Daisy E. McKie

Daisy E. McKie

• Father: John Herndon McKie b. 4 April 1840, d. 30 May 1876
• Mother: Sarah Ann McKie b. 9 October 1843, d. 29 October 1934

• Daisy E. McKie was born on 2 August 1869 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
• She married Josiah Evans Pegues, son of Nicholas Bedgegood Pegues and Mary Catherine Saunders, on 17 January 1891 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
• Daisy E. McKie became a widow at the 19 April 1948 death of her husband Josiah Evans Pegues.
• The following appeared on 8 June 1952 in The Delta Democrat-Times: (Cleveland) Services for Miss Mary Louise Pegues, who died Thursday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. H. T. Griffith in Cleveland, were held Friday afternoon at St. Peters Episcopal Church at Oxford.
       The Rev. Mr. Christian of Vicksburg and the Rev. Mr. Asgar of Oxvord officiated. Burial followed in the Oxford cemetery with Thweatt Funeral Home of Cleveland in charge.
       Miss Pegues, who was 55, was a native of Oxford. An art graduate from L.S.U., Baton Rouge, La., she attended the Fine Arts Academy at New York City, and Chester Fine Arts Academy at Chester Springs, Pa. For many years she was a member of the school faculty at Frias Point, Miss., and later taught Art at All Saint's College in Vicksburg for 12 years. She was well known in this State for some of her works, especially for portrait work. She had long been ill and had retired from the teaching profession.
       She leaves her mother, Mrs. J. E. Pegues of Oxford; a brother, John McKie Pegues, also of Oxford, and three sisters, Mrs. Marguerite Smith and Mrs. H. T. Griffith, both of Cleveland and Miss Juliette Pegues of Oxford.
• Daisy E. McKie died on 11 August 1955 at age 86 in Lafayette County, Mississippi.
• She was interred at Oxford Memorial Cemetery, Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi.

• Last Edited: 3 Mar 2015

• Charts: Descendants of PEGUES Claudius & Marcia Saunders