George W. Pugh

1847-1911 · Alabama

Born 1847, Covington County, Alabama

Died 1911

Children include Ida

George W. Pugh was born on 10 June 1847 in Alabama, in Covington County by family accounts. His father had been born in Tennessee and his mother in Alabama; family accounts name them as Albert Pugh and Martha Corbett, and give his full name as George Washington Pugh.

On 14 November 1868, by family accounts, he married Temperance E. Wilkinson in Monroe County. In June 1880 George, 32, was farming at Old Texas, Beat No. 11, in Monroe County, with Temperance, 29, and their children John W., 9, who worked as a farm hand, Ida E., 7, Joanna F., 4, and Martha E., born in December 1879. Ella followed in 1882 and Willie in 1885.

Temperance died on 5 March 1885, aged 34, leaving him with six children, the youngest a baby. On 25 March 1886, by family accounts, he married Josephene Covan, and their daughter Georgia Parilee was born in 1888. His daughter Ida married Wherry Owens about 1888.

George W. Pugh died at Old Texas on 25 February 1911, aged 63, and is buried in Jenkins Chapel Cemetery in Monroe County, where Temperance, Ida and Wherry also lie.

Children

Ida Elizabeth Pugh 1872-1954

Sources

United States census 1880, Monroe County, Alabama, Old Texas Beat No. 11, enumeration district 155, page 9, lines 6-11; FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:M4V3-7PF.

Find a Grave, memorial 25666293, Jenkins Chapel Cemetery, Monroe County, Alabama, photograph by Sandyatmore, 3 August 2009.

United States census 1880, Monroe County, Alabama, Old Texas, ED 155, sheet 429A, FamilySearch ark 61903/1:1:M4V3-7PF; Find a Grave memorials 25666293 (George Washington Pugh Sr.) and 103198809 (Ida Elizabeth Pugh Owens); gravestone photographs on Find a Grave memorial 25666293, added by Sandyatmore, 3 August 2009

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