William Allen Pegues

b. 24 November 1820, d. 27 March 1858
  • William Allen Pegues was born on 24 November 1820 in Chesterfield District, South Carolina.
  • Claudius M. Pegues and Eliza Pledger appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1830 in Wilcox County, Alabama. Other (counted but unnamed) members of the household apparently included William Allen Pegues, John Pegues, Henry William Pegues, Joseph Pegues and James M. Pegues.
  • Claudius M. Pegues and Eliza Pledger appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1840 in Wilcox County, Alabama. Other (counted but unnamed) members of the household apparently included William Allen Pegues, John Pegues, Henry William Pegues, Joseph Pegues and James M. Pegues. Also in the household were males aged 50-59 and 0-4, and one female aged 10-14 (who may have been Eliza Pegues enumerated with the family in 1850).
  • He married Elizabeth Ann Guy, daughter of Thomas Terrell Guy and Mary Whitehead Greening, on 21 March 1849 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. William Allen Pegues was the son of Claudius, who was the eldest brother of Elizabeth's mother's second husband John S. Pegues and her sister Mary Frances' husband Charles Stuart Pegues. They had at least five children who did not survive to adulthood, all buried in the Pegues-Stephenson cemetery, and a daughter Harriet who married J. L. McClanahan but has no living descendants..
  • William Allen Pegues and Elizabeth Ann Guy appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. Other members of the household included Fanny Pegues.
  • He was a planter, according to the 1850 census.
  • William Allen Pegues died on 27 March 1858 at age 37 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
  • His wife Elizabeth Ann Guy became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at the Pegues-Stephenson Cemetery, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
  • Last Edited: 26 Mar 2015

Family: Elizabeth Ann Guy b. 30 September 1830, d. 14 July 1902