Eliza Jane (Pugh) Wilson (1848 - 1921)

Born 23 Sep 1848 in Centerville, Wayne, Indiana, United States

Ancestors

Wife of James William Wilson — married 7 Sep 1870 in Centerville, Wayne, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Aug 1921 at age 72 in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States

Biography

Her mother died when she (Eliza) was about 16 months old, and is buried at the older cemetery in Centreville, alongside of the Pennsylvania R. R. tracks, in the same plot with William Pugh and three babies of the William Pughs, and while there is no marker, I believe that John is there.

Mom, as she wanted to be called was short, stocky and sturdy and as I lived in her home for some of the earlier years, I remember her as kind and an indefatigueable indefatigable worker, lively and quite social. Her greatest delight was to beat the mayor in the sleigh races on North A. Street.

She always kept a horse that could step out in the barn at the end of the lot, at 200 South 13 Street until the automobile came into general use. She and Pop were generous and helped us through many periods of Dad's unemployment. In those days there was no social security or unemployment insurance.

When diphtheria struck Richmond in epidemic proportions in the late nineties, she (Mom) moved into the house, 214 South 13 Street (I was then living with Pop and Ed at the old Wilson home, 200 South 13 Street) and stood with Mother and Dad at the burials of the two little sisters, two weeks apart, Irene and Elizabeth, in the Railsback plot in Earlham Cemetery. ^[1]

Eliza was born in 1848.^[2] She is the daughter of John Pugh^[2] and Elvonia Railsback.^[2] On 7 Sep 1870, Eliza married James Wilson.^[3][4] She passed away in 1921.^[2][4]

US Census Collection

Sources

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX62-3TQ : 8 June 2019), Amanda M Wilson, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX62-Z8F : 28 May 2021), Eliza J Pugh in entry for John E Pugh, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHST-RP3 : 19 February 2021), James Wilson, Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district ED 73, sheet 367D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,322.
• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M99L-336 : accessed 27 May 2017), Irene Taggart in household of James W Wilson, Wayne Township Richmond city Ward 6, Wayne, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 172, sheet 1B, family 12, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,412.
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKRZ-YNL : accessed 21 October 2021), James W Wilson, Richmond Ward 6, Wayne, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 199, sheet 1B, family 30, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 388; FHL microfilm 1,374,401.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41703605/eliza-jane-wilson : accessed 20 October 2021), memorial page for Eliza Jane Pugh Wilson (1849–1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID 41703605, citing Crown Hill Cemetery, Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by Doug Christian (contributor 47107862)

1. ↑ Family History --Harold F. Taggart ca 1964
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-201
3. ↑ Indiana, Marriages, 1810-2001
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935

Acknowledgements

• This profile was created by George Field through the import of Eliza J Pugh.ged on Feb 25, 2014