Leo McSweeney

MCSWEENEY, MCSWEENY

Posted By: Jeanie Belding (email)
Date: 12/28/2018 at 09:32:12

note: Name on honor roll is McSweeney, but gravestone is spelled McSweeny)

source: Fayette County Leader, October 17, 1918, pg. 12

Word comes to us this (Monday) morning of the death of Leo, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.S. McSweeney, who reside just east of Randalia. He was in military training at Ames and was taken with influenza, which later developed into pneumonia and caused his death in a hospital at Iowa City. He has a brother, James, in the U..S. Aviation Corps. His parents have the sincere sympathy of everyone in their sorrow.