Description
Squire Sweeny a/k/a Swaney: 8th U. S. C. T. Heavy Artillery, Company K, enlisted June 24, 1864. Died 12/31/1909.
✦ Invalid Pension: #707,271 was filed on 05/29/1889, Certificate #601,267.
✦ Widow Pension 10/17/1910: #950,827, Certificate #714,576.
(Researcher's note: Squire Swaney enlisted at Paducah Kentucky on June 24, 1864, and was mustered in as Private in the 8th US Artillery Heavy, Company K.
On November 13, 1866, Hugh Swaney of Platte County, Missouri, signed claim for compensation #1785 for an enlisted slave Squire Swaney and swore an oath of allegiance before a George W. Belt, Clerk of the Platte County Circuit Court. Swaney claimed he had acquired title "By purchase from the Estate of Benjamin Bean through James Kuykenda1l, Sheriff of Platte County Missouri, on 17 November 1845."
As of July 1, 2026, Civil War U. S. C. T. Pension Record case files are not currently available on the Internet and would need to be ordered from the National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/pre-ww-1-records.)Date(s) of Creation
5/29/1889