I am seeking the family of George W. PUGH born in 1831 in Indiana, whom our family tradition says came to the Joplin area following the Civil War. George's first wife, Julia A. CROUSORE, died in about 1865 in Indiana. George didn't appear in the 1870 Indiana census, but his youngest two children, Albert & James PUGH, can be found living near Kokomo in Howard County, Indiana with their grandfather Jacob CROUSORE and their aunt, Anna CROUSORE. By 1890 George W. PUGH was found in the St. Joseph, Missouri city directory. George died in 1895 and is buried in the old St. Joseph City Cemetery. George's second wife Mary A. PUGH showed up on the Buchanan County tax rolls in 1896-1905. Mary is shown as having been buried next to George in City Cemetery in 1912. I suspect that George may have been in Missouri in the 1870 time frame looking for a new situation while his youngest children remained in Indiana with their grandparents. George had five children by his first wife. These are John, Alfred, Caroline, Albert and James. Mary had one child by her first husband that shows up in the records. This child is Josephine ASHENFELTER. George and Mary had two other children, Harrison L. PUGH and Edwin S. PUGH. Of George PUGH's children, John PUGH was living in Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska in 1904. Alfred PUGH worked in Joplin as a roundhouse foreman, and in 1882, in Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri married a Henrietta D. "Etta" NORRIS possibly from the Joplin area. They had two sons (Shirley and Nathan). Alfred PUGH and his wife moved to Bluffton, Wells County, Indiana in 1890 where he died in 1904. Caroline PUGH moved back to Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana where she met John BUCK. In 1880 she married BUCK and lived her life in Bluffton as the wife of a leading industrialist. They had three children (Roland Carlton, Clyde and Alline). Caroline died in 1939 in Angola, Steuben County, Indiana. In 1904, Albert PUGH resided in Moscow, Oklahoma, but eventually returned to Indiana and is buried in Bluffton. Josephine married a Mr. HACKNEY. In 1904 she was living in St. Joseph, but she eventually moved to Seattle, where she was still living in 1939. Harrison PUGH married and had three children (Izita, Nellie & James) but his wife died early. Harrison was still living in 1904. Nothing is known of the other children but that John PUGH and his half brother Edwin PUGH were still alive in 1904. I would be eager to connect with anyone who can help fill in some of the missing pieces of this story. Greg Bender