Franklin "Pugh" Quinn

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Pugh's father having just spent four years in Starting with the Gatlin Dragoons, NC 1st Cavalry, Herring Artillery, and 3rd Co. G of the 41st Artillery found wounded or dead at Col. Lamb's surrender at Battery Buchanan. 

Pugh was born 10 June 1873 and passed in Wallace, Duplin County 10 March 1939. Pugh is buried in the family cemetery known today as the Best-Quinn Cemetery on Beautancus Road. 

Thanks Uncle Eddie for sending me for that grain of truth.

All Uncle Eddie remembered from his father's services was when he was 13. All he recalled was the name he thought was the name of Rooty Bottom FWB Church or something like that, maybe near Mt. Olive.

Well, as it turns out, there is no Rooty Bottom Church for any denomination in the history of Duplin County.

Rooty Branch Free Will Baptist Church (the church in which is the one he and his siblings were raised in when visiting there in Wolfscrape. The church's address is: 190 Beautancus Road, Mount Olive, NC 28365

He was the last of my line to be buried there on the property of Dr. Phillis Quinn Ostheim.

Thank you so much cousins Phillis and Sue

The path is clear using the United States Census Records for Pugh and Family because there have always been three counties involved. Duplin, Lenoir and Forsyth.

Initially listed as the Trent Township in Lenoir County in the 1920 Census, it now becomes Albertson in Duplin County on the 1930 US Census and is really only a few feet away.

He was farming land that his Great Grandfather Caleb Quin had been granted after the American Revolution and was still in the hands of another one of his other Quinn family there that needed help working their farm where Caleb Quin is buried.

In 1909 Franklin "Pugh" Quinn married "Minnie" Victoria Davis from Brogden just a hop away where Duplin and Wayne County borders are located.

Great Grandma Minnie V. Davis 1886-1958 and Franklin Pugh Quinn had 6 children. Virginia died very young.

Mac (1910-1966), Joe (1912-1957), Blanche (1914-1999), Laster (1920-2011), Virginia (1923-1928) & Eddie (1926-2018).

Virginia was buried at Rooty Branch Church January 15th, 1928.

So what we know is that he Registered for the Draft on 9/12/1918 in Kinston and Reports he is living at Seven Springs.

Little to nothing is known of Pugh's involvement in WW1 except that he appears to have reached the war, but to his good fate, the war ended.  He had only registered for the draft on September 12, 1918 and by November 11th, 1918 the war ended. Less than a month.

He shows up on 2 registers of the 7th Provincial Guard, Pontanezen, Brest France and that's it.

One thing is certainly true of all of his children, the did not want to be farmers. They all headed out to Florida, some stayed longer than others, but Florida was always a favorite. I have sat in the very spot where Great Grandma Quinn and her sister Novella Davis Matthews are sitting in the photo from the early 40's. Cypress Gardens in Winterhaven. I went twice to Cypress Gardens as a kid in the 60s and 70s. We would always see Great Aunt Blanche and Uncle Walter her husband.

Great times with Great Uncles Laster and Eddie Quinn.