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wortiB.DEATH OF MRS. I. C, P1TQH.A Noble Woman Gone to Jolt Her Husband Over There.Fro™ Tuesday’s Daily,Mrs. Elvira E, Pagh, widow of Got lease O. Pngb, who wad in the MqiiOm war and was the gallant colonel of the 41st Illinois regiment, died this morning at her home on North Main street, in th» 77ch year of lier age. Several weeks ag* the deceived wee prostrated by an. attack of la grippe, She bad partly recovered, bat the immediate cause of hoc death waa enenriem. Site was □ ncodec io as since Send ay, Mrs. Pugh had lived in Deo at sir since 1831, having coins here at that early period from Vandalia The deceased was a true patriotic womat who gave her husband two eons to assist io the preear ration of the Union. She was earnest, zealous and active in every j good work.Elvira E. Gorin was born December lft : 1814, ia Todd county. Ky. She was the daughter of Judge John D. and Martha Gorin, and a sister of Maria Kickmao, ofWinchester, III,; J, R, Gorin, of Decatur and Gladden Gorin, of Kansas City, Mj.On August % 1831, at Vnodalia, UL, tbs deoeaeed became the wits of Col. Isaac 0. Pugh, who died in November, 1874. Io 1831 Mrs. Pugh came to Decatur, andhad since resided here. She woo tbs mother of eleven children, font of whom, survive. They are Mrs. Maria M. Lowry, widow of Captain J. M, Lowry, of Decs* tur; John H. Pugh, of Union, Mo.; Mia Y, I. Gi Ilham, of Ft. Scott, Kan ess, and Mrs. Alain H. Mark, of Decatur. Since 1833 Mrs. Pugh hud been a member el the Methodiet church.
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Decatur Weekly Republican
Decatur, Illinois, US
Thu, Apr 09, 1891
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