Additional Information on the Life of Peter Lough

Peter Lough was born and reared in Pendleton County, (now West) Virginia, and there in the "Old Dominion" married Prudence Gibson, who was of Scotch-Irish descent. In 1839, he started for Illinois, floating down the Ohio River on a flatboat to Cincinnati, then going by steamboat to Mt. Vernon, Indiana, and thence by team to Edwards County, Illinois, where he arrived on the May 18, 1839.

Four years later (in 1843) Peter moved to Clay County, Illinois, and entered land from the government in Pixley Township upon which he made his home. His wife then came to live with her husband. He tenderly cared for her during her remaining days. Mr. Lough was a successful business man and acquired a good deal of property. Both he and his wife were lifelong members of the Methodist Church, took an active part in church work, and he was for many years a local preacher. He was the founder of the Salem Church in Edwards County, and also took part in establishing a church in this locality. In politics, he was a Whig, and in 1860 voted for Abraham Lincoln. He lived until his death in 1860, at the age of sixty-nine years. Both Prudence and Peter are buried at the Wesley Cemetery near Passport, in Clay County, Illinois.

[As of 1887] With the exception of one who died in infancy, the fifteen children of the Lough family grew to mature years. They are Mrs. Juliet Rice, of Kansas; Mrs. Temperance Hocking, of Bone Gap, Ill., Mrs. Louisa Michaels, deceased; Charles, a farmer of Kansas; Nicholas, a farmer of Belleville, Ill.; Mrs. Lydia Phillips, deceased; John, who was in the Twenty-first Illinois Infantry, and went with Sherman on the march to the sea, but is now deceased; Peter M., who was a member of the same regiment, and is now living in Clay County; Laverna, wife of S. T. Ulm, of Oregon; Martha Ann, deceased, wife of Addison Dalzell; Mary, who became the wife of Mr. Ireland, and died in Kansas; George, who was also one of the boys in blue, and is now living in Kansas; and Mrs. Prudence Adams, deceased.

Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Effingham, Jasper and Richland Counties Illinois, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Governors of the State, and the Presidents of the United States. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), p.458 The full text of this book is available online at www.ebooksread.com and is often quoted at various sites on the Internet.

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