Elizabeth Perry Irby

b. 5 September 1854, d. 17 January 1926
  • Elizabeth Perry Irby was born on 5 September 1854 in Gees Bend, Wilcox County, Alabama.
  • She was known as Lizzie.
  • Thomas Evans Irby and Tempe A. Perry appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Cahaba Beat, Dallas County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Elizabeth Perry Irby, Josiah Evans Irby and Lucy T. Irby. Daughter Rebecca is unaccountably absent from the household in 1860. Also in the household is overseer Thomas Curtis.
  • Tempe A. Perry appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Lexington Beat, Dallas County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Elizabeth Perry Irby, Rebecca Evans Irby, Josiah Evans Irby, Lucy T. Irby and Virginia Clay Irby.
  • She married Abram Louis Pope, son of Abram Louis Pope and Ann T. Pegues, on 18 April 1878 in Dallas County, Alabama.
  • Abram Louis Pope and Elizabeth Perry Irby appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Pope, Perry County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Ann T. Pegues and Temperance Pope.
  • Elizabeth Perry Irby became a widow at the 1900 death of her husband Abram Louis Pope.
  • Elizabeth Perry Irby died on 17 January 1926 at age 71 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama.
  • She was interred at Marion Cemetery, Marion, Perry County, Alabama.
  • Last Edited: 16 Mar 2015

Family: Abram Louis Pope b. 1845, d. 1900