Junietta Rosalee Whittington

b. 8 December 1854, d. 12 February 1926
  • Junietta Rosalee Whittington was born on 8 December 1854 in Alabama.
  • Eugenia Eliza Matilda Williams appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Milo, Pike County, Alabama, enumerated next to her brother Wiley Keith and their mother.. Other members of the household included Junietta Rosalee Whittington, Jasper Bunyan Whittington, Josephine V. Whittington and John R. Whittington.
  • Eugenia Eliza Matilda Williams appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Bellevue PO, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, enumerated next to her mother Mary Keith.. Other members of the household included Junietta Rosalee Whittington, Jasper Bunyan Whittington.
  • She married Lewis J. Dye on 4 January 1872 in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, apparently by license issued 29 December.
  • Sometime before her marriage to M. Montgomery, Junietta went to Grimes County to her sister Josephine Wilcox.
  • She married M. Montgomery on 5 January 1877 in Grimes County, Texas.
  • She married William Crosland Pegues, son of Christopher James Pegues and Ann Elizabeth Cosnahan, on 16 July 1878 in Grimes County, Texas, by license issued in Grimes County on the 12th, with A. W. Smith officiating.
  • William Crosland Pegues and Junietta Rosalee Whittington appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Christopher James Pegues, Allie Hampton Montgomery and Jennie Decima Pegues.
  • Junietta Rosalee Whittington became a widow at the 14 January 1899 death of her husband William Crosland Pegues.
  • Junietta Rosalee Whittington appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Other members of the household included Mary Zula Pegues and William Clyde Pegues. Census enumerator was R. D. Whittington.
  • She was a farmer, according to the 1910 census.
  • William Clyde Pegues registered for the draft on 6 June 1917 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, while single and living with his mother, employed as a salesman by H. Rose Manufacturing Company in Shreveport.
  • Junietta Rosalee Whittington appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, at 260 Wall Street.
  • Junietta Rosalee Whittington died on 12 February 1926 at age 71 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, at 304 Rutherford Street at her residence. . Her death was officially witnessed by Allie Hampton Montgomery.
  • She was interred at Greenwood Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
  • Last Edited: 10 Sep 2015

Family 1: Lewis J. Dye

Family 2: M. Montgomery

Family 3: William Crosland Pegues b. 3 September 1838, d. 14 January 1899