When Minnie Francis Irons was born on 25 March 1874, in Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Lyman W Remington Irons, was 26 and her mother, Leila Hopkins, was 17. She married William Henry Gifford Sr on 24 December 1892, in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States in 1910 and West Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States in 1920. She died on 31 July 1924, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States.
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English: variant of Iron , with post-medieval excrescent -s. Compare Hirons .
Scottish (Angus): habitational name from an unidentified place called Irnys in 1398–9.
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