MR. ROBERT PUGH. PORTAGE, COLUMBIA COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
Farmer. Sec. 22; P. 0. Portage ; born March 28, 1832, in Merionethshire, North Wales; son of Hugh Pugh; came to America in the spring of 1852 ; lived in Oneida Co., N. Y., about four years; in the spring of 1856, came to Wisconsin; he lived in Cambria two years, and in the spring of 1858, came to the town of Caledonia, where he has since resided; he learned the carpenter trade in Oneida Co., N. Y., and has followed that business since, in addition to his farming.Was married in Utica, N. Y., February 26th, 1855, to Mary Lloyd, who was a native of Montgomeryshire, Wales, daughter of Watkin Lloyd; has eight children living — Watkin, Hugh, Ellis, Ann, John, Ida, Ellen and Jane; one son, David died in 1875, 2 1/2 years old.
Republican, and has 320 acres of land in his farm. Mrs. Pugh is a member of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church.
Wisconsin County History and Findagrave.
MR. ROBERT PUGH. PORTAGE, COLUMBIA COUNTY, WISCONSIN.
Awst 12fed, 1896, yn 64 mlwydd 5 mis oed, Robert Pugh, Baraboo, Wisconsin.Ganwyd ef yn Careg y Gath, Sir Feirionydd, Mawrth 28ain, 1832. Mab oedd i Mr. a Mrs. Ann Pugh.
Daeth i America yn 1852, gan ymsefydlu yn Sir Oneida, New York; ac yn mhen pedair blynedd daeth i Cambria, Wisconsin, lle yr arosodd am ddwy flynedd. Symudodd i sefydliad Baraboo, plwyf Caledonia, ger Dinas Portage yn 1887.
Priododd un Miss Mary Lloyd o Sir Drefaldwyn, Chwefror 26ain, 1855, pan yn Utica yn dylyn yr alwedigaeth o saer. Yr oedd la grippe wedi cydio ynddo ers dwy neu dair blynedd, fel y byddai yn cwyno ar brydiau, ond oddeutu naw mis yn ôl y gorfu iddo roddi i fyny weithio. Methodd y gofal meddygol goreu ei adferu.
Claddwyd ef y dydd Iau canlynol, y Parch. T. J. Rice a Daniel Williams yn gweinyddu.
Gadawodd ar ei ôl saith o blant, sef Watkin a Hugh Pugh, Portage; Ann (Mrs. H. E. Jones), West Pullman, Chicago; Ida (Mrs. H. McCamond), Baraboo; Ellen a Jane Pugh, Milwaukee, a John Pugh, Baraboo.
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