Charles Irby Pegues

b. 17 May 1894, d. 13 June 1961
  • Charles Irby Pegues was born on 17 May 1894 in South Carolina.
  • Walter Dickinson Pegues and Ida Burch Irby appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Charles Irby Pegues, Olivia A. Pegues, Mary Ethel Pegues, Barnwell Eugene Pegues and Julia M. Pegues.
  • Walter Dickinson Pegues and Ida Burch Irby appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, at Huger Street. Other members of the household included Charles Irby Pegues, Olivia A. Pegues, Mary Ethel Pegues, Barnwell Eugene Pegues, Julia M. Pegues, Jane O. Pegues, Julia Rembert Irby, Franklin Pegues Irby and Rebecca Evans Irby.
  • He was employed as a lineman by a power company, according to the 1920 census.
  • The following appeared on 15 February 1932 in The Charlotte Observer: (Cheraw, S. C., Feb 14) Mrs. Walter D. Pegues, 67, member of a prominent Cheraw and Marlboro county family, died Sunday afternoon at her home here from a stroke of paralysis which she suffered Sunday morning. Before her marriage, she was Miss Ida Irby, daughter of William W. and Julia Mary Pegues Irby of Marlboro county where she was reared.
         She is survived by her husband and four children, Misses Olivia, Ethel and Julia Pegues of Cheraw and Charlie Pegues of Raleigh; two brothers, Joe Irby of Cheraw and William Irby of Florida; and two sisters, Miss Julia and Rebecca Irby of Florida. The funeral arrangements have not been completed.
  • Charles Irby Pegues died on 13 June 1961 at age 67.
  • He was interred at Old Saint David's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.
  • Last Edited: 14 Aug 2015