Elizabeth Evans Pegues

b. 21 March 1830, d. 16 October 1867
  • Elizabeth Evans Pegues was born on 21 March 1830 in Cheraw District, South Carolina.
  • She was known as Eliza.
  • Eliza Hodges Evans appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Athens, Dallas County, Alabama, enumerated next to Mary F. Vanorden Bouchell, granddaughter of Eliza's husband's older brother William Pegues. Also in the household was Episcopal clergyman R. A. Cobbs, presumably the brother of Dolly Pegues' future husband.. Other members of the household included Elizabeth Evans Pegues, Nicholas Bedgegood Pegues, Charles Augustus Pegues, Charlotte Powe Pegues, Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues and Dollie Evans Pegues.
  • She married Alexander Knowles Shepard, son of Seth Shepard and Mary Fontaine Williams, on 12 January 1858 in Dallas County, Alabama.
  • Alexander Knowles Shepard and Elizabeth Evans Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Uniontown PO, Perry County, Alabama. Children Alexander and Mary are not enumerated in the household.
  • Elizabeth Evans Pegues died on 16 October 1867 at age 37 in Dallas County, Alabama.
  • Her husband Alexander Knowles Shepard became a widower at her death.
  • She was interred at the Pegues Family Cemetery, Safford, Dallas County, Alabama. buried with her infant son Charles.
  • Last Edited: 28 Feb 2015

Family: Alexander Knowles Shepard b. 16 May 1819, d. 21 October 1898