She came to Hall Co, GA with her parents about 1820. There she met and married William Peeples (1809-1859). He was the son of William Peeples (1751-1854)and Rebecca Johnson (1774-c1854). William & Peggy moved to Murray Co, GA before 1850 and had 13 children, the last one being born about the time that William died. Accorging to tradition Peggy was college educated. She wrote the following letter to her son in law Dr Stroup when she was notified of her daughter Isabella's death in Arkansas. Her husband William had also died in Arkansas.
"It would have been a source of great consolation to have ministered and spoken comforting and loving words to our dear Belle in her last moments. This blessed privelege was granted to me with all my loved ones that are gone, with two exceptions Belle and her father, and they, though not buried together, slumber beneath the same western sod and their dear souls I trust are united with other loved ones in heaven." Margaret Peeples
During the Civil War Peggy had the misfortune of having her home burned down by Union soldiers who had followed her son, a Confederate officer into her front yard and shot him dead under a big tree. Her son died in her arms. She was enumerated on the 1850, 1860, 1870 & 1880 census schedules for Murray Co. Her mother's name was Mary Ann Harrison.
"It would have been a source of great consolation to have ministered and spoken comforting and loving words to our dear Belle in her last moments. This blessed privelege was granted to me with all my loved ones that are gone, with two exceptions Belle and her father, and they, though not buried together, slumber beneath the same western sod and their dear souls I trust are united with other loved ones in heaven." Margaret Peeples
During the Civil War Peggy had the misfortune of having her home burned down by Union soldiers who had followed her son, a Confederate officer into her front yard and shot him dead under a big tree. Her son died in her arms. She was enumerated on the 1850, 1860, 1870 & 1880 census schedules for Murray Co. Her mother's name was Mary Ann Harrison.
She came to Hall Co, GA with her parents about 1820. There she met and married William Peeples (1809-1859). He was the son of William Peeples (1751-1854)and Rebecca Johnson (1774-c1854). William & Peggy moved to Murray Co, GA before 1850 and had 13 children, the last one being born about the time that William died. Accorging to tradition Peggy was college educated. She wrote the following letter to her son in law Dr Stroup when she was notified of her daughter Isabella's death in Arkansas. Her husband William had also died in Arkansas.
"It would have been a source of great consolation to have ministered and spoken comforting and loving words to our dear Belle in her last moments. This blessed privelege was granted to me with all my loved ones that are gone, with two exceptions Belle and her father, and they, though not buried together, slumber beneath the same western sod and their dear souls I trust are united with other loved ones in heaven." Margaret Peeples
During the Civil War Peggy had the misfortune of having her home burned down by Union soldiers who had followed her son, a Confederate officer into her front yard and shot him dead under a big tree. Her son died in her arms. She was enumerated on the 1850, 1860, 1870 & 1880 census schedules for Murray Co. Her mother's name was Mary Ann Harrison.
"It would have been a source of great consolation to have ministered and spoken comforting and loving words to our dear Belle in her last moments. This blessed privelege was granted to me with all my loved ones that are gone, with two exceptions Belle and her father, and they, though not buried together, slumber beneath the same western sod and their dear souls I trust are united with other loved ones in heaven." Margaret Peeples
During the Civil War Peggy had the misfortune of having her home burned down by Union soldiers who had followed her son, a Confederate officer into her front yard and shot him dead under a big tree. Her son died in her arms. She was enumerated on the 1850, 1860, 1870 & 1880 census schedules for Murray Co. Her mother's name was Mary Ann Harrison.
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