Mary Elizabeth Pegues

Mary Elizabeth Pegues

• Father: Benjamin Franklin Pegues b. 7 April 1814, d. 9 February 1881
• Mother: Sarah Ann Wilds Gillespie b. 26 June 1821, d. 25 April 1904

• Mary Elizabeth Pegues was born on 1 January 1852 in South Carolina.
• She was known as Minnie.
• Benjamin Franklin Pegues and Sarah Ann Wilds Gillespie appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Bennettsville, Marlboro District, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Mary Elizabeth Pegues, Julia Mary Pegues, Lucy Pegues, Harriet S. J. Pegues, John T. Mason, Sara Olivia Pegues, Nannie Gillespie Pegues, Ella Lee Pegues, Martha S. Pegues, Sue Sparks Pegues and B. Frank Pegues.
• Benjamin Franklin Pegues and Sarah Ann Wilds Gillespie appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Smithville Township, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Mary Elizabeth Pegues, Lucy Pegues, Harriet S. J. Pegues, Nannie Gillespie Pegues, Ella Lee Pegues, Martha S. Pegues, Sue Sparks Pegues, Samuel F. Pegues and Edmond Waddill Pegues.
• She married William DeWitt Evans, son of Samuel Wilds Evans and Alexina Wallace, circa 1872, doubtless some relation, witness his father's name Samuel Wilds Evans and her mother Sarah Ann Wilds Gillespie.
• William DeWitt Evans and Mary Elizabeth Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Bennettsville, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Alexina Wallace Evans, Harriet Evans and Nelle Pegues Evans.
• William DeWitt Evans and Mary Elizabeth Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in South Smithville, Marlboro County, South Carolina. Other members of the household included Alexina Wallace Evans, Nelle Pegues Evans, Samuel Wilds Evans, Franklin Pegues Evans, Josiah James Evans, Elizabeth Godfrey Evans, Thomas Smith Evans, Nannie Keitt Evans and Margaret D. Evans.
• The following appeared on 28 April 1904 in The State: (Bennettsville, April 27) Mrs. Sarah Ann Wilds Pegues died at the home of her son, Maj. Rufus M. Pegues, in the upper part of this county late yesterday afternoon, at the age of 84. The funeral services were held at New Hope cemetery this afternoon. Mrs. Pegues was the wife of the late Col. B. Frank Pegues, and the mother of Waddell Pegues of Mississippi, Samuel F. Pegues of McColl, Mrs. W. W. Pegues of Pegues, N.C., Miss Lucy Pegues and Mrs. W. D. Evans of Kollock.
       [There is slight inaccuracy in the obituary with regard to identifying Rufus Pegues as her son; he was a son-in-law, husband of her deceased daughter Sarah Olivia, and also a nephew, son of her husband's brother Wesley Leatherwood Pegues.]
• William DeWitt Evans and Mary Elizabeth Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, at Third Street. Other members of the household included Franklin Pegues Evans, Alexina Wallace Evans, Thomas Smith Evans, Elizabeth Godfrey Evans, Nannie Keitt Evans, Margaret D. Evans and Lucy Pegues. Also in the household were four young male boarders -- a druggist and four civil engineers employed by the railroad.
• Mary Elizabeth Pegues became a widow at the 10 April 1913 death of her husband William DeWitt Evans.
• Mary Elizabeth Pegues died on 28 March 1925 at age 73 in Bennettsville, Marlboro County, South Carolina.
• She was interred at Old Saint David's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina.

• Last Edited: 4 Feb 2015

• Charts: Descendants of PEGUES Claudius & Marcia Saunders