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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], P. W. Pugh Receipt, June 15, 1866, Ms2022-015, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The P. W. Pugh Receipt was acquired by Special Collections and University Archives prior to 2012.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the P. W. Pugh Receipt was completed in May 2022.
The document does not provide much information about P. W. Pugh. However, there is a Philip William Pugh (1837-1908), born in Hardy County, Virginia [now West Virginia], and died in Broadway, Rockingham County, Virginia, buried in Broadway Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Philip Pugh fought in the American Civil War for the Confederacy, and afterwards he served as a merchant in Rockingham County, Virginia. His father Hannibal Pugh (1791-1866) is buried in Olivet Cemetery, Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia.
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This collection contains a receipt that belonged to P. W. Pugh, dated June 15, 1866. The receipt was made out for fifty dollars by F. [Bienkamp?] for making a coffin for Pugh's father.
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