When Temperance Elizabeth Wilkinson was born on 13 December 1850, her father, Asa Wilkinson, was 46 and her mother, Elizabeth Dykes, was 36. She married George Washington Pugh on 14 November 1868, in Monroe, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Old Texas, Monroe, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died on 5 March 1885, in Pine Apple, Wilcox, Alabama, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Monroe, Alabama, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1857: Monroe, Alabama, United States
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