Mary Ann Rich

Female15 May 1850–3 November 1935

Brief Life History of Mary Ann

When Mary Ann Rich was born on 15 May 1850, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Charles Coulson Rich, was 40 and her mother, Mary Ann Phelps, was 20. She married Francis Ashbel Pomeroy on 10 January 1875, in Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Pima, Arizona, United States in 1880 and East Cheney, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1910. She died on 3 November 1935, in Cheney, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 85.

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Family Time Line

Francis Ashbel Pomeroy
1849–1938
Mary Ann Rich
1850–1935
Marriage: 10 January 1875
Mary Lastelle Pomeroy
1875–1953
Irene Ursula Pomeroy
1877–1877
Francis Rich Pomeroy
1879–1882
June Rich Pomeroy
1883–1970

Sources (31)

  • Mary A Rich in household of Mary A Rich, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Mary Ann Rich, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
  • Mary Ann Pomeroy, "Washington, County Death Registers, 1881-1979"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    10 January 1875Paris, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States
  • Children (4)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (10)

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    World Events (8)

    1863

    Age 13

    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

    1863

    Age 13

    Arizona Territory

    1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

    Age 25

    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: nickname for a wealthy man (or perhaps in some cases an ironic nickname for a pauper), from Middle English, Old French riche ‘rich, wealthy’, a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to ancient Germanic rīc ‘power(ful)’.

    English: from the Middle English personal name Rich, a pet form of any of the post-Conquest names beginning in Rich-, such as Richer and especially Richard . Compare Rick .

    English: either a topographic name from Middle English riche(Old English ric) ‘stream’, signifying one who lived beside a stream, as at Glynde Reach (Sussex), or perhaps a habitational name from the (now lost) village of Riche (Lincolnshire).

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

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