Claudius Pegues

Claudius Pegues

• Father: Claudius Pegues
• Mother: (?) Zwilt

• Claudius Pegues was born on 26 March 1719 in London, England.
• He married (?) Unknown.
• He married Henrietta Butler, daughter of Christopher Butler and Abigail (?), on 17 July 1749 in Georgetown, Georgetown, South Carolina.
• Claudius Pegues died on 22 January 1790 at age 70 in Cheraw District, South Carolina.
• He was interred at the Old Pegues Burial Ground, Wallace, Marlborough District, South Carolina. At the time of his burial, the place was in Craven County, Province of South Carolina.
• The following appeared on 1 August 1929 in The Charlotte Observer: (Bennettsville, S.C., July 31) Olin M. Pegues, prominent citizen, died at his country home in upper Marlboro county today after an illness of several months.
       He was five times elected to the legislature from this county, and there gave honest and disinterested service of high type, frequently to the sacrifice of his health and personal welfare.
       He inherited and emulated the high tradition that public service, faithfully and unostentatiously rendered, was an obligation running with the land and with his citizenship.
       His early landowning ancestor, captain Claudius Pegues, was the first provincial legislator resident of the Pee Dee before the revolutionary war, and the first house member from Marlboro county when it was formed immediately after the revolution.
       In all the years that have since passed, the Pegues family has clung to its original land holdings, and has made its steady and quiet contribution to the public welfare, at the old home of his ancestors. [A]t the old home of his ancestors Olin Pegues lived and died, winning solid reputation for his integrity, and the growing and lasting affection of many friends. Her was 56 years old, an early graduate of Clemson college, and one of the large planters of Marlboro county, the son of Major Rufus M. Pegues and his wife Sallie Olivia Pegues.
       Mr. Pegues is survived by his wife, Mary, the daughter of the late F. B. Pegues, and one daughter, Mary Louise Pegues.
       In the death of Olin M. Pegues the county and state have lost a useful and honorable citizen.

• Last Edited: 25 Apr 2015