Ida Burch Irby

Ida Burch Irby

• Father: William Wright Irby b. circa 28 February 1828, d. 19 February 1915
• Mother: Julia Mary Pegues b. 22 July 1838, d. 29 July 1919

• Ida Burch Irby was born on 25 March 1865 in Marlboro County, South Carolina.
• William Wright Irby and Julia Mary Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Smithville Township, Marlboro County, South Carolina, enumerated next to the household of William's brother John. Other members of the household included Ida Burch Irby, Charles Irby and Mary E. Irby. Also in the household was one male domestic servant.
• William Wright Irby and Julia Mary Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Smithville Township, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Ida Burch Irby, Charles Irby, Mary E. Irby, William Wright Irby Jr., Joseph Calhoun Irby, Julia Rembert Irby, Rebecca Evans Irby and Franklin Pegues Irby.
• She married Walter Dickinson Pegues, son of Wesley Leatherwood Pegues and Olivia Amanda Dickinson, circa 1886, cousins; Walter's father Wesley Leatherwood Pegues was the brother of Ida's maternal grandfather Benjamin Franklin Pegues.
• Walter Dickinson Pegues and Ida Burch Irby appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Olivia A. Pegues, Mary Ethel Pegues, Barnwell Eugene Pegues, Charles Irby Pegues and Julia M. Pegues.
• Walter Dickinson Pegues and Ida Burch Irby appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, at Huger Street. Other members of the household included Olivia A. Pegues, Mary Ethel Pegues, Barnwell Eugene Pegues, Charles Irby Pegues, Julia M. Pegues, Jane O. Pegues, Julia Rembert Irby, Franklin Pegues Irby and Rebecca Evans Irby.
• Walter Dickinson Pegues and Ida Burch Irby appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Olivia A. Pegues, Mary Ethel Pegues, Julia M. Pegues and Joseph Calhoun Irby.
• Ida Burch Irby died on 14 February 1932 at age 66 in Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
• Her husband Walter Dickinson Pegues became a widower at her death.
• She was interred at Old Saint David's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
• The following appeared on 15 February 1932 in The Charlotte Observer: (Cheraw, S. C., Feb 14) Mrs. Walter D. Pegues, 67, member of a prominent Cheraw and Marlboro county family, died Sunday afternoon at her home here from a stroke of paralysis which she suffered Sunday morning. Before her marriage, she was Miss Ida Irby, daughter of William W. and Julia Mary Pegues Irby of Marlboro county where she was reared.
       She is survived by her husband and four children, Misses Olivia, Ethel and Julia Pegues of Cheraw and Charlie Pegues of Raleigh; two brothers, Joe Irby of Cheraw and William Irby of Florida; and two sisters, Miss Julia and Rebecca Irby of Florida. The funeral arrangements have not been completed.

• Last Edited: 14 Aug 2015

• Charts: Descendants of PEGUES Claudius & Marcia Saunders (#1), Descendants of PEGUES Claudius & Marcia Saunders (#2)