Isham Irby

Brief Life History of Isham

When Isham Irby was born on 12 January 1841, in Sarcoxie, Jasper, Missouri, United States, his father, Easton Irby, was 25 and his mother, Melvina Bailey, was 20. He married Ann Thomas on 11 December 1867, in Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Stone, Missouri, United States in 1900 and DeBaca, New Mexico, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 12 September 1934, in Bowie, Texas, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Texarkana, Bowie, Texas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Isham Irby
1841–1934
Ann Thomas
1851–1895
Marriage: 11 December 1867
John Franklin Irby
1869–1935
Nora H. Irby
about 1879–1880
Nathan Easton Irby
1871–1958
James William Irby
1873–1945
Lilly M. Irby
1875–1959
Spencer Silvester Irby
1877–1953
Isham Martin Irby
1881–1901
Charles Thomas Irby
1882–1952
Anna Myrtle Irby
1885–1926

Sources (37)

  • Isham Isby, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Ishem Irby, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Isham Irby, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"

World Events (8)

1844 · German Immigration to Texas

Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places called Irby in Lincolnshire, Cheshire, and North Yorkshire, or Ireby (Cumberland and Lancashire), all named from Old Norse Írabýr ‘settlement of the Irish’. Compare Ireton .

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

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