Willis Lemuel Bugg
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Marker Text: Willis Lemuel Bugg, was born in 1817 in Richmond Co., Georgia, the son of Nancy and William Bugg a prominent planter the family migrated to Noxubee County, Mississippi about 1832. Willis marries Caroline Jane Eidom, daughter of John and Caroline Eidom in that county February 11, 1836. The Eidom and Bugg familes owned large cotton plantations in both Noxubee and Carroll Counties. In the early 1850s, both families migrated to Knoxville, Cherokee County, Texas. Both Bugg and Eidom were instrumental in the development of old Knoxville. A large plantation owner Bugg operated one of the first cotton gins and jointly owned the Bugg & Eidom Mercantile Store. In the early 1870s, Bugg and Eidom, joined Judge W. W. Morris, Judge S. D. Morris, Hon. Enoch C. Jones, and Dr. E. M. Hanna in promoting the International & Great Northern railroad through east Texas. in 1871, Bugg and Eidom gave a parcel of land and money for the establishment of the free public school on the W. T. Smith headright on Caney Creek naer Troup. In the 1880s Bugg died in Troup he was interred in Mixon cemetery beside his wife. (1980)
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Gray Granite with Etched Star & Wreath
Geographic: 32.147472,-95.120628
Location: Troup Cemetery, North Georgia at McKay Street, Troup