Samuel Pugh was born 1748 in Charlotte Co., VA, and died 4 February 1805 in Charlotte Co., VA.
First wife Sarah Sublett was born in Buckingham Co., VA, and died Abt. 1784 in Charlotte Co., VA. They were married Abt. 1770 in Charlotte Co., VA.
Their children were:
1- Mary Polly Pugh b: 11 August 1774 Charlotte Co., VA; d: 8 August 1862 Sevier Co., TN
+William Ramsey b: 14 September 1773 Augusta Co., VA; m: 7 November 1796 Charlotte Co., VA [Thomas/Jane Harvey]; d: 23 February 1857 Sevier Co., TN
Notes for Mary Polly Pugh:
- 1850 District 11, Cocke, TN: William Ramsey 74, wife Mary 74, George 26, wife Patsy 25, Lucinda 6, Wm. S. 4, John 3 months
- 1860 District 8, Cocke, TN: Widow Mary Ramsey 87, living with son George's family.
2- Elizabeth Pugh b: Abt. 1776 Charlotte Co., VA
+Daniel McCraw m: 31 December 1797 Charlotte Co., VA
3- Abraham Pugh b: Abt. 1780 Charlotte Co., VA; d: Aft. 1810 in Charlotte Co., VA
+Anna Totty b: Abt. 1784; m: 17 December 1803 in Charlotte Co., VA [Thomas/Mary ---]; d: Aft. 1810 in Charlotte Co., VA
Second wife Elizabeth Thomas was born Abt. 1751 and died Aft. 1805. They were married 16 December 1785 in Charlotte County, VA.
Their children were:
4- John Bell Pugh b: Abt. 1787 in Halifax Co., VA; d: 28 June 1848 in Person Co., NC.
+Ann Smith McDaniel b: 25 February 1790 in Halifax Co., VA; m: 24 December 1812 in Halifax Co., VA; d: Aft. 1872 in North Carolina
5- Nancy Pugh b: Abt. 1789
+Abraham
6- James Pugh b: Abt. 1792 in Charlotte Co., Virginia; d: 6 November 1882 in Buttercup, Williamson, TX.
+Nancy M. Sikes b: 1795 in Halifax Co., VA; m: 14 September 1816 in Halifax Co., VA; d: February 1861 in Travis Co., TX.
*2nd Wife of James Pugh:
+Catherine Brown (Latty) b: 19 June 1833 in Illinois; m: 24 November 1865 in Travis Co., TX [Matthew/Mary Brazelton]; d: 9 January 1924 in Colorado, Mitchell, TX.
Notes for James Pugh:
- Description of James Pugh when he enlisted for service in the War of 1812: Six feet high, black hair and eyes black, 20 years old, a carpenter by occupation and was born in Charlotte County, Virginia. He was a Private in Captain Samuel Carter's Company of Virginia Militia. He volunteered at Halifax County, VA and was discharged at Norfolk County, VA. He received a pension and bounty land according to National Archives service records.
- 1830 Census: Owen Co., IN - James Pugh
- 1840 Census: Benton, Newton, Missouri (#4, p. 247): James Pew- males 1 5-10, 1 10-15, 1 15-20, 1 40-50; females 1 5-10, 2 10-15, 1 15-20, 1 20-30, 1 40-50.
- 1850 Census: Neosho, Newton, Missouri: James Pugh 55 (VA) farmer, wife Nancy 55 (VA), Samuel H. 18 (IN) (p. 329, 111)
- 1860 Census: Austin City, Travis, Texas: James Pugh 67 farmer (VA), wife Nancy (Sikes) 67 (VA), M.A. Stewart 13 (MO) (girl), T.J. Stewart 6 (MO) (boy) (p. 235)
- 1880 Census: Williamson Co., TX: James Pugh 88 (VA) without occupation/old age, wife Katherine 48 (IL-OH-TN), Frank Lattie 24 (TX), James A. Lattie 19 (TX), Matthew Lattie 16 (TX), Margaret Brown 5 (TX), Nora Brown 3 (TX).
