Samuel Franklin Pugh

I'm back! The school year is over, and I've finally had a chance to get back to work on genealogy. Regular posts will be added again once a week.

We start back with Samuel Franklin Pugh.

Samuel Franklin Pugh was born 19 August 1843 in Randolph County, North Carolina. He was the second of at least nine children born to Jesse Arlendo Pugh and Catherine Keziah Lineberry.

Samuel Franklin Pugh married Martha Elizabeth Smith on 18 April 1866 in Davidson County, North Carolina. She was the oldest child of John Benjamine Smith and Christina Charlotte Walk. Together, they had at least the following children:

• Jesse Arlendo Pugh, born 10 May 1867
• Loucina Christina Pugh, born 31 October 1868
• Theodore Franklin Pugh, born 10 February 1870
• Utensia Bell Pugh, born 25 April 1872
• Cora A Pugh, born 11 June 1875
• Samuel Amick Pugh, born 25 July 1876
• John Wesley Pugh, born 29 March 1879
• Albert Clarkson Pugh, born 16 January 1881
• Jane Estelle Pugh, born 18 September 1884
• Robert K Pugh, born 8 September 1886

Samuel got married the year after the U.S. Civil War. Samuel served in the Confederate Army in the Cavalry. I'll save the details of his service for another post, but I'm curious if Martha and Samuel were sweethearts before the War or if they met after it had ended. I believe Martha and Samuel were cousins since Martha's grandmother was a Lineberry (like Samuel's mother), but I haven't pinpointed the exact relationship yet.

Martha died on 15 September 1921. Samuel later remarried to Sarah E. Julian. She was born 30 January 1853 in North Carolina to John Julian and Elizabeth Love. As far as I can tell, they had no children together.

As far as I can tell, Sarah had no children to any of her three husbands. She first married on 23 November 1902 to Thomas Franklin Millikan, who was born 9 September 1846 and died 17 January 1924. If Sarah married Samuel after the death of her first husband, that means they must have married between Thomas' death in January 1924 and Samuel's death on 25 April 1925. That's a relatively short marriage. I wondered what could have caused Samuel to die so shortly after his marriage to Sarah. According to his death certificate, he died of heart dropsy.

Taken from Death Certificate, Samuel Franklin Pugh

Dropsy is what they used to call swelling of the soft tissue due to excess water. Now, we often call this edema. More than likely, since it was specified as "heart dropsy," this was the result of congestive heart failure.

After Samuel died, Sarah married Jeremiah Osburn. She remained married to him until the day she died (24 March 1929).

Samuel and Martha are buried in Grays Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery in Franklinville, North Carolina. Sarah is buried in Bethany United Methodist Church Cemetery, also in Franklinville, North Carolina.

Sources

• 1850 Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1860 New Salem, Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1870 Sandy Creek, New Salem, Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1880 New Salem, Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1900 Providence, Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1910 Providence, Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1920 Providence, Randolph County, North Carolina U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• North Carolina Marriage Index (accessed on Ancestry)
• Death Certificate, Samuel Franklin Pugh (accessed on Ancestry)
• Death Certificate, Martha Elizabeth Pugh (accessed on Ancestry)
• Death Certificate, Sarah Julian Osburn (accessed on Ancestry)
• MedicineNet.com

Greenberry Bobbitt

The following is a repost of my Civil War Souls post.

Greenberry Bobbitt was born 1 May 1845 in Grayson County, Virginia to Charles Bobbitt and Sarah DeFries.

Greenberry Bobbitt enlisted in the 45th Virginia Infantry, Company E on 3 April 1862 at "C. Narrows" in Giles County, Virginia with Lieutenant Colonel Peters for the duration of the War.

Taken from Service Records

On 20 April 1862, he is listed as receiving $50 bounty pay. Further investigation would be required to figure out why he was being paid a bounty.

Taken from Service Records

After the bounty pay, I lose Greenberry for two years in the War. I do know, however, that Greenberry got married in that timespan. He married Nancy Jane Bryant in Surry County, North Carolina on 19 October 1862.

Perhaps he feared he wouldn't return home. Perhaps he had to show her what she meant to him. Or perhaps he was simply home waiting for orders during this time I can't find him in the muster rolls. Whatever the circumstances, they seem to have married before the War, but they didn't start their family until later.

The next time I see him back with the Company is when he appears on a muster on 1 April 1864. Then, just a few months later, on 5 June 1864, he is captured at Piedmont, Virginia.

Taken from Service Records

He is shown as a POW at Staunton, Virginia by 8 June 1864. Within just a few weeks though, he appears at Camp Morton in Indianapolis, Indiana. He seems to remain at Camp Morton until he is sent to City Point, Virginia on 4 March 1865 for a prisoner exchange. It is noted that his route to City Point was to go through Baltimore, Maryland.

I assume he made it home shortly after the prisoner exchange because Nancy had their first child about a year later.

Together, they had at least the following children:

• Amanda Bobbitt, born about 1866
• Emaline Bobbitt, born about 1869
• Martin Van Buren Bobbitt, born about 1871
• Charles Bobbitt, born about 1873
• Andy Bobbitt, born about 1875
• Rosabel Bobbitt, born about 1879
• Sarah A. Bobbitt, born January 1883
• William M. Bobbitt, born May 1884
• Norman Hale Bobbitt, born 8 March 1889
• Payton Bobbitt, born about April 1889
• Peter Bobbitt, born about 1891

By the 1910 census that Nancy lists two of her 11 children had died by 1910.

Clipping from 1910 Fancy Gap, VA Census

Greenberry later married Betty Jane Moore. Together, they had at least two children:

• Maggie Jean Bobbitt, born 29 June 1919
• John Green Bobbitt, born 25 June 1924

Greenberry died 31 May 1931 in Carroll County, Virginia. He is buried at Flincham Cemetery, Lambsburg, Carroll County, Virginia. Betty Jane died 28 September 1965. She is buried at Chestnut Grove Church Cemetery, Lambsburg, Carroll County, Virginia.

Sources:

• 1850 Grayson County, Virginia U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1860 Wolfe Glade, Carroll County, Virginia U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1870 Fancy Gap, Carroll County, Virginia U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1880 Fancy Gap, Carroll County, Virginia U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1900 Fancy Gap, Carroll County, Virginia U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1910 Fancy Gap, Carroll County, Virginia U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1920 Fancy Gap, Carroll County, Virginia U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• 1930 Fancy Gap, Carroll County, Virginia U.S. Federal Census (accessed on Ancestry)
• Death Certificate, Betty Jean Bobbitt (accessed on Ancestry)
• Death Certificate, Green Bobbitt (accessed on Ancestry)
• Death Certificate, Norman Bobbitt (accessed on Ancestry)
• Surry County Marriage Records, Grenbery Bobit and Nancy J. Brint (accessed on Ancestry)
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia (accessed on Fold3)
• WWII Draft Card, John Green Bobbitt (accessed on Ancestry)

No Post This Week

I had my first DAR meeting as an officer this weekend, so I did not have a chance to prepare a post. Instead, I will leave you with a photo I took at Gettysburg during the 150th anniversary of the Battle.

Copyright, 2013

While I don't know if any men from Randolph County fought with this unit, Ramseur is the name of a town in Randolph County, so I was convinced there had to be a connection. Sure enough, Ramseur was named after Confederate General Stephen Dodson Ramseur. I hope to do a post on him in the future.