary - "Mrs. Annie M. Swezey, wife of Capt. H. Edward Swezey, a bayman and ferry operator, died yesterday at her home at 363 Grove avenue after a long illness. She was 68 years old and was a Gold Star mother, one son, Lewis H. Swezey, having been killed in action during the World war. Besides her husband she leaves a son, H. Chester Swezey, head of an Eastport trucking concern and two daughters, Mrs. Edward Bristow of Eastport and Mrs. Charles A. Collins of this village. The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. George C. Fort of the Methodist church officiating and the interment will be made in Cedar Grove Cemetery."
(Glen Bristow; Patchogue Advance, Friday, March 09, 1934, Page: 8)
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