Cenia Catherine Kirby

Brief Life History of Cenia Catherine

When Cenia Catherine Kirby was born on 8 September 1850, in Champaign, Illinois, United States, her father, James Kirby, was 34 and her mother, Susannah Trickel, was 34. She married Chris C Pearson in 1871, in California, United States. She lived in Dent Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1910 and French Camp, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1930. She died on 26 June 1936, in California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Manteca, San Joaquin, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Francis Marion Funkhouser
1851–1893
Cenia Catherine Kirby
1850–1936
Marriage: 1875
Olive May Funkhouser
1878–1951
Daisy Funkhouser
1878–1893
Alfred " Dick" Clinton Funkhouser
1881–1966
Ressie Estella Funkhouser
1884–1973
William Lacill Funkhouser
1888–1960

Sources (21)

  • Cine K Pearson in household of Christen Pearson, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Cenia C Kirby, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
  • Cenia Catherine Kirby Funkhouser, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1855

Historical Boundaries: 1855: Champaign, Illinois, 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

English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern and eastern England called Kirby or Kirkby, from Old Norse kirkja ‘church’ + ‘farmstead, village’.

Irish: adopted for Ó Garmhaic ‘descendant of Cíarmhac’, a personal name meaning ‘dark son’. Compare Kerwick .

Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Geirble ‘son of Geirble’, a personal name of uncertain origin. The name is preserved in the townland name of Carrowkeribly in County Mayo.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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