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Descendants of George Pegram
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| 1625 | M | i | George Pegram was born on 26 Dec 1815. He died on 27 Apr 1877. |
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| 1626 | F | ii | Elizabeth Eppes Coleman Pegram. |
| 1627 | M | iii | John Pegram. | |
| 1628 | M | iv | Edward Pegram. | |
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| 1629 | F | v | Maria Virginia Pegram died on 4 Sep 1861. |
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| 1630 | F | vi | Mary Caroline Pegram was born in 1825. She died in 1890. |
| 1631 | M | vii | Charles James Pegram. | |
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| 1632 | M | viii | Benjamin Rush Pegram was born on 24 Apr 1828. He died in 1886. |
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| 1633 | F | ix | Martha Ward Pegram was born on 8 Apr 1834. She died on 1 Dec 1877. |
398. Edward Lyle Pegram 1 (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 26 Jun 1796 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
The marriage bond for Edward L. Pegram and Mary Pegram shows the following:
John Pegram, father of Edward
John Pegram, Gdn. of Mary, daughter of George Pegram
Surety: John Field
Edward married Mary Pegram daughter of George Pegram and Unknown on 17 Oct 1815 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
They had the following children:
1634 M i Algenon Pegram. 1635 F ii Matilda Carolina Pegram died on 15 Nov 1836. 1636 F iii Virginia Jane Pegram was born about 1820. 1637 M iv Richard H. Pegram was born about 1828. He died in Caldwell, Canyon Co., Idaho. Richard married Jannetta L. Saunders daughter of James W. Saunders and Barbara Guthrie Blair on 3 Feb 1853 in Abermarle Co., Virginia. Jannetta was born 1 in 1831 in Abermarle Co., Virginia. 1638 F v Laura Pegram was born about 1833. She died before 1870.
399. Richard Gregory Pegram 1, 2 (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 7 May 1801 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died 3 on 16 Nov 1829 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
Marriage bond shows Edward L. Pegram as surety and Andrew Syme as minister. He lived in Washington Co., Virginia.
The notice of his death appeared in the Lynchburg Virginian which said he died at the home of his father, Gen. John Pegram.
Richard married Jane Maury Birchett on 7 Dec 1825 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
Her tombstone gives her surname as McEnery.
Richard and Jane had the following children:
1639 M i Virginius A. Pegram 1 was born 2 in 1826 in Virginia.
He died of erysipelas. On the 1850 Census he is shown as age 24 and his occupation is shown as a merchant.1640 M ii Richard Gregory Pegram was born on 14 Feb 1829. He died on 8 Nov 1896.
401. James West Pegram 1 (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born in 1804 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died in 1844 in Ohio River.
James West Pegram became a prominent lawyer of Petersburg and Richmond, and was President of the Bank of Virginia. He also served on the City Council of Richmond and the body passed a resolution of regret upon hearing of his death. He was a vestryman of Bristol Parish in 1829. He was a most revered and beloved and admired citizen and gave proof of his high spirit and gallantry by the sacrifice of his own life by rescuing a lady and two children (strangers to him) upon the explosion of the steamboat "Lucy Walker" on the Ohio River in 1844.
James married Virginia Ann Johnson 1 daughter of William Ransom Johnson and Mary Evans on 10 Jun 1829 in Chesterfield, Virginia. Virginia was born 2 in 1810. She died 3 on 28 Feb 1888. She was buried 4 in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
Virginia E. Johnson was the daughter of Col. William Ransom Johnson and Mary Evans. Mary was the daughter of Dr. George Evans of "Oakland" in Chesterfield Co., Virginia. Col. Johnson was a thoroughbred horse breeder, known as the "Napoleon of the Turf".
It should be noted that although one source gives her birth date as 1818, her tombstone says she died in the "seventy-eighth year of her life" which would mean she was born in 1810.
