T. Z. Sweeney
Z. T. Sweeney, proprietor of a farm of two hundred and seventy-two acres in Beavercreek township, rural mail route No. 4 out of Osborn, was born in the state of Virginia on June 8, 1848, son of John B. and Mary (Wilson) Sweeney, also Virginians, who came with their family to this county about the year 1850 and settled in the Cedarville neighborhood. During the Civil War John B. Sweeney enlisted for service in the Union army and served until discharged on account of ill health. His third son, John Sweeney, also enlisted for service and was killed at the battle of Murfreesboro. John B. Sweeney and his wife were Methodists. They were the parents of six children, the subject of this sketch, the youngest, having had four brothers, James M., Joseph, John and Madison S., all now deceased, and a sister, Mary, widow of George W. Duffield.
Having been little more than an infant when he came to this county with his parents in 1850, Z. T. Sweeney was reared here, receiving his schooling in the Cedarville schools, and early learned the trade of carpenter, at which he worked until his marriage in 1872 to Mrs. Rebecca Tobias, after which he began farming in Beavercreek township and has ever since been thus engaged. He is a Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Sweeney have five children, namely: Lesse Kate, wife of William Kendig, of Miami county, this state; Julianna and Jeannette, twins, the former of whom married Harry Kendig, an Osborn merchant, and has one child, a son, John, and the latter of whom married D. I. Harshman, secretary and treasurer of the Harshman Improvement Company of Montgomery county, and has a daughter, Jeannette; Fred C, making his home on a part of the home farm, and who married Anna Harner and has seven children, Lester, Robert, Kathleen Louise, Jeannette, Edward, Jasper and Mary Elizabeth; and Bertha Rebecca, who married Kendall Mays, a Dayton landscape gardener, and has two children, Gerald and Izora Rebecca.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918