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Gift of Gay Bitter, 2019.14.0.1-.31, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright
Cecelia Sweet
Gift of Gay Bitter, 2019.14.0.1-.31, Connecticut Historical Society, No Known Copyright

Cecelia Sweet

American, 1844 - 1929
BiographyCecelia (Ackley) Sweet (9 Feb. 1844 - 20 June 1929) was the daughter of Ansel Ackley (1797-1869) and Lydia Rowley (1799-1875). She had seven siblings: Henry Cyrenius Ackley (1819-1890), Alathea Ann Ackley Tinker (1821-1918), Vincy L. Ackley Simmons (1823-1906), Rachel Crosby Ackley Cone (1825-1917), Harriet Ackley Gladwin (1828-1860), Caroline Ackley (1831-1850), and Ellen Elizabeth Ackely Dunbar (1836-1922).

She married Henry M. Sweet (1839-1908) in 1868. They had five children: Giles Julian Sweet (1870-1943), William A. Sweet (1872-1937), Edward G. Sweet (1873-1947), Nellie Sweet (1875-1964), and James H. Sweet (1876-1900).

She was born in East Haddam and died in Winsted, Connecticut.
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