They had the following children:
1641 F i Mary Evans Pegram was born on 12 Apr 1830 in Chesterfield Co., Virginia. She died in Richmond, Independent City, Virginia.
Mary Evans Pegram was born in 1832. Her father, James West Pegram, was a general in the Virginia Militia, and her mother, Virginia Johnson Pegram, was the daughter of a successful Virginia horse breeder. When Mary's father became president of the Bank of Virginia, her family moved from Petersburg to Richmond. For the Pegrams, life in Richmond was reflective of their status and style until the general's death in a steam boat explosion on the Ohio River in 1844. Left with limited resources, Mary's family was forced to struggle for survival.
After living in several different places, Mrs. Virginia Johnson Pegram moved her children to 106-108 Franklin Street in Richmond's Linden Row, where she operated a school for young women. While Mrs. Pegram supported her family by teaching school, Mary looked after her younger sister Virginia and her three younger brothers: John, James West, and William. After her brothers and sister grew up, Mary Pegram continued to teach in her mother's school. But then, the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter and Mary's life was forever changed. Richmonders celebrated their succession from the Union. From her home in Linden Row, Mary could see the torchlight parades and the Confederate banners flying over Richmond's buildings. Soon, she sadly told her three brothers good bye as they left Richmond to fight to establish a Southern nation.
While her brothers fought on the far-flung battlefields, Mary continued to help her mother in the school on Franklin Street. Occasionally, she could hear the cannon's roar during the battles around Richmond and see the Confederate soldiers marching down Franklin Street. In the winter months, the girls in Mrs. Pegram's school would frequently gather in front of the building and toss snowballs at the passing soldiers. Sometimes, the soldiers fired back. These moments of frivolity were rare in wartime Richmond; but the Pegrams, like other Richmonders, slowly adjusted to life in a nation which was being bled and strangled out of existence.
Mary's family, it was said, was fortunate. Although the war had killed thousands of young men, the "fighting Pegrams" had survived. Now the war was drawing to its conclusion; additional sacrifices by the men in gray could not save the Confederate nation. It was at this time that the Pegram family was plunged into grief. Mary's brother John, a brigadier general, was killed at Hatcher's Run, west of Petersburg in February of 1865. His funeral was conducted exactly three weeks after the day of his wedding to the beautiful Hetty Cary of Baltimore. In April, her brother William fell, mortally wounded, in front of his cannon at Five Forks, Virginia. This gloom of despair deepened even more when Richmond was burned; when Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House; and when the tattered Confederates straggled home in front of Mary's house on Franklin Street. Of the three brothers who had gone off to fight a war, only James West returned home to Richmond when this American tragedy was over.
From her deep faith, Mary Pegram found the strength to endure the tragedy which decimated her family in a cause that was now lost. She continued her teaching in schools in Richmond, Baltimore, and New York. Then, she returned to Richmond in the 1880's and married General James Anderson, a distinguished Richmonder who had managed the Tredegar Iron Works during the war. The general and his bride lived at 113 West Franklin Street. Their home was the center of the Richmond social scene and one can almost sense the elegance of Mrs. Mary Pegram Anderson. Of this home, it was written that it had "been graced by the presence of every stranger of note who had visited the city...." Mary's happiness ended in 1892 when her husband died after a marriage of less than ten years. Following his death, Mary Evans Pegram Anderson sold her home at 113 West Franklin to Lewis Ginter, who later built the Jefferson Hotel on the site.
After leaving the home she had enjoyed with her husband, Mary had the house at 920 West Franklin Street built and moved there in 1894. The house was two and one-half stories high and was built on the sidewall plan. It was designed by a young Richmond architect, Benjamin W. Poindexter.
Three is no way to know how many times Mary Pegram Anderson might have reflected on the past while living at 920 West Franklin. Perhaps she recalled her father who was killed while she was still a child. Maybe she remembered those difficult years when her mother struggled to provide for her family. Surely she reflected on the death of her two brothers and the destruction of the old South. Certainly she wondered why, when she had finally found happiness in marriage, her marriage had been far too short. Yet Mary Pegram Anderson was a proud woman who did not bend under adversity. Socially, she was described "as a sensitive Southern woman, [of]... fine intellect, wit, dignity, and grace...."
