Mary E. Irby
b. November 1868, d. 9 December 1922
- 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
- Mary E. Irby was born in November 1868 in 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 Mary E. Irby, Ida Burch Irby and Charles 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 Mary E. Irby, Ida Burch Irby, Charles Irby, William Wright Irby Jr., Joseph Calhoun Irby, Julia Rembert Irby, Rebecca Evans Irby and Franklin Pegues Irby.
- William Wright Irby and Julia Mary Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Smithville Township, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Mary E. Irby, Charles Irby, William Wright Irby Jr., Joseph Calhoun Irby, Julia Rembert Irby, Rebecca Evans Irby and Franklin Pegues Irby.
- She was a dressmaker, according to the 1900 census.
- Mary E. Irby appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Greenwood Township, Greenwood County, South Carolina, at Connie Msxwell Orphanage employed as Matron of Home No. 2.
- Mary E. Irby appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Bennettsville, Marlboro County, South Carolina, at Fayetteville Avenue enumerated in the household of Episcopal clergyman Octavius Porcher, employed as a companion.
- She was interred at Old Saint David's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
- Mary E. Irby died on 9 December 1922 at age 54 in State Park, Richland County, South Carolina, at the South Carolina Tuberculosis Sanitorium.
- Last Edited: 14 Aug 2015