Subject: [Bklyn] BDSU 29 MAY 1907 WILLIAM SWEENEY William SWEENEY died yesterday after a lingering illness at his home, 293 Sixth street. he was for thirty years prominent in the harness business at 77 Bridge street. He was born in County Waterford, Ireland, eighty-three years ago and had been a resident of Brooklyn for half a century. He is mourned by a widow, Anastasia, and three sons and a daughter. A solemn requiem mass will be celebrated Friday morning at 10 o'clock at St. Thomas Aquinas' Church, Fourth avenue and Ninth street, the Rev. Father DONOHUE officiating. Interment at Calvary Cemetery, under direction of J. MCCLEAN, of 221 York street. Transcribed for the Bklyn Info Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Bklyn.Info.Page.html