Brief Life History of John Azariah
When John Azariah Perry was born on 14 February 1853, in Edmonton, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States, his father, George Reed Perry, was 27 and his mother, Susannah Louisa Slinker, was 27. He married Alverda Jane Hiser on 30 March 1892, in Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 1 Edmonton, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Sulphur Well, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States in 1930. He died on 25 November 1937, in Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Center, Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States.
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- John A Perry in household of George Perry, "United States Census, 1870"
- John N. Perry, "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979"
- John A. Perry, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1965"
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1860
Historical Boundaries: 1800: Green, Kentucky, United States 1802: Adair, Kentucky, United States 1860: Metcalfe, Kentucky, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’, a variant of the personal name Harry (see Harris ).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pear tree (Middle English piri(e), peri(e), puri(e), Old English pirige, pyrige), or a habitational name for someone who owned or came from a place so named. This surname and a number of variants have been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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