One author recalled: "Slight in stature, but very erect, and possessing unusual distinction of manner and speech, no one who ever saw this dear lady of the old regime in her own home, or walking or driving in the streets of Richmond, or passing down the middle aisle of St. Paul's Church to her pew there, could ever forget her appearance ! A bronze plaque at St. Paul's Church, in Richmond, Virginia reads: "In loving memory of Mary E. Pegram Anderson, A.D. 1913".
Source: Walter S. Griggs, Jr., School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityMary married Joseph Reid Anderson son of William Anderson and Anna Thomas in 1883. Joseph was born 1 on 16 Feb 1813 in "Walnut Hill", Botetourt Co., Virginia. He died 2 on 7 Feb 1892 in Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire. He was buried 3 in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
After graduating 4th in his class at West Point, he was commissioned a 2d lieutenant, but chose to use his engineering skills outside the military. Leaving the army in 1837, he worked for 5 years as an engineer in Virginia. His association with Tredegar Iron Co. of Richmond, Virginia, began by 1841, and it would make him the biggest industrialist of the South. He built up the company so well that it became one of the country's leading foundries, producing locomotives, boilers, cables, naval hardware, and cannon by 1860. A supporter of the secessionist movement, he became a brigadier general on September 3, 1861, commanding his brigade in North Carolina, then in Virginia. Anderson saw action at Mechanicsville, and Gaines' Mill. At White Oak Swamp, he was wounded in June of 1862. Less than a month later, he resigned his commission and returned to supervising the Tredegar Factory. The factory became increasingly productive, held back only by the South's inability to develop enough natural resources to sustain production. After the fall of Richmond, Tredegar was confiscated by federal government authorities, but was released by 1867, with Anderson back in leadership as a prominent Virginia businessman.1642 M ii Gen. John Pegram was born on 24 Jan 1832 in Petersburg, Independant City, Virginia. He died on 6 Feb 1865 in Hatchers Run, Virginia. John married Hetty (Esther) Cary daughter of Wilson Miles Cary and Jane Margaret Jane Margaret Carr on 19 Jan 1865 in St. Paul's, Richmond, Henrico Co., Virginia. Hetty was born in 1836 in Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland. She died in 1892 in Baltimore, Baltimore Co., Maryland. 1643 M iii James West Pegram was born on 14 Feb 1839. He died on 31 Mar 1881. 1644 F iv Virginia Johnson Pegram was born in Jul 1843. She died in 1920. 1645 M v Col. William Ransom Johnson Pegram 1, 2 was born on 29 Jun 1841 in Petersburg, Independant City, Virginia. He died on 2 Apr 1865 in Petersburg, Independant City, Virginia. He was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
William Ransom Johnson Pegram, known as "Willie" or "Willy", (June 29, 1841 – April 2, 1865) was an important young artillery officer in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded in the Battle of Five Forks. He was the younger brother of Confederate General John Pegram, who was also killed in action.
Born in a house along Main Street in Richmond, Virginia, Pegram was a student at the University of Virginia's law school when the Civil War broke out in 1861. Pegram quickly enlisted in an artillery battery from Richmond known as the "Purcell Artillery" in April 1861. The youthful Pegram would become General A.P. Hill's favorite artillery officer. He gained a reputation for his scholarly looks—extreme nearsightedness required that he wear his gold-rimmed spectacles even in the heat of battle–and for his utter fearlessness in battle. Confederate General Henry Heth commented that Pegram was "one of the few men who, I believe, was supremely happy when in battle." One of his soldiers recalled that Pegram thought "A soldier should always seek the most desperate post that has to be filled."
