Eliza Hodges Evans
b. 11 January 1793, d. 24 November 1888
-1793-1888-1888-portrait,-mpw-history.jpg "Eliza Hodges Evans Pegues, 1793-1888")
Eliza Hodges Evans Pegues, 1793-1888
- Father: Thomas Evans b. circa 1743, d. 11 November 1800
- Mother: Elizabeth Hodges b. circa 1745, d. 20 November 1798
- Eliza Hodges Evans was born on 11 January 1793 in Cheraw District, South Carolina.
- She married Christopher Butler Pegues, son of Claudius Pegues Jr. and Marcia Saunders, on 28 October 1811 in Cheraw District, South Carolina.
- Eliza Hodges Evans became a widow at the 30 June 1846 death of her husband Christopher Butler Pegues.
- 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 Nicholas Bedgegood Pegues, Charles Augustus Pegues, Elizabeth Evans Pegues, Charlotte Powe Pegues, Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues and Dollie Evans Pegues.
- Eliza Hodges Evans appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Athens, Dallas County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues and Ann Elizabeth Saunders.
- Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues and Ann Elizabeth Saunders appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Athens, Dallas County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Eliza Hodges Evans, Christopher Butler Pegues, Walter Pegues, Mary Vernon Pegues, Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues Jr., Eliza E. Pegues and Fanny Grey Pegues. Niece "Fannie" was the daughter of Samuel's deceased brother Christopher Claudius Pegues.
- Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues and Ann Elizabeth Saunders appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Pences Precinct, Dallas County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Eliza Hodges Evans, Walter Pegues, Mary Vernon Pegues, Eliza E. Pegues, Helen Pegues, Annie E. Pegues and Henrietta Ellen Pegues.
- Eliza Hodges Evans died on 24 November 1888 at age 95 in Montgomery, Alabama.
- She was interred at the Pegues Family Cemetery, Safford, Dallas County, Alabama.
- Last Edited: 28 Feb 2015
Family: Christopher Butler Pegues b. 6 January 1789, d. 30 June 1846
- Thomas Evans Bedgegood Pegues+ b. 9 December 1812, d. 7 December 1874
- Rebecca Ann Evans Pegues+ b. 14 January 1816, d. 1 May 1889
- Catherine Bedgegood Pegues+ b. 11 September 1817, d. 24 May 1878
- Francis Gillespie Pegues b. 7 July 1819, d. 12 March 1847
- Nicholas Bedgegood Pegues+ b. 1 January 1821, d. 10 August 1894
- Christopher Claudius Pegues+ b. 3 August 1823, d. 17 July 1862
- Josiah James Pegues+ b. 19 July 1825, d. 23 May 1906
- Charles Augustus Pegues+ b. 26 June 1827, d. 25 December 1896
- Elizabeth Evans Pegues+ b. 21 March 1830, d. 16 October 1867
- Charlotte Powe Pegues b. 17 July 1832, d. 28 December 1896
- Dollie Evans Pegues b. 12 August 1834, d. 6 December 1916
- Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues+ b. 8 April 1836, d. 19 October 1900