Brief Life History of Irenious Claude
When Irenious Claude Penry was born on 29 September 1917, in Mayetta, Jackson, Kansas, United States, his father, Walter C. Penry, was 30 and his mother, Lillian Clair Myers, was 23. He had at least 1 son with Alberta Smith. He lived in Douglas Township, Jackson, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 24 August 1963, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States.
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- Claud Perry in household of Walter Perry, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Irenious Claude PENRY - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Irenious Claude PENRY
- Irenious Claude Penry, "Kansas, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag
The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
Welsh (south Wales): Anglicized form of the Welsh ab, ap ‘son’ + the personal name Henry, hence ‘son of Henry’ (see Henry ). Some examples have an intrusive d (compare Hendry ).
Cornish: variant of Pendray, a habitational name from any of several places in Cornwall, such as Pendrea in Saint Buryan and Pendrift in Blisland, with names derived from Middle Cornish pen (an) dre ‘top of the village’ (pen ‘head, top, end’ + an ‘the’ + tre ‘village’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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