Pegram amassed a commendable combat record during the Civil War, first with A.P. Hill's famous "Light Division" and then with Hill's Third Corps. He fought in virtually every major action in the Eastern theater in which the Army of Northern Virginia was engaged.
Willy Pegram rose through the ranks from private to colonel of artillery in command of sixty guns. There was a movement afoot to make him a general, but nothing ever came of it. It is said that both division level commanders Henry Heth and Richard H. Anderson separately asked for his promotion and assignment to command of an infantry brigade, and A.P. Hill endorsed Heth's recommendation of Pegram: "No officer of the Army of Northern Virginia has done more to deserve this promotion than Lieutenant Colonel Pegram." But Lee did not promote Pegram, saying, "He is too young—how old is Colonel Pegram?" Heth had answered: "I do not know, but I suppose about 25." Lee replied: "I think a man of 25 is as good as he ever will be; what he acquires after that age is from experience; but I can't understand, when an officer is doing excellent service where he is, why he should want to change." And so, the recommendations for Pegram to be promoted were returned with the statement that "the artillery could not lose the services of so valuable an officer." Indeed, many thought that Pegram was the best gunner in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Willy's older brother, John, was a West Point graduate of the class of 1854. John was killed at the Battle of Hatcher's Run in February 1865. The death devastated Willy, who had always been close to his older brother.
Willy Pegram once stated, "Men, whenever the enemy takes a gun from my battery, look for my dead body in front of it." On April 1, 1865, at the Battle of Five Forks, a battle Southern historian Douglas Southall Freeman deemed "a day of disaster not to be recorded solely in terms of four guns lost or of good soldiers captured," Pegram finally suffered the loss of one of his guns while he lay mortally wounded beside it. He lingered into the evening, dying at 8 o'clock the next morning. He was buried in Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery.
Pegram went by the nickname of Willy or Willie. His family members apparently used the spelling of "Willy" as does his modern biographer. Freeman, and many other Civil War authors, spell the name as "Willie." General Joseph R. Anderson, of Tredegar Iron Works fame, married Pegram's sister Mary Evans in 1881.
402. Mariah (Marion) Ward Pegram 1 (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 16 Feb 1806. Mariah was born on 16 Feb 1806 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
Mariah married 2 David May 1 son of George May and Anna Fitzhugh on 12 Feb 1829 in Boonesville, Abermarle Co., Virginia. David was born on 6 Sep 1796 in Lunenburg Co., Virginia. He died 3, 4 on 24 Dec 1870 in Petersburg, Independant City, Virginia. He was buried 5, 6 in Blandford Church Cemetery, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
David May was an attorney in Petersburg, Va. He and his family resided at May's Row on High Street.
His death was reported in the Dec. 26, 1870 editions of the Petersburg Daily Courier and the Petersburg Daily Index. with tributes of respect by the Petersburg Bar Association and the Vestrymen of St. Paul's Church.
They had the following children:
1646 M i John Pegram May was born on 14 Nov 1829. He died about 1863. 1647 F ii Virginia Evelyn May was born about 1831 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
She died in infancy.1648 F iii Anna Maria May was born on 4 Nov 1832. She died on 12 Jan 1900. 1649 M iv Dr. David Fitzhugh May was born about 1835. He died in 1911. 1650 M v James May was born on 11 Nov 1837 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died 1 in Jun 1876. 1651 M vi Benjamin Harrison May 1 was born about 1839 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died on 16 May 1863 in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia.
He was a member of Virginia Military Institute Class of 1860 and became a physician before being killed in the Civil War.1652 M vii George Henry May 1 was born about 1841 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died 2 on 19 May 1863 in Virginia.
He served in Company A,, 12th Virginia Infantry, C.S.A. and died of wounds received at second Manassas.1653 F viii Lucy Ward May was born in Dec 1848. She died on 19 Apr 1926.
