MRS. LAURA R. PUGH, RACINE, WISCONSIN.
At 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning, March 6th at her home, 513 Eighth street in this city, Laura R. Pugh, widow of the late Richard Pugh, in her eighty fourth year. She was taken sick with a cold two wekks ago, which later on developed into pneumonia. She had been a resident of Racine for over fifty years, and was well known and much respected.She was a native of Dyffryn Ardudwy, Merioneth, North Wales, and emigrated to the United States with her first husband, Richard Jones and two young children in 1843, and came directly to Racine, and she lived here without interruption till her death. Mr. Jones died very suddenly in 1849 and left her with four fatherless children. The eldest of whom was the late Robert Blair Jones, well and favourably known in the years lately passed. The second was Gwen Jones, who died in the bloom of her young womanhood. The third was Edward W. Jones, who enlisted in Company F. Twenty second Regiment, Wisconsin volunteers, as well as his eldest brother. After the war he returned home, and followed the trade of bricklayer.
He also died and left a young widow, who died soon after her husband, leaving one daughter.
In 1854 Mrs. Pugh was married to Richard Pugh, and one son Evan was born to them, and he died in early manhood. Richard Pugh died in 1883.
Mrs. Pugh leaves a daughter, Mrs. Samuel Roberts, and two grandchildren, Vaughan Jones and Laura Jones, all of this city to mourn their loss.
She had been a member of the Welsh Presbyterian church since she came here, and as much as her health permitted a faithful attendant at the sanctuary. Her only daughter showed much kindness and attendance to her in her last sickness.
Racine Journal March 13th 1895.
MRS. LAURA R. PUGH, RACINE, WISCONSIN.
Mawrth 5ed, 1895, yn Racine, Wisconsin, Mrs. Laura R. Pugh, yn 84 mlwydd oed, o'r pneumonia, ar ôl ychydig ddyddiau o gystudd.Yr oedd yn enedigol o Ddyffryn Ardudwy, Meirion, Gogledd Cymru.
Daeth i America gyda ei gŵr cyntaf, sef Richard Jones, a dau o blant, yn 1843. Ganed iddynt ddau o blant yn Racine. Cafodd fwy na'r cyffredin o siomedigaethau, a gofidiau bywyd.
Yn 1849, bu ei phriod farw ar ôl ychydig oriau o salwch, a hyny yn nghanol nerth a hoender bywyd. Bu ei merch Gwen farw o'r darfodedigaeth yn 26 mlwvdd oed Yn adeg y gwrthryfel ymunodd ei dau fab a'r fyddin, sef Robert Blair Jones ac Edward W. Jones. Dychwelodd y ddau o'r rhyfel yn ddiangol. Bu yr olaf farw o'r darfodedigaeth gan adael gweddw ieuanc, yr hon yn fuan a'i dylynodd i'r bedd. Hefyd, bu y mab hynaf, sef R. B. J., farw yn hynod sydyn.
Tua 1854 ail briododd â Richard Pugh o'r un ardal yn Nghymru. Ganed un mab o'r briodas hon, sef Evan, yr hwn hefyd a fu farw o'r darfodedigaeth yn r ieuanc gobeithiol. Deuddeg mlynedd yn ôl bu Richard Pugh farw yn dra annysgwyliadwy o'r parlys.
Yr oedd Mrs. Pugh wedi bod yn aelod crefyddol drwy ei hoes yn nghyfundeb y T. C. Rhoddodd dystiolaeth yn ei chystudd fod crefydd yn talu y ffordd iddi, a bu farw yn hyderus a gorfoleddus. Y hi oedd yr olaf o'r rhai ag oedd yn benteulu yn mysg y lluaws teuluoedd a ddaethant yma yn y cyfnod boreol o Ddyffryn Ardudwy. Yr oedd yn chwaer i'r ddiweddar Mrs W. W. Vaughan, a Mrs. William Evans, clock maker, Cincinnati, ac hefyd i wraig y diweddar Barch. Robert Griffith, Bryncrug.
Gadawodd un ferch ac wyr ac wyres i alaru ar ei hol. Yr oedd yn fodryb i Mrs. Gwen Pugh, Utica.
Cymerodd yr angladd le Mawrth 9fed o addoldy y T. C., a'r Parchn. Thos. Evans a Robert T. Roberts yn gweinyddu.