Brenda Carol Booze / 12/27/1949 Botetourt County, VA / Phillip Henry Booze
Easel Frances Sink
Easel Frances Sink - Mother / 10/14/1928 Floyd County, VA / 7/14/2003 Botetourt County, VA / Jesse Henry Sink
Nannie Rebecca Pugh
Nannie Rebecca Pugh - Grandmother / 12/25/1900
Floyd County / 2/11/1987 Botetourt County, VA / James William Pugh
Nancy Vest
James William Pugh – Great Grandfather / 9/24/1864 Floyd County, VA / March 27, 1935 Floyd County, VA / Thomas P Hale
Sarah Likens
Thomas P Hale GG Grandfather
My Brick Wall
We also cannot find the parents of Sarah Pugh born in Franklin County and it is not for not turning over lots of stones! / 1808 based on 1850 Census calculation. Born Franklin County / March 5, 1887
Died Floyd County / Thomas Hale from Marriage Cert
Sarah Pugh from Marriage Cert. Sarah was born about 1786 in Franklin County based on 1850 Census calculation and died before 1860 Floyd County, VA. She lived next door or with a daughter she had and no father listed. Her name was Martha Patsy Pugh and Martha married John Joshua Clowers. Martha Born 22 Mar 1816 in Franklin County and Died April 16, 1905 in Floyd County.
Thomas P Hale born about 1808 to Thomas Hale and Sarah Pugh. We have no proof of Marriage record, so far. Thomas P Hale used the name Hale thru the 1850 Census records.
The name was changed to Pugh prior to the 1860 census. There after the name was listed as Pugh. The two children born to Thomas and Sarah Likens Hale/Pugh were given the Pugh Name.
Knowing that children born out of wedlock are usually given the Mother’s name we believe this is where the Pugh came from.
Sarah Likens also had a daughter before the marriage of Thomas Hale Pugh by the name of Isabelle Jane Likens born March 26, 1854 in Floyd County, Va. and died in Floyd County Dec 28, 1936. Birth record only lists Sarah Likens as mother.
No one is DNA testing from the Pugh family. Cousins who have DNA tested are all matching families descending from Thomas Rowe Hale.
William Kent Hale did a chart to show the lineage of all of the DNA matches to himself and they all go thru Thomas Rowe Hale ancestors. There are a couple that go thru other lines but I think they have parents wrongly placed.
All of the DNA testing leads to the Thomas and Hannah Hale of York PA, however.
My Cousin, William McKinley Pugh, JR (Billy Pugh) matches all of the same families and William Kent Hale. Billy is 83 and in October I was privileged to get a tour of all of Floyd County looking for info including cemeteries and the land owned by the Pugh/Hale family. Awesome trip. Cousin Billy is 83 and wants to find his grandfather and grandmother badly!
I am also attaching the info on Thomas Hale and wife Hannah from York PA so you have that data. This info based on historical research and a great will! (Transcription attached) I have copy original copy also.
Two sons of Thomas and Hannah Hale were Thomas Hale married to Agnes Price and Edward Hale married to Martha Purdue were famous Revolutionary War Soldiers.
We also DNA test thru those families!
Bottom line is that the father that we are missing for Thomas P Hale we now believe to be possibly a Thomas Hale of one of the descendants of Thomas and Hannah Hale. I concentrate on those Thomas Hales born 1770 to 1785 in Franklin County, VA.
I have seen a Thomas Hale listed as son of Thomas Rowe Hale and a Thomas Hale listed as son of Benjamin Hale (father of Thomas Rowe Hale). I have never found concrete evidence that there ever was a son of Thomas Rowe Hale named Thomas nor have I disproved he existed.
I have looked extensively at DAR records on Thomas Rowe Hale because I am in the DAR and can see info but Thomas Rowe Hale never listed children’s names, only their ages!
Has to be a reason we are DNA testing for Ancestors of Thomas Rowe Hale!