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Surnames: PUGH, CHEENEY
Classification: Obituary
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Chesterton Tribune
June 18, 1885
Died: - of consumption, in Barton, Kansas, James Pugh, Jr., on Tuesday, June 9, in the
34th year.
James Pugh was born in South Wales, in May, 1851, and before his death was the oldest
living son of James M. and Margaret Pugh. With his parents, he emigrated to America,
March 25th 1861, and lived in Delaware, Ohio, until 1869, when the family moved to Stark
County, Indiana. In the following fall young James determined to try his fortunes in the
far west, and went to Missouri and then in the fall of 1870, located at Fort Townsend,
Dakota. At this place he remained four years. Then he worked in the Black Hills, and
afterwards in Montana. Finally tireing of the west he came to Chesterton, and in 1880
married Miss Frankie Cheeney, daughter of James and Maria Cheeney. Three years ago he was
taken down with lung fever, the effects of this illness left him with a broken
constitution, and consumption gradually began to show itself. About six weeks before his
death, Mr. Pugh went west, hoping a change of climate might benefit him, but instead of
relief, he gradually grew wor!
se until death relieved him of his sufferings.
James Pugh was an upright, worthy man, a member of the masonic fraternity, a loving
husband, and kind father. In this world's goods he had enough to make his family
comfortable, and leaves them well provided for. The funeral services were conducted by
Rev. G. Lambert, at Furnessville, and on Thursday last his remains were laid away in the
Furnessville cemetery. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss.