Pugh, Mary A. (Brown) 1820 - 1906

PUGH, BROWN, HILDEBRANDT, MCLANE

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 3/14/2017 at 10:38:35

Elkader Register, Thur., 15 Mar. 1906. Littleport column.

Grandma Pugh died last Tuesday. The funeral was held Thursday, Rev. True, of Edgewood, officiating. She was ninety years of age and has left a large circle of friends

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Same paper and date. Strawberry Point column.

Yesterday morning Mrs. Pugh, aged 83 years, passed away at the home of her son, Fremont Pugh, south of Mederville. The funeral will be held today.

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Added by S. Ferrall 3/15/2017:

Mary Ann (Brown) Pugh, w/o Hugh Pugh (d. 1887, buried Noble cemetery). She was age 49 on the 1870 census.

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Added by S. Ferrall 7/3/2023:

On Wednesday, March 7, occurred the death of Grandma Pugh at the home of her son Fremont Pugh. She was the widow of Hugh Pugh. The funeral services were held at the residence of her youngest son on Thursday and ere conducted by Rev. C.H. True of Edgewood, interment being beside her husband in the Nobles cemetery east of this city.

Mary Ann Brown, as Mrs. Pugh was known in her girlhood days, was born in the state of New York, Feb. 6, 1820. She was married to Hugh Pugh in Crawsford County, Ohio Nov. 2, 1847, and came to Illinois in 1847, still later, she moved to Lodomillo township in this county in 1854, where she has since resided.

She was the mother of eleven children of which five are now living, Mrs. S.A. Hildebrandt, Luther P. and Fremont Pugh, and Mrs. Alice McLane of Lodomillo and Mrs. Mary E. McLane of Elkport. Connected with the family there were also twenty-five grand children and thirty-one great grandchildren.

Mr. Pugh died in 1888.

At the time of her death, Mrs. Pugh was above eighty-six years of age. For nearly fifty-two years she had been a resident of the neighborhood long known as Pugh's Hollow.

In early life the deceased united with the United Brethren Church, and after coming to Iowa her membership was transferred to the Free Baptist church, which was organized in an early day in Lodomillo township.

~Mail Press, Thursday, March 15, 1906; pg 7