Benjamin F. Pegues
b. circa 1852
- Father: Oliver Hazard Perry Pegues b. 20 May 1807, d. 12 February 1875
- Mother: Nancy Adeline Purcell b. 18 September 1823, d. 22 July 1858
- Benjamin F. Pegues was born circa 1852 in Texas.
- Oliver Hazard Perry Pegues appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Cotton Plant PO, Rusk County, Texas. Other members of the household included Benjamin F. Pegues, James Alston Pegues, John G. Pegues, Eugenia Pegues, Ann Eliza Pegues, Massilon Pittman Pegues, Oliver Hazard Pegues, Mary Jane Pegues, Albert G. Pegues and Libbie T. Pegues. Also in the household was Sibbie/Libbie Pegues (age 20), born in Texas, whose origins are not yet known.
- Philip Alston Pegues and Mary Eliza Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Henderson PO, Rusk County, Texas. Other members of the household included Benjamin F. Pegues, Lela Francis Pegues, Emma Eliza Pegues, Philip Thomas Pegues, Gus F. Pegues and Mollie Brown Pegues.
- He was farming, according to the 1870 census.
- He married Dannie E. Dyer, daughter of Dickson Henry Dyer and Sophronia Godley, on 9 June 1873 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and Dannie's sister Henrie married Ben's brother Oliver.
- Benjamin F. Pegues and Dannie E. Dyer appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Gregg County, Texas. Other members of the household included Alfred Franklin Pegues, Henry Galt Pegues and Albert G. Pegues.
- He was employed making railroad cross-ties, according to the 1880 census.
- Last Edited: 19 Mar 2015
Family: Dannie E. Dyer b. circa 1854
- Alfred Franklin Pegues+ b. circa 11 November 1876, d. 6 April 1940
- Henry Galt Pegues+ b. 1 June 1879, d. 10 September 1952
- Dan Dyer Pegues b. 25 July 1880, d. 4 September 1968