John Thomas Perry

Brief Life History of John Thomas

When John Thomas Perry was born on 21 August 1881, in Green, Kentucky, United States, his father, John William Perry, was 35 and his mother, Mariah Bell Gorin, was 36. He married Iciepheny Goff on 28 September 1902, in Greensburg, Green, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Donansburg, Green, Kentucky, United States for about 20 years and Magisterial District 4 Donansburg, Green, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 28 March 1958, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Macedonia Cemetery, Keene, Jessamine, Kentucky, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Thomas Perry
1881–1958
Iciepheny Goff
1884–1959
Marriage: 28 September 1902
Mattie Bell Perry
1904–1995
Mary Perry
1907–1907
Nellie Perry
1908–1994
Eleanor Ora Perry
1911–1997
Clarence Page Perry
1914–1914
Perry
1915–1915
James Hayden Perry
1918–1989
Thomas U. Perry
1922–1922

Sources (21)

  • John F Perry in household of Marire Perry, "United States Census, 1900"
  • John T Perry, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
  • John Thomas Perry, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"

World Events (8)

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1892 · The Radio is invented

Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892

1902 · So Much Farm Land

A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.

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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