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.
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).
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