Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues
b. 8 April 1836, d. 19 October 1900
Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues, 1836-1900
- Father: Christopher Butler Pegues b. 6 January 1789, d. 30 June 1846
- Mother: Eliza Hodges Evans b. 11 January 1793, d. 24 November 1888
- Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues was born on 8 April 1836 in Cheraw District, South Carolina.
- 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 Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues, Nicholas Bedgegood Pegues, Charles Augustus Pegues, Elizabeth Evans Pegues, Charlotte Powe Pegues and Dollie Evans Pegues.
- He married Ann Elizabeth Saunders, daughter of James Michael Saunders, on 14 December 1859 in Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi, and Annie Elizabeth's sister Mary Catherine married Samuel Wilds Gillespie's brother Nicholas Bedgegood 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, Ann Elizabeth Saunders.
- He was a planter, according to the 1860 census.
- 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 Christopher Butler Pegues, Walter Pegues, Mary Vernon Pegues, Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues Jr., Eliza E. Pegues, Eliza Hodges Evans and Fanny Grey Pegues. Niece "Fannie" was the daughter of Samuel's deceased brother Christopher Claudius Pegues.
- He was a farmer, according to the 1870 census.
- 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 Walter Pegues, Mary Vernon Pegues, Eliza E. Pegues, Helen Pegues, Annie E. Pegues, Henrietta Ellen Pegues and Eliza Hodges Evans.
- He was a school teacher, according to the 1880 census.
- Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, enumerated as a patient in the Bryce Hospital for the Insane.
- Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues died on 19 October 1900 at age 64 in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
- His wife Ann Elizabeth Saunders became a widow at his death.
- He was interred at Evergreen Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
- Last Edited: 13 Aug 2015
Family: Ann Elizabeth Saunders b. 6 October 1840, d. 28 June 1939
- Christopher Butler Pegues b. 2 November 1860, d. 15 November 1908
- Walter Pegues b. circa 1862, d. 3 June 1917
- Mary Vernon Pegues+ b. 4 July 1865, d. 3 May 1908
- Samuel Wilds Gillespie Pegues Jr. b. circa 1868, d. between 1870 and 1880
- Eliza E. Pegues b. November 1869
- Helen Pegues b. circa November 1873
- Nell Pegues b. circa October 1875
- Annie E. Pegues b. circa November 1876, d. 11 September 1940
- Henrietta Ellen Pegues b. July 1879
- Harry Toulmin Pegues b. 22 November 1881, d. December 1958