Temperance Pugh
Temperance E. Pugh was born on 13 December 1850 in Alabama. Her father had been born in North Carolina and her mother in Alabama. Family accounts give her maiden name as Wilkinson, her full name as Temperance Elizabeth, and her parents as Asa Wilkinson and Elizabeth "Betsy" Dykes. In 1880 the household next door to hers at Old Texas was that of Henry Wilkinson, 32.
On 14 November 1868, by family accounts, she married George W. Pugh in Monroe County. In June 1880 she was 29 and keeping house at Old Texas, Beat No. 11, with George and their children John W., 9, Ida E., 7, Joanna F., 4, and Martha E., born the previous December. Ella was born in 1882 and Willie in 1885.
Temperance died on 5 March 1885, aged 34, when her daughter Ida was thirteen and her son Willie a baby. She is buried in Jenkins Chapel Cemetery in Monroe County under a round-topped stone carved with clasped hands and the words "Temperence E., wife of G. W. Pugh".
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Cite: Heirology, "Temperance Pugh (1850-1885)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/temperance-pugh-1850-1885-dab9a0.