- 1900
- 1910 Gaines Co., TX: Widow Katie Pugh 90, living with son Frank Latty's family
- James Pugh was a member of the Friendship Baptist Church (Barton Creek Church) between Cedar Valley and Fitzhugh in Travis County, Texas. Founders met at school house on Long Branch 1862. Half of the membership moved to Shilo schoolhouse in July 1861, near Oatmanville, now Oak Hill. Members in 1861 included James and Catherine Latty.
- Tombstone Inscription: Colorado City Cemetery, Colorado City, TX: Catherine Latty / June 19, 1819 / Jan. 9, 1924
-VETERAN OF THE WAR OF 1812 IN TEXAS: James Pugh, born Charlotte, Virginia, age 58 on 6 November 1850, died 6 November 1882, Buttercup, Williamson County, Texas. Spouses: 1) Nancy died Travis County, Texas 1857 or 1858. 2) Mrs. Catherine Latty (widow of James Latty) m. 6 November 1865 in Travis County, Texas by Rev. Dickens. Service: Private in Captain Samuel Carter's Company of Virginia Militia, Volunteered at Halifax County, Virginia. Pension: S.C.20,360; W.C. 33,286. Bounty Land: 9,878-80-50; 34,990-80-55. Comments: National Archives service records: 1850, Newton County, Missouri, veteran before Jesse Lewis, J. P., certified by Robert Brock, County Clerk. Witnesses were I. M. Barker and H. C. Armstrong. 1856, Travis County, Texas, veteran before John Graves, J. P., attested by John Sneed and Samuel H. Pugh. 1872, Travis County, veteran before Judge J. P. Richardson, witnesses were Matthew Brown and Thomas E. Sneed. 1878, Williamson County, Texas, James Pugh wrote to Sheeke and Sneed, attorneys in Austin, Texas asking them to try to get his pension increased. 1879, Williamson County, veteran before Scot Pennington, County Clerk, attested by Scot Pennington and Matthew Brown. 1880, Williamson County, J. H. Fairbrin, J.P. and N. P., wrote to U.S. Pension Agent asking for increased pension for Pugh. 1883, Williamson County, Robert Hanna, Sr., and Thomas J. Steward gave affidavits regarding death of veteran and his surviving widow. Widow swore before R. H. Price that her former husband died in the Rio Grande, Star County, Texas. J. W. Hodges was County Clerk. 1911, W. E. Buckingham, special examiner, asked several questions regarding the widow of postmaster at Seminole, Travis County, Texas. 1917, U. S. Representative Thomas L. Blanton asked Hon. G.M. Saltzgaber, Commissioner of Pensions, for an increase in widow's pension. He also forwarded a letter from John Haney of Seminole, Texas at the time.
- James Pugh applied for additional Bounty Land in Travis County on 9 February 1886, stating that he was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Cartor in the Regiment of Artillery commanded by Col. Lindsey. That he volunteered at Halifax County in the State of Virginia on the 28th day of August 1813 and was honorably discharged at Norfolk on the 25th day of December 1813. John J. Sneed and Samuel H. Pugh attested his claim.
- September the 15th 1816 Sir youl please to grant Mr. James Pugh a license for to marry my daughter Nancy Sikes lawfully whereunto I give him this as an order and youl much oblige me in so doing. Signed -- Jonus Sikes To the Clerk of Halifax County Test Caswell C. Pugh Signed --Nancy Sikes (mark) Cyrus Sikes Goodspeed Newton, Lawrence, Barry and McDonald Counties History, Page 168.
- Township 24, Range 32 was first entered in 1847 by James Pugh, but the greater area was sold in the sixties, after the war.
Notes for Nancy M. Sykes:
ESTATE OF NANCY PUGH, STATE OF TEXAS, County of Travis
To: The Judge of the Probate Court within the county and state aforesaid.
