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Biographies of Scott County, 1888 William H. Bugg, a prominent farmer of Scott County, Mo., was born in Tennessee in 1847, and was reared in Kentucky. His parents, Jesse and Eliza (Atchison) Bugg, were natives of Tennessee and were reared and married in their native State. In 1848 they removed to Kentucky and located on a farm in Hickman County, where they remained until 1867, when they came to Southeast Missouri and settled on a farm in Morley Township, Scott County, where the subject of this sketch now lives. Mr. Bugg died in 1870, aged sixty years. Mrs. Bugg died about 1860, aged thirty-eight years. They had seven children, four of whom are dead, viz: Martha E., Ann M., Mary S. and Jesse H. Those living are William H., John A. and James R. After the death of Mrs. Bugg, Mr. Bugg married Mrs. Mary E. Sanders, by whom he had one child, Eliza C., the wife of O.M. Wilson. William H. remained on his father's farm until the death of the latter, and in 1872 was united in marriage with Miss Janie Wilson, who bore him two children, Thomas L. and William E., deceased. She died in April 1876, aged twenty-two years. Mr. Bugg was married again January 24, 1878, choosing for his wife Lucy W. Townes, a daughter of William M. and Mary C. (Dodson) Townes, natives of Virginia and North Carolina, respectively. The family removed to Tennessee in 1854 and resided until their deaths, the father's in 1863 and the mother's in 1873, aged forty-one and forty years, respectively. They had six children, Stephen A., Eddie E. (Mrs. James Trainer, of Arkansas), L.A. (Deceased), Lucy W., William M. (of Texas), and Nathaniel F. By a previous marriage with Eliza Thomas, Mr. Townes had four children, of whom one, James M., is living. Those dead are Thomas J., Monroe C. and Mary I., wife of Dr. C.C. Harris of Benton, Mo. Mrs. Bugg came to Southeast Missouri in 1874 and resided with Mrs. Harris until the former's marriage. Mr. Bugg has a fine farm of 160 acres with 100 acres under cultivation. He and wife have two children, Minnie I. and Otto. This site is a AHGP Project which is a volunteer genealogical organization dedicated to the free access of genealogical information. NOTE: If you run across a site thats charges a fee to view these pages, please let me know This is a free site. There is not a charge to view these pages. Return To -B- Biographies 
 
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