Thomas Eugene Ferry

Brief Life History of Thomas Eugene

When Thomas Eugene Ferry was born on 25 November 1951, in Hardinsburg, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Thomas Ferry, was 19 and his mother, Margie Rhea Mattingly, was 34. He died on 9 April 1978, in Adams, Illinois, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Thomas Ferry
1932–1991
Margie Rhea Mattingly
1917–1999
Thomas Eugene Ferry
1951–1978

Sources (5)

  • Thomas Eugene Ferry, "Illinois, Adams County, Card Index to Deaths, 1877-1990"
  • Mr Thomas Eugene Ferry, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
  • Thomas Ferry, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1952 · Atomic Energy Plant is Built Near Paducah

The atomic energy plant near Paduch, Kentucky was built in 1952. It produced enriched uranium and later nuclear fuel for commercial power plants.

1954 · The First McDonald's Opens Its Doors

Ray Kroc opened up the first McDonalds in Des Plaines after the McDonald Brothers gave him the rights to set up restaurants thoughout the country.

1960

Squaw Valley, California, United States hosts Winter Olympic Games.

Name Meaning

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearadhaigh ‘descendant of Fearadhach’, a personal name from an adjective derived from fear ‘man’. This surname is also Anglicized Farry .

English: metonymic occupational name for a ferryman, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ferry crossing on a river, or from a place so named, such as Ferrybridge, Yorkshire. From Middle English feri(e) ‘ferry’ (Old Norse ferja, cognate with Old English ferian ‘to carry’).

English: habitational name from Ferryhill, Durham, recorded as Feriec. 1125 and Ferye on the Hill in 1316. The place is named with Old English fergen ‘wooded hill’ with the later addition of Middle English hil ‘hill’.

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

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