Mary Elizabeth “Mamie” McNerney (1866-1936) hired William Alexander to subdivide 133 acres of her property here at the end of 1922; a month later, he laid out McNerney Avenue on his Alexander Home Gardens tract. So how did Mamie McNerney come by this land in the first place? You can guess by her maiden name: Tweedy. Her farmer parents Robert and Mary once owned much of present-day South Gate and the family name lives on in Tweedy Boulevard. Born in this area when it was still quite rural, Mamie was the youngest of the Tweedys’ eight kids and the only daughter. She married Patrick Henry “Peter” McNerney (1862-1913) in 1888. The Vermont-born son of Irish immigrants, he died of cirrhosis at 51. Mamie, property-rich and childless, spent her final years in Hollywood’s tony Whitley Heights neighborhood.
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