The third child of James C. and Margaret A. Hays was born 1859 in Dallas Co., Missouri. (1860 c.)

We do not yet have a record of his marriage but he appears to be the James Sweaney buried in Sweaney Cem.: b. Apr 1858 and died 8 Sept 1938.

In 1894 he is listed in his father's probate record as F. J. Sweaney. It is possible that his middle name is Francis. The 1880 census shows a Frank Sweaney living next to James C. (with Eugene Adams - review original record)

Dallas Co. birth records also list a J. I. Sweaney b. ca 1860 md to Margaret Stewart. Their second child, Nellie, was born 12 March 1885.