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JOHN PUGH PLOT
Catalogued May 16, 1975 by H. A. Dieter. Located on the present Kenneth
Schaefer farm, section 12, Town of Rockbridge. It is accessible
from a town road leading northward off of County Trunk D near the
Gerald Mick residence. Courthouse records has a recorded death
certificate for one John Pugh Jr., son of John and Ersula Madden Pugh.
The burial location was indefinite except that it was noted to be in a
Buck Creek yard. Search was made, some physical and the final one
through 1888 tax records produced by Halsey Rinehart, clerk of
Rockbridge Township. The young lad's parents are buried in Pleasant
Ridge - Willow Cemetery. Several senior citizens attested to the
credibility of accounts received from neighboring areas. Three
other Buck Creek burials were reported on the Thomas Higgins farm with
no names available. Buck Creek has been a most familiar locale since
the first settlers began pushing northward through the county. A town
hall and church were long well known landmarks. together with two
stores, a postoffice and one blacksmith shop as noted in a County
plat of 1895. This age old Creek continues to flow toward Pine River
where it empties a short distance west of Wis. 80. Roads change with
the years but one young lad's grave will remain unnoticed even though
recorded in county records.