Life History

Notes

• I found three different helpful genealogies that reported on thismarriage and children, with different names.  While one gives Mary'sname as only Mary, two provide Mary's full name as Mary Electra.  Oneprovides information on her parents and siblings.  Mary Martel isreported in one genealogy as born in Unionport, Ohio in 1851.  Anothergenealogy which had no birth date reports her death on 14 August 1880in Lamar County, Texas.
  
  Mynnie Riddler reports Mary's father as John Blampied Martel, born 9March 1827 in Guernsey County, Ohio.  Her mother was Nancy MariaSarchet, on 4 October 1831 in the same county.  John died inWashington County, Illinois, where the family moved after Joshua wasborn in Ohio.  Nancy Maria also died in Washington County on 7 January1863.
  
  Mynnie also gives Joshua Pugh's full name as Joshua Bales Pugh.  Itappears that Joshua's middle name Bales was a form of the family nameBayless in his father's family.  I am not including that whole linehere.
  
  One genealogy reported the three wives of Joshua, while the other twowith Martel family information lacked the other two wives.  The moreextensive genealogy reported Joshua's children with Mary Martel asNancy E and Anna E.  Another one also reported two daughters, asElizabeth and Eunice.  A third had the name Eunice Pugh but no namefor the second daughter.  It would makes sense that the Elizabeth isone of the other girls' middle name.  Being listed first I am guessingthat this Elizabeth is Nancy E, and thus reporting this child as NancyElizabeth.  This leaves the name Eunice to match Anna E.

Sources

• 1. 1880 Federal Census, Lamar County, Texas
  • 5 June, Paris, District 81, page 7, Jefferson St, Hse # 56, Fam #72
• 2. Ancestry Trees
  • Mynnie's Family Tree,
• 3. Ancestry Trees
  • Pugh-Gibson Genealogy,
• 4. Ancestry Trees
  • Pugh Family Tree,
• 5. Ancestry Trees
  • Gibson-Barnett,