Thomas Evans Irby

b. 15 September 1892, d. 21 May 1941
  • Thomas Evans Irby was born on 15 September 1892 in Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama.
  • Thomas Evans Irby and Cora M. Roussel appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, at 1824 Quintard Avenue. Other members of the household included Thomas Evans Irby, Carrie Cochrane Irby.
  • Thomas Evans Irby and Cora M. Roussel appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 406 Lafayette Avenue rooming in the household of widow Fannie Skinner. Other members of the household included Thomas Evans Irby, Carrie Cochrane Irby.
  • He was employed by a radiator company as a tester, according to the 1910 census.
  • The following appeared on 1 October 1913 in the Buffalo Evening News: The marriage of Miss Marjorie r. Eaton and Mr. Thomas Irby Jr., will be solemnized on Saturday, October 4, in the presence of the two families, at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Allen, in Cleveland avenue.
  • He married Marjorie R. Eaton on 4 October 1913 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at the home of the bride's parents on Cleveland Avenue, with the Rev. Murray Shipley Howland of the Lafayette Presbyterian Church officiating.
  • The following appeared on 4 October 1913 in the Buffalo Evening News: At noon today at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Allen in Cleveland avenue the marriage of their daughter, Marjorie R. Eaton, to Mr. Thomas Irby Jr., was quietly solemnized in the presence of the two families, the Rev. Murray Shipley Howland of the Lafayette Presbyterian church performing the ceremony.
         At home after October 15 in the Lyndhaven apartments, Johnson Park.
  • Thomas Evans Irby registered for the draft on 5 June 1917 in Erie County, New York, while living with his wife at 23 Cleveburn in Buffalo, and employed as an outside salesmay by US Radiator Corporation, Detroit, Michigan.
  • The following appeared on 19 October 1919 in the Buffalo Courier: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Irby of New York, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Irby, Jr.
  • Thomas Evans Irby and Marjorie R. Eaton appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 23 Cleveland Place.
  • He was employed as a salesman by a boiler heating company, according to the 1930 census.
  • Thomas Evans Irby and Marjorie R. Eaton appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York, at 104 Elm Avenue.
  • He was employed as a radiator salesman, according to the 1930 census.
  • Thomas Evans Irby and Marjorie R. Eaton appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York, at 100 Elm Avenue.
  • He was a heating and ventilating sales engineer, according to the 1940 census.
  • Thomas Evans Irby died on 21 May 1941 at age 48 in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York.
  • He was interred at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, Westchester County, New York.
  • The following appeared on 22 May 1941 in The Daily Argus: Thomas Irby of 104 Elm Avenue, a resident of Mount Vernon 16 years, died yesterday at the Mount Vernon Hospital, where he had been a patient since May 11.
         Mr. Irby, who was born in Anniston, Ala., was a son of thomas and Sarah Flournow Irby. For a number of years he was a salesman for the Thatcher Furnace Company, of Newark, N. J.
         Surviving are his wife, the former Marjorie Eaton, and a sister, Mrs. Kolstad of Palestine, Texas.
         Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at 2 P. M. at Ferncliff Cemetery, Ardsley. The body will rest at the Burr Davis Mortuary until tomorrow at 1:30 P. M.
  • Last Edited: 17 Mar 2015

Family: Marjorie R. Eaton b. circa July 1891