HUSBAND: John Lockhart Sweet[1]
   Born:        1814        Nova Scotia[2]
   Marr:[1]           
   Died:        1885  
 Father: John Sweet
 Mother: Jennet Harvey
Other w:
         Sarah Glassie 

   WIFE: Margaret Burton[3]
   Born: circa  1820  
   Died: 29 Sep 1852        Ardoise, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada[4]
 Father: Walter Burton 

CHILDREN

 1|   Name: Mary Lavinia Sweet[5]
 F|   Born: circa  1845        Newport, Nova Scotia, Canada[6]
  |   Marr: 21 Oct 1868        Newport, Hants Co., Nova Scotia, Canada[7]
  |     To: Robert James Stephens 
  |   Died: 16 Jan 1878        Nova Scotia, Canada

 2|   Name: John Walter Sweet[1]
 M|   Born: circa  1850  
  |   Marr:              
  |     To: Jessie Dill 

 3|   Name: William Thomas Cochran Sweet[1]
 M|   Born: circa  1850  

REFERENCES

  [1]Belle Smiley & Iola Young, The Sweet_Saga, 1530-1960, in custody of 
     Selected photocopies in posession of the author.

  [2]Probably born in Lakelands.

  [3]Identified as parent in marriage of daughter Mary Lavinia.

  [4]"The Novascotian", Oct. 11, 1852, p. 333, col. 5. Information 
     transcribed for the author by his friend, Kitty MacAlpine, of Halifax, 
     Nova Scotia.

  [5]Robert Kim Stephens & C. J. Stevens, The Stevens Families_of Nova Scotia, 
     (Baton Rouge, La: Oracle Press, 1983), in custody of the Dallas Public 
     Library, Dallas, Texas.

  [6]Estimated from dates given on Marriage Certificate.

  [7]Prov. of Nova Scotia Marriage Certificat. Photocopies in the posession 
     of the author.

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