Your petitioner represents to your honor that he is the lawful husband of Nancy Pugh, deceased, who died in the County aforesaid, intestate. That she left in petitioners house separate property, subject to administration; consisting of a negro boy, Alexander, about twenty two or three years old. One two horse wagon. One horse. One cooking stove. One leather covered trunk. One hundred and fifty dollars in Specie and one brass kettle. That during conventure, the said James and the said Nancy Pugh had the following named heirs: To wit, Ann Eliza Pool, wife of Henry Pool, who resides in Missouri. Dicy N. Yates, wife of Louis Yates, who resided in the State of Texas, since dead, leaving the following heirs: William Yates. Isabella Yates who intermarried with Ratliff whose first name is unknown to petitioner. Elizabeth T. Pool, wife of John C. Pool, the said Elizabeth being represented to the petitioner as having died in the state of Missouri, leaving seven or eight heirs whose names are unknown to petitioner. James P. Pugh, who resides in the state of California. Nancy J. Staten, who resided in Travis County, Texas. Samuel N. Pugh, who resides in Nebraska Territory. Your petitioner, James Pugh, asks that letters of administration be granted to him, and the said Estate so be administered and divided according to law. Signed: James Pugh Petitioner
- Exhibit and account of James Pugh administration of the estate of Nancy J. Pugh, deceased, tendered for final settlement of said estate in the County court of Travis County. Said administrator is chargeable with the following items and amounts to wit: 1864 To cash received by Administrator and on hand at the date of death of intestate $150.00.
1865 January - To cash received from sale of personal property, sold by administrator per order of the court - $48.25
Making a total or $198.25.
To the Honorable James W. Smith, Judge of the County Court of Travis County, Texas: James Pugh, Administrator of the Estate of Nancy J. Pugh, deceased, submit this final exhibit and account for the settlement of said estate and says said account is a correct statement of his true actions in settling said Estate. He further says that owing to the late war and the unsettled condition of the country when the principal part of his transactions took place, he has not been able to present strictly legal vouchers for some of the claims paid by him. In all instances where James Pugh has paid out money without a claim duly allowed and approved having been presented, he knew of his own personal knowledge of the justness and correctness of the claim so paid. The administrator further states that he reported the negro as having been sold and that there was an order of transfer confirming said sale, but that although said sale was made as reported by him, yet that the surety offered by the purchaser of said negro not being entirely satisfactory, the administrator said negro was never delivered to purchaser, but on the contrary, the purchaser cancelled said sale.
Notes for Catherine Brown:
- Obituary: Fort Worth Star Telegram (Fort Worth, TX), Saturday, 19 January 1924: Oldest Woman in Western Texas is Laid to Rest - Colorado, Jan. 19 - Mrs. Catherine Pugh, 105, claimed to be the oldest woman in West Texas, was buried here today. With her husband, William Pugh, she left Iowa in 1836 and settled in the vicinity of Austin. Her husband was a well known Indian fighter. He played a prominent role in the defense of Austin during the famous Indian sacking of 1863.
- Obituary: The Eagle (Bryan, TX), Monday, 21 January 1924: Wife of Old Indian Fighter and Pioneer of Texas is dead - Colorado, Tex., Jan 21 - Mrs. Catherine Pugh said to have been the oldest woman in this part of West Texas, died Friday at the home of her son, James Latty, near Colorado, at the age of 105 years. Mrs. Pugh was born in Iowa, June 19, 1818, and at the age of 18 married William Pugh, and they came to Texas, settling in Austin. - Pioneer in State - Mr. Pugh was prominent in the early history of Texas as an Indian fighter and frontiersman. He died at Austin. Mrs. Pugh came to Mitchell county in 1879. Mrs. Pugh was a resident of Austin in 1863, when the town was captured and sacked by Indians. Funeral services were held Saturday.
