Thomas Evans Bedgegood Pegues

b. 9 December 1812, d. 7 December 1874
  • Thomas Evans Bedgegood Pegues was born on 9 December 1812 in Cheraw District, South Carolina.
  • He married Charlotte Johnson Pegues, daughter of Malachi Pegues and Charlotte Johnson, on 23 October 1834 in Cheraw District, South Carolina, first cousins; their fathers were brothers.
  • By Act No. 65 of the Alabama Legislature, approved 21 December 1836, incorporation of the Lexington & Woodville Railroad Company, with Lewis B. Mosely president, and James Williams, Rufus W. Greeting, Thomas E. B. Pegues, Benjamin F. Adams, William Chapman, Peter Vanorden, John Shields, William J. McKerall, James B. Chambers, Abner C. Mobley and John F. Huckaby, as directors, the railroad to commence at Lexington, on the Alabama river, in the county of Dallas, and extend to some oint at or near Woodville, in the County of Perry, with a branch from some convenient point to the town of Greensborough, in the county of Green, whenever it may seem proper so to do.
  • Thomas Evans Bedgegood Pegues and Charlotte Johnson Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Paris PO, Lafayette County, Mississippi. Other members of the household included Florence Pegues and M. Lily Pegues. Also in the household was Jarilla? Pegues, age 21, born in Tennessee, likely a niece, but origins not yet known.
  • He was a planter, according to the 1860 census.
  • He applied to Andrew Johnson for a presidential pardon on 10 July 1865, accompanied by an oath of allegiance dated 12 July 1865, and was pardoned 5 October 1865.
  • Thomas Evans Bedgegood Pegues and Charlotte Johnson Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi. M. H. Pegues likely was a niece, but her origins are not yet known.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1870 census.
  • His wife Charlotte Johnson Pegues became a widow at his death.
  • Thomas Evans Bedgegood Pegues died on 7 December 1874 at age 61 in Cheraw District, South Carolina.
  • Last Edited: 22 May 2012

Family: Charlotte Johnson Pegues b. 12 October 1814, d. 24 March 1883