Brief Life History of Ellen
When Ellen Perry was born on 5 September 1863, in Elkhorn Township, Brown, Illinois, United States, her father, James Athiel Perry, was 36 and her mother, Constance Iona Briggs, was 36. She married Stephen Austin Rigg on 3 April 1884, in Brown, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Hersman Cemetery, Mount Sterling Township, Brown, Illinois, United States in 1937. She died on 21 December 1937, in Hersman, Brown, Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Hersman Cemetery, Mount Sterling Township, Brown, Illinois, United States.
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- Ellen Rigg, "United States Census, 1930"
- Ellen Perry Rigg, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Ellen Perry, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865
Historical Boundaries: 1865: Brown, Illinois, United States
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
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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