403. Virginia Ann Pegram (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 21 Feb 1807. She died on 30 Jan 1848 in Daviess Co., Kentucky.
Virginia married Robert Triplett 1, 2 son of Daniel Triplett and Elizabeth Richards on 28 Apr 1828 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Robert was born 3 about 1796 in Virginia. He died in 1852 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The 1850 Census of Daviess Co., Kentucky shows: Robert Triplett, age 53; Robtert H. age 20; Lelia P. age 15; Maria V. age 6. His occupation is listed as manufacture and mining.
They had the following children:
1654 M i Robert H. Triplett 1, 2 was born in 1830 in Daviess Co., Kentucky. He died in Jan 1852. 1655 F ii Ann (Annie) Triplett was born in 1833. 1656 F iii Lelia P. (Emily) Triplett was born in 1835. 1657 F iv Maria Virginia Triplett 1 was born in 1844 in Daviess Co., Kentucky.
She died single, without issue.
404. George Herbert Pegram (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 3 Apr 1810 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
He served as a Captain under Generals Taylor and Scott during the Mexican War and later attained the rank of Colonel.
George married Susan (Sarah) Spencer daughter of Oliver Spencer and Hannah. Susan was born in 1819 in New Jersey. She was christened 1, 2 on 11 Apr 1819 in Saint John Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, Union Co., New Jersey.
She is found living with a 2nd husband on the 1860 and 1870 Census but we can not read the name which appears to be Fleming.
They had the following children:
1658 M i Herbert Pegram. 1659 F ii Virginia Pegram was born in 1843. She died on 18 Apr 1875. 1660 F iii Mary Spencer Pegram was born 1 in May 1844. She died on 6 Aug 1866 in Elizabeth, Union Co., New Jersey.
The notice of her death which appeared in the New York Times said she was age 21 years and 11 months at her death but the 1860 Census gives her age as 11 which would make her birthdate in 1848 or 1849.
Notice of her death appeared in the New York Evening Post and indicated she was age 21 years and 11 months.1661 M iv Robert Spencer Pegram was born 1, 2 about 1848 in New Jersey. He died on 26 Jun 1884 in Beaufort Co., South Carolina.
In 1860 and 1870 he is found living with his mother and her second husband in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
His obituary is from the Palmetto Post, Beaufort, South Carolina, July 3rd 1884
Died From Congestion of the Brain.
Mr. R. Spencer Pegram, a young man age 36 years died at Daufuskie Island on the Morning off Thursday, the 26th inst. he was attended during his illness by Dr. Mellehamp, of Bluffton, whose certificate stated that his death was caused by congestion of the brain. Deceased was a brother of Gen. Pegram of national fame, and a native of Virginia. He was related to John I. Stoddard, Esq., of Savannah. The body was carried to Savannah for internment on Friday.
Note: He was not a brother of Gen. John Pegram but he was a cousin. Apparently he was in South Carolina with his sister who had married Albert Henry Stoddard who was living at Hilton Head in 1880.1662 F v Lelia Pegram was born 1, 2, 3, 4 about 1853 in New Jersey.
She apparently died without issue since her husband is shown as a widow on the 1900 Census.Lelia married 1 Albert Henry Stoddard son of John Stoddard and Mary Lavina Mongin on 27 Nov 1878 in Elizabeth, Union Co., New Jersey. Albert was born 2, 3, 4, 5 in Feb 1838 in Savanah, Chatham Co., Georgia.
The 1860 Census of Chatham Co., Georgia shows him as age 33 and birth place as Savannah which agrees with family records and is probably correct. The 1900 Census of Hilton Head, Beaufort Co., South Carolina gives his birth date as Dec. 1834 and birth place as South Carolina.
405. Robert Baker Pegram 1, 2, 3 (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 4 on 10 Dec 1811 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died on 24 Oct 1894 in Norfolk, Norfolk Co., Virginia. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk Co., Virginia.
