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Hi Jim,
Thanks for the information. This tombstone would be an important piece of evidence to prove David Pugh's ancestry. Because of lack of records, there is no physical document that says that David's father, Samuel Pugh, was the son of Henry Pugh and Sarah Billings. All we have to document the children of Henry and Sarah (they are believed to have had at least ten) are the mention of two children in Henry's will (Margaret and Lewis) and then a statement that he left the rest of his estate to his "other children." We have the will of Henry's daughter, Margaret (Pugh) Whaley, that names a couple of her siblings, and then these siblings mention each other so that we have documented proof that Henry and Sarah had these children: Margaret, Lewis, Thomas, Henry, Jr., and Lydia.
The other five children (Elizabeth, Samuel, David, Katherine, and Hannah) are associated with Henry in a couple of court cases that took place in Richmond County, Virginia in 1754, 1763, and 1765. These court cases give circumstantial evidence that Henry is the father of these children. Then we have Samuel Pugh's will written in 1771 that mentions David, Katherine, and Hannah.
The other form of proof we have that Samuel Pugh was the son of Lewis Pugh, who immigrated to the colony of Virginia in 1695, is DNA testing of Samuel Pugh's descendants who matched proven descendants of Lewis Pugh, the documented father of Henry Pugh.
If there is a tombstone that reads Samuel Billings Pugh, this will support the evidence that Sarah Billings was likely Samuel's mother. I have contacted Kate McCarter to ask her for more information about the tombstone. If the tombstone is in Ashe County, North Carolina, it is not likely to be David's father's tombstone (he died in 1779 in Loudoun County, Virginia) but it may be a grandson's which still shows a strong link between the Pughs and the Billings in the naming pattern of using a woman's maiden name for a child's middle name.
Daniela
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