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George Augustus Prugh
GEORGE AUGUSTUS PRUGH, late of Elderton, Armstrong county, was a member of
the borough council at the time of his death and had held various other public
positions in that place, of which he was long a highly respected citizen.Mr. Prugh was born Feb. 13, 1839, in Westmoreland county, Pa., near
Saltsburg, son of Abner and Elizabeth (Bortz) Prugh. His father always
followed farming, and owned a tract of 135 acres in Plum Creek township,
Armstrong Co., Pa., whither he removed when his son Augustus was three years
old. He married Elizabeth Bortz, and they had a family of eight children, four
sons and four daughters: Caroline married Robert Thompson, of Armstrong
county, a teacher, and both are now deceased (they had eight children); Anna
married Jacob Shewfler, a blacksmith, of Westmoreland county, who is now
deceased, and they had ten children; James, who died at Greensburg, Pa., in
1907, had taught for fifty-two years without losing a term (he left a widow
and seven children); George Augustus is mentioned below; William, who died
July 3, 1911, was a teacher for forty years (his widow lives with Mrs. George
Augustus Prugh at Elderton; by his first wife he had four children); Melissa
married William Wyatt, a farmer, of Atwood, Armstrong county, and had six
children; Michael, who died March 6, 1911, married Malvina Fryer, of South
Bend township; Elizabeth married Robert McLanahan, a farmer, had two children,
and died in August, 1895.George Augustus Prugh (always known as Augustus Prugh) was just three years
old when his father moved to Plum Creek township, where he passed the
remainder of his life. He became one of the best known citizens of the borough
of Elderton, which he served in various official capacities, holding the
positions of school director, tax collector and member of the town council, in
which latter office he was serving at the time of his death, which occurred
June 29, 1912, in Elderton. He had been in poor health for three years. Mr.
Prugh was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church, which he served as
elder for twenty-five years, and he was also deeply interested in the Sunday
school of which he was superintendent for eleven years, missing but two days’
attendance in that period.On Sept. 10, 1862, Mr. Prugh married Sarah Elgin, who died in September,
1892, the mother of five children, two of who died in infancy. The other three
are: Belle, born July 3, 1863, unmarried, who lives in Westmoreland county;
Herbert, born in 1869, who works the farm that was occupied in turn by his
grandfather and father (he married Agnes Rankin and has three children); and
Pearl, who married Ed Sheffler, a wagon builder, of Westmoreland county, Pa.,
and has five children. For his second wife Mr. Prugh married, on July 2, 1895,
Eva Bamwell, daughter of Robert Bamwell, a farmer of Blacklick township,
Indiana county. Mrs. Prugh took a course at the Indiana (Pa.) State Normal
School. No children were born to this union.Source: Pages 793-794, Armstrong County, Pa., Her People, Past and
Present, J.H. Beers & Co., 1914
Transcribed October 1998 by James R Hindman for the Armstrong County Beers
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