Robert Baker, son of General John Pegram and Martha Ward (Gregory) Pegram served in the United States Navy, entering as a Midshipman in 1829. He served in the Mediterranean, Japan, and East India squadrons, and in the famous Wilkes Exploring Expedition. Of interest to Texas historians there is a letter quoted in Papers of the Republic of Texas which states, "Baker Pegram has been visiting the home of Stephen F. Austin, learning the Spanish". He also served in the Confederate States Navy. The following article appeared in The Progress-Index, Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Virginia, Sunday, January 28, 1962. The information was furnished to the newspaper by the Dinwiddie Civil War Commission.
"While Dinwiddie Co., has few records of any of her native sons serving in the Confederate Navy, there is one who distinguished himself and he held high rank and important assignments of historical significance - Robert Baker Pegram.
Pegram was from the famous family who came to the Co., or a representative, in 1699, more or less as a surveyor of some capacity for Her Majesty, Queen Anne. Queen Anne was most liberal with this agent and patented, or granted, a block of land 10 miles square 14 miles south of Petersburg that places the present village of Dinwiddie Courthouse therein as well as many historic places around that have been used by the Pegrams and their descendants who have been prominent in the Co.,. Probably there has been no family in the Co., to exceed the members of the early Pegrams in prominence. [NOTE: Although this story has been published many times in many forms, there is no evidence of a land grant "10 miles square" to Edward Pegram or any other Pegram. We have often wondered if it may have been a grant to one of the related families.]
The following is from The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IV:
"Robert Baker, naval officer, was born in Dinwiddie county, Va., Dec. 10, 1811; son of Gen. John (q.v.) and Martha Ward (Gregory) Pegram. He was appointed midshipman in the U.S. navy, Feb. 2, 1829, and served in the Mediterranean squadron. He was promoted lieutenant, Sept. 8, 1841, and during the war with [p.256] Mexico, served under Capt. David O. Farraguton the Saratoga. In 1852, he took part in the Japan expedition. He was engaged in the expedition organized by the combined forces of the British ship Rattler and the U.S. vessel Powhatan against a piratical fleet of thirty-one junks, of which he captured sixteen, and also one hundred cannon with a loss to the pirates of 600 men. For this service he was personally thanked by Admiral Sir James Stirling, flag officer of the British East India squadron, and by the government of Hong Kong and Great Britain, and presented with a sword from the state of Virginia. He was on duty in the Norfolk Navy yard, 1856-60; served in the Paraguay expedition nine months of 1858, and as a commissioner to define the limits of the Newfoundland fisheries in 1859. He resigned his commission in the U.S. navy, April 17, 1861, and was appointed captain in the Confederate navy. He was given command of the Norfolk Navy yard after its evacuation by the Federal troops, April 21, 1861; fortified Pig Point on the Nansemond river, Va., and with its batteries disabled the U.S. steamer Harriet Lane, which was surveying and buoying the river. He commanded the steamer Nashville, October, 1861, to February, 1862. It was the intention of Mason and Slidell, the Confederate commissioners, to take passage on the Nashville, and for this purpose Pegram was to run the blockade from Charleston; but they feared to take the chances, and while he ran the blockade successfully in October, 1861, they were captured on board the British mail steamer Trent. Pegram after capturing the Harvey Birch in the English channel, landed his prisoners at Southampton and was held in port by the U.S. steamer Tuscarora until February, when he effected his escape and made harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina He was detailed to superintend the armament of the iron-clad steamer Richmond, which he took to Drewry's Bluff, when he was transferred to the new iron-clad Virginia, the best vessel in the Confederate fleet. In 1864 funds were raised by Virginia to purchase and equip in England, a naval force to be called the Virginia volunteer navy, to be commanded by Captain Pegram. He went to England for the purpose, and had one vessel in readiness when Lee surrendered. He was married first to Lucy Binns Cargill of Sussex county, who was the mother of his seven children; and secondly, to Sarah Leigh of Norfolk. His eldest son, John Cargill Pegram, was killed in battle before Petersburg, June 16, 1864, while a member of the staff of Gen. Matt. W. Ransom of North Carolina who commanded the 4th brigade in Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson's division, Gen. R. H. Anderson's corps. Captain Pegram died in Norfolk, Va., Oct. 24, 1894. "
Robert married 1, 2, 3 (1) Lucy Binns Cargil daughter of John Cargil and Margaret Bleches on 26 Nov 1835 in Sussex Co., Virginia. Lucy was born about 1814 in Sussex Co., Virginia. She died 4, 5, 6 on 1 Jun 1870 in Virginia. She was buried in Blandford Church Cemetery, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
Bath Parish Register reflects they were married at Col. Cargill's by Rev. John Grammer.
