Wilcox County AlArchives Obituaries.....Mary Vernon Pegues Irby May 3 1908
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Wilcox Progressive Era, Thursday, May 21, 1908
Mrs. C. P. Irby Dead.
Uniontown Canebrake Herald.
  Died, Sunday, May 3, 1908, Mrs. Christopher Perry Irby, at the age of forty- 
two years and seven months.
  Miss Mary Vernon Pegues was born eleven miles from Uniontown, at "The 
Cedars," on July 4, 1865. She was the eldest daughter of Captain Samuel Wise 
Pegues and Annie Elizabeth Sanders, and grand daughter of Christopher Butler 
Pegues and Elizabeth Evans, the latter of whom moved here from Cheraw, S. C., 
in 1840.
  Her grandparents built one of the first Episcopal churches in Alabama, known 
as St. David's. Mrs. Irby's father married shortly before the war, during which 
he served as commander of Company D, 3rd Alabama Calvary.
  Mr. and Mrs. Irby were married in 1885, and moved to Gee's Bend, Wilcox 
county, where they lived for fourteen years, coming to Uniontown in 1899. Of 
the seven children born to bless this union, five still survive - Mrs. J. B. 
Chambers, Mrs. Benj. F. Hatch, Jr., Misses Annie and Mary, of this city, and 
Christopher P., of Atlanta.
  Mrs. Irby also left to mourn, her mother, Mrs. Annie Pegues, sisters, Misses 
Annie and Lizzie, Mrs. Harry Reid and Mrs. John A. Fuller, of Selma, and three 
brothers, Harry T., of Mobile, Walter, of Ensley, and Christopher B., who is 
now in the Philippines.
  Mrs. Irby will be missed by colleagues in religious work, to whom she was 
always a blessing and an inspiration. Her work here is ended, and yet one may 
say that it is only begun, for "her works shall live after her."

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