7- Judith Pugh b: Abt. 1796 Virginia; d: February 1870 Redbone, Monroe, Georgia
+William B. Patterson b: 31 Oct 1797 Halifax Co., Virginia; m: 29 December 1823 Halifax Co., VA; d: 1 February 1863 Georgia
Notes for Judith Pugh:
- 1850 Monroe Co., Georgia: Wm. Patterson 50 farmer, wife Juda 50, Catherine 21, Samuel 18, Joseph 16, Phillip 12
- 1860 Redbone, Monroe, GA: Wm. Patterson 63 farmer [$3000 real estate/$3500 personal estate], wife Judy 63 (blind), Joseph 26 overseer, Rachel Williamson 13
- Probate Record for William B. Patterson: Stewart Co., GA: administration recorded 29 April 1864
8- Joseph Pugh b: Abt. 1798 in Charlotte Co., VA; d: 1876 in Bowling Green, Pike, MO
+Harriet Miller b: Abt. 1808 in Virginia; m: 19 December 1827 in Halifax Co., VA; d: 1880 Missouri
Notes for Joseph Pugh:
- 1850 Cuivre, Pike, MO: Joseph Pugh 51 farmer (VA) [$400 real estate], wife Harriet 41 (VA), Joanna 19 (VA), Martha W. 17 (VA), America 15 (VA), Philip A.J. 13 (VA), Amanda 12, Sarah F. 10, Elizabeth J. 6, Maria 4.
- 1860 Louisiana, Pike, MO: Joseph Pew 60 (VA) day laborer [$100 personal estate], wife Harriet 48 (VA), Sarah F. 22, Elizabeth 17, Mariah 14, Volna 8.
- 1870 Louisiana, Pike, MO: Joseph Pugh 70 (VA) tobacconist, wife Harriet 60 (VA).
- Thursday, 7 November 1867, The Lincoln County Herald (Troy, MO): The Louisiana Journal furnishes the following incident: A few days since, the following staunch old Democrats, whose ages average a fraction over 72 years each, all happened in, at one time, the office of our friend, J. Sam. Brown, where they enjoyed a grand old talk of old times and the Constitution and Government of our patriotic forefathers: - Wm. Tinsley, aged 82; Rodney Tinsley, 76; John Turner, 70; Joseph Pew, 68; Robert Allison, 66. We trust our venerable friends may live long after Democracy succeeds in giving us back our good old Government, now so terribly perverted by the Radical vandals.
Notes for Samuel Pugh:
- 4 March 1788: Charlotte Co., VA., Court Orders, Book 7, p. 158: Samuel Pugh was a member of a jury. [Samuel Puryear, William Puryear and Edward Finch, Exor's of John Puryear, dec'd, Pltfs vs Young Griffin and William Callicott, Defs - In Debt This day came the parties and thereupon also came a jury, Alexander Gordon, John Richardson, William Harris, Cutbirth Williamson, James Adams, Samuel Pugh, Thomas North, Lunsford Landrum, John Harvie, William Johnston, Cain Jackson and William Marshall on their oath do say the def have not paid the debt in the declaration mentioned, and the pltfs have sustained damages by default thereon one penny besides their costs. Thereupon it is ordered by the court that the pltfs recover against the defs the sum of ? 14 2 shillings, the amt in the declaration mentioned, and one penny damages, by the jury assigned thereof.]
- 1790 VA census (taken in 1782): Charlotte Co. - Pugh, Samuel, 5 (white)
- 4 Nov. 1805: Charlotte Co., VA,, Court Orders, Book 15, p. 81: William Ramsey, & Polly his wife, Plaintiffs vs Elizabeth Pugh, widow and adm'rx of Samuel Pugh, deceased, Daniel M'Craw & Elizabeth, his wife, Abraham Pugh, Nancy Pugh, John Pugh, James Pugh, Joseph Pugh and Judith Pugh; which said Nancy, John, James, Joseph and Judith are infants under the age of 21 years, Defendants - a suit in chancery.
**Parents of John Bell Pugh courtesy of Phyllis Knox, North Carolina.
Parents of Elizabeth Thomas
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