They had the following children:
1663 F i Margaret (Maggie) Pegram was born on 1 Jun 1837. She died on 3 Dec 1910. 1664 M ii John Cargill Pegram 1 was born 2, 3 on 3 Oct 1838 in Sussex Co., Virginia. He died on 16 Jun 1864.
He entered Virginia Military Institute on Aug. 4, 1854 and was dismissed on Aug 9, 1855 after being Court Martialed for pulling a pistol on a man in front of a hotel in Lexington. He was reinstated Sept. 1, 1856. After his death he was named Honorary Graduate on June 20, 1921. During the Civil War he served as Captain and Adt. Gen. to Gen. Matthew W. Ransom who commanded the 4th Brigade in Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson's Division of Gen. R.H. Anderson's Corps. He was also Adjutant to Colonel Sol Williams, his brother-in-law.
He was killed in action at Petersburg, Virginia.1665 M iii Robert B. Pegram was born in Jun 1841 in Virginia. He died on 9 May 1842 in Virginia. 1666 M iv James West Pegram was born on 11 Feb 1843. He died on 31 Jan 1905. 1667 F v Lucy Cargill Pegram was born 1, 2, 3, 4 in 1845 in Virginia.
According to the 1900 Census she had no children.Lucy married William Allen Deas. William was born 1, 2 in Aug 1838 in Virginia. 1668 M vi Robert Baker Pegram was born in Dec 1847. He died on 3 Mar 1905. 1669 M vii George William Pegram was born on 26 May 1852. He died on 24 Apr 1905.
Robert married 2, 3 (2) Sarah Frances Leigh 1 on 22 Jan 1873. Sarah was born 4 on 17 Apr 1826 in Norfolk Co., Virginia. She died 5 on 14 Aug 1905 in Norfolk Co., Virginia.
There is a memorial window dedicated to her in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia.
At the time of the 1880 Census, Southgate Leigh, age 18, is living in their home and is identified as "nephew".
Her obituary says she was 80 years old at the time of her death.
406. Louisa Jane Pegram (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 1 Feb 1813.
Louisa married Richard W. Reaney (Rainey) on 2 Apr 1835 in Virginia.
They had the following children:
1670 M i William Reaney. 1671 M ii John Reaney. 1672 F iii Isabel Reaney was born on 2 Sep 1844. She died on 23 May 1921. 1673 F iv Lelia Reaney. Lelia married Isaac Williamson.
407. Martha Jane Rebekah Pegram 1 (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born 2, 3 on 11 Jul 1816. She died 4 on 26 Nov 1869 in Blandford Church Cemetery, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
In 1860, Martha and her children were living in Petersburg with her oldest son, LIttlebury, where he is working as a clerk.
Martha married 2 Charles Francis Stainback 1 son of Littleberry Epps Stainback and Sarah Drummond on 27 Feb 1837 in Petersburg, Independant City, Virginia. Charles was born 3 on 16 Feb 1816 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died 4 on 27 Jun 1855 in Petersburg, Independant City, Virginia. He was buried 5 in Blandford Church Cemetery, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
The Batte papers show his name as Francis Charles. He is named in the following articles that appeared in Petersburg newspapers of this period.
