Brief Life History of Mary Elizabeth
When Mary Elizabeth Perry was born on 15 May 1851, in Marshall, Illinois, United States, her father, Allen Perry, was 36 and her mother, Deborah Mayhew, was 34. She married Eli Ebenezer Abbey on 5 March 1872, in Adams, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Adams, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 16 March 1939, in Creston, Union, Iowa, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Adams, Iowa, United States.
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- Libbie Abbey in household of E. C. Abbey, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary Elizabeth Perry - Birth of son Clifford Allen, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Miss Elizabeth Perry, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Union, Iowa, United States
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
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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