Flora Meta Piehler

Flora Meta Piehler

• Father: Franz Piehler
• Mother: Lennie (?)

• Flora Meta Piehler was born on 12 March 1891 in Illinois.
• She married Albert Shipp Pegues, son of Wesley Leatherwood Pegues and Olivia Amanda Dickinson, circa 1923.
• Albert Shipp Pegues and Flora Meta Piehler appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, at 649 Van Cortland Avenue.
• Albert Shipp Pegues and Flora Meta Piehler appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, at 274 Park Hill Avenue. Other members of the household included Barbara Ellen Pegues and Robert Shipp Pegues.
• Flora Meta Piehler became a widow at the 27 August 1960 death of her husband Albert Shipp Pegues.
• The following appeared on 29 August 1960 in The Herald Statesman: Dr. Albert Shipp Pegues, retired professor emeritus at New York University, died Saturday at his home, 461 Riverdale Ave. [Yonkers], after a short illness.
       Born in Cheraw, S.C., Feb. 19, 1875, he was graduated from Wofford College in Spartansburg, S.C., and did graduate work at the University of Chicago and Cornell University. He was conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from Southwestern University where he was dean of the English Department for many years.
       Also dean of the English Department aat Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, Dr. Pegues came here in 1919 and taught English literature in NYU's School of Education until his retirement in 1945.
       He is survived by his wife, the former Flora Piehler, a daughter, Mrs. Ellen Robertson of Rumsson, N.J., former organist and choir director of the Lincoln Park Community Church here; a son, Robert Shipp Pegues of Yorktown Heights; and six grandchildren.
• The SSDI lists Navesink, Monmouth Counry, New Jersey, as the last residence of record of Flora Meta Piehler.
• Flora Meta Piehler died in November 1983 at age 92.

• Last Edited: 4 Nov 2014

• Charts: Descendants of PEGUES Claudius & Marcia Saunders