In Oct. 1853 he was appoined Flour Inspector.
In Mar. 1855 he presented a silver pitcher to the Old Street Fire Department.
They had the following children:
1674 M i Littlebury E. Stainback was born on 21 Dec 1837. He died before 1900. 1675 F ii Lelia Virginia Stainback was born 1 on 21 Oct 1839 in Virginia. She died on 11 Mar 1846 in Virginia. She was buried in Blandford Church Cemetery, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. 1676 M iii Francis Charles Stainback was born 1, 2 on 11 Sep 1842 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
During the Civil War, he enlisted as a Private in Co. A, 12th Infantry Regiment Virginia He was wounded in the right arm on 14 September 1862 at Crampton's Gap, Maryland and surrendered on 09 April 1865 at Appomatox Court House, Virginia.1677 F iv Nancy (Nanie) May Stainback was born 1, 2 on 22 Feb 1848 in Virginia.
Batte gives her name as Anna May Stainback.Nancy married Isaac Williamson. 1678 M v James Pegram Stainback was born 1, 2 on 20 Apr 1851 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. James married Williamson. 1679 F vi Grace Stainback was born 1, 2, 3 on 20 Mar 1853 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
She was a widow at the time of the 1870 Census.Grace married (1) M. Williams. Grace married (2) M. M. Dibbrell. 1680 F vii Blanche Stainback was born 1, 2, 3 on 3 Dec 1854 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. Blanche married Thompson.
408. William Benjamin Pegram (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 1 Mar 1817 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. He died on 12 Dec 1882 in Kentucky. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Kentucky. William was employed as Attorney in Daviess Co., Kentucky.
The 1850 Census of Daviees Co., KY shows:
Pegram Wm. B 28 M Lawyer VA
Pegram Amelia 26 F Isle St. Thomas
Pegram John C 7 F KY
REMARKS: John is marked as a female on the census
Pegram Martha 6 F KY
Pegram Helena 4 F KY
Pegram Amelia 2 F KY
Pegram Virginia 1/2 F KY
William married Charlotte Amelia Combe daughter of John Combe and Helen Arthemise Berthoud in 1841. Charlotte was born on 11 Jan 1821 in St. Thomas, West Indies. She died on 13 Nov 1905. She was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Owensboro, Kentucky.
They had the following children:
1681 M i John Combe Pegram was born on 26 Aug 1842. He died on 11 Aug 1909. 1682 F ii Martha (Minnie) Louise (Ward) Pegram was born in 1844. 1683 F iii Helen (Helena) Pegram was born 1 in 1846 in Daviess Co., Kentucky. 1684 F iv Amelia Pegram was born 1, 2 about 1848 in Daviess Co., Kentucky. 1685 F v Virginia Pegram was born on 27 Dec 1849. She died on 15 Jul 1925. 1686 F vi Maria Ward Pegram was born in Dec 1853. 1687 M vii William B. Pegram was born on 20 Apr 1856. He died on 13 Dec 1912. 1688 F viii Lelia Pegram. 1689 M ix Robert Baker Pegram was born 1 in 1859 in Daviess Co., Kentucky. He died 2 on 12 Jul 1877 in Jefferson Co., Kentucky. The cause of death was from drowning.
409. Lelia Adela Pegram 1 (John , Edward , Edward , Daniel , George ) was born on 23 Nov 1820 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia. She died on 27 Jul 1865.
Lelia married Moses Paul on 2 Nov 1841 in Petersburg, Independant City, Virginia. Moses died before 1850 in Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
Probably died before 1850 because we find Lelia Pegram Paul living in a hotel on the 1850 Census of Dinwiddie Co., VA with her daughter Martha West Paul
Moses and Lelia had the following children:
1690 F i Martha West Paul was born about 1844 in Dinwiddie Co., Virgina. Martha married William Barksdale.
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